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Lessons Learned about Developer Experience from the Platform Adoption Metrics @ Naranja
With the intent of improving the product-based approach to their internal platform, Naranja has implemented an automated metrics solution that captures essential figures that describe how their teams are doing in terms of adoption, up-to-dateness and applicability of the solutions their Developer Experience creates. This enables better collaboration on their technology roadmap.
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Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service
Nicki Watt shares how successful platform engineering initiatives start by adjusting their thinking to centre around people and communities, and their experience consuming the platform, with examples.
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Kubernetes Is Not Your Platform, It's Just the Foundation
Manuel Pais discusses how many organizations see Kubernetes as "the" platform, rather than just a technical foundation for a true internal platform. Successful Kubernetes adoption requires thinking about the platform as a product and establishing product-like team structures and interactions to reduce cognitive load on development and other stream teams. Metrics can help guide the journey.
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Q&A with Galo Navarro on Building an Effective Platform Team
Galo Navarro discusses how to build an effective platform team and scale it to support a large organization. InfoQ recently sat down with Navarro to discuss his approach for building a strong platform team including setting a clear mandate and balancing autonomy of product teams with clear standards.
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Q&A on the Book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace
The book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace by Shailesh Shivakumar explains what employee experience platforms (EXP) are and how digital technologies can be used to improve employee productivity, increase employee engagement, and support collaboration.
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Q&A on the Book Building Digital Experience Platforms
The book Building Digital Experience Platforms by Shailesh Kumar and Sourabhh Sethii describes methods, techniques, and practices for using digital experience platforms (DXP) and provides a digital transformation case study from a banking application.
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Did You Forget the Ops in DevOps?
Kris Buytaert, a DevOps pioneer, takes us through his journey in the last 10 years of helping organizations go through the adoption hype cycle and sorting out misunderstandings in their transformations.
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A First Look at Java Inline Classes
Java currently supports only two types of value: primitives and object references. Project Valhalla extends this by introducing inline classes which are a new form of type that exhibit some behaviors of both. These new types open the door to better alignment with modern CPUs and considerable potential performance improvements for Java applications.
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Scaling Mobile at XING: Platform, Framework and Domain Teams
This article describes learning from XING on how to scale mobile development such that as many teams as necessary can contribute to the development of mobile apps (on both iOS and Android platforms) and at the same time keep the apps consistent, stable and shiny. It summarizes the key decisions and structural changes they made in order to enable scaling mobile from 2 to 10 teams.
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Lessons Learned Adopting Microservices at Gilt, Hailo and nearForm
This article contains an extensive interview on the microservices adoption process, the technologies used, the benefits and difficulties of implementing microservices, with representatives from Gilt, Hailo and nearForm.
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DevOps & Product Teams - Win or Fail?
Peter Neumark found a new world when he moved from a DevOps infrastructure team to a Lean product team.How to experiment frequently while keeping operational performance? Platform teams to the rescue!
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Collaborative Software Development Platforms for Crowdsourcing
In this IEEE article, authors provide an overview of current technologies for crowdsourcing in software development. They talk about the requirements, current practice and trends in collaborative platforms.