Season 5 · Episode 6

The Platform Engineering Pitfall You Aren’t Looking For (Yet)

With David Sandilands, Gradle Field CTO Justin Reock shares his perspective on developer productivity engineering – the point where right-brain creativity, left-brain productivity, and ‘joyful activity’ intersect to create what's broadly called the ‘developer experience – and where platform engineering is headed with and without it.

Pulling the Strings · Justin Reock, David Sandilands

August 3, 202336m 20s

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Show Notes

In the past few years, developer experience has become one of the biggest concerns at the C-level. Gartner found it’s the top value factor for adopting IDPs, performance engineering, CI/CD, and more core aspects of platform engineering. In 2021, McKinsey said it should be “the cornerstone of talent strategy” – and still, it’s a sticking point for a lot of software orgs. Turnover, burnout, skill gaps – symptoms abound that can often be contributed to bad DevX.

Justin Reock is Field CTO at Gradle, makers of Gradle Enterprise and Gradle Build Tool. He’s focused on the developer experience at an intersectional level – where right-brain creativity, left-brain productivity, and ‘joyful activity’ combine to make development better for the people who do it. In conversation with David Sandilands, Senior Solutions Architect at Puppet, Justin shares his perspective on where platform engineering is headed and how the future of platform engineering – up, down, or flat – depends on using tools to engineer the developer experience.

Speakers:

David Sandilands, Senior Solutions Architect at Puppet by Perforce
Justin Roeck, Field CTO at Gradle

Highlights:

Justin’s career to date and starting a year of living out of an RV
Why the future of platform engineering depends on a developer experience focus
Instructions for organizations to adopt real practices, not just hype
The personalities needed to make stuff like platform engineering actually work

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