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How To Arrange GitHub Actions To Improve Feedback Cycles
- Aritra Mondal Joerg Fiedler tl;dr: "Our key takeaways include reorganizing the GitHub workflow to separate concerns, reusing test containers, and sharding tests for parallel execution. These actions resulted in a significant reduction in test execution time and faster feedback cycles."featured in #472
The Ultimate Guide To Developer Experience
- Ari-Pekka Koponen tl;dr: Investing in developer experience is a bit of a no-brainer if you want to improve developer retention and productivity. But what are some practical ways to drive great DX in your organization?featured in #431
DevEx Principles: Minimize Switching Contexts
- Kathy Korevec tl;dr: Over the past 15 years shipping products for Heroku, GitHub, and now Vercel, I've learned a lot about what developers need to succeed: (1) Minimize switching contexts. (2) Remember, you are a chef cooking for chefs: Respect the craft. (3) Automate anything that can be automated. (4) Optimize for time to code. (5) Be mindful of breaking changes. People’s services depend on your services. (6) Don’t bury the lede.featured in #389
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How We Improved The Development Experience For Our Client Developers
- Anna Granhed Nandini Singh tl;dr: We wanted to improve the coding experience for our development teams through infrastructure changes. We conducted research among 318 engineers and learned that: (1) Developer productivity and satisfaction were compromised due to longer build times, as per our Engineering Satisfaction survey results. (2) Build times on Apple silicon machines were 43% faster than Intel-based Mac systems, overall, and up to 50% faster for Android builds and 40% faster for iOS builds. And more.featured in #365
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Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI)
- Kenneth Auchenberg tl;dr: Kenneth defines DX as "the holistic experience offered to developers throughout the lifecycle they interact with your product or service" and lists the "table stakes" experience for developers in 2022, such as having documentation and content, great attention to detail on error messages, API references, baseline API infrastructure, debugging tools, and more. He discussed the cost of poor DX and the transition from DX to DXI as an emerging trend.featured in #348
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