A Developer’s Experience of Onboarding to a Platform
From manual cloud setups to guided golden paths — my onboarding journey revealed how platforms transform friction into flow.
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From manual cloud setups to guided golden paths — my onboarding journey revealed how platforms transform friction into flow.
Most tech companies have platform teams. Some have developer experience teams. At Glance, we have BX: Builder Experience. This isn’t just rebranding or corporate wordsmithing. It’s a fundamental rethinking of who we serve, how we serve them, and what success looks like.

Addy Osmani is Head of Chrome Developer Experience at Google, where he leads teams focused on improving performance, tooling, and the overall developer experience for building on the web. If you’ve ever opened Chrome’s Developer Tools bar, you’ve definitely used features Addy has built. He’s also the author of several books, including his latest, Beyond Vibe Coding, which explores how AI is changing software development.

Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann explains the critical shift from Developer Experience (DX) to the new paradigm of Agent Experience (AX), demonstrating how the next generation of web development tools must be built for AI agents to useeffectively.

Netflix reportedly runs over seven hundred microservices, and Uber manages more than two thousand. That kind of scale introduces a lot of moving parts, testing complexity, and debugging challenges across service boundaries. And all of this can severely impact developer experience (DX).

Spotify Portal is an internal developer portal (IDP) built on top of the Backstage open source framework. Designed for enterprise companies of all shapes and sizes, Portal is a simple, powerful way to streamline software development and leverage AI workflows across your engineering org.

Around that time, Developer Experience (DX), the art of making tools intuitive for developers, was still a niche idea in Africa’s tech scene. But Daniel saw what was coming.

As developers progress in their careers, they face entirely different types of challenges. The data shows a clear transformation from technical focus to coordination responsibilities, such as context switching, as experience increases.

Google AI Studio hat ein umfassendes Update der Entwicklerplattform implementiert, das die Google AI Studio Developer Experience durch einen einzigen, vereinheitlichten Playground fundamental neu strukturiert und essenzielle Features wie Google ...

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