Developer Experience
Optimize how easily and effectively developers can get things done
Beschreibung des Verlags
Developer Experience (DX) is all about how easily and effectively developers can get things done. It is about creating tools, APIs, and services that enable developers to be productive, satisfied, and empowered. This book by Addy Osmani makes the case for why DX matters - it impacts developer happiness, retention, innovation velocity, and business performance.
It also explores core principles like ensuring a smooth onboarding, minimizing complexity, providing good documentation and community support. It discusses frameworks to measure DX using metrics for usability, findability, usefulness. Developer journey mapping is proposed as a technique to identify pain points and friction.
The book explains how to enable a DX mindset in your organization, implement a DX roadmap, and track DX maturity levels. There are case studies demonstrating where investments in DX translated to tangible business value. With a great DX, developers can create exceptional end-user experiences.
Read ahead for insights and a practical guide to improve your DX.