Mind The Platform: Closing The Developer Experience Gap
Platform Engineering, Thursday, June 5th, 2025
Our experiences - past and present - shape how we think, work and build. In tech, routines often become ruts. We fall into predictable patterns, following processes that no longer serve us, relying on tools and workflows that were never designed to scale.
But just as we must challenge personal assumptions to grow, we also need to challenge how we build and support the teams at the heart of modern software delivery: developers and platform engineers.
In recent years, DevOps emerged as a powerful philosophy, bringing agility and tighter collaboration between development and operations. It revolutionized the speed and quality of software delivery. But despite wide adoption, research repeatedly suggested that organizations were struggling to implement DevOps practices. Why? Persisting issues around fragmented toolchains, siloed teams, shortage of skilled talent, and cultural inertia.