I think it's trying to light on some like things that we probably should spend more effort on and more investment around things like flaky tests, for instance. I think the same thing can be said about CI CD pipelines often. Anytime there's a delay in that pipeline, you're actually causing a delay to everyone else. It just made me think, okay, well, we can shine the light on where our practices could be better.
In this episode Abi Noda is joined by Crystal Hirschorn, who leads Platform Infrastructure, SRE, and Developer Experience at Snyk. In their conversation, Crystal shares the story behind the recently founded Developer experience group, including why they named the team Developer Experience, how she calculates the cost of the problems they solve, and how they partner with engineering teams.