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Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

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Jul 17, 2024 • 35min

Exploring Developer Productivity with AI: Insights from Airbnb, GitHub, and Jumio

Industry leaders from GitHub, Airbnb, and Jumio discuss the impact of GenAI tools on developer productivity, exploring AI's evolving role in engineering, overcoming friction points, AI-driven chat assistants reshaping workflows, and the vision for coding.
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Jun 19, 2024 • 41min

How SiriusXM revamped their platform and developer experience | Jared Wolinsky

Jared Wolinsky, VP of Platform Engineering at SiriusXM, discusses revamping their platform with a focus on aligning projects with business goals. He shares insights on boosting developer speed and driving tech advancement. Topics include challenges in transforming their streaming platform, building a new cloud footprint, enhancing developer platform and experience, stakeholder engagement, balancing enablement and platform efforts, and utilizing prioritization frameworks for project ideation.
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Jun 4, 2024 • 45min

Developer Experience at American Express | Michelle Swartz (American Express)

Michelle Swartz, VP of Developer Enablement at American Express, shares insights on enhancing developer experience. Topics include onboarding bootcamp creation, AmEx Way Library development, balancing standardization and flexibility with Paved Roads, measuring success, fostering community, and elevating tech credibility.
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May 21, 2024 • 40min

DORA, SPACE, and DevEx: Choosing the right framework | Laura Tacho + Abi Noda

CTO Laura Tacho and CEO Abi Noda discuss DORA, SPACE, and DevEx frameworks, their benefits, and challenges. They share insights on choosing the right framework, using DORA effectively, and practical applications in organizations.
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May 7, 2024 • 48min

The science behind DORA | Derek DeBellis (Google)

Derek Debellis, lead researcher on Google's DORA team, discusses the science behind DORA's research, including defining outcomes, survey design, model analysis, and survey development. He also talks about the nuances of literature review, benchmarks, and balancing data limitations with method sensitivity.
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Apr 23, 2024 • 34min

How Slack fully automates deploys and anomaly detection with Z-scores | Sean Mcllroy (Slack)

Sean Mcllroy from Slack's Release Engineering team discusses fully automating deploys and anomaly detection. Topics include the challenges of the deployment process, using Z-scores for anomaly detection, managing noise, automating deployments for efficiency, and handling large deployments to improve reliability.
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Apr 9, 2024 • 36min

What’s up with internal developer portals? | Chris Westerhold (Thoughtworks)

Thoughtworks Head of Developer Experience, Chris Westerhold, discusses the rising interest in developer portals, pitfalls to avoid, building vs. buying, driving value, and common mistakes. Explore the evolution of internal developer portals and strategies for optimizing success in this insightful conversation.
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Mar 26, 2024 • 45min

10 years of driving developer productivity at Yelp | Kent Wills (Yelp)

Kent Wills, Director of Engineering at Yelp, discusses the evolution of developer productivity efforts. Topics include forming the team, managing code ownership in a monolith, building a design system, standardization, LLM implementation, and demonstrating the value of their work.
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Mar 12, 2024 • 40min

How “instructional engineers” improve developer onboarding at Splunk | Gail Carmichael (Splunk)

Learn how instructional engineers at Splunk improve developer onboarding, measuring its success and impact. Gail Carmichael shares insights on the Engineering Enablement Team, components of a good onboarding program, and the importance of such programs. Discover the challenges and methods of measuring developer onboarding success, and the evolution of instructional engineering at Splunk.
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Feb 27, 2024 • 55min

Bootstrapping a developer portal | Adam Rogal (DoorDash)

Explore the journey of DoorDash's developer portal with Adam Rogal, from initial vision to driving adoption. Learn about funding, name selection, and valuable advice for beginners. Discover strategies for getting feedback, driving awareness, and what could have been done differently. Dive into practical leadership tips and the importance of developer tools for enhancing productivity.

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