Continuous investment in the developer experience can lead to increased velocity and fewer errors hitting production. How do you gain conviction that we're building the right thing, and that other engineers will adopt the tools? I'm a hands on engineer, how would I convince myself?
Entire teams are formed around a notion of building tools and platforms to help others ship faster. In many organisations, that investment is costly because it directly takes away from focusing your product.
This talk takes from example on some of the developer experience investments we've made at Monzo, what these internal tools look like and how they came to life. I'll also touch on what future of developer tooling needs to look like as we shift into a world where more and more code is being generated by non-humans.
Suhail is a Principal Engineer at Monzo, leading the Core Platform and Data Platform experiences. His role involves building and maintaining Monzo's infrastructure which spans over three thousand microservices and leverages key infrastructure components like Kubernetes, Cassandra, Kafka and more. He focuses specifically in investigating deviant behaviour and ensuring services continue to work reli...