How do you reason about which tools to provide your developers? What is the value of finding a class of bugs earlier in the workflow? How late in the software release process is too late to stop the pipeline to fix a defect? How do we reason about the value of faster deployments? This talk will attempt to answer questions like these, using the "Develop, Deploy, Operate" model. This work attempts to condense decades of platform engineering arguments into a model for reasoning about software cost, along with a few key insights for guiding platform and tooling investments.
Titus is a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe, focusing on Developer Experience. He has served on the C++ standards committee, chairing the working group for the design and evolution of the C++ standard library. He has also served on the ACM/IEEE/AAAI CS2023 steering committee, helping set curriculum requirements for Computer Science undergraduate degrees, focusing on the requirements for softwar...