⭐ Must Read: tag/developer experience

Level UI • 19 hours • in Articles • 9 min read

An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have

Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...

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Amara Graham • 2 days • in Articles • 9 min read

What even is a developer experience audit?

Since getting into the Developer Relations space, I take onboarding to new companies as an opportunity to evaluate what the overall product experience is like. This comes with all sorts of fun things like identifying broken links to fully broken int...

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mehdihassanjony • Sep 23 • in Tutorials • 8 min read

Stop Wasting Days on Dev Setup: How We Automated Our Microservices Environment for Every Developer

Stop Wasting Days on Dev Setup: How We Automated Our Microservices Environment for Every Developer How we reduced new developer onboarding from 3 days to 15 minutes and eliminated configuration drift across 12 microservices. The Problem That Mad...

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intro773-ctrl • Sep 21 • in Articles • 6 min read

How I Built a Telegram Habit-Tracker Bot with No Programming Experience

Hi everyone! This is my first post here. I am writing not for experienced developers, but for those who want to gain their first programming experience using AI models. Here is how it went for me. Recently, I had no idea about programming and had ...

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Ken W. Algerverified • Aug 26 • in Articles • 5 min read

Your Hiring Process Needs HTTP Status Codes

Because "we'll be in touch" is not an observable state. I submitted a job application recently. It was one of those applications where you actually put in the effort. I read the job description carefully, tailored the resume, wrote a cover letter s...

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Steve Fentonverified • Jul 3 • in Articles • 7 min read

Why Octopus invests in developer experience

When you join Octopus, you get a great laptop and your choice from a range of docks, monitors, webcams, and input devices. You also get a home office allowance, which lets you upgrade your space and get 50% back. You may want a sit/stand desk, an awe...

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Marcos Vilela • Jul 2 • in Articles • 4 min read

Minha Experiência com o uso do SpecKit no desenvolvimento em Infra/Cloud

A engenharia de plataforma e o DevOps estão passando por uma transformação impulsionada por agentes de IA. Recentemente, em meus estudos de arquitetura, infraestrutura e governança, comecei a utilizar o SpecKit1, uma ferramenta que atua desde a espec...

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Steve Fentonverified • May 12 • in Articles • 6 min read

Modern developer experience has deep roots

In his 1956 account of the SAGE program, Herbert Benington highlighted the opportunity to use computers to reduce the cost of programming, documentation, and testing. The creation of utilities, compilers, and instrumentation accounted for about half...

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Tom Smithverified • 16 hours • in Articles • 9 min read

Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026

Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...

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Karol Modelski • Apr 16 • in Articles • 7 min read

Stop Treating Angular as a Second-Class Framework for UI Components

You’ve been promised “Angular support” more times than you can count. What you got instead was a React library in an Angular costume. A thin compatibility layer. A demo that technically works, but feels wrong the second you try to build something...

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Steve Fentonverified • Nov 3, 2025 • in Articles • 4 min read

Developer experience metrics

Developer experience DevEx is a key focus of platform engineeringhttps://octopus.com/devops/platform-engineering/. It's also a crucial success factor for any organization developing software. A recent paper by Abi Noda, Margaret-Anne Storey, Nicole ...

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Steve Fentonverified • Jul 21, 2025 • in Articles • 4 min read

GitOps Makes for Great DevEx, but Pragmatism Matters

At Kubecon Paris, we surveyed expert developers about their modernization initiatives, including what works well and where there’s pain. KubeCon in Paris was an amazing opportunity for like-minded people to gather together to talk about Kubernetes, ...

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kitfu10 • May 4, 2025 • in Tutorials • 12 min read

The Quest Continues: Porting the Word Game With AsyncSSH

Last week, we reimplemented our 20-questions varianthttps://dev.to/jeffrey04/leveling-up-llm-game-development-with-dspy-356c, and it received quite a bit of attention. So far we built a web experience, as well as a command line interface for the game...

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