'Company as the customer' mindset
In this week's digest, Platform engineering uses product principles
Welcome to Hangar DevX Digest: Sept 18! In this newsletter we share a couple platform engineering strategies to level up your internal tooling and team.
Platform Engineering requires a product mindset
Understanding the jobs-to-be-done is equally critical when working on the internal platform as it is for customer facing products. Do you have a product manager for your internal DevX / Platform team?
Why tech companies hire contract engineers
Although many times contract engineers do not get enough love in an organization, this article shows that role in a positive light. Perhaps there are ways to hire specialized contract engineers to not just fill in the gaps, but rather provide a fresh perspective.
Making Typescript “Strongly typed”
Typescript is not truly “strongly typed”, we all forget about the “any”! Learn how you can get around it, and reduce the surface area for errors.
Death by a thousand microservices
An entertaining read and a perspective on microservices, and how we got here. Not all architectures are comparable, but there’s some merit to keeping things simple™. Here’s a fun quote: ‘Why do your services need to be “micro”? What’s wrong with just services?’