Developer Productivity Engineering practices
DX Digest: Sept 26
Welcome to this week’s digest covering developer productivity, a little humor and macro trends in developer experience.
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Key Takeaways from DPE Summit by Ankit Jain
Most of the modern large companies are moving towards a per-language monorepo architecture as standardization and knowledge sharing become critical.
AI assistants like Copilot are getting more popular in the organizations, but the productivity impact is negligible.
Improving build times and reducing build failures is the top priority for the DX teams. (Read more on LinkedIn)
Breaking down GraphQL monolith
Our friends at Gusto wrote up a post about GraphQL, a side effect of using GraphQL is that defining boundaries becomes hard, leading to a monolith architecture.
Gusto used the federated architecture to successfully break down the monolith.
Is 16:9 good for productivity?
Do you need more vertical space or horizontal screen space, let’s debate!
Some cons include being suboptimal for long lines of code or reading documentation.
Humor: What time is your team most productive?
News: Harness launches a GitHub competitor
Harness has slowly expanded their GitOps footprint from CD to CI, Feature Flags and now a GitHub competitor.
With GitHub’s reliability dropping in the last few months, will this become a realistic alternative? Fun fact: they are published on GitHub.
Linux Foundation forked Terraform as OpenTofu
It finally happened - Terraform was forked, and now has the MPL 2.0 license with 10K+ stars in GitHub.
Linux foundation at least has the resources to build the community and drive users to their open source version. But what would it take enterprises who use terraform today to migrate over, the incentives may be few.