DX Digest: Aug 30, 2023
DX Digest: Aug 30, 2023
We have a off-the-record hangout in Sept! Join us to learn about mobile DevEx.
Welcome to this week’s digest! We are excited to announce our September Off-the-record discussion with the Android Platform team at Reddit.
Joining us are Laurie Darcey, Senior Engineering Manager and Eric Kuck, Principal Engineer of the Android Platform team. Join us to learn about ‘Improving mobile DevEx and the related architectural changes to achieve it’.
Join Hangar community to find out more about upcoming talks!
Another opinion on unit tests over integration tests
We shared a while ago about writing integration tests over unit tests in defense of slow feedback loops. This article also covers many of the similar topics around why unit tests can provide false confidence.
Related: Adam Berry, DX at Amplitude also recommended a book: The Tyranny of Metrics that talks about how metric design is a hard problem, and can be detrimental to real progress.
A take on McKinsey’s approach to developer productivity
This is related to the post by McKinsey we linked last week. McKinsey targets a different customer base who may value their offering to measure and improve developer productivity.
Most modern engineering companies would understand that there is no silver bullet. Companies like Google, FB have been trying to solve this problem for a long time, and Nicole Forsgren’s work in Accelerate is also a great example of why this is a hard problem.
A survey on data privacy, security and identity challenges in the age of GenAI
Data privacy is on top of everyone’s mind as the Gen AI tools are becoming more popular in the industry. Some teams are rightfully worried, and it’s making the life of CISOs challenging. Yet to be seen whether some entities (EU?) would attempt at defining standards for AI companies on handling customer data for training purposes.
Thank you for reading and have a wonderful long weekend! We will see you in a week.