Agile Bible, Verse 5:

“Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.”

Now tell me, when every process, idea, stakeholder, task, OKR, strategy, tool, framework, micromanagement, team structure, and team requirement comes top-down…

What exactly are you doing to ensure every individual has the environment and support to deliver their unique value and impact?
(Spoiler: The value and impact is not equal to your role. Shocking, I know.)

"Would you happily go on-call for a system of fully AI-generated services?"

#softwareengineering #developerexperience #vibecoding

https://serce.me/posts/2025-31-03-there-is-no-vibe-engineering

How AI Agents Are Quietly Transforming Frontend Development, by @TheNewStack:

https://thenewstack.io/how-ai-agents-are-quietly-transforming-frontend-development/

Want to build safer & more resilient software? Continuously learning from other ecosystems and adopting new tools can simplify your thinking and systems.

Listen to the #InfoQ #podcast where Max Rydahl Andersen, distinguished engineer at RedHat and creator of JBang, shares his insights!

https://bit.ly/4l8pusS

Platform.sh and Upsun docs just got smarter.

Both are now llms.txt compatible—giving AI models structured, respectful access while keeping control in human hands.

This is about future-friendly documentation, better indexing, and transparency by design.

More details → https://brnw.ch/21wRBY3

"Is your team too slow and unpredictable even though you are doing the maximum amount of work in parallel, or because you are doing the work asynchronously with extra overhead?"

#softwareengineering #developerexperience #faster #productivity

https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/parallel-efforts/

I’m still wary that many people in #DeveloperExperience confuse feeling fast with actually being fast https://jchyip.medium.com/what-does-speed-mean-in-software-product-delivery-9bc95c1c36c3

AX, DX, UX, by @jimniels:

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/thoughts-on-ax/

Stuck in a big ball of mud codebase? Modularity & cohesion to the rescue!

Faster dev & maintenance
Less risk
Scalable teams
Smooth onboarding
More flexibility
Engineer growth

A must-have for modern, robust #software.

https://victoronsoftware.com/posts/software-modularity/
#SoftwareArchitecture #DeveloperExperience #TechnicalDebt

"Pull Requests create blocking problems as people wait for approvals or merges. This has yielded many new experiments and practices—async pull requests, ephemeral PR environments, and byzantine branching strategies.

I can't help but wonder if we're spiraling toward complexity here for no good reason."

#softwareengineering #developerexperience #pullrequests #continuousintegration

https://newsletter.nerdnoir.com/p/modernizing-extreme-programming

"With microcommits and tests, I think I've limited the damage it can do."

#softwareengineering #developerexperience #smaller

https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/gilded-rose-with-ai-and-pycharm/

Thank you to those who were part of the packed room for my "Why #DevEx matters" talk at #DeveloperWeek. I had a great time reminiscing with you on where we've come, and where we can go in creating a good #DeveloperExperience.

Here are the slides:

https://speaking.jmeiss.me/FJD6ny/demystifying-devex-and-why-it-matters

via @dotnet : C# Dev Kit Updates: .NET Aspire, Hot Reload, and More!

https://ift.tt/Qtd95Z4
#CSharp #DotNet #DevKit #VSCode #HotReload #Aspire #Razor #Blazor #Debugging #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #DeveloperExperience #Productivity #TechUpdates #Programming #Vi…

"The research makes clear that cognitive load management isn't a luxury—it's a fundamental requirement for building high-performing, sustainable technical organizations in an increasingly complex world."

#softwareengineering #developerexperience #teams

https://itrevolution.com/articles/team-cognitive-load-the-hidden-crisis-in-modern-tech-organizations/

"Just because it's called a 'platform' doesn't automatically mean it reduces the cost of effort. It's relatively easy to (unintentionally) design a platform that makes productivity worse"

#developerexperience #productivity #platforms

https://jchyip.medium.com/bad-idea-platforms-automatically-improve-productivity-ed8f15ce2c41

What makes a platform efficient?

Is it how quickly code executes OR is it how quickly developers can use it to solve problems?

#Quarkus makes both people & hardware more efficient. That’s cool, but how does it work?

In this #InfoQ video, Holly Cummins dives into some technical underpinnings of Quarkus’s efficiency!

Watch now for a deep dive into what makes this platform tick: https://bit.ly/412HzR1

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In this #InfoQ talk, Christian Posta explores the challenges developers face, the real cost of these pain points, and how #Istio provides solutions through three real-world use cases.

Watch now: https://bit.ly/3Eoe0AC

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