Building Better Software Faster

The Role of CI/CD in Development

Katharina Sick, Senior Software Engineer at Dynatrace

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Platforms are a means of
centralising expertise whilst decentralising innovation to the customer or user

thoughtworks.com

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Hello!

Katharina Sick

🚀 Senior Software Engineer at Dynatrace

🔗 ksick.dev

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Every Platform Offers a User Interface

Command Line Interface

HTTP
API

Git Repository

Developer Portal

Something Else

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How to Build a Successful Platform?

🫵 Find YOUR needs

🎯 Have a clear mission

✏️ Design for a good User Experience

🐥 Start small

📊 Make it observable

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Treat Your Developer Platform as a Product

Introduction to
Developer Platforms

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Resources

Platform Strategy, Gregor Hohpe

Team Topologies, Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais

Domain-Driven Design, Eric Evans

The DevOps Toolkit, Viktor Farcic

Thoughtworks Blog & Podcast

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A lot of interesting conversations

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Thank you ❤️

LinkedIn

Slides

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Building Better Software Faster

Building Better Software Faster

Platforms are a means of centralising expertise whilst decentralising innovation to the customer or user

Hello!

Katharina Sick

Every Platform Offers a User Interface

How to Build a Successful Platform?

Treat Your Developer Platform as a Product

Resources

💬

Thank you ❤️

Platforms are a means of
centralising expertise whilst decentralising innovation to the customer or user