How Spotify reaches the 80%+ of satisfaction of the techies making developers happy.
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Francesco Corti discusses Spotify's approach to enhancing developer experience through initiatives like the 'golden paths' and 'system-z', which guide developers in creating and deploying services. The document outlines challenges faced in microservice management, onboarding, and maintaining speed as the organization scales, while also emphasizing the importance of standardization and autonomy. Ultimately, the focus is on creating a satisfying environment for developers to foster productivity and innovation.
How Spotify reaches the 80%+ of satisfaction of the techies making developers happy.
- 1. Francesco Corti How Spotify reaches the 80%+ of satisfaction of the techies making developers happy
- 2. Francesco Corti Product Manager Platform Developer Experience Tribe (PDX) “Speed up Spotify by providing teams with a simple, consistent and delightful experience” Developer Experience
- 4. Outcome ServiceDB (with both a backend and a frontend) SysModel (the service) System-Z (the frontend) Initiative Offsite workshop and some meetings Challenge Microservice management (who is owning what, what is in production, dependency between software components, technology adoption) 2014 Developer Experience Time Machine
- 5. Outcome ServiceDB (with both a backend and a frontend) SysModel (the service) System-Z (the frontend) Initiative Offsite workshop and some meetings Challenge Microservice management (who is owning what, what is in production, dependency between software components, technology adoption) 2014 Developer Experience Time Machine
- 6. 2015 Outcome Golden Paths Initiative A dozen of very experienced engineers write a coherent guide for how to create and deploy backend services SysModel scales well Best practices and onboarding are gaps Challenge Maintain the speed while growing Developer Experience Time Machine # of days to submit the first 10 PRs: 60
- 7. 2015 Outcome Golden Paths Initiative A dozen of very experienced engineers write a coherent guide for how to create and deploy backend services SysModel scales well Best practices and onboarding are gaps Challenge Maintain the speed while growing Developer Experience Time Machine # of days to submit the first 10 PRs: 60 # of days to submit the first 10 PRs: 60 20
- 8. 2016 Developer Experience Time Machine Initiative First skeleton for services (Java-based backend services) Outcome Scaffolding to create software components (MVP) Challenge Speed in creating software (components) Github repository, authentication, CI/CD, deployment, permits and more Standardization without compromising autonomy (controlled-chaos) Security, documentation, repository structure, policies and more
- 9. Demo using Backstage Internal: Creating a Software Component
- 10. Demo using Backstage Internal: Creating a Software Component
- 11. Demo using Backstage Internal: Creating a Software Component
- 12. Demo using Backstage Internal: Creating a Software Component
- 13. Demo using Backstage Internal: Creating a Software Component
- 14. Demo using Backstage Internal: Creating a Software Component
- 16. 2018 Developer Experience Time Machine Challenge The number of devs and software components continue to grow System-Z and Golden Paths help developers Developers want to contribute Outcome Initiative Plugin APIs to enable developers to contribute SystemZ re-written in React
- 17. Demo using Backstage Open Source: How to develop a Plugin
- 18. 2019 Developer Experience Time Machine Challenge Royalty Platform creates 20+ plugins Technical documentation and search is a gap Outcome TechDocs ElasticSearch integration Initiative Plugin development (everything in Backstage is a plugin)
- 19. Demo using Backstage Internal: TechDoc (editing, corrections) & Golden Paths
- 20. Demo using Backstage Internal: TechDoc (editing, corrections) & Golden Paths
- 21. Demo using Backstage Internal: TechDoc (editing, corrections) & Golden Paths
- 22. Demo using Backstage Internal: TechDoc (editing, corrections) & Golden Paths
- 23. Demo using Backstage Internal: Search & viewing a Software Component
- 24. 2020 Developer Experience Time Machine Challenge Other companies want the same (but they all use a different set of services) Initiative An internal hackathon to explore open source distribution of internal Backstage Outcome Backstage open source
- 29. Backstage simplifies the DevEx treating developers as humans not extension of code 2022 Developer Experience Time Machine
- 30. Happy developers make happy code Francesco Corti Product Manager at . [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/fcorti/ FrkCorti https://backstage.io