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New issue of the Developer Science Review is out, folks! My article choice and annotation is pretty dang personal for this one, where I ask the question:
"For whom does intellectual humility become disadvantageous?"
Thanks in advance for reading and (I hope!) sharing your thoughts, reactions & experiences.
https://dsl.pubpub.org/pub/intellectual-humility/release/2?readingCollection=818aa986
The results are in! Check out our latest blog post that reports the findings of the #OpenTelemetry Developer Experience Survey.
Thank you to the 218 participants! Your feedback will help improve #OTel #DevEx in key areas, including the documentation, SDKs, and the Collector.
Team #DevProd or #DevEx? The answer isn’t one or the other. Choose the right developer productivity metrics, & it will lead to improved developer experience in the long run (as well as better products in general). It's a balancing act. 
https://bit.ly/4kyvieR @TheNewStack
How to Burn a Million Euros with a Smile
The Modern Art of Over-Engineering
Welcome to tech 2025:
5 frontend buttons.
10 roles.
47 meetings.
€1M/month burn rate.
Still no launch.
"The Product Comes First" Problem
Sounds noble. Humble.
Also turns every role into a background NPC quietly agreeing their job doesn’t matter.
Imagine telling an orchestra:
"Your instrument doesn't matter, the symphony does".
Then the clarinet rage-quits.
Focus is Dead.
Last seen between:
"Can we align real quick?"
and
"Why don't you behave like I want?"
You've replaced deep work with:
Slack pings
Calendar chaos
Agile rituals
1 brain cell split across 8 tools
But the Jira board? Adorable. 
When Nothing Ships:
"Maybe we’re just not Agile enough"
No Karen, the framework didn’t fail.
You did.
With passion.
And six retros.
None of which helped.
What If We Just… Thought?
Build a 10-person “cross-functional” team
→ Burn €1M/month
→ Everyone owns everything, so no one owns anything
→ Meetings breed like rabbits
Meanwhile…
4-person focused teams
~€300K/month
Ship faster Think clearer
Learn and grow Deliver real value
Bonus: They still like each other.
Every time a tech person says:
"Hey, costs? Risks? Waste?"
Management responds:
"That's not your concern, code wizard".
Radical Thought: Let People Think
Let engineers engineer.
Let thinkers think.
Let humans do what they were hired to do.
Wild, I know.
About Unicorns:
Not every engineer is:
DevOps + Infra + Architect + Therapist + Evangelist + Espresso Machine
And that's okay.
Some are introverts.
Some are quiet builders.
Some are fixing prod right now.
Hire for mindset, not magic.
Stop gatekeeping with 1997 brain-teasers in fake conditions.
No AI. No docs. No team. No realism.
This is IT, not Hogwarts.
TL;DR
• Build small, focused teams
• Respect strengths
• Trust your people
• Don’t worship frameworks
• Let engineers engineer
• And stop setting fire to your budget 
You know what's faster than scaling a broken system?
Not breaking it in the first place.
#Cursor #IDE doesn't stop to amaze me. I had an old web scraper in #Python. It stopped working because the scraped website changed. I simply prompted that "it no longer finds the right data". No other details. It:
1. Run a few `curl` commands to analyze how the HTML looks now (!)
2. Adjusted CSS selectors (!!)
3. Run the program to figure out if it now works (it did!!!)
4. But Cursor didn't know that, so it added some print statements for himself, re-run and verify the output (!!!!)
#AI #DevEx
We recently wrote about using AI for software development. Check out the practical ways to level up your workflow.
Article: https://victoronsoftware.com/posts/ai-for-software-developers/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdqwcwc2_o
#AI #SoftwareDevelopment #DevEx
SQS-Admin 0.7.0 is out 
Highlight is
* the decreased #Docker image size from 20MB to 9MB
* app does no longer run as root
Queue management and interaction with #LocalStack made easy.
6 days of writing copy 50% of the time, drawing awful diagrams for the designer to improve and generally hating life 
marketing is the pits, can’t wait till I can afford someone to make the pretty words, which is a challenge at the pointy end of #gitOps and #devex
My branding agent should arrive soon. She’ll be rocking in the corner after a few more hours of containers and catalogs
Beyond the Hype: Building Actually Useful Platforms with the CNCF Maturity Model (and a Healthy Dose of Realism) https://blog.eisele.net/2025/02/cncf-platform-engineering-maturity-model-tvp-guide.html
#PlatformEngineering #DevEx #TVP
Woohoo progress! So now new service catalogs added to a set of environments by #backstage spawns the machinery and auto wires up some grafana dashboards and the input datasources and scrapers.
Services launched in the catalogs are auto discovered and added to this dash.
(Demo panel, we got some fancy dashboards to run off the same data)
I might be stating the obvious for some folk, but I think there's a place for "Local #AI" in development workflows, and it doesn't seem to be too expensive, or hard, to set up.
DORA, SPACE, DevEx, DX Core 4:
Key metrics of and casual thoughts on four engineering productivity frameworks.
Here's Donnie's AWS Weekly Roundup 
DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024)
Amazon EventBridge enhances event source discovery in the console
When you create a rule, The EventBridge console now displays the source and detail type of all available AWS service events. Additionally, the EventBridge documentation now includes an automatically updated list of all AWS service events, facilitating access to the most current information.
Enhancing Code Generation with Real-Time Execution in Amazon Q Developer The /dev agent now runs unit tests and builds the code to verify that is ready for review
I know, I know, I'm late to the party
#UV is awesome 
I'd like to learn more about how YOU are using GitHub Copilot 
What's your experience like?
What do they say about #dxday? 
[2/3]
"I got seriously interested in DX last year. Very happy to have been at this event (another in a long list of GrUSP events in which I am more than happy to participate)"
"I attended the #dxday by GrUSP, and to sum up the event in one word: outstanding!
It was an entire event dedicated to #DevEx with talks of the highest caliber and great emphasis on #IDPs and #AI."
So, why would you miss the second edition?
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dxday
Bologna | 
March 13, 2025
