Not 🤯. At all. Platform Engineering is failing to improve DevEx for same reasons that AI is failing to improve that same Developer Experience... Between my conversation with @Nathen Harvey about last month’s DORA and now this one with this community’s very own salute kowalski @Sam Barlien about this month’s State of Platform Engineering, it’s clear that the IDP is down at the bottom of that same J-curve Trough of Meh as GenAI because the loudest secret in tech is: ❗You can’t build the right thing if you don’t ask and listen to what your users want. ❗You can’t improve what you don’t measure. Unfortunately, platform engineers are assuming they know best instead of listening to solve problems. Just like execs are assuming they know best where to spend GenAI budgets so they waste it all on code generators. In neither situation are enough of the basic principles of agile/continuous improvement/SCIENCE/UX product design being applied. https://thenewstack.io/the-2024-state-of-platform-engineering-fledgling-at-best/

Thanks @Jennifer Riggins! Surreal seeing myself quoted in the New Stack. Even if I am just highlighting cool stuff from the report:P I just wanna share here as well report isn’t necessarily saying that things are all bad - it’s just that for there is still a lot of struggle for many orgs. Those who are doing platform engineering well - are doing REALLY well. Those who aren’t… (perhaps bc they’re in the 44% bucket who don’t measure at all?) they’re really struggling.

oh for sure but those that are doing well are gosh actually listening to their customers, right @Sam Barlien;)