04.8 · Capability in Engineering

Developer experience

The tools and workflows that make engineers productive, for your own team or for the developers who use your product.

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04.8.1Internal toolingTools built for the team's own use, such as admin panels and scripts.
04.8.2Developer workflowsHow code moves from an idea to production in a team.
04.8.3Developer documentationDocs that help engineers understand and use code, APIs and systems.
04.8.4Build systemsThe tooling that compiles, bundles and packages code.
04.8.5Engineering automationAutomating repetitive engineering tasks.
04.8.6CI quality checksAutomated checks that run on every change.

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Where to start

3 resources

docsStart here
Diátaxis ↗
Daniele Procida · free guide
Four kinds of documentation (tutorials, how-to guides, reference, explanation) and why mixing them fails.
articleStart here
Ship / show / ask ↗
Rouan Wilsenach (martinfowler.com) · 2021 · 9 min
Not every change needs a review before merging; a simple way to decide which do.
articleGo deeper
Continuous integration ↗
Martin Fowler · 60 min
The definitive explanation of continuous integration, recently revised, including what it is not.

2 tools

ToolFreemium
GitHub Actions
docs.github.com ↗
CI/CD built into GitHub, for running tests, checks and deployments on every change.
ToolOpen source
Renovate
docs.renovatebot.com ↗
Open-source bot that opens pull requests to keep dependencies up to date.