Improving Productivity with Developer Experience and Platform Engineering

Mobile developers are the cornerstone of many companies and organizations, and having a dedicated team to understand their needs and provide the best possible experience is critical to success and improving their productivity, especially while the team is scaling and the company is growing. This is where developer experience (DX), internal developer platform (IDP), and platform engineering (PE) teams come in.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• The concepts of DX and IDP
• The importance of having a DX and IDP team
• The relationship between Mobile DevOps and DX teams
• The concepts, benefits, and principles of PE
• The difference between DevOps engineering, site reliability engineering, and PE

In today’s mobile app development landscape, delivering high-quality, innovative, and user-friendly apps is not just about coding, testing, and releasing the app. Mobile...