Interview with Phillip Carter

Software Crafts Podcast

Episode 58 is out. A long journey, and today with us, we have Phillip Carter. Phillip brings a heuristic from his repository: “Focusing on developer experience can make your products more powerful and your teams more empowered”. We deep dive into what is developer experience and how some companies don’t get it right. For example, developer experience is different from the software development lifecycle. He also gives excellent advice on how to start developer experience initiatives within the company and leverage the economics of scale.

Phillip recommends:

• The case for developer experience by Jean Yang ( https://future.a16z.com/the-case-for-developer-experience/)
• Building for 99% developers by Jean Yang (https://future.a16z.com/software-development-building-for-99-developers/ )
• Gitpod (https://www.gitpod.io/)
• GitHub Codespaces (https://github.com/features/codespaces)
• Sourcegraph (https://about.sourcegraph.com/)

Phillip Carter (@_cartermp) is a Product Manager at Honeycomb, focusing on Developer Experience.