From the course: Platform Engineering Foundations
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Developer platform experience
From the course: Platform Engineering Foundations
Developer platform experience
- [Instructor] I've talked a lot about internal developer platforms so far in somewhat abstract terms. In this video, I'll get into specifics of the developer platform experience. What does it actually feel like to use a developer platform? I'm going to demonstrate that through a story. There's a benefit of internal developer platforms I haven't mentioned yet. New developer onboarding. Let's follow Josie and Greta. Josie is a new developer at Acme Corp, and Greta is the tech lead of her new team. Greta will be Josie's onboarding mentor, which means she'll be walking Josie through the use of Acme Corp's internal developer platform. Josie's never used an IDP before, so Greta breaks it down for her. - So this IDP is your starting point for any new project. It will help you define a new application, configure it, and deploy a new development environment. And let's just take a tour through the provisioning experience. Suppose you want to create an HTTP API project that connects to a…