In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Yip about removing friction in the developer experience and DevOps at Spotify

Why listen to this podcast:

• Friction is the feeling that your environment is fighting you – examples include poorly named variables in code, editors configured incorrectly, access to environments etc

• These things often seem small individually, but together they significantly and slow down development activities

• Cultivate refined annoyance; not tolerating these issues but actively resolving them

• Challenges often come mainly from rapid growth – every design will fail if you just try to scale it larger and larger, you need to redesign for larger contexts, what worked yesterday may not work tomorrow and needs to be adapted

• Be careful not to locally optimize one part of the system at the expense of the overall throughput

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