Gitpod DevXConf ‘developer experience’: never mind UX, what about DevX?
The company’s software is positioned as a software engineering platform to automate the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments. Alongside some financial updates, the GitPod has detailed what it calls a veritable ‘bevy’ of product features and the first-ever DevX Conf purely focused on improving the developer experience.
About time too eh? Well, to be fair, we do hear a whole lot about so-called User eXperience (UX) with its fancy lower-case upper-case nametag and acronym, so very arguably, we should be thinking about DevX first… otherwise, none of that UX will ever get delivered properly, if at all… right?