The Twelve Expectations

What it does

Developer platforms offer a unified solution for running software with greater architectural flexibility and accelerated feedback for developers. These twelve expectations represent the aspirational capabilities and experience from a mature Developer Platform.

Developer Platform Expectations Summary

In today’s digital landscape, making software increasingly benefits from architectural flexibility and accelerated feedback for developers. Software architecture naturally evolves with customer needs, organizational growth, and technological change necessitating flexibility. However, the rate at which you can make new features, fix bugs, and resolve incidents is throttled by how fast developers can receive actionable feedback. Tensions between these two objectives are often exacerbated by limitations inherent in the ways we're used to running software. Developer Platforms offer a unified solution for running software with greater architectural flexibility and accelerated feedback for…from developer.app

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