DevEx is NOT DevOps - Investing in Developer Enablement to Reduce Barriers to Continuous Delivery

Explore a 14-minute conference talk that clarifies the distinction between developer experience (DevEx) and DevOps practices, outlining essential DevEx investments for modern enterprises. Delve into three specific areas of DevEx investment: developer onboarding, day-to-day operations, and modernization. Learn how DevEx teams enhance developer agility through training, tools, cloud service abstractions, CI/CD pipelines, and a well-defined production path. Discover the importance of internal developer portals as centralized hubs for documentation, best practices, and performance metrics. Gain insights into the engineering efforts required to enable developers throughout their lifecycle, from onboarding to build/delivery and modernization/refactoring. Presented by Vilas Veeraraghavan, Sr. Director of Engineering, DevEx at BILL, this talk emphasizes the critical role of DevEx in supporting DevOps practices, reducing developer burnout, and improving retention in growing companies with diverse tech stacks.