Vivek Kinnera's BlogField notes on developer experience from 7+ years in DevOps and platform engineering.https://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/ Vivek Kinnerahttps://github.com/vivek-Itp/mydevexblogen Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:36:10 -0000 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:36:10 -0000 1440 MkDocs RSS plugin - v1.19.0 None Vivek Kinnera's Blog https://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/ Error messages are part of the platform Vivek Kinnera Developer Experience devex error-messages tooling The one line a developer reads when something fails is the platform's real user interface. Most platforms never design it. https://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/09/error-messages-are-part-of-the-platform/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vivek Kinnera's Bloghttps://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/09/error-messages-are-part-of-the-platform/ Self-service on a slide vs self-service in practice Vivek Kinnera Platform Engineering internal-developer-platform platform-engineering self-service Every internal platform calls itself self-service. Count the tickets it takes to get a new service into production and you find out whether that is true. https://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/07/self-service-on-a-slide-vs-in-practice/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vivek Kinnera's Bloghttps://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/07/self-service-on-a-slide-vs-in-practice/ CI/CD should be designed around the developer, not the pipeline Vivek Kinnera CI/CD ci devex pipelines What a CI/CD pipeline looks like when developer experience is the design goal, with the failures I have seen along the way. https://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/05/cicd-designed-for-developers/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vivek Kinnera's Bloghttps://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/05/cicd-designed-for-developers/ Kubernetes for people who did not ask for Kubernetes Vivek Kinnera Kubernetes devex kubernetes onboarding Developers want to deploy, see logs, and roll back. Kubernetes asks for a lot more than that. What to put in front of the cluster so they never have to care. https://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/05/kubernetes-for-people-who-did-not-ask-for-it/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vivek Kinnera's Bloghttps://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/05/kubernetes-for-people-who-did-not-ask-for-it/ Why this blog exists Vivek Kinnera Developer Experience devex meta <p>After more than seven years in DevOps and platform engineering, I have a backlog of small lessons that never made it into a document. This blog is where they go.</p> https://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/05/why-this-blog-exists/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vivek Kinnera's Bloghttps://vivek-itp.github.io/mydevexblog/blog/2026/09/05/why-this-blog-exists/