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Building an Internal Developer Platform Isn’t Just about Tools

I recently wrote about the power of “https://thenewstack.io/collaborating-with-internal-dev-experience-and-tool-teams/” and the internal and external benefits of building and actively using your own software tools. In that article, I discussed how developer productivity and a better developer experience are positive outcomes of using your own tools.

As useful as a single tool can be, having random, orphan tools that are used haphazardly or by a single developer, while other developers in a team use whatever tools they want, limits the productivity we’re all trying to achieve.

Our platform view has focused on “champagne-drinking experiences” (weaving our own tools into the developer platform).

A https://thenewstack.io/adobes-internal-developer-platform-journey-and-lessons/ exists to reduce developer toil and pave a “https://www.getambassador.io/developer-control-plane/dcp-insights-bo-daley/,” as Bo Daley of Zipcar said of good developer platforms.