In this podcast recorded at QCon New York, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sangeeta Narayanan of Netflix about improving the developer experience, and why it matters.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\u2022\tDeveloper Experience is about making it easy and simple for software to be developed, released and operated\n\u2022\tIt\u2019s about identifying and removing whatever creates friction in the process of building software\n\u2022\tModern approaches increase the cognitive load on engineers in every part of the process, DevEx tries to reduce that load \n\u2022\tThe tools and infrastructure you use to build the system is as important as the production environment \u2013 treat your tooling in the same way you treat your production environment\n\u2022\tDevEx goes beyond the tools into anything which influences the ability to do effective work, the culture, motivation, team and individual health and productivity\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2rwkQeM\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2rwkQeM