Chat with GitHub CTO on what's next for them and why they built an IDP

Last week I had the chance to catch up with Jason Warner on what an IDP is, why Github had to build one and why this is a new category of tools teams have to look at. To quote him: "If you slow down you die, if you care about not dying, this is one of those investments you make".

My key-takeaways:

IDPs are like Heroku on the tech and tools you use today. Which is an interesting way to put it because Jason was Herokus VP Eng.

There are pivotal moments in a team, such as adopting microservices, going multi-cloud or crossing a certain number of developers. Jason: “like having your first child, nothing will ever be the same again”.

Teams that are building on unstructured scripts get slow because of key-person dependencies and maintenance. Jason: “if you slow down you die.”

Serving internal developers matters as much as serving external companies.

He also talks about what's next for Github. Super interesting!

If you want to learn how to build your own Internal Developer Platform Christoph and myself are holding a webinar on how to do that on Dec 15th (link in the comments). Don't miss that and like, share and please spread the word!