I was delighted to speak to Amanda Silver, the corporate vice president and head of product for Microsoft’s Developer Division at Ignite 2023 this week. Silver is a key figure in the software giant’s open source transformation through her involvement in TypeScript, Visual Studio Code, and the Xamarin and GitHub acquisitions. With over 22 years of experience working on software development tools, she is in a unique position to help lead Microsoft’s developer push in this new AI era.
Building Paved Paths: The Journey to Platform Engineering
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Blog post: How can the organization optimize the software development lifecycle? The answer is to focus on the developer experience and adopt the practice of Platform Engineering. As the General Manager for Microsoft’s internal engineering systems, essentially the Platform Engineering team at Microsoft, I have a front-row seat as we evolve the practice of DevOps with the aim of continuing to improve team collaboration, security, compliance, costs, and time-to-business value with self-service developer experiences within a secure, governed framework.
Productive and secure end-to-end developer experiences powered by AI
Session: Set up a complete engineering system in seconds, contribute from any device, build for any platform, collaborate with anyone with confidence, and scale without limit, that’s our vision. In this session, Amanda Silver will cover the latest developer and DevOps tooling innovations that give developers access to pre-provisioned cloud-driven development environments, while enabling IT organizations to place guardrails to ensure that the infrastructure is efficient, compliant, and cost-effective