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Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers
Abstract
The developer population is growing by orders of magnitude. The new AI tooling is turning domain experts and operators into builders. Unfortunately, the tools and the platforms they are building on weren't designed for them.
At Netlify, over the past year we've onboarded millions of new developers, many of whom have never written code by hand. We've witnessed firsthand what works and how the tools that we use to build things break at this new scale of shipping.
In this talk, I'll cover:
- How does our responsibility as developers change in this new world?
- How do we see dev tooling, architecture, security, and open source evolve in this environment?
- What tools and platforms need to change now to serve these new builders?
- Why web frameworks matter less than ever, but also more than ever
Speaker
Ivan Zarea
Director of Platform Engineering @Netlify
Ivan is Director of Platform Engineering at Netlify, where he leads the teams responsible for builds, compute, and the CDN that serves millions of sites. He's spent the past decade leading platform teams, and currently focuses on cost, reliability, agent experience, and developer tooling.
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