In many organizations, developer experience is treated as a luxury. The real product is whatever the customers see, and the developer tooling is just a means to an end. We think that's backwards.
Happy developers ship better software, faster. When your tools are intuitive, your error messages are helpful, and your documentation is clear, you spend less time fighting the platform and more time building features your users love.
We measure DX the same way we measure product quality: with data. We track time-to-first-deploy for new users, support ticket volume by feature area, CLI command completion rates, and SDK integration time across frameworks.
These metrics drive our roadmap just as much as feature requests from enterprise customers. Because when we improve the developer experience, every team on the platform benefits.