Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2025 Trend Report, Developer Experience: The Coalescence of Developer Productivity, Process Satisfaction, and Platform Engineering.

Software engineering continues to be an exciting journey, where use cases not only feed creativity but also allow the underlying intellectual property to thrive. The biggest challenge is to make sure engineers maintain a focus on what allows their solutions to be differentiators in the market. That’s where concepts like developer experience (DevEx) and platform engineering come into play.