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Developer onboarding: reduce cognitive load with golden paths

Great onboarding means fewer docs to read and more safe paths to follow. Golden paths make developer experience immediate.

  • Developer Experience
  • Onboarding
  • Golden Paths
  • Platform Engineering

Onboarding a developer shouldn’t depend on someone being available or a wiki being up to date.

1) The real issue: variance

Every team does “slightly different”. Golden paths reduce variance.

2) What good onboarding provides

  • a standard deployment path
  • implicit conventions
  • observability by default

Conclusion

Argy turns onboarding into a product experience through modules.

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