Developer Productivity at a Developer Productivity Startup • Robert-Jan "RJ" Huijsman • GOTO 2025
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Robert-Jan Huijsman - Founding Engineer at Reboot.dev @RobertJanHuijsman RESOURCES https://twitter.com/rjhacks https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-jan-huijsman-8a428b60 ABSTRACT When you build a company whose mission is to make developers more productive, and all its employees are themselves developers, what you get is surely the holy grail of developer experiences? Well... yes and no. Join RJ for a review of lessons learned while building Reboot.dev, of challenges Reboot.dev (and the industry!) must still tackle, and what the future of developer productivity looks like if we get it right (or wrong). [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:27 How to overcome friction in humaning 09:01 How to overcome friction in coding 16:38 Nondeterminism in humaning 20:13 Nondeterminism in coding 32:29 Summary 35:11 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3736 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Joakim Sunden & Marcus Hammarberg • Kanban in Action • https://amzn.to/3n1Fmna Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang & Ya Xu • Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments • https://amzn.to/3JlY4NZ Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois & John Willis • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/3C0Rj0C Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Lean Software Development • https://amzn.to/3CxlMUq Marty Cagan • Inspired • https://amzn.to/3dPz7iq Marty Cagan • Empowered • https://amzn.to/42kuKAj https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences DeveloperProductivity #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #TodayInTech #RobertJanHuijsman #RJHuijsman #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1