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TAG Developer Experience

TAG Developer Experience focuses on improving the developer experience in cloud native environments, covering databases, microservices, streaming, messaging, API management, and developer frameworks.

Mission Statement​

Databases, Microservices, Streaming, Messaging, API Management, Dev Frameworks.

Leadership​

Chairs​

NameGitHubOrganizationTerm
Daniel Oh@danieloh30-2025-07-01 to 2027-06-30
Mauricio Salatino@salaboy-2025-07-01 to 2026-06-30
Mona Borham@SwEngin-2025-07-01 to 2027-06-30

Tech Leads​

NameGitHubOrganizationTerm
Graziano Casto@graz-dev-2025-07-02 to 2026-06-30
Joshua Bezaleel Abednego@joshuabezaleel-2025-07-02 to 2027-06-30
Julien Semaan@julsemaan-2025-07-02 to 2027-06-30
Kevin Dubois@kdubois-2025-07-02 to 2026-06-30
Mélony QIN@cloudmelon-2025-07-02 to 2027-06-30

TOC Liaison​

Meetings​

TAG Developer Experience Meetings

All meetings are open to the public. No registration required - simply join the meeting from the calendar link.

Communication Channels​

Slack​

Join the CNCF Slack workspace and connect with the TAG:

Mailing List​

Focus Areas​

TAG Developer Experience focuses on improving developer productivity and reducing friction across the Cloud Native development lifecycle. Our work is organized around three core pillars that reflect how developers actually build, deploy, and operate software.

Developer Tooling (Inner & Outer Loop)​

Tools and practices that support developers across the full development lifecycle — from writing code locally to deploying and operating systems in production.

Inner Loop​

  • Project scaffolding and templates
  • Development environment setup
  • Local testing and validation
  • Local deployment and preview environments
  • Debugging and runtime feedback

Outer Loop​

  • Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines
  • Artifact management and promotion
  • Continuous Delivery and GitOps practices
  • Deployment and release strategies
  • Post-deployment observability
  • Incident response and learning loops

Application Runtime​

Cloud Native runtime patterns that shape how applications behave in production and significantly influence both operational complexity and developer experience.

  • Communication & Traffic Management
  • Data & State Management
  • Eventing, Messaging & Streaming Solutions
  • Workload Isolation & Multitenancy
  • Deployment Topology

Platform Engineering Enablement​

Cross-cutting platform capabilities that improve developer experience and scalability across organizations.

  • Golden paths and developer templates
  • Self-service infrastructure and platform APIs
  • Policy and governance automation
  • Secure software supply chains
  • Developer portals and platform interfaces
  • Feedback loops, telemetry, and developer productivity metrics

Subprojects​

Initiatives​

View current and past initiatives:

Getting Involved​

We welcome contributions from anyone interested in improving the developer experience in cloud native environments:

Attend Meetings​

Join our regular meetings to hear about ongoing work and participate in discussions. Check the meeting calendar for details.

Contribute to Initiatives​

Browse active initiatives and volunteer to help with specific deliverables.

Share Your Experience​

  • Present use cases or lessons learned at TAG meetings
  • Write blog posts about developer experience improvements
  • Contribute to white papers and best practices documents

Join the Conversation​

Resources​