Developer Productivity Engineering Blog

If you’re a Java developer, chances are Maven is a core part of your toolkit. But let’s face it, managing Maven versions across different environments—your local machine, your team’s setups, and your CI/CD pipelines—can be a real pain. Inconsistent installations, manual updates, and the dreaded “it works on my machine” syndrome can all slow you down and cause unnecessary headaches. Enter the Maven Wrapper—a simple tool that transparently manages your Maven installation for you!

If you’re a regular Apache Maven™ user, you know that build times can quickly add up, eating into your development time and slowing down your feedback loop–whether you’re waiting for a local build to finish or watching a pull request inch towards merge, every minute counts. This post walks through five low-effort strategies for accelerating your Maven builds, showing a real-life example that brings a 1.5-minute build down to 7.5 seconds. These tips will help you return to what you love most—writing code!

As developers, we understand the value of data. We collect it on the performance of our applications, use it to find out how our users are behaving and how to improve their experiences, and monitor our apps to anticipate problems before they strike. However, we’re often living in a data vacuum when it comes to things that impact developer productivity and the overall experience. You need data to show what is introducing friction and toil into your job. You need data to show the risks that exist from using outdated tools. And you need data to show that your solutions can fix these issues.

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This post describes how to make the Quarkus build goal cacheable with minimal modifications to the Maven build configuration, reusing outputs from previous builds to save time.

Holly Cummins from Red Hat speaks about their journey of using Develocity to accelerate Quarkus builds, whether developer productivity and developer joy are opposites, and how helpful AI is for developers.

How often do build performance regressions happen and what’s the impact on developer productivity? The Netflix Android team says these regressions can happen often and sometimes significantly impact CI and local developer machine build times. Fortunately, Develocity’s Build Validations Scripts and quick investigation Build Scan® links can help you identify build cache misses, measure the impact, and prioritize the fix. Find out how Netflix uses Develocity to efficiently monitor build performance at scale and how you can too.

Dealing with dependencies is an inevitable part of developing Java applications with any build tool, and Apache Maven is no exception. As your project grows, the complexity of managing these dependencies can lead to the dreaded “dependency hell,” where conflicts, version mismatches, and unresolvable libraries disrupt your build. In this post, we’ll explore five strategic approaches for managing dependencies effectively in Maven.