Developer Productivity Engineering Blog

Fixing broken builds using Develocity

Have you ever had an infrastructure failure break your build, or perhaps been forced to stop working in order to fix broken build configuration? Changes to development infrastructure often happen unbeknownst to the engineers it serves. Many problems go unreported, but chip away at our productivity much more than we realize. It is important to identify and stop non-verification failures (those not caused by routine development, such as compile and test failures) before they disrupt your organization. To combat this, we are pleased to introduce new failure analysis tools.



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Top Android Build Issues

Android builds can be complex and challenging to optimize, yet Android teams usually have the fewest resources to work on the build. In this webinar, Jason Schroeder from Salesforce and Rooz Mohazzabi from Gradle discuss top Android build issues an how to solve them.



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How to Make Scala Compilation 5X Faster

We found out that compilation speed is not affected much by instance size, while the price doubles with every step. The most cost-effective instance is thus m5.large (2 cores). But what happens when we throw in our Hydra parallel Scala compiler?



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Guide To Amazon Instances For Scala Apps

We ran a number of Scala compilation benchmarks and look at what instance type is the fastest and what offers the best cost per build. We also checked the speed improvements in the latest 2.12.8 release, so read on for the full story or jump to Conclusions for the tl;dr;



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