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Apache Software Foundation Standardizes on Gradle Develocity to Improve Developer Productivity & Experience

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and Gradle Inc. announced last week that Gradle has entered into a collaboration with the Foundation as a Targeted Platinum Sponsor. This involves Gradle providing a free instance of Develocity (formerly Gradle Enterprise) that runs as a shared ASF infrastructure service available for use by all Apache projects and contributors. Gradle aims to scale Develocity build and test performance acceleration and failure analytics benefits across the ASF community of 320 active open-source software projects. 



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New Features in Develocity 2023.3 Focus on Enterprise Scalability and Mission Criticality

As Develocity continues to scale its footprint in large deployments, enterprise expectations in areas like high availability and security continue to rise. We are pleased to introduce the newest release of Develocity 2023.3, bringing streamlined project management with project-level access control, additional cloud integration capabilities, highly available build caching, and more. Let’s delve into the new features awaiting you.



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Announcing Test Distribution Auto Scaling

In Develocity 2021.2 we’ve added support to auto scale agents when using an elastic compute platform based on demand for how many tests there are to run. In this blog post, we’re going to show you how easy this is to set up in a Kubernetes cluster, and show how test execution times of both Gradle and Maven builds are affected in different usage scenarios.



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Announcing Test Distribution for Maven

In Develocity 2020.5 we’ve added the missing piece to our testing product for Maven: Test Distribution (available for Gradle builds since Develocity 2020.2). In this blog post, we’re going to connect the build of the Eclipse Jetty open source project to Develocity. We will demonstrate how Test Distribution and Build Caching – with very little effort – reduce the total build time from over 50 minutes to about 15 minutes for a typical code change. We will also discuss potential options for reducing build time even further by optimizing the build for Test Distribution.



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What’s New in Develocity 2020.2

Develocity 2020.2 introduces a major new feature: Test Distribution. Develocity Test Distribution executes your existing test suites faster by fanning out test execution to as many machines as you provide.



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Develocity Unveils “Test Distribution”

Does your team suffer from long feedback times because of slow running tests? Does your CI pipeline spend several hours executing integration and system tests?

Having these tests is important but once running them takes longer than a few minutes, developers will push execution to later stages of the development cycle leading to longer feedback times. Shortening feedback cycles can save teams lots of time because there are fewer interruptions to the creative process, developers spend less time waiting for each individual build, and they spend less time debugging problems that occur from compounding changesets.



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What’s New in Gradle 6.0

Gradle 6.0 is the culmination of several years of innovative improvements in Dependency Management. Embracing the idea that there is more to software composition and reuse than just putting a set of jar files on the classpath, Gradle now offers a new metadata format to richly define software components that are often made up of multiple files, different variants and specific constraints on their dependencies.



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