Gradle DPE Newsletters

October 2025

Meet Develocity Provenance Governor, our new continuous GRC tool, allowing you to evaluate every artifact in every local and CI build in your SDLC
The new Develocity IntelliJ plugin gives troubleshooting a boost
The DORA 2025 report: We use AI more, but trust it less

September 2025

Develocity 360 now available: Our new toolchain observability platform
Security and compliance concerns? We’re making “Continuous GRC” the next evolution in DevOps
New DPE University course: Gradle Shared Build Logic

August 2025

JFrog and Gradle are teaming up to bring the next evolution of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) security: Continuous GRC for DevOps
Observability into the Toolchain, with Brian Demers (podcast)
Download the whitepaper “Flaky Tests: The Productive Developer’s Guide”

July 2025

Developer Joy: A Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity
New whitepaper: GenAI Won’t Replace Your Continuous Delivery Pipeline—It Will Stress It
New DPE University course coming soon: “Unlocking Build Observability”

June 2025

First round of DPE Summit 2025 speakers announced!
New resource just published! Flaky Tests: The Productive Developer’s Guide
AI coding is creating a productivity delusion – Michael Smith from SD Times

May 2025

Gradle, Inc. joins Scala Center Advisory Board to improve Scala developer experience
Taming Flaky Tests: Trisha Gee on developer productivity and testing best practices
Toast turns up the heat on slow builds with Gradle and DPE

April 2025

Listen to the podcast: Understanding What Really Matters for Developer Productivity
DPE University learning path: Build Scan® Essentials
From Forbes: AI Will Transform Software Development—But Not The Way You Expect

March 2025

The creator of DORA and SPACE on measuring and improving developer productivity
Platform Engineering on the Brink: Breakthrough or Bust?
Featured DPE University course: Incremental Builds and Build Caching with Gradle and Develocity

February 2025

Develocity wins InfoWorld 2024 Technology of the Year Award
Netflix rolls out service-level prioritized load shedding to improve resiliency
How Snowflake continuously improves developer productivity

January 2025

Developer Productivity with Apache Maven: 18 hacks to accelerate your builds and tests
Predictions for 2025 – AI, testing, toolchain observability, and more
Why Google thinks you can learn DPE best practices on the toilet

December 2024

Thirty-five DPE Summit sessions now available on video at DPE.org!
Why leaders in observability are more productive and competitive than their rivals
Featured free training course: How to use Build Scan®

November 2024

More findings from Google’s “Developer Productivity for Humans” series
Making Uber’s Experiment evaluation engine 100x faster
Free course: Introduction to Developer Productivity Engineering

October 2024

How JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) enhances its global developer experience
This DPE journey aims to speed up Apache Maven across large development teams
After early wins, are AI code assistants now over-hyped?

September 2024

Testing is critical—but is it also bad for developer productivity?
What ACTUALLY increases cognitive load for software developers
IEEE Podcast: Hans Dockter discusses Developer Productivity Engineering

August 2024

DPE Summit 2024 full agenda announced
How Netflix detects and responds to build performance regressions (and the code to get it done)
Developer burnout: the trillion dollar problem

July 2024

How the Red Hat Quarkus team cut Maven PR times by 3X with Develocity
Read about how 4 top banks and Uber handle flaky tests
What it takes to get your DevProd initiative funded – learn from these 20 companies

June 2024

DPE University is live with free, self-paced courses on Gradle, Apache Maven, Develocity, and DPE.
Spotify releases private beta of an even more prescriptive Backstage IDP
New Platform Engineering survey shows (perhaps overly) broad adoption, with 75% of respondents using 3 or more IDPs

May 2024

Toxic tests: why your tests are failing YOU (and what to do about it)
Podcast: InfoQ asks Hans Dockter about why developers are facing cognitive fatigue, how bad tests make everything worse, and how to keep developers productive and happy
What exactly is Platform Engineering? A Forbes contributor hopes to set the record straight

April 2024

Podcast: Hans Dockter describes how cognitive fatigue impacts developer productivity
“Toil and trouble” is starting to bubble onto the radar of IT executives and analysts
85% of dev teams say builds and tests are slow

March 2024

GitHub and Airbnb share how Copilot boosts developer productivity in the real world
Is testing bad for developer productivity?
DORA, revisited (aka “How do you make sure you don’t focus on the wrong productivity metrics?”)

February 2024

17 real-life examples of developer productivity metrics put to use
Airbnb, LinkedIn, and Spotify share how they’re measuring developer productivity
Red Hat doubles down on IDPs, introducing a new developer platform based on Spotify’s Backstage

January 2024

LinkedIn’s DPE organization open-sources their Developer Productivity and Happiness framework
DPE Summit 2023 presentation videos are now available to view
Developer Productivity trends for 2024 see strong gains in platform engineering, IDPs, and AI, while the debate over metrics continues

December 2023

What’s driving Netflix’s continued investment in DPE and developer happiness
LinkedIn, Meta, and Netflix visit the Build Propulsion Lab and talk shop
Spotify’s DPE portal Backstage dominates industry conversations as external adoption exceeds 4M users

November 2023

The ASF implements Develocity across all OSS projects
What Microsoft learned from surveying 5,000 engineers
Netflix, Nasdaq, and GitLab discuss productivity initiatives at DPE Forum: NYC

October 2023

Gradle Inc announces Gradle Enterprise is now Develocity
Sold-out DPE Summit signals rapid growth of DPE practice
Apollo joins the next DPE Lowdown to discuss productivity wins

October 2023

Gradle Inc announces Gradle Enterprise is now Develocity
Sold-out DPE Summit signals rapid growth of DPE practice
Apollo joins the next DPE Lowdown to discuss productivity wins

September 2023

Why Google believes in the value of DPE and build & test performance acceleration technologies
How Spring Boot builds went from 1 hour to just 7 minutes
Gartner adds “developer experience” as a major theme in their 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies

August 2023

Important things to know about flaky tests, build rot, and remote work’s impact on local build times
Get the first installment of DPE Expert DoubleShots
Develocity (formerly known as Gradle Enterprise) expands support to Bazel and sbt build systems

July 2023

GitHub survey reveals slow builds & tests still plague developers
Learn how the SPACE metrics align with the practice of DPE and why they need each other
How AI can improve the developer workflow, reduce busy work, and prevent burnout

June 2023

Spotify joins the next DPE Lowdown to discuss Backstage.io
New research explores what actually drives developer productivity
From the Splunk Blog – Why industry leaders have embraced DPE

May 2023

Gradle ❤️️ Kotlin
Gradle Inc. announces the release of Develocity 2023.1
Jamf cuts integration test times by 66% with Predictive Test Selection

April 2023

InfoWorld: From the 10x developer to the 10x team
DevProdEng Showdown: CI quality of service with Netflix, Slack, Uber, and Gradle
DPE Summit 2023 announced for Sep 20-21 in San Francisco

March 2023

Gradle Acquires Triplequote
Case studies spotlight value of using Develocity to provide CI build and test observability
Development Efficiency at the Swedish Pensions Agency

February 2023

2023 predictions for the developer community
Managing a remote build cache at scale with local build observability at Cash App
DevProdEng Lowdown: The JetBrains Kotlin compiler team’s developer productivity wins

January 2023

DevProdEng Lowdown: The Kotlin Compiler Team’s Developer Productivity Wins
An IT executive introduction to Developer Productivity Engineering
Introducing Develocity 2022.4
Best practices for identifying developer pain points

December 2022

3 key themes to take away from the first-ever DPE Summit
The neuroscience behind developer productivity engineering
Dogfooding test distribution for maximum effect
How Big Data and AI can help the developer toolchain

November 2022

Addressing Amazon’s mammoth developer experience challenge
Introducing the Developer Productivity Engineering Maturity Model
Anatomy of a build cache node crash

October 2022

Advice for Sundar Pichai: How to solve Google’s billion-dollar productivity problem
Recommended Reading: Build Rock – A Build Platform at Slack
LinkedIn, Meta, Netflix, and Uber sign on as DPE Summit sponsors

September 2022

Establishing platform engineering teams to build and improve developers’ platforms
How Google troubleshoots build and test failures faster
Test Distribution is easier than you think

August 2022

DevProdEng Showdown Wall Street Edition: Scaling Developer Productivity at Global-Banking Scale
How Square speeds up local builds with a remote build cache
Gradle announces the first annual Developer Productivity Engineering Summit

July 2022

4 expert tips for boosting Android build speed
New survey results reveal key developer challenges in 2021
Gradle announces the first Annual Developer Productivity Engineering Summit

June 2022

The vital importance of pursuing build & test performance consistency and continuity
10 ways to get maximum leverage from using Build Scans
DevProdEng Lowdown preview: How Uber does Developer Productivity Engineering

May 2022

Developer productivity gets a boost from machine learning
How Micronaut does Developer Productivity Engineering with Develocity
Get answers to productivity questions from Android experts in Season 2 premier of DevProdEng Showdown

April 2022

Seven Ways Netflix Uses Develocity to Manage Gradle Plugins
Gradle releases the 2022 Developer Productivity Engineering Handbook
Develocity launches support for new Enterprise API
Micronaut Foundation names Gradle as first Tools and Infrastructure Partner

March 2022

Testcontainers, OpenRewrite, Micronaut latest OSS projects to get revved up by Develocity
Leverage the DPE Learning Center if you are not already!
Spend some quality time with a DPE industry expert

February 2022

Netflix pursues soft DevEx goals with hard DevProd metrics using Test Distribution
Expert take: How DoorDash does Developer Productivity Engineering
Featured white paper: “Executive’s Guide to Developer Productivity Engineering”

January 2022

Develocity 2021.4 features Build Scan™ support for Bazel and Predictive Test Selection
Improving developer productivity at Micrometer with build cache, Build Scan, and performance and trends dashboards.
How LinkedIn does Developer Productivity Engineering
A new series of 1-Minute Build Scan™ videos helps users get started and explore functionality

December 2021

Gradle Inc. raises $27 million in series C funding
DevProdEng Lowdown: How LinkedIn does Developer Productivity Engineering
DPE at Microsoft with Brian Houck (On-Demand Webcast)
Success story: Addressing and diagnosing build performance challenges at Google/Android

November 2021

DevProdEng Lowdown: How Microsoft Does Developer Productivity Engineering
Micrometer Cuts Feedback Cycle Time by Two-Thirds
How Netflix Does Developer Productivity Engineering with Danny Thomas

October 2021

Next Developer Productivity Engineering meetup features Netflix
Do you regularly schedule ‘Flaky Test Days’?
Take the Gradle or Maven Build Speed Challenge!
Android Experts share DevProd best practices in the Last DevProdEng Showdown!

September 2021

New ‘Executive’s Guide to Developer Productivity Engineering’
How to improve React and JavaScript build performance with Develocity
Spend some quality time with DPE industry experts
Android Experts Share DevProd Best Practices in the Last DevProdEng Showdown!
Gradle Build Tool users – we would like to hear from you

August 2021

SF JUG Presents: How to Maintain Performance As the Codebase Grows
Sam Snyder’s Pragmatists Guide to Flaky Test Management
Test Distribution in action: a practitioner’s feedback from the trenches
Open source titans debate DevProd best practices in the Last DevProdEng Showdown!

July 2021

Next DevProdEng Showdown features open source project titans
Eric Wendelin on getting the most out of your build performance trend data
Auto scaling Test Distribution agents is now much more convenient
Addressing Maven dependency management challenges

June 2021

Getting the most out of your build performance trend data
Android experts share DevProd Best Practices in the Last DevProdEng Showdown!
Spend some quality time with DPE industry experts

May 2021

DevProdEng Showdown: ‘Expert Takes’ delivered in a fun game-show format
New developer survey makes a great case for Developer Productivity Engineering
Gradle 7 improves incremental builds, backs Java 16.
The ‘Premise Data’ Experience with Build Cache Node Replication
Scaling and developer productivity at Coinbase

April 2021

DevProdEng Showdown! S1E3: DevRel Pros Take on DevProdEng at Scale
New on-demand webcast explores the advantages of running CI builds & tests in the Cloud
The Android gurus debate developer productivity at scale
Introducing the Developer Productivity Engineering Learning Center
Test Distribution gets even faster

March 2021

Dev Cloud acceleration at Elastic with Google Cloud Platform
The next episode of DevProdEng Showdown to focus on Android developer productivity
VMware on Developer Productivity Engineering in a Microservices Environment
Is Developer Productivity Engineering the next big thing in software?

February 2021

VMware on Developer Productivity Engineering in a microservices environment
Announcing Test Distribution for Maven
The next episode of DevProdEng Showdown to focus on Android Developer Productivity
Tim Cochran of ThoughtWorks on maximizing developer effectiveness

January 2021

The debut of DevProdEng Showdown!
Key OSS Projects standardizing on Develocity
Can developer productivity be measured?
Scaling Android builds in pandemic times at Tinder

December 2020

Best of DPE Newsletter 2020
Remote developer productivity in COVID times
Nelson Osacky: So, you want to be a DPE Solutions Engineer
Android Expert panel sounds Off: Android builds and tests at scale
Hands-On Workshop: Gradle Build Cache Deep Dive

November 2020

Exploring the DevProd Solution Landscape | DevProdEng vs. DevProdMgmt
Hans Dockter on being proactive to build developer and toolchain trust
Develocity 2020.4 extends build & test failure analytics capability
Hands-On Workshop: Maven Build Cache Deep Dive

October 2020

Alberto Mijares demystifies the roles of binary repositories and build caches
Hans Dockter on how build & test reliability issues kill morale
Embracing DevProd Engineering in Android ‒ Video Series
Spring project continues to crush feedback cycle times with Develocity Build Cache
New build failure analytics video ‒ a Data-Driven Approach to Improving Build Reliability