Developer Productivity Engineering Blog

As another eventful year at Gradle draws to a close, the team behind Develocity is reflecting on the biggest changes and the greatest wins of 2023. Some things look different going into the new year—not least of all our new product name!—but our commitment to being the leading platform for improving developer productivity at scale remains unchanged. In case you missed some of the more noteworthy milestones, read on for a recap of this year’s most exciting developments.

Develocity 2023.4 caps a strong year of product innovation for the engineering team at Gradle along  three key dimensions. First, this year we expanded the market surface area for Develocity with GA support Bazel and sbt (in beta).

Connecting hundreds or thousands of projects to Develocity (formerly Gradle Enterprise) for the first time can be challenging. The canonical way requires modifying the existing build configuration settings, which is not easily done at scale. This document explains how to use OpenRewrite from Moderne to create pull requests that will update all repositories at once.

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. 

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.

Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is a practice for improving developer productivity leveraging technologies—rather than exclusively relying on traditional management best practices. This includes foremost analytic technologies for observing and collecting the many metrics and indicators of the overall health of your toolchain in terms of speed and reliability. Develocity captures, records, and presents these metrics. We wanted to learn which of these metrics are the most important, so we asked our users!

In the world of software deployment, three things are certain: death, taxes, and build tool migrations. Whether it’s upgrading from Gradle 7 to 8, or moving from Maven to Gradle or back, these migrations are both essential and complex. The success of planning, implementation, and post-migration management is heavily dependent upon the quality and presentation of toolchain data available to teams before, during, and after the migration. Develocity provides a wealth of mechanisms and dashboards—as well as an Enterprise API—for collecting and presenting data essential to successful build tool migration efforts.

Flaky tests pose substantial challenges due to their unpredictable and inconsistent nature. Effectively addressing them requires a multi-faceted approach that involves the effective integration of strategy, process and resource alignment, and a deep understanding of flaky test causality. This post will walk you through this approach.

Dealing with flaky tests is a significant challenge in software development. Fortunately, tools such as Develocity can aid in tracking down and mitigating these issues. Here are five ways you can use Develocity to better manage flaky tests.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Develocity 2023.2 featuring General Availability (GA) support for the Bazel build system. This major release highlights our commitment to supporting the Bazel community, further evidenced by our recent admittance to the Bazel Products Partner program. We also announced beta support for the sbt build system, as we continue to embrace the Scala developer community.