Developer Productivity Engineering Blog

Getting Started with the Kotlin DSL

Build logic can grow as complex as application logic and because of that good tooling is key for a productive build-logic authoring and maintenance experience. In this webinar, Paul Merlin and Rodrigo B. de Oliveira from Gradle explain how the Gradle Kotlin DSL leverages the Kotlin language and its great tooling to provide just that.



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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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Introducing Acceleration and Insights for Maven Builds with Develocity

Today, we’re excited to announce a big step towards our mission to transform how software is built and shipped. We recognize that not all teams are using Gradle or are in a position to migrate soon. In this blog post, we’ll learn how you can utilize the insights provided by build scans and the acceleration of the build cache in Apache Maven™ builds.



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2018 State of Scala Compilation

Back in September 2018 we asked for your help to better understand how much time is lost by Scala developers because of compilation, and with over 600 individuals filling up the survey we have some interesting data to discuss.



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How Coursera Reduced Scala Compilation Times By 125 Hours a Week

Coursera is the leading online educational platform, empowering more than 35 million learners across the world to access over 2600 high-quality courses from top educational institutions. The Coursera platform is the central component that enables teachers to share their knowledge, students to uplevel and enhance their skills, and enterprises to continuously train their workforce.



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What’s new in Gradle 5.0

Gradle 5.0 is much faster and more memory efficient than previous versions of Gradle, has better tools to inspect and manage transitive dependencies, and can provide the IDE assistance you’d always hoped and expected through a new Kotlin DSL.



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