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Developer Productivity with Apache Maven™: 18 hacks to accelerate your builds and tests

If you're a regular Apache Maven user, you know that build times can quickly add up, eating into your development time and slowing down your feedback loop—whether you're waiting for a local build to finish or watching a pull request on CI inch towards merge, every minute counts.
In this webinar by Brian Demers, Java Champion and veteran Apache Maven contributor, we will review a comprehensive list of tips and hacks to make your Maven experience more productive and less miserable.
Some of these tips are low-hanging fruit for even Maven beginners, others require more thought and planning for Maven experts. Either way, following this advice will make a meaningful difference to your developer productivity—plus, being able to observe and report productivity boosts to your management team is always a good thing!
- Sensible Maven tips and tricks learned over 15 years (low hanging fruit)
- Demo: the power of build caching, demonstrated with Apache SCIMple
- Leveraging observability to manage "Maven dependency hell"
- Your toughest questions for the Q&A
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Using IntelliJ with Develocity AI for faster troubleshooting
Explore the use of the free Develocity IntelliJ plugin, along with Develocity AI features, for rapidly troubleshooting failures and performance issues within the comfort of your IDE.
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DPE Summit 2025
The only event dedicated to Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) and Developer Experience.
September 23-24, 2025
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