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Gradle DPE Newsletters
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
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 reedback cycle times with Develocity Build Cache
- New build failure analytics video ‒ a Data-Driven Approach to Improving Build Reliability
September 2020
- Observability takes DPE to the next level
- Hans Dockter on unreliable tool chains
- Introducing Configuration Caching
- New video: Develocity Maven Build Cache | Technology & Business Case Explained
August 2020
- Advice for mitigating pandemic’s impact on developer productivity
- Eric Wendelin on Flaky Test Management
- Stash’s launch of DPE journey off to a good start
- A new video provides a good overview and example of Test Distribution
July 2020
- Raju Gandhi on the power of flow and deep work
- Nelson Osacky on scaling Android builds
- Comparing Gradle and Bazel build tool technologies
- New Develocity solution overview video
June 2020
- Build engineers on the rise
- Even the experts can get it wrong
- Flaky Test Management enhancements
- Reflections on successful DPE experiments at SoundCloud
May 2020
- The link between fast feedback cycles and developer behavior change
- Is it time to establish a dedicated DevProdEng team?
- Dependency visualization for Maven
- Cutting open source project build times 77%
April 2020
- Eliminate Developer Process Waste
- Developer Productivity Engineering at Elastic: Avoiding the Cost of Inaction
- Speed Up Builds with “Test Distribution”
- Martin Fowler: Eradicating Non-Determinism (“Flakiness”) in Tests
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