Mar-27 webinar “Troubleshooting Gradle and Maven builds with Develocity”; DPE Summit CFS + super-early-bird tickets; Creator of DORA and SPACE talks DevProd; Has platform engineering peaked? Plus DPE University and job openings!


Want to connect with Gradle? Email me at owhite@gradle.com, and have a productive month!

FEATURED UPCOMING EVENT

🎥 Mar-27 webinar - Troubleshooting Gradle and Maven builds with Develocity

How much time do you spend each day troubleshooting your builds and tests?


If you're like most developers, you regularly see dependencies fail, infrastructure explode, non-stop flaky tests, and Checkstyle turning into Gandalf ("you shall not pass"). That's ok, right? At least, everything works on your machine.


Sarcasm aside, there are many points of failure, and we need proper tools to identify and fix the root cause as quickly and easily as possible. In this webinar with Stefan Wolf, Principal Software Engineer at Gradle, we look at how to more effectively troubleshoot Gradle and Apache Maven builds, both locally and on CI. Specifically, we’ll walk through:

  • How to use (free) Develocity Build Scan® for Gradle and Maven to provide an X-ray of your project

  • Use-cases of well-known Gradle and Maven OSS projects using Develocity and the proven benefits they see

  • Develocity demos featuring Gradle Build Tool and Quarkus, diving into observability and troubleshooting tactics


Register here

DPE SUMMIT

🌉 DPE Summit 2025 - Super-early-bird tickets available + CFS open for submissions!

We’re excited to announce that the call for speakers (CFS) for DPE Summit 2025 is now open. Last year, we received over 150 submissions and we look forward to seeing some great ideas from this year’s potential speakers!


Also, tickets are currently just $249 with our super-early-bird ticket pricing. Prices jump to $349 on April 13, so act early to maximize your L&D budget.


Learn more

EXPERT TAKES

Creator of DORA and SPACE on measuring and improving developer productivity 

Source: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/developer-productivity-with-dr-nicole


The team here at Gradle really likes the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter by industry veteran Gergely Orosz, and this recent podcast is no exception.


Gergely sits down with Dr. Nicole Forsgren—the creator of the DORA framework, the co-creator of SPACE, and a Partner at Microsoft Research—to explore various topics and share perspectives. Without spoiling anything, Gergely summarized the main takeaways from the conversation:

  • Measuring the number of PRs is controversial for a good reason

  • DORA and SPACE both have their own limitations

  • AI developer tools don’t change DevEx fundamentals

  • Developer experience (DevEx) is not necessarily great at large companies and poor at startups

Plus, check out the related 2024 DPE Summit Keynote with Abi Noda from DX and Margaret-Anne Storey, co-author of SPACE, in their fireside chat: “Past, Present, and Future of Developer Productivity Research”. 


We hope you’ll listen to these excellent conversations and use them to have a conversation of your own. If you feel like you’re ready to take the next step, see if a guided trial of Develocity is right for your team. Our expert engineers will work directly with you to identify productivity bottlenecks and enable Develocity’s acceleration, troubleshooting, and observability features to address them.


Request a trial

DPE UNIVERSITY

Featured course: Incremental Builds and Build Caching with Gradle and Develocity

This month's featured course on DPE University is Incremental Builds and Build Caching with Gradle and Develocity. 


In this training, you’ll learn how to enhance Gradle’s native Build Cache feature with Develocity’s remote/distributed Build Cache (which re-uses outputs produced by other builds in your organization), to significantly reduce build times.  


Upon completion, you’ll receive a certificate of accomplishment. The first 5 people who send a screenshot of their certificate to owhite@gradle.com will get a personalized shout-out on LinkedIn or X/Twitter. I’m waiting! :-)


Get started

BEST PRACTICES

Platform Engineering on the Brink: Breakthrough or Bust?

Source: https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineering-on-the-brink-breakthrough-or-bust/



This recent post from Jennifer Riggins at The New Stack takes a hard look at platform engineering adoption and its impact on developer productivity. 


The article covers a panel session at State of Open Con in London last month where speakers joined a discussion that openly asked whether platform engineering will make it in the long term. Topics included:

  • What problems does platform engineering seek to address?

  • How does a platform team measure success?

  • What does ‘Platform as a Product’ mean?

  • What is the future of platform engineering technology?

  • Where are the people and processes?

It’s worth a read if you’re currently working on establishing or increasing the productivity of an IDP in your organization. We also invite you to check out the 2024 DPE Summit session by American Airlines talking about their success with Backstage from Spotify.


Watch now

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

DPE Job Openings

The industry needs you! You might find your dream role among these job openings related to DPE, developer productivity, and engineering leadership. 


NOTE: These postings are active at the time of sending but are subject to change.


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