FEATURED UPCOMING EVENT

🌉 DPE Summit 2025 is next month!

The final round of DPE Summit 2025 speakers is here! Check out the 2025 Keynotes below and then visit the event website to explore the full list of sessions, learn more about the event, and reserve your ticket.

• “You can write code faster. Can you deliver it faster?” – Hans Dockter, Gradle, Inc.

• “Developer Productivity in the Age of GenAI” – Kathryn Koehler, Netflix

• “What Makes a Great Developer Experience?”  – Max Kanat-Alexander, Capital One

• “Beyond the Commit: A Fireside Chat on AI and Developer Productivity” – Brian Houck, Microsoft and Nachiappan Nagappan, Meta

For the first time at DPE Summit, we will have a closing Keynote from Meta’s Pavel Avgustinov and Payam Shodjai, who will discuss how their team measures the impact of AI on developer productivity. 

Don’t miss your chance to attend the only conference dedicated entirely to Developer Productivity Engineering! Get your ticket for $399 before prices go up.

INDUSTRY NEWS

JFrog and Gradle are announcing something big at swampUP 2025

Security is no longer optional for enterprises—it's essential. GenAI not only lowers the barrier for bad actors to launch sophisticated attacks, but it may also make your code harder to understand, audit, and secure.

That's why JFrog and Gradle are teaming up to bring the next evolution of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) security: Continuous GRC for DevOps.

Learn more about this topic and get 30% off your swampUP tickets with our Gradle VIP coupon code (the discount appears after ticket type selection). 

Join us there and stop by our booth to see a demo of our newest product offering!

IDEAS & INSIGHTS

Podcast (47min): Observability into the Toolchain, with Brian Demers

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“If something goes wrong in your build tool, how do you deploy something to production? Well, you can’t. So if your build tools are actually in line, they’re on the path to getting something deployed to production. It’s kind of mind boggling to think that we’re just now getting to a point where we’re treating the complexity of our build tools the same way as we would our applications.” 

- Brian Demers

From the IEEE Computer Society comes last month’s Software Engineering Radio podcast, featuring Gradle Developer Advocate and amateur beekeeper, Brian Demers. Listen up to hear about why data around build times, compiler warnings, test executions, and any other system used to build the production code can help to reduce defects, increase productivity, and improve the developer experience. 

Brian discusses what we can do now with today’s tools, the impact on productivity and developer experience, and the outcomes, both in terms of risks and opportunities, introduced by the use of artificial intelligence.

BEST PRACTICES

Download “Flaky Tests: The Productive Developer’s Guide”

When tests become unpredictable, confidence fades—and cognitive fatigue sets in. This practical guide by Trisha Gee helps you reclaim trust in your test suite, streamline development, and ship higher-quality software by finally putting flaky tests to rest. Inside, we cover:

• The accumulated risk of flaky tests

• The negative impact on developers

• Strategies for identifying flaky tests

• Best practices for mitigating flaky tests

• Tips for identifying flakiness root cause

Grab the whitepaper to gain actionable strategies for building a reliable and efficient testing environment!

DPE UNIVERSITY

New course! “Gradle Shared Build Logic” 

As your Gradle project gets bigger, you'll find yourself writing the same code in many different places. This can lead to errors and make it hard to keep things organized. This training will show you a better way to manage common project settings using something called convention plugins.

For developers with Gradle Build Tool experience, including knowledge of core concepts and authoring build files (Kotlin DSL experience a plus), this 1-hour, self-paced course will teach you how to:

• Use buildSrc to manage shared configuration, including managing a common configuration in one location, using convention plugins

• Use composite builds to manage shared configuration—including other builds to provide a common configuration—and identify when this approach is most helpful

By the end of this course, you'll be able to confidently create a location for shared configuration and utilize the power of convention plugins. Not bad for only an hour of your time!

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.

• Amazon  |  Boston, MA  |  Developer Advocate, Developer Productivity, DevEx

• Bloomberg  |  United States  |  Senior Backend Engineer - Developer Experience

• Everlaw  |  Oakland, CA  |  Software Engineer, Developer Experience

• LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)  |  London, UK  |  Developer Experience Engineer

• MongoDB  |  Remote  |  Software Engineer 3, Developer Productivity

• Netflix  |  Poland  |  Engineering Manager - Developer Enablement Engineering

• Rightmove  |  London, England  |  Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)

• Webflow  |  Remote  |  Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

• Wiz  |  Remote  |  AI Developer – GTM Productivity & Enablement

• Zillow  |  Remote  |  Principal Software Development Engineer, Big Data

• Zoox  |  Foster City, CA  |  Senior AI Developer Productivity Engineer