We have all struggled with builds at some point. Build Scans offers solutions to some of the most common challenges Java developers face, including debugging failed builds, identifying performance issues, and managing dependencies more efficiently.

We’ll cover how using Build Scans will help you make your builds faster and foster better collaboration within teams by making sharing build insights easier. We’ll also examine the build processes of open-source projects to showcase valuable lessons learned.

The aim is to provide a balanced mix of technical insights and practical advice, ensuring you leave with a clear understanding of how to use Build Scans in your Maven projects to make you a more effective developer.

It is well known that organizations connect software testing with software quality: making sure that the code does what it is supposed to do.

Unfortunately, many organizations believe that the testing is a slow process and it causes stagnancy in the project. Organizations say that due to the slow testing process they are not able to meet its set milestones, but it doesn’t have to be this way. The testing stage is also part of the developer experience and making it such that engineers are productive and continue delivering software not only fast but with confidence is crucial.

In this talk, we will explore a few approaches that we are taking in order to deliver a more consistent and delightful testing experience for JVM engineers at Netflix. The end goal: speed up engineers feedback loop by running tests locally constantly as much as possible.

Developer productivity is a hot topic right now, but what does it mean? Is it all just about squeezing more lines of code out of us poor, overworked developers? Or could it, in fact, lead to developer joy?

In this session, Trisha will show some of her favorite IntelliJ IDEA tips for improving her own productivity. She’ll use these examples to talk about what productivity is, what it is not, and why it’s even more important to us as developers than it is to the organizations that pay our salaries. And it’s of course important to them, too!

Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how IntelliJ IDEA helps them to be effective, productive, and happy. Trisha wants you to look at your toolchain and ask yourself, “Does this enable me to be creative and happy?”

We have all had issues getting new engineers onboarded and in a place to commit code as soon as possible. Cloud-based work environments provide a promising solution not only to this problem but can also provide more than a simple answer to getting new team members effective quickly. Learn more about the considerations for standing up this type of solution in your infrastructure and the side benefits that can come from this solution. We’ll dive into topics such as security considerations (and benefits), making your use case, eliminating the “it works on my machine” answer, and defining success metrics.