Netflix’s Journey to Confident Automated Changes

This session covers the strategies Netflix uses to increase engineers’ comfort levels (confidence) with receiving and releasing code changes from peers and platform teams automatically (i.e. no human interaction). By investing in confidence-building, Netflix believes it can increase development velocity, improve quality, reduce exposure to security vulnerabilities, and better enable away-team models.

Learn how Netflix shares validations and feedback loop data with developers and managers to help them identify where the greatest leverage can be achieved both at a small scale and in aggregate. Key themes include shifting left software verification, developer self-service insights, and failure impact analysis.

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Take it further with Develocity

Aubrey and Roberto mention how Predictive Test Selection has dramatically accelerated their testing time. Learn more about how Netflix has leveraged Develocity’s two testing features—Predictive Test Selection and Test Distribution—to save 280,000+ engineering hours per year.

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Meet the speakers

Roberto Perez Alcolea

Roberto is an experienced software engineer with a focus in JVM Ecosystem, Developer Productivity, and Developer Experience. He has several years of experience using technologies for the JVM.

He’s an active maintainer of Netflix Nebula Plugins (https://nebula-plugins.github.io/) and an occasional contributor to the Gradle Build tool (https://gradle.org/)

He currently works at Netflix in the JVM ecosystem team. The JVM Ecosystem Team provides the user experience for jdk lifecycle, dependency management, building, packaging, and publishing JVM-based libraries and applications through providing tools, automation, and guidance to thousands of engineers at Netflix

In addition, the JVM ecosystem team manages and provides guidance on how to make the most out of the build tool (Gradle) by providing Develocity, Build Caching, Test Distribution, and in-house solutions to speed up and have reproducible builds.
Aubrey Chipman

Aubrey Chipman loves to work on developer tooling/developer experience. She loves being part of a team where they can grow, support, and elevate each other to help others. She has a passion for development work and the associated coaching, influencing, and generally making ecosystems better.

Netflix’s Journey to Confident Automated Changes

Roberto Perez Alcolea

Aubrey Chipman

Take it further with Develocity

The slides

Meet the speakers

Roberto Perez Alcolea

Aubrey Chipman

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