Lowdown
Featured episode
Rewatch the latest
In this episode of DPE Lowdown, we chat with Guillaume Smet, principal software engineer at Red Hat working on the Quarkus project, to get the lowdown on their DPE wins with Develocity. Guillaume will share their journey to faster and more stable builds by optimizing their highly complex Maven build with 1k modules and getting CI insights/reports. One highlight: Using Develocity’s Maven build cache to reduce a 4-hour PR build to just over 60 minutes.
Explore past webcasts
Learn about the people, processes, and tools that Netflix’s Productivity Engineering team put in place to improve the productivity of their engineers with the ultimate goal of shipping higher quality content to subscribers faster.
44 min
Watch Brian Houck from the Microsoft Windows Engineering Systems team discuss the platform they built to improve the productivity of their engineers to ultimately ship new features to Microsoft Windows users faster.
Learn how the Developer Insights team at LinkedIn identifies and improves pain points in developer workflow.
Learn about the platform the Doordash Developer Productivity team built to improve the productivity of their engineers to ultimately ship new and better features to DoorDash users.
Meta operates at “human scale,” with the Facebook app alone serving 2.9B active monthly users. In addition to building all of their own release tools, Meta manages all its code from one massive monorepo. Learn how Meta’s FARE team (Facebook Mobile Apps Reliability Engineering) thinks about DPE.
Watch Aurimas Liutikas, a staff software engineer working on the AndroidX project, discuss their Develocity setup experience and how the platform is fostering more community engagement for their open-source projects.
Get the Lowdown on how the Micronaut project teams do Developer Productivity Engineering. Cedric Champeau and Sergio del Amo discuss their experience setting up Develocity for 40+ Micronaut projects to improve build times by 50%.
Gautam Korlam and Ty Smith from Uber’s Developer Productivity and Experience team explore the platform they built to improve the productivity of their engineers to ultimately ship new features with increased velocity and reliability to Uber users.
Hear the Infrastructure team lead for the Kotlin Compiler OSS project discuss wins that stemmed from the collaborative effort with Gradle to onboard the Kotlin Compiler OSS project to the Develocity platform.
Learn how the LinkedIn Developer Productivity and Happiness organization prioritizes and manages their DPE initiatives along with the metrics they use to proactively improve developer productivity, efficiency, and the developer experience.
Lee Mills discusses the origins of Backstage—an open platform for building developer portals to more easily manage and explore software from a single UX layer.
Learn how the Apollo Kotlin team leveraged Develocity to optimize their build and test speeds, including how they reduced the mean build time in CI from ~28 to ~4 minutes.
The teams from Gradle and Moderne collaborated to create new recipes for adding the Develocity configuration to Gradle/Maven projects. Get the story behind this successful collaboration and learn more about how Moderne is helping customers with DPE deployments based on their lessons learned.
Learn how Copilot customers are doing Developer Productivity Engineering with AI. In this episode, Christopher shares the details behind how Copilot customers are using the tool to get a 30-40% increase in productivity.
In this episode of DPE Lowdown, we chat with Guillaume Smet, principal software engineer at Red Hat working on the Quarkus project, to get the lowdown on their DPE wins with Develocity. Guillaume will share their journey to faster and more stable builds by optimizing their highly complex Maven build with 1k modules and getting CI insights/reports. One highlight: Using Develocity’s Maven build cache to reduce a 4-hour PR build to just over 60 minutes.
Discover more events
Gradle sponsors and hosts virtual and in-person events all over the world. Check out what else we have in the works.
Relive a previous
Passionate experts discuss and debate the latest DPE practices in a live gameshow format
Browse showdown episodes
Join us in person at a
Learn high-impact strategies and tactics for improving developer productivity and experience
View upcoming cities