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?? Announcing DPE UNIVERSITY! ?? https://lnkd.in/egAMikkB What is it? ?? 10 courses on #Gradle, #Maven, #Develocity & #DPE ?? Self-paced & free learning paths ?? Earn certifications & badges – Tags: Java The Apache Software Foundation #Java #Android #Kotlin #developerproductivity #developerexperience #softwaredevelopment #platformengineering #DevProd #DevEx #DPEUniversity #DPEU

Tune in next week! "Scala developers: Crack open the black box of sbt with build and test observability" Scala Developer #scala #sbt https://lnkd.in/e-Km5jde

“Five ways to speed up your Maven builds” by Brian Demers See how we take a 1.5 minute build of Apache #SCIMple down to 8 seconds using fully OSS or free features! Let’s start with Tip 1 - Profile power (build time from 1.5 min to 1 min)... https://lnkd.in/eqAG5_mg

?? Get your learn on! "Incremental Builds and Build Caching with #Gradle" | (45 min, 6 sections) Free #DPEU course with certification ?? ?? ?? https://lnkd.in/dFK5bzQD

?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? We hit 100,000,000! ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? This is how many free Build Scan? requests have been run since we set up this complementary service for #Maven, #Gradle, and #sbt users ?? Join the club here! scans.gradle.com

This month, we are participating in #Hacktoberfest 2024! Join us and contribute to the select projects from the Gradle ecosystem. Authors of the most substantial contributions will get special edition swag!?https://lnkd.in/eXdvY6us Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open-source projects. Many Gradle projects already participate there. This year, we chose a few projects where newcomers will get excellent support from their maintainers: *??? Improve Gradle #Documentation and expand the new Gradle Cookbook *?? Adopt Gradle Best Practices in your #GitHub Actions *??? Configuration Cache Compatibility in Plugins *??? Stabilize support for #ViteJS in Gradle *??? Contribute to #GradleUp plugins for Java/Kotlin/Android developers *??? Improve the Community Site You can also just join and learn Gradle Build Tool for #Java, #Kotlin, and #Android with the help of our training platform and the #opensource samples. Learn more on the event page!

??? Tool Tip Tuesday! ??? The Java team at Microsoft has some useful #Gradle updates to share for developers using Visual Studio Code ?? ? Adding Gradle for #Java into Extension Pack for Java ? Delegate “Debug Test” to Gradle https://lnkd.in/eAEWikQN -- #Java #Microsoft #developerproductivity #developerexperience #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #platformengineering #DevProd #DevEx #DPE

??? [OCT-10 webinar] ??? #Scala devs often consider #sbt a black box in terms of what's going on with builds and tests. Enterprises using Scala have waited a long time for developer productivity tooling...until now! Join Scala expert Iulian Dragos to see how to unlock observability for builds and tests using sbt, including our FREE Build Scan? offering for individual projects ?? https://lnkd.in/e-Km5jde

Day 1 of the Developer Productivity Engineering Summit was jam-packed with insightful talks from Google, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Netflix, Uber, Meta, the hosts of the conference Gradle, and others.? Back at AWS, the Developer Tools org runs the company wide Software Developer Conference, and not since that time have I seen a crowd of 670 attendees so enthusiastic and excited by a talk talking about how to make developers happier and more productive. Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green from Google spoke about Understanding and Measuring Developer Productivity, digging into the ideas that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” (George box) and what that means when you collect data to better understand your developers.? Prince Shekhar Valluri from LinkedIn spoke about LinkedIn’s journey to ensure that all software assets are owned.? They moved LinkedIn from a place where assets like source code may be owned by a single engineer or no engineer, to introducing Crews (Teams, because they’re part of Microsoft and the name Teams has been used… A lot). Byron Grogan from Airbnb gave us a walkthrough of their LLM as a service offering.? They made it easy for anyone in Airbnb to create custom chatbots.? And for devs, they created a proxy that all LLM requests can be sent though, allowing the company to quickly try out new foundational models, manage cost, and other centralized activities. I was very excited to hear Aubrey Chipman and Roberto Pérez Alcolea talk about Netflix's Journey to Confident Automated Changes.? This was my area of expertise at Amazon for almost 6 years so I was riveted by their talk.? I loved that they dug into the culture and feeling of engineers, to better understand their needs and then supply solutions, including technical and educational to address their customer’s needs. Uber’s Daniel Tsui and Quess Liu explained Uber’s approach to off-box testing.? Their solution was to append headers to requests and route test requests, at the L4 layer, to test instances.? This required updating much of their internal infra like load balancers.? Each service also needs to understand these headers too and treats test and prod requests differently.? Their approach to test correctness was also non-traditional, allowing rollouts to continue even when testing isn’t perfect.? If I hear correctly they want unit tests at 99% and integration tests passing at about 90%.? This is a very different approach than I’ve seen in the past a one that seems to be working well for Uber. Moderne is a new company that parses your code, turns it into Abstract Syntax Trees, then provides a library that will transform your code.? This is great for automating version updates, alleviating toil from engineers, and making it more efficient to mitigate security issues.? This seems highly practical to me and I would have loved a tool like this in previous roles. Again, it was a great day and I’m excited to attend day two! #dpesummit

Check out my write up of Day 2 at the Developer Productivity Engineering Summit. My write up got too long for a post, so I've turned it into an article. #dpesummit