The Developer Productivity Engineer - October 2024
Gradle Inc.
Develocity is the leading platform to help you observe, accelerate, and troubleshoot your builds and tests.
BEST PRACTICES
How JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) enhances its global developer experience
It's always refreshing to see large, traditional organizations like financial institutions recognize the importance of developer productivity and developer experience. When JPMC experts spoke at DPE Summit 2023, their toolchain team revealed the DPE challenges of supporting 40k+ developers across 100k+ repos, how they measure CI quality of service in terms of predictability, reliability, and developer experience, and how they implemented a developer experience platform.
In this CIO Dive article, journalist Lindsey Wilkinson writes about JPMC’s annual developer conference, DevUp. Created to focus on the developer experience, DevUp is a three-day event attended by JPMC's global engineering community. Some key takeaways are:
Check out Shenba Vishnubhatt, Executive Director, Engineer’s Platform and Experience at JPMorgan Chase, share her developer productivity story at DPE Summit 2023.
EXPERT TAKES
This DPE journey aims to speed up Apache Maven across large development teams
Gradle Developer Advocate Brian Demers is on a mission: to help development organizations accelerate build and test times with Apache Maven.?
Brian is a Java Champion and Maven committer with a long history of improving developer productivity with Maven, one of the Java ecosystem's most-used enterprise tools.
In a series of blogs on Maven stretching back to June 2024, Brian reviews a series of topics, including the role of using a build cache for accelerating local and remote builds, how to understand and better manage dependencies, and various other ways to speed up Maven builds using OSS and free technologies.?
Read more from Brian and other authors on the Gradle blog!?
DPE SUCCESS STORY
75% reduction in build and test feedback cycles for EarnIn?
Read how EarnIn, an American financial services company that provides earned wage access services, used Develocity to cut build and test times by 75%.
DPE SUMMIT?
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DPE Summit 2024 was a huge success, thanks to you!
Gradle’s third DPE Summit is in the books and the event was a huge success! Over 500 developers from all over the world gathered in San Francisco to hear from 50+? industry thought leaders from Google, Netflix, Uber, Meta, University of Victoria, and others on cutting-edge topics in DPE, DevEx, AI, metrics, and testing.?
For the first time ever, we live-streamed the keynote sessions, so no matter where you were watching from, you could be part of DPE Summit.
You can now watch (or re-watch) the keynote livestreams from Day 1 (Gradle and Google) and Day 2 (DX/University of Victoria and Meta). We’ll be publishing more of the event content soon!
IDEAS & INSIGHTS
After early wins, are AI code assistants now over-hyped??
It seems like only a year ago that Generative AI-based code assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot) were being heralded as the best thing since sliced bread.
Wait, it was only a year ago. :-)
Preliminary research at that time showed test groups completing tasks 50% faster using Copilot, which many met with credulity and glee. We could almost imagine excited development managers preparing to buy every developer a license, with a massive spike in developer productivity just over the horizon.
Fast forward a year later, and we see different headlines.?
Rather than boosting developer productivity, some now see that in many cases GenAI does? not boost productivity in an easily understood or measurable way—in fact, it's breaking traditional productivity metrics, like DORA. Others report that AI coding assistants have introduced security issues and code quality problems in the mix, and that a lack of training and poor toolchain observability are hindering efforts.???
We may have finally started to see the ugly side of GenAI, but that's because we're now starting to look at it far more seriously than we did a year ago. By professionally applying GenAI to actual workloads, we've begun to identify areas for improvement—and that's a Good Thing, too.?
Read more:?
For a personal story about early successes with GenAI, check out Szczepan Faber’s talk from DPE Summit 2023 about using AI at Airbnb!
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