The Developer Productivity Engineer - June 2024
Gradle Inc.
Improve the Developer Experience with Build & Test Performance Acceleration Technology and Analytics.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Introducing DPE University
DPE University is now live!
You can now access 10 free, self-paced courses on Gradle, Apache Maven, Develocity, and DPE, with more courses to come.
Courses are presented by the Gradle training team, including Java Champions Trisha Gee , Brian Demers , and 🎩 Baruch Sadogursky . Join hundreds of learners and start your developer productivity journey today.
P.S. All learning paths provide certificates upon completion so you can share your achievements!
DPE DATA POINT
What Netflix did to get back 250,000 developer hours per year
Not only one of the world’s most popular brands, Netflix is also much admired in the software development industry for their OSS contributions and leadership in the space. So how does Netflix cut build and test times in order to give back a quarter of a million developer hours per year?
BEST PRACTICES
Spotify releases private beta of an even more prescriptive Backstage IDP
Every new tool has its own learning curve and associated overhead. Despite over 4 million developers adopting Backstage from Spotify —the IDP that Spotify contributed to the CNCF—it seems that many teams still struggle to adopt and deploy the industry's most popular IDP at scale.
Mike Vizard, writing on DevOps.com, shares Spotify's recent release of the private beta of Spotify Portal for Backstage, which provides enterprise support and integrations with popular tools like Snyk , Datadog , Atlassian , and New Relic .
This new guard-railed approach aims to further boost developer productivity and developer onboarding efforts. We’ll continue to track improvements to IDPs on offer—it's an exciting time for developer productivity solutions!
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FEATURED UPCOMING EVENTS
DPE Tour includes upcoming stops in Berlin, Boston, London, and Washington D.C.—with the full DPE Summit returning to San Francisco Sept 24-25
By now, you’re probably aware that our DPE Tour circuit has been visiting cities in the USA and is expanding to Europe in June. If you’re in the area, join DPE and DevEx experts from some of the world’s most exciting companies during these half-day, in-person events—featuring free drinks, food, and hallway chats, followed by a Happy Hour either on-site or at a nearby venue.
Current tour schedule:
Also, if you’re planning to attend DPE Summit Sep 24-25 in San Francisco, now is the time to secure your Early-Bird ticket rate of $249. Stay tuned for more Summit updates.
P.S. We just announced a new DPE Lowdown on July 11, featuring Red Hat discussing how their Quarkus team reduced their highly complex Maven build times by 3X using their free OSS Develocity instance. Don’t miss this fascinating story!
IDEAS & INSIGHTS
New Platform Engineering survey shows (perhaps overly) broad adoption, with 75% of respondents using 3 or more IDPs
Appearing in The New Stack, Puppet (by Perforce Software ) has released their latest 2024 State of DevOps Report, which looks at Platform Engineering adoption over the last 3 years. With only 467 responses, it's possible of course that this self-selecting population doesn't accurately represent the industry at large. However, it certainly shows where the Early Adopters are heading.
The survey reveals interesting points, such as:
What we find interesting is the question of whether 3 or 5 or 10 IDPs might be too much of a good thing. What kinds of productivity solutions are actually considered IDPs? How often does overlapping functionality appear across various IDPs in place?
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