DevProdEng Lowdown: Recent Episodes
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You can’t do Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) without collecting and analyzing data from developer behaviour and your software production tools. You also need the right tools to make sense of all this data to prioritize opportunities for improvement and to take action. In this podcast, we talk to Developer Productivity teams from Netflix, Microsoft, Linkedin, DoorDash, and other big brands to explore how they improve the productivity of their engineers to ultimately ship new and better features to their users.
In this Developer Productivity Engineering meetup, we will talk to Cedric Champeau and Sergio del Amo Caballero from the Micronaut Framework to get the Lowdown on how Micronaut does Developer Productivity Engineering with Gradle Enterprise. The Micronaut project is a modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular, easily testable microservice and serverless applications. Cedric and Sergio will share their DPE wins and the productivity insights gained using Gradle Enterprise to improve build times by 50%.
About Cedric Champeau
Cedric is a Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle where he works on Micronaut and GraalVM projects. He is a former member of the Gradle Build Tool team and Groovy language development team at Pivotal/VMware.
About Sergio del Amo Caballero
Sergio del Amo has been a core committer to the Micronaut framework since its inception in 2017. He is a Distinguished Software Engineer and the Micronaut Product Development Lead at Object Computing, and he serves as a member of the Micronaut Foundation Board of Directors and Technology Advisory Board. Additionally, as Developer Advocate for the Grails and Micronaut Foundations, he hosts Micronaut Live on Twitch and the Micronaut Podcast.
In this Developer Productivity Engineering meetup, we will talk to Aurimas Liutikas from Google Android SDK team to get the Lowdown on how AndroidX does Developer Productivity Engineering with Gradle Enterprise. The Google AndroidX team recently set up Gradle Enterprise to gain greater insights into their build and test process that will make developers running those builds more productive. This effort was a means to foster more community engagement and to help external developers who contribute to their complex open-source projects be more productive.
AndroidX is a collection of open-source libraries geared towards Android app developers to make their lives easier. AndroidX has replaced the original Android Support Libraries and is used to develop, test, and package, version, and release libraries within Jetpack.
In this Developer Productivity Engineering meetup, we will talk to Adam McCormick from Meta’s FARE team (Facebook Mobile Apps Reliability Engineering) to get the Lowdown on how Meta does Developer Productivity Engineering. Meta (formerly Facebook) may be solving the hardest software productivity problem in the world today. The company 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 the code from Meta’s most well-known apps—Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Portal— from one massive monorepo.
In this Developer Productivity Engineering meetup, we talk to Adam Rogal from the Developer Productivity team at Doordash. For the last 2 years, Adam has been building out the DoorDash Developer Productivity team, and previously he was a member of the DPE teams at Uber and Google. In this webcast, we’ll explore with Adam the platform they built to improve the productivity of their engineers to ultimately ship new and better features to DoorDash users.
In this Developer Productivity Engineering meetup, we talk to Grant Jenks from the Developer Insights team. For the last three years, Grant has worked at LinkedIn in the Developer Productivity and Happiness organization on the Developer Insights team. Developer Insights works like a “Fitbit for engineering teams” to identify and improve pain points in developer workflows. We’ll explore the platform they built to improve the productivity of their engineers to ultimately ship new and better features to LinkedIn users.
In this Developer Productivity Engineering meetup, we talk to Brian Houck from the Microsoft Windows Engineering Systems team. We’ll explore the platform they built to improve the productivity of their engineers to ultimately ship new features to Microsoft Windows users faster.
In this Developer Productivity Engineering meetup, we will talk to Danny Thomas from the Netflix Productivity Engineering team. We’ll explore the people, processes, and tools that Netflix put in place to improve the productivity of their engineers with the ultimate goal of shipping higher quality content to subscribers faster.
Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is a new software development practice that uses acceleration technologies to speed up the software build and test process and data analytics to optimize the impact of acceleration technologies and make troubleshooting more efficient.
Danny Thomas is a member of the Netflix Developer Productivity team who focuses on build and dependency management. He is a 20-year software industry veteran with a background in systems, network, and performance engineering.