The Developer Productivity Engineering Handbook

A Complete Guide to Developer Productivity Engineering for Practitioners

Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is a software development practice used by leading software development organizations to maximize developer productivity and happiness.  In this book we share developer productivity engineering techniques and stories about how to:

• Understand the importance of fast feedback cycles and early discovery of bugs
• Quantify the costs of low-productivity development environments that waste time waiting for slow builds, tests, and CI/CD pipelines
• Organize the data required to understand, troubleshoot, and improve essential development processes like builds, tests, and CI/CD pipelines
• Take advantage of acceleration technologies like caching and test distribution to speed up feedback cycles
• Use data to proactively improve the reliability of the development toolchain
• Find and eliminate frequent errors and noisy signals like flaky tests

This book was written for:

• Senior software developers responsible for the productivity and morale of their teams.
• Build engineers responsible for enabling fast and frequent software delivery, improving trust and confidence in toolchain, and making teaming and collaborations with the development team more efficient
• DPE managers and champions looking for a comprehensive guide to the DPE practice that they can reference, share, and use to socialize the key concepts and tools across the organization
• Engineering leadership open to new strategies to decrease time-to-market and minimize cost while maintaining and improving quality
• Members of the development team looking to make an impact and build influence by surfacing breakthrough solutions but need help understanding and building a business case
• CI Teams who want to learn how to contribute to the developer experience beyond providing CI as a service.