DPE Newsletter | Sep-2023 Get your DPE best practice and insights fix, DevX according to MIT and JPMC, DPE Expert advice short videos, DPE events, DPE jobs, and more.

FEATURED UPCOMING EVENT

DPE Summit 2023 announces final agenda

Where can you spend just 48 hours to get productivity insights from elite development organizations such as Airbnb, Apple, Block, Google, LinkedIn, Slack, and Spotify? DPE Summit 2023—September 20-21 in San Francisco.

 

DPE Summit is the only event fully dedicated to Developer Productivity Engineering and Developer Experience—developed and hosted by Gradle, and sponsored by JetBrains, Meta, Netflix, and Uber. Recently, DPE Summit announced the final agenda including keynotes, so don't miss this once-a-year opportunity to meet productivity and engineering leaders from some of the world's most innovative brands.

 
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IDEAS & INSIGHTS

Google AndroidX and LinkedIn productivity leaders share insights in DPE Expert Video DoubleShots

Embrace your espresso! This quick, yet rich DPE DoubleShot may stimulate your mind with insights and advice from DPE thought leaders:

  • LinkedIn (7-min) - Swati Gambhir and Shivani Pai Kasturi, Staff Software Engineers at LinkedIn, discuss how they tackled developer productivity challenges like long build times and how their DPE initiatives cut build times from 30-minutes to only 30-seconds.

  • Google (6-min) - Aurimas Liutikas, Software Engineer on the AndroidX team, shares how Google approaches DPE, including promoting open communication, building actionable plans to solve specific problems like performance regressions and technical debt, and the importance of highlighting successes to raise support for new initiatives. 

If you’re thirsty for more, you can check out our entire playlist of DPE community stories and case studies.

 
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BEST PRACTICES

How Google measures productivity

With some of the largest deployments in the world, Google takes DPE very seriously—so much so that Google Engineering productivity researchers, Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green, have built "Developer Productivity for Humans", a multipart series published in IEEE Magazine.

 

The latest installment in the series focuses on the challenge of build latency. Ciera and Collin explore the “magic number” for build times to keep developers focused, explain why humans are bad at estimating times, and discuss why even small improvements to build times have a positive and outsized impact on team productivity. Read more to learn why Google believes in the value of DPE and build & test performance acceleration technologies.

 
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COMMUNITY NEWS

How Spring Boot builds went from 1 hour to just 7 minutes

In the dynamic world of open-source projects, the Spring Boot team, a vital part of the Java ecosystem, grappled with a challenge slowing down their progress: extensive build times. Their build process, both local and on CI, would take an hour or more, affecting their productivity. The team leveraged DPE practices and technologies like Gradle Enterprise to address their challenges.

 

This blog post will walk you through the highlights of this journey based on an in-depth interview with Andy Wilkinson, staff engineer at VMware and Spring team developer.

 
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EXPERT TAKES

Gartner’s 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies features DevX theme

Gartner added “developer experience” as a major theme in their 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, providing further evidence that developer experience and developer productivity have arisen as key areas of interest for IT executives.

 

Along with the other themes of Emergent AI, Pervasive cloud, and Human-centric security and privacy, Gartner’s DevX theme emphasizes the value of retaining and attracting top talent and optimizing software delivery with a selection of technologies expected to plateau in the next 2 to 5 years:

  • AI-augmented software engineering, the use of AI technologies and natural language processing (NLP) to help software engineers create, deliver and maintain applications.

  • API-centric SaaS, a cloud application service designed with programmatic request/reply or event-based interfaces (APIs) as the primary methods of access.

  • GitOps, a type of closed-loop control system for cloud-native applications.

  • Internal developer portals, which enable self-service discovery and access to resources in complex, cloud-native software development environments.

  • Open-source program office (OSPO), the center of competency to build strategies for governing, managing, promoting and efficiently using open-source software (OSS) and open-source data or models.

To learn more about internal developer portals specifically, watch the recent DPE Lowdown with Spotify discussing Backstage—their open-source DevX platform—and check out the full Gartner article to better grasp the implications of DevX on emerging technologies.

 
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UPCOMING EVENTS

Don't miss these upcoming learning opportunities

Visit our website for the complete schedule of upcoming training and industry events.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

DPE Job Openings

The industry needs you. You might find your dream role among these job openings related to DPE, developer productivity, and platform engineering. 

 

NOTE: These links are live at the time of sending but are subject to change.

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