This is a free, one-day, invitation-only event focusing on how the practice of Developer Productivity Engineering helps companies accelerate build and test feedback cycles, make troubleshooting more efficient, and improve toolchain reliability.
Guest speakers include expert DPE practitioners and developer experience leaders from Apple, LinkedIn and Gradle.
Discussions will focus on success stories, lessons learned, and cutting-edge DPE-enabling technologies used across software development, DevOps, and CI/CD teams.
Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder, Gradle Inc.
This keynote discusses the neuroscience of developer productivity. It provides a thought-provoking take on the psychological root causes and “cognitive fatigue” associated with developer bottlenecks like unnecessarily long feedback cycles, protracted troubleshooting times, and toolchain failures. It discusses how a lack of understanding of this dynamic leads to a misalignment between leadership’s incremental perspective on the potential impact of DPE and that of their developers who feel the cognitive pains every day and see the impact of addressing these pains as transformational. Translating the productivity benefits of removing cognitive fatigue pain into a hard business case for leadership consumption remains a challenge. But, meeting that challenge is the key to realizing the “DPE multiplier”, which is the number of times developers say they could be more effective with a more efficient toolchain (usually 2X-5X). The presentation concludes by making the connections between productivity, developer experience, and joy.
Grant Jenks, Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
At LinkedIn, many diverse teams exist–backend, frontend, mobile, etc, each with patterns and nuances that no single team can understand. Leveraging four kinds of analytics–descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive–the Developer Insights team is now building next-generation developer experience dashboards that leverage modern data science and AI models.
The Linkedin Developer Insights team shares how they capture observability/telemetry metrics from builds, CI jobs, merges, artifacts, and source repositories, across all developers/platforms/projects to build developer experience dashboards with actionable insights for application teams.
Roberto Pérez Alcolea, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
It is well known that organizations connect software testing with software quality: making sure that the code does what it supposed to do.
Unfortunately, many organizations believe that the testing is a slow process and it causes stagnancy in the project. Organizations say that due to slow testing process they are not able to meet its set milestones, but it doesn't have to be this way.
The testing stage is also part of the developer experience and making it such that engineers are productive and continue delivering software not only fast but with confidence is crucial.
In this talk, we will explore a few approaches that we are taking in order to deliver a more consistent and delightful testing experience for JVM engineers at Netflix. The end goal: speed up engineers feedback loop by running tests locally constantly as much as possible
Levi Geinert, SVP Head of Engineering Advocacy and Enablement, US Bank
Levi Geinert is a part of the US Bank Enterprise Engineering team that owns developer experience for the whole firm. In this talk, Levi will share their developer productivity/experience
KPIs/OKRs, metrics, wins, along with the tools they use to achieve these. Levi will discuss how they built a custom Developer Platform with Backstage to improve developer experience.
Topics include: Developer productivity and experience initiatives and tools and Developer experience wins.
Join us at the Ace Hotel New York, conveniently located in Midtown, on 29th & Broadway, steps away from the 28th street subway stop. We have a limited number of sleeping rooms at a discounted rate of $408/night (+tax). If you would like to stay at the hotel, please reach out to cmcdaniel@gradle.com to reserve your room.
