Gradle Summit - June 22 - 23, 2017 - No Fluff Just Stuff
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Ethan Hall

Gradle Summit

Palo Alto · June 22 - 23, 2017

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Ethan Hall

LinkedIn's Gradle Foundations Team

I work on LinkedIn's Gradle Foundations team, building tools to make other engineers more productive. We focus on making LinkedIn developers experience delightful though tooling. When not attached to a computer, I enjoy bike rides, snowboarding.

Presentations

How to build a Custom Plugin Portal

As the number of plugins grow, the buildscript {} section won't scale. The plugins will end up in multiple jars and it become hard to find what's available. With the release of the pluginManagement {} DSL, Gradle allows others to build their own plugin portal.

In this talk we'll discuss some of the drawbacks of Gradle's plugin mechanism and ways that you can work around it.