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Maximize Developer Productivity with Fast and Reliable Builds

One of the biggest impediments to overall developer productivity and the overall success of the software organization is inefficient processes. Without the right tooling to get to the root of the problem, debugging build and test failures is incredibly frustrating and leads to delays in shipping software.

In this workshop, you’ll work through examples using Maven, Gradle, and Gradle Enterprise on our real data and that of some popular open source projects. You'll learn how to measure build speed and reliability, which metrics are important, how to apply these analyses to your own builds, and how to use build caching to make those builds dramatically faster enabling your team to achieve better developer productivity.


About Andres Almiray

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion with more than 20 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event. https://ch.linkedin.com/in/aalmiray

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About Hans Dockter

Hans Dockter is the founder of Gradle Inc., a company whose purpose is to empower software development teams to reach their full potential for joy, creativity, and productivity. To address his own personal frustrations as a developer, Hans co-founded the Gradle Build Tool project which was named by TechCrunch as one of the top 20 most popular OSS projects. Gradle Build Tool is now downloaded more than 23 million times a month. He then led the development of Gradle Enterprise which today is the leading enabling solution for the practice of Developer Productivity Engineering.

Previous to Gradle, Inc, Hans successfully led numerous large-scale enterprise builds and emerged as a thought leader in project automation. He is an advocate of Domain Driven Design, having taught classes and delivered presentations on this topic together with Eric Evans. Hans was also a committer for the JBoss project and founded the JBoss-IDE.

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About Gary Hale

Gary is a software engineer at Gradle Inc and a compulsive automator. He is the author of several Gradle community plugins and is currently working on ways to make the Gradle open source build tool faster and more resource efficient.

Gary is an IT generalist with over 20 years experience in software development, operations, architecture and everything in between. He regularly conducts training classes on Gradle and speaks on topics related to devops, software development, and project automation.

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About Sam Snyder

Sam Snyder has spent the past decade working on improving developer happiness with better tooling. At Tableau software, he used data from the development and deployment pipeline to systematically seize the greatest opportunities for improvement and eliminate the greatest pain points. At Gradle, he integrated that process and data visualization methodology into Gradle Enterprise. Now as VP of Engineering at Moderne, Sam leads development on the core refactoring technologies and teaches Moderne's customers how to automate away the tedious, repetitive parts of software development.

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About Eric Wendelin

I want to make building software easier.

Leads the Build Tool Core Team @ Gradle. Areas on significant contribution: console, completion, and daemon.

Creator of stacktrace.js.

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