Gradle Inc. Announces 3rd Annual Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) Summit with Keynotes from Google, Meta, and DX
August 15 2024 - 9:35AM
Today, Gradle Inc. announced its third annual DPE Summit, the
premier event showcasing the latest ideas and developments around
the practice of Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) and
Developer Experience (DX). The event will return to The Midway in
San Francisco on September 24-25, 2024, and will feature speakers
from some of the world’s most innovative brands including Airbnb,
Capital One, American Airlines, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft,
Backstage by Spotify, and more. The DPE Summit is proudly sponsored
by Netflix, Uber, Meta, GitLab, Intuit, and JetBrains.
“The DPE Summit brings together DX experts from
leading software organizations to discuss the latest challenges and
trends in DPE and software engineering. It presents an opportunity
to learn from other practitioners actively prioritizing developer
happiness and joy within their organization” said Aubrey Chipman,
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. “No matter your level of
expertise or familiarity with DPE, this event will leave you with
actionable insights to address development bottlenecks and improve
day-to-day experience. At Netflix, we’re proud to participate and
sponsor the DPE Summit for the third year in a row.”
DPE is a software development practice that views developer
productivity as a technology challenge best addressed by
engineering solutions, rather than a people problem. It addresses
the toil and process bottlenecks that most negatively impact the
developer experience such as slow builds, inefficient
troubleshooting, and a lack of observability into build performance
and failure-related data. Ultimately, DPE gives developers more
time to innovate and create useful code by accelerating feedback
cycles and improving toolchain observability.
“Gradle has long championed the DPE practice, reimagining the
future of software engineering by empowering developers to achieve
creative flow and bring back the joy of creating and writing code,”
said Hans Dockter, founder and CEO of Gradle Inc. “The DPE Summit
is the marquee event for DPE leaders and practitioners, sparking
critical conversations about everything from flaky tests and
observability to universal ownership and emerging
technologies.”
Speakers and sessions at the event will
include:
- Understanding and Measuring Developer
Productivity, with Ciera Jaspen, Senior Staff Software
Engineer, and Collin Green, Senior Staff UX Researcher, at
Google
- Netflix’s Journey to Confident Automated
Changes, with Roberto Perez Alcolea and Aubrey Chipman,
Senior Software Engineers at Netflix
- Launching DevEx into SPACE! Helping Engineers Thrive in
the Age of AI, with Brian Houck, Senior Principal Applied
Scientist at Microsoft
- This Year in Uber’s AI-Driven Developer Productivity
Revolution, with Ty Smith, Principal Engineer at Uber and
Adam Huda, Senior Engineering Manager at Uber.
The DPE Summit concludes Gradle’s global event series, which
facilitated discussions about high-impact strategies for improving
developer productivity. The series took place in major cities
around the world including New York, Boston, Washington D.C.,
London, Berlin, and more. Gradle is continuously announcing new
events to foster conversations about best practices, success
stories, and lessons learned in pursuit of enhancing developer
experience.
Early bird registration is open until August 18,
2024. To learn more and register for the event, please visit the
DPE Summit website.
About GradleGradle Inc. is the company behind
the popular open-source Gradle Build Tool, which is downloaded 50
million times a month, and the provider of the leading software
solution for improving developer productivity and happiness called
Develocity. Gradle is also pioneering the emerging practice of
Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE). Elite development teams
from companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, ASML, Airbnb, Microsoft,
Nasdaq, SAP, and others, practice DPE to deliver quality software
more rapidly at scale. They achieve this by leveraging Develocity’s
innovative build and test performance acceleration technologies and
analytics to proactively improve the reliability of the developer
toolchain and make failure troubleshooting more efficient.
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