Elastic | Developer Productivity Engineering at Elastic Avoiding the Cost of Inaction | 2020

Gradle Enterprise is now... Develocity!

Video Description:

Like many companies, the software development experience at Elastic was starting to become negatively impacted under the increasing strain of slowing builds and inefficient process for testing and debugging. And, the pain was only expected to increase in line with the growth of development teams, code bases, and repositories. The cost of inaction was projected to soon become unbearable.

The emerging discipline of developer productivity engineering promised to address these challenges through a higher degree of automation, faster feedback cycles and more reliable and actionable data. In this webcast, Mark Vieira, Senior Software Engineer at Elastic discusses with Gradle, Inc. CEO, Hans Dockter, how Elastic overcame the natural resistance to change their process and toolset by quantifying the Cost of Inaction and blazing a new path toward build engineering excellence.

In this webcast Mark and Hans discuss:
- The key developer productivity pain points that drive up the cost of inaction
- Developer Productivity Engineering concepts and solutions
- How to quantify the Cost of Inaction

Table of Contents:
00:00:28 - Agenda
00:04:25 - About Elastic and it's Engineering Team
00:08:00 - What is Developer Productivity Engineering?
00:09:03 - Typical Developer Productivity Pain Points
00:13:05 - Which are your top 2 Build Pain Points? (Poll)
00:13:40 - Corporate Perspective of Build Caching
00:19:56 - How Elastic uses Build Scans
00:28:23 - Test Failure Analytics Dashboard
00:37:40 - Quantifying the Cost of Inaction

To get the bigger picture and learn more about other major Develocity benefits, check out these playlists.