Join the creators of Scala and Gradle in a fireside chat about AI, productivity, language design, and more; DPE Summit speaker updates; Get our whitepaper on flaky tests; Plus, fresh DPE job openings around the world! 


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FEATURED UPCOMING EVENT

🎥 June 26 webinar - Creators of Gradle and Scala sit down for a fireside chat

Even when AI-generated code delivers on its promise of greater productivity, developers are faced with a new set of challenges: larger codebases, longer build times, and a growing gap between code and comprehension. What happens when code is technically correct but semantically opaque? How do we maintain quality, readability, and speed in a world of auto-generated tests and AI-assisted pipelines?


In this candid fireside chat, Scala creator Martin Odersky and Gradle founder Hans Dockter sit down with Trisha Gee, Java Champion, to unpack the evolving landscape of developer productivity. 


From build tooling to language design, this session explores how we can stay productive—and sane—as the JVM world absorbs this new wave of complexity. Bring your questions and join a timely conversation with the creators shaping the tools you use every day.


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DPE SUMMIT

🌉 3-month countdown and first round of speakers announced!

September is coming at us fast! DPE Summit is only 3 months away, and we’re looking forward to seeing you there. The first round of speakers has been posted with 30+ more sessions to be announced in the coming weeks. 


Register for DPE Summit 2025 today to see:

  • Speed, Flow, and Metrics: Mastering the Developer Productivity Paradox - Anjali Gugle, Cisco 

  • Reimagining CI/CD with Agentic AI: The Future of Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions - Bishwajeet Paul, Subha Rajagopalan, and Mani Nagaraj, JPMorgan Chase 

  • Shift Left, Not Off a Cliff: Making Early Testing Actually Work - Vishruth Ashok, CloudKitchens

  • Debug Less, Deploy More: Intuit’s CI/CD Productivity Evolution - Katie Lamkin-Fulsher and Vijay Agrawal, Intuit

  • From Lag to Lightning: Transforming Dependency Update Timelines - Aubrey Chipman and Roberto Perez Alcolea, Netflix 

Don’t miss these and many more groundbreaking sessions at DPE Summit 2025. Ticket prices increase next month and seats are filling fast, so don’t wait any longer to save your spot.


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BEST PRACTICES

New whitepaper! “Flaky Tests: The Productive Developer’s Guide"


When tests become unpredictable, confidence fades—and cognitive fatigue sets in. This practical guide by Trisha Gee helps you reclaim trust in your test suite, streamline development, and ship higher-quality software by finally putting flaky tests to rest. Inside, we cover:

  • The accumulated risk of flaky tests

  • The negative impact on developers

  • Strategies for identifying flaky tests

  • Best practices for mitigating flaky tests

  • Tips for identifying flakiness root cause

Grab the whitepaper to gain actionable strategies for building a reliable and efficient testing environment.


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IDEAS & INSIGHTS

The emperors of AI coding tools have no clothes – and it’s creating a productivity delusion

This recent article on SD Times by Michael Smith is doing its best to shine daylight on what the author calls a “productivity delusion” surrounding the adoption of GenAI in code. This paragraph particularly stands out:


“Developers only spend a couple of hours daily writing code, and they hate this. They spend most of their time 'not making their beer taste better', and doing soul-sucking boring work. Scaffolding projects, managing tickets, refining stories, fixing bugs, handling tech debt, writing tests, fixing build issues… you only need to look at the Stack Overflow blog to hear the outcry. Yet, as a society, we’re pouring millions into making those 1-2 hours marginally faster – those hours where devs actually have the most fun.”


The author’s advice includes: 

  • Stay away from vanity metrics and focus on throughput and outcomes

  • Prioritize quality instead of speed

  • Remove entire steps from your process, don’t optimize single components 

  • Measure success through meaningful DORA metrics 

This is a strong, level-setting article that brings a dose of reality into the hype around AI, and compels software organizations to pay attention to what matters most.


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DPE UNIVERSITY

Featured course - Develocity: Predictive Test Selection (20 min)

Newly updated on DPEU, take a look at Develocity®: Predictive Test Selection.


Develocity Predictive Test Selection speeds up your test suite by orders of magnitude. Through AI-powered test selection, Develocity identifies, prioritizes, and runs only tests that will provide meaningful feedback. 


In this free 20-minute, self-paced course, you will:

  • Explore the benefits and impact of Predictive Test Selection on build times and developer workflows

  • Learn how Develocity intelligently selects the most relevant tests for execution

  • Understand the integration of Predictive Test Selection with other Develocity features like Build Cache and Test Distribution for even greater acceleration benefits

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

DPE Job Openings

The industry needs you! You might find your dream role among these job openings related to DPE, developer productivity, and engineering leadership. 


NOTE: These postings are active at the time of sending but are subject to change.

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