Unlock mental peace & boost productivity!
This #InfoQ #videopodcast offers a practical framework for engineers (including neurodivergent individuals) on: Emotional recovery
Getting unstuck
Planning & communication
Maximizing flow
Fostering divergent thinking
What does the creator of Scala think about AI-generated code, build complexity, and developer productivity in 2025?
Join me as I host Martin Odersky and Hans Dockter for a live fireside chat
#GenAI #Scala #DeveloperProductivity
https://gradle.com/events/software-delivery-excellence-in-the-age-of-ai-06-26/
Our next #JCON2025 session is live: 'On Being A Senior #Engineer – Am I Already There?' with Konstantin Diener
What does it need to be a #Senior Engineer. A title that sounds like the promised …
Grab your coffee and hit play: https://youtu.be/dXOgPKoZrNM
You know why the AI vibe coding hype is problematic? Because it seems to shift the perception of developer productivity from "deliver the right code" to "deliver lots of lines of code".
I've had times where I spend a full week just to come up with a 200 LoC change. It was not a lot of code, but it did the right thing the right way.
We need to stop following the hype train and value deep thinking over producing a bunch of crap again.
Red Flags to Watch for When Evaluating Developer Productivity Tools
https://jellyfish.co/blog/5-red-flags-to-watch-for-when-evaluating-developer-productivity-tools/
Want tangible team wins from a conference? InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9-10) delivers. Actionable blueprints for scalability, dev productivity, AI/ML de-risking & optimized delivery.
Equip your team: https://bit.ly/4mD97oP
#InfoQDevSummit #DeveloperProductivity
The awesome team at @gradle.com have taken my blog posts and Opinions about Flaky Tests and put them all together in a very wonderful white paper!
Whether you care about flaky tests or think you don't have to worry about them, there's something in here for you.
https://gradle.com/resources/ebooks-and-whitepapers/flaky-tests/
Come and hear me and @bdemers rant about testing next week!
7 Rust terminal tools you haven't heard about: https://youtu.be/ATiKwUiqnAU?si=SjfBxFg4-HMc78Wo
I knew none of them, and will definitely give most of them a try!
Are #FlakyTests disrupting your CI/CD pipeline & draining Developer Productivity?
Trisha Gee dives deep into the hidden impact of these non-deterministic tests.
Learn why ignoring them is a costly mistake for code quality, build times & your team's sanity.
Watch the full #InfoQ #podcast video: https://bit.ly/3Gf20lX
#timestamps included in the description
Demystifying Gradle's build cache https://www.liutikas.net/2025/04/14/Treasure-Cache.html Great blog post by @Aurimas
The -Dorg.gradle.caching.debug=true trick can be handy when you don't have access to a Develocity instance.
via @dotnet : How we ended up rewriting NuGet Restore in .NET 9
https://ift.tt/7IYrfjh
#NuGet #DotNet9 #SoftwareEngineering #PerformanceOptimization #DependencyManagement #Microsoft #VisualStudio #Coding #DeveloperProductivity #OpenSource #TechBlog #SoftwareDeve…
It's been a while since I said "Buy my book" so... "Buy my book". Please
I know you can all write code with AI now. But did you know that you can use a whole bunch of other (non-AI) features in your IDE to make it easier to build, test, debug and commit your code?
Exploring LLM-powered code migration! Check out https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/code-migration-using-llms-glenn-engstrand-c7ixc/ which dives into my experience migrating a Java Spring Boot microservice to TypeScript Nest.js using Llama 3.3 and GitHub Copilot. I share valuable insights on the benefits and challenges of LLM-assisted development, highlighting the productivity gains and the need for manual refinement. #LLM #CodeMigration #TypeScript #NestJS #DeveloperProductivity #GitHubCopilot
We have opened the Call for Speakers for our Developer Productivity Engineering Summit in September! If you have something to say about how you've improved (or would improve) Developer Productivity in your organisation, we want to hear from you
Oh! It‘s Thursday. That‘s blog post day. Any #Gradle, #NixOS, or #DeveloperProductivity topics you‘d like me to write about today?