DPE Summit Keynote Livestream (Day 1) - Gradle & Google

Gradle founder and CEO Hans Dockter shares what happens when companies treat toolchain observability as an afterthought. If you knew that 90% of your compute resources on CI were idle, you would make drastically different decisions about how to provision those resources. The takeaway? You can’t improve what you can’t see. Better observability saves time, money, and stress.
Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green from Google advise against using a single metric to measure productivity (so as not to incentivize the wrong behaviors.) To measure developer productivity and happiness, Google looks across metrics representing three areas: speed of product delivery, product quality, and the ease of the development process.