Avoiding work is work - but it pays off! by Etienne Studer

Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is a fast emerging discipline adopted by many tech and non-tech companies that all care deeply about having a highly productive engineering team. DPE views developer productivity as a technical challenge rather than a people problem and focuses on the key build and test process bottlenecks that most negatively impact the developer experience and are not addressed by even the most mature DevOps practices. These practices include slow builds and tests, inefficient troubleshooting, toolchain reliability issues, and a general lack of observability into build performance and failure analytic data. In this session, we explore debugging and acceleration technologies and techniques to build and test our software faster and more reliably. We will experience the positive impact of avoiding unnecessary build work on an engineer's state of flow, productivity, and ultimately happiness -- and how to efficiently get there.