Case Study: Netflix improves Gradle plugin performance and troubleshooting with Develocity from Gradle

Seven Ways Netflix Uses Develocity to Manage Gradle Plugins

Netflix, a major streaming service, faced challenges in managing and maintaining its suite of open-source Gradle plugins, which are used by thousands of developers internally and in the external Nebula community. They needed better visibility into plugin performance, usage, and failures to troubleshoot issues and guide migrations more effectively. To address this, they turned to the vendor Gradle and utilized their Develocity platform, specifically leveraging Build Scans and the Develocity API.

By implementing Gradle's Develocity, the Netflix team gained deep insights into their build processes. The solution enabled time spend analysis, deprecation visibility, and migration tracking, allowing them to proactively identify performance regressions, troubleshoot failures faster, and detect problematic patterns across all builds. This use of Develocity significantly improved developer productivity at Netflix by streamlining plugin maintenance and providing data to prioritize fixes and migrations.

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