Case Study: Tableau achieves 3-month payback in developer productivity with Gradle Develocity

Tableau sees a 3-month payback in developer productivity with Develocity

Tableau, a leading data and analytics company, faced slow builds that wasted developer time and caused frustration. Their monolithic Java build system, handling 25,000 builds per day, suffered from a long mean time to recovery due to a lack of granular data for identifying and prioritizing problems. They turned to Gradle and its Develocity platform for a solution.

By implementing Gradle's Develocity, Tableau used its Build Cache to reuse unchanged build and test outputs, dramatically reducing build times. The Build Scan service provided deep observability and root cause analysis, while Test Failure Analytics identified flaky tests. The outcome was a three-month payback on investment, with the company's heaviest software builders saving 15 hours every two weeks and overall developer productivity significantly increased.

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Sam Snyder

Senior Software Engineer