Years of Gradle at LinkedIn

Discover how Gradle became the cornerstone of project automation at LinkedIn in this 41-minute conference talk. Explore the journey of implementing Gradle across diverse technology stacks, serving all engineering teams and enabling LinkedIn's engineering to scale effectively. Gain insights into enhancing developer productivity, managing consistent dependencies, optimizing version lifecycle, and implementing semantic versioning validation. Learn from Szczepan Faber, tech lead of the LinkedIn Gradle Foundation Team and Development Tools, who has been pioneering Gradle automation at LinkedIn since 2011. Faber, a core developer of Gradle 1.x and 2.x, shares his expertise in creating tools for engineers, including founding the Mockito framework. Understand how Gradle automation contributes to software quality and continuous delivery in large-scale engineering environments.