Boost Your Productivity by Engineering Your Engineering Tools

Discover how to enhance developer productivity by engineering custom tools in this 43-minute conference talk from Devoxx. Learn about the Rabobank's approach to treating development tooling as production software, using Kotlin, Quarkus, PicoCLI, and GraalVM to create a powerful CLI application. Explore how this tool integrates with Git servers, logging platforms, and monitoring dashboards, streamlining tasks like creating pull requests and querying application logs directly from the command line. Witness live coding demonstrations showcasing the technologies used, and gain insights into successfully pitching side projects to business stakeholders. Understand how to extend the functionality beyond the terminal with IntelliJ plugins and Alfred workflows. Walk away with practical starting points to implement similar solutions, ultimately becoming a more efficient and happier developer.