Developer Productivity Engineering at CERN | Cristian Schuszter | BaselOne 2025

Описание: In this talk from BaselOne 2025, Cristian Schuszter shares how the business computing group at CERN approaches developer productivity across a large and diverse ecosystem of JVM-based applications.

At CERN, development teams maintain a wide range of systems – from long-lived legacy software to modern applications. Ensuring a consistent and efficient developer experience across more than 80 developers is crucial for effective collaboration.

This session explores how the team improves developer productivity through:
standardized project templates
clear documentation
simplified bootstrapping for local development environments

These practices transform what could be days or weeks of environment setup into a smooth and predictable process.

The talk also dives into Gradle, the build tool used at CERN, and explains how the team enhances it to support large-scale development, including:
build caching
custom repositories
Gradle extensions for specialized use cases

These solutions were developed while working on a large application that has evolved over three decades of development at CERN.

The session provides practical insights for teams working with large JVM systems, complex build pipelines and long-lived software projects.

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🎤 Speaker
Cristian Schuszter

📍 Event
BaselOne 2025

🌐 More about the conference
https://baselone.ch


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