The CERN business computing group is responsible for a wide array of JVM-based applications, ranging from legacy to cutting-edge. Due to this environment, making sure everything is as homogeneous as possible for the 80+ developers is crucial for cross-team collaboration. Templates, documentation, easy bootstrapping, all of these turn one week of fiddling with your local config into a piece of cake.
Another important topic is our build tool of choice: Gradle. The latter part of this talk will go into the way we're using it to enhance developer productivity, by setting in place build caches, custom repositories and even extensions for custom use-cases. These enhancements come from problems seen while working on a huge application that has been developed for the past 30 years (in different incarnations) at CERN.Level:Intermediate
