Improving Developer Experience with Gradle Build Scans

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Shows how Gradle Build Scans capture full build metadata (console, test reports, timeline) and speed triage by sharing a unique URL and using the d-scan command; points out a real build with ~5,000 tasks and only 38% cache hits, garbage collection costing 8 minutes on a 17-minute build (rule of thumb: GC >5% merits investigation). Explains local vs remote build cache, Gradle Enterprise hosting, and artifact-transform visibility requirements (GE 2023.1, plugin 3.13, Gradle 8.1).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:55What is a build scan?
3. 8:57Live demo of build scans
4. 21:06Investigating build slowdowns
5. 33:45New artifact transforms feature
6. 39:50Resources and closing

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