Understanding Develocity Build Data with Honeycomb
Blog post from Honeycomb
David Chang, a Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest, describes how the company has integrated Develocity, formerly known as Gradle Enterprise, with Honeycomb to enhance their build processes. While Develocity accelerates build times and aids in troubleshooting, Honeycomb provides deeper insights through advanced querying capabilities. By sending Develocity build data to Honeycomb, Pinterest's Mobile Builds team can identify inefficiencies more effectively, such as outlier build times and hardware discrepancies, and resolve them faster using Honeycomb features like BubbleUp. The integration, facilitated by Develocity's API and the libhoney library, offers a tradeoff where Honeycomb provides sufficient insights despite potentially less complete data compared to Develocity. This combination has proven beneficial by allowing Pinterest to refine their development process, and they recommend similar strategies to other Develocity users to maximize the utility of their build data.