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From 0.1% green builds to near-zero flakiness: How Apache Kafka overhauled its CI

From 0.1% green builds to near-zero flakiness: How Apache Kafka overhauled its CI
March 27, 2026|By Lindsey Bonner|10 min read

A little over a year ago, fewer than 0.1% of Apache Kafka's CI builds came back fully green. What followed was a systematic overhaul with Develocity, compressing build times to a predictable 2-hour window and reducing flaky test failures from 90% to just 1%.

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Build is a process, not an action

March 12, 2026

Build is a process, not an action

If we cannot describe the specific 'why' behind a build failure as a structured process, we (and our AI agents) are performing work we don't truly understand. The build is no longer just something that runs—it is a process that must be understood through observability.

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Taming the firehose of AI code: Scaling throughput without exploding CI costs

March 9, 2026

Taming the firehose of AI code: Scaling throughput without exploding CI costs

The traditional CI/CD infrastructure was built on the assumption that humans write code at human speeds. Now that AI writes code faster, the question becomes: Can we deliver faster?

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How AI-powered troubleshooting plus the Develocity IntelliJ plugin helps us fix problems faster

February 12, 2026

How AI-powered troubleshooting plus the Develocity IntelliJ plugin helps us fix problems faster

As senior engineers and engineering leaders, we are constantly chasing speed and stability. The introduction of Agentic AI has certainly accelerated code production.

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Introducing Gradle Technologies: A new identity for the age of AI, enterprise observability, and supply chain security

January 21, 2026

Introducing Gradle Technologies: A new identity for the age of AI, enterprise observability, and supply chain security

We are excited to announce that our company (Gradle, Inc.) will now present itself commercially as Gradle Technologies, effective immediately.

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Build Artifact CDN: Strategic infrastructure for AI-driven DevOps

January 14, 2026

Build Artifact CDN: Strategic infrastructure for AI-driven DevOps

The uncomfortable truth about your build pipeline. The world’s largest financial institutions, telcos, and government contractors are investing heavily in AI-assisted development tools—GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, internal LLMs—expecting.

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