DX Digest: Aug 21, 2023
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Welcome to this week’s newsletter! Today we are sharing posts about measuring developer productivity, tech debt and open source licenses.
How Google unlocks and measures developer productivity
There is no single metric that’s going to get you developer productivity. Google’s research team is using different research methods to identify if the findings from those research are aligned to concretely identify bottlenecks. And tech debt 🤯
McKinsey is also trying to demystify measuring developer productivity.
Negotiating for tech debt with the team
Speaking of tech debt, not all tech debt is the same. Sometimes qualifying the tech debt can help score more points in negotiating the priority to pay it off.
Hashicorp moves to Business Source Licence
There are many vendors today who have moved away from OSI-approved licenses, including Confluent, MongoDB, Elastic, and Redis.
Sentry also recently came under fire for using the Business Source License for CodeCov.
As we continue noticing the separation of open source into “community managed” vs “corporate managed”, there could be huge impact for companies building integrations on top of the open source ecosystem.