Dropbox was using Fabricator, which is the Facebook open source version of a code review tool. Dropbox had started in early like 2007, 2008, right? So we'd kind of have all of these homegrown tools that we had a homegrown CI tool. And one big challenge in my mind was that you cannot easily integrate these tools with everything else in the ecosystem,. Of thinking around developed productivity metrics and all of that has kind of really expanded from 2007.
Utsav Shah, who leads Platform at Vanta and previously led Developer Effectiveness at Dropbox, shares the story of Dropbox’s journey with measuring developer productivity. Utsav discusses what he learned about both system and survey-based measures, his opinion on the usefulness of common Git metrics, and more.