Diff Authoring Time: Measuring developer productivity at Meta

At Meta, we’re always looking for ways to enhance the productivity of our engineers and developers. But how exactly do you measure developer productivity?

On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Sarita and Moritz, two engineers at Meta who have been working on Diff Authoring Time (DAT) – a method for measuring how long it takes to submit changes to a codebase.

They talk about the challenges of measuring productivity, how DAT is implemented, and the new abilities it unlocks for developers.

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