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Introduction
- Kiran Kumar Chandrakar, Senior Solutions Architect for Strategic Accounts at AWS, and Lilia Borova, Product Manager for Developer Experience at Prime Video, are presenting the session.
- AWS evolved from Amazon, and today Amazon is using AWS services, including Amazon Q Developer.
- They will discuss the journey of Q Developer adoption at Prime Video.
Developers as the Main Customer
- As the Product Manager for Developer Experience, Lilia sees developers as her main customers.
- Her team focuses on developer experience and productivity metrics, such as deployment velocity and average number of code reviews.
- Developers reported being able to code less than 1 hour per day on average, which is a common pain point across many companies.
- The goal is to enable developers to spend more time solving problems creatively with code, and this is where Q Developer comes in.
Q Developer and Amazon's Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Q Developer supports all development tasks, including building on AWS, and integrates seamlessly into the application development lifecycle.
- Q Developer comes with security and privacy in mind, making it easier for organizations to trust and use generative AI-based tools.
- Amazon follows a traditional SDLC, but they want to flip the equation and automate tasks to give more time to developers for creating solutions.
- The key challenges in accelerating SDLC include cross-functional coordination, infrastructure complexity, testing at scale, and balancing speed with control and compliance requirements.
- Q Developer helps Amazon address these challenges and accelerate their SDLC.
Q Developer's Role in SDLC Phases
- Planning: Q Developer is available on the AWS Management Console, AWS Documentation, and supports natural language interactions to help with AWS planning and aligning business objectives with technology.
- Create: Q Developer acts as a coding companion in the IDE and CLI, simplifying coding tasks, providing automation, and offering customized suggestions based on Amazon's codebase.
- Test and Secure: Q Developer generates comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and identifies security vulnerabilities, helping improve code quality and coverage.
- Operate: Q Developer is available in the IDE and on the AWS Console to help with troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing AWS resources and costs.
- Maintain and Modernize: Q Developer's code transformation agent helps with language and framework upgrades, such as the migration from Java 8 to Java 17.
Prime Video's Q Developer Adoption Journey
- Prime Video is a massive service with millions of subscribers across 200+ countries, offering a vast catalog, linear and live sports offerings, and over 100 paid add-on subscriptions.
- Prime Video started with a pilot program of 100 developers to experiment with Q Developer, primarily using it for unit test generation.
- The early results were encouraging, and Prime Video expanded the program, leveraging Q Developer's customization features and seeing an increase in suggestion acceptance rates.
- As Q Developer matured, Prime Video developers started using it across more complex use cases, including test-driven development and infrastructure refactoring.
- Q Developer became an accelerator not just for development velocity but also for learning, helping developers plan new projects, onboard to new codebases, and explore architectural approaches.
- Prime Video has seen improvements in metrics like development velocity and code change velocity, leading to a wider adoption of Q Developer.
Amazon's Strategic Use of Q Developer for Java Migrations
- Amazon used Q Developer's code transformation feature to migrate tens of thousands of production applications from Java 8 to Java 17.
- This migration resulted in 4,500 years of development work saved and $260 million in annual cost savings due to performance improvements.
- Amazon strategically approached this migration, considering the advantages of upgrading to Java 17, such as increased performance, improved security, and better integration with modern toolkits and libraries.
- Manually performing this migration would have been a time-consuming task, requiring extensive research, code updates, and debugging.
- Q Developer's code transformation agent simplified the process by leveraging its knowledge base, automatically applying the necessary changes, and handling any errors.
- Amazon was able to migrate 1,000 applications from Java 8 to Java 17 in just two days, with an average of 10 minutes per application, compared to the 2-4 person-days typically required for a manual migration.
Conclusion
- Prime Video's journey with Q Developer has been transformative, and they continue to find new ways to leverage the tool to improve developer productivity and experience.
- Amazon's strategic use of Q Developer's code transformation feature for Java migrations has resulted in significant time and cost savings, demonstrating the power of AI-powered tools in accelerating software development.