From Hour-Long Builds to Streamlined Productivity: The Spring Boot Journey
By Brian DemersIn the dynamic world of open-source projects, the Spring Boot team, a vital part of the Java ecosystem, grappled with a challenge slowing down their progress: extensive build times. Their build process, both local and on CI, would take an hour or more, affecting their productivity. The turning point? The deployment of Gradle Enterprise.
In this blog post, I will walk you through the highlights of this journey and provide the transcript of my interview with Andy Wilkinson, staff engineer at VMware and Spring team developer, from which this piece is based.
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