Gradle Build Tool Performance Optimization

Description

As projects grow in size, you may experience dependency resolution or tasks taking longer. Gradle Build Tool has a number of configuration options and best practices that can be used to optimize your builds and significantly reduce the amount of time taken.

In this training, we will go over a few scenarios in which you may experience slower builds and learn how to address them.

Duration

2.5 hours

Audience

This class is designed for Gradle Build Tool users that want to learn best practices to speed up their builds.

Prerequisites

Install the latest version of Gradle Build Tool along with at least Java 8
- Refer to the Java compatibility matrix to ensure appropriate Java version
A good editor
- Recommended: IntelliJ community edition
Gradle Build Tool experience
- Knowledge of core concepts
- Authoring build files
- Kotlin DSL experience preferred
Some experience with software development

Objectives

Identify causes of performance issues
Learn best practices and configuration to address performance issues
Hands-on exercises to reinforce learning

Course Outline

Tasks
- Custom task declaration
- Parallel execution
- Test parallelization
- Build caching
Dependency management
- Dynamic and changing versions
- Repository ordering
- Unused dependencies
Shared configuration
Gradle version