You upgrade Gradle, hit sync, and watch every build script turn red. The IDE that was finishing your sentences five minutes ago suddenly has nothing to say, and you’re left fixing build logic in what is effectively a very expensive text edi…
A failing CI check knows exactly what went wrong. It was there. It watched the exception get thrown, caught the stack trace, wrote the whole thing down. And then, by long tradition, it tells you almost none of it: a red X, a job name, and a…
Isolated Projects is a Gradle performance feature that speeds up the configuration phase. When the feature is enabled, each project in a build becomes “isolated” from others via boundaries that cannot be crossed. With this guarantee, Gradle…
Every year I tell myself I’ll watch every conference talk I missed. Every year I get through maybe three before a build breaks and I get pulled back into real life. KotlinConf is the one event where I actually follow through, partly because…
Isolated Projects is an experimental feature aimed at improving Gradle scalability and performance. It speeds up builds by running project configuration in parallel, which benefits practically every workflow, from CI builds to IDE sync. We
Names are like infrastructure. They mostly work invisibly, which means the rare occasions when they don’t work generate confusion wildly out of proportion to the underlying facts. Our name has had a known bug, and we have finally shipped a
Communities are at the heart of Gradle’s success. Without their involvement, the build tool would not have the extensive feature set and wide use it has. And using the plural form is no mistake! While the user community is the largest, we a…
In Part 1 and Part 2, we optimized Gradle’s Startup and Configuration phases on ephemeral CI. In this final part, we reach the Execution phase: the point where Gradle checks whether task outputs can be reused and, when they cannot, runs the…
In Part 1, we explored foundational strategies for improving Gradle build performance in ephemeral CI environments, focusing on the Startup and Initialization phase. Now, in Part 2, we shift our focus to the Configuration phase: the work Gr…
Ephemeral CI replaces long-lived, stateful build agents with short-lived, disposable environments, typically powered by containers and cloud services like GitHub Actions or Docker, to ensure isolated, reliable, and repeatable builds. While
There is a particular kind of software that you depend on heavily and have never once thought about. It does not have a landing page you have visited. It was not chosen at an architecture review. Nobody sat in a conference room and debated
Do you know what version of Kotlin your Gradle build is using? There are four Kotlin versions you need to know about in a project built with Gradle. They’re easy to mix up, and mixing them up can lead to some confusion (and the occasional c…