Buying More Time for Innovation
summary
Claims a drop‑in replacement for make that parallelizes builds across machines, uses a shared cache to avoid rebuilding unchanged components, and supports cloudbursting to spin up ephemeral agents. Supports make, ninja and Visual Studio projects (not Maven or Gradle). Typical results: 5–10x speedups, Zebra cuts 2–5 hour builds to 10–23 minutes, Cisco reduces 20–24 hour runs and saves ~400,000 developer hours/year while eliminating a dedicated build data center. Includes analytics to simulate adding cores and find the critical path.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:19Compressing cycle time
- 3:41Long build cycles
- 5:14Effects of long build cycles
- 7:36Code base is increasing
- 8:30Build complexity
- 9:24Fixing complexity
- 12:30Automatically distributing builds
- 15:25How it helps
- 18:54Do I really need Accelerator
- 20:50How does Accelerator work
- 28:47How to integrate Accelerator
- 32:24Zebra
- 34:04Square
- 34:58Cisco
- 36:55Conclusion
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