Case Study: LinkedIn saves 800 hours daily with Gradle Develocity

LinkedIn saves 800 hours each day on local and CI builds with Develocity

The professional networking platform LinkedIn faced a significant challenge with its development process, as too much valuable developer time was wasted waiting for builds to complete and troubleshooting extended failures. With 1 million daily builds, ongoing performance issues and flaky tests led to developer frustration and a high volume of support tickets for their team. To address this, LinkedIn turned to vendor Gradle and implemented its Develocity platform.

By utilizing Gradle's Develocity Build Cache and Build Scan® service, LinkedIn achieved faster builds and more efficient troubleshooting. The solution resulted in a massive time savings of 800 hours per day on local and CI builds. This was accompanied by a 400% improvement in build times and a 40% improvement in test times, dramatically increasing developer productivity.

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Devi Sridharanm

Staff Software Engineer