Why Reducing Your Project’s Build Time Matters

Steven Lemon
6 min readNov 6, 2019
Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash

As developers, one of our primary tasks is waiting. We wait for our code to compile, our tests to run, to verify our work, we wait for our application to deploy and load, and to navigate to the page we are changing.

I have joined many teams that were either stuck with or content with a lot of waiting. Often, I found that these wait times very fixable and I was able to make…

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Steven Lemon

Lead Software Engineer and occasional Scrum Master. Writing about the less technical parts of being a developer.