Speed up Build Process

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Scenario

In a continuous integration environment, it is very important that a build can complete in a short time to provide feedback to developer as soon as possible after they submit a build verification request.

Solution

You can parallelizing CPU intensive build steps, and run them on different agent nodes. The results from different node can be collected back for further processing. Assuming a product comprises of component1 and component2, and both of them take a long time to build. Without build grid support, you may configure steps in the build process as indicated below:

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