# Saving 5,400 hours a year with Gradle's Configuration Cache

DevFeed: [Saving 5,400 hours a year with Gradle's Configuration Cache](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/saving-5-400-hours-a-year-with-gradle-s-configuration-cache-15462.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/5-400-hours-a-year-saving-developers-time-and-sanity-with-gradles>)

Author: Paul Hundal

Published: 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [build times](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-times.md>), [Android Studio](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-studio.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [code productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-productivity.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-apps.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [build-times](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-times.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [compilation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compilation.md>), [developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-productivity.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>)

## AI overview

Square's Android team integrated Gradle's Configuration Cache to reuse task-graph computations. The article says local build waiting time fell from 182 to 25 hours per week for a team supporting about 200 developers, with estimated annual productivity recovery of $1.1 million.

## Source excerpt

Recovering an estimated $1.1 million in lost productivity annually