# Stampeding Elephants

DevFeed: [Stampeding Elephants](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/stampeding-elephants-15893.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/stampeding-elephants>)

Author: Tony Robalik

Published: 2023-01-31T06:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modules.md>), [repo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/repo.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modules.md>)

## AI overview

Square's Mobile Developer Experience Android team reports that applying software engineering best practices and incremental improvements to build logic produced durable gains as the Point of Sale repository grew. The article argues against relying on risky "silver bullet" solutions.

## Source excerpt

The data-driven case for best practices and against silver bullets