# Tuning Android build nodes for maximum throughput

DevFeed: [Tuning Android build nodes for maximum throughput](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tuning-android-build-nodes-for-maximum-throughput-20464.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eng.wealthfront.com/2026/06/25/tuning-android-build-nodes-for-maximum-throughput/>)

Author: Chris Mathew

Published: 2026-06-25T15:29:45Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Wealthfront](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/wealthfront.md>)

Topics: [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [continuous-integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/continuous-integration.md>), [ec2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ec2.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [wealthfront-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wealthfront-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Wealthfront's Android team tuned Gradle for build workloads on Amazon m7i.8xlarge EC2 instances. It covers Gradle daemon configuration, JVM memory settings, parallel execution, build caching, and the choice to use single-use daemons for CI builds.

## Source excerpt

Introduction Our Android team uses Gradle as our build tool of choice. Gradle offers lots of options for tuning its resource consumption, giving engineers an opportunity to optimize performance for running tasks on well-known hardware. In this post, we'll explore how the team tuned our Gradle setup for Amazon's m7i.8xlarge EC2 instances. General concepts Before... Read more