--- title: How the Gradle Team Adopted Isolated Projects | daily.dev description: The Gradle team shares their experience adopting Isolated Projects, an experimental feature that parallelizes project configuration to speed up builds. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-the-gradle-team-adopted-isolated-projects-ct8g0u6yl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How the Gradle Team Adopted Isolated Projects | daily.dev og:description: The Gradle team shares their experience adopting Isolated Projects, an experimental feature that parallelizes project configuration to speed up builds. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-the-gradle-team-adopted-isolated-projects-ct8g0u6yl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CT8g0U6yl.png og:image:alt: How the Gradle Team Adopted Isolated Projects og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How the Gradle Team Adopted Isolated Projects **[Gradle Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gradle-blog)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Gradle team shares their experience adopting Isolated Projects, an experimental feature that parallelizes project configuration to speed up builds. The migration required Configuration Cache compatibility, convention plugins, and artifact sharing via dependency management. After a phased rollout starting with volunteers, the team measured real-world impact: IDE sync times roughly halved (median dropped from ~84s to ~47s), with the 95th percentile falling from nearly 7 minutes to just over 3. Benchmarks show 1.7× speedup for adding a dependency and 2.3× for changing build logic. The feature is now the daily driver for local workflows, with CI adoption still in progress. Isolated Projects is expected to graduate from experimental to incubating soon. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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