JavaZone 2009 - Speeding up the development cycle: Stash your files on a Solid State Drive
Solid state drives have recently become easily available. Their performence may provide a way of reducing the time spent on on the development cycle: compiling, packeting and deploying applications. This paper shows promising results by locating the code base and local maven repository on a solid state drive. Initial experiments shows that time spent on waiting for your code to compile may be reduced by 50%.
Harald Søvik
Harald is working as technical architect with Computas AS, on a 5-year-long java-project with 25 developers. He's responsible for the build system, infrastructure for development and testing, and adapting new designs into the existing architecture. He's quite ambivalent to the idea of Maven, but tries to praise the possibilities istead of weep over the weaknesses, and finally shorten the turnaround, to achive a truly agile development situation.