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%.

1. Speeding up the development cycle: Stash your files on a Solid State Drive Harald Søvik

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