Interview of Julien Dubois

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Windows Dev Drive creates a developer-optimized D: volume with a faster file system and reduced antivirus overhead and delivers big IO wins for builds that read/write lots of small files. Gradle users must place repo and dependency cache on D: and enable task/configuration caching; a typical day-to-day build drops from 2 minutes → 45 seconds in the demo. Works best for native Windows workflows (may not help inside WSL/remote containers); blog post tests use Spring and show significant but workload-dependent speedups.

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1. 0:00Windows Dev Drive intro
2. 1:05Dev Drive build performance
3. 3:10Dev Drive and caching
4. 4:12Dev Drive in Windows dev
5. 5:38Dev containers for consistency
6. 7:03Dev containers in CI/CD
7. 8:27Future of Gradle Dev containers
8. 9:29Dev Drive benefits
9. 10:34Dev Drive and GitHub Actions
10. 12:00Gradle performance gains
11. 13:05Closing remarks

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