The Modularization Trap: When Clean Architecture Becomes Your Startup's Bottleneck

--- title : " The Modularization Trap: When Clean Architecture Kills Startup Velocity" published : true description : " A practical guide to right-sizing your Gradle module graph — with build-time benchmarks, splitting heuristics, and the patterns that actually ship." tags : kotlin, android, architecture, performance canonical_url : https://blog.mvp-factory.com/the-modularization-trap-when-clean-architecture-kills-startup-velocity --- ## What You Will Learn By the end of this walkthrough, you will know exactly when splitting Gradle modules helps and when it silently kills your team's shipping cadence. I will show you real build-time benchmarks across three configurations, give you a decision framework based on team size, and demonstrate the module structure I reach for on every production Android and KMP project. ## Prerequisites - A working Android or KMP project with Gradle 8.x - Familiarity with `build.gradle.kts` and multi-module basics - Access to `./gradlew --profile` (you alread