1. A computer-implemented method to manage parallel builds in a networked system, comprising: identifying one or more software components in a software project; detecting a plurality of build servers; determining a build configuration for each software component, the build configuration including a mapping from each software component to a set of the plurality of build services, the set selected on an optimizing factor including network capability; and building each software component using the mapped set in the corresponding build configuration, the building including compiling one or more source files associated with each software component to one or more object files by distributing the one or more source files to one or more compilation machines.