title: Is there a way to speed up the builds in visual studio team services (and TFS)
body: <p>Our team has set up continuous integration using visual studio online.
  We have tried cranking up our subscription to advanced with a paid build limit that we are nowhere near reaching. However, build times are exceptionally slow.</p>
  
  <p>The builds will sit in a queue for several minutes then take several minutes to run [even when testing adding Nuget packages to source control].</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to speed up builds in Visual Studio Online?
  If not what are some good alternatives?</p>
  
  <p>I see acceptance or setting up our own continuous integration server on an Azure VM as a worst case fallback.</p>