diff --git a/release-tools/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/release/build/BuildExecutor.java b/release-tools/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/release/build/BuildExecutor.java
index 72da1cf..49ec9e3 100644
--- a/release-tools/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/release/build/BuildExecutor.java
+++ b/release-tools/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/release/build/BuildExecutor.java
@@ -24,21 +24,22 @@ import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue;
 import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
 import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.Future;
-import java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.function.BiFunction;
 import java.util.function.Supplier;
 import java.util.stream.Collector;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+
 import org.springframework.data.release.model.Project;
 import org.springframework.data.release.model.ProjectAware;
 import org.springframework.data.release.utils.ListWrapperCollector;
@@ -47,7 +48,6 @@ import org.springframework.data.util.Streamable;
 import org.springframework.plugin.core.PluginRegistry;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
-import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
  * Build executor service.
@@ -58,23 +58,19 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 class BuildExecutor {
 
 	private final @NonNull PluginRegistry<BuildSystem, Project> buildSystems;
-	private final Logger logger;
 	private final MavenProperties mavenProperties;
 	private final ExecutorService executor;
 
 	public BuildExecutor(PluginRegistry<BuildSystem, Project> buildSystems, Logger logger,
-			MavenProperties mavenProperties) {
+			MavenProperties mavenProperties, ExecutorService buildExecutor) {
 
 		this.buildSystems = buildSystems;
-		this.logger = logger;
 		this.mavenProperties = mavenProperties;
 
 		if (this.mavenProperties.isParallelize()) {
-			int processors = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
-			int parallelity = Math.max(2, (processors / 2));
-			executor = new ThreadPoolExecutor(parallelity, parallelity, 10, TimeUnit.MINUTES, new ArrayBlockingQueue<>(256));
+			this.executor = buildExecutor;
 		} else {
-			executor = ImmediateExecutorService.INSTANCE;
+			this.executor = ImmediateExecutorService.INSTANCE;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -226,8 +222,8 @@ class BuildExecutor {
 
 		@Override
 		public String toString() {
-			return String.format("%20s - %s", project.getName(),
-					isSuccessful() ? "Successful" : "Error: " + failure.getMessage());
+			return String.format("%-14s - %s", project.getName(),
+					isSuccessful() ? "🆗 Successful" : "🧨 Error: " + failure.getMessage());
 		}
 
 		public boolean isSuccessful() {
@@ -260,8 +256,8 @@ class BuildExecutor {
 			StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
 
 			builder.append("Execution summary");
-			builder.append("\n");
-			builder.append(StringUtils.collectionToDelimitedString(executions, "\n"));
+			builder.append(IOUtils.LINE_SEPARATOR);
+			builder.append(executions.stream().map(it -> "\t" + it).collect(Collectors.joining(IOUtils.LINE_SEPARATOR)));
 
 			return builder.toString();
 		}
diff --git a/release-tools/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/release/utils/ExecutorConfiguration.java b/release-tools/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/release/utils/ExecutorConfiguration.java
index e084008..653dcb0 100644
--- a/release-tools/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/release/utils/ExecutorConfiguration.java
+++ b/release-tools/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/release/utils/ExecutorConfiguration.java
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
  */
 package org.springframework.data.release.utils;
 
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
+
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 import org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutorFactoryBean;
@@ -23,13 +25,18 @@ import org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutorFactoryBean;
  * @author Mark Paluch
  */
 @Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
+@Slf4j
 class ExecutorConfiguration {
 
 	@Bean
 	public ThreadPoolExecutorFactoryBean executorService() {
 
+		int processors = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
+		int threadCount = Math.max(2, processors - 4);
+		log.info(String.format("Setting up Executor Service with %d Threads", threadCount));
+
 		ThreadPoolExecutorFactoryBean scheduler = new ThreadPoolExecutorFactoryBean();
-		scheduler.setCorePoolSize(Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors());
+		scheduler.setCorePoolSize(threadCount);
 		scheduler.setQueueCapacity(32);
 
 		return scheduler;