CI Pipeline Speed: The Optimizations That Actually Moved Our 22-Minute Build
Layer caching, test parallelization, and selective test execution moved our GitHub Actions build from 22 to 7 minutes. The one optimization we thought would help but didn't.
Layer caching, test parallelization, and selective test execution moved our GitHub Actions build from 22 to 7 minutes. The one optimization we thought would help but didn't.
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