Is Your CI/CD Pipeline a Bottleneck?
Slow CI/CD pipelines are not a minor inconvenience — they’re a hidden tax on engineering velocity.
Every minute developers spend waiting for a build is a minute they are not shipping value.
The main issue?
Most pipelines rebuild everything on every run:
- re-downloading dependencies
- rebuilding unchanged Docker layers
- recreating artifacts
This redundant work compounds into delays and compute waste.
🔹 The fix: Intelligent Caching
Implementing caching for:
- Docker layers
- package manager dependencies
- Terraform plugins
- language build artifacts
can reduce build times massively.
I’ve seen teams drop from 15–20 minutes → 3 minutes simply by enabling shared dependency caches.
🔹 Why this matters
- Faster developer feedback loops
- Lower cloud compute costs
- More frequent and reliable deployments
- Happier engineering teams
Your pipeline shouldn’t be the slowest part of your product development.
Optimise it — and everything else accelerates.