CI/CD Deployment Speed Optimization in Practice: From 90 Minutes to 5 Minutes
Overview You have probably experienced this scenario: a developer commits one line of code, CI runs for 40 minutes, CD deployment takes another 20. You come back after two cups of coffee only to find the build failed—time to start over. By the end of the day, three hours gone just waiting on the pipeline. This is not an isolated case. Among the teams I have worked with, the majority have pipelines exceeding 30 minutes....