Strategies to Improve Continuous Integration Build Time and Reduce Costs
How I improved our CI build time from 24mins to 8mins and reduced costs by 50% | Owais 🔗
The text describes how the author improved the Continuous Integration (CI) build time from 24 minutes to 8 minutes and reduced costs by 50%. The author outlines various strategies, including splitting tests and running them in parallel, caching intermediate build artifacts, crafting good cache keys, rearchitecting the CI workflow into multiple jobs, doing a shallow Git clone, disabling unnecessary logging, running system tests in headless mode, and making the test environment closer to production and faster in CI. The author also provides a CircleCI configuration for reference.
- Improved CI build time from 24 minutes to 8 minutes
- Reduced costs by 50%
- Strategies include test splitting and parallel execution, caching, optimizing CI workflow, shallow Git clone, disabling unnecessary logging, running headless tests, and making test environment closer to production
- CircleCI configuration provided for reference