Why Your CI Pipeline Is Slow (And How to Fix It)
CI pipelines slow down for four reasons: missing cache, sequential jobs, no path filtering, and broken Docker layer cache. I diagnosed a 32-minute pipeline and cut it down to about 15 minutes.
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CI pipelines slow down for four reasons: missing cache, sequential jobs, no path filtering, and broken Docker layer cache. I diagnosed a 32-minute pipeline and cut it down to about 15 minutes.
My Spring Boot Docker image hit 1.2 GB. CI took 12 minutes per run and Trivy flagged 140 vulnerabilities. Multi-stage builds brought it down to 245 MB — here's exactly what I changed.
ECS rolling update defaults don't give you zero downtime. Here's the three-layer fix — graceful shutdown, ALB deregistration delay, and stopTimeout — that ended our deploy-time 502s.