Universal Cache: It’s time for fast, reliable, and cheap CI pipelines
summary
CI pipelines hit a universal cache that stores build inputs and outputs (dependencies, JDKs, wrappers) and runs as a geo‑located Velocity Edge beside CI agents. Measured results: dependency download time drops from ~45 minutes to ~2 minutes (20x faster downloads), full build time shrinks from ~50 to ~5 minutes, and organization dashboards show ~30M dependency downloads totaling ~7TB across 29 projects and 17,000 versions, yielding saved ~27 days in a week and much lower external service load and cost.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The four horsemen of CI inefficiency
- 5:56Using caching to improve CI performance
- 10:55Using Develocity build scans for insights
- 16:02Introducing the Develocity artifact cache
- 20:07Impact of build cache on organizations
- 21:43Universal cache deployment architecture
- 23:27Summary of key takeaways and benefits
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