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World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

CI/CD Patterns and Antipatterns - Things your Pipeline Should (Not) Do

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Your CI/CD pipeline is wasting expensive developer hours on ritualistic, redundant tasks. Discover how changing test execution order and using dynamic triggers will drastically slash your build times.

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#1 about 2 min

Reducing pipeline boredom, frustration, and environmental impact

Analyzing CI/CD bottlenecks helps minimize developer wait times, reduce retries, and lower compute-driven carbon emissions.

#2 about 4 min

Eliminating ritualistic pipelines triggered on every event

Separating workflows into specific pull request, merge, and nightly pipelines prevents unnecessary repetitive tasks.

#3 about 3 min

Using conditional pipeline steps based on changed paths

Filtering execution boundaries with glob expressions ensures only relevant backend or frontend step sequences run.

#4 about 2 min

Removing unused build artifacts to save storage

Implementing automated cleanup and expirations limits the massive storage overhead caused by hoarding discarded container images.

#5 about 2 min

Reordering testing steps for faster failure feedback

Prioritizing slow, high-failure integration and end-to-end tasks over passing unit tests dramatically reduces feedback loops.

#6 about 4 min

Replacing single sequential pipelines with parallel jobs

Running independent frontend and backend build tasks concurrently cuts overall waiting duration at the cost of slight compute overhead.

#7 about 7 min

Caching dependencies and incremental build compilation outputs

Saving previously downloaded dependencies and intermediate object files between runs brings pipeline speeds closer to local development times.

#8 about 3 min

Building dedicated tooling images to avoid parallel interference

Generating specific cache-backed container images with unique identifier tags prevents simultaneous pipelines from overwriting shared tool chains.

#9 about 4 min

Sizing build agents to match local developer hardware

Ensuring build server compute capabilities align with developer workstations prevents frustrating out-of-memory errors and timeout retries.

#10 about 2 min

Reviewing continuous integration patterns and anti-patterns

Summarizing practical ways to shorten feedback loops, optimize steps, and maintain reliable build agent infrastructure.

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Building automated continuous deployment pipelines and final architectural insights

Simone Desantis Simone Desantis · WWC Europe 2026

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Evaluating current trends in CI/CD pipelines

Dominik Kress · LIVE

4:04 min

Establishing best practices for efficient deployment pipelines

Milecia Mcgregor · LIVE

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Identifying major automated recommendations for build pipeline performance improvements

Tamás Bazsonyi Tamás Bazsonyi · WWC 2025

1:30 min

Optimizing testing tools and continuous integration pipelines

Kent Simonsen · WWC 2023

1:18 min

Introducing strategies for optimizing continuous integration execution velocity

Tamás Bazsonyi Tamás Bazsonyi · WWC 2025

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