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14. Incremental builds and caching
Build caching and incremental compilation techniques to speed local and CI builds in large repos.
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Incremental builds and caching
Reusing previous build work so you only rebuild what's changed, making builds much faster.
"I don't want to wait 20 minutes for CI to rebuild everything when I only changed one file."
Incremental builds detect unchanged inputs and reuse cached outputs from prior runs; build caching stores artifacts so future builds (local or CI) skip redundant work.
"I don't want to wait 20 minutes for CI to rebuild everything when I only changed one file."
Incremental builds detect unchanged inputs and reuse cached outputs from prior runs; build caching stores artifacts so future builds (local or CI) skip redundant work.