Always Be Caching: GitHub Actions Pipelines Cut From 20min to 3min

vboykis · x · 2026-10-13

Engineer vboykis shares a GitHub Actions tip: cache your dependencies all the time. Over the past 12 months, caching cut her pipelines from 20min to 3min, and another from 7min to 1min. She jokes she risks upsetting GitHub's fragile balance — but it also meaningfully saves Actions usage and billing.

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