How We Cut Our CI Pipeline from 45 Minutes to 8 Minutes
Our CI pipeline was the bottleneck every developer complained about. Here's how we broke it down, parallelized it, and what we learned about caching strategies along the way.
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Our CI pipeline was the bottleneck every developer complained about. Here's how we broke it down, parallelized it, and what we learned about caching strategies along the way.
How we built a production RAG system that handles 10K+ queries daily — the architecture, the failures, and the hard-won optimizations that cut latency by 60%.
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Our CI pipeline was the bottleneck every developer complained about. Here's how we broke it down, parallelized it, and what we learned about caching strategies along the way.
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How we built a production RAG system that handles 10K+ queries daily — the architecture, the failures, and the hard-won optimizations that cut latency by 60%.