Build Pipeline Acceleration

Slash your build times and boost productivity

Duration
3-5 weeks
Starting Price
€7,500
Get Started
Contact Us

Overview

The Build Pipeline Acceleration (BPA) service is designed to dramatically reduce your CI/CD pipeline execution time while improving reliability. Through a series of targeted optimizations, we identify and eliminate bottlenecks that slow down your build, test, and deployment processes, resulting in faster feedback cycles and improved developer productivity.

Why This Matters

Slow build pipelines create significant hidden costs for development teams:

  • Reduced productivity as developers wait for feedback on their changes
  • Delayed releases due to time-consuming validation processes
  • Context switching as developers start new tasks while waiting for builds
  • Resource waste from inefficient test execution and cloud resource usage
  • Frustrated developers who lose focus and momentum

By optimizing your build pipeline, we help your team ship faster, reduce costs, and improve developer experience.

Our Approach

Our approach combines deep analysis with practical optimizations:

  1. Pipeline Benchmarking: We measure current performance and identify bottlenecks
  2. Test Suite Analysis: We evaluate test execution patterns and efficiency
  3. Parallelization Strategy: We design optimal job distribution and concurrent execution
  4. Caching Implementation: We identify and implement effective caching strategies
  5. Selective Testing: We implement intelligent test selection based on changed code
  6. Optimization Implementation: We make the necessary changes to your CI configuration
  7. Verification: We measure the results and ensure stability

Throughout the process, we work closely with your team to ensure the optimizations are aligned with your specific workflow and requirements.

What You’ll Receive

Our service includes:

  • Pipeline Performance Analysis: Detailed breakdown of your current build pipeline execution time
  • Bottleneck Identification: Specific issues causing slowdowns in your build process
  • Optimization Implementation: Changes to your CI configuration to improve performance
  • Test Suite Optimizations: Recommendations and implementations for faster test execution
  • Caching Strategy: Implementation of effective caching to avoid redundant work
  • Documentation: Clear explanation of all changes and optimizations
  • Knowledge Transfer: Training for your team on maintaining and further improving the pipeline

Who Benefits Most

This service is particularly valuable for:

  • Teams with build times exceeding 10 minutes that impact developer productivity
  • Growing organizations whose build times have gradually increased with codebase size
  • Teams experiencing flaky tests or unreliable CI/CD pipelines
  • Organizations aiming to release more frequently but constrained by slow validation
  • Companies paying high costs for CI/CD cloud resources due to inefficient pipelines

Our Process

1

Analysis

We benchmark your current build pipeline to identify bottlenecks and opportunities.

2

Optimization

We implement improvements and measure their impact on build time and reliability.

3

Knowledge Transfer

We document the changes and train your team to maintain optimal performance.

What You'll Receive

  • Comprehensive build pipeline analysis
  • Performance optimization of test suite execution
  • Parallelization and caching improvements
  • Test splitting and selective execution strategies
  • Implementation of pipeline improvements
  • Knowledge transfer and documentation

Benefits

  • Dramatically reduced build times, often by 50-80%
  • Faster feedback cycles for developers
  • Improved pipeline reliability and fewer flaky tests
  • Increased developer productivity and satisfaction
  • Optimized cloud resource usage and reduced costs

Frequently Asked Questions

How much improvement can we expect?

Most clients see a 50-80% reduction in build times, depending on the starting point and codebase characteristics. We'll provide an estimate after our initial analysis.

Do we need to change our testing framework?

Usually not. We focus on optimization strategies that work with your existing tools and frameworks whenever possible.

Does this work with our CI platform?

Yes, we support all major CI platforms including GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, and others.

Will this require changes to our source code?

We focus primarily on CI/CD configuration changes, but sometimes minor code adjustments are recommended to enable certain optimizations. We'll discuss these with your team before implementing.

Book This Service

€7,500
starting at
Schedule a Consultation
We'll discuss your specific needs and provide a customized proposal.

Ideal for:

  • Teams experiencing slow CI/CD pipelines (10+ minutes)
  • Organizations with flaky or unreliable test suites
  • Development teams seeking faster feedback cycles
  • Companies with growing codebases that are slowing down builds
Have questions?
Contact us

Ready to transform your slow builds into blazing-fast feedback loops?

Schedule a Consultation

Related Services

Test Automation Kickstarter

Get your test automation strategy right from day one

Learn more →

Test Maturity Assessment

Evaluate and enhance your testing approach

Learn more →