A Pipeline Made of Airbags
Here&#x27;s a neat comparison that might make your blood boil.<p>You can install Windows (proved with XP) in five minutes or less.<p>How many build pipelines have you worked with that take longer than installing Windows?<p>Granted, they&#x27;re different things - one is copying a giant set of files and creating a small DB and one is running tests and packaging software.<p>Here&#x27;s the thing though. Most of the time, these builds are slow due to 1. lack of parallelism and 2. Blindly following &quot;best practices&quot; instead of using our $170k+ Silicon Valley brains.<p>These are problems you can solve. You can get your build to be faster than installing Windows. Will most companies let their developers do things that may not be &quot;best practices&quot; to do that? Not today.