Faster incremental builds with content hashing
October 14, 2026We replaced timestamp checks with content hashes and cut cold CI times by a third. Here is what we measured and what we would do differently.
Short writeups on build systems, databases and small tools.
We replaced timestamp checks with content hashes and cut cold CI times by a third. Here is what we measured and what we would do differently.
Checkpoint stalls, busy timeouts and why a single writer is usually enough.
No agents, no dashboards: just a script, a log and a daily mail.
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