CareApp uses CI to test every commit of our mobile app, and build and deploy every merge to master, for iOS and Android. A few weeks ago I felt very seen by this tweet:
A build/deploy time of 2m50s (including infrastructure) makes me antsy as hell. I have no idea how people deal with builds that take double digit minutes and longer
— JT Official (@jtango18) October 6, 2020
What follows was an adventure to cut our CI times by 12 minutes.