Universal Cache: It’s time for fast, reliable, and cheap CI pipelines

As generative AI continues to drive rapid innovation in software development, the volume of code, tests, and iterations. will only increase. This increased volume creates immense pressure on CI/CD pipelines, leading to longer build times, more load on infrastructure, and higher costs. Infrastructure teams face the growing challenge of managing increasingly complex build pipelines while still getting changes through at the speed of business. Optimizing build performance and reliability is no longer optional — it is critical to maintaining pipeline efficiency and developer productivity, and keeping infrastructure costs under control.

In this talk, Etienne Studer, SVP of Engineering at Gradle Inc. and Co-Founder of Develocity, will discuss how observability empowers organizations to pinpoint build performance bottlenecks and surface build toolchain unreliabilities. He will then introduce Universal Cache, a transformative feature designed to cache all critical aspects of a build — from configuration and dependencies to outputs – and applicable to all CI providers and multiple build systems.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how observability can pinpoint performance and reliability issues, how Develocity accelerates CI/CD pipelines via Universal Cache, and how data enables organizations to validate the success of these optimizations and their business benefits.