Don’t let compilation set the length of your coffee break
summary
Shows a concrete route from multi-hour CI to minute-scale feedback: restructure into monorepos, generate an affected graph from imports so only dependent projects rebuild, and use a distributed cache + multiple agents (NX/NX Cloud) to replay CI build outputs instantly on developers’ machines. Includes a demo bundler, a tiny math distribution game, and real anecdotes where nightly E2E once exceeded 24 hours but become runnable every night after these changes.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and demo
- 2:42The problem of slow builds
- 4:43Structuring projects
- 8:02Dependency graphs and NX
- 11:34CI and smart comparison
- 14:24Distributed caching
- 17:40Live math challenge
- 21:02Scaling with task distribution
- 25:38Recap and conclusion
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