AdvancedTechnical
5 min
CI Pipeline Parallelization Strategy
CI/CDAutomationDevOps
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Interview Question
How would you design a CI pipeline to minimize build/test time through parallelization?
Key Points to Cover
- Split tests into parallel shards based on test suite size
- Cache dependencies and reuse artifacts
- Run linting, unit, and integration tests in parallel jobs
- Use matrix builds for multi-environment testing
- Balance parallelism with cost/infra constraints
Evaluation Rubric
Describes parallelization approaches30% weight
Mentions caching/artifact reuse30% weight
Optimizes time vs cost trade-offs20% weight
Uses matrix builds effectively20% weight
Hints
- 💡Think job fan-out, test sharding, and dependency caching.
Potential Follow-up Questions
- ❓How do you avoid flaky parallel tests?
- ❓What’s the cost impact of too much parallelism?
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