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by dboreham 810 days ago
No!

So much time spent debunking such broken "caching" solutions.

Computers are very fast now. Use proper package/versioning systems (part of the problem here is that those are often also broken/badly designed).
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aayushshah15 810 days ago
This is simply false. For starters, GitHub actions by default run on Intel Haswell chips from 2014 (in some cases). Secondly, hardware being faster doesn't obviate the need for caching, especially for docker builds where your layer pulls are purely network bound.
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kbolino 810 days ago
"Computers are very fast now" is largely because of caching. The CPU has a cache, the disk drive has a cache, the OS has a cache, the HTTP client has a cache, the CDN serving the content has a cache, etc. There may be better ways to cache than at the level of Docker image layers, but no caching is the same as a cache miss on every request, which can be dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of times slower than a cache hit.
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