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by tkiolp4 810 days ago
Docker has been among us for years. Why isn’t efficient caching already implemented out of the box? It’s a leaking abstraction that users have to deal with. Annoying at best.
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Efficient caching exists when caching makes sense, layers are meaningfully cached.

What most people need but don't use is base layers that are upstream of their code repo and released regularly, not at each commit.

Containerisation has made reproducible environments so easy that people want to reproduce it at each CI run, a bit too much.

They actually have recently, but it’s a separate (payed) product offering: https://www.docker.com/products/build-cloud/