https://iqbalsyamil.com/tags/github-action/Recent content in Github-Action on iqbalsyamilHugoenThu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://iqbalsyamil.com/posts/caching-your-way-to-faster-ci-runners/Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://iqbalsyamil.com/posts/caching-your-way-to-faster-ci-runners/I maintained CI Platform at a company running a Go monorepo with trunk-based development, more than 100 services, and over 100 engineers pushing code every day. CI runs on EKS with GitHub Actions Runner Controller. For a long time the feedback I kept hearing from engineers was “CI is slow” and the feedback from finance was “the bill keeps going up.” Neither is actionable on its own. This post covers the startup optimizations we shipped and why we made the decisions we did.