caching

The GitLab CI ecosystem is full of features and integrations that make it a powerful tool for building, testing, and deploying your applications. It comes with an integrated package registry to share and manage your packages. However, the GitLab SaaS API (gitlab.com) comes with rate-limits which can be a problem for scaling CI/CD pipelines, and quite frustrating when you hit them. In this article, I will share a solution I find odd yet very effective: implementing a caching proxy in front of the NuGet GitLab package registry....

In this article I’d like to share my journey learning about caching, and my research on how to make it more efficient. This article is the first in a serie of articles about caching, and here we’ll start by discussing the challenges and memory considerations when doing in-memory caching. This was done as part of my day job as a Staff backend engineer at Equativ, a leading provider of digital advertising solutions, offering a range of products and services to help businesses reach their target audiences and achieve their marketing goals....