--- title: How I decreased CI/CD build time from 55 mins to just 5... description: Camelan’s CI/CD pipeline was 55 mins for clean builds and 40 mins for a build over the feedback loop. Xcode takes 15 mins to do a clean build. Any small change... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-decreased-ci-cd-build-time-from-55-mins-to-just-5-mins--k4yab3h6s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I decreased CI/CD build time from 55 mins to just 5 mins! | daily.dev og:description: Camelan’s CI/CD pipeline was 55 mins for clean builds and 40 mins for a build over the feedback loop. Xcode takes 15 mins to do a clean build. Any small change... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-decreased-ci-cd-build-time-from-55-mins-to-just-5-mins--k4yab3h6s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/k4YAB3H6s.png og:image:alt: How I decreased CI/CD build time from 55 mins to just 5 mins! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I decreased CI/CD build time from 55 mins to just 5 mins! **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@aramy23](https://daily.dev/aramy23) · 4 min read · 10 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Camelan’s CI/CD pipeline was 55 mins for clean builds and 40 mins for a build over the feedback loop. Xcode takes 15 mins to do a clean build. Any small change causes the whole project to rebuild (CocoaPods known setback) The solution was to convert the dependencies into binaries which are precompiled, and that would help Xcode to ignore those dependencies as they are already precompile. This meant that Xcode would pull the frameworks when the CI pipeline works. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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