--- title: "How to make your Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline faster" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-make-your-azure-devops-ci-cd-pipeline-faster-eoahw21oy source_url: https://timdeschryver.dev/blog/how-to-make-your-azure-devops-ci-cd-pipeline-faster type: article source: "Tim Deschryver" author: "Tim Deschryver" published: 2026-05-31T07:47:11.465Z updated: 2026-06-01T04:00:57.780Z tags: ["general-programming", "cicd", "azure-devops", "cypress"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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 to make your Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline faster **[Tim Deschryver](https://daily.dev/sources/timdeschryver)** · [@timdeschryver](https://daily.dev/timdeschryver) · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide to speeding up an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline for a monorepo with 20 projects. The core technique is adding a 'ProjectMarker' stage that uses git diff to detect which projects were modified in the latest commit, then conditionally builds, deploys, and tests only those affected projects. The approach reduced pipeline runtime from ~60 minutes to ~23 minutes (50%+ improvement), with further savings by running only affected Cypress tests. Benefits include lower resource consumption, fewer deployment errors, and faster developer feedback loops. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Frontend CI/CD in the age of AI -- Part 1](https://daily.dev/posts/frontend-ci-cd-in-the-age-of-ai----part-1-fjsyj336m) · Neciu Dan · 16 upvotes · 0 comments - [Verify faster](https://daily.dev/posts/verify-faster-zmkbwrxol) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#azure-devops](https://daily.dev/tags/azure-devops), [#cypress](https://daily.dev/tags/cypress) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-make-your-azure-devops-ci-cd-pipeline-faster-eoahw21oy)