Rust - Tag - Roland's Dev Bloghttps://rolandsdev.blog/tags/rust/Rust - Tag - Roland's Dev BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0800Caching git clones across a slow networkhttps://rolandsdev.blog/posts/caching-git-clones-across-a-slow-network/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0800rolandjitsuhttps://github.com/rolandjitsurolandjitsu@gmail.comhttps://rolandsdev.blog/posts/caching-git-clones-across-a-slow-network/<p>If you run CI on cloud runners while your git server lives somewhere else - on-prem, another region, the far end of a slow VPN - you have probably watched a lot of time (and egress) disappear into cloning the same repositories over and over.</p> <p>The setup I kept running into: an on-prem GitLab, an elastic fleet of runners autoscaling in the cloud, and a handful of repos in the tens of gigabytes. Multiply that by hundreds or thousands of jobs a day and every single one does a fresh clone across the WAN. The link is the bottleneck, the egress is not free, and the runners end up spending more time fetching code than running it.</p>