Reducing Deployment Time by 60% on GCP: A CI/CD Pipeline Redesign Case Study

Source: DZone DevOps

The Problem: Deployments Were Slowing Down Engineering

Our deployment cycle had quietly become a bottleneck.
Every production release took 45–60 minutes, even for small changes. That delay created hesitation around shipping frequently. Engineers batched features instead of releasing incrementally. Rollbacks were painful. Incident response was slower than it should have been.