# The quest for the five minute deploy

DevFeed: [The quest for the five minute deploy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-quest-for-the-five-minute-deploy-12036.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/the-quest-for-the-five-minute-deploy>)

Author: Matthew Barrington

Published: 2025-07-22T10:07:34Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [build times](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-times.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Go Language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go-language.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>)

Tags: [build-times](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-times.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes how incident.io worked to reduce deployment time toward a goal of less than five minutes from merging a pull request to production. It examines slow Go builds and test suites, limitations of CI/CD caching, and the decision to evaluate different CI/CD providers based on price, reliability, extensibility, and familiarity.

## Source excerpt

This is the story of how incident.io drastically cut down their code deployment times, detailing their journey from slow, inefficient CI/CD pipelines to achieving near "five-minute deploys" through strategic changes to their infrastructure and caching mechanisms.