Identifying shared components
Adopting DevOps practices, such as CI/CD, can greatly reduce the amount of time you have to spend on building and testing your applications. Besides building your applications, there are also many other concerns that you can address in your pipelines.
When you start adding more and more tasks to your pipelines, you might run into a situation in which a single execution of your pipeline starts taking too long. In order to combat this, you might be interested in splitting your solution up into smaller builds and maybe even repositories. Splitting solutions into smaller builds is not viable with monolithic applications, since it would break the build process. Microservice applications or solutions, which have components decoupled into separate projects, could adopt this approach to split the build process. To do this, you could build parts of that application in isolation and then use the results of these builds in your main application as ready-built...
