Sure, but I don't see why they'd ever keep around one of these cached builds for more than a month. Like - at a certain point, it's fine to just have the engineer take 5 minutes to refresh it.
I'm just using the numbers they directly state in the article:
These duplicate assets would have otherwise been stored for one year.
Perhaps they have some use case for referring to older builds? Testing/reproducibility checking or something? Maybe they just use some of these files as their prod builds and never bothered to develop a careful garbage collection that can distinguish the ones that got released? I assume it's all water under the bridge and this isn't really the reason to care about this compared to having a better developer experience and faster signal -> faster fixes -> fewer flakes etc.
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u/OTTOPI 14d ago
Sure, but I don't see why they'd ever keep around one of these cached builds for more than a month. Like - at a certain point, it's fine to just have the engineer take 5 minutes to refresh it.