CI Pipeline Design overview

CI Pipeline Design as a cross-cutting topic - architecting automated build, test, and integration pipelines for rapid feedback and quality enforcement. Covers stage sequencing, parallelism, fan-out/fan-in patterns, intelligent caching strategies (dependency caches, build caches, layer caches), artifact flow between stages, pipeline-as-code principles, and failure-isolation techniques. Addresses trade-offs between pipeline speed and coverage breadth.