Blog Articles

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February 25, 2025 by Chad

GitHub Actions Windows Runners: VHDX Caching to the Rescue

In this follow-up post about slow GitHub Actions workflows on Windows hosted runners, I'll walk through a virtual hard disk (VHDX) caching technique that can drastically cut your Windows CI times.

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February 20, 2025 by Chad

GitHub Actions Hosted Windows Runners, Slower-than-expected CI, and You

Have you ever noticed that when using GitHub hosted runners, Windows runners are just... slow? In this article, I demonstrate why and what we can do about it, using .NET workloads as an example.

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