Compilers also show an application of pipelines which can be used architecturally at all levels. I’m a happy coder if I can translate my problem to a pipeline

Compilers also show an application of pipelines which can be used architecturally at all levels. I’m a happy coder if I can translate my problem to a pipeline problem. Each pipeline step can be modelled as a pure function. Each artifact between each step can be inspected and cached. Pipeline failures can be resumed at the last valid artifact