> In a repeatable build environment it can add tens of minutes of delays to a build as these tens of thousands of files aren't free. (And that was on a VM by on

> In a repeatable build environment it can add tens of minutes of delays to a build as these tens of thousands of files aren't free. (And that was on a VM by one of the big providers, with top notch bandwidth.) Why would you be pulling modules in from an Internet based repo on every build? > Just even doing a local copy of so many files can take a while. That means your cloud provider has poor file I/O performance, which is not unusual.