How can caching and artifacts speed up API rate limiting on GitLab CI?

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This article explains how caching and artifacts can enhance the performance of API rate limiting in GitLab CI, leading to faster CI/CD workflows.


// Example of caching in GitLab CI
cache:
  paths:
    - vendor/

stages:
  - test

test_api:
  stage: test
  script:
    - echo "Running tests for API"
    - ./vendor/bin/phpunit
  cache:
    key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}
```

caching artifacts API rate limiting GitLab CI speed up continuous integration DevOps