One of my Jenkins pipelines was set up and, without further scrutiny, it just worked. It ran multiple stages that took several hours and eventually ended in green — the kind of result that contributes to a bright, sunny day. Though it was just past lunchtime, I cracked open a bottle of Gösser and called it a day. These small rewards in the middle of routine work feel deserved, especially when you’re the one making the calls. There’s a subtle but important connection between ownership and responsibility — when things succeed, you feel it; when they fail, you own that too. But celebration often are followed by reflection. The next step. What could be improved? Given our quick observation, one obvious area is reducing total pipeline execution time. That naturally leads to parallelization. Jenkins, our most senior and tireless employee ,“Jenkins”, has a firm grip on this as well.…