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Your Docker image might be bigger than it needs to be. 🐳

When installing Python dependencies inside a container, pip stores downloaded packages in its cache, which makes perfect sense on a local machine.

But inside Docker?

Image layers already provide caching. Keeping the pip cache only increases image size without adding value.

In production, that means:
• Larger images
• Slower pulls
• Longer deployments
• Bigger attack surface

Smaller images. Faster deployments. Cleaner builds.

Are you disabling pip cache in your Dockerfiles?

We can’t fix all holiday bugs, but we’re glad Codeac could help fix some in your code this year. 🐞

Thanks to everyone using Codeac this year, and to the team making it happen.

Happy holidays! 🎄