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What are the three biggest levers for improving Docker build performance?

Cache-friendly instruction ordering (stable instructions before frequently-changing ones), multi-stage builds (excluding build tooling from the final image), and minimal base image choice (Alpine or distroless instead of a full general-purpose distro) — they compound rather than substitute for each other.

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