Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) systems are essential for software development, with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and others forming the backbone of many organizations' software deployment processes. However, optimizing CI/CD pipelines to balance speed, cost, and efficiency is a common challenge, particularly in the face of time and financial costs that can hinder development. Graphite addresses these issues by offering strategies such as parallelization, caching, selective testing, and implementing the fail-fast principle to streamline CI/CD workflows. Parallelization aids in maintaining fast CI runtimes, while caching and artifact management help avoid redundant work. Selective testing targets only changed components to improve efficiency, and the fail-fast principle prevents wasting resources on failing processes. The guide further suggests that understanding the team's development workflows, such as the choice between monorepos and polyrepos, can significantly affect CI/CD management. These strategies, which Graphite has successfully implemented, are presented as adaptable solutions for different organizational contexts to enhance CI/CD pipeline performance while keeping costs in check.