I think we could make the Travis CI tests run faster using container-based environment. Docs: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/ci-environment/ Blog article: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2014-12-17-faster-builds-with-container-based-infrastructure/ Here's `umongo`'s `.travis.yml`, as an example: https://github.com/Scille/umongo/blob/master/.travis.yml. It shows how to intall MongoDB using `addons` rather than using `sudo apt-get`.