DEVOPS

Speed and stability are sold as opposites — move fast and break things, or move slow and stay safe. The best teams refuse the trade-off. Here's how they ship fast AND stay stable.

On-call used to wreck my sleep and my weekends. A handful of unglamorous changes cut the dread in half. None of them were heroics.

Our build took nine minutes and everyone had accepted it. One afternoon of profiling found the real bottleneck — and it wasn't where anyone guessed.