Keynote: We need to talk about perfection!
summary
Argues that shipping fast beats chasing flawless code and shows exactly how: launches Delivery+ in 3 cities using a simple form plus an if-statement at checkout, builds subscription payments with Stripe in ~6 weeks, and practices feature flags and phased rollouts to deploy country by country. Teams remove most regression tests, rely on monitoring and rollback, and create an orders-per-5-seconds dashboard and alerts for 4xx/5xx and latency. Embraces dropped regression tests and minimal critical-path testing, then fix issues in production.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 4:42We Should Reject the Notion of Perfection
- 5:05What Is Perfect Software
- 10:022001 Agile Manifesto
- 22:17How Do You Move So Fast
- 27:47Regression Testing
- 28:43Business Metrics
- 33:07Is this a Risky Way of Working
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