Unpopular opinion: The 'move fast and break things' culture here is getting old

I just watched a local startup I know launch a new feature that broke their core service for almost two hours last Friday. In my experience, that kind of sloppy push happens way too often when teams are told to just ship it. How do you build a real business here if your product isn't reliable?

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angela_harris7d ago

That "move fast and break things" mindset is exactly why my last team crashed. We finally made a rule to test every core feature change in a full staging copy before it went live. It slowed us down a little, but we stopped breaking the main product.

rowan9696d ago

Wait, you didn't have staging before?

luna_wright6d ago

Honestly, the real cost is team morale. Constantly fixing live fires burns people out way faster than a slightly slower release cycle ever could.