Episode #74 - Speed as the Engine of Quality

This episode takes aim at the “speed kills quality” myth with hard evidence. In five minutes we connect DORA’s data on elite performers, Little’s Law for small batches, Google SRE’s SLOs and error budgets, EnterpriseJoy’s discipline, and Netflix’s chaos engineering. You’ll see why faster feedback exposes blind spots sooner, improves stability, and raises your quality bar … because good things, shouldn’t take time.

References:

1) Accelerate State of DevOps 2021 (DORA): https://dora.dev/research/2021/dora-report

2) Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35747076-accelerate

3) A Proof for the Queuing Formula L = λW: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.9.3.383

4) Service Level Objectives: https://sre.google/sre-book/service-level-objectives

5) Implementing SLOs: https://sre.google/workbook/implementing-slos

6) Toyota Production System: https://global.toyota/en/company/vision-and-philosophy/production-system/index.html

7) Chaos Engineering: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.05843

8) Chaos Engineering Upgraded: https://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgraded.html

9) EnterpriseJoy Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/@EnterpriseJoy

Music Credit: Switch It Up, performed by Silent Partner, from the YouTube Studio Audio Library.