[gizdan]

> The CD community is overly obsessed with velocity.

I think CD is about minimising the amount of code released in one go, which allows you to catch issues much faster and revert issues much quicker. Compare that to something most banks do, release once a quarter, and you'll get stuff like that UK bank that went down for days (can't remember which one it was).

I've yet to meet anyone saying you have to finish your features faster.

[dpark]

Velocity is also highly valuable because if you can get your code in front of users worldwide rapidly, you can more quickly “page out” that code and move on to the next work unburdened. Once you know your code is released fully and working, the cognitive overhead is greatly reduced because multitasking is reduced.

The tradeoff is that if you are pushing your code worldwide in an hour and you shipped a critical bug, your high velocity also creates outsized negative impact.