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Breaking Things Doesn’t Speed Developer Velocity

In 2014, Facebook moved from CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s favorite motto, “Move fast and break things,” to “Move fast with stable infra.” In our rush to move “harder, faster, stronger,” she said in her talk on Wednesday, we focus too much on the tech and not enough on the people and processes.

In order to successfully move fast and break things, Cregg said, you need processes, especially for: In fact, processes were a key theme in this year’s DevOps report.

In terms of operations, things are going to break, which is why you need safety valves and kill switches [and to] look at service metrics and how features are performing,” Cregg said.

This level of elite success, unsurprisingly, comes down to psychological safety and specifically reframing failures, which Cregg said is a natural part of knowledge acquisition.