I’m working at megacorp at the moment as contractor. The local dev, cloud dev, cloud stage, cloud prod pipeline is truly glacial in velocity even with automation like Jenkins, kubernetes, etc. it takes weeks to move from dev complete to production. It’s a middle manager’s wet dream.

I used to wonder why isn’t megacorp being murdered by competitors delivering features faster, but actually, everyone is moving glacially for the same reason, so it doesn’t matter.

I’m kinda reminded by pg’s essay on which competitors to worry about. I might be a worried competitor if these guys are pulling off merging to master as production.