Optimizing for iteration speed

1 · Erik Bernhardsson · July 6, 2017, 4 a.m.
I’ve written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn’t necessarily talk about some concrete things you can do. When I’ve built up the tech team at Better, I’ve intentionally optimized for fast iteration speed above almost everything else. What are some ways we did that? Continuous deployment My dubious claim is that we might be the only financial institution in the world to deploy continuously. I actually ended up getting quoted in the Economist about this specifically. We d...