Comments by "George Helyar" (@georgehelyar) on "Is This Why You’re Bad At Programming?" video.

  1. You can deploy every commit, but not release (enable the functionality to end users) until later. To do this, one of the methods you can use is feature flagging. For example, you might want acceptance from stakeholders before releasing to end users. Builds really shouldn't take hours though. Maybe you are testing the inner details of back end services through the front end UI or something? The only tests I can think of that should take a long time are soak tests, but you can also do blue/green or canary deployments to monitor after deployment instead.
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