3.5 Minimize the Blast Radius

Without a safe environment in which to experiment, we will only optimize what we already do. And this results in standing still in an accelerating market.

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Introduction Questions

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1. How much time is spent on experimenting?

2. How much freedom and inspiration does your team feel to experiment?

At Spotify, they have a practical way to reduce the impact of errors: preventing a certain error from having an impact on all users. They reduce the blast radius.1 All changes that are put in production are gradually rolled ...

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