[thinkingkong]

Generally Ive found tight feedback loops to be incredibly productive. Whether its for product, release, design, development. Having the ability to make modifications with feedback from customers, systems, business partners and colleagues changes everything.

[mrkeen]

Tight feedback loops is precisely why I dislike the current devops culture.

For me, a tight feedback loop is cycling between repl/ide/compiler/tests as quickly as possible.

A loose feedback loop is pull requests, docker, CI, terraform. Don't get me wrong - I appreciate a fast, smooth 'release' pipeline. I just hate that it's now become the 'development' pipeline.

[rmetzler]

Yeah, the faster you’re able to iterate, the faster you can improve.

[Ididntdothis]

Only if you make meaningful iterations. I see a lot of demand for iteration coming from above and suddenly you are in this cycle of fixed length “sprints” where you worry more about releasing on time instead of meaningful releases.