The answer, of course, is that slower and less-frequent deployments mean slower progress building a better platform and delivering new features. If breakages co

The answer, of course, is that slower and less-frequent deployments mean slower progress building a better platform and delivering new features. If breakages could lead to plane crashes then, obviously, we'd want them to slow down. But if it mainly means no one can listen to Spotify for 15 minutes then that calls for a different trade-off. As a founder of a startup that hosts services on GCE I'm happy with the trade-off they've chosen.