It's going fast because the original ways were (euphemism) sub optimal. Example: compiling configuration into a release was clearly wrong based on my experience

It's going fast because the original ways were (euphemism) sub optimal. Example: compiling configuration into a release was clearly wrong based on my experience with other languages. A small mistake and another run through CI/CD with production down vs edit a configuration file and restart? Ouch. Maybe inevitable with a lot of servers but very wrong for a single server application.