Every Engineering Practice I Was Told Would Slow Us Down Only Made Us Faster
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A CTO shares how implementing engineering standards from day one—CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code reviews, and pair programming—enabled scaling from zero to 200+ engineers while maintaining high velocity. Despite conventional wisdom warning against early quality investments, the team achieved 4-hour engineer onboarding, multiple daily deployments, and zero production incidents from untested code.
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