A better approach

A much better goal is to increase the velocity, frequency and reliability of software delivery. Specific, there are four key metrics to track and improve:

Lead time - time from commit to deploy

Deployment frequency - number of deploys per day per developer

Failure rate - how often deployments fail

Recovery time - time to recover from an outage

Each application development team is then responsible for improving these metrics for their application. Sometimes the microservice architecture plays a key role in improving this metrics. But there are other things that can be done to improve these metrics. For example,

Increasing lead time - eliminate wasteful work, automation, etc.

Increasing deployment frequency - automated testing and deployment, etc

Reducing failure rate - automated testing, automated deployment, GitOps, etc.

Reducing recovery time - improved monitoring, automating recovery, etc.

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