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There is a lot more going on in this article, but the line that stood out is this -- perhaps because I've been discussing "shipping" with colleagues quite a bit recently.

Deploy frequency is a proxy for codebase health — teams with fragile apps stop shipping.

When you don't feel like you can deploy at certain times or on certain days, that is a big signal that there is a gap in trust somewhere in the socio-technical tapestry of your engineering org. Maybe you don't trust something about your deploy infrastructure or your test suite or even some aspect of your team.