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Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Congestion Budget
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the concept of a congestion budget for engineering teams—inspired by traffic flow theory. They discuss how a $12 million Series A startup used a congestion budget to slash deployment time from 45 minutes to 12 and reduce rollbacks by 60 percent. The conversation covers the three metrics of a congestion budget: WIP limits, queue depth, and batch size. Lucas shares a real example from a client who mapped their CI/CD pipeline as a network of queues, while Luna challenges whether this works for teams with unpredictable workloads. They also touch on how the…
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