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Summary

The stability vs velocity tradeoff is a critical consideration in development workflows, with organizations needing to balance these competing demands to meet their business needs. As applications grow, ensuring updates don't negatively impact users becomes more important, often requiring more stringent release criteria and better testing. However, this can come at the cost of reduced velocity. To address this challenge, multiple development workflows are needed for different parts of an application, with microservices architecture allowing for independent development workflows for each service. Building a standard set of tools and processes that support these different modes of development is both easy and hard, requiring operational skills and capabilities beyond just coding. Ultimately, the goal is to find a balance between stability and velocity that meets the needs of the business and users.