The key to achieving sustainable speed gains for a business lies in fostering simple, automated processes for building great software, and staying on top of changes in quality metrics. Product velocity is crucial, and it's essential to ensure that the production and staging environments are mirroring each other. Roadblocks to release velocity include difficulty reproducing and debugging issues, lack of automation, flaky tests, communication gaps between developers and QA engineers, differences between staging and production environments, irreproducible bugs, and more. To overcome these challenges, it's vital to leverage the potential of cloud, close communication gaps, record errors with code-level observability, follow shift-left testing, prioritize bug metrics, and maintain a closely identical staging environment to the production environment. Tools like Ozcode can provide insights into running code at exactly the time and place where errors occur, enabling developers to resolve issues quickly and shortening release cycles.