Comment by JohnMakin

, sorry to laugh but I’ve worked a lot of fintech and this is so painfully on point. I’ve also experienced the nirvana of a mature gitops system - getting there is really painful though (IMO)

the funny thing is, the fintech company in the example you gave likely sees nothing wrong with this. I’ve seen cases where the release cycle is once a month or longer, similar team sizes, and they don’t think they have an issue and would probably laugh at you or look at you weird if you mentioned ci/cd.