Compliance & Regulatory Standards Are NOT Incompatible with Modern Development Best ## Practices

Modern software development is all about fast feedback loops, with best practices like testing in production, continuous delivery, observability driven development, and feature flags. Yet I often hear people complaining that only startups can get away with doing these things; real, grown-up companies are subject to regulatory oversight, which prevents engineers from deploying their own code due to separation of concerns, requires managers to sign off on changes, etc.