On the contrary it's all largely advice based off Accelerate / State of DevOps reports around how high performing organizations that ship code on demand are able to do so without increasing change failure rate.
He mispoke when he said manual QA makes the quality worse. But the data do suggest that tossing your code over the wall to pass through a manual QA gate before being scheduled for a release doesn't actually improve quality when compared with shipping every merged PR to production provided it passes the automated pipeline and doing a staged rollout of the code to production users via a decent feature flag system.
Continuous Delivery has been a thing for quite a while it seems but I think it's still relatively early in terms of adoption. There are a number of conference talks from recent years about testing in production. I don't live and work in Silicon Valley and most of the companies where I am aren't doing it, but I know of one that is and it sounds pretty incredible from what I've heard.
He mispoke when he said manual QA makes the quality worse. But the data do suggest that tossing your code over the wall to pass through a manual QA gate before being scheduled for a release doesn't actually improve quality when compared with shipping every merged PR to production provided it passes the automated pipeline and doing a staged rollout of the code to production users via a decent feature flag system.
Continuous Delivery has been a thing for quite a while it seems but I think it's still relatively early in terms of adoption. There are a number of conference talks from recent years about testing in production. I don't live and work in Silicon Valley and most of the companies where I am aren't doing it, but I know of one that is and it sounds pretty incredible from what I've heard.