Hey,
Hope you’re doing well!
A few years back, I spent a good amount of time guessing trends. Where are we with containerization? Is serverless usage sustainably picking up? I just couldn’t find the right data. So pretty early on, we started to use the power and reach of our community to gather that data ourselves.
Since then, it has almost become an institution. The new DevOps Benchmarking study is out, and it’s really worth checking out.
Here are the findings that stuck with me the most:
- The majority of high performing teams are now building Internal Developer Platforms.
- It’s finally going beyond the “fancy UI” hype we saw last year, and people are tackling the actual problem: How do you drive the unification of interfaces and standardization through configuration management? 81% of high performing teams are applying Dynamic Configuration Management. Meaning they fully regenerate app and infrastructure configs with every single deployment (subtle hint: Using Score to describe workload dependencies in an abstract way and Humanitec Platform Orchestrator is the best way of doing just that).
- The key impact platform engineering has on your organization is time to market (lead time). We can find all sorts of fluffy metrics and talk about cognitive load for developers (which is important on many levels), but lead time is really the key outcome here.
I’ll keep it at that for today, with so much for you to digest in the report. If you have any questions when reading, please let me know; happy to chat.
Cheers
Kaspar
