The promise of accelerating developer effectivity, not headcount

Greater than half {of professional} builders have CI/CD, DevOps and automatic testing instruments and providers out there at their group, Stack Overflow’s 2022 developer survey uncovered.

Nonetheless, Stack Overflow famous, solely 38% of the 34,906 respondents reported having a developer portal to make it simple to search out instruments and providers. Equally, information observability instruments are solely out there to a minority of builders.

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These findings present that greatest practices which have change into the norm at startups and tech corporations are gaining floor extra broadly, but additionally that there’s nonetheless a whole lot of margin for progress to enhance the effectivity and work surroundings of builders.

“It’s form of loopy that having CI/CD tooling in place, a DevOps perform and Automated Testing are the one classes which can be above 50%,” Boldstart Ventures accomplice Shomik Ghosh advised TechCrunch. “Which means [that] for what is taken into account desk stakes at most startups and tech corporations, greater than half of builders (presumably in different industries) nonetheless don’t have these core constructing blocks in place.”