AI Won’t Fix Broken Systems: Lessons from the 2025 DORA Report
AI adoption is nearly universal, but the 2025 DORA Report shows that faster coding doesn’t always mean increased productivity.
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The Anti-Metrics Era of Developer Productivity
Instead of building shiny dashboards, let’s focus on automated workflows across the entire SDLC – development, code reviews, builds, tests, and deployments.
Measuring Developer Productivity the Right Way
How to measure software developer productivity without ending up with a stock-market-like dashboard tracking hundreds of metrics
3 Factors that Affect Your Deployment Frequency in the Development Life Cycle
In software delivery, shipping updates quickly while ensuring stability is important. Yet, as teams push to deploy more frequently, unexpected obstacles often arise. Even with solid infrastructure, something may still be holding you back. So, what’s missing? Let’s explore three important factors that could be affecting your deployment frequency and, more importantly, how to address … Read more
The Anatomy of Slow Code Reviews
Improving the code review process is more than just enhancing the technical aspects or speeding up the timeline.
How to Improve DORA Metrics as a Release Engineer
Ensuring efficient, reliable, high-quality software releases is crucial in software development. This is where release engineering comes into play. This blog will explore release engineering, its importance, and how release engineers can significantly influence key DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics. What is Release Engineering? Release engineering is a specialized discipline within software development focused … Read more
Introducing Aviator’s engineering efficiency calculator
A calculator that provides a glimpse of the “hidden pockets” of time wasted that typically do not show up in more common engineering productivity metrics.
Everything Wrong With DORA Metrics
DORA metrics aren’t a definitive route to DevOps success. Here’s why DORA can make developers uncomfortable.