What a global pandemic can tell you about better DevOps practices
summary
CircleCI analyzes 55 million data points from 44,000 orgs and finds concrete CI/CD benchmarks and pandemic shifts: target metrics include duration <10 minutes, throughput “at will”, MTTR under an hour and success >90%, but medians sit around 4 minutes duration, ~8 CI triggers/day and 61% median success. Pandemic months show higher weekend and daytime activity, faster recovery, more testing and parallelization. Default branches show faster builds, higher success and lower MTTR; usage of master branch unchanged despite renaming efforts.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 0:02DevOps & Software Delivery in a Global Pandemic
- 10:08The Insight
- 13:16Success rate in a global pandemic
- 15:21Hypothesis: people working hard on core business stability
- 15:46Recovery time in a global pandemic
- 17:25Branch information
- 18:55Success Rate on default branch higher than on non-default
- 19:33Duration on default branches faster at every percentile
- 20:07What development practices definitively work?
- 20:18Success Rate does not correlate with company size
- 20:43Duration is longest for teams of one
- 21:18Recovery Time decreases with increased team size (up to 200)
- 21:54Performance is better with 1 contributor
- 22:17Software is collaborative
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