Overcoming the Speed Control Paradox
summary
Spacelift’s 2025 Infrastructure Automation Report surveys over 400 practitioners and buyers and creates an infrastructure automation leadership index with four stages: experimenters, adopters, optimizers (42% of respondents) and leaders (14%). Key claims: 45% overestimate maturity, leaders are twice as likely to get deployments right first try, four times more likely to provision resources in under four hours and five times more likely to deploy multiple times per day. Leaders automate day‑one and day‑two pipelines, integrate security (93% vs 14% for experimenters), commit to platform engineering and favor developer self‑service over ad hoc Terraform/OpenTofu on laptops.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:53Research goals and survey scope
- 3:40Infrastructure automation stages
- 7:55Speed control paradox explained
- 12:12What leaders excel at
- 17:10Measurable progress framework
- 21:31Live audience poll
- 23:18Q&A session
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