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Google's DORA team surveyed close to 5,000 technology professionals in mid-2025 for the State of AI-assisted Software Development report . Ninety per cent of respondents now use AI in their daily work, up fourteen points on the previous year, at a…

For most of the last decade, the default way teams organised their code was to cut a branch, disappear into it for a week or two, and merge it back when the feature was done. That model has quietly lost the argument. By 2025 the industry had…

Most teams can recite the four DORA metrics and could not tell you their own. The usual reasons are that measuring them sounds like a project, or that it means buying a platform. Neither is true if you deploy through GitHub, because the data…

Most engineering leaders cannot tell you, with numbers, whether their organisation is actually healthy. They can quote headcount, story points, and how busy everyone looks, none of which answer the question. There is a better answer, and…

Every engineer on your team waits for the pipeline, several times a day, and most of you have quietly accepted it as the cost of doing business. There is a benchmark for what good looks like. CircleCI, looking at millions of pipelines, p…

Most teams do not have a rollback. They have a hope that they will improvise one when something breaks. The data on how that goes is stark. In the 2024 DORA State of DevOps report, elite teams restore service after a failed deployment in…

Most engineering teams are a little afraid of their own deploy button. Not the junior engineers specifically, and not the nervous ones. The whole team, quietly, treats shipping to production as something to be timed, scheduled, and survived …