Hey there! This is Platform Weekly, your weekly source of platform engineering crunchiness. Someone mentioned to me that there has been a distinct lack of bakery related puns in Platform Weekly these days. I knead to fix that🥐

The future of DORA

The 2024 DORA survey just launched. For more than 10+ years at this point, DORA has been one of the defining research programs for DevOps, Software engineering and now platform engineering teams to drive efficiency and clearly communicate and understand performance.

According to DORA, this years’ survey is focusing on 3 areas:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) - This year we are expanding our inquiry in this area to better understand how AI is changing your work and the impact of those changes. How is AI impacting organizational performance?
• Platform Engineering - We want to better understand how your organization is approaching platform engineering. Platform engineering may include both technologies and teams. How does platform engineering impact software delivery performance?
• Developer Experience - What is your overall experience like as you work to deliver for your customers? How does your experience impact the value you're able to deliver?

Our input to DORA is super important for the research process. As DORA’s research is one of those things that really help teams understand where they are and how they measure themselves. It’s one of the best ways to make sure the collective understanding of the software engineering world reflects the world that we actually live in.

What are you waiting for? Fill in the survey and shape the future of platform engineering

P.S. We’ve got an AWESOME talk at PlatformCon this year on DORA by Nathen Harvey, the DORA Lead and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud. You don’t want to miss it.

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