Top 3 Takeaways from the State of DevOps 2019 Report

The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps report by Google Cloud's DORA team reveals that elite performers deploy code 208 times more often than low performers and can get code changes from commit to deployment 106 times faster. Elite performers also recover from an outage or incident 2,604 times faster than low performers. The report highlights the importance of speed in software development and emphasizes that smaller, faster software changes are less likely to break a system. Feature flags can help avoid problems in production by allowing testing in production without impacting users. Additionally, the report identifies five pillars of productivity: psychological safety, useful tools, internal search, external search, and reducing technical debt. The top three performing groups use mainly open-source and COTS tools with little customization and have a clear change process, loosely coupled architecture, code maintainability, disaster recovery testing, effective use of cloud services, and conduct organization-level work. High performers favor strategies that create community structures at both low and high levels in the organization.