New Relic is a key player in the shift-left movement, helping developers and DevOps engineers increase productivity through tools and best practices that facilitate a shift-left mindset. Key factors of DevOps productivity include code quality and maintainability, continuous integration and deployment pipelines, infrastructure and system performance, collaboration and communication, and monitoring and alerting. Leveraging New Relic observability solutions can improve productivity by providing insights into code execution, automating tasks, facilitating real-time visibility into metrics, promoting effective communication among teams, enabling proactive issue identification, and streamlining troubleshooting. Best practices to increase DevOps productivity include setting up effective monitoring and alerting, implementing a culture of continuous improvement, and regularly reviewing and refining development processes. New Relic solutions can help organizations enhance developer productivity and succeed in today's fast-paced software landscape by reducing mean time to resolution, enhancing release velocity, and improving the software development lifecycle.