Jellyfish announced the launch of Jellyfish Benchmarks, a way to add context around engineering metrics and performance by introducing a method for comparison.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a disruptive event for development teams and companies alike, unsurprisingly, according to a recent survey of developers across the world by JRebel by Perforce.
Developers were asked to share the impact COVID-19 has had on themselves, their teams, and their companies. Respondents report working longer hours from home, struggling to maintain good work habits, and eating more comfort food to cope.
On a more positive note, many respondents are spending more time with families or in nature, and reporting even simple things such as noise-cancellation headphones making home-based working easier.
Impact on Hours
91% of developers report that they are working from home (and as early adopters of new ways of working, many developers have already been successfully working from home for years.)
While only 17% reported a drastic impact on their work since the pandemic (with over half of respondents saying that the impact had been moderate), 58% said that they've experienced an increase in hours per week.
While the most-reported increase was between zero and three hours, over 19% reported an increase of over 6 hours per week. It also means that roughly 2% of respondents reported a 6+ hour increase but did not consider that to be a drastic impact on their work.
For developers already putting in long hours pre-COVID, that marks a substantial increase, even a small percentage increase has big implications for busy teams. That said, anecdotal evidence from some survey respondents found that some of the extra time goes into checking "just one more email."
Nearly 56% of companies decreased or froze hiring, 33% decreased contractors
The survey found nearly 56% of companies decreased or stopped hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 33% reported a decrease in the number of staffed contractors. However, that the figures are not higher is a positive surprise: indeed, that over a third report no change in hiring patterns, and almost 60% no changes in contracting.
Key Takeaways
That remote work will remain prominent is no longer news, with more companies expected to embrace decentralized autonomous and fully remote teams for the longer-term.
Reduced overhead and increased pace of innovation will continue to be important points of change for organizations, and the pandemic has been the catalyst for new working models.
Virtual communications is fast becoming the new-norm, together with a shift away from permanent office space to "hoteling" options.
For instance, development teams have been trending smaller for some time now, but COVID-19 has clearly shown the importance of having small, agile teams.
Also, widespread access to new cloud, open source, VR, and AI technologies will mean smaller teams can compete side by side with much larger organizations.
2020 has been tough, with organizations of all kinds having to accelerate digital transformation and rapidly reinvent how they operate. Getting the foundations in place now for a more flexible modern workplace puts the IT community in good shape to adapt and deal with pandemics and other unforeseen challenges.
Industry News
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Red Hat unveiled updates across its portfolio of developer tools designed to help organizations build and deliver applications faster and more consistently across Kubernetes-based hybrid and multicloud environments.
Armory announced public early access to their new Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service product.
DataCore Software announced DataCore Bolt, enterprise-grade container-native storage software for DevOps.
DevOps Institute, a global professional association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, announced the release of the Upskilling IT 2022 report.
Replicated announced a host of new platform features and capabilities that enable their customers to accelerate enterprise adoption of their Kubernetes applications.
Codefresh announced that its flagship continuous delivery (CD) platform will be made accessible as a fully-hosted solution for DevOps teams seeking to quickly and easily achieve frictionless, GitOps-based continuous software delivery in the cloud.
Red Hat announced new capabilities and enhancements across its portfolio of open hybrid cloud solutions aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of edge compute architectures through the Red Hat Edge initiative.
Kasten by Veeam announced the new Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.0 Kubernetes data management platform.
Red Hat introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, the Linux operating system designed to drive more consistent innovation across the open hybrid cloud, from bare metal servers to cloud providers and the farthest edge of enterprise networks.
Copado added Copado Robotic Testing to Copado Essentials.