Google released[1] the results of its Accelerate State of DevOps report on Tuesday, finding that respondents who use hybrid or multicloud were 1.6 times more likely to exceed their organizational performance targets.
Elite performers in the survey deploy 973 times more frequently than low performers, have a 6,570 times faster lead time to deploy, a 3 times lower change failure rate and a 6,570 times faster time-to-recover from incidents when failure does happen.
Google has worked on the report for seven years, querying more than 32,000 professionals worldwide over the last few years.
Dustin Smith, research lead with Google Cloud's DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team, said[2] the study continues to show that excellence in software delivery and operational performance drives organizational performance in technology transformations.
"This year we also investigated the effects of SRE best practices, a secure software supply chain, quality documentation, and multicloud -- all while gaining a deeper understanding of how this past year affected team's culture and burnout," Smith said.
"Based on key findings from previous Accelerate State of DevOps reports, we again used four metrics to classify teams as elite, high, medium or low performers based on their software delivery: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean-time-to-restore, and change fail rate. This year we saw that elite performers continue to accelerate their pace of software delivery, increasing their lead time for changes from less than one day to less than one hour."
Smith said they asked respondents to rate their ability to meet or exceed their reliability targets, finding that teams with varying degrees of delivery performance see better outcomes when they also prioritize operational performance.
Smith added that this year, 1,200 working professionals from a variety of industries around the globe shared their experiences with the researchers.