How to Calculate DORA Metrics

DORA metrics, developed by Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment team, are a proven and effective way to measure and improve DevOps delivery performance. By tracking and optimizing these metrics, development and DevOps teams can identify bottlenecks, enhance processes, and ultimately deliver higher-quality software more quickly and reliably. Although these metrics are simple, they’ve become an industry […]

Ryan Peden

Ryan has been a software developer for over a decade and a writer for five years. He is passionate about clean code, functional programming, and, most of all, finding ways to keep software development fun.

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DORA metrics, Git, github, productivity

How to Calculate DORA Metrics

Ryan Peden
August 11, 2024

CI/CD, Deployment, DORA metrics, productivity

Impact of Deployment Frequency and Batch Size on Software Quality

Deployment frequency and small batch sizes help improve software quality. Understand the differences between the two and find out what's the right fit for you.

Ebuka Ukatu
May 13, 2024

productivity

What’s wrong with using SPACE to measure developer productivity

SPACE is inherently subjective and may not reveal the true cause of productivity issues.

James Walker
February 27, 2023

automation, github, merging, productivity

What’s a bors, and why (don’t) you want it?

Bors-NG is a GitHub app that prevents merge skew: A problem where patches work at review time but don’t work when they’re actually merged because the main branch changed in the meantime. The classic example is when one patch renames a…