Insights and Key Findings from the State of Development Environments 2025 Report

The State of Development Environments 2025 Report, in collaboration with SlashData and Coder, examines how organizations are evolving their development environments. The report draws on input from over 550 software professionals at large organizations and uncovers trends and challenges shaping modern development practices. Despite prioritizing standardization to boost efficiency, security, and collaboration, the report highlights persistent challenges, including a disconnect between administrators and developers. The study also explores how companies are using cloud development environments (CDEs) and provides benchmarks for teams to evaluate their current setup and identify areas where platform engineering teams can bridge the gap between what these environments are capable of and what developers think they can do. Key insights include the importance of education, improving setup times, balancing flexibility and control, and the fading popularity of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The report offers valuable insights and recommendations for organizations starting or refining their standardization journeys.

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