Developer velocity is a crucial metric for engineering leaders that measures how quickly teams can deliver value. Improving velocity means getting features to market faster, accelerating innovation, and delighting customers. To optimize velocity, teams should track key metrics such as cycle time, work in progress, throughput, and consistency, set SMART goals, automate and simplify processes, and encourage continuous improvement. The Daytona developer platform provides optimized workflows and enhanced collaboration capabilities that can boost developer velocity by providing templated workspaces, frictionless collaboration, automation, isolation controls, and built-in best practices. By aligning every component around streamlining collaboration and focusing developer time on writing code over operations, Daytona structurally improves development velocity. Accelerating developer velocity powers compounding benefits such as faster innovation, improved quality, reduced cost, happier customers, and increased developer engagement. By delivering valuable features and bug fixes more quickly, teams can make their customers happier and improve customer satisfaction. Increasing developer velocity is crucial for business success, allowing teams to bring products to market faster, respond swiftly to market demands and opportunities, and gain a strong competitive edge.