We Interviewed 100 Eng Teams. The Problem With Modern Engineering Isn't Speed. It's Chaos.

In an effort to understand the evolving challenges of platform engineering, Earthly conducted extensive interviews with industry professionals, revealing that the primary issue is not CI/CD speed but the "explosion of diversity" in tech stacks at scale. This diversity, driven by the freedom enabled by containers and microservices, leads to unique configurations for each development team, creating chaos that is challenging to govern. Common strategies to manage this chaos, such as CI/CD templates, manual checklists, and scorecards, each have limitations and fail to fully address the issue. In response, Earthly developed Earthly Lunar, a platform designed to provide global visibility and enforce engineering standards across diverse and complex CI/CD pipelines without impeding developer velocity. Lunar allows real-time monitoring of engineering practices, enabling compliance and security measures to be applied consistently, thus addressing the broader complexity of the software development lifecycle beyond production environments.