The 2023 DevOps performance clusters

The 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report highlights the positive impact of software delivery performance on organizational success, emphasizing that throughput and stability can coexist harmoniously. This year's report introduces changes to metrics that assess software delivery performance, including more precise measurements of change failure rates and recovery times. The return of the elite performance cluster underscores the importance of experience, as professionals with over a decade in the field tend to achieve superior results. The report encourages a focus on continuous improvement by using metrics to guide rather than dictate changes, advocating for an experimental approach to identify practices that enhance specific applications and teams. The findings reaffirm that automating deployment pipelines enhances both throughput and stability, suggesting that the highest performance levels are achievable across various industries without compromising safety or quality standards.