Agile and DevOps practices, embraced by 71% of teams, are increasingly integrating development automation to enhance efficiency and meet fast-paced delivery demands without compromising software quality. Development automation focuses on automating repetitive, error-prone, and time-consuming processes in the software development life cycle, such as integration, code review, testing, deployment, and monitoring. By automating these processes, teams can reduce bottlenecks and errors, achieve cost savings, and enhance productivity, allowing developers to focus on more meaningful tasks. Automation is tailored to the specific needs of development teams, which may vary across industries, ensuring that processes are optimized for the best results. Examples of automated processes include automated testing, code review, code formatting, dependency management, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), all of which contribute to streamlining operations and improving consistency and reliability. The versatility of development automation is demonstrated through various industry applications, such as the investing app Invstr, which uses automated real-time data streaming to support user decision-making and scaling without downtime. Automation technology is not intended to replace developers but to support them in delivering better user experiences while managing routine tasks efficiently.