The hidden costs of production issues: Insights from 280 companies
TLDR Software teams constantly juggle speed and quality, but production issues significantly drain resources. A study of 280 developers reveals that while 62% of teams use automated testing, 30% lack performance testing, leading to bottlenecks. Engineering teams spend 10-35% of their capacity on production issues, with diagnostics consuming 70% of that time. Despite high cloud costs, only 25.7% of teams optimize code-level inefficiencies. Shifting issue detection left can reduce cloud waste, cut troubleshooting time, and improve software reliability.