STRETCHING DEVELOPERS THIN
While demand has been increasing, supply has not been able to keep up. Many companies are finding that not only are quality developers hard to come by, but once hired, they are being pulled in so many directions from standing up new products to configuring cloud resources and building architecture frameworks that productivity is being muted.
According to a survey by ActiveState (2019), 61.5% of developers spend four hours or less a day writing code to build new products or features. The remainder of the day is filled dealing with design/architecture frameworks, testing, bug hunting, building libraries, and managing dependencies amongst other infrastructure-related functions.