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What Is MTTR?: The DORA Metric You Need To Know
What Is “Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR)”? — A Complete Overview Previously Published to Propelo.AI DORA metrics are cornerstone to the software engineering culture that is DevOps. In fact, DORA is actually an acronym for “DevOps Research and Analytics,” a practice that has been widely adopted by engineering organizations all over the world. It’s an excellent tool for improving the performance, productivity and efficiency of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) — but an even better tool for making sure products are safe, secure, reliable and always available to the end-user. Since its conception, DORA has only consisted of four priority metrics: It has since added the fifth metric of reliability, as…
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What Is Technical Debt? A Complete Overview
Previously published the reasons why some take on debt — intentional or unintentional — on Propelo.AI Small risks can sometimes equal big gains, and many consider technical debt a risk that they are willing to embrace in order to get ahead. But what is technical debt, and how risky can it truly be? At its core, technical debt is a tradeoff that engineering organizations make in order to deliver software on time, or to stay ahead of the competition. It’s essentially a set of activities, foregone due to time constraints of release schedules and prioritization. These activities could range from features that are frequently dropped from release to release, because they don’t…
