How Splunk Observability Cloud Helps To Alleviate Developer Burnout

According to The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023 report, which surveyed more than 26,000 developers from around the world, 73% of developers have experienced burnout. Burnout has been the cause of massive productivity losses for businesses — in the trillions — and poses a significant risk among the developer community due to the prevalence of inefficient processes coupled with increasing workloads as organizations’s digital transformation goals continue to rely on the output of developers. 

Developer Productivity At Risk

Developers must keep and maintain high levels of productivity to meet these goals. Organizations have recognized that they need to remove friction and toil from the developers’ workflow to enable them to focus on the tasks that really matter — the ones that drive the business forward and lead to shared success. They’re beginning to acknowledge that developers want to spend less time on boring, repetitive tasks (“toil”) that impede their ability to meet their core objectives and more time building and creating. 

Battling the Burnout

The emergence of the platform engineer role is an outcome of the business's need to deliver frictionless experiences to developer teams. In fact, Gartner predicts that 80% of large software engineering organizations will establish platform engineering teams by 2026. Platform engineering or central tools teams have — thankfully — emerged to replace inefficient processes and remove the toil from developer workflows. 

Whether your organization is just getting started or already has a well-established platform engineering or central tools team created to help streamline the developer workflow, the Splunk Observability solution has unique capabilities that can help to remove friction from the developer experience and deliver self-service observability tooling, at scale, to empower engineering teams to spend less time managing tools and more time building and improving business-critical software. 

In this series, we’ll walk you through some of these capabilities within Splunk Observability Cloud that can help you streamline workloads and establish repeatable practices to improve developer experience and productivity. Read on to learn more about how Splunk can help you up-level your observability practice to keep developer teams happy. We’ll explore how you can:

• Simplify incident response
• Avoid production disruptions