Are your developers wasting up to 40% of their time waiting for test data? This hidden bottleneck slows releases, kills innovation, and jacks up costs.
DBTA recently held a webinar, Data Delays to Dev Velocity: Reclaim 40% of Developer Time Overnight, with Cwyn Weldy, senior sales engineer at Perforce Delphix, who discussed database virtualization for Agile DevOps.
Weldy explained how to break free from traditional, time-wasting data delivery methods and empower teams with fast, self-service access to production-quality data.
Application development accounts for less than 20% of a developer’s time, Weldy said. There are several time sinks that are responsible for this, including meetings and communications; debugging and troubleshooting; environment setup and data provisioning; CI/CD and build processes; and context switching and distractions.
Virtualization can help remove these bottlenecks in several ways:
Meetings and Communication: Reduce ad-hoc escalations and status-check meetings by 5-10%.
Debugging and Troubleshooting: Enable faster bug reproduction and resolution. Cuts bug isolation time by up to 53%.
Environment Setup and Data Provisioning: Empower self-service to create and refresh in minutes. Accelerate cycles by 75% and app development by 58%.
CI/CD and Build Processes: API-driven instant environments for seamless pipeline integration. Cuts build wait time by 65%.
Context Switching and Distractions: Gain autonomy via self-service access. Cuts interruptions and boosts focus by more than 40%.
By instituting virtualization, an optimized developer would then spend more time accelerating application development, increase the number of new applications released, create new development environments, and more, Weldy said.
For the full webinar, featuring a more in-depth discussion, Q&A, and more, you can view an archived version of the webinar here.