CI/CD teams deploy 46x more often
Teams with good CI/CD deploy 46x more frequently than manual teams, with faster recovery and developer time savings.
That deployment stat comes from Puppet's 2017 State of DevOps Report, which highlights the massive performance differences between evolved and less mature DevOps teams. They found high-performing teams also had 96x faster recovery times after outages. Focusing on caching can drastically cut build times, especially for dependency-heavy projects. For example, Rust's `cargo` build system can be configured with shared caching to prevent re-downloading crates for every build. Senior DevOps engineers often champion infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to ensure consistency and repeatability across environments. HashiCorp's Terraform is a popular tool for managing infrastructure in a declarative way, reducing manual configuration errors.
