Developer (un)happiness

Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they’re doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer’s happiness and productivity.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!

Sponsors:

• Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan.
• Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.
• Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com
• Unblocked – Other developer tools can’t tell you how your codebase works and why. Unblocked can. We augment your code with context from Slack, Confluence, Jira, and more, so you get accurate answers without having to search for them. Sign up for free at getunblocked.com

Featuring:

• Abi Noda – GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Abi leads DX - The developer intelligence platform
• Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey
• Insights from the 2024 Developer Survey
• Changelog.com News 106
• 80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding (shiftmag.dev)
• The One Number You Need to Increase ROI per Engineer (getdx.com)
• Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (getdx.com)
• @addyosmani - Good code is like a love letter
• Brian Reagan on pain

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!