Why Everyone Hates Your DevOps Stack

Tool sprawl, lousy automation and bottlenecks are crushing developer velocity. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Jul 16th, 2025 7:30am by Vicki Walker

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This was originally published on June 19 and has been updated.

The data doesn’t lie: Developers, on average, are juggling 14 different vendor tools throughout the work day. They spent time and cognitive cycles switching back and forth between different interfaces, accounts and workflows just to get their work done.

All that context switching creates inefficiencies, fragmentation and unnecessary complexity. During a recent TNS webinar, Eric Minick and Dewan Ishtiaque Ahmed from Harness and host Chris Pirillo explored why platform and DevOps teams are making trade-offs and how to eliminate some of the friction.

Why Your DevOps Stack Sucks

“DevOps is broken, and not in just an abstract way. It’s broken in a really painful, concrete kind of way,” explained Ahmed. “The promise of DevOps was autonomy, faster delivery, empowered teams. But in reality, it’s often toil. Some toil is healthy, but it’s a lot of toil, ticket queues and a jungle of fragmented tools.”

AI coding assistants have made it easier than ever to generate new code, but that may not translate to delivering more value, said Minick. “The latest research from DORA is showing [there is] more code, not more delivery, not higher-quality delivery. …We’ve accelerated the frontend, but not necessarily the middle or the backend,” he explained.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Modern internal platforms can give developers fast, self-service experiences and satisfy governance and security needs.

Rebuild the DevOps Stack

If your software delivery pipeline is hindering developer productivity and satisfaction, it’s past time to fix the problem. Watch our free, on-demand webinar Your Developers Hate Your DevOps Stack — Let’s Fix It.

You’ll learn the reasons DevOps is broken and see a demo of how you can how to rebuild your DevOps stack for speed, standards and developer satisfaction.

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What You’ll Learn

You’ll leave with best practices, real-world examples and actionable tips including:

Why developer productivity is being throttled by the DevOps stack.
What structural issues in DevOps are the main culprits crushing developer velocity?
How to rebuild the DevOps stack for both speed and standards.

As senior sponsor editor at The New Stack, Vicki collaborates with our sponsors to create and publish exceptional content that resonates with our readers. She has many years of experience (more than she would prefer to admit) in technology publishing...