[2/3] The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey (Filed under DevEx)
[2/3] The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey (Rubric #DevEx)
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❤🔥 Development Tools: Love and Hate The list of most used tools topped unexpectedly JIRA (more often even VS Code or AWS). Paradoxically, JIRA has become the most hated tool. (Developers don’t like JIRA for being slow and cumbersome)But the lighter competitor, Linear, on the contrary, was among the most favorite tools. (№4) It is seen by engineers as a welcome replacement for JIRA. Overall, these two tools now dominate project management. (together 75Percentage of project management tools). JIRA in large companies and Linear in small ones.
✈ Team communication and collaboration Among communication tools, proven solutions lead: Slack is the most used chat for development, and Microsoft Teams is the most common for video calls. Confluence is most often used to store documentation, Miro online board for joint brainstorming, and Figma for interface design. It is noteworthy that Figma was mentioned by developers even more often than such a profile tool as K8s. This indicates a deep involvement of development teams in the UX/UI design process and close interdisciplinary work with designers.
️ Cloud platforms In the cloud infrastructure survey confirmed the undisputed leadership of Amazon Web Services (AWS) This platform is used ~44% of respondents, while the nearest pursuer, Microsoft Azure,30%. Google Cloud Platform has the remaining shares.26%.
🐘 Infrastructure and databases Docker containers and K8s orchestrator are almost universally used - the de facto standard for application deployment. Terraform leads the way in managing infrastructure as code. Managed cloud services are also in high demand. (For example, from AWS) For typical backend tasks. As for data storage, the survey showed the unconditional popularity of PostgreSQL (1/3 Respondents mentioned it.). However, the choice of storage technologies is incredibly diverse: professionals have mentioned dozens of different databases. (SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL, specialized storage, etc.). This suggests that the modern data stack is very heterogeneous, and teams select databases strictly for their tasks.
Monitoring and reliability (DevOps) In the field of data observability, the most popular platforms are Datadog, Grafana and Sentry - each of them is used approximately in the field of data observability. 15-25Percentage of respondents. These tools (cloud monitoring service, open-source dashboard system and error tracking service) It has become a familiar part of the infrastructure of many teams. An overwhelming number of engineers use classic PagerDuty and OpsGenie solutions to alert and respond to incidents.
Frontend and Mobile Technologies There is a lot of consolidation around a few frameworks. React with almost no competitors dominates as the main front-end framework (mentioned by most web developers)Next.js has become the most popular meta framework for React applications. For mobile development, React Native is in the lead – respondents note it much more often than any alternatives. In other words, the frontend stack in 2025 Most teams look similar in the year. On the backend, the range of solutions is larger, but even there, many use a single stack on TypeScript/Node.js or popular frameworks like .NET and Spring.
Feature flags and internal tools The practice of feature flags and a/b testing is firmly established: for this, many use ready-made services, the main of which is LaunchDarkly. However, the survey showed that very often companies create their own fitflag systems, experimental platforms and custom conveyors. This may indicate that existing products do not fully cover the needs of teams, either a desire to save on licenses or security requirements.
Conclusions from the study in final post.
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