This is the repository for my analysis on developer sentiment towards DevOps with the Stack Overflow 2020 Developer Survey data. Take a look at my blog post for the full analysis.

The aim of this repository is a data analysis according to the CRISP-DM data science project model. I chose the Stack Overflow 2020 Developer Survey because it contains data about developer sentiment towards DevOps.

DevOps is an important topic in the software development world. For some time it got quite some hype. I was interested in whether this has lead to widespread adoption and how developers feel about the topic.

The Python code for the analysis can be found in Developer survey blog post.ipynb. It uses the pandas library to transform and visualize the data. You can install it via

pip install pandas

• Developer survey blog post.ipynb Notebook file that contains the data analysis
• survey_results_public.csv.zip Data I downloaded from the Stack Overflow Developer Survey site
• plotX.png/.svg Image files for the plots used in the blog post

The analysis tries to answer the following questions:

• Do people only recognize the value of DevOps once they have it?
• How does having DevOps impact job satisfaction?
• How does sentiment towards DevOps change with company size?

We see that there is a clear indication that developers recognize DevOps importance once they worked with it. In the data we analysed, DevOps does not seem to have an impact on job satisfaction. Finally, we see that the majority of developers see DevOps as an important tool in a modern software organization. Only respondents from companies with less than ten employees see it as less important.