5 articles in DORA Metrics
Most teams treat engineering quality reactively — ship fast, catch problems in production, fix when it hurts. That cycle keeps you busy without making you better. Prevention, Detection, and Correction form a closed loop where each phase reduces the work the next must do.
A team of two junior engineers and one mid-level engineer shipped 200,000 lines of production-grade code for an Industrial IoT platform — achieving elite DORA metrics and an 8.8 code health score from day one. No seniors. No rewrites. Here's how Prevention made it possible.
Most teams treat DORA metrics like a dashboard decoration — check them quarterly, nod at the numbers, change nothing. Elite teams use them as a compass that connects delivery performance to engineering decisions. Here's the difference between observing DORA and using DORA.
DORA metrics tell you delivery is slow. Code coverage says tests are fine. But neither tells you why features take 3x longer than they should. Detection connects the dots — correlating process symptoms to code causes — so you fix what actually matters.
AI coding agents don't create quality — they amplify whatever's already there. The 2025 DORA Report confirms it: AI adoption correlates with higher instability. Here's why your codebase determines whether AI accelerates delivery or accelerates chaos.