Insights, research and trends on the global developer economy.
You don’t need another AI hype post, so I will keep the intro part short and sweet. 2 AI software developer insights you need to know in Q2 2026: AI in developers’ workflow & the ROI measurement gap.
SlashData Q1 2026 insights on AI adoption among developers, AI ROI measurement, and how software teams evaluate the value of AI developer tools.
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026, Liam Bollman-Dodd of SlashData joined Bob Killen of CNCF to discuss the latest State of Cloud Native report. The interview explored why the cloud native developer population has surged, how AI is reshaping infrastructure decisions, and why platform engineering is changing the way developers interact with cloud native tools.
There are 19.9M Cloud Native Developers in Q1 2026
We’re proud to be able to tell executives, product and marketing professionals what's actually happening: how software gets built, what developers need, what teams prioritise, and how AI is actually adopted.
We look into Industrial IoT: the regional distribution of professionals, the supply chain and the markets companies focus on.
Are DevOps technologies associated with productivity? We define developer productivity & look at how team size, tools/technologies affect it
This article gives you a taste of the insights within the “Developer perceptions of distributed cloud” report
