[June 07, 2016]

SOASTA Survey: 1 in 3 High Tech Professionals Are Feelin' the Bern

SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, today announced the results of its recent technology community outreach survey, conducted to determine common pain points and digital performance challenges facing today's DevOps community, as well as industry presidential candidate preferences.

The survey, fielded among 45,000 technology professionals, discovered that Bernie Sanders is a favorite with DevOps professionals - 34 percent said they think Sanders would be the best president for the DevOps community, followed by Clinton (29 percent) and Trump (17 percent). The survey also revealed that native mobile apps are creating the greatest performance monitoring challenges for DevOps professionals and that a majority of DevOps pros think that all industries (38 percent) but especially retail (22 percent) could benefit from an all-in-one solution that combines real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring and root cause diagnostics. SOASTA (News - Alert) is releasing this data in tandem with the Spring 2016 release of its Digital Performance Management (DPM) platform, which enables DevOps professionals to improve revenue and customer experience by improving performance.

"SOASTA conducted the survey to get a better understanding of digital performance challenges facing today's DevOps community," explained Ann Ruckstuhl, SOASTA Chief Marketing Officer. "The findings illustrate the growing importance of mobile - especially native mobile - applications and single-page applications. In addition, we are seeing stepped-up demand for real-time, real-user performance visibility to enable better root cause diagnostics and reduce mean-time-to-resolution. We plan to factor these findings into our technology roadmap so that we can even more effectively meet the community's evolving needs."

The DevOps community wants Bernie

As Sanders tries to rally tech-heavy California before the June 7 primary vote, he will find he has a crucial edge over Hillary Clinton: 34 percent of DevOps pros are feelin' the Bern when it comes to deciding which political candidate will help the DevOps community the most.

Here's how the political candidates ranked with software developers:

Key technologies are creating performance monitoring challenges

Politics aside, the survey also revealed that the two technologies giving developers the most headaches are native mobile applications (38 percent) and JavaScript errors (36 percent), followed by single-page applications (25 percent), IoT (19 percent) and Google (News - Alert) AMP (7 percent).

Sixty-two percent of software developers say the top digital challenge their organization faces is reducing mean time to identify and remediate performance issues in production, and 61 percent say it is developing high-quality, high-performance web and mobile applications quickly. Forty-five percent say the greatest challenge is knowing how performance is impacting revenue and user experience, and another 44 percent each say it is correlating metrics from various data sources and eliminating manual processes to reduce operational costs.

As for performance monitoring challenges, 58 percent of developers say the biggest problem with today's performance monitoring solutions is that the tools don't provide root cause diagnostic and fix recommendations. Fifty-three percent say there is too much focus on back-end performance instead of front-end performance and 50 percent say there is no all-in-one solution combining RUM, Synthetic and root cause diagnostics.

The marriage of RUM and Synthetic monitoring

When asked what the most important reason is to combine RUM and Synthetic monitoring, half (48 percent) of DevOps pros said that it is important because Synthetic provides the best root cause analysis, and RUM tells them what it means to the user experience. Another 41 percent said that it is important because Synthetic gives them the most detailed measurements, and RUM gives them the best coverage across all browsers, locations and pages.

When asked which industry most needs an all-in-one solution that combines RUM and Synthetic, 38 percent of developers say it is something all industries need. An additional 22 percent say retail, 12 percent say tech and 10 percent say finance.

About SOASTA

SOASTA is the leader in performance analytics. The SOASTA Digital Performance Management (DPM) Platform enables digital business owners to gain unprecedented and continuous performance insights into their real user experience on mobile and web devices in real time and at scale. With more than 100 million tests performed and more than 300 billion user experiences measured, tested and optimized, SOASTA is the digital performance expert trusted by industry-leading brands, including 53 of the Top 100 internet retailers, six of the Forbes Top 10 media companies and seven of the Forbes Top 10 tech companies, including Apple, Target, Nordstrom, Staples, Home Depot, Sears, Walmart, Etsy, Best Buy, Adobe, Intuit, Microsoft (News - Alert), DIRECTV, Netflix and CBS. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information about SOASTA, visit http://www.soasta.com.

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