Developer performance improvement from automation in open source
RecordSTO-01M2KJ7XCJ-329G1VRE41-50CQ5V
Global · 2021
Developer performance improvement from automation in open source was 27% in 2021 (GitHub).
Developer performance improvement from automation in open source: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- GitHub
- Authority tier
- T3 Research
- Locator
- Writing and shipping code faster
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Teams and developers who use automation to write and deploy code perform 27% better in open source and 43% better at work.
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APA
GitHub. (2021). The 2021 State of the Octoverse. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/the-2021-state-of-the-octoverse/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CQ5V
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- GitHub. "The 2021 State of the Octoverse." 2021, https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/the-2021-state-of-the-octoverse/. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CQ5V.
- Chicago
- GitHub. "The 2021 State of the Octoverse." 2021. https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/the-2021-state-of-the-octoverse/. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CQ5V.
- BibTeX
- @misc{github2021developer50cq5v, author = {{GitHub}}, title = {The 2021 State of the Octoverse}, year = {2021}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CQ5V}, note = {Original source: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/the-2021-state-of-the-octoverse/. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- GitHub · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 3 · Research and companies
- Report
- The 2021 State of the Octoverse
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Writing and shipping code faster
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCJ329G1VRE4150CQ5V