Survey Pinpoints Inhibitors Of Java Developer Productivity
DevOps.com, Thursday, March 6th, 2025
A survey of 731 developers, team leads, managers and executives who work with Java published this week identifies documentation (41%), communication issues between teams (38%), mismanaged timelines (32%); long redeploy times (29%), developer turnover (26%) and insufficient developer tools (24%) as the biggest inhibitors of developer productivity.
Conducted by Perforce Software, the survey also finds that despite these issues, only just over a third (34%) said their organization plans to increase their tooling budget (34%) even though 51% said their organization plans to add more Java developers to their teams in the coming year.
Perforce CTO Rod Cope said the survey suggests that when it comes to Java application development, many organizations are trying to do more with less.
More challenging still, application environments are becoming more complex. The survey, for example, finds that 64% of respondents work for organizations that use microservices compared to 36% using a monolithic application architecture. However, software engineering teams are also using modular monolith (24%), miniservices (19%), mobile (17%), services-oriented architectures (SOA) (16%), macroservices (15%), serverless (15%) and desktop applications (14%).