Latchkey Reports
Free, data-backed CI/CD & DevOps reports.
Industry reports on what modern pipelines actually cost, how reliable they are, and where the time goes, built from public data and Latchkey runner analysis. Every report is free to read in full; grab the PDF by email.
Core CI/CD & DevOps
The 2026 CI/CD Migration ReportA data-backed look at the 2026 wave of CI/CD migrations toward GitHub Actions: which legacy platforms teams are leaving…Migration
The State of Build Times 2026A benchmark of CI pipeline wall-clock time across common stacks in 2026: median end-to-end duration by language, where…Performance
The State of CI Runners 2026A map of the CI runner landscape in 2026: how managed, GitHub-hosted, and self-hosted models compare, how teams pick ru…Runners
The State of CI/CD 2026A data-backed look at how teams run continuous integration in 2026: pipeline frequency, build times, flaky tests, runne…CI/CD
The State of CI/CD Security 2026A data-backed look at CI/CD security in 2026: where supply-chain risk concentrates, how secrets still leak through pipe…Security
The State of Code Review Automation 2026A data-backed look at how teams automate the pull-request gate in 2026: adoption of required checks and auto-merge, how…Workflow
The State of Developer Experience 2026A data-backed look at developer experience in 2026: the frictions that drain focus, where CI wait time ranks among them…DevEx
The State of Developer Productivity 2026A data-backed look at developer productivity in 2026 through the DevEx and SPACE lenses: where engineering hours actual…Productivity
The State of DevOps 2026A data-backed look at software delivery performance in 2026 through the lens of the DORA four key metrics: deployment f…DevOps
The State of Edge CI/CD 2026A data-backed look at how teams deliver to edge and CDN platforms through CI/CD in 2026, covering per-region build arti…Edge
The State of Flaky Tests 2026A data-backed look at flaky tests in 2026: how often suites flake, what a retry actually costs in minutes and developer…Testing
The State of GitHub Actions 2026A data-backed snapshot of how teams use GitHub Actions in 2026: adoption across org sizes, how many marketplace actions…GitHub Actions
The State of Infrastructure as Code 2026A data-backed look at infrastructure as code in 2026: how Terraform and OpenTofu adoption is splitting, how teams run p…IaC
The State of Kubernetes CI/CD 2026A data-backed look at how teams ship to Kubernetes in 2026: GitOps adoption with Argo CD and Flux, the shape of deploy…Kubernetes
The State of ML & GPU CI/CD 2026A data-backed look at how ML teams run CI/CD on GPUs in 2026, covering what a GPU minute costs, how model-test pipeline…ML
The State of Mobile CI/CD 2026A data-backed look at mobile CI/CD in 2026, covering iOS and Android build times, the macOS-runner cost problem, on-dev…Mobile
The State of Platform Engineering 2026A data-backed look at platform engineering in 2026: how internal developer platforms, golden paths, and paved-road CI/C…Platform
The State of Self-Hosted Runners 2026A clear-eyed look at self-hosted CI runners in 2026: the reasons teams adopt them, the hidden operational cost of patch…Runners
The State of Test Automation 2026A data-backed look at test automation in 2026: how fast suites are growing, how teams use parallelization and sharding…Testing
The State of Test Parallelization 2026A data-backed look at test sharding in 2026: how widely teams parallelize, the real speedup versus the linear ideal, wh…Testing
The State of the Software Supply Chain 2026A data-backed look at software supply chain security in 2026: how widely teams generate SBOMs, sign artifacts, and prod…Security
By language & build tool
The State of .NET CI 2026A data-backed look at how .NET teams run CI in 2026: NuGet restore and caching, the Windows-runner cost premium, and ta….NET
The State of API Testing in CI 2026A data-backed look at how teams test APIs in continuous integration in 2026, covering contract versus integration cover…Testing
The State of Bazel in CI 2026A data-backed look at how teams run Bazel in CI in 2026: remote caching, remote execution, hermeticity, and the adoptio…Bazel
The State of C/C++ CI 2026A data-backed look at how C and C++ teams run CI in 2026: long compile times, ccache and sccache hit rates, the compile…C++
The State of CI Caching 2026A focused look at caching in CI for 2026: real-world cache hit rates, how much wall-clock and money uncached dependency…Caching
The State of Container Builds 2026A data-backed look at container builds in CI for 2026: where the minutes go in a Docker build, how much layer caching a…Containers
The State of Data Pipeline CI 2026A data-backed look at how data teams run CI in 2026: dbt model tests, Airflow DAG validation, data-quality checks, and…Data
The State of Database CI 2026A data-backed look at how engineering teams run database work in CI in 2026, covering schema migration validation, ephe…Database
The State of Elixir CI 2026A data-backed look at how Elixir and Phoenix teams run CI in 2026: mix deps and build caching, ExUnit speed, the Dialyz…Elixir
The State of Frontend Builds 2026A data-backed look at how front-end teams build in 2026: bundler choice, cold vs cached install time, node_modules bloa…Frontend
The State of Go CI 2026A data-backed look at how Go teams run CI in 2026: quick compiles, module and build caching, the cost of running with t…Go
The State of Gradle Builds 2026A data-backed look at how JVM teams build with Gradle in 2026: remote build-cache hit rates, the daemon, the configurat…Gradle
The State of Java CI 2026A data-backed look at how JVM teams run CI in 2026: Maven versus Gradle, JVM and daemon warmup, dependency and build ca…Java
The State of Load Testing in CI 2026A data-backed look at how teams run performance and load testing in CI in 2026, covering where load tests sit in the pi…Performance
The State of Monorepo CI 2026A data-backed look at continuous integration in large monorepos for 2026, covering affected-target detection with Nx, T…Monorepo
The State of Node.js CI 2026A data-backed look at how JavaScript teams run CI in 2026: package-manager install times, dependency caching, multi-ver…Node.js
The State of Open Source CI 2026A data-backed look at continuous integration for open-source projects in 2026: free-tier minute limits, the security mo…Open Source
The State of PHP CI 2026A data-backed look at how PHP teams run CI in 2026: Composer install times, PHPUnit suite duration, the PHP version mat…PHP
The State of Python CI 2026A data-backed look at how Python teams run continuous integration in 2026: the shape of a typical Python pipeline, how…Python
The State of Ruby CI 2026A data-backed look at how Ruby and Rails teams run CI in 2026: Bundler install times, RSpec and system-spec duration, p…Ruby
The State of Rust CI 2026A data-backed look at how Rust teams run CI in 2026: long compile times, sccache and incremental builds, cargo registry…Rust
The State of Scala CI 2026A data-backed look at how Scala teams run CI in 2026: sbt compile times, the JVM startup and warmup penalty, incrementa…Scala
The State of Secrets Management in CI 2026A data-backed view of how teams handle secrets in CI in 2026: where credentials sprawl, how fast OIDC and short-lived t…Security
The State of TypeScript CI 2026A data-backed look at how teams type-check TypeScript in CI in 2026, tsc wall-clock, the split between type-checking an…TypeScript
The State of WebAssembly CI 2026A data-backed look at how teams ship WebAssembly through continuous integration in 2026, covering toolchain maturity ac…WASM
By team & industry
The State of CI/CD for Agencies 2026A data-backed look at continuous integration inside agencies and consultancies in 2026: many small client repositories,…Agencies
The State of CI/CD for AI Startups 2026A data-backed look at continuous integration inside AI startups in 2026: GPU-backed CI, model-evaluation pipelines, fas…AI
The State of CI/CD for Data Teams 2026A data-backed look at how data and analytics engineering teams run continuous integration in 2026: data tests against r…Data
The State of CI/CD for E-commerce 2026A data-backed look at how e-commerce engineering teams run continuous delivery in 2026: peak-season change freezes, loa…E-commerce
The State of CI/CD for Fintech 2026A data-backed look at continuous integration inside regulated financial software teams in 2026: change-approval gates,…Fintech
The State of CI/CD for Game Studios 2026A data-backed look at continuous integration inside game studios in 2026: multi-gigabyte asset cooks, long native compi…Gaming
The State of CI/CD for Healthcare 2026A data-backed look at continuous integration inside HIPAA-bound and validation-heavy health-software teams in 2026: com…Healthcare
The State of CI/CD for Regulated Industries 2026A data-backed look at how regulated engineering teams run continuous delivery in 2026: change approvals, segregation of…Regulated
The State of CI/CD for SaaS 2026A data-backed look at how multi-tenant SaaS teams run continuous delivery in 2026: deploy frequency, ephemeral preview…SaaS
The State of CI/CD for Scaleups 2026A data-backed look at how scaleups run continuous integration in 2026: why CI minutes and build times grow faster than…Scaleups
The State of CI/CD for Startups 2026A data-backed look at how early-stage and growth-stage startups run continuous integration in 2026: what CI eats out of…Startups
The State of Enterprise CI/CD 2026A data-backed look at how large organizations run continuous integration in 2026: platform teams, governance and compli…Enterprise
Benchmarks & indexes
GitHub Actions Cost Report 2026A line-by-line breakdown of GitHub Actions spend in 2026: the Linux, Windows, and macOS minute mix, how matrix jobs mul…Cost
The 2026 Build Time BenchmarkA wall-clock benchmark for CI: the modeled median build-plus-test time of a representative pipeline in each major langu…Benchmark
The 2026 CI Cache Hit-Rate BenchmarkA data-backed look at CI cache effectiveness in 2026: dependency and build cache hit rates across major ecosystems and…Benchmark
The 2026 CI Carbon Footprint ReportA modeled accounting of the carbon cost of CI compute: emissions per pipeline run, the share lost to idle and redundant…Green CI
The 2026 CI Cold-Start BenchmarkA measured look at the gap between a job entering the queue and a runner executing the first step, broken down by runne…Benchmark
The 2026 CI Cost IndexA cost index for continuous integration: the modeled dollar cost of one representative pipeline run across common stack…Cost
The 2026 CI Minutes BenchmarkA consumption benchmark for CI: the modeled CI minutes an organization burns per month at each size band, with the bill…Benchmark
The 2026 CI Queue Time BenchmarkA data-backed look at CI job wait time in 2026: queue and pickup latency by runner type and pipeline load, plus the gap…Benchmark
The 2026 CI/CD Benchmark ReportA side-by-side benchmark of CI pipelines in 2026: median build time and cost per run across Node, Python, Go, Java, and…Benchmark
The 2026 Dependency Install BenchmarkA data-backed look at dependency install time in CI for 2026: clean (cold) versus cached install across npm, pip, maven…Benchmark
The 2026 Deployment Frequency BenchmarkA tier-by-tier benchmark of how frequently engineering teams deploy to production, aligned to the DORA performer bands,…Benchmark
The 2026 Docker Build BenchmarkA data-backed look at container image builds in CI for 2026: wall-clock build time, layer cache hit rate, final image s…Benchmark
The 2026 Flaky-Tax IndexAn index for the most underpriced line item in CI: the monthly dollars and engineer-hours lost to flaky failures, model…Index
The 2026 GPU CI Cost IndexA data-backed index of GPU CI economics in 2026: GPU runner cost per minute anchored to AWS EC2 on-demand pricing, a mo…Index
The 2026 Monorepo Scale BenchmarkA benchmark of how continuous integration time scales with monorepo size, the difference between building everything an…Benchmark
The 2026 Runner Economics ReportA full cost teardown of CI runner economics in 2026: per-minute rates by OS and accelerator, the idle-compute tax on se…Economics
The 2026 Runner Price IndexA price index for CI runners: the per-minute cost of compute across operating systems and providers, anchored to publis…Index
The 2026 Test Suite BenchmarkA benchmark of how test-suite size maps to wall-clock runtime, the sub-linear payoff of sharding, and where parallelism…Benchmark
The State of CI/CD Cost Optimization 2026A data-backed map of the four levers that move CI bills the most in 2026 (dependency and build caching, runner right-si…Cost
Tools & comparisons
GitHub Actions vs CircleCI: 2026 ReportA fair, data-backed comparison of GitHub Actions and CircleCI for 2026: how their pricing models differ in shape, where…Comparison
GitHub Actions vs GitLab CI: 2026 ReportA data-backed comparison of GitHub Actions and GitLab CI in 2026: pipeline philosophy, ecosystem versus integration, an…Comparison
GitHub Actions vs Jenkins: 2026 ReportA data-backed comparison of GitHub Actions and Jenkins in 2026 on the axis that actually drives migrations: maintenance…Comparison
The State of Artifact Registries 2026A data-backed look at where teams store build artifacts and images in 2026: adoption across GHCR, Artifactory, Nexus, a…Registries
The State of CI Secrets Tooling 2026A data-backed look at how teams handle secrets in CI in 2026: adoption of HashiCorp Vault, OIDC-federated short-lived c…Security
The State of Container Build Tools 2026A data-backed look at how teams build container images in 2026: adoption across Docker BuildKit, Kaniko, and Buildpacks…Containers
The State of GitOps Tools 2026A data-backed look at how teams run GitOps in 2026: Argo CD versus Flux adoption, sync success and drift-detection reli…GitOps
The State of Self-Hosted Runner Tooling 2026Runners
The State of Test Frameworks 2026A data-backed look at the test frameworks teams run in 2026: usage share across JavaScript, Python, Java, and Go, suite…Testing
The State of the CI/CD Tooling Landscape 2026A data-backed map of the CI/CD platform landscape in 2026: who uses what, where adoption is heading, and how the shift…Landscape
Delivery & operations
The State of Canary Deployments 2026A data-backed look at canary deployments in 2026: how many teams run them, what share of canaries roll back automatical…Delivery
The State of CI Observability 2026A data-backed look at CI observability in 2026: how teams actually monitor their pipelines, how long failures go undete…Observability
The State of CI/CD Artifacts 2026A data-backed look at CI/CD artifacts in 2026: how fast artifact sizes are growing, what storage and transfer cost over…Artifacts
The State of CI/CD Metrics 2026A data-backed look at how teams measure their pipelines in 2026: which KPIs are widely tracked, which high-value signal…Metrics
The State of Deployment & Release Engineering 2026A data-backed look at deployment and release engineering in 2026: how often teams ship, how far progressive delivery an…Release
The State of Ephemeral Environments 2026A data-backed look at ephemeral, per-PR environments in 2026: how widely teams provision them, how long they take to sp…Environments
The State of Feature Flags 2026A data-backed look at how engineering teams use feature flags in 2026: adoption by org size, the gap between deploying…Release
The State of Merge Queues 2026A data-backed look at merge queues in 2026, covering how widely teams adopt serialized merging, what re-validating each…Workflow
The State of Pipeline Reliability 2026A data-backed look at CI reliability in 2026: how often pipelines are effectively down, how long broken pipelines take…Reliability
The State of Preview Deployments 2026A data-backed look at preview deployments in 2026: how many previews a typical pull request triggers, what each rebuild…Deployments
The State of Progressive Delivery 2026A data-backed look at progressive delivery in 2026: how widely canary, blue-green, and automated rollout strategies are…Delivery
The State of Release Automation 2026A data-backed look at release automation in 2026: how much of the path from merge to production is automated, where man…Release
The State of Rollback Strategies 2026A data-backed look at how teams recover from bad releases in 2026: how often they roll back, how long recovery takes, a…Delivery