Featured app • DX

Where the week actually went

Every engineering team has weeks like this, and the retro rarely explains them. The dashboards say commits happened, the standups sounded fine, and yet almost nothing reached production. DX exists because neither half of that picture is enough on its own. It pulls the system data out of your pipeline and pairs it with what developers report about where they get stuck, which is how a real bottleneck separates itself from a metric that just looks bad. It also tracks AI-generated code by commit, pull request, team, and repo, so the question of whether the tooling budget is returning anything stops being a matter of opinion. Dropbox, Booking.com, and Adyen run their engineering orgs on it.

What is it:

An engineering intelligence platform that combines system data with developer surveys to show where teams lose time and what AI actually changes.

Who is it for:

Engineering leaders who need to explain where the team's time goes, and whether the AI tooling spend is returning anything.

Alternative to:

LinearB, Jellyfish, Swarmia, Pluralsight Flow, or a sprint retro and a hunch about what slowed everyone down.

Why we like it:

We like DX because it pairs what the systems record with what developers actually report, which is the only way to tell a real bottleneck from a noisy metric.

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