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Middleware — Open-source DORA metrics for software engineering teams
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✅ Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in your dev process ✅ Measure and improve your team's performance and productivity ✅ Deliver high-quality software faster and reliably ✅ Gain a competitive edge in the market by optimizing your software delivery
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Dhruv Agarwal
Thanks @fmerian for hunting us! Hi Product Hunt 👋🏼, I am Dhruv Agarwal, co-founder of Middleware. Along with me is my co-founder @jayantbhawal and our team. Being both an engineer and an engineering manager in the last decade I observed that builders are stuck in slightly sized orgs (>40 engineers) and leaders have a meek sense of the blockers. So, I observed 2 types of leaders: micro-managers or gut feeling wingers. 
 The end result in both cases are unhappy and stuck developers. Hence, we built Middleware 🚀 Today, we’re open sourcing the core of our product. Our team has been working multiple all-nighters ✨ for the past 6 weeks to deliver something cool, easy-to-use and impactful! This version offers DORA metrics out of the box to help any engineering team get started on tracking their delivery pipeline health (both in speed and quality). Engineering productivity is a complex topic and a crucial decision is to pick a framework which is non-monitoring, non-gameable. DORA metrics fits well right in and being open source Middleware makes it easy to start within your infra/env securely.

 Looking forward to your feedback and thoughts! 😊
Shivam Chhuneja
@jayantbhawal @dhruv_agarwal5 @deshraj_singh Thank you so much Deshraj! Working hard to make things happen :)
Aris Nakos
@fmerian @jayantbhawal @dhruv_agarwal5 Congratulations ! Would you call this an AWS X-Ray (on steroids) for your CI/CD pipeline ?
Pratim Bhosale
Great work @dhruv_agarwal5. What sort of integrations does Middleware support? Can it be integrated with Slack in future?
Jayant Bhawal
@aris_nakos Hey Aris! I'd say it's MORE than just for your CI/CD pipeline. Code delivery, review, of course CI/CD flows are already supported. 🚀
Dhruv Agarwal
@aris_nakos thank you 😊 Haha.. I guess this goes beyond the CI/CD so will need some more steroids on X-ray 😄
André J
I think this needs to be balanced with quality, here your mostly measuring quantity, which will lead to cobra effects 😅. Partner with codebeat.co or build something similar into the platform and will pay for it from day1 🙏
Nishchit Dhanani
💎 Pixel perfection
Congrats on the launch Dhruv and Team. Developer productivity is the important factor for any engineering team but it's really hard to measure. That's where Middleware fits and solve this critical dev productivity problem for any team.
Dhruv Agarwal
@nishchit_dhanani Thank you so much!
Shivam Chhuneja
@nishchit_dhanani Thank you so much Nishchit, it's a pressing problem that not a lot of people talk about
Thet Lin Thu
Middleware looks like it could significantly cut down the time every team spends in meetings discussing progress and blockers. Great job, Dhruv and team!
Dhruv Agarwal
@thetlinthu Thank you so much!
Jayant Bhawal
@thetlinthu That's the goal! 🚀
Akanksha Bhasin
Congratulations @dhruv_agarwal5 and the entire Middleware team! 🚀✨
Ankur Singh
Congrats on the launch and great tool to improve prodcutivity!
@singh_ankur Thanks a lot 🙌
Shivam Chhuneja
@singh_ankur Appreciate the support Ankur!
Sergey Solovev
I'm glad I found this tool, left a star on github, going to try it a bit later (thanks for the docker image btw). Congrats on the release!
Shivam Chhuneja
@sm_solovyev appreciate it Sergey! looking forward to your thoughts
Daniyal Ashraf
Amazing tool! Congratulations on the launch team!
Dhruv Agarwal
@daniyalashraf Thanks a lot :)
@daniyalashraf Thankyou 🙌
Sarthak Roy
Great work👌
Daniel Zaitzow
Launching soon!
@dhruv_agarwal5 dev tools like this aren't exactly up my alley but this looks really neat and like theres (seemingly) a place for this for the right size orgs!
Ramit Koul
Loved the concept. It is a very unique approach to the problem. Congrats on your launch!!🚀
Ghost Kitty
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Shivam Chhuneja
@gargtoshit Thank you for your support Toshit!
Jayant Bhawal
Hey everyone! Thanks for checking us out! We're ensured that the setup process is super seamless so you should be able to go from 0 to READY in less than 2 minutes! Give it a shot! https://github.com/middlewarehq/...
Samad Yar Khan
Hey Guys, I am one of the engineers working at Middleware 👋 Can't wait for you guys to experience Middleware 🚀
Shivam Chhuneja
Hi Everyone, Thank you so much for checking us out. Our team has has been working on this for quite a while and this product is close to our hearts. The main point being: Open Source! Really appreciate the support and feedback, please feel free to share your thoughts, concerns & support ❤
Aman Wen
Big thumbs up from me! There's nothing like open-source magic to give dev teams a leg up. 😎📈 Just wondering though, how granular do these metrics get? It's one thing to see where the hold-ups are, but another to figure out the why behind them. 🤔 Also, "measure and improve" is a strong promise. I’m curious about the 'improve' bit – how does Middleware guide a team to not just spot problems but fix them?
Dhruv Agarwal
Thanks @aman_wen for your thoughtful question! DORA metrics have the philosophy of "helping teams get better at getting better"! So, these metrics go to a team level of granularity. The thesis is to make the processes seamless and hence achieve a productive workflow. DORA metrics is evangelised and backed by Google. They conduct a research every year - https://cloud.google.com/devops/... which publishes the impact and a healthy range of each of the 4 key metrics w.r.t. the organisational context :) We keep updating these labels as per the latest research to help the teams with where they should focus. So, the signals for productivity are provided by the Middleware OSS. When the teams do want some help with taking actions, then our cloud product helps with productivity intelligence to take the actions. Hope this answers your question and would love to get your support on our GH repo with ✨ and comments too 😄
Shivam Chhuneja
@aman_wen @dhruv_agarwal5 Couldn't have answered it better than Dhruv! Hope you give it a try Aman!
Devaansh Bhandari
Congratulations team Middleware 👍👍
Dhruv Agarwal
@devaansh_bhandari Thank you Devaansh :)
Rishika
This sounds amazing! Can't wait to try it!
@rishika_ Thanks a lot 🙌
Markus Hofer
🌟 Huge congratulations to the Middleware team on this exciting launch! 🌟 Your dedication to improving the engineering landscape is truly inspiring. By open-sourcing the core of Middleware, you're providing a powerful tool to help engineering teams overcome common challenges and enhance productivity.
Azaan Hassan
Great project
Dhruv Agarwal
@azaan_hassan1 Thanks a lot :)