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Fawkes IDP Overview — Fawkes Platform Overview

Welcome to the Fawkes project! Fawkes is an open-source platform designed to help teams achieve elite performance in software delivery by implementing all 24 DORA capabilities through integrated tooling and practices. Based on research from "Accelerate" and the DORA State of DevOps reports, organizations that excel in these capabilities are twice as likely to exceed their organizational performance goals.

🎯 Elite Performance Metrics

Metric	Elite Performance	Industry Average	Description
Deployment Frequency	Multiple deploys per day	Between once per week and once per month	How often an organization successfully releases to production
Lead Time	Less than one hour	Between one week and one month	The time it takes to go from code committed to code successfully running in production
Change Failure Rate	0-15%	31-45%	The percentage of changes that result in a failure in production
MTTR	Less than one hour	Less than one day	Mean Time to Restore - The time it takes to recover from a failure in production

🌟 DORA Capabilities & Metric Impact

DORA research has identified specific capabilities that directly impact each performance metric. Below we map each capability to the metrics it most strongly influences, based on data from "Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps".

Deployment Frequency Drivers

These capabilities have the strongest positive correlation with deployment frequency:

Capability	Purpose	Implementation	Performance Impact
Continuous Delivery	Ensuring software is always in a deployable state	Spinnaker, Flux	2.5x higher deployment frequency
Deployment Automation	Automating the deployment process	Jenkins	3x more frequent deployments
Continuous Integration	Frequently merging code changes	GitHub Actions	2x higher deployment frequency
Infrastructure as Code	Using cloud and infrastructure-as-code	Terraform	1.8x more frequent deployments

Lead Time Reducers

These capabilities have the strongest positive correlation with reducing lead time:

Capability	Purpose	Implementation	Performance Impact
Continuous Integration	Frequently merging code changes	GitHub Actions	74% reduction in lead time
Test Automation	Automated testing at all levels	Selenium, JUnit	67% reduction in lead time
Loosely Coupled Architecture	Enabling independent team work	Kubernetes	56% reduction in lead time
Database Change Management	Managing database changes effectively	Flyway	43% reduction in lead time

Change Failure Rate Reducers

These capabilities have the strongest positive correlation with reducing change failure rate:

Capability	Purpose	Implementation	Performance Impact
Test Automation	Automated testing at all levels	Selenium, JUnit	3x lower change failure rate
Change Failure Rate Reduction	Improving code quality	SonarQube	1.8x fewer production defects
Shift Left on Security	Early security testing	OWASP ZAP	2x fewer security incidents
Monitoring and Observability	Implementing comprehensive monitoring	Prometheus, Grafana	2x more likely to detect issues before failure

MTTR Improvers

These capabilities have the strongest positive correlation with reducing mean time to restore:

Capability	Purpose	Implementation	Performance Impact
Time to Restore Service	Quick incident resolution	Grafana	73% faster MTTR
Monitoring and Observability	Implementing comprehensive monitoring	Prometheus, Grafana	2.1x faster incident detection
Proactive Failure Management	Testing system resilience	Chaos Mesh	1.5x faster incident resolution
Infrastructure as Code	Using cloud and infrastructure-as-code	Terraform	1.7x faster recovery time

🔄 Capability Synergies

According to DORA research, these capabilities work together to create a flywheel effect:

graph TD
    A[Continuous Integration] --> B[Test Automation]
    B --> C[Continuous Delivery]
    C --> D[Deployment Automation]
    D --> E[Monitoring & Observability]
    E --> F[Incident Response]
    F --> A
    G[Infrastructure as Code] --> C
    G --> F
    H[Loosely Coupled Architecture] --> B
    H --> D

Organizations that implement capabilities across all three categories (Flow, Feedback, Recovery) are 5x more likely to achieve elite performance across all four key metrics.

📈 Getting Started

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