Open Source Software Use Driven by Cost Cutting
Saving money, rather than innovation or modernization demands, is now the leading reason why organizations use open source software, according to OpenLogic’s latest report.
Author: LawrenceHecht
Cloud Migrations Pick up the Pace in 2024
Fifty-eight percent of people surveyed by Flexera said they are planning to migrate more workloads to the cloud in 2024, up from 44% in 2023.
JetBrains Developer Survey Tracks Rapid Adoption of AI
51% believe AI-powered code generation will increase demand for professional software developers. However, given the opportunity, 56% of respondents would let an AI assistant write code comments and documentation. In contrast, only 17% would delegate the writing of code to an AI assistant.
AI Will Drive Streaming Data Use — But Not Yet, Report Says
While AI/ML gets a lot of attention, it is not the most common use case for data streaming. Real-time analytics is used by 71% of data streamers in the Redpanda survey, followed by 64% supporting e-commerce transactions with streaming data. Internet of Things (IoT), fraud detection and personalization are also commonly supported. A still impressive 47% of survey participants have a situation where AI/ML uses streaming data.
Who’s Leading WebAssembly Adoption? So Far, Vendors
Web development continues to be the top use case for Wasm, cited by 71% of respondents in the third annual “State of WebAssembly” report.
Despite the Hype, Engineers Not Impressed with DORA Metrics
Twenty-nine percent of engineers surveyed by LeadDev and Swarmia said they don’t know enough about Google’s much-hyped DevOps success measures to say if they’re effective or not.
US Leads in Many DevSecOps Practices, France and Japan Trail
Both Japanese and French organizations are far behind the U.S. and global benchmarks for several practices associated with modern DevSecOps teams. For example, while 46% of U.S. respondents said their organizations use infrastructure-as-code, only 22% of French and 15% of Japanese respondents said likewise.
How Important Is Open Source to AI Adoption?
Among the whopping survey respondents who are using or planning to use LLMs, only 27% actually expect a commercial version to be used in production. Almost half (47%) of those with no plans to use a commercial LLM cited a desire not to share proprietary information with vendors. In comparison, only 17% said the reason is because commercial LLMs are too expensive to scale.
70% of Devs Using or Will Use AI, Says Stack Overflow Survey
44% of developers said they already use AI tools in their development process, and another 26% plan to do so soon. When this group was asked what specific AI-powered developer tools they use, 55% mentioned GitHub Copilot, while 13% use Tabnine and 5% use Amazon Web Services CodeWhisperer. The other seven tools included in the survey were used by no more than 2%.
Is DevOps Tool Complexity Slowing Down Developer Velocity?
Developers haven’t gotten significantly faster at making code changes and putting them into production over the past two and a half years, reported a new study by the CD Foundation and SlashData.
Azure’s Golang Problem
Microsoft Azure does not support the cloud native Go programming language as well as its rivals do according to a survey.
73% of Organizations Don’t Enforce Multifactor Authentication
On average, it takes IT security teams 145 hours — just slightly more than six days — to resolve a security alert.