Serverless Adoption on Par with Containers
At least superficially, adoption of serverless technologies now matches that of containers. However, the depth of its use in production applications has yet to be determined.
Author: LawrenceHecht
Lots of Low Code Vendors Have Already Been Rejected
OutSystems, Salesforce, Appian and Mendix are the low code vendors used most often by survey respondents.
Favored Processor Architectures for Artificial Intelligence
If you were developing a minimal viable product (MVP) for the consumer software market, would it be for Windows PCs, Macs, Linux machines, iOS and Android devices? No, that would be foolish. Yet, it appears that developers are refusing to choose between CPUs, GPUs and […]
JavaScript Inflection Point vs Java
With Node.js’s use on the server side, comparing JavaScript and Java is no longer apples vs oranges. With that context, it is noteworthy that last year the number of npm (Javascript) packages downloaded surpassed components in the maven (Java) components. According to Sonatype’s 2017 State of […]
HPCs Are the Tip of the Iceberg
HPE is by far the leading manufacturer associated with the world’s fastest, commercially available computing systems in the most recent TOP500 list. After them, four of the next six companies are Chinese (Lenovo, Sugon, Inspur, Huawei). So what? Supercomputers can be super boring, but the market is […]
Asian Developers Are Underrepresented in the Data
GitHub and Stack Overflow do not represent a true picture of the world’s developers because not everyone uses these sites. Twenty-one percent of active GitHub users are in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and a 50,000+ person StackOverflow survey reported 22 percent of respondents coming from […]
Private Cloud and PaaS, Run for the Hills
The headline is a bit sarcastic, but the concern is real. If you use containers, then you’re likely to believe container orchestrators are a viable alternative to your current private cloud or PaaS platform. According to a survey of container users (by 451 Research, on behalf of CoreOS), 80 […]
Cloud-native Ecosystem Proxy: Technologies on Docker
Since NGINX is deployed most often on Datadog customers’ Docker containers, we thought it appropriate to use the chart above as a “proxy” for the cloud-native world. From this perspective, all the top technologies are open source, and most of them support data and messaging infrastructure. Interestingly, every […]
If 99% say they’re happy, ask a different question
Heavy Reading just released a survey saying 98 percent of telecom operators are at least somewhat satisfied with OPNFV. Wow, OPNFV must be kicking butt! Maybe, but that data point doesn’t prove it. Looking at the question’s wording, it asks if the project is helping accelerate open […]
Usernames: Accountability vs Privacy
Fifty-one percent of open source developers are required to provide personal or work information online as part of their job. Sixty-one percent say people should be able to contribute code without attribution to remain anonymous. These are findings from a recently released survey of over 5,000 GitHub users. Still […]
Kafka in the Real World
If you’ve never used Apache Kafka you would think it’s a magical Excelsior because it’s applied to many different situations. Even people with hands-on experience argue about how to classify it. Is it for pub-sub and messaging, and thus comparable to RabbitMQ? In Confluent’s recent survey of […]
Don’t Automatically Make Automation Assumptions
Automation did not originate with Henry Ford’s assembly line. Automation will not end with voice-enabled, machine-learning chatbots supporting ITSM. Automation is evolutionary. Even though time savings are real, every few months it’s important to throw cold water on optimistic expectations. A recent blog by HfS Research CEO Phil […]