The Software Budget’s Appetite Kept in Check by the Bottom Line
Application support consumes more internal labor spend than application development on average, despite generally higher salaries for application developers than for support personnel.
Author: LawrenceHecht
54 Percent of CIOs Have No Plans to Lift or Shift
Just because an application can be containerized or re-platformed does not mean it will be. When Deloitte asked CIOs about their core business applications, a majority said they only plan to enhance functionality, improve integration or stay put. True believers in the microservices/container revolution should not lose […]
Answer: Hadoop. Question: What’s the difference between a data and software engineer?
Stitch Data analyzed everyone on LinkedIn that said they are a data engineers. They found that many were originally a developer, with 42 percent being a software engineer in their last job. This makes sense, as big data training specialist Jesse Anderson says a data engineer’s primary language should […]
Diversity Watchdog
With the recently announced board additions, 4 of the 19 Linux Foundation board members are female. At 21 percent, that is one percentage point higher than the universe of directors at S&P 500 firms. The representation of many people of Asian descent is due to the geographic diversity […]
What We Know about Cloud Market Share
AWS has the most customers. Microsoft’s Azure and Rackspace show surprising strength per data sourced from HG Data.
Updating Dependencies in Node.js
Last week Facebook announced Yarn, which makes it easier to update dependencies with the npm registry. According to a recent RisingStack survey, 45 percent of Node.js developers update dependencies less than once a month. Whether Yarn will increase dependency updates is an open question, but it can’t […]
Price of an Open Source Ecosystem
Last week we estimated that development costs for the Kubernetes ecosystem were over $120 million. Many people saw this as a bargain, while others questioned the underlying methodology. For example, using lines of code is by general consensus a flawed metric. Multiple readers also asked about the […]
How Much Did it Cost to Build the Kubernetes Ecosystem?
Based on the lines of code in each project, we estimate that it cost about $120 million to get to Kubernetes 1.4.
K8s Codebase Is Enormous and Growing
Kubernetes has the second most contributors reviewing code on GitHub, and in many other GitHub and social media metrics outperforms Docker and other container rivals. While some metrics are fluff, the number of contributors is a very useful indicator. Everyone knows it indicates how strong a community […]
Stream Me Up to Microservices
JVM developers are interested in data stream processing technologies, but that “interest” is red hot if they are deploying microservices. According to Lightbend’s recent survey of JVM developers, 18 percent use Kafka in production, 13 percent use Akka Streams, and 12 percent use Spark Streaming. […]
Beware the Public Cloud Bandwagon
Large enterprises are catching up to the technological and economic reality that smaller companies had already arrived at.
Node.js, JVM and the Surprising Results About Docker Swarm
JVM developers are focused on containerizing new as opposed to legacy apps.