Problems With Sharing Responsibility for Security
Not everyone believes security is their job, though security professionals will get fired if something goes wrong.
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How Much Will App Services Like Service Mesh Grow?
37% of IT professionals expect to start using service meshes in the public cloud in the next year, but actual adoption rates may be significantly lower if the technology’s hype bubble bursts, according to a recent survey from F5 Networks.
The Cloud Makes Privacy and GDPR Easier, Not Harder
62% of information security professionals surveyed believe privacy concerns have not stopped or slowed down adoption of cloud services,
Open Source Programs Shift from Legal to Engineering Productivity Focus
Open source programs (also known as OSPOs) are now largely driven by engineering teams instead of attorneys — and created to refine engineering practices and attract developer talent rather than simply comply with licensing requirements, according to a new analysis of the open source survey […]
Solving Serverless and Tracing Is Key to Success in Observability
Using logs, metrics, and traces together is part of the definition of “observability,” according to 83% of the nearly 1,000 respondents to Logz.io’s annual DevOps Pulse study.
Bespoke Software Development Spending Pops.
Efficiencies achieved because of SaaS and open-source-reliant infrastructure have been redirected to innovative software projects.
Managing APIs Is a Time Suck
The effort needed to provide an API is significant, with 63% of the over 10,000 people surveyed for the “2019 Postman State of the API Report” spending at least 10 hours a week working on APIs.
How Long Does a Machine Learning Deployment Take?
On average, 40% of companies said it takes more than a month to deploy an ML model into production, 28% do so in eight to 30 days, while only 14% could do so in seven days or less.
Big Tech’s Value to Open Source Sustainability
Given their funding and support of many large-scale, widely-depended-upon projects, it is not surprising that 34% of the study is not concerned with major tech players’ level of involvement in open source.
CrowdStrike and the Nation-State Threat to Cybersecurity: Facts vs. Hype
Nation-state sponsored cyberattacks are far more common than most people think, according to a recently-released report commissioned by CrowdStrike. The stats are attention-grabbing and so is the study’s sponsor. Overall, nation-states are threats, but CrowdStrike is overstating the threat.
Making Sense of the GitHub Octoverse Report
A few quick takes on GitHub’s annual report includes insights on non-U.S. contributions, developers supporting dependencies and the number of private repos.
Survey Shows How Developers and Their Employers Measure Good Open Source Citizenship
The biggest benefit of being a good open source citizen is how it can help transform how a company operates, from technology adoption and licensing practices, to policies, recruiting and hiring.