Machine Learning Developers Don’t Predict
A majority of developers involved with machine learning do not use models to generate predictions.
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Docker and Lambda on Par in AWS Environments
AWS-branded technologies continue to perform well versus generic open source offerings.
Even Open Sourcers Pay for Code Repositories
Alternative vendor offerings are still commonly used to manage open source code. More research is needed to determine Atlassian Bitbucket or GitLab will lose customers to a paid version of GitHub.
Survey: Open Source Programs Are a Best Practice Among Large Companies
Large companies are about twice as likely to run an open source program than smaller companies (63 percent vs. 37 percent.)
Redis Pulls Back on Open Source Licensing, Citing Stingy Cloud Services
With a for-profit entity taking advantage of an “open core” business model, it remains to be seen which users will stop using the database because they want to use something with more permissive licensing.
Data Scientists, Not Developers, Lead Machine Learning Efforts
51% of data specialists that are doing ML said their models are created by an internal data science team.
Competing Estimates of Open Source Composition
Nine out of 10 components in the average application are open source, according to an analysis of 1,700 apps in Sonatype’s “State of the Software Supply Chain.” However, a survey of people familiar with application security by ESG provides a lower figure — only 43% believe that more than half of their enterprise’s codebase of open source.
The Benefits and Drawbacks of DataOps in Practice
Data engineering regularly gets blamed when things go wrong with the company’s data analytics. In fact, 21% say this always happens and another 42% believe it occurs often. Sometimes the blame may be deserved, but when undeserved quitting is an attractive option. Unsurprisingly, when data engineering is always blamed for the Data/Analytics problems, 65% are very likely to leave.
DevOps Security Needs More Tooling
More than half (56 percent) of survey respondents believe that integration of security into the entire DevOps process is either poorly done or non-existent.
Container Deployment Still Outpaces ‘Serverless’
Containers are being used or actively evaluated by 32 percent of respondents, compared to 19 percent for serverless computing and 14 percent for FaaS (function as a service).
Serverless Moves from Beta to Business Use
Compared to its last year’s survey, the Serverless Inc. 2018 study found that respondents using serverless at work rose from 45 percent in 2017 to 82 percent in 2018.
How Employers Can Help Their Developers: Time for Open Source Projects
Almost half of hiring managers that recruit people with open source skills, almost half (48%) say their company decided to financially support or contribute open source projects to help with recruitment.