Few Testers Have Programming Skills
The average developer says that fewer than half of the testers they work with have no programming skills.
Category: The New Stack
Lawrence started working with The New Stack in 2015. He was the research director for several ebooks about containers, Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.
He highlighted a chart and findings from industry research in The New Stack’s weekly newsletter. This sampling of the over 400 articles and reports he has written.
Focus on Speed Doesn’t Mean Focus on Automation
When forced to choose, quality wins out over speed 7 out of 10 times according to a survey of over 600 IT professionals conducted by OverOps, a vendor that helps identify and remediate software issues.
Developer Dissatisfaction Doubles
Developer job dissatisfaction more than doubled, with 24% being at least slightly dissatisfied, up from 11% when the same question was asked a year ago.
Unmaintained Dependencies and Other Ways to Measure CI/CD Security
I look at five recent studies, with a focus on CI/CD and open source. As always, the analysis goes beyond the press release-based reporting you may have read elsewhere.
Non-Contributing Developers Expect Companies to Support Open Source
Companies should encourage its developers to spend part of the workday contributing to open source whether or not a project is managed internally by the company itself.
Integrating Security into the Development Pipeline
DevOps teams are more likely to have security tools properly integrated in their development pipeline, but many still struggle to do it well.
Long-Running Study Finds Uptake of Private Clouds from Azure, AWS and GCP
By one measure, it seems obvious that the migration of workloads to the public cloud has accelerated. In last year’s study, only 33% of workloads were in the public cloud, while today the figure is 57%.
Data Sharing Key to Success for COVID-19 Data Models
Integrating unstructured data is the top data challenge encountered when developing AI according to 57% of the survey by MIT Technology Review Insights.
Don’t Forget Viruses, the Computer Kind
While the anti-virus market is passe and mature, but security vendors continue to monitor for new threats and have embraced a broader category, endpoint detection and response (EDR), that combines elements of anti-malware with newer tools that provide real-time anomaly detection, forensic analysis and remediation capabilities. Unsurprisingly, EDR is poised for rapid growth.
CNCF Survey Snapshot: Tech Adoption in the Cloud Native World
Container adoption appears to have mitigated the growth of VMs that need to be managed. However, be wary of claims that the raw number of machines being managed will decline.
Tech, Even Big Tech, Is Still Trusted
Most people still trust brands like YouTube and even Facebook.