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.
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.
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.
Integrating Security into Build Processes Signals DevSecOps Tipping Point
The nearly 3,000 technical professionals and executives surveyed for the “2019 State of DevOps Report” believe these steps positively impact a company’s security posture. Yet, adding “security” to testing and deployment also increases friction between security and developer teams.
Reliable Support Inhibits Open Source Growth
Open source lags behind proprietary software in reliable support and availability of consulting services.
Research Shows Open Source Program Offices Improve Software Practices
Using open source software is commonplace, with only a minority of companies preferring a proprietary-first software policy. Proponents of free and open source software (FOSS) have moved to the next phases of open source adoption, widening FOSS usage within the enterprise as well as gaining […]
One Toolchain to Manage All Development Is a CI/CD-Vendor Obsession
Measuring CI/CD adoption is difficult for many reasons, but one of them is the choice between all-in-one bundled software or best-of-breed tooling.
Constructive Open Source Citizenship Produces Results
A year after its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM is benefiting from its association with the legendary OSS brand.
Measuring CI/CD Adoption Rates Is a Problem
Marketers are keen to define any tool that addresses an area of CI/CD as part of this market or a larger DevOps tooling segment.
Data Center Management: Self-Healing Shifts to Self Optimization
According to Vertiv’s survey, high bandwidth will be the primary data requirement for edge applications in 2025.
Hello Kubernetes Operators (and Vendors), Few People Know What You’re Selling
As organizations move into production with Kubernetes, they become less likely to use scripts and legacy configuration management tools but no more likely to use a product like the one Canonical offers.
Organizations Running on More Clouds Less Likely to See Security Threats
Several approaches aim to address the complexity of managing the security of multiple cloud environments, but one metric actually shows security improvement for organizations with more cloud providers.
Capital One’s Cloud Misconfiguration Woes Have Been an Industry-Wide Fear
Misconfigurations have long been the top cloud security concern. A new StackRox survey of IT decision-makers supports this finding.