Multicloud Now a Chief Driver for Containers Says Portworx Survey
People claim that avoiding vendor lock-in drives cloud computing choices but don’t actually use multiple providers.
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.
Enterprise Adoption of Kubernetes Is Growing
Kubernetes is increasingly the first choice among container users, with Datadog reporting its use increasing from 22.5 percent in October 2017 to 32.5 percent in October 2018.
Serverless vs. Kubernetes vs. Containers
Experience with FaaS predicts whether or not someone prefers functions. In fact, 63 percent of those with broad production FaaS implementations would standardize on functions.
China Uses Open Source to Deliver Cloud Services
With Kubecon China in the books, we have more proof that Chinese companies are a strong second to the United States in open source cloud computing.
Serverless Roadmap: Monitoring, Security, Frameworks, Tools
For serverless monitoring, we found that cloud provider’s own tools were commonly used to monitor apps, with Amazon CloudWatch used by 88% of respondents with live AWS Lambda implementations.
Open Source Development at Large Companies
Using LinkedIn data, we profiled 12 of the largest tech companies’ workforces to determine how many developers they deploy.
Serverless and Hosted and Installable Platforms
The leading hosted platforms are the big three cloud providers’ FaaS offerings. AWS Lambda has twice as many users as Azure Functions and more than three times as many as Google Cloud Functions.
IBM’s Red Hat Buy Aims to Bring the ‘Hybrid Cloud’ to the Enterprise
“Hybrid cloud” has already reached its peak in the hype cycle, with “multicloud” being a more popular term these days. A RightScale survey in February showed that Hybrid Cloud was dropped from 58 percent to 51 percent as the dominant strategy. In a different survey from Virtustream, 86 percent said they are using a multicloud strategy.
Business Logic Is a Leading Technical Use Case for Serverless
REST APIs, batch jobs and scheduled tasks, and business logic are the most common use cases for serverless architecture, according to 278 real serverless adopters surveyed by The New Stack. Many of these web applications have written-in logic that executes events such as sending an email […]
Reality Check on Automated Security Testing
Limited automation and ineffectiveness are two problems facing the application security testing market.
FaaS ≠ Serverless
54 percent of FaaS users without production deployments say their organization does not utilize a serverless architecture.
Prepare for an Onslaught of Go Language Serverless Functions
Over a quarter of people with serverless architectures in use or in plan expect to write a function using the Go language (Golang) in the next 18 months.