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Lawrence Hecht

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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.

48% of hiring managers say company decided to support open source projects to help recruitment
July 2, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site

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.

June 30, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Apache Kafka’s Metamorphosis

Data pipelines and messaging are now the top two uses of Kafka, followed by microservices/event processing and stream processing.

tech pros that have experience or witnessed discrimination with their current or most recent employer
June 16, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Discrimination in the Tech Industry

Almost nine out of ten 50+ year old respondents to a Dice survey are worried about their age will be a barrier to getting a new job.

package manager used, importance of different packages for multiple environments
June 9, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Managing JavaScript Packages with npm and Yarn

That being said, it is notable that Yarn users are much more likely to care about managing packages across multiple environments.

Open Source Policies for Applications and Dependencies Are Almost Identical
May 26, 2018February 14, 2025No longer on TNS site

Open Source Policies for Dependencies

Have you ever read a survey report that claims that a certain percentage of companies use open source? We think those findings are almost always misleading. Practically every company in the world is using an open source component in their software stack. A better approach […]

Containers and serverless deployments with Top 3 public cloud providers
May 19, 2018August 4, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Did AWS Lambda Win Serverless?

AWS is widely used by cloud-native practitioners. We expect that as serverless expands and deepens that enterprises will continue to utilize multiple clouds, with AWS usually being part of the mix.

challenges using microservices
May 5, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Data and Troubleshooting Problems Caused by Microservices

Among those already using microservices in production, 59 percent said each microservice added increased operational challenges like data management.

Trends of Cloud Services for IoT: 2016-2018
April 28, 2018August 5, 2025No longer on TNS site

Interoperability Improves for the Internet of Things

Developer concerns about Internet of Things (IoT) interoperability have declined at the same time that more attention is being paid to IoT data. Along with its partners, the Eclipse Foundation’s Internet of Things (IoT) Working Group received 502 responses for its annual survey conducted from January through March 2018. […]

differences between Mandarin and English respondents
April 18, 2018February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

China vs. the World: A Kubernetes and Container Perspective

The New Stack believes that although China’s adoption may be several months behind compared to its Western counterparts, differences also arose for two other reasons.

Websites Not Using a Valid SSL Certificate Authority
April 14, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

SSL Adoption Continues to Rise

Three years ago only 15 percent of websites worldwide used a valid SSL (secure socket layer) certificate authority. In April 2018 that figure has jumped to 50 percent according to W3Tech’s data. The remaining sites either don’t have a certificate or have one that is not […]

Chinese respondents are more likely to be challenged by reliability, choosing an orchestration solution and finding vendor support
April 7, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Chinese Adoption of Kubernetes

Chinese developers are, in general, less far along in their production deployment of containers and Kubernetes.

usage and awareness of different serverless computing platforms
March 31, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Serverless Now Rivals VMs Delivered as a Service

In the first quarter of 2018, only 20 percent of backend developers surveyed by SlashData utilized an on-demand VM service, down from 46 percent in the third quarter of 2016.

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