Are Shared Service Platforms Too Restrictive?
Forty-four percent of participants in a new study by Rafay Systems said they believe the notion that shared services are too inflexible will be their biggest platform engineering challenge this year.
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.
Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers, Says Stack Overflow
Professional developers’ adoption of AI tools in the development process has risen rapidly, going from 44% in 2023 to 62% in 2024.
Customer-Facing Incidents on the Rise, IT Leaders Say
Fifty-nine percent of IT leaders said they saw more incidents that affected customers than in the previous year. Even more, 69%, said their organization is not investing in reducing such incidents.
Engineering Managers in 2024: Burnout and More Duties
Two out of three of participants in Jellyfish’s new survey said they experienced burnout in the last 12 months. One of three managers in a LeadDev report are working longer hours now.
Data Streaming Platforms: A Prerequisite for Enterprise AI
Data streaming platforms are essential for adopting AI/machine learning at enterprise scale, according to nearly two-thirds of IT leaders
WebAssembly Adoption: It’s Complicated, Says CNCF Survey
Wasm offers big benefits: faster code execution, cross-platform compatibility and improved security. But most developers still aren’t using it, said the report.
Tech Hiring: Most Employers Added Jobs or Kept the Status Quo in 2023
Thirty-seven percent of IT hiring managers in a new survey said they added employees in 2023, while 34% maintained the status quo, according to a new Linux Foundation report.
Platform Engineering: More Teams Now Running 3 or More IDPs
Seventy-eight percent of people surveyed in a new report by Puppet by Perforce said their organization has had a dedicated platform team for at least three years.
Open Source Software Use Driven by Cost Cutting
Saving money, rather than innovation or modernization demands, is now the leading reason why organizations use open source software, according to OpenLogic’s latest report.
Cloud Migrations Pick up the Pace in 2024
Fifty-eight percent of people surveyed by Flexera said they are planning to migrate more workloads to the cloud in 2024, up from 44% in 2023.
JetBrains Developer Survey Tracks Rapid Adoption of AI
51% believe AI-powered code generation will increase demand for professional software developers. However, given the opportunity, 56% of respondents would let an AI assistant write code comments and documentation. In contrast, only 17% would delegate the writing of code to an AI assistant.
AI Will Drive Streaming Data Use — But Not Yet, Report Says
While AI/ML gets a lot of attention, it is not the most common use case for data streaming. Real-time analytics is used by 71% of data streamers in the Redpanda survey, followed by 64% supporting e-commerce transactions with streaming data. Internet of Things (IoT), fraud detection and personalization are also commonly supported. A still impressive 47% of survey participants have a situation where AI/ML uses streaming data.