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.
Wasm offers big benefits: faster code execution, cross-platform compatibility and improved security. But most developers still aren’t using it, said the report.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.