What We Know about Cloud Market Share
AWS has the most customers. Microsoft’s Azure and Rackspace show surprising strength per data sourced from HG Data.
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.
Updating Dependencies in Node.js
Last week Facebook announced Yarn, which makes it easier to update dependencies with the npm registry. According to a recent RisingStack survey, 45 percent of Node.js developers update dependencies less than once a month. Whether Yarn will increase dependency updates is an open question, but it can’t […]
Price of an Open Source Ecosystem
Last week we estimated that development costs for the Kubernetes ecosystem were over $120 million. Many people saw this as a bargain, while others questioned the underlying methodology. For example, using lines of code is by general consensus a flawed metric. Multiple readers also asked about the […]
How Much Did it Cost to Build the Kubernetes Ecosystem?
Based on the lines of code in each project, we estimate that it cost about $120 million to get to Kubernetes 1.4.
K8s Codebase Is Enormous and Growing
Kubernetes has the second most contributors reviewing code on GitHub, and in many other GitHub and social media metrics outperforms Docker and other container rivals. While some metrics are fluff, the number of contributors is a very useful indicator. Everyone knows it indicates how strong a community […]
Stream Me Up to Microservices
JVM developers are interested in data stream processing technologies, but that “interest” is red hot if they are deploying microservices. According to Lightbend’s recent survey of JVM developers, 18 percent use Kafka in production, 13 percent use Akka Streams, and 12 percent use Spark Streaming. […]
Beware the Public Cloud Bandwagon
Large enterprises are catching up to the technological and economic reality that smaller companies had already arrived at.
Node.js, JVM and the Surprising Results About Docker Swarm
JVM developers are focused on containerizing new as opposed to legacy apps.
What is Redis?
If you think of Redis first and foremost as a database, then you are probably not a Node.js developer. According to a RisingStack survey, 49 percent of Node.js developers use Redis for caching, 37 percent as a database and 2 percent as a messaging system. In other […]
DBaaS – Surprise, the Big Three Cloud Providers Lead
A recent survey found that almost half of respondents still prefer to run databases inside a virtual machine — 30 percent said they would rather utilize a Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering. When conducting their own research, DBaaS provider Tesora found that the most important criteria for DBaaS […]
Open Container Initiative Participation
Should community participants fork Docker to facilitate increased participation? And if so, should that activity occur within Open Container Initiative (OCI) projects? We don’t know the answers, but we have been evaluating the health of OCI projects. Using a dashboard created by Bitergia, we found that the number […]
Serverless and Distributed Database Services are Besties Now
Momentum towards distributed databases will be bolstered by the current move towards “serverless” technologies. In particular, database-as-a-services like Amazon DynamoDB are being utilized by developers of microservices. Also, MongoDB offerings are poised to benefit because Node.js is supported by many serverless providers. For industry insiders, serverless is […]