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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.

Defining Containers-as-a-service (CaaS) Functionality
May 20, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

CaaS, aka Confusion as a Service

What is CaaS and how is it related to PaaS? TNS contributor Janakiram MSV continues to write about it in Forbes, but the chart comes from our ebook and frames the debate. Many of our readers have seen the results and question the inclusion of build/deploy […]

IT organizational structure
May 16, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Don’t Be Afraid of Your Shadow IT, Yet

By 2020, half of all IT spending at large enterprises with digital business aspirations will occur at the business-unit level.

Trend in Application Programmers as % of IT Staff
May 13, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Enterprises Not Hiring to Make Everything Software-defined

Computer Economics indicates that application programmers make up the same percentage of the IT workforce as they did six years ago. In another chart, they also indicate that outsourcing of app dev has not risen. Thus, although software is becoming more important, it is likely companies […]

Top Orchestration Products
May 6, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Ansible Beating Puppet, Chef, SaltStack in Niche

When asked what three products respondents plan to use for container orchestration, Ansible received the second most citations, well ahead of its configuration management rivals. Orchestration-specific tools — like Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and products based on Docker Swarm or Mesos — will still be the primary orchestration tools. […]

Use of Tools by Location
April 29, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Silicon Valley ≠ the Tech Community

Recent analysis by StackShare indicates that Silicon Valley developers use AWS, GitHub and Slack more often than others.

Value of Functionalities for AngularJS Users
April 15, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

The disconnect between AngularJS and its sponsor (Google)

Support by Google is the least valuable feature in AngularJS according to a survey coming out of Brazil’s Federal University of Minas Gerais. As we wrote about last month, Google is prepping the release of AngularJS 2.0. While it may be a bit disappointing to hear that they don’t matter, […]

Defining Container Orchestration Functionality
April 12, 2016February 14, 2025Full article from The New Stack, No longer in TNS site

Some Clarity About Container Orchestration

Scheduling, cluster management, and service discovery are widely acknowledged to be part of container orchestration. However, over half of the respondents also consider provisioning and monitoring to be part of orchestration. Configuration management was the functionality least likely to be associated with container orchestration, although […]

Continuous integration and delivery are becoming best practices
April 8, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

More Continuous Means Less Waiting

According to a JFrog survey, developers are complaining less about non-development tasks. Those saying “waiting during build test time” is “very time-consuming” dropped from 28 percent in 2013 to 14 percent in 2015. No wonder more and more people are adopting continuous deployment and integration practices. Above is a chart […]

Job Responsibility: Responses from End Users
April 1, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

More Confirmation of the DevOps Revolution

When covering the container ecosystem, vendors repeatedly tell us that their target audience is DevOps. Although we have long thought of DevOps as more of a process, there is more and more data that says otherwise. The recent Stack Overflow survey saw the percentage of developers identifying […]

Uptake of container services among container using customers of AWS and Google Cloud
March 29, 2016February 14, 2025Full article from The New Stack, No longer in TNS site

AWS Still Looms Over Docker Swarm and Kubernetes

Twenty-five percent of those that deploy containers to AWS use its container service.

Docker Hotspots Around the World
February 18, 2016February 14, 2025Full article from The New Stack, No longer in TNS site

Docker’s San Francisco Roots are Growing Globally

Of course, Docker is the darling of Silicon Valley, but how global is the container phenomenon? To judge from the attendance of Docker meetups around the world, we can see the technology’s influence growing. Our research was conducted in Summer 2015. Since then, repeat attendance […]

47% of Surveyed Companies Employees Are Open Source Contributors
February 1, 2016February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

How Many Company Developers Should Work on Open Source?

Survey data was combined with LinkedIn stats to get a perspective on how many employees contribute to open source projects.

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