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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.
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 […]
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. […]
Silicon Valley ≠ the Tech Community
Recent analysis by StackShare indicates that Silicon Valley developers use AWS, GitHub and Slack more often than others.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
AWS Still Looms Over Docker Swarm and Kubernetes
Twenty-five percent of those that deploy containers to AWS use its container service.
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 […]
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.
How the IT Landscape is Shifting to Accommodate Containers
The PaaS market is evolving quickly as vendors offer platforms to deploy containerized applications.