Low-Code Tools Improve Devs’ Work-Life Balance, Survey Finds
Seventy-one percent of low-code tool users said they are able to stick to a 40-hour work week, compared with 44% of devs that don’t use the tech.
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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.
Seventy-one percent of low-code tool users said they are able to stick to a 40-hour work week, compared with 44% of devs that don’t use the tech.
More than three in four participants in the new Data on Kubernetes survey now acknowledge the use of databases on Kubernetes, up from 50% in 2021.
WebAssembly is cultivating a diverse user-base, with backend devs using WASM for cloud native work, and full-stack devs deploying it for Web development.
Despite high-profile layoffs and hiring freezes, the demand for technologists — especially backend and data engineers — remains strong, says a DIce report.
Despite competitors’ claims, cloud service providers and open source frameworks are seen as effective for risk management, reports the Cloud Security Alliance.
There’s a shortage of security professionals, but recent studies show that hands-on experience is more highly valued than academic degrees in the field, and apprenticeships may not lead to cybersecurity roles.
Although the collaboration tools space is getting more crowded, machine learning and data practitioners still prefer GitHub to other tools, says the latest survey by Kaggle.
Median salaries of developers rose across the board over the last year, driven up by inflation and economic demand. Beyond that, the Stack Overflow findings indicate that usage and learning patterns do not align neatly with actual salaries.
Despite the hefty compensation cited in the report, the annual salary increase was only 4%, which is below the rate of inflation.
Only about one in five IT professionals in a new study by DigitalOcean said they use serverless at their organization.
Eight-four percent of participants in a new survey by Tigera said they found it challenging to meet compliance regulations for cloud native applications.
Data and analytics leaders may be overestimating their companies’ ability to benefit from the next round of investments in data infrastructure technology.