Bad Cloud Computing News: OpenStack Use Plummets and Discounts Dry Up
In 2021, 52% of AWS customers got a discount on AWS reserved instances, now only 36% do. In 2021, 48% of Google Cloud customers negotiated an ad hoc discount; in 2022, only 10%.
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.
Using APIs with Low-Code Tools: 9 Best Practices
Low- and no-code tools can speed up software development. But how do you make sure they work with the APIs you need, and don’t create new headaches?
Beyond Kubernetes, Cloud-native Projects Continue to Compete
Use of OpenTelemetry and Argo soared while several big CNCF projects stagnated.
Multicloud Not Growing Rapidly for Okta
40% of Okta customers deploy the vendor’s software to the cloud, up from 33% in 2017.
Burning Down the House: Quantifying the Impact of Log4j
An Anchore survey of 428 IT and security leaders conducted between Dec. 3 and 22 demonstrates that people believe the Log4j vulnerability had an immediate impact.
Solana Blockchain Crashes into Open Source Top 10
Solana’s push towards community may be paying off as it had more developers participating than the other Web3 projects.
Blame IT and Security, Not End Users, for Password Problems
BitWarden reported that 53% of IT decision-makers shared passwords via email, a big increase from 39% just a year earlier.
Digital Platform Success and Event Architecture
Organizations are twice as likely to have a successful digital platform if event-driven architecture (EDA) is used to build that platform.
Look Past the Bros, and Concerns About Open Source Inclusion Remain
Women, non-binary, LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities were twice as likely to have experienced threats of violence in the context of an open source project.
Takeaways from GitHub’s Octoverse Report
Developers who spend most of their time doing software development for a private company’s repositories (47%) or are focused on an open source project while working for a private company (5.5%) behave differently than those other professional developers (13.5%) and students (29%) that are still engaged in the open source community.
Takeaways from GitHub’s Octoverse Report
Developers who spend most of their time doing software development for a private company’s repositories (47%) or are focused on an open source project while working for a private company (5.5%) behave differently than those other professional developers (13.5%) and students (29%) that are still engaged in the open source community.
GitLab Thrives in China and with Open Source
The DevOps platform’s “land and expand” strategy has helped it grow quickly and reach into countries where competitors like GitHub and Atlassian have struggled to gain traction.