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.
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.
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.
What If All Frontend Developers Were Jamstack Developers?
Almost twice as many respondents still use the traditional WordPress implementation as opposed to the headless version.
Test Automation for Software Development
The biggest challenge to test automation is no longer dealing with changing functionality but instead not having enough time to create and conduct tests.
More Organizations Report Benefits of Open Source Programs
Sixty-three percent of participants in a new survey said their OSPO is at least very business-critical to their IT teams, up from 54% in 2020’s study.
Google on the DevOps ‘Elite’ and Everyone Else
After two waves of DevOps adoption, some companies that have fully embraced DevOps best practices are achieving better software delivery and operational performance metrics than their peers.