Data Catalogs Need a Major Upgrade
Tools for data catalogs, metadata and the semantic layer are not meeting requirements for self-service business intelligence, analytics, artificial intelligence and related data preparation and integration.
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.
Digital Certs Key to Securing Open Source Supply Chain, Though Few Devs Use Them
Half of all open source contributors are never encouraged to use digital signatures when making changes to the open source projects they’re involved with according to the “2020 FOSS Contributor Survey.”
Data Virtualization in the Context of the Data Mesh
60% of these data virtualization users believe it is a strong alternative to a data warehouse according to a survey by Varada.
Creating Machine Learning Models Takes too Much Time
Once a use case is actually defined, it takes 66% of organizations more than a month to develop an ML model. For 64% of organizations, it takes at least another month to deploy that model.
Chaos Engineering Progressively Moves to Production
Sixty-three percent of over 400 IT professionals Gremlin surveyed for its”2021 State of Chaos Engineering” have performed a chaos experiment in a dev or test environment, but “only” 34% have done so in production.
Parler’s Other Security Risk: DNS Denial-of-Service
Overall, 40% of websites in a study are critically dependent on just three DNS services — Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare and DNSMadeEasy. That jumps to 72% when including in-direct dependencies associated with certificate authorities (CAs). CAs support HTTPS security and are a standard requirement for today’s website operators.
Software Engineers Use Spreadsheets; Data Engineers Use the Cloud
Data engineers use cloud-based software and APIs as their primary tool to analyze data and are more likely to analyze data in the cloud.
Direct Contribution, Indirect Financing Most Effective for Open Source
Throwing money at a problem is not the best way to get things done, whether in business, charity, or the open source economy. Two recent studies prove the point. Non-monetary reasons for contributing topped the list when over a thousand contributors to free and open […]
When Service Meshes Can Emerge from Envoy/Istio Shadows
Istio has a big service mesh lead, but only among a segment of early adopters. A
Container Security on Amazon Web Services
Organizations are not using scanning as much as they could to increase container security. Although 67% use Amazon ECR, only 40% are actually using the container registry’s native capabilities to scan images.
Adoption of AWS Lambda Serverless Stalls
Despite proclamations from Amazon.com Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels that usage of Amazon Web Services’ Lambda usage has risen dramatically, recent surveys of Kubernetes communities have found relative declines in the adoption of the serverless service. As the number of cloud native organizations continues to […]
Cloud Architects: Edge, Multicloud and Workload Portability Not Top Priorities
Organizations looking to add a new piece of cloud infrastructure don’t believe running workloads at the edge is an essential requirement. Nor is running individual applications across multiple clouds (“multicloud”), according to our recent Infrastructure-as-a-Service survey of tech executives.