Postcard from the Edge: Government Use of Internet of Things
Monitoring and controlling equipment is the most common IoT use case among the 90 U.S. government agencies surveyed.
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.
Culture, Vulnerabilities and Budget: Why Devs and AppSec Disagree
As compared to AppSec professionals, developers are significantly less, to believe application security risk at their organization has increased.
Value Investing: Open Source Foundations
The key determinant member satisfaction with an open source foundation is how often the organization is contributing upstream to open source projects.
Pure Storage Needed Portworx
Pure Storage customers were facing Kubernetes challenges, so the company acquired cloud native storage startup Portworx.
Visual Basic Lingers on
Visual Basic is remembered as a forerunner to today’s low-code offerings, but it still ranks sixth on the TIOBE Index.
VMware Cloud on AWS’s Slice of the Off-Premises Private Pie
59% of IT professionals are running workloads in an off-premises private cloud according to previously unreported data from the “Faction 2020 VMware Cloud on AWS Market Survey.”
Shaky Economy Dampens Need for Developer Recruitment Efforts
Many companies are not hiring and may even have had layoffs. In this environment, large technology companies are having fewer problems recruiting and retaining talent.
Bridgecrew: Misconfigured Terraform Modules Are a Security Issue
44% of the 2,600 modules for Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud support were misconfigured when Bridgecrew assessed how they match up again CIS benchmarks.
Digital Transformation During the Pandemic
IT operations and capital expenses are being cut. As of May 2020, 30% of organizations expect budgets for IT operations to decrease as a result of the pandemic, with only 13% predicting increases according to a report from Avasant Research.
Rancher’s K3s Will Be Crucial for SUSE’s Kubernetes Success
Rancher’s K3s Kubernetes distribution offers SUSE rapid growth and a distinctly new set of users attracted to the ease in which it can be deployed with IoT and edge use cases.
Serverless Needs More Observability Tools
Top serverless use cases continue to involve REST APIs and business logic.
Where Site Reliability Engineering Overlaps with DevOps
Infrastructure-as-code is used by 71% of site reliability engineers.