Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Monitoring products have traditionally focused on infrastructure, applications or end users. Cisco’s purchase of AppDynamics reminds us there is increasing desire for monitoring tools that collect data from all these areas. Interestingly, infrastructure metrics may get more attention than they deserve. In Big Panda’s The State […]
Central IT departments are in constant fear of being sidelined. The c-suite knows the enterprise cannot be transformed without so-called digital transformation. While there has been a lot said about how IT can respond to this disruption, IDG recently reported something quantifiable being done. Over half of […]
Among developers, Slack — along with Atlassian HipChat, Gitter and others — have captured mindshare for ChatOps. However, when Spiceworks surveyed 448 IT pros in December 2016 about collaborative chat applications, Skype for Business and Google Hangouts are used more often than Slack. In fact, among enterprises, […]
Once again we are seeing a Kubernetes trend mirror a Docker trend. Both technologies started with many more job postings mentioning the keyword Kubernetes or Docker as compared to job seekers looking for those terms. Yet, they also follow a similar pattern where they approach a one-to-one ratio. […]
DevOps is such an undefined job title. Application operator, or site reliability engineer (SRE), perhaps more accurately describe the job role. Yet, when people are asked to describe their job, they often say DevOps. In the recently published ebook “Monitoring & Management with Docker & […]
Conventional wisdom over the last few months is that although Kubernetes became the leading choice for container orchestration, Docker Swarm (or Swarmkit) still enjoys an advantage among developers. Survey data from Anchore — analyzed by Red Monk — turns that thinking on its head. Almost twice as many […]
Over the past months, we’ve seen several blogs saying “cloud is eating software” instead of “software is eating the world.” There’s now data to back up that claim. Looking at the 2017 SIM IT Trends Study, software as a percentage of the entire IT budget may have peaked at […]
Application support consumes more internal labor spend than application development on average, despite generally higher salaries for application developers than for support personnel.
Just because an application can be containerized or re-platformed does not mean it will be. When Deloitte asked CIOs about their core business applications, a majority said they only plan to enhance functionality, improve integration or stay put. True believers in the microservices/container revolution should not lose […]
Stitch Data analyzed everyone on LinkedIn that said they are a data engineers. They found that many were originally a developer, with 42 percent being a software engineer in their last job. This makes sense, as big data training specialist Jesse Anderson says a data engineer’s primary language should […]
With the recently announced board additions, 4 of the 19 Linux Foundation board members are female. At 21 percent, that is one percentage point higher than the universe of directors at S&P 500 firms. The representation of many people of Asian descent is due to the geographic diversity […]
Last week Facebook announced Yarn, which makes it easier to update dependencies with the npm registry. According to a recent RisingStack survey, 45 percent of Node.js developers update dependencies less than once a month. Whether Yarn will increase dependency updates is an open question, but it can’t […]