Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Last week we estimated that development costs for the Kubernetes ecosystem were over $120 million. Many people saw this as a bargain, while others questioned the underlying methodology. For example, using lines of code is by general consensus a flawed metric. Multiple readers also asked about the […]
Based on the lines of code in each project, we estimate that it cost about $120 million to get to Kubernetes 1.4.
Kubernetes has the second most contributors reviewing code on GitHub, and in many other GitHub and social media metrics outperforms Docker and other container rivals. While some metrics are fluff, the number of contributors is a very useful indicator. Everyone knows it indicates how strong a community […]
JVM developers are interested in data stream processing technologies, but that “interest” is red hot if they are deploying microservices. According to Lightbend’s recent survey of JVM developers, 18 percent use Kafka in production, 13 percent use Akka Streams, and 12 percent use Spark Streaming. […]
Large enterprises are catching up to the technological and economic reality that smaller companies had already arrived at.
JVM developers are focused on containerizing new as opposed to legacy apps.
If you think of Redis first and foremost as a database, then you are probably not a Node.js developer. According to a RisingStack survey, 49 percent of Node.js developers use Redis for caching, 37 percent as a database and 2 percent as a messaging system. In other […]
A recent survey found that almost half of respondents still prefer to run databases inside a virtual machine — 30 percent said they would rather utilize a Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering. When conducting their own research, DBaaS provider Tesora found that the most important criteria for DBaaS […]
Should community participants fork Docker to facilitate increased participation? And if so, should that activity occur within Open Container Initiative (OCI) projects? We don’t know the answers, but we have been evaluating the health of OCI projects. Using a dashboard created by Bitergia, we found that the number […]
It has taken years and years for legacy apps to slowly migrate to the cloud. Some speculate things might be different with containers. Yet, just like with general “cloud,” container usage has thrived most among startups and those deploying applications to greenfields. Just looking at the […]
Women are more successful at getting pull requests accepted than men on GitHub. That’s the conclusion reported in an academic paper, Gender Differences and Bias in Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance of Women Versus Men. By comparing GitHub email addresses with self-reported gender on Google+, researchers found […]
In software, there are few oldies but goodies. Yet, perhaps we shouldn’t accuse developers of ageism. Sonatype’s 2016 Software Supply Chain report looked at 1,000 repository managers and the components they manage. Components more than two years old account for over 53 percent of the software parts development […]