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Category: Published in The New Stack Update

tools to manage open source code repos
September 6, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Even Open Sourcers Pay for Code Repositories

Alternative vendor offerings are still commonly used to manage open source code. More research is needed to determine Atlassian Bitbucket or GitLab will lose customers to a paid version of GitHub.

percentage of codebase pulled from open source
August 13, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Competing Estimates of Open Source Composition

Nine out of 10 components in the average application are open source, according to an analysis of 1,700 apps in Sonatype’s “State of the Software Supply Chain.” However, a survey of people familiar with application security by ESG provides a lower figure — only 43% believe that more than half of their enterprise’s codebase of open source.

June 30, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Apache Kafka’s Metamorphosis

Data pipelines and messaging are now the top two uses of Kafka, followed by microservices/event processing and stream processing.

tech pros that have experience or witnessed discrimination with their current or most recent employer
June 16, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Discrimination in the Tech Industry

Almost nine out of ten 50+ year old respondents to a Dice survey are worried about their age will be a barrier to getting a new job.

package manager used, importance of different packages for multiple environments
June 9, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Managing JavaScript Packages with npm and Yarn

That being said, it is notable that Yarn users are much more likely to care about managing packages across multiple environments.

Containers and serverless deployments with Top 3 public cloud providers
May 19, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Did AWS Lambda Win Serverless?

AWS is widely used by cloud-native practitioners. We expect that as serverless expands and deepens that enterprises will continue to utilize multiple clouds, with AWS usually being part of the mix.

challenges using microservices
May 5, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Data and Troubleshooting Problems Caused by Microservices

Among those already using microservices in production, 59 percent said each microservice added increased operational challenges like data management.

Websites Not Using a Valid SSL Certificate Authority
April 14, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

SSL Adoption Continues to Rise

Three years ago only 15 percent of websites worldwide used a valid SSL (secure socket layer) certificate authority. In April 2018 that figure has jumped to 50 percent according to W3Tech’s data. The remaining sites either don’t have a certificate or have one that is not […]

Chinese respondents are more likely to be challenged by reliability, choosing an orchestration solution and finding vendor support
April 7, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Chinese Adoption of Kubernetes

Chinese developers are, in general, less far along in their production deployment of containers and Kubernetes.

usage and awareness of different serverless computing platforms
March 31, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Serverless Now Rivals VMs Delivered as a Service

In the first quarter of 2018, only 20 percent of backend developers surveyed by SlashData utilized an on-demand VM service, down from 46 percent in the third quarter of 2016.

Differences between on-premises-only and public-cloud only organizations
March 24, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

On-Prem Orgs Trail Cloud Counterparts in Tech Adoption

Public cloud providers will continue to lead, but the market will support organizations that maintain their own private clouds or on-premises data centers, running applications to whatever is the best execution environment for a given workload.

Developer Ethics
March 17, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Developers Are Ethical But Not Responsible?

73% of developers said they are more excited about AI’s possibilities rather than worried about its dangers.

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