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Functions written in different languages: currently and in next 18 months

September 27, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Prepare for an Onslaught of Go Language Serverless Functions

Over a quarter of people with serverless architectures in use or in plan expect to write a function using the Go language (Golang) in the next 18 months.

percentage of codebase pulled from open source

August 13, 2018August 4, 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, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

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, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

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, 2018August 4, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

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.

May 5, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

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, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

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 […]