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challenges using microservices
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 […]

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

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

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

Developers Are Ethical But Not Responsible?

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

Ratings of Security Operations activities based on enjoyment, expertise, value, resources and time
February 18, 2018August 4, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

SecOps Spends Its Days Monitoring

Given the shortage of information security professionals, it is concerning that only 45 percent of respondents said their job experience was meeting their expectations.

declining interest in the term "open source"
February 10, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

20 Years on, Interest in ‘Open Source’ is Declining

Interest in open source peaked in 2005.

Kubernetes manages containers at 69% of orgs surveyed.
February 3, 2018August 6, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

CoreOS, Red Hat and Kubernetes Competition

69 percent of the survey uses Kubernetes, with little specific evidence that respondents are wed to one company’s distribution.

use of microservices architecture
January 20, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

DevOps Favor Microservices

55 percent of those running containers in production also use microservices architecture for a production application.

who should be responsible for security?
December 2, 2017August 5, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Developers Care About Security, but the Infosec Team Cares More

60% of a developer-focused survey said that release schedules have overridden security concerns at their organization.

November 18, 2017August 6, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Blockchain Is Hot; but React.js Is on Top

Blockchain is hot, but it still has to make exponential-size gains until it rivals other skills, such as React programming, that will get a developer a job.

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