Category: Published in The New Stack Update

According to RedMonk’s analysis of a Bitnami survey, 28 percent of respondents do continuous integration (CI) to some degree and 25 percent use containers. Both CI and containers are supposed to reduce the amount of time needed to test and deploy applications. Both are part […]

When choosing a container orchestration tool, 68 percent of respondents said the ability to manage long-running applications is critically important. Fifty-nine percent also said load balancing capabilities is extremely important. Less important is persistent storage, with only 38 percent saying it is extremely important. Although […]

Production users of containers overwhelmingly think of Docker as a packaging format. Docker the company thinks it is much more. The chart is from a JFrog survey and was completed by many Artifactory users, which means they understand the roles package and repository managers play. Along with […]

IT pros are of mixed minds about CLIs. They know CLIs inhibit network automation, but they appreciate the agility they can provide. Based on an ESG survey of IT pros, the main benefit of network automation, cited by 20 percent of respondents, is that configurations become […]

What is CaaS and how is it related to PaaS? TNS contributor Janakiram MSV continues to write about it in Forbes, but the chart comes from our ebook and frames the debate. Many of our readers have seen the results and question the inclusion of build/deploy […]

Computer Economics indicates that application programmers make up the same percentage of the IT workforce as they did six years ago. In another chart, they also indicate that outsourcing of app dev has not risen. Thus, although software is becoming more important, it is likely companies […]