The Cloud Makes Privacy and GDPR Easier, Not Harder
62% of information security professionals surveyed believe privacy concerns have not stopped or slowed down adoption of cloud services,
How Open Source Policies Vary Across Industry Verticals
We’re coming to the point where levels of open source use are relatively similar across different industries. Across a range of verticals, businesses are increasingly developing the same cloud native and open source as practices as software industry leaders. Yet, there is still significant variation […]
Open Source Programs Shift from Legal to Engineering Productivity Focus
Open source programs (also known as OSPOs) are now largely driven by engineering teams instead of attorneys — and created to refine engineering practices and attract developer talent rather than simply comply with licensing requirements, according to a new analysis of the open source survey […]
Solving Serverless and Tracing Is Key to Success in Observability
Using logs, metrics, and traces together is part of the definition of “observability,” according to 83% of the nearly 1,000 respondents to Logz.io’s annual DevOps Pulse study.
Bespoke Software Development Spending Pops.
Efficiencies achieved because of SaaS and open-source-reliant infrastructure have been redirected to innovative software projects.
Two Perspectives on Enterprise IT Surveys
This post presents 1) the point of view of tech journalists that regularly read survey-based reports and 2) survey data interesting to IT vendors that sponsor these surveys. Tech Journalists I conduct at least four surveys a year and write a weekly column about other […]
Managing APIs Is a Time Suck
The effort needed to provide an API is significant, with 63% of the over 10,000 people surveyed for the “2019 Postman State of the API Report” spending at least 10 hours a week working on APIs.
How Long Does a Machine Learning Deployment Take?
On average, 40% of companies said it takes more than a month to deploy an ML model into production, 28% do so in eight to 30 days, while only 14% could do so in seven days or less.
CD4ML Notes
Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning was written by ThoughtWorks employees Danilo Sato, Arif Wider and Christoph Windheuser. I copy-pasted much of this content, so please go straight to the source for any and all attributions of the ideas summarized below. Definition: Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning […]
Big Tech’s Value to Open Source Sustainability
Big Tech’s Value to Open Source Sustainability Open source technology is sustainable in its current form, according to 64% of the 5,800 people recently surveyed by the cloud provider DigitalOcean. More than three-quarters of these optimists (77%) cite a dedicated community as a reason for […]
CrowdStrike and the Nation-State Threat to Cybersecurity: Facts vs. Hype
Nation-state sponsored cyberattacks are far more common than most people think, according to a recently-released report commissioned by CrowdStrike. The stats are attention-grabbing and so is the study’s sponsor. Overall, nation-states are threats, but CrowdStrike is overstating the threat.
Making Sense of the GitHub Octoverse Report
A few quick takes on GitHub’s annual report includes insights on non-U.S. contributions, developers supporting dependencies and the number of private repos.