Concern About ‘State’ Lessens as More Applications Use Stream Processing
Stream processing users often start with ETL and messaging between microservices, then move into more advanced use cases.
AIOps Users Found in the Wild
Adoption figures for AI, ML, and intelligent automation are all over the map depending on how the terms are defined and who is asked about it.
AIOps, Blockchain and Other Buzzwords
The blockchain bubble has burst and now it looks like AIOps (IT operations aided by artificial intelligence) may be the next buzz word to become overplayed.
API Providers Face High Expectations
A formal API monitoring process has been implemented by 57% of the respondents’ companies. Since they are spending the time to track the API performance, API users expect that the API provider will quickly respond to service level issues, with 75% expecting the provider to send out an immediate notification or alert.
Monitoring Concerns Hamper Hybrid, Multicloud Deployments
Misconfiguration of the cloud platform is cited most often as the biggest security threat in public clouds,
SREs Wish Automation Solved All Their Problems
SREs are more than glorified IT operations professionals, but a focus on availability means they often are often not empowered to work on the engineering challenges they rather being working on.
Security Integration Throughout Software Development Lifecycle Is a Pipe Dream
Risk and vulnerability management is the top reason to implement security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), but the second most common reason is improving code quality according to the DevSecOps Community Survey 2019. However, this does not appear to be enough motivation to integrate security automation into the development process.
Control Cloud Costs with Organizational Alignment, Not Just Software
Finance can get a better view of spending if it works closer with IT, but for now only 28 percent of respondents collaborate across both IT and Finance.
Open Source Maintainers Want to Reduce Application Security Risk
Just because they care about security does not mean developers have the time or ability to address all your infosec vulnerabilities.
Information Security Spending: Don’t Be Fooled by Overconfidence
Spending on information security continues to increase, but those gains may decelerate as companies become more confident in their security posture. Maybe too confident. Although many reports show that cybersecurity is a top driver of technology spending, Scale Venture Partners’ recent survey of 300 executives […]
C-suite Doesn’t Have a Clue About App Dev
Half of all C-level executives think DevOps methodologies are used by their developers while only 30 percent of application developers think likewise. Similarly, there is a 22 percentage point gap regarding continuous integration (CI).
Insights from 68 People Who Care About AWS Container Security
In late 2019, Amazon Web Services’ Developer Advocate Michael Hausenblas surveyed 68 people who use containers on AWS. The publicly available results provide several anecdotal clues about adoption patterns among customers of the world’s largest cloud provider.