Survey: Open Source Programs Are a Best Practice Among Large Companies
Large companies are about twice as likely to run an open source program than smaller companies (63 percent vs. 37 percent.)
Redis Pulls Back on Open Source Licensing, Citing Stingy Cloud Services
With a for-profit entity taking advantage of an “open core” business model, it remains to be seen which users will stop using the database because they want to use something with more permissive licensing.
Data Scientists, Not Developers, Lead Machine Learning Efforts
51% of data specialists that are doing ML said their models are created by an internal data science team.
NSFW on a Blockchain
Pornography was the killer app Web 1.0 and now it has its tawdry reputation and not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content to the ICO world many real blockchain use cases. This article weeds out the scams from the true players to present a landscape of today’s adult entertainment […]
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.
The Benefits and Drawbacks of DataOps in Practice
Data engineering regularly gets blamed when things go wrong with the company’s data analytics. In fact, 21% say this always happens and another 42% believe it occurs often. Sometimes the blame may be deserved, but when undeserved quitting is an attractive option. Unsurprisingly, when data engineering is always blamed for the Data/Analytics problems, 65% are very likely to leave.
DevOps Security Needs More Tooling
More than half (56 percent) of survey respondents believe that integration of security into the entire DevOps process is either poorly done or non-existent.
Container Deployment Still Outpaces ‘Serverless’
Containers are being used or actively evaluated by 32 percent of respondents, compared to 19 percent for serverless computing and 14 percent for FaaS (function as a service).
Token Funding Is Not Democratic
Is crowdsourced funding supposed to be democratic? Should decentralized economies have equitable governance? In an ideal world, the answers may be yes, but in reality democracy is rare even in the crypto world. Instead, the current state of affairs for token economies is oligarchy. The […]
Serverless Moves from Beta to Business Use
Compared to its last year’s survey, the Serverless Inc. 2018 study found that respondents using serverless at work rose from 45 percent in 2017 to 82 percent in 2018.
Twitter Followers Disappear for 14 Exchange-traded Tokens
Beware of blockchain projects that brag about the size of their social media following. In the blink of an eye they might disappear. That’s what happened this week when Twitter removed fake followers from its statistics. Specifically, they removed “locked accounts” that were not bots […]
ICOs Reveal Weakness in Open Source Blockchain Business Models
The blockchain and cryptocurrency world provides quantifiable proof that open source can both help and hurt a project’s likelihood of financial success, according to Early Evidence on the Role of Disclosure in the Unregulated Crypto Market, which quantifies the success of 776 initial coin offerings (ICOs) […]