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Roadmap for Hosted Serverless Platforms
November 1, 2018August 6, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Serverless and Hosted and Installable Platforms

The leading hosted platforms are the big three cloud providers’ FaaS offerings. AWS Lambda has twice as many users as Azure Functions and more than three times as many as Google Cloud Functions.

multicloud strategy
October 29, 2018August 4, 2025No longer on TNS site

IBM’s Red Hat Buy Aims to Bring the ‘Hybrid Cloud’ to the Enterprise

“Hybrid cloud” has already reached its peak in the hype cycle, with “multicloud” being a more popular term these days. A RightScale survey in February showed that Hybrid Cloud was dropped from 58 percent to 51 percent as the dominant strategy. In a different survey from Virtustream, 86 percent said they are using a multicloud strategy.

Technical use cases for serverless
October 25, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Business Logic Is a Leading Technical Use Case for Serverless

REST APIs, batch jobs and scheduled tasks, and business logic are the most common use cases for serverless architecture, according to 278 real serverless adopters surveyed by The New Stack. Many of these web applications have written-in logic that executes events such as sending an email […]

how do you automate security testing in the SDLC?
October 18, 2018August 6, 2025No longer on TNS site

Reality Check on Automated Security Testing

Limited automation and ineffectiveness are two problems facing the application security testing market.

54% of non-production FaaS adopters do not use serverless architecture
October 14, 2018August 6, 2025No longer on TNS site

FaaS ≠ Serverless

54 percent of FaaS users without production deployments say their organization does not utilize a serverless architecture.

Functions written in different languages: currently and in next 18 months
September 27, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site, Published in The New Stack Update

Prepare for an Onslaught of Go Language Serverless Functions

Over a quarter of people with serverless architectures in use or in plan expect to write a function using the Go language (Golang) in the next 18 months.

Types of Open Source Policies Depending on OSPO Status
September 25, 2018August 6, 2025No longer on TNS site

Open Source Culture Starts with Programs and Policies

More than anything, open source programs are responsible for fostering “open source culture,” according to a survey The New Stack conducted with The Linux Foundation’s TODO Group. By creating an open source culture, companies with open source programs see the benefits we’ve previously reported, including […]

Do you or your team use models to generate predictions?
September 20, 2018August 6, 2025No longer on TNS site

Machine Learning Developers Don’t Predict

A majority of developers involved with machine learning do not use models to generate predictions.

Lambda and Docker Usage on AWS: Analysis of Sumo Logic Customers
September 13, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site

Docker and Lambda on Par in AWS Environments

AWS-branded technologies continue to perform well versus generic open source offerings.

tools to manage open source code repos
September 6, 2018August 2, 2025No longer on TNS site

Even Open Sourcers Pay for Code Repositories

Alternative vendor offerings are still commonly used to manage open source code. More research is needed to determine Atlassian Bitbucket or GitLab will lose customers to a paid version of GitHub.

large companies especially those at internet-scale most likely to have an open source program
August 30, 2018August 6, 2025No longer on TNS site

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 users much more likely than other developers to also use Elastisearch and Memchached
August 23, 2018February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

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.

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