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.
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.
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 […]
Reality Check on Automated Security Testing
Limited automation and ineffectiveness are two problems facing the application security testing market.
FaaS ≠ Serverless
54 percent of FaaS users without production deployments say their organization does not utilize a serverless architecture.
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.
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 […]
Machine Learning Developers Don’t Predict
A majority of developers involved with machine learning do not use models to generate predictions.
Docker and Lambda on Par in AWS Environments
AWS-branded technologies continue to perform well versus generic open source offerings.
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.
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.