Lawrence Hecht

December 17, 2017February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

AWS Lambda Still Towers Over the Competition, but for How Much Longer?

Amazon Web Services’ Lambda remains the serverless leader, but competitors have a gleam of hope in their eyes.

December 2, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Developers Care About Security, but the Infosec Team Cares More

60% of a developer-focused survey said that release schedules have overridden security concerns at their organization.

November 18, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Blockchain Is Hot; but React.js Is on Top

Blockchain is hot, but it still has to make exponential-size gains until it rivals other skills, such as React programming, that will get a developer a job.

October 28, 2017February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Making Sense of Open Source Projects

Assessing who contributes to an open source project is not as easy as running a few queries against the GitHub API. Yet, as we continue to see, that doesn’t stop people from trying.

October 13, 2017February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Kubernetes Implementations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Kubernetes is winning the expectations game. According to 173 production-level users of Kubernetes, a full 99 percent said the platform has either completely or substantially met their IT or business goals.

datacenter space: public cloud, leased vs owned by corporation

October 7, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Co-Location Not Hurt by the Public Cloud Boom

Some large customers looking for improved latency may start to demand that their cloud services be hosted in the same facilities as their co-located IT infrastructure equipment.

September 23, 2017February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Container Storage Preferences for Kubernetes

Among the Kubernetes evaluators who responded to our survey, nearly three respondents in four (73 percent) who use AWS storage with Kubernetes gave Amazon EC2 Container Service some consideration. The high level of consideration is mostly because of AWS’s overall Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market share. However, very few of these people (18 percent) actually ended up using ECS.

adoption of orchestration tools by deployment size

September 17, 2017February 14, 2025Full article from The New Stack, No longer in TNS site

Can There Be Too Much DevOps Automation?

Just like everyone else, NetOps and DevOps want to save time and money while reducing human error. Yet, a recent survey by F5 Networks of 884 professionals indicates that networking and DevOps still don’t agree about automation’s importance in relation to priorities like security, performance and reliability. […]