Lawrence Hecht – Page 25 – Transforming Information Into Knowledge

January 6, 2017January 31, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

Disappearing Kubernetes Skills Crisis

Once again we are seeing a Kubernetes trend mirror a Docker trend. Both technologies started with many more job postings mentioning the keyword Kubernetes or Docker as compared to job seekers looking for those terms. Yet, they also follow a similar pattern where they approach a one-to-one ratio. […]

December 16, 2016January 31, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

DevOps Look at the World Differently

DevOps is such an undefined job title. Application operator, or site reliability engineer (SRE), perhaps more accurately describe the job role. Yet, when people are asked to describe their job, they often say DevOps. In the recently published ebook Monitoring & Management with Docker & Containers, […]

December 9, 2016January 31, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

Where Did Docker’s “Developer” Lead Go?

Conventional wisdom over the last few months is that although Kubernetes became the leading choice for container orchestration, Docker Swarm (or Swarmkit) still enjoys an advantage among developers. Survey data from Anchore — analyzed by Red Monk — turns that thinking on its head. Almost twice as many […]

December 2, 2016February 1, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

Contrarian Look at Software Spending

Over the past months, we’ve seen several blogs saying “cloud is eating software” instead of “software is eating the world.” There’s now data to back up that claim. Looking at the 2017 SIM IT Trends Study, software as a percentage of the entire IT budget may have peaked at […]

November 23, 2016February 5, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article, The New Stack

The Software Budget’s Appetite Kept in Check by the Bottom Line

Application support consumes more internal labor spend than application development on average, despite generally higher salaries for application developers than for support personnel.

November 18, 2016January 31, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

54 Percent of CIOs Have No Plans to Lift or Shift

Just because an application can be containerized or re-platformed does not mean it will be. When Deloitte asked CIOs about their core business applications, a majority said they only plan to enhance functionality, improve integration or stay put. True believers in the microservices/container revolution should not lose […]

November 11, 2016January 31, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

Answer: Hadoop. Question: What’s the difference between a data and software engineer?

Stitch Data analyzed everyone on LinkedIn that said they are a data engineers. They found that many were originally a developer, with 42 percent being a software engineer in their last job. This makes sense, as big data training specialist Jesse Anderson says a data engineer’s primary language should […]

November 4, 2016January 31, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

Diversity Watchdog

With the recently announced board additions, 4 of the 19 Linux Foundation board members are female. At 21 percent, that is one percentage point higher than the universe of directors at S&P 500 firms. The representation of many people of Asian descent is due to the geographic diversity […]