AWS Still Looms Over Docker Swarm and Kubernetes
Twenty-five percent of those that deploy containers to AWS use its container service.
Docker’s San Francisco Roots are Growing Globally
Of course, Docker is the darling of Silicon Valley, but how global is the container phenomenon? To judge from the attendance of Docker meetups around the world, we can see the technology’s influence growing. Our research was conducted in Summer 2015. Since then, repeat attendance […]
How Many Company Developers Should Work on Open Source?
Survey data was combined with LinkedIn stats to get a perspective on how many employees contribute to open source projects.
How the IT Landscape is Shifting to Accommodate Containers
The PaaS market is evolving quickly as vendors offer platforms to deploy containerized applications.
On the Prevalence of Real-time Analytics
Most companies are using data in real-time for at least some application or department.
DevOps and Other Factions in the Software Development World
DevOps are people now. We’ve long considered the term “DevOps” to be primarily about a process, specifically a melding of the workflow between the developer (the “dev”) and the administrator (operations or ops). Yet we’ve found at least a few hundred readers of Stack Overflow […]
Lessons From Consulting’s Thought Leadership
How many times have you been disappointed in vendor-produced content? Do you contemptuously look at an analyst firm’s report thinking you know more about the subject than the author? Have you ever been embarrassed because your six-page study is clearly produced by Marketing and not actual experts? […]
When Consultancies Should Work With Analytic Consultants
This is the second of several blog posts that look at the use of analytics consultants and when consulting firms should use analytics consultants. The first article can be found here. Management consultancies like McKinsey have been rushing to get in on the analytics boom […]
Why and When to Use Analytics Consultants
This is the first of several blog posts that look at the use of analytics consultants and when consulting firms should use analytics consultants. Throughout the corporate world analytics is a necessary capability for a data-driven enterprise. But what types of analytics should be done […]
Developing a Methodology for Analyzing Open Source Communities
To create the first table above, data about contributors was collected using a tool called Blockspring that accessed the GitHub API to pull information about contributors to specific repositories.
Advice to Prospective New Analysts
In order to do justice to a recent podcast I decided to provide my commentary in two posts. The first post can be found here. As an observer of the analyst industry I took notice about what the panelists thought about the future. I agreed with […]
Asymmetric Competition With the Gartners of the World
I just finished listening to Kea Company’s three-part podcast, The New Industry Analysts, Who Are They? Although I have already talked to several of the panelists about the subject, I still found the conversation to be compelling. Generally, Michael Coté and Phil Fersht were skeptical, yet realistic about […]