Who’s Leading WebAssembly Adoption? So Far, Vendors
Web development continues to be the top use case for Wasm, cited by 71% of respondents in the third annual “State of WebAssembly” report.
Despite the Hype, Engineers Not Impressed with DORA Metrics
Twenty-nine percent of engineers surveyed by LeadDev and Swarmia said they don’t know enough about Google’s much-hyped DevOps success measures to say if they’re effective or not.
US Leads in Many DevSecOps Practices, France and Japan Trail
Both Japanese and French organizations are far behind the U.S. and global benchmarks for several practices associated with modern DevSecOps teams. For example, while 46% of U.S. respondents said their organizations use infrastructure-as-code, only 22% of French and 15% of Japanese respondents said likewise.
How Important Is Open Source to AI Adoption?
Among the whopping survey respondents who are using or planning to use LLMs, only 27% actually expect a commercial version to be used in production. Almost half (47%) of those with no plans to use a commercial LLM cited a desire not to share proprietary information with vendors. In comparison, only 17% said the reason is because commercial LLMs are too expensive to scale.
70% of Devs Using or Will Use AI, Says Stack Overflow Survey
44% of developers said they already use AI tools in their development process, and another 26% plan to do so soon. When this group was asked what specific AI-powered developer tools they use, 55% mentioned GitHub Copilot, while 13% use Tabnine and 5% use Amazon Web Services CodeWhisperer. The other seven tools included in the survey were used by no more than 2%.
Is DevOps Tool Complexity Slowing Down Developer Velocity?
Developers haven’t gotten significantly faster at making code changes and putting them into production over the past two and a half years, reported a new study by the CD Foundation and SlashData.
Azure’s Golang Problem
Microsoft Azure does not support the cloud native Go programming language as well as its rivals do according to a survey.
73% of Organizations Don’t Enforce Multifactor Authentication
On average, it takes IT security teams 145 hours — just slightly more than six days — to resolve a security alert.
High-Performing DevOps Teams Build Self-Service Platforms
Top-performing DevOps teams are much more likely than other organizations to use internal developer platforms, said Humanitec’s new study. But those companies make up only 6% of the landscape.
Devs Most Likely to Learn Go and Rust in 2023, Survey Says
Overall, developers in the survey were using an average of 5.4 of the 36 languages that researchers asked about. Survey participants identified — in descending order — JavaScript, Python, Java, HTML/CSS and Typescript as their most commonly used programming or markup languages.
What’s Data Governance? Tech and Business Don’t Agree
Half of IT respondents to a new survey said data governance means conveyed data in terms of a relatable business context, but 30% of business professionals disagreed.
Java Usage Keeps Climbing, According to New Survey
Just under half of the active developers worldwide (49%) reported that they use Java, compared with 39% who said so in Q3 2020 — an increase of 26%.