Lawrence Hecht – Page 5 – Transforming Information Into Knowledge

cloud customers are not taking advantage of discounts as often as they were in 2020 and 2021

March 10, 2022February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Bad Cloud Computing News: OpenStack Use Plummets and Discounts Dry Up

In 2021, 52% of AWS customers got a discount on AWS reserved instances, now only 36% do. In 2021, 48% of Google Cloud customers negotiated an ad hoc discount; in 2022, only 10%.

Mechanisms to document and inventory APIs

February 28, 2022February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Using APIs with Low-Code Tools: 9 Best Practices

Low- and no-code tools can speed up software development. But how do you make sure they work with the APIs you need, and don’t create new headaches?

February 11, 2022February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Beyond Kubernetes, Cloud-native Projects Continue to Compete

Use of OpenTelemetry and Argo soared while several big CNCF projects stagnated.

February 10, 2022February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Multicloud Not Growing Rapidly for Okta

40% of Okta customers deploy the vendor’s software to the cloud, up from 33% in 2017.

January 27, 2022February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Burning Down the House: Quantifying the Impact of Log4j

An Anchore survey of 428 IT and security leaders conducted between Dec. 3 and 22 demonstrates that people believe the Log4j vulnerability had an immediate impact.

defi and nft projects attract authors to participate but velocity of activity does not-match-big name open source project

January 20, 2022February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Solana Blockchain Crashes into Open Source Top 10

Solana’s push towards community may be paying off as it had more developers participating than the other Web3 projects.

January 13, 2022February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Blame IT and Security, Not End Users, for Password Problems

BitWarden reported that 53% of IT decision-makers shared passwords via email, a big increase from 39% just a year earlier.

what architectural approaches or development capabilities is your organization using to build its digital platform?

January 7, 2022February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Digital Platform Success and Event Architecture

Organizations are twice as likely to have a successful digital platform if event-driven architecture (EDA) is used to build that platform.

How people from different backgrounds feel about whether or not people-from different backgrounds have equal opportunities to participate in open source projects

December 21, 2021February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Look Past the Bros, and Concerns About Open Source Inclusion Remain

Women, non-binary, LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities were twice as likely to have experienced threats of violence in the context of an open source project.

most open source projects at work do not have codes-of-conduct

November 24, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Takeaways from GitHub’s Octoverse Report

Developers who spend most of their time doing software development for a private company’s repositories (47%) or are focused on an open source project while working for a private company (5.5%) behave differently than those other professional developers (13.5%) and students (29%) that are still engaged in the open source community.

November 24, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Takeaways from GitHub’s Octoverse Report

Is your company / organization tied to any tooling stack / platform?

October 21, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

GitLab Thrives in China and with Open Source

The DevOps platform’s “land and expand” strategy has helped it grow quickly and reach into countries where competitors like GitHub and Atlassian have struggled to gain traction.