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.
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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%.
Google and Oracle Cloud Adoption Doubles Among Enterprises
The numbers seem too good to be true. The Google Cloud Platform is used by 49% of enterprise respondents surveyed for Flexera’s “2021 State of the Cloud Report,” up from 20% in the 2019 study. The Oracle Infrastructure Cloud similarly skyrocketed from 16% to 32%. However, […]
The Cloud Makes Privacy and GDPR Easier, Not Harder
62% of information security professionals surveyed believe privacy concerns have not stopped or slowed down adoption of cloud services,
Survey Shows How Developers and Their Employers Measure Good Open Source Citizenship
The biggest benefit of being a good open source citizen is how it can help transform how a company operates, from technology adoption and licensing practices, to policies, recruiting and hiring.
Microsoft Mobile Developers Moving to Generic Browsers
Over the last two years, the percentage of developers working on Android and iOS apps declined slightly while those targeting mobile browsers rose by 43 percent.
Serverless and Hosted and Installable Platforms
The leading hosted platforms are the big three cloud providers’ FaaS offerings. AWS Lambda has twice as many users as Azure Functions and more than three times as many as Google Cloud Functions.
Comparing Corporate Open Source Contributions on GitHub Organizations
Open Hub data indicates that 61 percent of the most active organizations on GitHub organizations are commercial enterprises. Most of these companies are working on projects where almost all of the contributors are also employees.
Product Development Is the Lynchpin Between Digital Transformation and DevOps
Digital Transformation and DevOps are overused buzzwords. Yuck. But that doesn’t mean you should use them. In fact, they should be used together because are directly related to product development. DevOps Research and Assessment’s (DORA) ongoing research with Puppet Labs says that some of the most statistically […]
Proof of Containers on Windows Servers
In less than a year, the percentage of container users running containers on Windows hosts has risen from 9 percent to 29 percent. Portworx’s 2017 survey cleverly used a few identical questions from a ClusterHQ/DevOps.com survey we wrote about in 2016. The huge rise in adoption is too big […]
TypeScript, TypeScript, TypeScript
We’ve been actively covering TypeScript but it wasn’t until recently that we saw stats showing just how popular it is. Stack Overflow added this JavaScript superset to its Developer Survey 2017, and boom — it is being used by 9.5 percent of developers, making it the ninth most used language […]
Skype/Microsoft, Not Slack, Dominate Collaborative Chat
Among developers, Slack — along with Atlassian HipChat, Gitter and others — have captured mindshare for ChatOps. However, when Spiceworks surveyed 448 IT pros in December 2016 about collaborative chat applications, Skype for Business and Google Hangouts are used more often than Slack. In fact, among enterprises, […]