Lawrence Hecht
The New Stack
New Jersey, United States
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I Don't Git It: Tracking the Source Collaboration Market
After reading our post on vulnerability scanning services, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij asked us, "So GitHub is growing, GitLab is growing even faster, and GitLab and BitBucket are shrinking? .... What could explain that?" He wanted to know why SmartBear's study found that companies are increasingly paying to use one of these code repositories, but our study only saw an increase for GitHub. Here is… → Read More
Integrating Security into Build Processes Signals DevSecOps Tipping Point
Companies start adding security into the testing phase and then usually integrate security as they deploy applications into production. The nearly 3,000 technical professionals and executives surveyed for the "2019 State of DevOps Report" believe these steps positively impact a company's security posture. Yet, adding "security" to testing and deployment also increases friction between security… → Read More
Reliable Support Inhibits Open Source Growth
Two open source surveys conducted with The New Stack show that open source lags behind proprietary software in reliable support or consulting services. → Read More
Research Shows Open Source Program Offices Improve Software Practices
The New Stack's second annual report on open source programs found that expectations for open source program management have begun to crystalize. → Read More
One Toolchain to Manage All the Development: A CI/CD-Vendor Obsession
A 2019 Forrester study sponsored by GitLab quantified found that more than three-quarters of organizations use at least two software delivery toolchains, with the average organization having six or more tools per toolchain. Measuring CI/CD adoption is difficult for many reasons, but one of them is the choice between all-in-one bundled software or best-of-breed tooling. → Read More
How Relevant Is the Gap Between the Elite and Low Performing IT Shops?
There is a widening gap between the best and worst performing companies according to the latest DORA DevOps report, produced by Nicole Forsgren. The report makes a big deal about a so-called elite group that represents of 21% of respondents working at companies that have adopted continuous delivery and other best practices. Yet, if you look at both elite and high performers, that grouping… → Read More
DataOps and the Problem with 'Ops' Terminology
Despite its buzzword name, DataOps is seeing traction in the enterprise, even if the practice is not fully mature. → Read More
Measuring CI/CD Adoption Rates Is a Problem
Because no one agrees on a common definition to continuous integration / continuous delivery, it is difficult to estimate how many organizations are doing DI/CD → Read More
Reality Check: Everyone Doesn't Prefer Open Source
The "IT Architecture Modernization Trends" report found that overall 38% lean towards commercial software, 32% prefer open source and do not have 30% a preference. → Read More
Capital One's Cloud Misconfiguration Woes Have Been an Industry-Wide Fear
Developers and IT decision makers should not be surprised by the recent Capitol One data breach: Misconfigurations have long been the top cloud security concern. → Read More
Data Center Management: Self-Healing Shifts to Self Optimization
Vertiv's "Data Center 2025: Closer to the Edge" report features responses from over 800 data center professionals and provides a glimpse of what 2025 may look like. The report examines how buzzwords like "self healing" have fared and illuminates new trends like "edge computing." → Read More
5 Takes from 5 Years of Publishing
Every week we analyze data to better understand the complexities of at scale development, deployment and management. To celebrate The New Stack's five-year annivesary this week, we are re-sharing the datasets used in five of our ebooks. Here are a few takeaways that were shared with our readers: → Read More
Best of Breed or Platform First? Microsoft Teams Gains on Slack
Will a single productivity platform like Google Suite or Microsoft Office 365 become dominant? Or will best-of-breed applications like Slack and Zoom — the parent companies for both enjoyed successful IPOs this year — continue to gain market share? → Read More
Take Our Survey on How Developers Use Open Source
The New Stack and Tidelift have teamed up to get answers to these questions and more in a 10-minute survey about how developers use open source to build applications in the workplace. In exchange for your time, the first 250 respondents will receive a free “Pay the Maintainers” t-shirt from Tidelift. → Read More
Organizations Running on More Clouds Less Likely to See Security Threats
Confusion about boundaries, whether they are between clouds or geographic locations, can make cloud security challenging. Several approaches aim to address the complexity of managing the security of multiple cloud environments, but one metric actually shows security improvement for organizations with more cloud providers. → Read More
Wasting Money on Public Cloud Storage
Late last year, a Cohesity survey found that 47% of IT executives are worried about blowing their organization's IT budget on unnecessary storage. This week, the vendor's a second 900-respondent survey Mass Data Fragmentation in the Cloud indicates that the cost of moving large volumes of data is a significant concern. Looking just at organizations that have yet to complete their mandate to move… → Read More
Take Our Survey on How Developers Use Open Source
The New Stack and Tidelift have teamed up to get answers to these questions and more in a 10-minute survey about how developers use open source to build applications in the workplace. In exchange for your time, the first 250 respondents will receive a free “Pay the Maintainers” t-shirt from Tidelift. → Read More
IT Ops Assumes a Greater Role in Container Management
A 2019 Container Adoption Benchmark Survey from Kubernetes provider Diamanti corroborates three trends we've seen in recent market research about containers adoption: 1) IT operations teams have taken the lead; 2) security, not state, is the biggest obstacle to increased adoption; and 3) performance, not cost, is the reason to run containers on bare metal. → Read More
Add It Up: Why Salesforce and Google Bought Tableau and Looker
Salesforce is buying Tableau and Google Cloud is adding Looker to its family. After reviewing a panoply of studies about business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data warehousing, we found it evident that both acquisitions will provide best-in-class functionality addressing the needs of both business analysts and the IT department, as well as leadership in high-growth markets that are only… → Read More
Legacy Customers' Concerns Propel Oracle's Move Towards Microsoft
The Microsoft/Oracle partnership addresses some, but definitely not all, of the concerns large enterprises have about multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments. For hybrid cloud, the agreement promotes the fast movement of data between the two companies's clouds and enables a unified single sign-on experience and automated user provisioning across Azure and Oracle Cloud. For multi-cloud, the deal… → Read More