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Kubernetes – From Evolution to an Established Ecosystem
The growth around the Kubernetes ecosystem over the last year has been extremely strong, with a number of vendors building commercial offerings based on Kubernetes. The project itself continues to grow...
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A Quick Look at Recent Adobe OpenSource Contributions
Adobe list 245 projects on their main github page, but as is often the case with company pages on github, this headline number is somewhat misleading. For the purposes of this analysis we are narrowing...
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Consumable Use Cases for AI & Machine Learning – Adobe Max
Adobe Max is one of Adobes largest events, and we had the opportunity to join them in San Diego last week. Originally a developer conference, these days the focus is far more on designers. That said,...
View ArticleMicrosoft & The Linux Foundation – The Only Surprise Is It Took This Long
Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation yesterday. The news has been greeted, unsurprisingly, with various headlines of the hell freezes over variety. To closer observers of Microsoft, the commentary is,...
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Containers in Production – Is Security a Barrier? A Dataset from Anchore
Over the last week we have had the opportunity to work with an interesting set of data collected by Anchore (full disclosure: Anchore is a RedMonk client). Anchore collected this data by means of a...
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AWS re:Invent – Elastic GPUs, FPGAs, Deep Learning & Compute
Amazon Web Services annual conference, re:Invent, was held in Las Vegas last week, and to say there is a lot to unpack would be somewhat of an understatement. As my colleague Stephen O’Grady put it,...
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On the Myth of the 10X Engineer and the Reality of the Distinguished Engineer
One of the greatest myths perpetuated in the software industry, particularly by recruiters, over the last number of years has been the idea of the 10X engineer. The idea that some rock-star or ninja...
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Compliance as Code: The Configuration Management Ecosystem
TL; DR – Interest in Ansible outpaces competitors, SaltStack is making solid inroads. Puppet & Chef remain strong. User bases remain relatively distinct from each other. At RedMonk we have always...
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gRPC joins the Cloud Native Compute Foundation
TL; DR – gRPC has solid momentum and makes a welcome addition to the CNCF The Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) announced on March 1st that they have accepted gRPC as an incubation level project....
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Serverless: Redefining DevOps
TL; DR There is a dramatic shift underway in how many in house, and commercial, DevOps tools are being created and used The growth in interest in serverless computing continues at pace, and for many...
View ArticleStrategic Technology: Security, Digital Transformation & Cloud Native
TL; DR – Security will be the most significant vector for enterprise sales of Cloud Native technologies in the medium term. Widespread adoption of Cloud Native will remain driven by developers. Over...
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Cloud Native – Solid Roots, Time To See Beyond Kubernetes
TL; DR: Momentum is increasing around Cloud Native, but beyond the natives people are finding the plethora of choice confusing. We had the opportunity to attend Cloud Native Con/KubeCon in Berlin last...
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Visual Studio Code – A Home For All Languages?
TL; DR – Visual Studio Code usage continues to grow, across many language communities, including some surprising ones. Since its initial release in April 2015, and subsequent open sourcing in November...
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NVIDIA GTC – The Future is Here
TL; DR – NVIDIA are firing on all cylinders across their business, and making strategic moves to cement their place in the emerging AI ecosystem. We attended NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in...
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Language Framework Popularity: A Look at Java, June 2017
TL; DR: Spring Boot is growing at an exponential rate and is set to become the most popular Java Framework soon. Spring Framework and Netty continue to grow strongly Framework: ‘a basic structure...
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CoreOSFest: Operations for the Independently Minded?
TL; DR: CoreOS presented a view of cloud computing without vendor lock in to cloud services. There is a huge amount of work necessary to deliver on such a vision. We had the opportunity to attend...
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The Era of the Digital Twin
Among the most interesting aspects of running an Internet of Things conference which is aimed specifically at developers, such as ThingMonk, is the opportunity to gain a real insight into what...
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Packaging Deep Learning: NVIDIA Simplifies Working with Common Deep Learning...
TL; DR: NVIDIA begin to roll out their packaging of key deep learning toolkits and an easy abstraction for working in AWS. Life has just got easier for people working on deep learning on AWS. At GTC...
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AWS Lambda and the Spectrum of Compute
TL; DR – Serverless has grown up and found a home in the enterprise. But it is still an awkward teenager. Perhaps the key message to come out of re:Invent 2017 was not one of any specific direction or...
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A Look at HashiCorp Terraform Registry Usage
TL; DR – AWS related modules dominate downloads from Terraform Registry, with a particular focus on Terraform modules for automating security groups. We have been observing the growth in usage of...
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