Companies want to repatriate SOME workloads to private clouds but are lack in-house skills to manage these cloud environments. NOTE, they are focused apps that have 1) security/compliance needs; 2) are data intensive; and 3) are integrated with other systems.DevOps.com buff.ly/ARKHKMb

However, the battle to tame tool sprawl is making progress, according to a new survey of 1,700 IT teams by New Relic. By @hjoslyn.bsky.social and @lawrencehecht.info

Only 27% of Organizations Have Full-Stack Observability, Says Report

Since 2023, software engineers (developers) have been less keen to leave their Big Tech jobs. Note that of these companies, only Microsoft has seen a slight decline in total dev headcount. buff.ly/QC8zuUS

What’s slowing organizations down? Wonky workflows, slow failure recovery and scaling challenges are among the culprits, according to a new report by Temporal. By @hjoslyn.bsky.social and @lawrencehecht.info

78% of this year's Stack Overflow developer survey use AI tools in the development process, up from 62% last year. We look at the key stats. By @lawrencehecht.info

23% of Devs Regularly Use AI Agents, per Stack Overflow Survey. AI agents have gained users because 70% of developers who have used one believe it has reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. buff.ly/W2gXKvu #StackOverflowSurvey

✨ Author Spotlight: @jlwallen.bsky.social ✨ From teaching to mastering Linux (by accident!) He's dedicated decades to demystifying open source. Beyond his expertise, Jack's a Renaissance man — a novelist, actor, athlete, and a passionate advocate for Linux's rise on the desktop.

The larger the company, the more likely a developer is to be using GitHub Copilot. This is does not hold true for other AI-coding tools that do not have a sales force to target enterprise-size customers. buff.ly/4AnaO1F cc @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

59% of organizations have established a role or office tasked with AI governance, according to a recent survey by @GradFlowTech and Pacific AI. The figure goes down to 36% for companies with <501 employees. buff.ly/rhYcLV2

GitOps is becoming the preferred deployment methodology within the Kubernetes community, with ArgoCD being the tool of choice, @octopus.com has found. By @lawrencehecht.info and @joabj.bsky.social

this chart shows how technologists think different job roles are being impacted by AI.

AI-specific jobs are on the upswing, according to a new survey of tech talent by the @linuxfoundation.org. By @hjoslyn.bsky.social and @lawrencehecht.info

The outlook for tech jobs IS NOT bleak. In fact, tech employment is increasing, not decreasing because of AI. Here are 2 articles @hjoslyn.bsky.social Heather Joslyn and I worked on: thenewstack.io/ai-and-tech-... thenewstack.io/tech-hiring-...

A few more conclusions about web devs and AI: —59% agree that AI is an integral part of their workflow —AI-generated code requires refactoring. 76% percent of developers have to rewrite or refactor at least half of the outputted code before it’s ready to be used.

Claude, Supermaven and Cursor users are much more likely to say they had a positive experience than users of other AI-based developer tools. These are just some of the many findings we uncovered in “The 2025 State of Web Dev AI” report. buff.ly/8YvrUrY

Almost half (48%) of all robot.txt tokens on websites totally restrict what content can be accessed in '24, that's up 23% just from just 23% in '23 This means that the open web is being destroyed by website owners that are blocking content from scrapers feeding LLM & other AI models buff.ly/uhK3hpx

Big drop in fear about TikTok's impact on US national security. This is putting pressure on hardliners to make a deal with China or risk backlash -- and that's not even considering the trade war issue.

Anyone who watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off was introduced to this historical event. Admittedly, not with the greatest of enthusiasm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...

Observability and monitoring — not security — is the most cited challenge when moving ML models into production, according to a new survey. buff.ly/RG36xnQ

— Assessing public cloud costs is less challenging for enterprises migrating workloads vs 2024 — 21% of workloads in public cloud have been repatriated, per those at 1,000+ employee companies. For every 5 workloads that have migrated to the public cloud, 1 has been repatriated buff.ly/vUIlTFb

Cloud sustainability stats: — 36% of survey already have a defined sustainability initiative that includes carbon footprint tracking of cloud use. Another 21% plan to launch one within the next year. — 57% prioritize cloud costs vs sustainability ...

While lower than last year, 52% of Java devs say their company is adding new Java developers this year. It seems as if they focused on hiring rather than using dev tools to supplement the workforce.

Documentation and Communication Challenges Are Leading Obstacles to Developer Productivity thenewstack.io/ai-tools-now...

61% of consulting company clients believe they know more about their industry than consultants do. That's a sharp contrast from only 31% that felt that way when Source did the same survey 10 years. www.sourceglobalresearch.com/blog-post/cl...

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A good article about #agentic AI in #AppDev and #DevOps

ICYMI: Experts do not think migration of workloads to private and on-premises clouds will outpace the movement to public clouds.

ICYMI: AI-assisted development will challenge developers as they review the quality of the code generated and integrate tools into their workflows.

Wrote up my thoughts on @github.com npm and the JavaScript package registry startups @vlt.sh vsr & @deno.land JSR. There's a lot going on around JS/TS, Node.js package management and registries—and a whole lot of history. redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

ICYMI: Despite long-term optimism, there is significant concern that many internal AI agent projects will be abandoned in 2025, our survey participants said.

Dev productivity or experience is regularly assessed at least quarterly at 53% of companies that track these metrics. More charts at https://buff.ly/4h12vgE

"Trusted Data" as a prerequisite for AI growth seems to be a theme. 62% of data & analytics professionals surveyed by Precisely in '24 said "Governance of Data Used for AI" is inhibiting the progress of their organization's AI initiatives. www.precisely.com/resource-cen...

16% of orgs that use developer environments have standardized on one tool throughout their organization. Only 36% of developers said their org allows devs to have full control over their development environments. Based on a @coderhq & @SlashDataHQ study. thenewstack.io/tailwind-css...

Platform Engineering and Developer Platform Components: from a post by @torstenvolk.bsky.social

16% of orgs that use developer environments have standardized on one tool throughout their organization. Only 36% of developers said their org allows devs to have full control over their development environments. Based on a @coderhq & @SlashDataHQ study. thenewstack.io/tailwind-css...

Ignore the anecdotal stories you’re hearing about AI workloads driving a migration from the cloud to on-premises and private cloud environments. www.datawrapper.de/_/mdaro/?v=2 The full article is here: thenewstack.io/cloud-deploy...

Cloud Deployment of AI Models Jumps, Says Data Science Study. buff.ly/40vUHMT

React Native vs. Flutter: Despite Flutter’s dominance among a small niche of mobile developers, React Native edges Flutter among a broader group of developers that use cross-platform mobile frameworks. www.datawrapper.de/_/cjdaK/?v=4

To create true partnerships and enable collaboration in a digital ecosystem requires interoperability, but it is difficult to know how each stakeholder is working on this. This year at Platformable, we want to support organisations to build interoperability toolkits: platformable.com/blog/interop...

Breaking news! finance.yahoo.com/news/harvest...

Interesting.

At Platformable, we’ve just released our 2025 business plan mapping how we plan to continue supporting the development of open digital ecosystems. Please join us on this journey as collaborators, commentators, clients, or co-conspirators! platformable.com/blog/platfor...

Survey Results from YouGot.us about AI Agents in Production: 324 AI Agent insiders share their experiences and use cases. Part I is now online and free. Great job, @thestarclimber.bsky.social and @mlopscommunity.bsky.social #MLops #AI #Agents #Production #DataScience

“But chief executives of firms that missed analysts' earnings forecasts were more likely to show signs of depression.”

Not in this article is a possibly disturbing stat: 31% of companies that track #DevEx or productivity say that this information is used to make HR decisions. Without nuance and understanding, these metrics can be counterproductive.

Only 35% of developer productivity/developer experience engineers actually follow and stay informed of the latest trends and discussions related to developer experience and developer productivity. Only, 670 (4% of survey) respondents say they have a dev prod or DevEx role. buff.ly/4h12vgE

My latest article is based on a qualitative research project where we asked "experts" about their enterprise tech predictions for 2025 on these topics: - Open Source and Competitiveness - AI Agents - AI’s Impact on Developer Processes - Cloud and Data Infrastructure thenewstack.io/whats-ahead-...

More developers are performing tests, going from85% last year to 95% in 2024. The proportion of developers who are doing unit tests, integration tests and end-to-end tests also rose. However, only 18% are using artificial intelligence in the testing software they use. thenewstack.io/developers-t...

Standardizing infrastructure provisioning and consumption of IDPs is a main focus of 68% platform teams. Increased spending on platform engineering is going to pinch other groups/projects only 47% of platform teams actually have a budget that is separate from IT.