Cloud & DevOps Trends Report 2023; Marketing at Early-Stage Startups; QConSF Tracks Announced; InfoQ Top 10 Content

DevOps and Cloud Trends Report 2023 - July 2023

The InfoQ Trends Reports provide readers with a high-level overview of key topics, while helping the InfoQ editorial team focus on innovative technologies. Highlights from the July 2023 “DevOps and Cloud Trends Report” include:

• Cloud innovation has transitioned from a revolutionary phase to an evolutionary one, focusing on migrating and re-architecting workloads.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) may play a significant role in the domains of cloud and DevOps by addressing cognitive overload and supporting tasks like instant management, ticketing systems, and code generation.

• Major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, and AWS have integrated AI into their products and services, showcasing the industry’s investment in AI technology.

• Low-code and no-code domains are impacted by AI-based and ChatGPT-like products, offering collaboration opportunities between business users and software engineering teams.

• Platform engineering is evolving toward simplification and value delivery, adopting a platform-as-a-service mindset.

Read the full report

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Marketing Trends

Stack Overflow 2023 Survey Results: How Professional Developers are Using AI Tools

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, one of the big themes emerging from the Stack Overflow 2023 developer survey was how professional developers perceive and actually use AI across the development lifecycle.  

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Case Studies

The Art of Marketing at Early-Stage Startups: Brandon Hoe

InfoQ recently sat down with Brandon Hoe, VP of Marketing at Oxeye, to talk about some of the marketing challenges faced by software startups in the application security space. Having led four early-stage security startups himself, he emphasizes the importance of establishing market positioning, identifying your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), and developing the right messaging for your ICP.

Read the full interview

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QConSF (Oct 2-6) Track Abstracts and Hosts Finalized; Few Sponsorship Spots Remain

Tracks for QConSF (Oct 2-6) have been published. Some of this year’s track themes include:

• Designing for Resilience, hosted by Javier Fernandez-Ivern Staff Software Engineer at Netflix

• Modern Data Engineering & Architectures, hosted by Sid Anand Chief Architect and Head of Engineering at Datazoom

• Platform Engineering Done Well, hosted by Daniel Bryant Independent Technical Consultant & InfoQ News Manager

• Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod, hosted by Hien Luu Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash

• Architecting for the Cloud

See the complete list of track abstracts.

Only a few sponsorships spots remain for QConSF 2023. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

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InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q2 2023

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q2 of 2023, based on page views:

1. Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs

2. Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - April 2023

3. JEP 444: Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency

4. Late Architecture with Functional Programming

5. AWS Shifts Strategy: Public GitHub Documentation to Be Retired

6. Real-Time Messaging Architecture at Slack

7. Dark Side of DevOps

8. Breaking down Barriers: Introducing JDK 21’s Approach to Beginner-Friendly Java Programming

9. Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2

10. AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework