A new quarterly report from DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, released today highlights that despite mainstream attention around multi-cloud solutions, 70 percent of respondents have no plans to implement it in the next year.
Despite Gartner predicting that 90 percent of organisations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management by 2020, the survey of 1,000 respondents from across the world reveals the reality of developers and system admins working in wide range of industries.
“There is a lot of available data on programming trends, but what is unique about DigitalOcean is that we are the only cloud platform provider that is truly developer-first,” said Shiven Ramji, VP of Product, DigitalOcean. “This gives us a unique perspective on how specific segments of the developer community are thinking and feeling with regard to the tools they like to use and where they want to spend their time.”
The survey also includes a special focus on developers’ use of and requirements for object storage, in conjunction with the company’s launch of its long-awaited object storage solution: Spaces. While the survey found that less than half (45 percent) of respondents are currently using object storage as a way to handle to explosive growths of different types of data, the majority (53 percent) have researched a solution in the past five years — indicating a growing general interest in this type of storage. Respondents said the three main benefits over other storage solutions are cost-effectiveness (30 percent), scalability (29 percent) and ease of data retrieval.
Additional findings from DigitalOcean Currents:
- MySQL reigns supreme: For database software, MySQL is the most popular solution, with 35 percent preferring it, followed by PostgreSQL (26 percent) and MariaDB (19 percent);
- Linux Popularity: Developers and sysadmins spend more time using Linux (38.6 percent) compared to 36.4 percent who use MacOS and only 23.1 percent using Windows – showing the differences for the developer segment compared to the overall market share and reflecting the time they spend in server environments;
- Developers Prefer to Learn Online: Books used to be how many developers learned to code, but that’s no longer the case. Online tutorials and official documentation far outpace books as the preferred learning method for developers, with 80 percent preferring these resources.
