{"id":20692,"date":"2019-08-22T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T09:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=20692"},"modified":"2019-08-22T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T09:31:04","slug":"developers-are-having-a-higher-impact-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/developers-are-having-a-higher-impact-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Developers are having a higher impact than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
Developers are having a huge influence on cloud, containers, and Kubernetes, new research coming out of the US has found.<\/p>\n
A special report from the International Data Corporation<\/a> (IDC) found that when it comes to developer tools and technology, developers have a very high amount of self-government in the area.<\/p>\n The research also states that \u201cdevelopers exercise influence over enterprise purchasing decisions and should be viewed as key stakeholders in IT purchasing and procurement within any organization undergoing a movement to cloud accompanied by an internal digital transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n IDC\u2019s report highlights that a developer’s job is always moving and adapting.<\/p>\n “The autonomy and influence enjoyed by developers today is illustrative of the changing role of developers in enterprise IT in an era of rapidly intensifying digital transformation,” said\u00a0Arnal Dayaratna<\/a>, research director, Software Development at IDC.<\/p>\n Dayaratna added, “Developers are increasingly regarded as visionaries and architects of digital transformation as opposed to executors of a pre-defined plan delivered by centralized IT leadership.”<\/p>\n Of the 2,500 DevOps professionals,<\/a> developers, IT decision-makers and line of business executives interviewed, around 20% of them say that they are \u201cextremely familiar\u201d with containers and microservices.<\/a><\/p>\nThe \u201cchanging role of developers\u201d<\/h4>\n
Findings<\/h4>\n