Cloud architecture investments are rising, but the developer and database market is experiencing a severe skills shortage.
Businesses Must Bridge the Skills Gap to Succeed With Quantum Computing
This skills gap prevents companies from leveraging the power of quantum computing and also leads to expensive competition for talent.
Addressing Skills Gaps in Your DevOps Team
DevOps skills gaps hinder productivity, stifle innovation and can lead to missed opportunities.
Survey Sheds Light On Cloud, API Expertise Skills Gap
Enterprise IT faces a three-pronged onslaught: Digital transformation, open APIs and security threats. First, most organizations are still navigating ongoing digital transformations and cloud migrations. Second, development teams continue to increase their use of open APIs, leading to sprawl concerns. And third, we’ve witnessed a slew of cybersecurity threats that appear to be growing in […]
Survey Shows Correlation Between Open Source, DevOps Skills Demand
A survey published this week by the Linux Foundation suggested enterprise IT organizations now prefer to hire IT professionals that have both open source software and DevOps experience. Conducted in collaboration with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., the survey polled 1,672 open source professionals and 559 respondents with responsibility for […]
4 Ways to Combat the DevOps and Security Workforce Shortage
Most people are painfully aware that security breaches have increased in recent years, while at the same time becoming much more sophisticated in their approach. Additionally, ever-expanding application environments and continuously evolving workloads have created more opportunities than ever for attackers. What’s not so apparent to those outside of the tech bubble: The world is […]
Best of 2021 – The ‘Great Resignation’ in DevOps? Bah, Humbug
As we close out 2021, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the tenth in our series of the Best of 2021. Like me, you have probably heard a lot about the “Great Resignation” lately. I’ll admit—at first I did not think it had anything to with […]
Will Automation Fill Gaps Left by the ‘Great Resignation’?
Between burnout, job-hopping and the ongoing pandemic, labor shortages will surely get worse before they get better, and automation is increasingly sought after as a way to mitigate the ripple effects of understaffed IT departments. For DevOps, automation has several benefits, from freeing up employees to work on more constructive tasks to minimizing software bugs […]
4 Tips To Plug The Cloud IT Skills Gap
Technical talent is few and far between. The programming world faces a developer shortage, and with this shortage comes a lack of cloud know-how. By now, most organizations have become multi-cloud, yet 86% of IT professionals believe a lack of these skills will slow down cloud projects. As more teams transition from older architectures to […]
How To Address DevSecOps Skills Shortages
“If it’s scarce, it drives the price up,” said McAfee director of systems engineering Sahba Idelkhani. And DevSecOps talent is scarce, and expensive. Restrictions on international travel are having an effect on immigration in some countries, notably Australia. But there’s practically nothing employers can do about that. But some aspects of the supposed skills shortage […]