InfoQ Readership Study Survey

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* 1. What are your top 3 go-to sites for information on software development?

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* 2. Are you subscribed to other industry newsletters?

No.

Yes, please specify

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* 3. How important do you consider the following issues to be with respect to mobile development?

	Very important	Important	Neither Important nor Unimportant	Unimportant	Very unimportant
Native vs. Web apps	Native vs. Web apps Very important	Native vs. Web apps Important	Native vs. Web apps Neither Important nor Unimportant	Native vs. Web apps Unimportant	Native vs. Web apps Very unimportant
Platform support: iOS, Android, Windows, etc.	Platform support: iOS, Android, Windows, etc. Very important	Platform support: iOS, Android, Windows, etc. Important	Platform support: iOS, Android, Windows, etc. Neither Important nor Unimportant	Platform support: iOS, Android, Windows, etc. Unimportant	Platform support: iOS, Android, Windows, etc. Very unimportant
Production monitoring	Production monitoring Very important	Production monitoring Important	Production monitoring Neither Important nor Unimportant	Production monitoring Unimportant	Production monitoring Very unimportant
Testing	Testing Very important	Testing Important	Testing Neither Important nor Unimportant	Testing Unimportant	Testing Very unimportant
Deployment	Deployment Very important	Deployment Important	Deployment Neither Important nor Unimportant	Deployment Unimportant	Deployment Very unimportant

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* 4. Which practices would you say contribute the most to successfully implementing a DevOps culture (pick up to 3)?

Devs pair programming with Ops on joint tasks

Devs have responsibility for deployments

Automatically provisioning machines using infrastructure management tools (either vendor tools such as Puppet or Chef or in-house built tools)

Devs are on-call for failures in production

Operations are monitored and failures automatically detected

Devs and Ops participate in failures post-mortem

Operational services are deployed in a (private/public/hybrid) cloud

Having one or more Ops engineer(s) in each development team

Having a DevOps team responsible for deployments and infrastructure management

Devs can self-service development and production-like environments for testing

Including operational requirements in the sprint/backlog

Automated testing of all releases before going into production?

Continuous integration

Continuous deployment

Devs and Ops daily joint stand-up meetings

Regular joint retrospective meetings

Shared goals and responsibilities for key metrics

Highly visible, shared dashboards on big screens showing key metrics everywhere

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* 5. How important are the following technologies/practices to your organization?

	Not Important	Somewhat Important	Very Important
Big Data Analytics	Big Data Analytics Not Important	Big Data Analytics Somewhat Important	Big Data Analytics Very Important
Data Visualization	Data Visualization Not Important	Data Visualization Somewhat Important	Data Visualization Very Important
Data Science Practice	Data Science Practice Not Important	Data Science Practice Somewhat Important	Data Science Practice Very Important
Machine Learning	Machine Learning Not Important	Machine Learning Somewhat Important	Machine Learning Very Important
Hadoop-Based Technologies	Hadoop-Based Technologies Not Important	Hadoop-Based Technologies Somewhat Important	Hadoop-Based Technologies Very Important
Streaming Data	Streaming Data Not Important	Streaming Data Somewhat Important	Streaming Data Very Important
Event-Driven Architectures	Event-Driven Architectures Not Important	Event-Driven Architectures Somewhat Important	Event-Driven Architectures Very Important

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* 6. Why do you read InfoQ (multiple answer)?

In-depth coverage of topics that matter to me

The wide variety of videos

Content that helps me do my job better

Content written by experienced IT professionals

Other (please specify)

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* 7. What’s the most frequent way that you come to InfoQ?

Twitter

Facebook

Google+

Newsletter

Directly

Through a search engine

Other (please specify)

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* 8. Do you watch full length presentations on InfoQ?

Yes

I skip through them

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* 9. How do you share InfoQ content?

I don’t

Using the share buttons under the content titles

On Twitter, by posting a link.

On Facebook, by posting a link.

On LinkedIn,by posting a link.

On Google+, by posting a link.

On Reddit, by posting a link.

I forward the newsletter

Email interesting links to friends/colleagues

Other (please specify)