InfoQ Technology Adoption Survey 2022

1. 14 Questions to Help InfoQ Serve You Better - Win 1 of 5 All-Access Tickets to QCon Plus

We have a small favour to ask. The InfoQ team would like to better understand which technologies and software products are currently on your radar. Please help us in our research by completing this three minute survey. Your responses will help us create more topically relevant and useful content for the InfoQ community.

As a token of our appreciation - at the end of the survey - you can enter to win 1 of 5 complimentary all-access tickets to the QCon Plus online software development conference (Nov 29 - Dec 9) worth $599.

This survey is anonymous and your replies will be kept confidential.

Regards,

The InfoQ Team

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* 1. How many employees work at your company?

1-100 employees

101-250 employees

251-500 employees

501-1,000 employees

1,001-2,500 employes

Over 2,500 employees

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* 2. Which of the following roles do you strongly identify with?

DevOps/Operations & Infrastructure - People interested in deployment management, monitoring, scaling, and operation of running software systems; choosing hardware and software; evaluating virtualization and cloud deployment technologies.

Architect - People interested in "thinking content" i.e the design aspect of software: patterns, architecture evaluation, architecture improvement (refactoring/reengineering), quality attributes (usability, performance, scalability, DSLs, etc.).

Data Scientist: People who perform statistical analysis, data mining and retrieval processes on a large amount of data to identify trends, figures and other relevant information. Includes applying techniques such as machine learning.

Developer - Content for coders. People interested in "doing content", technical features of new frameworks or programming languages.

Process/Management - People concerned with how teams work together for software development vs. technology: engineering culture, techniques like mob programming, event storming, management approaches like Holacracy and Sociocracy, DevEX, Scrum, XP, TDD.

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* 3. Do you supervise others in your organization?

Yes – I have cross-team managerial responsibility

Yes – I supervise a single development team

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* 4. What’s your role in the adoption of new technologies / software products within your organization? (Select all that apply)

I decide

I recommend

I influence

I research

I veto

None of the above

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* 5. Is your organization currently using or planning to use any of the following Cloud-Native technologies / architectural approaches?

	Currently using	Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Plan to use in > 12 months	Not planning to use
Kubernetes	Kubernetes Currently using	Kubernetes Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Kubernetes Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Kubernetes Plan to use in > 12 months	Kubernetes Not planning to use
Microservices	Microservices Currently using	Microservices Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Microservices Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Microservices Plan to use in > 12 months	Microservices Not planning to use
Serverless/Lambda	Serverless/Lambda Currently using	Serverless/Lambda Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Serverless/Lambda Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Serverless/Lambda Plan to use in > 12 months	Serverless/Lambda Not planning to use
Service Mesh	Service Mesh Currently using	Service Mesh Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Service Mesh Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Service Mesh Plan to use in > 12 months	Service Mesh Not planning to use
Event-Driven Architecture	Event-Driven Architecture Currently using	Event-Driven Architecture Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Event-Driven Architecture Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Event-Driven Architecture Plan to use in > 12 months	Event-Driven Architecture Not planning to use
Reactive Architecture	Reactive Architecture Currently using	Reactive Architecture Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Reactive Architecture Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Reactive Architecture Plan to use in > 12 months	Reactive Architecture Not planning to use
Cloud Database	Cloud Database Currently using	Cloud Database Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Cloud Database Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Cloud Database Plan to use in > 12 months	Cloud Database Not planning to use
Edge Computing	Edge Computing Currently using	Edge Computing Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Edge Computing Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Edge Computing Plan to use in > 12 months	Edge Computing Not planning to use

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* 6. Is your organization currently using or planning to use any of the following database / data engineering technologies?

	Currently using	Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Plan to use in > 12 months	Not planning to use
Stream Processing Platform	Stream Processing Platform Currently using	Stream Processing Platform Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Stream Processing Platform Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Stream Processing Platform Plan to use in > 12 months	Stream Processing Platform Not planning to use
Data Mesh	Data Mesh Currently using	Data Mesh Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Data Mesh Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Data Mesh Plan to use in > 12 months	Data Mesh Not planning to use
Machine Learning	Machine Learning Currently using	Machine Learning Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Machine Learning Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Machine Learning Plan to use in > 12 months	Machine Learning Not planning to use
Data Analytics	Data Analytics Currently using	Data Analytics Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Data Analytics Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Data Analytics Plan to use in > 12 months	Data Analytics Not planning to use
Key-Value Store	Key-Value Store Currently using	Key-Value Store Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Key-Value Store Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Key-Value Store Plan to use in > 12 months	Key-Value Store Not planning to use
Document Store	Document Store Currently using	Document Store Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Document Store Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Document Store Plan to use in > 12 months	Document Store Not planning to use
Column-Oriented Database	Column-Oriented Database Currently using	Column-Oriented Database Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Column-Oriented Database Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Column-Oriented Database Plan to use in > 12 months	Column-Oriented Database Not planning to use
Graph Database	Graph Database Currently using	Graph Database Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Graph Database Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Graph Database Plan to use in > 12 months	Graph Database Not planning to use

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* 7. Is your organization currently using or planning to use any of the following software development / delivery technologies?

	Currently using	Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Plan to use in > 12 months	Not planning to use
Test Automation	Test Automation Currently using	Test Automation Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Test Automation Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Test Automation Plan to use in > 12 months	Test Automation Not planning to use
Manual Testing	Manual Testing Currently using	Manual Testing Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Manual Testing Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Manual Testing Plan to use in > 12 months	Manual Testing Not planning to use
Authentication and Authorization platform	Authentication and Authorization platform Currently using	Authentication and Authorization platform Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Authentication and Authorization platform Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Authentication and Authorization platform Plan to use in > 12 months	Authentication and Authorization platform Not planning to use
Zero-trust security	Zero-trust security Currently using	Zero-trust security Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Zero-trust security Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Zero-trust security Plan to use in > 12 months	Zero-trust security Not planning to use
Monitoring / Observability	Monitoring / Observability Currently using	Monitoring / Observability Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Monitoring / Observability Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Monitoring / Observability Plan to use in > 12 months	Monitoring / Observability Not planning to use
Chaos Engineering	Chaos Engineering Currently using	Chaos Engineering Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Chaos Engineering Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Chaos Engineering Plan to use in > 12 months	Chaos Engineering Not planning to use
Testing in production	Testing in production Currently using	Testing in production Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	Testing in production Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	Testing in production Plan to use in > 12 months	Testing in production Not planning to use
API Management	API Management Currently using	API Management Plan to use in 3 to 6 months	API Management Plan to use in 6 to 12 months	API Management Plan to use in > 12 months	API Management Not planning to use

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* 8. (Optional) Is your organization currently planning on using any of the following monitoring/observability software vendors/products?

	Currently Using	Planning to Use	Not Planning to Use
AppDynamics	AppDynamics Currently Using	AppDynamics Planning to Use	AppDynamics Not Planning to Use
New Relic	New Relic Currently Using	New Relic Planning to Use	New Relic Not Planning to Use
Instana	Instana Currently Using	Instana Planning to Use	Instana Not Planning to Use
Lightstep	Lightstep Currently Using	Lightstep Planning to Use	Lightstep Not Planning to Use
Honeycomb	Honeycomb Currently Using	Honeycomb Planning to Use	Honeycomb Not Planning to Use
Dynatrace	Dynatrace Currently Using	Dynatrace Planning to Use	Dynatrace Not Planning to Use
Cisco	Cisco Currently Using	Cisco Planning to Use	Cisco Not Planning to Use

Other (please specify)

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* 9. (Optional) Is your organization currently planning on using any of the following database software vendors/products?

	Currently Using	Planning to Use	Not Planning to Use
MongoDB	MongoDB Currently Using	MongoDB Planning to Use	MongoDB Not Planning to Use
Cassandra	Cassandra Currently Using	Cassandra Planning to Use	Cassandra Not Planning to Use
Cockroach Labs	Cockroach Labs Currently Using	Cockroach Labs Planning to Use	Cockroach Labs Not Planning to Use
ScyllaDB	ScyllaDB Currently Using	ScyllaDB Planning to Use	ScyllaDB Not Planning to Use
RavenDB	RavenDB Currently Using	RavenDB Planning to Use	RavenDB Not Planning to Use
Neo4j	Neo4j Currently Using	Neo4j Planning to Use	Neo4j Not Planning to Use
CouchDB	CouchDB Currently Using	CouchDB Planning to Use	CouchDB Not Planning to Use
Riak	Riak Currently Using	Riak Planning to Use	Riak Not Planning to Use
Redis	Redis Currently Using	Redis Planning to Use	Redis Not Planning to Use

Other (please specify)

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* 10. (Optional) Is your organization currently planning on using any of the following Service Mesh software vendors/products?

	Currently Using	Planning to Use	Not Planning to Use
Linkerd	Linkerd Currently Using	Linkerd Planning to Use	Linkerd Not Planning to Use
Istio	Istio Currently Using	Istio Planning to Use	Istio Not Planning to Use
AWS App Mesh	AWS App Mesh Currently Using	AWS App Mesh Planning to Use	AWS App Mesh Not Planning to Use
NGINX Service Mesh	NGINX Service Mesh Currently Using	NGINX Service Mesh Planning to Use	NGINX Service Mesh Not Planning to Use
Aspen Mesh	Aspen Mesh Currently Using	Aspen Mesh Planning to Use	Aspen Mesh Not Planning to Use
Kong	Kong Currently Using	Kong Planning to Use	Kong Not Planning to Use
Solo Gloo Mesh	Solo Gloo Mesh Currently Using	Solo Gloo Mesh Planning to Use	Solo Gloo Mesh Not Planning to Use
Tetrate Service Bridge	Tetrate Service Bridge Currently Using	Tetrate Service Bridge Planning to Use	Tetrate Service Bridge Not Planning to Use

Other (please specify)

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* 11. In what areas are you facing the biggest technical challenges? What are your top 3 challenges?

First challenge

Second challenge

Third challenge

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* 12. If there was one new feature you would like us to offer on InfoQ.com, what would that be?

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* 13. What other publications do you visit when researching new technologies and products?

DZone

Slashdot

Hacker News

The New Stack

DevOps.com

SDTimes

Other (please specify)

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* 14. For the chance to win 1 of 5 complimentary all-access tickets to QCon Plus online software development conference (Nov 29 - Dec 9) worth $599, please provide your email address. We will only use the email address you provided to contact you if you are one of the lucky winners.