Techstrong Research Review

After a successful Predict 2023 conference, Mitch and Mike cover their key takeaways and highlight how the Techstrong community drives Techstrong Research. They also dig into some of the key debates around software security, cloud-native and digital transformation. And the celebratory beer that Mike enjoyed after wrapping up the show.

Mike and Mitch kick off 2023 with some prognostications about what 2023 has in store for us. They also go through the high level themes for DevOps, cloud-native, security, and digital transformation, previewing the trends release at Predict 2023 on Jan. 12.

In their last show of 2022, Mike and Mitch do a year-end retrospective, highlighting the major trends and discussing what’s in store for 2023. They even worked in a Star Wars reference, as 2022 had a definite “Empire Strikes Back” feel. Happy holidays and the crew will be back in 2023.

Mike and Mitch cover their week at AWS re:Invent and discuss AWS’ new services addressing developer and security needs. They also delve into some predictions as the team gears up for the upcoming Predict 2023 on Jan 12.

Mitch and Mike discuss what they are thankful about as we enter the home stretch of 2022 and start looking forward to 2023.

Mike and Mitch discuss the implosion of FTX as a means to reinforce the importance of trust. They discuss where trust fits into the DevOps process (code signing) and also how zero trust is really about ensuring trust more frequently.

Mike and Mitch discuss the recent Dropbox breach and what Mitch saw at the recent KubeCon show. They hit on some trends for the upcoming Predict 2023 conference, and also announced that the Research team will be at AWS re:Invent in late November.

Mike and Mitch do a KubeCon preview this week talking about the maturity of the open source movement and what to look for at the conference. The research team also plugs Predict 23 and discusses a recent post that Mitch wrote about the transformation of observability. 

Mitch, Mike and Mike’s bionic knee talk about consolidation in the security and identity space. Smart private equity investors, like Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity, are doing big deals and taking security brands off the public market. What does this mean for customers and the industry? The TS Research team also highlights a recent post that Mitch wrote explaining micro-services and how it’s an evolution beyond SOA. They also did some shameless plugging of PREDICT 2023.

Mike and Mitch unpack the push for most vendors to try to position their offerings as a “platform” and the reality that customers need to determine what is a tool and what is a platform, and must also be wary of vendor lock-in. We use examples from security, DevOps and some historical references to give context to how platforms play in a technology strategy.