Why Are Developers Considering the Cloud?

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Dan Kobialka.

Experience plays an important role in a developer’s decision to create cloud applications, according to a study of more than 13,500 developers conducted by market analysis firm VisionMobile. The VisionMobile "Cloud and Desktop Developer Landscape" study, released last month, indicated experienced developers are more likely to create cloud apps than others, and almost half of cloud developers who are contracting earn more than $2,000 a month.

Other study results included:

• Lowering build times (64 percent) was the top reason that cloud developers said they used application programming interfaces (APIs).
• Over 95 percent of cloud developers said they use a developer program.
• 54 percent of developers are hosting their own cloud servers and prefer to control the development platform they are using.
• 49 percent of developers are utilizing both cloud and desktop apps.
• 31 percent of cloud developers using public clouds are leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) as their development platform…

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