Analytics, big data most common cloud tasks for developers Posted on : Jul 27 - 2015

Big Data and analytics are the most common cloud tasks for nearly eight in 10 developers, according to research by market intelligence group Evans Data Corporation.

Its report revealed that 79 per cent of 578 developers spend 42 per cent of their time on the tasks, as well as discovering that those who associate cloud computing with the Internet of Things (IoT) are three times as likely to use the cloud as the basis of their development.

Additionally, 55 per cent of developers use the cloud to connect their IoT devices to the internet and 32 per cent have set up a hub or middle tier between the cloud and their devices.

However, this has significant impact on what developers work on most often.

Although the majority of developers spend a large portion of their time on analysing aggregated data from IoT devices, more than 20 per cent of their time is spent on middleware development and almost 19 per cent of their time is used for backend or server development.  View more