Cloud computing has emerged from its back-end, client/server, roots, to create paradigms of its own. Processing on demand enables disruptive competitors to capitalise on success, without the huge investments they would once have needed, and standardised platforms are making Cloud development easier than ever before. Cloud developers have a broad range of skills, making categorisation by technology or target all but useless, so at VisionMobile we divide developers in to eight segments, based on what they want to achieve rather than the tools they use to achieve it. In this report we look in detail at the Cloud developer communities, seeing motivations map to tools and business models, providing an insight into what applications they are creating and how they are creating them.

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DEVELOPER SEGMENTATION SERIES ABOUT VISIONMOBILE
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CLOUD
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working in cloud computing
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VisionMobile is the leading analyst company in the developer economy,
tracking mobile & IoT developer trends via the largest, most comprehensive
developer surveys worldwide.
Reaching out to 30,000 software developers incl. app (ie mobile) developers
in over 150 countries, VisionMobile touches upon a wide range of sectors
from Mobile and IoT to AV/VR and Machine Learning.
We help the world understand developers and developers understand the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. About the Cloud Developer Segmentation Report
2. When the clouds are not enough – what else do cloud developers do?
3. Experience of cloud developers
4. Cloudy technologies, and who uses them
5. Which language is used by each segment
6. Where cloud developers host, by segment
7. How, and why, developers create cloud applications
8. Conclusion
9. Methodology
COMINGSOON

2. ABOUT THIS REPORT
TOP 3 INSIGHTS
Cloud computing has emerged from its back-end, client/server
roots, to create paradigms of its own. Processing on demand
enables disruptive competitors to capitalise on success, without the
huge investments they would once have needed, and standardised
platforms are making cloud development easier than ever before.
The 10th edition of the Developer Economics survey reached over
21,000 respondents from 150 countries and provides detailed data
on thousands of cloud developers. The survey tracks developer
experiences across platforms, revenues, apps, languages, tools,
APIs, segments and regions, allowing us to extract information in
the developer groups you ‘re mostly interested in.
In this report we will be looking in detail at the cloud developer
communities, seeing motivations map to tools and business models,
providing an insight into what applications they are creating and
how they are creating them.
The cloud developer community is overwhelmingly
professional, almost three quarters of Cloud developers are
creating professional applications. There are few true
“hobbyists” working in Cloud computing.
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Cloud developers are the most experienced sector, but the
percentage who’ve been coding for more than six years is
dropping.
Java is the most-popular Cloud language in every segment,
but in Enterprise IT it faces competition from C#.
Google’s cloud is awash with Scouts and Explorers, trying something
new with minimal risk. Microsoft, Amazon and IBM are professional
playgrounds as the majority of their developer customers are looking
to make an immediate return.
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