Cloud-Native Evolution

Appendix A. Survey Respondent Demographics

About half (49 percent) of the respondents to the Cloud Platform Survey work in the IT industry (Figure A-1).

Figure A-1. Industry

The majority of survey responses (51 percent) came from people located in North America (Figure A-2), with 35 percent from Europe.

Figure A-3 shows respondents came from a range of company sizes (in number of employees). Twenty-two percent are from companies with 9 employees or fewer, 24 percent from companies with 10 to 99 employees, 20 percent from 100 to 999, 18 percent from companies of 1,000 to 9,999, and 9 percent from companies with 10,000 to 99,999 employees.

Figure A-2. Geographic region

Figure A-3. Company size

Respondents identified as being software developers (27 percent), software/cloud architects (22 percent), or in IT operations roles (17 percent) (Figure A-4).

Figure A-4. Respondent’s role in company

The top roles responsible for infrastructure and platform issues at the respondents’ companies included IT operations (53 percent) and DevOps (41 percent) (Figure A-5), with only a handful ...