Python Programmers Prefer AWS
According to a new survey of Python developers, respondents don't always use a cloud platform, but when they do, it's usually Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). The Python Developers Survey 2018 polled more than 20,000 developers from more than 150 countries last fall, resulting in this key takeaway: "55 percent of the Python users who use cloud platforms prefer AWS. Google Cloud Platform comes in second, followed by Heroku, DigitalOcean, and Microsoft Azure. About a third of the respondents don’t use any cloud solutions." [Click on image for larger view.] Top Cloud Platforms (source: Python Software Foundation) "Along with the popular cloud platforms listed above, we identified that OpenStack and Linode got 6 percent each, OpenShift 3 percent, and Rackspace 2 percent," the report continued. Other cloud-related takeaways in the report include: 47 percent of respondents said that when running code in cloud production environments, they do it in: vi