These questions were only shown to the respondents who develop microservices.
Microservices
of all respondents develop microservices.
The 3 most popular languages for microservices development are Java (41%), JavaScript (37%), and Python (25%).
“We expect that more companies will use microservices in their projects in the future. So it’s highly likely that in the next several years we will see a growth in the shares of those who develop microservices”
of microservices developers have more than 6 years of professional coding experience, while among other types of developers this number is only about 36%
Developers who work with microservices typically have more coding experience than those who don’t.
The 3 most popular ways to communicate between distributed parts of applications haven’t changed since last year. They still are REST, Message Queue, and WebSocket.
Just less than a half of the Developer Ecosystem Survey participants prefer to start from the specification when implementing new web-service APIs. A “code first” approach is used only by 16% of the developers surveyed.
The popular methods for declaring and documenting APIs haven’t changed much. Using Open API is still the most popular, and it increased by 6 percentage points this year, strengthening its leadership position.
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