Andrew Cornwall

Senior Analyst

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Introducing The Forrester Tech Tide™: Software Development, Q4 2024

Andrew Cornwall November 18, 2024
Struggling to determine which software development technologies have staying power and which will be just a flash in the pan? Get some insight in this preview of our latest Forrester Tech Tide™ for software development technology.
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Embracing AIOps: Revolutionizing DevOps And Agile Methodologies

Carlos Casanova October 30, 2024
Learn how AIOps can significantly enhance the efficiency, speed, and reliability of software development and deployment processes.
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Key Insights And Recommendations From VMware Explore 2024

Naveen Chhabra September 4, 2024
Get six key takeaways from the annual VMware Explore 2024 conference and find out what they mean for technology leaders.
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Open Source Doesn’t Mean A Trademark Free-For-All

Andrew Cornwall August 12, 2024
Open-source licenses give you rights to copy, and in some cases, they define patent rights and responsibilities, but when they mention trademarks at all, most of them exclude rights rather than include them.
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GitLab Customers Hope To Stay Out Of The Doghouse If Acquired By Datadog

Christopher Condo July 23, 2024
GitLab is a leading platform for version control, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and collaboration. With its robust features and security focus, GitLab has gained a loyal user base and has become a go-to solution for enterprise developers worldwide. A recent rumor, however, suggests that Datadog, a popular monitoring and analytics platform, is eyeing a […]
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Threading The Needle On GenAI And Developer Experience

Andrew Cornwall July 11, 2024
Let’s face it: A lot of what developers do is routine. I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard a developer declare, “Hooray, I get to set up a SQL database!” (Well … maybe I’ve heard that once or twice — I know a lot of developers who are connoisseurs of sarcasm.) However, when it comes to […]
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Developer Experience Is Still Developing

Andrew Cornwall June 26, 2024
Forrester’s Q1 2024 Developer Experience Survey asked developers what would improve developer experience most. Find out how developers responded in this preview of a new report .
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Atlassian Bets On Improving Developer Experience With GenAI

Andrew Cornwall December 27, 2023
At the Atlassian Unleash event in Amsterdam, the focus was on using AI to improve developer experience. Learn more in this review.
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At GitHub Universe, Copilot Takes Center Stage, But Questions About The Platform Persist

Christopher Condo November 29, 2023
The big attraction at the GitHub Universe event was GitHub Copilot, the AI assistant based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 technology. Find out more in this review of the event.
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Development Team Success: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Andrew Cornwall October 10, 2023
How much does your view of development team success vary based on your position in the org? Find out in this review of Forrester’s most recent Developer Survey.
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Should You Care About Developer Productivity?

Christopher Condo September 27, 2023
Measuring individual developer productivity has its drawbacks. Get four key strategies to help your development teams succeed in this post.
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Navigate The Seas Of Developer Experience

Andrew Cornwall September 20, 2023
Savvy (business) captains know the four personas of developer experience. Do you? Find out in this blog.
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Forrester’s Impressions: VMware Explore 2023

Naveen Chhabra September 6, 2023
In recent years, VMware has faced major headwinds: It migrated its clients from on-premises to public cloud, changed to a cloud-native application development paradigm, shifted to subscription licensing, had frequent cycles of M&A activities, and experienced unfavorable macroeconomic environments. Despite these, VMware registered modest revenue growth. Even though it grew, it knows it is vulnerable. […]
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GIS Innovations Flooded ESRI’s 2023 User Conference

William Dahlgren August 25, 2023
With extreme heat waves, wildfires, and floods facing populations everywhere, Esri sees the opportunity as well as the danger. Learn more in this review of the Esri user conference.
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Open Source Under Attack: Your Source Is Ajar

Andrew Cornwall August 21, 2023
The open source world has seen high-profile projects with unusual terms. They call themselves “open source” and “free for research and commercial use.” Whether a project is open source does matter. It could be not-quite-closed source masquerading as truly open - it could be ajar source.
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ISDP: Unified DevOps Platforms Coordinate Development And Operations

Andrew Cornwall August 8, 2023
It’s been happening for a while. There’s been a trend in the continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and release automation (RA) world: DevOps tools merging into a unified platform. CI companies such as JFrog and CloudBees have acquired CDRA companies like Shippable and Electric Cloud. CD companies such as Harness are buying CI tools […]
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Developer Experience Is A Key To Organizational Success

Andrew Cornwall June 21, 2023
Software is the expression of the business, and the rapidly evolving technology landscape drives high demand for skilled developers. If your business is a software business — and today, every business is a software business — it’s essential to keep the developers of that software happy and productive. Developer experience is the organizational capability to […]
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WWDC 2023 — What It Means For Developers

Andrew Cornwall June 6, 2023
As has been the trend in recent years, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2023) keynote has kept its focus centered on consumers — read about that here. Announcements for enterprises were thin — watchOS 10 gets mobile device management support, Safari gets passkeys and profiles to keep work and home tabs separate … and […]
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Google I/O 2023: As Far As The AI Can See

Rowan Curran May 18, 2023
AI was center stage at Google I/O 2023 and much of it was generative AI (GenAI). Get a detailed analysis of the event including why enterprises need to focus on the launch of PaLM 2 and Vertex AI.
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Google I/O 2023: If You Remove AI, What’s Left?

Andrew Cornwall May 18, 2023
Google I/O, Google’s annual product showcase, displayed a very strong AI focus this year. We saw little new hardware, and even with Google’s “add AI to all the things” strategy, most improvements were incremental, not groundbreaking. If you haven’t already, read Google I/O 2023: As Far As The AI Can See to get up to speed […]
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