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Developer Ecosystem Insights is a collection of reports, focused on analysing and sharing insights and trends across these development areas: Web apps, Mobile apps, Desktop apps, Cloud / backend services, AR/VR, Games, IoT, ML/AI & Data Science, Embedded software, Apps/extensions for 3rd-party platforms, DevOps and more!
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- Mobile
- How and where to reach developers?
- Developers’ experience with integrating AI functionality
- Landscape of network APIs
- Landscape of mobile games development
- How developers use AI-assisted development tools
- Mobile developers population forecast
- Which content types do developers value?
- Measuring developer productivity
- How developers integrate generative AI into their apps
- Concerns, challenges, and use of third-part APIs
- Who's integrating sustainable software engineering principles?
- How and where to reach mobile developers
- Observability in software development
- A spotlight on blockchain developers
- Applications and shift-left security
- Building on the blockchain in 2025
- Understanding Progressive Web App Developers in 2025
- Landscape of Web3 development
- The landscape of web development and framework usage
- Web
- Data Residency Compliance Challenges and Organisational Responsibility
- Multicloud adoption experience
- Hardware architecture - Optimised coding among backend developers
- Journey to cloud-native maturity
- Segmenting the backend developer population
- Backend developer population forecast 2024
- Challenges in multi-cloud deployment
- How and where to reach cloud developers
- Emerging practices in MLops / DataOps
- Landscape of cloud-native development
- Cloud/Backend
- The State of AR/VR Development 2025
- Which technologies are used in AR and VR projects?
- How AR/VR practitioners monetise their projects
- AR/VR developers & creators population forecast
- AR/VR
- The State of Game Development 2025
- Game developer population forecast
- Landscape of game developers
- Games
- IIoT accessibility
- Living on the edge
- IoT developer population forecast
- How and where to reach IoT developers
- Networking in IoT applications
- Wearable Device Developers and their Platform Choices
- IoT
- AI Developer Tools Benchmark
- Agentic AI architectures: Adoption, use cases, protocols, and frameworks
- Understanding the reluctance towards building generative AI applications
- Benchmarking of fully-managed generative AI services/APIs
- The state of machine learning and data science
- Trust, risk, and security management in AI
- ML developer population forecast
- How and where to reach data scientists and ML/AI developers
- Types of data ML/AI devs work with
- ML/AI & Data Science
- Integration of AI into edge devices
- Embedded developers population forecast
- Embedded Software
- 3rd-party Platforms
- Impact of Platform Strategies on Security Practices in Software Development
- Motivations behind various DevOps practices
- Dependency Management in Software Development
- Software supply chain management in organisations
- DevOps
- Desktop
- The current landscape of Arm-based Windows application development
- Desktop developers population forecast
The insights
Developer Ecosystem Insights offer key insights on:
- Who and where developers are
- How to reach developers
- What motivates developers
- Developer communities
- How they are expected to evolve.
What it answers
SlashData’s Developer Ecosystem Insights offer key insights on:
- Developer Language usage and communities
- Where developers go for information
- What types of content do developers prefer
- The landscape of a technology area (ie Blockchain)
- Challenges/friction points in a specific technology area (ie Challenges in multi-cloud or Challenges in using 3rd party APIs)
- Population sizing
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