Put it to work
Potential use cases
A starting use for this source
Use reported cloud-native adoption and technology patterns to prioritize integrations, segment platform-engineering buyers, and create evidence-backed messaging for developer infrastructure. Strong for founders marketing Kubernetes/cloud-native infrastructure, observability, security, platform engineering, and adjacent developer tools to technical teams.
Pressure-test a planning assumption
Match the published cohort and metric definition to your company before comparing results. Use a gap to choose a question to investigate with your own data.
What it covers
Geography and granularity
Geography: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release.
Granularity: Use reported cloud-native adoption and technology patterns to prioritize integrations, segment platform-engineering buyers, and create evidence-backed messaging for developer infrastructure.
Source type: Technical-buyer and cloud-native adoption survey
Access and cost
Web, download, or API
Free official report and linked full dataset; access is publication/download oriented rather than a live query API.
Cost: The source describes public or free access; confirm any API, bulk-download, and reuse terms directly.
Update cadence: Release cadence was not normalized in this review; check the source's dates, update notes, and API limits before comparing periods.
Before you use it
Limits that matter
The official page links the full dataset through a third-party hosting destination (data.world), and survey findings are subject to the methodology/sample limitations described on the report page; use them directionally rather than as universal market shares.; Survey respondent geography and sample composition are bounded by the survey methodology; results should not be treated as a census of all developers or all enterprises worldwide.; This is the 2023 annual survey: a dated snapshot, not continuously updated buyer intent; later CNCF surveys may differ in questionnaire, sample, and market conditions.