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Docker Index Shows Momentum in Developer Community Activity

The latest edition of the Docker Index is in, and it shows a continued growth in activity across the Docker community. The momentum we are seeing since the last Docker Index in February 2021 edition continues to grow.

You’ll recall that we started publishing the Docker Index in early 2020 as a way to provide insight into trends in application development, mining anonymized data from millions of Docker users. Every time we’ve published the Docker Index since then (this is our fourth Docker Index post), we’ve been amazed at the findings. 

As of Aug. 31, 2021, there’s been a total of 396 billion all-time pulls on Docker Hub — up from 318 billion just six months ago and an increase of about 25% year-over-year. In addition, there were 42 billion Docker Hub Pulls in the second quarter of 2021 (calendar year), up from 30 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020, likely reflecting a continued accelerating demand for more applications as the pandemic shutdown accelerated businesses’ digital transformation efforts. Docker Trusted Content — including Docker Official Images, Docker Verified Publisher content and Docker-sponsored Open Source projects — is available at all Docker subscription levels.

These increases paint a clear picture of collaborative application development platforms as the foundation for developers who want to build, share and run modern apps.

The numbers are up across the board. The number of application container image repositories on Docker Hub reached 12.5 million, up from 8.3 million in our February Index, and representing a more than 50% year-over-year increase in the application components that developers rely on to build apps.

There are now 9 million Docker Hub accounts, up about 30% year-over-year. Docker Desktop installations have risen to 4.7 million from 3.3 million in February this year, and Docker Desktop downloads stand at 11.9 million.

Meanwhile, according to the 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, based on a survey of over 83,000 software developers, Docker continues to be extremely popular among developers. Along with Git and Kubernetes, it’s among both the most loved and most wanted tools.

Over 76% said they loved Docker, behind Git (nearly 85%) and ahead of Kubernetes (over 72 %). And Docker led the pack with nearly 30% expressing an interest in developing with it.

And according to a DevOps survey by JetBrains, Docker users are three times more likely to be found working as DevOps engineers or infrastructure developers, two times more likely to be architects, and 30% more likely to serve as team leads. They are also more likely to have a senior position.

Thanks again to the entire Docker community and ecosystem for the ongoing innovation, feedback and commitment to one another that makes Docker more vibrant and relevant to the evolving and expanding needs of developers. Finally developer feedback and input is core to how we guide our investments into the Docker platform. I want to encourage you all to provide feedback and requests about what you want to see in Docker by commenting on our public roadmap.
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Behind the Scenes: The Tech Stack of the WordPress.com Growth Summit

Recently, we hosted our second annual WordPress.com Growth Summit and welcomed over 1,300 attendees at the event. The summit was fully online, and it built on the momentum of our inaugural Growth Summit in 2020 after hearing from you, our community, that another conference would be a great learning and networking opportunity for people looking to grow their WordPress.com sites. Based on the positive feedback from last year, this year’s programming continued to be customer-focused by highlighting people — just like you! — who started sites and businesses on WordPress.com and have seen them flourish.

We also changed up the tech stack we used, which allowed us to offer a better user experience and to improve the process of selling tickets and, later, access to recorded videos from the event. If you enjoy building sites with WordPress, tinkering around with design and functionality, I’m pleased to share a behind-the-scenes look at how we got our Growth Summit site to work for us. This explanation might be especially helpful if you’re trying to sell registrations on your site and/or restrict access to content behind a paywall.

Selling Tickets

At WordPress.com, we love to use plugins when building sites, and installing a number of them on the Growth Summit site made ticket sales a breeze for customers.

First, we installed the WooCommerce plugin on our WordPress.com site and created a ticket as a simple product in the store catalog. Nothing fancy, just a title and a price. From a design perspective, we determined that it wasn’t ideal to have potential conference attendees visit the product page, so we configured the call-to-action button on the homepage to automatically add a ticket to a visitor’s cart and send them straight to the checkout page. Then, using Zapier and its WooCommerce extension, we configured a “zap” that was triggered whenever a customer bought a ticket, which in turn alerted Hopin — the virtual event software platform we chose to host the Growth Summit — to create a new attendee registration. In an effort to simplify the checkout process, and hopefully increase conversion rates, we used the WooCommerce Checkout Field Editor plugin to remove a number of default fields, such as billing street address, phone number, and order comments. We were also able to customize the field layout so that it took up less “real estate” on the checkout page.The MailPoet plugin allowed us to customize the content of the default WooCommerce emails for completed order confirmations. Sure, we could have installed a child theme and then used custom templates to put the text we wanted in the message, but the MailPoet plugin was free for our purposes. Plus we can use it for email marketing campaigns in the future, should we choose.

On-Demand Video Access

Leading up to the Growth Summit, our focus was on driving attendance to the live event. Once the conference wrapped up, we shifted focus to providing access to recordings of Growth Summit sessions for attendees who wanted to watch on demand, and for people who missed the event but wanted to experience it firsthand. With the WooCommerce Memberships extension, we put the videos behind a paywall — in other words, you have to have a membership to view them. To sell memberships, we’re using the same WooCommerce product we used to sell tickets. We just changed its configuration so that buying the product adds the customer to a membership plan that grants access to video content from all the sessions in 2020 and 2021. Additionally, we ensured that anyone who bought a ticket to the live event would get a year of on-demand access automatically. 

Site Design

Aesthetics are as important as functionality. We built the Growth Summit site with the Twenty Twenty-One theme. The homepage uses Gutenberg blocks. Some of the common blocks are Cover, Layout Grid, and Columns. We also used some custom CSS code to tweak the design to suit our needs. 

That’s pretty much it. Did you miss the Growth Summit? Use the coupon code behindthescenes to get 25% off on-demand access to all the video recordings from 2020 and 2021, now through August 2022!
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