Now that we’re halfway through the fourth quarter, it’s probably about time for us to post our third quarter language rankings. We’ve been tied up behind the scenes at RedMonk between projects, our first event in three years and more and haven’t had the time to drop these yet, bu … | Continue reading
When the first mainframes were running businesses seven decades ago, software was an afterthought. The real, differentiated and thereby commercial value lay in the design and construction of the hardware – everything from the processor to the storage. Thus it was that the SHARE u … | Continue reading
In my last post on the subject of Customer Success & Learning Subscriptions, I began to think through how vendors and vendor neutral foundations measure success. Customer success is central to the stories organizations tell about their IT and developer certifications, but what it … | Continue reading
Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) and Dan Moore (Head of DevRel, FusionAuth) discuss methods for securing your API. From API keys to Certificates to Tokens, they cover the pros and cons, focusing on current best practices. This was a RedMonk video, sponsored by FusionAuth. Related Resour … | Continue reading
Marketing’s reliance on education is not new. Consider the mantra Educate, Excite, Engage that Brad Chase, Senior Vice President of Microsoft from 1987 to 2002, used to promote Windows 95. There’s a reason education comes first in Chase’s strategic initiative. The role of educati … | Continue reading
My colleague Kate Holterhoff recently wrote a post looking at the use of stock imagery on corporate sites – Don’t Let Imagery Undermine Your Marketing Website One of the questions posed is about content aimed at developers. Should we cut the use of imagery completely from dev2dev … | Continue reading
Photo Credit: J. Antonio Baeza Once upon a time, HBO and Netflix looked very different from one another. The former had content, but no independent delivery platform. The latter had less content, but a highly refined delivery platform. Interviewed in 2013, then Chief Content Offi … | Continue reading
Docs (and tech comm) items of interest: docs in two recent “state of” reports; upcoming Write the Docs conferences; the 2022 ATTW conference; Docs for Developers; OSS docs; DevTechDocsOps, are we paying technical writers enough? The State of Documentation Two recent high-profile … | Continue reading
Today Crunchy Data launched Postgres Container Apps, a neat idea that pretty much turns the current model for database and app runtime on its head. Container Apps do what they say on the tin – you can run apps in containers alongside Postgres. This isn’t some big Kubernetes state … | Continue reading
Last month GitHub Universe featured Samson Goddy, a powerhouse evangelist on the African tech scene. Director of Community Relations at Sourcegraph, he’s also the founder of Open Source Community Africa, a community of open source contributors, maintainers and advocates. “My focu … | Continue reading
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by MongoDB. Join our community today and build your next application on any cloud with MongoDB Atlas. More than 30 programming languages are supported! Given that we’re days out from the second quarter, … | Continue reading
I had a delightful conversation the other day with Dr. Jean Yang, founder of Akita Software. She is just as smart as her excellent writing indicates, as well as being extremely personable. The VC company Andreessen Horowitz has published a couple of her essays. The Case for ‘Deve … | Continue reading
Certification has historically been associated with any of the significant technology waves in enterprise adoption. Consider Novell’s NetWare, which pioneered the personal computer networking market during the late 80s and early 90s. In 1990 Novell introduced the Certified Novell … | Continue reading
I recently contributed to a series of fireside chats hosted by LaunchDarkly. One of the themes that we discussed was Developer Experience, and how to improve it. I was asked by one of the attendees at the EMEA event (video here, interview by Cody De Arkland) about further reading … | Continue reading
The DevOps movement (and its offshoot DevSecOps) aims to improve the frequency and quality of software deployments by breaking down silos between teams. When the walls between teams disappear we often see tasks ‘shift left,’ or move earlier in the development cycle so developers … | Continue reading
Since our last update of infrastructure as a service pricing trends the size and importance of the cloud market has expanded, and adoption of the cloud continues to grow apace across organizations of all sizes and verticals. However, it can be difficult to properly assess how com … | Continue reading
The opportunity to use Git-based workflows for compliance purposes is currently underappreciated, but there is a growing understanding in the industry that it’s a significant opportunity. One of the biggest challenges in any compliance project is understanding who did what, and w … | Continue reading
So we were talking the other day and my colleague Rachel asked – Is there any part of the software development life cycle in 2021 that is not smooshing? “Smooshing” is the officially recognised RedMonk technical term for the phenomenon of software and systems categories overlappi … | Continue reading
A little over fifteen years ago, Adam Bosworth – then with Google, and formerly of BEA and Microsoft – noticed something interesting. For all that they represented the state of the art, the leading database vendors of the time – all of which were relational, of course – were no l … | Continue reading
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Languages is brought to you by Microsoft. Developers build the future. Microsoft supports you in any language and Java is no exception; we love it. We offer the best Java dev tools, infrastructure, and modern framework support. Modernize … | Continue reading
HashiCorp has good taste. The company builds things that look good and work well. The brand identity of the company as a whole is systematic and well thought out. It should be no surprise, therefore, that Hashicorp runs online events with a crisp design sensibility. Perhaps more … | Continue reading
Anyone that spent the last 18 months attending a lot of virtual events, and that’s pretty much all of us, got used to a certain aesthetic. We spent so much time on Zoom, that the experience leached out into what we expected from events. Great audio, reasonable video, but wait, I … | Continue reading
Founded fourteen years ago in 2007, acquired in 2010 by Salesforce for $210M, Heroku is somehow still the canonical example of a certain style of application development. When RedMonk talks about the Developer Experience Gap, conversation inevitably and swiftly turns toward the o … | Continue reading
Spotify is very much an engineering led company. It is also a product led company. Therefore when it decided it needed to get a better handle on its cloud spend, it decided to build an internal product designed to be used by its engineers. The result is Cost Insights, a plugin fo … | Continue reading
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by MongoDB. From the edge to the cloud, MongoDB enables you to work with data as code – in any language – so you can build and ship applications faster. If you are a Python, .NET, Java, or Javascript de … | Continue reading
This month has been quite instructive about how the market perceives value in technology and platforms. Twilio announced 2020 Revenues were $1.7Bn. Total revenue growth year over year was 65%. On the day of its IPO in 2016 Twilio was worth $2.4bn. Today it’s worth more than $60bn … | Continue reading
My colleague Stephen recently wrote an excellent and well-received post about the Developer Experience Gap – the chasm separating modern promises of developer productivity with the reality of stitching environments together by hand. There are so many powerful tools and platforms … | Continue reading
When the iPhone was first introduced in January of 2007, it took the world by storm. The first device to compress – successfully, at least – a mobile phone, a computer with internet access and the 21 century’s equivalent of the Walkman into something that would easily fit into a … | Continue reading
The justifications for creating a new programming language vary. If you’re a computer scientist like Mary Hawes or Grace Hopper, your concern is economics: the cost of programming generally, and for porting applications to new hardware platforms specifically. If you’re Dennis Rit … | Continue reading
Land and expand is the classic enterprise sales strategy. While normally used to describe the process of winning a customer and then expanding the scope of engagement over time, it can just as well be used to discuss sectoral wins. In light of that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has … | Continue reading
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Cloudflare Workers – the fast, secure, and affordable serverless platform. No matter the language, Cloudflare Workers helps developers solve their hardest problems. Start building today with Cloudfla … | Continue reading
In December of 2000, then CEO Lou Gerstner pledged to the audience at the eBusiness Conference and Expo in New York that IBM would spend one billion dollars on Linux in the year ahead. Even if you adjust that number for inflation, it’s around $1.5B in today’s dollars, which doesn … | Continue reading
Of the four core legal intellectual property protections, trademarks haven’t received the least attention from the open source community – that title belongs to trade secrets. Relative to copyright and patents, however, trademarks have been paid far more limited attention, histor … | Continue reading
Over the past 10 years or so as AWS has continued to grow and dominate new markets we’ve seen a couple of key narratives emerge that might be seen as either realism, or perhaps just an attempt to slow Amazon down. One is hybrid-cloud, and the other is multi-cloud. Consultants and … | Continue reading
Some six years before Amazon kicked off the cloud era with the introduction of its compute and storage primitives, there were companies rushing to roll out fleets of servers onto networks all over the world. The web as we know it today was in its infancy at that point, but even s … | Continue reading
kelly (Kelly Fitzpatrick): It’s the beginning of May, and a slew of companies have released earnings reports for the quarter ending March 31, 2020. The purpose of this chat is to discuss any points of interest that have emerged from these reports against other industry news. In p … | Continue reading
I have been self isolating since early March. For the first week and a half the kids were still at school, which was actually more stressful than having them at home. But we’ve all been doing the Stay at Home thing for a few weeks now. What a great time for my eldest to prove | Continue reading
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by MongoDB. No matter the language, MongoDB helps developers solve their hardest data problems. Build better, bigger, and faster with MongoDB Cloud. With the new year well underway, it’s time to drop ou … | Continue reading
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by MongoDB. No matter the language, MongoDB helps developers solve their hardest data problems. Build better, bigger, and faster with MongoDB Cloud. With the new year well underway, it’s time to drop ou … | Continue reading
As an “edge” skeptic 2019 was an interesting year, which began to challenge my assumptions. It was notable for the emerging promise of architectures like Cloudflare Workers (serverless Javascript functions that run on Cloudflare’s globally distributed platform). WebAssembly Syste … | Continue reading
Two excellent posts from my colleagues Rachel (DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change) and James (Tools lead culture change: Happy Birthday DevOpsDays) have contributed to an ongoing conversation about | Continue reading
It’s an industry truism that DevOps is about culture change rather than products, but tools can very much lead a culture change and we shouldn’t underestimate their role. CloudBees hosted | Continue reading
Is it possible to rank programming languages by their efficiency, or expressiveness? In other words, can you compare how simply you can express a concept in them? One proxy for this is how many lin… | Continue reading
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by YLD. YLD is behind many of the products and services you use every day. We create cutting | Continue reading
Two truths about the technology industry that aren't always particularly popular to acknowledge are: For better or worse, we are a fashion industry; a brilliant and weirdly technical fashion industry, | Continue reading
A year ago this month, it was abundantly clear that both the OpenStack project and the foundation created around it were at a crossroads. After years of a “Big Tent” | Continue reading