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Musical chairs with open-source business models: Opscode and Tokutek
While everyone else is talking about API-related acquisitions (Mashery by Intel, Layer 7 by CA, now ProgrammableWeb by MuleSoft), I’m going to avoid the pack in this post and focus on some other...
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Gonzo video with PhoneGap’s Andre Charland and Brian LeRoux
Last week I was at Adobe’s MAX conference in Los Angeles, where I grabbed some time with two of the key people behind PhoneGap, the incredibly popular framework for developing hybrid HTML5/native...
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Ranking Linux distributions, and the decline of the traditional distros
A recent poll on Hacker News asking about Linux distributions of choice got me thinking, what can can we learn from a bigger picture of the distro landscape than a single HN poll? I went looking around...
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RedMonk’s analytical foundations, part 2: 2006–2007
a.k.a. the advent of Coté In celebration of RedMonk’s 10th birthday year, this is the next post in the continuing series on RedMonk’s foundational works, which continue to define our philosophy and...
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Are we getting better at designing programming languages?
In the aftermath of my earlier work on the expressiveness of programming languages, I started wondering whether our ability to design and choose optimal languages might have improved since the ’50s...
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What do Stack Overflow developers care about and use?
For the past three years, Stack Overflow has run a survey of its userbase to see what sorts of things they care about in jobs and technologies they use. To my surprise, I couldn’t find anyone who...
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Go: the emerging language of cloud infrastructure
Over the past year in particular, an increasing number of open-source projects in Go have emerged or gained significant adoption. Some of them: Docker Packer Serf InfluxDB Cloud Foundry’s gorouter and...
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Widespread correlations across programming-language rankings
IEEE Spectrum recently came out with a very interesting interactive tool for ranking programming languages. What makes it interesting is that it incorporates 12 different sources including data from...
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Microsoft goes after the barrier to entry for data science with Azure ML
A month ago, I got a pre-briefing on Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning with Roger Barga (group program manager, machine learning) and Joseph Sirosh (CVP, Machine Learning). Yesterday, Microsoft made...
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GitHub’s vanishing acceleration
In 2013, I successfully predicted GitHub’s growth from 3 million to 4 and 5 million users respectively, with sub-month accuracy. This time around, my news is less cheerleading and much more concerning....
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