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30-in-30 sprint complete!
After a sparse publishing record this spring, I set myself the task of publishing 30 posts in 30 working days to get things back on track. This post marks #30, on day #30. Sure, I had to do some...
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RedMonk’s analytical foundations, part 1: 2003–2005
Since RedMonk is turning 10 this week, I wanted to add my own contribution. While Steve talked about some of our best predictions, I’m going to talk about some of what I see as RedMonk’s foundational...
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Upcoming talks at Monki Gras and FOSDEM
In the next few weeks, I will give five talks: one at our own conference in London, Monki Gras (tickets still available), and four (yeah that’s right) at FOSDEM, the primary European conference for...
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Strata CA 2013: Was SQL really the theme? Nope.
Last week, I attended the Santa Clara edition of O’Reilly’s Strata conference, which is all about data. Rumor had it that this was the conference of SQL front-ends to Hadoop (although between Impala,...
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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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What were developers reading on my blog and tweetstream in 2013?
As a strong believer in transparency, I wanted to share the actual data from hits on my blog over the past year instead of just a popularity ranking. Using a combination of WordPress stats, Google...
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Upcoming speaking engagements, come find me!
I’ve got a number of speaking engagements in the next couple of months, so if you want to hear what I’ve got to say or just grab a beer, find me here: The Minneapolis DevOps meetup tomorrow, on the...
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RedMonk’s analytical foundations, part 3: 2008–2010
As I prepare to wrap up my time at RedMonk, I wanted to complete the series of foundational posts I started in 2012 on our approach to understanding the tech industry [part 1, part 2]. Hopefully this...
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RedMonk’s analytical foundations, part 4: 2011–present
a.k.a. the advent of Donnie Berkholz Finally, here’s part 4 on the RedMonk approach to industry analysis [part 1, part 2, part 3]. Again, I hope it’s useful to you, friendly reader, as well as the...
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The end of this story
I titled this blog “Story of Data” with the goal of telling stories based on the enormous quantity of information on software that’s out there but is nearly incomprehensible without context. And I...
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