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August Highlights

Sunday, August 3, 2014

It was last August when I began this project, and now that I've been watching these trends for a year, it's interesting to see what has changed in software, and what things remain the same. There have been breakout technologies like AngularJS and Docker that have seen rapid rises, along with more nebulous terms such as DevOps and Machine Learning that are becoming common place in postings.

When it comes to programming languages, I thought there would be more to say about Go (golang) at some point, based on the attention it gets on HN and Twitter. I suppose if it weren't named Go, that would help make it easier to pick out of the postings. Making these scripts smarter about Go is something that should be added in the coming months. Otherwise, the programming languages have remained fairly consistend. Python and JavaScript still go back and forth as the #1 technology term. There was only 1 month, last December, when iOS snuck in and claimed a title.

I'm mostly a web guy myself, so I've always kept an eye on the web stack. Rails and node.js have consistently battled to be King of the web over the past year, and this month marks a significant milestone with node edging Rails for the first time. For all the buzz that Rails and node generate though, PHP is still hanging with them.

Enough reflection for now, let's take a look at some of the common groups of terms:

Programming Languages

Compare JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Java
Compare C++, Scala, Clojure and Go

Server-side Frameworks

Compare Rails, node.js, PHP and Django

JavaScript Frameworks

Compare AngularJS, Backbone, Ember and jQuery

SQL Databases

Compare Postgresql, MySQL and SQL Server

NoSQL Databases

Compare Mongodb, Cassandra, Riak and CouchDB

DevOps Tools

Compare Chef, Puppet, Ansible and the DevOps term itself


Tech Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
Python 1 2 +1 2 +1
JavaScript 2 1 -1 1 -1
Ruby 3 3 0 4 +1
Android 4 6 +2 6 +2
iOS 5 4 -1 7 +2
AngularJS 6 9 +3 17 +11
Java 7 8 +1 3 -4
node.js 8 7 -1 9 +1
passionate 9 17 +8 18 +9
Rails 10 5 -5 8 -2
linux 11 18 +7 16 +5
CSS 12 10 -2 13 +1
Full Stack 13 20 +7 25 +12
MySQL 14 12 -2 10 -4
passion 15 25 +10 31 +16
Machine Learning 16 19 +3 32 +16
DevOps 17 13 -4 36 +19
Front End 18 28 +10 30 +12
jQuery 19 15 -4 14 -5
PHP 20 22 +2 15 -5
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
JSP 7 68 0 181 +113
Computer Vision 8 61 1 138 +77
Sinatra 8 62 1 137 +75
Storm 6 70 1 125 +55
Ansible 10 57 2 101 +44
Docker 14 50 3 87 +37
Data Mining 5 83 2 107 +24
XML 5 84 2 105 +21
REST 23 34 9 53 +19
DevOps 39 17 17 36 +19
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Scrum 1 146 5 70 -76
S3 2 117 5 69 -48
Puppet 5 86 11 48 -38
Solr 4 89 8 55 -34
Lucene 3 105 5 73 -32
statistics 5 87 7 60 -27
Shell 4 90 6 66 -24
Heroku 6 74 9 52 -22
Mongodb 23 32 33 11 -21
Backbone 34 24 43 5 -19

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