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June Highlights

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

With a Sunday posting day, the number of postings was down this month which explains the drop in the charts across the board. This month I'm also trying something new, breaking out the big list into more specific categories. I'll add more charts and categories next month as I assign categories for the terms.

Programming Languages

Not much of a change in the programming language race. The top 4 remained the same.

Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
Python 1 1 0 2 +1
JavaScript 2 2 0 1 -1
Ruby 3 3 0 3 0
Java 4 4 0 4 0
C++ 5 6 +1 6 +1
Clojure 6 8 +2 8 +2
Scala 7 5 -2 9 +2
C 8 7 -1 7 -1
C# 9 10 +1 5 -4
Objective-C 10 9 -1 10 0

Server-side Frameworks

Compare Rails, node.js, PHP and Django

June shows more of the same with the rank being 1) Rails 2) node.js 3) PHP and 4) Django. After threatening Rails in May, with only 1 less mention, node.js has fallen back again leaving Rails as the clear top choice.

JavaScript Frameworks

Compare AngularJS, Backbone, Ember and jQuery

JavaScript Frameworks are a fast moving bunch. In a comparison of some of the most popular ones though, we can see AngularJS double up Backbone for the second month in a row. jQuery took a large drop this month, perhaps because its now assumed or becuase it's becoming less necessary?

SQL Databases

Compare Postgresql, MySQL and SQL Server

Postgresql shows a steady rise to being the top RDBMS choice. It regained the top spot after MySQL won the past 2 months. Not only that though, Postgresql achieved its largest margin of victory ever.

NoSQL Databases

Compare Mongodb, Cassandra, Riak and CouchDB

After dominating the NoSQL space for the past 3 years, MongoDB came close to losing its crown to Cassandra, encountering a large dropoff from May to June. Other databases such as Riak and CouchDB continue to have a presence, but do not show much growth.

DevOps Tools

Compare Chef, Puppet, Ansible and the DevOps term itself

DevOps, the merger of systems administrators and programmers to drive infrastructure automation, is enjoying a real competition. With the current big 3, Chef was the clear winner with Puppet regaining its standard second place finish. Ansible could not maintain the momentum this month and fell back to third, but keep an eye on this one over the next few months. I'm witnessing Ansible chosen more anecdotally and I myself chose it recently.


Overall Rankings

Tech Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
Python 1 1 0 2 +1
JavaScript 2 2 0 1 -1
Ruby 3 5 +2 3 0
iOS 4 4 0 4 0
Rails 5 6 +1 5 0
Android 6 3 -3 7 +1
AngularJS 7 8 +1 22 +15
Postgresql 8 14 +6 32 +24
Java 9 9 0 6 -3
node.js 10 7 -3 13 +3
linux 11 22 +11 16 +5
Machine Learning 12 15 +3 17 +5
passionate 13 13 0 15 +2
CSS 14 11 -3 8 -6
Front End 15 19 +4 31 +16
passion 16 27 +11 27 +11
AWS 17 17 0 14 -3
Redis 18 25 +7 24 +6
PHP 19 16 -3 18 -1
DevOps 20 18 -2 48 +28
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Bash 5 61 0 190 +129
Docker 6 57 0 172 +115
OpenStack 5 62 1 133 +71
Spark 7 52 1 114 +62
Puppet 6 58 1 110 +52
R 8 50 2 96 +46
Spring 10 46 2 89 +43
EC2 7 55 2 86 +31
Data Science 14 37 4 67 +30
DevOps 21 20 8 48 +28
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Erlang 1 120 6 51 -69
Asp 2 97 5 58 -39
C# 5 65 15 30 -35
Objective-C 4 78 9 45 -33
jQuery 12 40 26 10 -30
Mongodb 14 36 23 12 -24
Haskell 3 84 5 61 -23
Heroku 4 79 5 56 -23
Django 12 42 20 19 -23
SQL Server 4 76 6 54 -22

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