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August Highlights

With its fifth straight #1, Python continues to establish itself as a flexible language across many stacks. Even as JavaScript comes in second again, it's surprising that the near-universal language of the web has not pulled away from Python.

Mobile app development had another strong month, placing iOS at #3 and Android at #5, righ in-line with where they were at last month.

In the list of rising technologies below, there is a variety of tech racing up the rankings. From languages like Haskell and Lua, to popular data tools like Pandas, Kafka and Spark.

In the falling list, it's interesting to see see that LAMP was only mentioned in 4 out of the ~800 postings, is it on its way to extinction? While PHP is still popular, though not growing, and laravel even is on the "rising" list. Actually, seeing LAMP on that list is not really that surprising in looking at the others there too. It's a real graveyard of web/javascript technologies falling down the list as new, shiny tech take their place.

Programming Languages

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

Nothing of note, trends-wise, for programming languages. The big 4 remained the big 4 by a healthy margin.

Server-side Frameworks

Compare Rails, node.js, PHP and Django

Proving it may have not been a fluke, Node.js beats Rails for second time in three months. It feels like these two are going to continue to battle it out in the months ahead.

JavaScript Frameworks

Compare AngularJS, Backbone, Ember and React

Angular has certainly flattened out and is beginning to stagnate a bit. But, it still maintains a decent lead as React.js continues its climb.

SQL Databases

Compare Postgresql, MySQL and SQL Server

PostgreSQL is the top SQL Database for the 8th straight month now, but MySQL is still hanging with PostgreSQL for the time being.

NoSQL Databases

Compare Mongodb, Cassandra, Riak and CouchDB

Cassandra is showing some rising momentum while MongoDB is well-off of its peak popularity 2 years ago. There's one more really interesting trend here, even though not technically in the same NoSQL sphere perhaps, but Elasticsearch just passed MongoDB.

New Big Data

Compare Kafka, Storm, Hadoop and Spark

New category added this month as Apache's Spark and Kafka projects appear to be gaining significant traction. Spark actually beat Hadoop in August.

DevOps Tools

Compare Chef, Puppet, Ansible and the DevOps term itself

Nothing significant to report this month in the world of DevOps.

Tech Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
Python 1 1 0 1 0
JavaScript 2 2 0 2 0
iOS 3 3 0 4 +1
Ruby 4 9 +5 3 -1
Android 5 5 0 5 0
node.js 6 10 +4 8 +2
AWS 7 8 +1 22 +15
AngularJS 8 4 -4 6 -2
Rails 9 7 -2 9 0
Java 10 12 +2 7 -3
Full Stack 11 13 +2 15 +4
DevOps 12 6 -6 19 +7
React 13 14 +1 62 +49
Postgresql 14 19 +5 21 +7
Machine Learning 15 15 0 17 +2
passionate 16 11 -5 10 -6
api 17 37 +20 25 +8
linux 18 18 0 12 -6
Redis 19 23 +4 24 +5
MySQL 20 22 +2 14 -6
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Haskell 7 82 1 165 +83
Pandas 8 77 1 146 +69
Laravel 5 94 1 153 +59
Lua 5 93 1 150 +57
S3 9 73 2 126 +53
WordPress 8 78 2 128 +50
React 64 13 10 62 +49
Microservices 12 61 3 107 +46
Spark 23 46 6 80 +34
Kafka 24 42 7 73 +31
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
OpenStack 2 134 6 82 -52
Perl 4 99 11 57 -42
Knockout 2 127 6 85 -42
Compass 2 132 5 91 -41
JSP 3 107 7 74 -33
LAMP 4 102 7 69 -33
XML 3 116 6 83 -33
Apache 6 88 11 55 -33
jQuery 16 52 41 20 -32
HTML5 16 55 35 28 -27