mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06helped found @redmonk@mastodon.social. if you see someone at a tech conference wearing a Red Sox hat, that's probably me. wrote the new kingmakers and the software paradox. married to @girltuesday. eph.
we’ve been grappling with Stack Overflow issues with our language rankings for some time now, but this run we got to add some GitHub data weirdness as well.
anyway, the Q1 language rankings are now live. enjoy.
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-26/
Valkey turned two years old last month, so i thought i'd check in on some of the project metrics
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/06/valkey-at-two/
some thoughts from me on the news regarding DocumentDB that dropped while i was on vacation.
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/09/02/documentdb/
some belated thoughts in the wake of GitHub Universe
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/11/07/github-2025/
ahead of the MCP Dev Summit, thought i'd check into some of the metrics
in case anyone's looking for a new book i had to turn the red sox off, so figured i might as well write up what i've been doing since the last review
https://sogrady.org/2026/03/31/books-spring-2026/
where do open source licenses stand in 2026?
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/03/25/open-source-licensing-2026/
some thoughts as we enter 2026 on AI, its costs and its benefits, its impacts and its promise, and its inevitability
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/02/10/besieged/
what do VMs, microservices and agents have in common? and what does Yeats have to do with all of that?
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/01/08/tide-of-agents/
some thoughts on what Redis, the AGPL, the SSPL and the CNCF v Synadia all mean for open source
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/05/06/oss-forward-back/
back in june, we had our first briefing on the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
it was terrifying, and we were shocked that its implications were not widely known. we've since had more briefings and read the act itself.
it's still terrifying. here's a bit on why.
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/08/06/cra-five-alarm-fire/
some thoughts on AI tooling, evolution and developer promiscuity
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/07/09/promiscuity-of-modern-developers/
have had several conversations about this recently: APIs as the potential next front in the ongoing tensions over monetizing commercial open source projects
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/09/open-source-apis/
ok, no idea who’s around, but if you’re at Red Hat Summit and/or in Boston and you want @redmonk.com to buy you a beer, head to Trillium (Fort Point) around 8ish.
look for the guy in the Sox hat, though that might take a couple of tries in Boston.
some thoughts on the Anthropic / IBM partnership as well as the weird math of the wider AI space
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/10/08/enterprise-ai-market/
lots of chatter around deepseek, obviously, but i'm curious about its implications for the enterprise
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/01/27/deepseek-and-the-enterprise/
@timbray@mastodon.cloud Ok. Here are a few:
for friends in Denver this week for the OSS Summit, or if you’re just in town generally, @rstephensme@hachyderm.io and i will be hosting beers at Schoolyard Beer Garden tonight at 7 PM. come by, say hi and let RedMonk buy you a refreshing beverage.
we're very late with these, but you can read more about why in this iteration of redmonk's programming language rankings
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/18/language-rankings-1-25/
ok, looking over the calendar, it's three more metal tube trips this summer before i light out for the territories.
1. OSS Summit / Denver (6/22 - 6/23)
2. RedMonk Trip / SF (6/30 - 7/2)
3. AWS Summit / NYC (7/14 - 7/16)
if you'll be at any of these and want to connect, give a shout.
what do APM and logging have to do with Snowflake's acquisition of Crunchy?
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/06/data-consolidation/
didn’t get things together quick enough last time i was down, but for any boston folks and/or red hat summit attendees: anybody up for redmonk beers tomorrow night?
