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On December 1, 2020, Salesforce announced the intention to acquire Slack for a combined cash and stock offering currently valued at $27.7B. While Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s description of the acquisition as “the most strategic combination in the history of software” might be somewhat dramatic, it is indeed an interesting ... read more

About Fauna was founded in 2012 by Evan Weaver and Matt Freels, who before forming Fauna helped build the data platform that backed Twitter. In the intervening years the company has raised nearly $60M and has grown the team to roughly 40 people. Fauna positions itself as a data ... read more

My toddler likes to yell “incoming!” as she charges into a room or throws stuffed animals off the landing of our staircase (except she pronounces it “win-coming,” and we enjoy her version so much that no one is allowed to correct her.) All of which is to say: Win-coming! Our ... read more

Commentary on some of the interesting numbers in the news (Photo credit: Flickr/morebyless under CC-BY 2.0) Last week we saw a slew of SaaS-based companies file prospectuses for their upcoming public offerings. Snowflake: a cloud-based data warehouse for structured and semi-structured data (IPO) Asana: a team collaboration and project ... read more

RedMonk Top 20 Languages Over Time: June 2020 This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Cloudflare Workers – the fast, secure, and affordable serverless platform. No matter the language, Cloudflare Workers helps developers solve their hardest problems. Start building today with Cloudflare Workers! ... read more

Since our last update of infrastructure as a service pricing trends, adoption of cloud compute continues to grow. A growing number of enterprises across verticals are pursuing cloud strategies and taking advantage of cloud services. However, it can be difficult to properly assess how competitive cloud providers are with one ... read more

Static site generators are an increasingly popular style for building a new class of web applications. Based on external conversations as well as our own internal experiments, we realized it was time to dig into trends further. In an effort to examine the state of the static site generators, this ... read more

Earlier in the COVID-19 quarantine I hypothesized that worldwide travel restrictions and shelter-in-place mandates would cause our industry to explore new and creative ways to connect without the benefit of in-person events. To wit: “I expect to see massive experimentation across the industry as people try to address these new ... read more

About Founded by the team that built SoftLayer and sold it to IBM, StackPath launched in 2016. In the window between their 2015 founding and their 2016 emergence from stealth, they had already made four acquisitions; they have since pursued several more M&A deals and now offer a composite ... read more

Practicing social distancing with two parents trying to work from home while also watching a toddler has been rough. Between juggling both our conference call schedules alongside our kid’s needs, it’s been close to impossible to find the time or energy for writing or research. I know there’s a whole ... read more

This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by MongoDB. No matter the language, MongoDB helps developers solve their hardest data problems. Build better, bigger, and faster with MongoDB Cloud. kelly (Kelly Fitzpatrick): The purpose of this chat is to discuss the findings of the January ... read more

This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by MongoDB. No matter the language, MongoDB helps developers solve their hardest data problems. Build better, bigger, and faster with MongoDB Cloud. As part of RedMonk’s analysis about language rankings, here’s a visualization that tracks the movement of ... read more

What were technologists focused on 20 years ago? What did history prove right? Where were our predictions off base? Is any of this still applicable now? What can we learn? If nothing else, let’s just drink in the nostalgia. My husband is a faithful reader of Wired magazine. So faithful ... read more

This is part of an ongoing series where we explore some of the interesting things our new clients are up to. About RackN RackN’s mission is to help automate data centers by providing an integrated control plane for bare metal servers behind the firewall. The company was founded five years ... read more

Image source: Starecat Content Authenticity Initiatives At the end of 2019, Instagram posted about its new policy for flagging potentially misleading images in a post entitled “Combatting Misinformation on Instagram.” Instagram describes the program as follows: We want you to trust what you see on Instagram. Photo and ... read more