{"id":28,"date":"2015-09-28T12:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/?p=28"},"modified":"2015-09-28T12:50:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:50:54","slug":"the-hashicorp-adoption-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/2015\/09\/28\/the-hashicorp-adoption-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hashicorp Adoption Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I was at an event in Amsterdam, and the question was asked how many people know Hashicorp<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;How many people know <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HashiCorp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hashicorp<\/a>&quot; asks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sethvargo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sethvargo<\/a>, and an entire room of devs raised their hands. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HashiCorp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hashicorp<\/a> are crushing it \/cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monkchips?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@monkchips<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fintan Ryan (@fintanr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fintanr\/status\/642277484273225728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hashicorp have followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unix_philosophy\" target=\"_blank\">unix philosophy<\/a>\u00a0and created a number of discrete independent tools, each of which completing a specific task very well. From Vagrant, which is without doubt one of the most frequently used tools in many peoples tool chain, to Vault each tool has filled a need focused around automation. As we have repeatedly said\u00a0here at RedMonk the more you remove friction, the more developers will appreciate you.<\/p>\n<p>Once you set about creating a set of useful products, which can be used independently, or in a loosely coupled fashion, you then encourage all sorts of different types of adoption, across a diverse user base. When you consistently do this well, the effects become obvious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/hashicorp-all-stars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-29\" src=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/hashicorp-all-stars-300x150.png\" alt=\"hashicorp-all-stars\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/hashicorp-all-stars-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/hashicorp-all-stars-1024x512.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/hashicorp-without-vagrant-stars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/hashicorp-without-vagrant-stars-300x150.png\" alt=\"hashicorp-without-vagrant-stars\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/hashicorp-without-vagrant-stars-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/hashicorp-without-vagrant-stars-1024x512.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see with each new project the trajectory of likes just increases This is far from a coincidence, each time Hashicorp release a product people sit up and take notice.<\/p>\n<h3>The links that bind<\/h3>\n<p>What I have found very interesting though, is the relationship between different products, and how one becomes a gateway to another, such as how Consul and Terraform have drawn users to Vault.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/circlize1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/circlize1-300x300.png\" alt=\"circlize\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/circlize1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/circlize1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2015\/09\/circlize1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s quite easy to dismiss growing \u201clikes\u201d of distinct products to\u00a0a company having the same set of fans. This is not the case for Hashicorp, of the 20,000 odd unique stars only 1% of users have starred every single one of Hashicorps products on Github.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: Hashicorp is\u00a0not a Redmonk client<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I was at an event in Amsterdam, and the question was asked how many people know Hashicorp &quot;How many people know @hashicorp&quot; asks @sethvargo, and an entire room of devs raised their hands. @hashicorp are crushing it \/cc @monkchips &mdash; Fintan Ryan (@fintanr) September 11, 2015 Hashicorp have followed the unix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devops","category-orchestration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}