
Rachel Stephens
Writer at BAM
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6 days ago |
redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens
Apache Parquet is a columnar data storage format. It was originally developed by Cloudera and Twitter and was donated to the Apache Software Foundation in 2013. While it began as part of the Hadoop ecosystem, it has since become a core building block of modern data infrastructure. Today Parquet is heavily used in data warehousing, data lakes, cloud storage, and machine learning pipelines.
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1 month ago |
redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens
Vibe coding is an extension of developers ability to tinker using LLMs, but its true power will come in enabling adjacent personas like product managers to more closely collaborate with their dev teams. Tinkering is indeed in important. In the heady days of 2023 when the exploration of LLM tooling in the development workflow was still quite nascent, my colleague Kate Holterhoff wrote a piece entitled AI is for Tinkerers.
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2 months ago |
redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens
On March 18, 2025 Google Cloud announced an agreement to acquire Israeli security company Wiz for $32B. Pending regulatory approvals, the deal is expected to close in 2026 as an all cash transaction. Wiz is an agentless security tool, designed to run in multi-cloud environments. They tout an end-to-end platform, but their market toehold stems from the convenience of their multi-cloud scanning.
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2 months ago |
redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens
After ten months of regulatory review, on Feb 27 2025 IBM closed its acquisition of HashiCorp for $6.4B (or $35/share in cash.) The RedMonk team has collectively been busy on the road, planning conferences, and writing books, but we still wanted to come together and share our thoughts on the merger. We’ll also share some initial reactions about the announcement of the intent to buy DataStax. Below is a team Q&A with our thoughts about the deals.
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Aug 26, 2024 |
redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens
Another day, another rug pull. At least that’s what the cynical might say, as we as an industry once again are discussing the fallout of another company changing their software from what was previously open source to a proprietary license.
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