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3 weeks 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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2 months 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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Mar 14, 2025 | 
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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Apr 25, 2024 | 
pitdebrief.com | Rachel Stephens |Anna Krausova |Jordan Liverant |Sushmita Balakrishnan
Oscar Piastri’s Chinese Grand Prix was a damage-limitation race for him and his team in the second half of it. While his teammate secured P2 and stood on the podium, Piastri managed to hold off Lewis Hamilton and finish in P8. The Melbourne born driver’s race turned in an instant. As Daniel Ricciardo was rear-ended by Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll during the restart, the RB F1 car gently touched the rear of the MCL38, leaving Piastri with diffuser damage.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
pitdebrief.com | Rachel Stephens |Sushmita Balakrishnan |Ewout Albrecht |Lucrezia Costa
Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack is optimistic about the team’s performance saying they are no longer “in no-man’s land”. The AMR24 demonstrated an impressive performance following a disappointing Bahrain Grand Prix. The Silverstone team had the fifth fastest race car on the grid and both the Aston Martin’s finished in the points, Alonso in 9th and Stroll in 10th. However, the Spaniard finished almost 20s behind Oscar Piastri in 8th.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens
We’re recapping the talks presented at the 2024 Monki Gras. Below is a summary of the talks from the final day of the conference. A summary of the talks from the first day is available here. Stochastic Children by Dormain Drewitz and Rachel StephensDrewitz and Stephens (oh hai!) explored the overlap between effectively prompting as parents and prompting an LLM. Can we think like parents in how we approach our interactions with LLMs, and can LLMs show us anything about being better parents?
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
pitdebrief.com | Rachel Stephens |David Coath |Sushmita Balakrishnan |Oyku Ceylan
Red Bull has dominated Formula One since 2022 after the regulation changes and Max Verstappen is the driver the beat. The Dutchman has won a staggering 36 out of the 46 races since the return of ground effect cars, with Red Bull taking out 40 overall. Meanwhile, 8 in a row Constructors’ Championship winners Mercedes have fallen into a slump.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens
This iteration of the RedMonk programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Amazon Web Services. AWS manages a variety of developer communities where you can join and learn more about building modern applications in your preferred language. As part of RedMonk’s analysis about language rankings, here’s a visualization that tracks the movement of the top 20 languages over the history of the rankings.
