Mining New Relic Data for Developer Usage Data

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New Relic has partnerships with at least a few big stack-specific Hosting companies (EG Acquia, which is a big Drupal host), which I think majorly skews some of these results. The Wordpress vs Drupal numbers and complete lack of windows servers for some groups are probably related to that.

Anyway it's cool to see them release this data, and in my experience New Relic is really a great product.

[disclosure: i wrote the piece]

@showerst: there are unquestionably partnerships and other confounding variables which can act to skew the data, particularly when the sample size is smaller and/or the context is narrow.

But as you say, it was great to see them release this data, because the more companies that do this, the more complete our picture becomes.

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