The New Stack Podcast

#28: Monki Gras, Nordic Dev Communities and Why Data Science Matters to the SysAdmin

Episode Summary

Looking forward to a schedule full of conference activity, The New Stack founder Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk ease into this first-of-the-year episode of The New Stack Analysts by comparing their go-to travel planning tools. RedMonk's Monki Gras is first up later this month, and its theme is "Nordic Craft Culture and Tech." Donnie explains the impetus behind the choice to focus on the Nordic and Scandinavian influence on technology. "A huge amount of really vital internet infrastructure has come out of the Nordic countries - a lot that I hadn't realized." "Many people know that Linus Torvalds who wrote Linux grew up in Finland," says Donnie, "but what people may not know is that tools like SSH , IRC, MySQL, Skype - more recently Spotify and Varnish - have all come out of the Nordic countries as well - a lot of these core pieces of internet infrastructure that really do a lot to equalize communication and equalize technology for the rest of us..." Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-show-28-monki-gras-nordic-dev-communities-data-science-matters-sysadmin/

Episode Notes

Looking forward to a schedule full of conference activity, The New Stack founder Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk ease into this first-of-the-year episode of The New Stack Analysts by comparing their go-to travel planning tools. RedMonk's Monki Gras is first up later this month, and its theme is "Nordic Craft Culture and Tech."

Donnie explains the impetus behind the choice to focus on the Nordic and Scandinavian influence on technology. "A huge amount of really vital internet infrastructure has come out of the Nordic countries - a lot that I hadn't realized."

"Many people know that Linus Torvalds who wrote Linux grew up in Finland," says Donnie, "but what people may not know is that tools like SSH , IRC, MySQL, Skype - more recently Spotify and Varnish - have all come out of the Nordic countries as well - a lot of these core pieces of internet infrastructure that really do a lot to equalize communication and equalize technology for the rest of us..."

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-show-28-monki-gras-nordic-dev-communities-data-science-matters-sysadmin/