\n\n \n\nEarly in the day, we presented how Docker and Kubernetes were tracking since we've seen buzz about both at OSCON.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/StackOverflow/status/862335218665041921\n\nBut more impressive is the explosion in popularity of TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript that we use internally at Stack Overflow.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/StackOverflow/status/862351729345519616\n\nAnother interesting trend we noticed yesterday was the expansion of several data science technologies, especially the fast-growing open-source TensorFlow library, which recently caught up with the MATLAB language in questions asked per month.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/StackOverflow/status/862359206032224258\n\nYesterday at Microsoft's Build conference (it's a busy week for tech events), the company announced an Azure database for MySQL and PostgresSQL. Unsurprisingly, MySQL is still popular, although its growth may have stalled or even started shrinking.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/StackOverflow/status/862403485337178112\n\nWith all the work we've done to launch Stack Overflow Trends, we were pretty pleased that O’Reilly Media (producers of OSCON) founder and CEO Tim O’Reilly gave us a shout out. (Thanks, Tim.)\n\nhttps://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/862429784646631425\n\nHe later asked us how competing cloud technologies have been growing on the platform. Short story:\n\nhttps://twitter.com/StackOverflow/status/862655997394989056\n\nTim also pointed out that we should include some context for the analysis and how the Stack Overflow community might differ from the overall programmer population.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/862441179677302784\n\nThat's an important question that we often think about and will share more about in the future. Though in regards to this specific example, since Stack Overflow runs on .NET and its founders were well known for their Microsoft-related blogging, the community was originally shifted \u003Cem>towards\u003C/em> Microsoft developers. But that appears to have change over time, with Microsoft technologies shrinking as a share of questions.\n\n \n\nhttps://twitter.com/StackOverflow/status/862657318093299712\n\n[Update to the above]\n\nhttps://twitter.com/StackOverflow/status/862703078935580672\n\nWe'll be back with more analysis on Twitter today and tomorrow.\n\nDon’t see your favorite language, technology, or framework in this post? 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