The MonkCast

Sanjay Sarathy on Core Principles of Developer Trust

RedMonk — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this episode of the MonkCast, James Governor sits down with Sanjay Sarathy, SVP of Developer Experience at Cloudinary, to discuss developer trust, and why it still matters in the agentic software development era. With more than four million developers signed up, and 40% of new registrations now coming from agents, Cloudinary is rethinking what trust means, but maintaining true to its core values. Sanjay walks through the principles guiding that work: products that work as promised every time, human support that scales, accuracy in AI-assisted answers, transparency, long-term API stability, keeping the developer voice in the product loop, and investing in education for students and early-career developers.

The RedMonk video is sponsored by Cloudinary.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/sanjay-sarathy/

Chapters
00:07 Introduction to trust in developer platforms
00:51 Why trust is crucial in a rapidly changing environment
02:05 Cloudinary's longstanding focus on trust
04:50 Principle 1: Consistency in product performance
08:40 Scaling support for millions of developers
12:58 Ensuring AI-assisted accuracy and trust
17:40 Transparency as a trust foundation
21:02 Long-term API commitment and stability
24:42 Listening to the developer voice
28:58 Supporting developer education and growth
34:18 Summary and closing thoughts

Inside the AWS Agent Toolkit with Liam Greenamyre

RedMonk — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Why do some teams see massive speedups from AI coding agents while others barely notice a difference? In this RedMonk New Builders Conversation with AWS, Kate Holterhoff talks with Liam Greenamyre, Principal PM of Developer Platforms at AWS, about the uneven impact of AI on software development and how to restructure work so agents can succeed. Liam explains why making tasks verifiable is the single biggest lever, then walks through the Agent Toolkit for AWS: a remote MCP server, 100+ skills, plugins, and a rules file that work with Claude Code, Codex, Kiro, and more. They dig into how a single RunScript tool covers 15,000+ AWS APIs token-efficiently, how IAM context keys separate human and agent actions, how agents discover new services like Aurora DSQL, and why isolated dev accounts make safe sandboxes for autonomous agents. Liam closes with a bold prediction: the biggest changes ahead are organizational, not technological.

This New Builders conversation is sponsored by AWS.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/liam-greenamyre/

Chapters
00:04 Introduction to AI in Software Development
03:07 The Uneven Adoption of AI in Development Teams
06:20 Strategies for Successful AI Integration
10:09 Exploring the AWS Agent Toolkit
17:01 Guardrails and Context for AI Agents
20:10 The Impact of AI on FinOps and Cost Management
24:28 Evolution of Agent Tooling
32:17 Enhancing Discoverability in AWS
35:56 Guardrails and Safety in AWS Operations
41:03 Future of AI in Software Development

Vlad Miricioiu on the Software Stewardship Lab: Binary Dependencies, Burnout, & the Bernies

RedMonk — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT

On this RedMonk conversation, Vlad Miricioiu, Director of the Software Stewardship Lab, chats with Kate Holterhoff about improving open source sustainability, security, and supporting maintainers through innovative funding models. In addition to sharing the Software Stewardship Lab's mission, Miricioiu discusses supply chain issues, mental health challenges, and the importance of open collaboration.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/vlad-miricioiu/

Chapters
00:04 Introduction to Open Source Stewardship
02:59 The Open Source Pledge and Its Impact
06:04 The Mission of the Software Stewardship Lab
08:53 Funding Models for Open Source Maintainers
12:00 Challenges Faced by Open Source Maintainers
14:57 The Role of Companies in Supporting Open Source
17:37 Security in Open Source Software
20:32 The Future of Open Source Collaboration
24:34 Navigating Conflicts of Interest in Open Source
29:25 The Role of Funding and Grants in Open Source
35:17 AI and Burnout: The Impact on Open Source Maintainers
40:07 Understanding 'Bernies': The Challenge of Unmaintained Projects
45:07 Building Partnerships for Open Source Sustainability

Platform Engineering 2.0: Evolution, Not a Reset with Pankaj Gupta

RedMonk — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director of Product Marketing, VCF Division, at Broadcom, chats Platform Engineering in the AI era with Stephen O'Grady. Gupta explains that more than 90% of organizations run an internal platform, but despite widespread adoption, Gupta thinks most platforms are hitting two ceilings. They were built, in his phrase, "AI blind," and they were built for exactly one user, the developer. AI has already moved the bottleneck from writing code to getting it into production, and the user base is about to change shape. Also in this episode: when golden paths harden into golden cages, why FinOps and security can no longer be bolted on, and Gupta's five pillars for platform engineering 2.0.

The RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Broadcom.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/pankaj-gupta/

Chapters

00:04 Introduction to Sponsorships

00:08 Introduction to Platform Engineering

02:52 Current State and Challenges of Platform Engineering

05:47 The Evolution of Platform Engineering

08:33 AI's Impact on Platform Engineering

11:23 The Rise of Agent Personas

14:52 Five Pillars of Modern Platform Engineering

17:47 Next Steps for Platform Engineers

The BOM Explosion & Why PQC Stopped Being 10 Years Away with David Pollak & Allan Friedman

RedMonk — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this episode, David Pollak, founder and CEO of Spice Labs, and Allan Friedman, Senior Technical Advisor at the Institute for Security and Technology, discuss the importance of software supply chain security, bills of materials, and the emerging field of post-quantum cryptography with Kate Holterhoff. Friedman, "the godfather of SBOMs," gives a state of play for 2026: where the tooling has matured, where it still falls short, and why the Cyber Resilience Act is about to make this everybody's problem. From there the conversation moves to CBOMs and post-quantum cryptography. Pollak argues PQC stopped being a 2035 problem in June, when the White House, the US military and French standards bodies all pulled their deadlines forward by five years. Also covered: whether developers should have to think about security at all, what the IPv6 transition taught us, and the 360,000 Maven packages carrying vulnerable code nobody disclosed.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Spice Labs.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/david-pollak-allan-friedman/

Chapters

00:04 Introduction to the Guests and Topics

06:29 The State of SBOMs in 2026

13:46 Understanding Cryptographic Bills of Materials

22:12 The Intersection of Security and Development

31:25 The CBOM Approach and Its Importance

33:23 Post-Quantum Cryptography: A Future Concern?

38:55 Navigating Regulations and Compliance

43:57 Finding vs. Fixing Vulnerabilities in Open Source

49:58 AI's Role in Security and Vulnerability Management

53:31 Lessons from IPv6 and Cryptography Libraries

Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak on Why Trust & Safety Needs Open Source

RedMonk — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak, COO of ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) , chats with Kate Holterhoff about the importance of open source tools in trust and safety, especially in the age of AI. She shares insights on building safety tools, the role of open source, and how these efforts can create a safer online environment for everyone.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/anne-bertucio-de-hollembeak/

Chapters

00:04 Introduction to Roost and Ambertuccio's Background

02:53 Understanding Trust and Safety in Online Spaces

05:44 The Role of Open Source in Trust and Safety

08:43 Child Safety Tools and Their Impact

11:29 Mila's Suicide Prevention Guardrail Project

14:21 AI Contributions and Community Engagement

17:20 Maintainer Burnout and AI Slop Management

26:13 Introduction to Bug Bounty and Security Processes

26:57 Understanding Osprey: The Tool for Safety and Investigation

28:18 The Story Behind Osprey and Its Origins

30:22 Roost: A Nonprofit Approach to Open Source Safety

32:04 Partnerships and Collaborations in the Safety Space

33:46 Blue Sky: A Case Study in Collaboration

35:21 Challenges in Decentralized Safety Solutions

37:14 Addressing the Bot Issue and AI Challenges

43:47 Open Source Policies and Their Implications

45:49 Conclusion and Resources for Further Engagement

Securing Enterprise Open Source with Coalitions & Clearing Houses: Lightwell from IBM & Red Hat

RedMonk — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Most of an enterprise application stack is open source that nobody is paid to maintain. Gunnar Hellekson of Red Hat puts it at 60 to 70 percent, and that gap is what IBM's Lightwell is built for. He walks James Governor through the mechanics: members scan and triage their own dependencies, submit what they find with the source identity stripped out, and get fixes back after an embargo period before those fixes reach a wider network and, where a maintainer still exists, the upstream project. Financial services goes first. Hellekson is candid that plenty of customers cannot use the service yet, because joining would only lengthen a patch backlog already measured in months. Mythos, the two agree, mostly revealed how bad things already were. They also work through token economics, why nobody needs to scan OpenSSL separately, and why a fix should end up as deterministic code rather than something an AI keeps rediscovering.

Red Hat is a RedMonk client, but this is free and independent content.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/gunnar-hellekson/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction: IBM's big bet on open source security
03:18 A win-win for customers and the open source community
05:27 The problem: 60–70% of the stack is unsupported open source
07:15 Carry your own fork or hope upstream fixes it
09:17 Eat your vegetables first: hardened images and paid platforms
09:45 How Lightwell works
11:57 Scope: application dependencies
12:57 Network effects, industry clearinghouses, and identity washing
14:34 When to move off orphaned projects
16:04 Mythos showed how bad things already were
19:51 Delivery via Maven, PyPI, and npm
20:33 Attackers vs. defenders at machine speed
21:44 Why fixes should be deterministic code, not endless AI
23:06 Token economics and shared remediation
24:05 Nobody needs to scan OpenSSL separately
25:08 Will every enterprise build its own software?
27:38 Wrap-up

Good Wigs & Golden Paths: Dev Tools in the AI Era with Victoria Melnikova

RedMonk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Kate Holterhoff talks with Victoria Melnikova, head of new business at Evil Martians, about what product market fit looks like for developer tools in 2026. Drawing on research by Evil Martians CEO Irina Nazarova, Melnikova argues PMF is a spectrum, not a switch. Product signals and revenue signals are separate things, and the gap between them tells you where to focus. Her advice to most early stage founders? Your product is probably fine, go do sales. Their conversation covers why dev tools resist the golden path metrics of generic SaaS (what's the golden path in Photoshop?), why agent experience (AX) matters now that LLMs increasingly pick tools for their users, and why engineers who use AI well are becoming the hires companies fight over. Also: a corrupted video shoot, agencies as pirate ships, and why AI should be like a good wig.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/victoria-melnikova/

Chapters
00:04 Introduction to Dev Tools and Product Market Fit
10:52 Understanding Product Market Fit in DevTools
18:19 The Shifting Landscape of DevTools and AI
25:33 Agent Experience and Its Impact on DevTools
28:54 Navigating Agent Experience and AI Integration
34:17 The Future of Hiring in Tech
38:58 Designing with AI: Balancing Human Touch and Automation
47:09 Security in Open Source and AI

"Somebody is always paying the token bill": AI and Open Source with Brian Proffitt & Jason Brooks

RedMonk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Generated code is arriving faster than maintainers can read it. RedMonk's Steve O'Grady discusses this new reality with Jason Brooks and Brian Proffitt, both managers in Red Hat's Open Source and AI Program Office. Proffitt's teams are adding what he calls human speed bumps upstream: PR templates that ask whether AI wrote the patch, and if so, what the prompt was. The point is transparency, not blocking the flow. Brooks argues for the importance of human decision makers because writing code may cost close to nothing now, but getting another person to accept it still costs plenty, and someone always pays the token bill. The conversation also touches on maintainer burnout, why saying "no" is still a legitimate answer to a pull request, Fedora Hummingbird and its agentically assembled packages, and the thing Proffitt worries about most: trust.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by Red Hat.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/brian-proffitt-jason-brooks/

Chapters

00:04 Introduction to AI and Open Source Governance

00:32 Guest Introductions: Jason Brooks and Brian Proffitt

02:10 AI's Ubiquity and Industry Impact

03:06 Guardrails for AI Code Quality in Projects

04:22 Implementing Human Speed Bumps for AI Contributions

05:17 Encouraging Transparency in AI Contributions

06:46 Automated Review and Guardrails in Open Source

07:50 Verifying AI-Generated Code in Fedora

09:10 Human Oversight in AI Processes

13:39 Developer Burnout and Managing Contribution Floods

16:09 Trust and Transparency in AI-Driven Ecosystems

18:30 Evolving Policies for AI in Fedora

20:16 Future Challenges and Community Trust in AI

21:11 Closing Remarks and Future Outlook

From Stock Photos to Trillions of Artifacts: Shutterstock's Data Journey with Jefferson Frazer

RedMonk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this conversation recorded at Fastly Xcelerate, James Governor talks with Jefferson Frazer, Director of AI at Shutterstock, about how a two-decade-old media company reinvented itself for the age of foundation models. Frazer explains how Shutterstock's long history of human-reviewed, meticulously labeled content left it uniquely positioned when hyperscalers began seeking diverse, web-scale datasets for multimodal training. Frazer digs into the technical backbone too: a 100-plus petabyte footprint, cloud-agnostic architecture built on Fastly's private fiber and Wasm-based edge compute, and the discipline of tracking data provenance through standards like C2PA and SynthID. Looking ahead, he makes the case that unified embedding spaces and portable metadata—not any single model provider—will define the next chapter of AI-ready content.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by Fastly.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/jefferson-frazer/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Shutterstock and AI

04:14 Data Scale and Infrastructure

07:25 Fastly's Role in Data Management

10:28 The Future of AI and Business Models

13:28 Regulation and Provenance in AI

16:35 Excitement for Unified Embedding Spaces

Why AI Agents Are Blowing Up Your Telemetry Bill with Nikhil Mungel

RedMonk — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Most conversations about AI agents stay on what agents can do. Less attention goes to what they leave behind: logs, traces, and tool-call chains at a volume nobody's pipeline was built for. Nikhil Mungel, Head of AI R&D at Cribl, talks with Kate Holterhoff about why that is becoming observability's cost and noise problem. They discuss why token prices keep falling while total spend climbs, how employee spend differs from the tokens a product burns serving customers, credit-based versus outcome-based billing, why users always reach for the priciest model, and how the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) standardizes what agents emit. Underneath all of it sits the question the industry keeps dodging, which is whether to keep scaling the backend or get stricter about what gets collected at all.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Cribl.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/nikhil-mungel/

Chapters
00:25 Leading AI research and development at Cribl
01:46 Token prices fell, token bills grew
03:39 The research agent that thought all night
06:54 More software, more agents, more telemetry
09:37 Employee spend versus cost of goods sold
12:05 Credits, outcomes, and other ways to bill for agents
14:46 Shadow AI and the cloud governance rerun
17:00 Writing policy: cost, access, and blast radius
17:49 Local models and regulated industries
18:40 What Cribl collects, plus Cribl Guard
21:24 Token gateways as the enforcement point
24:56 Model anxiety and automatic routing
27:29 What OCSF is and why it caught on
30:15 Observability as an information compression problem
33:48 Zero data retention versus model safety
35:45 Should agents know what they cost?
36:35 Where to find Nikhil and Cribl's research

Why ChatGPT Recommends Your Competitor: LLMs & the Future of DevTool Marketing with Adam DuVander

RedMonk — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Why does ChatGPT recommend one DevTool over another, and what can founders do about it? In this RedMonk Conversation, Kate Holterhoff sits down with Adam DuVander, Principal Consultant at EveryDeveloper and author of Developer Marketing Does Not Exist, to explore how AI assistants are transforming software discovery. They discuss Adam’s LLM Rank research, which tracks how models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini recommend developer tools, and why those recommendations often differ. The conversation covers the practical steps DevTool companies can take to improve AI discoverability, from documentation and developer experience to use-case positioning and contextual content. Along the way, Kate and Adam examine the expanding definition of “developer,” the rise of AI-assisted builders, and why developer marketing is evolving rather than disappearing. Whether you’re building a developer product or rethinking your go-to-market strategy, this episode offers a practical framework for succeeding in an LLM-first world.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/adam-duvander/

Chapters
00:00 Defining the Modern Developer
04:25 The Role of Every Developer
09:38 Marketing to the New Breed of Developers
12:37 Understanding LLM Rank and AI in Development
19:57 The Evolution of Documentation and Developer Experience
22:06 Understanding Developer Context and Use Cases
25:31 Navigating AI Recommendations for Developer Tools
28:55 The Importance of Language and Phrasing in Queries
31:50 The Long Game of SEO and LLM Rankings
36:44 Addressing Outdated Documentation and Bad Advice
42:20 The Distinction Between Discoverability and Developer Success
47:51 The Future of Developer Marketing in an AI World

The Digital Sovereignty Questions Every Enterprise Should Be Asking with Jason Willeford

RedMonk — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

James Governor sits down with Jason Willeford, Global Lead for Secure Global Support at Red Hat, to dig into digital sovereignty and why it's become such a big deal for European enterprises. Jason explains Red Hat's Confirmed Sovereign Support, launched last year, which keeps EU customer data and the engineers handling it inside the EU. They cover what sovereignty actually means, why banks and telcos now care about it as much as public sector agencies do, and how AI complicates the picture when you don't know where a model was trained or what data it consumed on the way there. The conversation also touches on IBM's Sovereign Core, Project Lightwell, and RHEL for SAP.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Red Hat.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/jason-willeford/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Digital Sovereignty

02:26 Understanding Sovereignty: Definitions and Spectrum

05:31 The Complexity of Sovereignty in Europe

08:21 Data Sovereignty and Support Models

11:28 AI Sovereignty and Its Implications

14:15 Operational Sovereignty and Customer Engagement

17:20 The Role of Red Hat in Sovereignty

20:40 Sovereign Core and Global Expansion

23:36 Mindset Shift Towards Sovereignty

26:22 Engaging Developers and Enterprises on Sovereignty

29:36 The Future of Sovereignty and Open Source

The Data Behind the Agents with MongoDB's Boris Bialek & Intellect Design's Raman Jatkar

RedMonk — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Stephen O'Grady sits down with Boris Bialek, VP of Industries at MongoDB, and Raman Jatkar, Head of Product Management for Purple Fabric at Intellect Design, to examine where agentic AI and data platforms converge. The discussion makes the case that data, not models, determines enterprise outcomes. Raman reframes hallucination as a data architecture and sequencing problem, solved through deliberate ingestion, chunking, and retrieval strategies rather than model swaps. Boris stresses governance, lineage, guardrails, and the often-overlooked security risks of agent-to-agent interactions like open banking. Both argue that data and AI platforms should be treated as one interconnected capability, with governance built in rather than bolted on. The conversation closes on the renewed importance of operational, real-time data, what Boris calls OLTP returning to center stage, and keeping the human customer at the end of every workflow.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by MongoDB.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/boris-bialek-raman-jatkar/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the AI Agentic Era
01:58 Understanding Purple Fabric and Its Tech Stacks
05:52 Addressing Hallucinations in AI Models
09:26 Governance and Compliance in AI Systems
12:33 Challenges and Opportunities in Data and AI Integration

From Dashboards to APIs: Day Two Operations in VCF 9.1 with Sehjung Hah

RedMonk — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:47:33 GMT

In this MonkCast conversation, Rachel Stephens talks with Sehjung Hah, a product marketing engineer at Broadcom, about how VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 is shifting private cloud operations from click-driven dashboards toward programmable, API-first workflows.

Hah walks through the expanded VCF API surface that lets developers pull network details, vSphere diagnostics, and real-time infrastructure health in a self-service fashion. They also discuss a new fleet management capability that centralizes password rotation, certificate updates, and identity management across massive compute footprints.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by VMware by Broadcom.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/vcf9dot1-dashboards-to-apis-sehjung-hah/

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:30 Removing Developer Friction in Private Cloud

02:44 Fleet Management for Platform Engineers

04:23 From Dashboards to Telemetry-as-Code

08:27 Killing Static Credentials and Shrinking the Blast Radius

11:29 AI Workloads, Sovereignty, and Cost Visibility

14:56 The 3 AM Scenario

17:27 Putting It All Together

Evidence Over Certificates: John Ellis on the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework

RedMonk — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

What does it mean to trust software? For this RedMonk Conversation, Kate Holterhoff sits down with John Ellis, President of Codethink and the contributor to the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework, to pull that question apart. Ellis leans on an old image: the bridge builders who once slept under their own bridges to prove the work was sound. Modern software rarely faces that kind of test, even when it steers a car or flies a plane. He explains where trust tends to break, especially the integration step where hidden dependencies finally show themselves, and points out that a safety certificate almost never uses the word "safe." Rather than pass-or-fail box-ticking, the framework asks teams to state their confidence and back it with evidence that others can inspect and challenge. They also dig into AI-written code, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, and why rising software recalls suggest current habits fall short.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/john-ellis/

Chapters
00:04 Introduction to the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework
02:57 Understanding Trust in Software
05:59 The Integration Moment of Truth
08:54 Challenges in Software Development Lifecycle
11:25 The Role of the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework
14:39 Managing Change in Software Development
17:20 Versioning and Continuous Improvement
20:01 Risk Analysis and Trustworthiness in Software
24:39 Automating Testing and Confidence in Software
25:23 Bridging the Gap with Regulators
27:15 The Complexity of Software and Safety Standards
29:18 Understanding Certification and Safety Claims
31:12 The Need for a Shift in Mindset
32:16 The Role of the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework
34:18 Navigating the EU Cyber Resilience Act
37:41 The Journey of Compliance and Awareness
39:16 AI's Impact on Software Provenance
43:34 Future Directions for the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework

Dealing with the Next Bottleneck: Build Management at AI Scale with Helen Altshuler

RedMonk — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

AI agents are writing code faster than anyone can build, test, and ship it. James Governor talks with Helen Altshuler, CEO and co-founder of EngFlow, about why the bottlenecks that once happened at Google scale are now showing up everywhere. Helen traces the story back to Google's 2008 push for five-minute builds, which produced Blaze and eventually Bazel, and explains why that system is finally having its moment a decade after it was open sourced. The numbers are hard to ignore: EngFlow's customers went from 250 million build actions a week to nearly 2 billion in a single year. Companies like Snowflake, Databricks, and Tinder are using Bazel, managed by EngFlow to keep up. James and Helen also dig into agent-ready documentation, why verification is increasingly automated or even ignored, and what happens once people stop using pull request workflows. We're about to hit a wall of AI created scale, and companies are going to fundamentally rethink architectures and approaches if the want to make it.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by EngFlow.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/helen-altshuler/

Chapters
00:04 Introduction and Context Setting
01:25 Challenges of Build Management at Scale
04:29 Google's Historical Perspective on Build Management
07:15 The Impact of AI on Software Development
10:19 Bazel's Role in Modern Development
13:23 Community Growth and Open Source Collaboration
16:36 Enhancing Developer Experience with AI
19:22 Customer Insights and Scaling Challenges
22:34 Bazel's Unique Advantages and Market Position
25:21 Multi-Cloud Strategies and Infrastructure Flexibility
29:36 Scaling Software Development with Data
33:06 Investing in Developer Infrastructure
36:37 Embracing GitHub and CI Challenges
42:13 The Evolution of Code Review Practices
47:11 The Future of Build Management at Scale

"Don't Submit Code You Don't Understand": Angie Byron on AI and Open Source Trust

RedMonk — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Open source has a new problem: you often can't tell whether the contributor on the other end is a person or an agent working on their behalf. In this RedMonk Conversation, Kate Holterhoff talks with Angie Byron, Senior Manager of Community and Advocacy at Temporal and lead of applied AI at Drupal, about AI's effects on open source communities. They discuss the issue of AI-generated slop on maintainers, the credit and trust systems AI breaks, and the policies projects are testing, from disclosure rules to outright bans. Angie also makes the case for the upside: tools that let product managers and marketers ship real code, security work that surfaces decades-old bugs, and a much lower bar for who gets to contribute. Underneath all of it sits a harder question about identity, and what happens to developers who built a career on the craft of writing code.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/angie-byron/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Angie Byron and Temporal
02:47 AI's Impact on Open Source Communities
05:57 Trust and Contribution in Drupal
08:40 Navigating AI in Open Source Contributions
11:40 Demographic Shifts in Open Source Contributions
14:30 The Role of AI in Contributor Onboarding
17:29 The Future of Open Source with AI
20:30 Challenges and Opportunities in AI Contributions
23:49 Conclusion and Future Outlook
27:46 Navigating AI in Code Review
29:22 Challenges of Incentivization in Open Source Contributions
30:14 The Bug Bounty Dilemma
31:08 AI's Role in Security Vulnerability Detection
32:30 Onboarding and Community Engagement in Open Source
35:09 The Impact of AI on Content Management Systems
38:40 AI Integration in Drupal and CMSs
41:21 The Future of CMS in an AI-Driven World
45:02 Call to Action for Open Source Collaboration

Tech for Chickens with JT Perry

RedMonk — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:09:06 GMT

In this MonkCast Conversation, RedMonk Research Director Rachel Stephens talks with JT Perry, co-founder of Barn Analytics, about building ChickenSense — a hardware and software product that uses RFID tags and in-coop sensors to monitor backyard chicken health. JT shares how his own farming experiences led him to build a solution for detecting illness in egg-laying chickens before it's too late. They discuss the challenges of designing custom circuit boards for the first time, managing Bluetooth communication in environments without Wi-Fi, navigating tariffs and supply chain uncertainty, and the chicken-and-egg problem (pun very much intended) of building a data analytics platform before you have the data.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/tech-for-chickens-with-jt-perry/

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Background
01:32 From Tech Burnout to Farming (With Computers)
02:46 The Hypothesis: Weight Loss as a Health Indicator
05:34 Bluetooth, Battery Life, and Coop Connectivity
09:18 Protecting Hardware from Chicken Grossness
11:22 Manufacturing and Supply Chain Challenges
12:26 The Platform
16:24 Biggest Engineering Challenges
17:54 Target Market and the Cattle-Pets Spectrum
20:08 Roadmap and Product #2: USDA Temperature Monitoring
22:37 The Team Behind Barn Analytics
23:16 Lightning Round: Chicken Names, Horrors, and Eggs

Charity Majors on AI, Determinism, Instrumentation, & Eating Your Broccoli

RedMonk — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT

James Governor talks with Charity Majors, Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, about what AI is doing to engineering practices. Majors argues that non-determinism takes more discipline, not less, and every CEO who wants their AI cookies has to eat their broccoli first. Agents in production are finally forcing teams to do the instrumentation work they should have done years ago. They get into Chad Fowler's Phoenix architectures and the idea that the system, not the code, holds the truth about how software behaves. Also: which problems AI has genuinely solved and which it hasn't, why bragging about token spend is like driving a Hummer, and the last year of AI hype has been aimed almost entirely at individual productivity when the hard useful work is always about software development as a team sport. They discuss Honeycomb's Canvas, the company's AI-guided Observabiolity workspace. And finally they discuss the difference between performative outrage and actually artists in the AI era - and make some recommendations accordingly!

Honeycomb is a RedMonk client, but this video is free an independent content.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/charity-majors/

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:51 Nobody has any change budget left
03:15 AI is forcing the discipline conversation
05:37 Broccoli first, then ice cream
06:01 Phoenix architectures, and why code isn't the source of truth
08:47 The problems AI hasn't solved
11:30 Where determinism meets non-determinism
13:29 Token maxxing, Goodhart, and the Hummer problem
15:34 Superpowers for one vs engineering as a team sport
19:00 npmx and doing open source in public
20:41 Honeycomb Canvas, and social debugging at 2am
26:22 AI norms and values
27:42 Writing is thinking
32:25 Work you stand behind vs feedback you can't outsource
35:06 The other bitter lessons
37:33 If you support artists, support artists
43:05 Performative anger and Bluesky
44:49 Knowledge management is back
46:27 Canvas, timeline analysis, and what's next

Where Crochet Meets Code: Fiber Arts and the History of Computing with Abbey Perini

RedMonk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT

What do Viking needlework, the Apollo guidance computer, and a $7 Etsy crochet pattern have in common? More than you'd think. In this episode of the MonkCast, Kate Holterhoff talks with Abbey Perini, web developer at Hygiena, technical writer, and prolific crafter, about the tangled history of fiber arts and programming. Abbey walks through a condensed version of her CodeMash talk, from the earliest knitted scraps around 6500 BCE to the women who wove core rope memory for NASA and got written off as "little old lady" needleworkers. Along the way she makes the case that the Jacquard loom gets too much credit, that knitting patterns really are programs (loops, debugging, DRY and all), and that AI slop has already found its way into crochet. The conversation closes on something quieter: why building a physical thing still matters when so much of our work disappears the moment we close the laptop.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/abbey-perini/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Fiber Arts and Programming

05:49 Historical Context of Fiber Arts

12:54 The Intersection of Fiber Arts and Computing

20:37 Patterns as Programs: Similarities and Differences

25:42 AI's Impact on Fiber Arts

28:30 The Intersection of Tech and Fiber Arts

32:35 Learning Through Craft: The Developer's Journey

37:26 The Emotional Connection to Crafting and Coding

42:31 Finding Meaning Beyond the Screen

Going Down the Stack: AI Inference, Kernel Fusion, and Model Tuning with Paul Brookes

RedMonk — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this MonkCast conversation, RedMonk's James Governor talks with Paul Brookes, a senior AI engineer at TurinTech, about making AI inference faster and cheaper. TurinTech predates the generative AI boom, having spent years optimizing complex code with genetic algorithms, and now points those tools at the models themselves. Brookes walks through techniques like kernel fusion and model compilation that squeeze more tokens per second out of specific hardware, drawing on the company's work with Intel on OpenVINO and vLLM. The two get into running capable open models such as Qwen on local machines, the spiraling cost of AI , and why judging engineers by tokens burned misses the point. Brookes also describes Artemis and its discovery harness, which lets agents learn from past results, and traces his own route from quantum physics into low-level performance engineering.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by TurinTech.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/paul-brookes/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to AI and TurinTech

01:42 Optimization Challenges in AI

04:30 Working with Semiconductor Companies

08:46 The Cost of AI and Local Model Deployment

11:29 Local Model Performance and Infrastructure

14:44 Partnerships and Breakthroughs with Intel

16:54 Key Techniques for Optimizing Inference

19:39 The Role of AI Engineers

21:50 Bridging the Gap with Customers

23:21 Harnessing AI for Continuous Improvement

Why the Gateway Approach to Agents Sucks (and What to Do Instead) with Marek Poliks

RedMonk — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT

James Governor sits down with Marek Poliks, Head of AI at LaunchDarkly, for a spicy conversation about what it actually takes to manage agents in production. Marek makes the case that feature flags were almost designed for this moment: pulling agents out of application code lets teams gate, roll back, and iterate on whole agent harnesses as testable variations rather than hard-coded entities. Along the way he argues that everyone is now experimenting in production whether they admit it or not, and that the popular gateway approach introduces brittle third-party dependencies at the most security-sensitive point in the stack. According to Marek, observability "will not save us." Passive logging is a lagging indicator; the real value lies in runtime control and adaptive triggers that intervene before bad things happen. The discussion ranges across progressive delivery, software factories, healthcare and finance adoption, and closes with Stafford Beer and outcomes-driven engineering.

The RedMonk video is sponsored by LaunchDarkly.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/marek-poliks/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to AI and Agent Management
03:11 The Role of Feature Flags in AI Agents
06:01 Experimentation in Production
09:05 Runtime Control and Progressive Delivery
11:49 The Future of Software Development and AI
15:04 Challenges in AI Adoption Across Industries
18:08 The Importance of Context in AI Systems
20:57 Navigating Regulations and Compliance in AI
24:02 Conclusion and Future Perspectives
26:34 The Evolution of Automation and AI
27:51 Shifting Focus: From Inputs to Outcomes
29:07 The Role of Gateways in AI Security
33:02 The Limitations of Observability
38:58 Continuous Feedback Loops in Software Development

When Agents Become Users: Rethinking Developer Portals with Balaji Sivasubramanian

RedMonk — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Are internal developer portals dead? In this RedMonk conversation, Kate Holterhoff talks with Balaji Sivasubramanian, Senior Director, Product Management, Agentic AI Developer Platform at Red Hat, who isn't convinced. While some thought leaders claim that developers will soon live inside their own coding agents, making portals obsolete, Balaji argues that enterprises still need the golden paths and guardrails IDPs provide. Balaji's case is that a portal's UI matters less now, while the curated, verified context behind it matters more. Along the way they get into MCP's limits, context freshness, the rising cost of tokens, and why human judgment still beats an agent at some tasks.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Red Hat.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/balaji-sivasubramanian/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Conversation

00:54 Balaji's Role at Red Hat

01:58 The Importance of Developer Portals in AI

02:30 Debunking the 'Death' of Developer Portals

04:12 The Evolution of User Interfaces and AI Agents

06:50 The Impact of AI on Developer Workflows

10:32 Understanding AI Hallucinations in Development

13:25 Navigating Permissions and Audit Logs with AI

15:37 Challenges of Agent-Driven Actions

23:49 Transforming Ticketing Systems with AI

26:25 Navigating Enterprise Complexity

31:33 Building Effective Agents

36:36 The Challenge of Freshness in Data

43:16 Ensuring Safe Agent Deployment

49:01 The Future of Portals in an Agentic Era

AI Code Optimization by Experimentation, Without Free Bread, with Mina Ilieva

RedMonk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT

RedMonk's James Governor sits down with Mina Ilieva, AI engineer at TurinTech AI, to talk about a problem everyone in 2026 recognizes: we're shipping a lot of code slop. Ilieva explains how TurinTech's platform, Artemis, fights back. It began life running a genetic algorithm that scores candidate code against a fitness function, and it now has a newer tool, Discovery, built on an empirical loop where agents form hypotheses, turn them into experiments, and verify every change before a human approves it. The two get into what clients actually optimize for — throughput, latency, memory, runtime — and why none of it is free. Ilieva walks through real wins with Intel's vLLM work, QuantLib, BLAKE3, and a quantized Nemotron model. They also take apart "token maxxing," the habit of burning tokens to look busy, and make the case that verification skill, not raw output, is what keeps engineers employable.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by TurinTech AI.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/mina-ilieva/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to AI and TurinTech

02:52 Code Optimization and Its Importance

05:35 Use Cases and Client Engagements

08:55 Token Efficiency and Cost Management

11:46 The Role of AI in Software Development

14:47 Trade-offs in Optimization

17:37 Future of AI and Model Deployment

Chris DeMars on Patching and Security in the AI Era

RedMonk — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff sits down with Chris DeMars, Senior Developer Advocate at TuxCare, for a conversation about patching in the AI era. Chris started writing code in Q Basic in the mid-90s and now spends his time at conferences explaining the JavaScript supply chain to people who'd rather not think about it: typosquatting, the Shai-Hulud worm, and getting locked out of his own VS Code editor at Vueconf. They get into why a Dockerfile that Claude wrote him pulled in an insecure version of Node, why most enterprise customers are nowhere near migrating off end-of-life software regardless of the modernization story being sold to them, and what rebootless live patching actually looks like once a CVE drops.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/chris-demars/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background of Chris DeMars
02:59 The Role of Developer Advocacy in Security
05:52 JavaScript Ecosystem and Security Challenges
08:54 AI's Impact on Security Practices
11:42 Developers' Awareness of Security Issues
14:50 The Importance of Patching and CVEs
17:37 The Future of Security in Development
21:09 The Process of Fixing Vulnerabilities
24:01 Modernization vs. Legacy Systems
24:50 Engagement with the Open Source Community
26:45 Challenges for Open Source Maintainers
27:36 Enterprise vs. Smaller Companies
29:39 The Role of AI in Upgrading Systems
33:37 Compliance and Regulation Concerns
38:24 Understanding Live Patching
41:32 Closing Thoughts and Future Directions

Jack Herrington on TanStack's npm Mini Shai-Hulud Compromise

RedMonk — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Kate Holterhoff sits down with Jack Herrington, Principal Software Engineer at Netlify and maintainer of TanStack AI, to walk the May 2026 TanStack npm supply-chain compromise. They discuss the incident in depth, including the risk of chained attacks, the role of GitHub Actions, what we know about the hackers and mini shai-hulud. Jack also weighs in on why developers are becoming more security aware and why the supply chain and CI/CD is more important than ever in the AI era.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/jack-herrington/

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Background
09:08 The TanStack Hack Incident
19:26 Security Insights and Lessons Learned
26:45 Evolving Cybersecurity Threats
34:22 Understanding Vulnerabilities in Open Source
40:47 AI in Development and Security Concerns
49:50 Advice for Open Source Maintainers

An Interview with Kyle Daigle at Microsoft BUILD 2026: Models, Tokens, Agents & Developer Calm

RedMonk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

At Microsoft Build 2026, RedMonk's James Governor sits down with Kyle Daigle, COO at GitHub and CMO of Developer at Microsoft, to unpack the event. The conversation looks at Microsoft's first homegrown frontier models, the growing importance of "token economics", new NVIDIA Spark-powered hardware, the push toward containerization and isolation for agents both on-device and in the cloud, and Windows improvements aimed at a calmer developer experience. Daigle also previews the agent-first GitHub Copilot app with its shareable canvases, and addresses developer anxiety amid industry layoffs, insisting Microsoft's principle remains keeping developers in the loop.
This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Microsoft.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/kyle-daigle/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Developer Marketing at Microsoft
02:08 Microsoft's Frontier Models and AI Innovations
05:06 Local Model Execution and Security Concerns
07:58 The Role of AI in Developer Productivity
11:08 GitHub Copilot and the Future of Software Development
14:20 Windows for Developers: Enhancements and Configurations
17:05 Hardware Partnerships and Performance Expectations
20:10 Supporting Developers in a Changing Landscape
23:12 Addressing Reliability and Scalability Challenges

Inside the Acquisition: VoidZero Joins Cloudflare with Evan You

RedMonk — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this MonkCast Conversation, RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff talks with Evan You, the creator of Vue.js and Vite and founder of VoidZero, just days after VoidZero announced joining Cloudflare. Evan clarifies what the deal does and does not include, as well as the history of how it came about. He's also candid about the motives that inspired VoidZero to look for partnership with a cloud provider. They also discuss the state of open source and frontend tooling in 2026. Can independent open source infrastructure survive today without getting bought by a bigger platform? Why Evan is still unconvinced that Vue needs a foundation. What is AI doing to the economics, and the craft, of building in the open?

Cloudflare is a RedMonk client, but this RedMonk conversation is unsponsored.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/evan-you/

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Evan You and VoidZero

02:37 The Acquisition and Its Implications

05:26 Vue and Vite: Independence and Future Directions

08:15 Monetization Challenges and Business Models

11:23 Collaboration with Cloudflare and Development Experience

14:34 Community Concerns and Competition in the Market

17:08 Funding and Support for Open Source Contributors

29:34 Building a Community and Team Dynamics

31:02 Lessons Learned from Open Source Monetization

38:26 Navigating AI's Impact on Open Source

44:24 The Foundation Debate for Open Source Projects

49:31 The Bundler Wars: Performance and Artifact Size

Steren Giannini on Google Cloud Run: Past, Present & Future

RedMonk — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:32:52 GMT

Google Cloud Run is a few years old now, and in this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor sits down with one of its founders, Steren Giannini, to talk through where it came from and where it's going. Back in 2017, most people assumed serverless meant functions. Steren's team disagreed. They figured the real value of serverless was simplicity, scale, and paying only for what you actually use, and that the thing you deploy should be a container, not a function. That call ended up shaping the whole product. James and Steren get into the decisions that gave Cloud Run its longevity: staying opinionated about simplicity without boxing developers in, a Kubernetes-compatible API designed so you can walk away whenever you want, and an open debt to Heroku's git-push experience. Steren is also honest about the messier parts, from fighting feature creep, to building the enterprise networking and security that big customers needed, to handling the traffic that AI agents are now generating. Looking ahead, Steren argues that the next generation of developers might be anyone who can describe an app in a prompt and hit publish.

Google is a RedMonk client, but this is an independent piece of content.

Show Notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/steren-giannini-google-cloud-run/

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Google Cloud Run
01:08 The Origins of Cloud Run
02:12 Design Principles and Longevity
05:35 Openness and Portability in Cloud Run
07:23 Open Source Strategy and Knative
10:42 Simplicity and User Experience
12:22 Progressive Complexity in Design
14:23 Embracing Developer Standards
16:21 Learning from Heroku
18:02 Focus on Quality and User Feedback
19:44 Cloud Run's Satisfaction and Popularity
22:01 The Rise of AI Agents
24:56 Adapting to Evolving Workloads
27:44 Collaboration with Other Google Cloud Products
30:23 Innovations for AI and Long-Running Workloads
31:19 Notable AI Companies Using Cloud Run
34:28 Cloud Run's Growth and Success
37:19 Infrastructure Preparedness for Scale
40:02 Scaling and Resource Management in Cloud Services
44:09 Enterprise Features and Customer Needs
46:53 Refocusing on Developer Experience
51:16 Simplifying Complex Systems
56:50 Security Challenges and Solutions
01:05:03 Real-World Applications and Use Cases
01:10:30 The Future of Cloud Run and AI Integration

Juan Cruz Viotti on JSON Schema, the Invisible Infrastructure Powering APIs and LLMs

RedMonk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:51:30 GMT

JSON Schema might be the most important technology you've never thought about. In this MonkCast, Rachel Stephens sits down with Juan Cruz Viotti, founder of SourceMeta and member of the JSON Schema Technical Steering Committee. They discuss how JSON Schema is the backbone of OpenAPI specs and just might be the language of AI.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/juan-cruz-viotti-json-schema/

Chapters

00:40 - What is JSON Schema?

03:00 - JSON Schema in OpenAPI and AI

05:30 - Challenges in API Ecosystem Management

07:00 - Siloed API Specs and Governance Issues

08:00 - Benefits of Schema Layer Governance

09:30 - JSON Schema as a Data Dictionary

11:00 - JSON Schema in AI and Code Generation

13:30 - SourceMeta's Ecosystem and Tools

16:00 - Small Teams and Infrastructure Innovation

16:50 - AI, Documentation, and Data Semantics

17:30 - Vision of the Future

Tanya Janca on AI Slop, Vibe Coding, & the Future of AppSec

RedMonk — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Kate Holterhoff sits down with Tanya Janca, Secure Coding and AI Trainer at SheHacksPurple, to talk about what AI is doing to application security. Tanya's take: we're driving a car at three times the speed limit after 25 beers. AI writes huge portions of production code, most developers were never taught to review code for security in the first place, and release velocity keeps climbing. The conversation gets into the difference between using AI to help you code and full-on vibe coding, why context collapse trips up LLMs on security decisions, and what's wrong with bolting AI onto legacy AppSec tools instead of building new ones. Tanya also weighs in on Anthropic's Mythos vulnerability-finding model, argues that the bug bounty economy is heading for collapse, discusses supply chain security and the future of the SDLC, and wraps by explaining Canada's Petition E-7115, which Janca helped draft to require secure coding standards across the Canadian federal government.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/tanya-janca/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to AI and Security
02:58 The Current Security Landscape
05:49 Understanding Context Collapse in AI
09:51 The Role of Vibe Coding
13:50 Teaching Security in the Age of AI
16:45 The Need for New Security Tools
25:02 The Evolving Role of Bug Bounties
27:50 The Future of Pen Testing in an AI World
30:01 The Evolving Role of Application Security
31:46 Reimagining the Software Development Lifecycle
40:54 Rethinking Supply Chain Security
48:37 Advocating for Secure Coding Legislation

Seth Webster on How Expo and the React Foundation Are Shaping Modern Development

RedMonk — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this conversation, Seth Webster, executive director of the newly launched React Foundation and Chief Developer Evangelist at Expo, chats with RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff. Seth explains why React has outgrown its origins at Meta and needs an independent foundation to ensure its durability for the next decade. On the Expo side, Seth makes the case that Expo's end-to-end pipeline, from idea through cloud builds to App Store submission, is uniquely positioned for the agentic development era. The conversation concludes with Webster reflecting on the rapidly evolving role of the developer and offering guidance for navigating its shifting terrain.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by Expo.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/seth-webster-expo-react-foundation/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Seth Webster and His Roles
05:54 History and Evolution of the React Foundation
16:51 Exploring Expo and Its Relationship with React Native
25:39 Creating a Space for Engineers
34:41 Navigating Framework Wars
42:27 Introducing Expo Agent
48:22 Adapting to Change in the Developer Landscape

VKS: One Platform for VMs and Containers with Audrey Bian

RedMonk — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:14:01 GMT

Rachel Stephens sits down with Audrey Bian, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Broadcom, to explore how vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is helping enterprises modernize their applications without rebuilding their infrastructure from scratch.

Audrey breaks down how VKS bridges the gap between traditional VM workloads and modern containerized applications on a single unified platform.

For additional information please visit:
- https://vmware.com/vks

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by VMware by Broadcom.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/vks-audrey-bian/

Topics covered:
- What is VKS and how does it the VMware stack?
- Cloud admins vs. platform engineers
- VKS and TCO
- What's new in VKS 3.6?

From Data Center Crawler to DevRel with Chris Williams

RedMonk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this episode of the MonkCast, RedMonk Senior Analyst Kate Holterhoff sits down with Chris Williams, Global Developer Relations Manager at HashiCorp, for a wide-ranging conversation that covers everything from tech certifications to corporate espionage (sort of). Chris traces his career from data center crawler and hands-on infrastructure engineer to podcaster, community builder, and accidental DevRel professional. They dig into the enduring value of certifications in the age of AI, the origin story of the vBrownBag podcast ("nerd show and tell"), and how wearing 18 hats across competing vendor communities is actually a feature, not a bug. Equal parts therapy, smoke jumping, and a game of Clue, Chris's career arc is a testament to curiosity, community, and the surprising power of asking dumb questions in a room full of experts.

IBM is a RedMonk client, but this episode is independent and unsponsored.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/from-data-center-crawler-to-devrel-with-chris-williams

Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background
04:12 The Value of Certifications in Tech
10:23 The Evolution of Learning and Upskilling
12:46 DevRel Journey and Community Engagement
15:53 AWS Hero Program and Community Impact
21:44 Navigating Multiple Roles in Tech
23:38 Navigating Career Transitions
28:20 The Role of a Cloud Therapist
32:56 Consulting: The Thrill of New Challenges

Beyond the Hypervisor: Developing with Ubuntu on VCF

RedMonk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:41:46 GMT

Infrastructure gets written off as table stakes, but if you've actually shipped software, you know how much pain comes from the friction between layers of the stack. In this RedMonk Conversation, Rachel Stephens sits down with Jay Thontakudi, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Broadcom, to dig into why the partnership between VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and Canonical is more than "Linux runs on VMware."

The conversation gets at a problem most enterprises quietly live with: developers build on Ubuntu, then watch their code land on a different Linux distribution in staging and production. Jay and Rachel talk through what it means to close that gap, and why treating the hypervisor and the OS as one supported thing rather than two vendors pointing fingers is as much a security story as it is a developer experience one.

For additional information please visit:
- https://vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vmware-cloud-foundation
- https://canonical.com

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by VMware by Broadcom.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/ubuntu-on-vcf/

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:06 - What is VCF?
03:55 - The Broadcom & Canonical Partnership
05:58 - Why Ubuntu? Bridging the Dev-to-Production Disconnect
08:18 - Security & Stability: A Unified Stack and Support Model
10:12 - Why Developer Experience is Security
11:21 - VMware's Open Source Strategy
15:24 - Conclusion & Upcoming Technical Deep Dive

"Absolute AI Maximalist" Adam Jacob on Building Software That Builds Software

RedMonk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Stephen O'Grady sits down with Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative, for a candid conversation about what it actually feels like to build software in the age of AI agents. Adam describes his team's decision to go "absolute AI maximalist," letting a five-person crew produce 150,000 lines of TypeScript that no human has fully read, and why that experience broke every assumption he had about estimation, trust, risk, and team dynamics. The two trace the emergence of three distinct camps in the developer world: skeptics, cautious adopters still treating AI as fancy autocomplete, and a growing third group who are no longer writing the software they ship but instead building the systems that build it. Adam argues the shift is less about cost reduction than raw velocity—an orders-of-magnitude increase in pressure that will burst every existing process, compliance framework, and social norm in software development. Along the way, they explore why the old practice of user acceptance testing is suddenly relevant again, why domain-driven design matters more than ever when you can't read every line of code, and why the magnitude of this transition may rival the transistor. Adam closes with practical career advice for engineers: learn software architecture, study systems design, and start building agents at home, because the people who understand how to construct the machine that constructs the software will define the next era.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/adam-jacob-ai-maximalist

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to AI and Reality
01:42 Adam's Journey with AI
05:19 The Shift to AI Maximalism
09:49 The Three Camps of AI Users
12:41 Building Software with AI
19:23 Implications of AI on Software Development
23:52 Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Software Development
29:38 The Impact of AI on Software Engineering
35:15 The Infinite Demand for Software
43:41 Career Advice for Aspiring Engineers

Sovereignty Meets Simplicity for VMware by Broadcom at KubeCon EU 2026 w Timmy Carr & Himanshu Singh

RedMonk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT

At KubeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam, James Governor sits down with VMware by Broadcom's Timmy Carr and Himanshu Singh to unpack how VMware is tackling two of the biggest challenges facing European enterprises today: complexity and sovereignty. The conversation explores how VCF and VKS are designed to simplify Kubernetes adoption for IT and platform teams, offering a fully declarative API that unifies the management of VMs, containers, and AI workloads under one consistent operational model. The discussion then turns to digital sovereignty, where Timmy and Himanshu explain how VCF's flexible deployment options—from on-prem data centers to sovereign cloud providers—help organizations keep data and workloads within regulatory boundaries. They also dig into VMware's ecosystem strategy, emphasizing CNCF-certified compatibility and recent validations with partners aimed at ensuring VKS can serve as a drop-in replacement for any Kubernetes runtime.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by VMware by Broadcom.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/sovereignty-meets-simplicity-for-vmware-by-broadcom-at-kubecon-eu-2026

Chapters:
00:00 Introductions from KubeCon EU Amsterdam
00:47 Cloud-Native Complexity Needs Simplification
01:44 VCF and VKS Simplify Kubernetes
04:04 Declarative APIs for Platform Teams
05:21 Digital Sovereignty in Europe Today
05:55 Deploying VCF for Sovereign Clouds
07:47 Private AI, Security, and Compliance
09:36 Building the Partner Ecosystem
10:05 Bring Your Own CNI
12:09 Validations with F5, Tigera, Kong
14:16 Drop-In Kubernetes Runtime Replacement
14:45 Wrap-Up and Final Thoughts

Chopping Wood, Carrying Water: VMware by Broadcom's Open Source Story at KubeCon EU 2026

RedMonk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:19:09 GMT

James Governor of RedMonk sits down with VMware by Broadcom's Dilpreet Bindra and Zach Shepherd at KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam to unpack what they call "the best kept secret in the industry": VMware by Broadcom's deep, sustained contributions to the CNCF and Kubernetes ecosystem. The conversation covers VMware's shift to exposing Cluster API directly as a product commitment, the etcd diagnostic tooling they've open-sourced for the whole community, and the journey of Velero from an internal project to a CNCF sandbox project with maintainers from Red Hat, Microsoft, and beyond. The trio also digs into the significance of CNCF's new AI platform conformance program, VKS's certification as a Kubernetes AI platform, and why workload portability matters more than ever as the AI tooling landscape explodes. Dilpreet and Zach close with what's got them buzzing at the biggest KubeCon Europe yet — from llm-d's CNCF sandbox acceptance to the quality of customer conversations happening on the show floor.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by VMware by Broadcom.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/vmware-by-broadcoms-open-source-story-at-kubecon-eu-2026/

Chapters:

00:00 Introductions: Meet Dilpreet Bindra and Zach Shepherd from VMware by Broadcom

01:07 The Best Kept Secret: VMware's History as a Top CNCF Contributor

01:50 Betting on Cluster API: Moving from Proprietary to Open Source

02:24 Chopping Wood, Carrying Water: Earning Community Trust

03:04 The Chop Wood Carry Water Award and VMware's Track Record

03:45 The etcd Story: Open-Sourcing Support Tools for the Whole Ecosystem

04:52 Leading Projects vs. Sharing Ownership

05:46 Velero's Evolution: From VMware Project to CNCF Sandbox

06:24 What Is Velero? Kubernetes-Native Backup and Restore

07:13 Diverse Maintainership: Red Hat, Microsoft, and Beyond

07:57 Why Contributing Velero to the CNCF Is a Strategic Investment, Not a Giveaway

08:34 AI, Kubernetes, and the Infrastructure Boom

09:06 VKS as a Certified Kubernetes AI Platform and Why Portability Matters

10:17 CNCF AI Compliance and the Promise of Workload Portability

10:46 KubeCon EU 2026: The Biggest One Yet

11:11 What's Most Exciting: llm-d Joins the CNCF Sandbox

11:34 Booth Energy and the Depth of Customer Conversations

12:07 Wrap-Up

"Data Is What I Can Control": Why Your AI Strategy Starts at the Data Layer with Boris Bialek

RedMonk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, Rachel Stephens sits down with Boris Bialek, VP of Industries and Global Field CTO at MongoDB, to explore why data remains the unshakable foundation beneath the fast-moving world of AI. Boris paints a vivid picture of an industry where every sector—from banking to automotive to insurance—is racing to adopt AI simultaneously, often betting on the "whole racetrack" at once. The conversation traces the rapid evolution from chatbots to RAG architectures to MCP servers and agentic systems, all within roughly 18 months, and asks: what should enterprises actually anchor to when the layers above keep shifting? Boris makes the case that while LLMs, frameworks, and protocols will come and go, your data is the one asset you truly own and control. Along the way, they dig into real-world use cases like predictive maintenance on factory floors and intelligent airline customer service, the role of real-time vectorization and embedded models (including MongoDB's acquisition of Voyage AI), and the critical importance of encryption and governance when machines start talking to machines. The takeaway: building a strong, unified data platform isn't just a database decision — it's the strategic foundation for enterprise AI transformation.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by MongoDB

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/ai-data-boris-bialek/

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to the Conversation

01:23 Navigating the Rapidly Evolving Tech Landscape

04:38 The Importance of Data Ownership

11:22 Unified Data Platforms and AI Integration

17:34 The Evolution of AI and Agentic Systems

23:15 Compliance, Governance, and Data Security

25:27 Conclusion: The Central Role of Data

Mike Basios on Why AI-Era Engineering Needs a Measurement-First Approach

RedMonk — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this conversation, RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff talks to Mike Basios, CTO and Co-founder of TurinTech AI, about the new set of problems AI is introducing for engineering organisations, and what happens when you treat your entire stack—application code, data pipelines, inference systems, agent workflows, GPU and CPU kernels—as measurable artifacts that can be systematically validated and continuously improved. Mike explains how AI is fundamentally changing both how engineering gets done and what engineering is being asked to deliver. The conversation explores a central tension: while AI tools have made individual developers dramatically more productive, that velocity is creating a growing backlog of unreviewed, unoptimized code, and an infrastructure that was never designed to support the dozens of concurrent agents a single developer might now depend on. Mike argues that the engineering role is shifting from problem-solving to outcome-verification, and that teams who don't define what "good" looks like before they build will struggle to compete as the quality of the solution, not the speed of its creation, becomes the key differentiator. TurinTech's answer to this challenge is a measurement-first platform that applies evolutionary, self-improving techniques to continuously benchmark and optimize code across any domain where performance can be quantified.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by TurinTech AI.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/mike-basios-on-why-ai-era-engineering-needs-a-measurement-first-approach

Chapters:
00:00 The Impact of AI on Software Engineering
03:41 Shifting Roles: Engineers as AI Managers
07:35 Infrastructure Challenges in AI Development
11:10 Reliability and Performance of AI Systems
19:09 Measuring Success in AI Optimization
26:27 The Future of AI in Software Development

SDKs in the AI Era with Kin Lane

RedMonk — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:30:00 GMT

In this episode of the MonkCast, RedMonk senior analyst Kate Holterhoff sits down with Kin Lane, API Evangelist and Co-Founder & Chief Community Officer (CCO) for Naftiko, to untangle one of the most pressing questions in developer tooling today: what happens to APIs and SDKs when AI enters the picture? Kin traces the SDK from its origins in the REST API era of 2008, through the recurring (and always premature) declarations of its death, to its current identity crisis in an age of AI co-pilots, MCP servers, and agentic IDEs. The conversation explores how OpenAPI specs are being used to shrink context windows and why AI might generate bespoke, single-purpose SDKs on the fly rather than shipping monolithic language-specific kits.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/sdks-in-the-ai-era-with-kin-lane/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to APIs and SDKs
06:36 The Evolution of SDKs in the AI Era
10:08 Future of SDK Generation and Automation
17:20 Business Alignment and SDK Development
20:09 The Role of IDEs and MCPs in SDKs
26:07 SDKs for AI Agents vs. Human Developers
29:15 The Power of Language in Technology
30:40 Navigating Determinism and Non-Determinism in AI
35:29 The Role of Abstraction Layers in Development
39:00 API Governance: Bridging Gaps in Development
46:22 Designing APIs for AI Misuse
50:52 The Evolving Identity of Developers
58:07 Where to Follow Kin Lane's Insights

From Clouderatti to theCUBE with Stu Miniman

RedMonk — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Stu Miniman, Senior Director of Market Insights, Hybrid Platforms at Red Hat, shares his extensive tech industry experience and insights with Kate Holterhoff. Stu discusses behind-the-scenes stories from his time as an industry analyst at theCUBE. As a seasoned expert in networking, virtualization, and cloud computing, he also chats about how networking challenges are being addressed in the Kubernetes ecosystem, the impact of AI, and the future of the industry analyst role.

Red Hat is a RedMonk client, but this video is unsponsored and independent.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/clouderatti-to-thecube-stu-miniman/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background

06:18 The Evolution of EMC and Its Impact

14:17 Networking in the Kubernetes Ecosystem

22:07 The Role of an Analyst

28:57 AI: Opportunities and Challenges

35:03 The Cube: A Journey Through Live Production

40:57 Preparation and Connection with Guests

46:27 Building Relationships and Networking

53:51 Analysts vs Influencers: A Blurred Line

01:05:18 Wrapping Up and Future Engagements

How The Eclipse SDV is Revolutionizing Open Source Automotive (with Ansgar Lindwedel)

RedMonk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Kate Holterhoff speaks with Ansgar Lindwedel, Director of Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation. They discuss the concept of Software Defined Vehicles, the evolution of software in the automotive industry, and the challenges faced by developers. Ansgar explains the importance of the Eclipse SDV working group, the trade-offs of proprietary operating systems, and the role of open source in building competencies. They also touch on safety in open source software development, the ecosystem of Eclipse SDV, the impact of AI on automotive development, and the future roadmap for the community.

This RedMonk Conversation is sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/eclipse-sdv-ansgar-lindwedel/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Software Defined Vehicles
02:10 The Evolution of Software in Automotive
05:02 Eclipse SDV Working Group Overview
08:49 Challenges in Automotive Development Tools
11:57 The Shift to Open Source in Automotive
16:32 Functional Safety in Open Source Software
19:12 The Ecosystem of Eclipse SDV
31:58 The Role of AI in Automotive Development
36:21 Future Roadmap and Transformative Changes

Mapping Complexity from Cynefin to Wardley with Chris Corriere

RedMonk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Chris Corriere, Founder of Ecology Computing and an organizer of Devopsdays Atlanta, shares his unique perspective on socio-technical systems, complexity in computing, and the future of DevOps practices with Kate Holterhoff. They discuss how ecological thinking influences technology and how mapping tools like Cynefin and Wardley Maps can help navigate complex environments.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/chris-corriere-complexity/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Guest Background

00:27 Chris Corriere's Ecological Perspective on Technology

02:11 Socio-technical Mathematics and Complexity

02:40 Mathematics in Computing and AI

04:32 AI, Agency, and Autonomy in Systems

05:42 Math Skills for Developers and Data Scientists

06:57 Platform Engineering and Source Control

09:09 Open Source Projects and Enterprise Work

11:04 The Role of Git and Version Control

12:23 Greenfield Projects and Tech Debt

13:35 Understanding Cynefin and Wardley Mapping

18:54 What is Cynefin? Its Origins and Meaning

19:54 Chaos, Disorder, and Platform Salvage

21:38 Mapping the Tech Environment with Wardley

25:41 Mapping Space Technologies and Quantum Computing

27:02 DevOps Days Atlanta and Future Themes

29:30 The Future of AI, Education, and Community

31:13 Closing Remarks and Contact Info

Alex Moore on Open Web Advocacy and Why “Innovation Doesn’t Come from the Gatekeepers”

RedMonk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, senior analyst Kate Holterhoff is joined by Alex Moore, Executive Director of Open Web Advocacy (OWA), to unpack why the web has struggled to compete with native apps on mobile and what regulators are finally doing about it. Moore traces OWA’s origins from frustrated engineers to a global advocacy group. They explore the technical, economic, and competitive implications of blocking web apps on iOS, from developer productivity and install friction to security myths and the future of innovation. The discussion spans WebAssembly, PWAs vs. native apps, and major regulatory efforts like the EU’s Digital Markets Act, the UK’s DMCC, Japan’s Smartphone Act, and the US DOJ case against Apple.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/alex-moore-open-web-advocacy/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Open Web Advocacy
02:48 The Formation and Goals of OWA
05:17 Apple's Dominance in Mobile Development
07:45 Web Apps vs. Native Apps: The Debate
10:39 The Future of Web Apps
12:55 Security Concerns and Apple's App Store
19:56 Conclusion and Future Outlook
22:14 Security in Native vs Web Environments
23:30 Advocacy Work and Legislative Landscape
24:02 Digital Markets Act and Its Implications
28:56 Global Movements: Japan and US Cases Against Apple
32:08 Getting Involved: Advocacy and Community Engagement
35:23 Call to Action: Pushing for Change in the Tech Landscape
37:52 The Future of Tinkering and Innovation

GitLab’s Intelligent Orchestration Platform with Özer Dondurmacıoğlu

RedMonk — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:51:43 GMT

In this episode of RedMonk Conversations, Rachel Stephens (Research Director at RedMonk) sits down with Özer Dondurmacıoğlu, VP of Product Marketing at GitLab, to discuss GitLab’s vision for intelligent orchestration across the software development lifecycle.

AI coding may be accelerating how quickly developers generate code, but what happens to code review, security scanning, compliance, testing, governance, and release coordination when code volume increases? Learn more about GitLab's vision for leveling up the SDLC.

This is a RedMonk video, sponsored by GitLab.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/gitlab-platform/

How Daniel Stenberg, Founder of curl, is Navigating the AI Onslop

RedMonk — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Kate Holterhoff chats with Daniel Stenberg, founder of the curl project, about the challenges and implications of AI-generated code in open source software, focusing particularly on the phenomenon known as AI Slop. They discuss the impact of AI on bug reporting, the effectiveness of bug bounty systems, and the importance of community engagement. Daniel shares insights on how AI can be both a tool for good and a source of problems, emphasizing the need for communication and collaboration in the open source community. The conversation also touches on the role of platforms like GitHub and the future of open source in an AI-driven world.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/daniel-stenberg-ai-onslop/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Curl and AI Slop

01:54 The Rise of AI Slop in Open Source

05:39 Defining AI Slop and Its Impact

07:07 Understanding Bug Bounty Systems

09:27 The Importance of Curl in the Tech Ecosystem

11:48 Positive Uses of AI in Open Source

15:19 Navigating AI Tools and Their Limitations

17:29 Community Engagement and Best Practices

19:11 Leadership in the Face of AI Challenges

22:11 Future Considerations for Open Source and AI

23:45 Navigating the AI Landscape

27:01 GitHub's Role in AI Contributions

30:45 The Future of AI and Open Source

33:53 Empowering Engineering Leaders

37:42 The State of Open Source in the AI Era

Navigating Bare Metal Automation with Rob Hirschfeld

RedMonk — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this conversation, Stephen O'Grady and Rob Hirschfeld discuss the complexities of bare metal automation, the role of platform teams, and the importance of observability and governance in managing infrastructure. They explore the challenges of integrating open source solutions with bare metal and emphasize the need for specialized support in this area. The discussion highlights the evolving landscape of infrastructure management and the necessity for collaboration and expertise.

This video is sponsored by RackN.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/navigating-bare-metal-automation-with-rob-hirschfeld/

Complex, Not Complicated

RedMonk — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:07:26 GMT

Modern software systems are frequently described as “complicated,” but that framing obscures the nature of the challenge. Complicated systems can be decomposed, reasoned about, and managed through clearer processes and better tooling. Complex systems cannot. They are shaped by a web of technical interdependencies, incentives, institutional history, and human behavior, and they often fail in ways that are difficult or impossible to predict.

In this RedMonk Conversation, Rachel Stephens and guests David Pollak, Chris Petrilli, and Æva Black explore how complexity emerges across large organizations, open source ecosystems, and security-critical infrastructure. Drawing on experiences from enterprise environments and open source communities, the discussion examines why transparency, incentive structures, and institutional knowledge matter more than formal process, and why many attempts to control complexity instead amplify it.

show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/complexity/

Wes Bos on Why Design's Making a Comeback in 2026

RedMonk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, Wes Bos, co-host of Syntax, chats with Kate Holterhoff about why he predicts 2026 is the year design makes a comeback. They explore why the design of exceptional websites like landonorris.com can be a critical differentiator in the digital space, particularly as AI tools simplify the creation of visually appealing websites. Wes emphasizes that while the baseline for web design has improved, the challenge now lies in creating unique and engaging user experiences that stand out in a sea of similar-looking sites. He highlights the importance of usability and the need for developers to invest time in thoughtful design, moving beyond cookie-cutter solutions to create memorable web experiences.

Sentry is a RedMonk client, but this is an unpaid content.

Show Notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/wes-bos-design-2026/

00:00 Introduction to Wes Bos and Predictions for 2026

09:53 Keeping Up with Design Trends

17:27 Performance Insights from the Lando Norris Website

23:28 Understanding ROI in Design

29:38 The Balance Between Design and Authenticity

35:48 The Challenges of AI in Design and Development

Dynatrace and the Observability Market

RedMonk — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:00:00 GMT

In this conversation, Rachel Stephens, the research director at RedMonk, discusses the evolution of observability in the tech industry. She highlights:

- the shift from traditional monitoring to a broader understanding of data collection and analysis

- the importance of OpenTelemetry as a standard for data ingestion

- the challenges organizations face in managing and analyzing vast amounts of data

- how AI is enhancing observability, particularly in helping users query data more effectively and derive insights without needing extensive technical knowledge

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/observability-dynatrace/

Mark Fussell on Dapr, Simple APIs, & Distributed Systems

RedMonk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:30:59 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Mark Fussell, CEO of Diagrid, discusses Dapr, a runtime designed to simplify the development of distributed applications, with James Governor. Mark shares insights from his extensive experience in the field, including the importance of community contributions and the role of observability through OpenTelemetry. The discussion also touches on the future of Dapr in the context of agentic systems, the rise of programming languages like TypeScript, and the ongoing trend of application modernization.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/mark-fussell-on-dapr-simple-apis-distributed-systems/

Mike Hartington on the State of Mobile Development & Why CI/CD is Still So Hard

RedMonk — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Mike Hartington, Developer Advocate at Prisma, chats mobile development with Kate Holterhoff. They discuss mobile frameworks, the challenges of cross-platform development, and why CI/CD is so hard for deploying mobile apps.

Show Notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/mike-hartington-on-the-state-of-mobile-development/

Context Engineering in Practice: How Atlassian Is Building AI for Real Developer Work with Kun Chen

RedMonk — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor sits down with Kun Chen, Lead Principal Engineer at Atlassian, to explore what “context engineering” really means in practice—and why it matters far more than one-shot “vibe coding” demos for real software teams. Drawing on Atlassian’s internal experience building Rovo Dev, Kun explains how AI agents become genuinely useful when they are grounded in the lived context of professional development: Jira history, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines, incidents, and organizational standards. The discussion covers how Rovo Dev reduces developer toil, integrates directly into existing workflows and leverages emerging standards such as MCP to stay extensible. Along the way, they dig into hard engineering tradeoffs around models, tokens, cost, and signal-to-noise in code review, and look ahead to a future where AI agents take on more autonomy—shifting the bottleneck from writing code to deciding what’s worth building.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Atlassian.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/context-engineering-in-practice-how-atlassian-is-building-ai-for-real-developer-work-with-kun-chen/

A New Take on the Terminal with Zach Lloyd

RedMonk — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, Rachel Stephens sits down with Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp, to unpack how the terminal has evolved from an overlooked productivity bottleneck into the center of the agentic development workflow. Zach traces Warp’s journey from reimagining the terminal for broader developer accessibility to redefining it as an “agentic development environment” (ADE), designed around prompting, reviewing, and collaborating with AI agents rather than hand-editing code. The conversation explores why the terminal is uniquely positioned in the software stack, how Warp blends elements of terminals and IDEs without being either, and what this shift means for collaboration, context management and automation.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/12/16/zach-lloyd/

From Light Bulbs to Large Language Models: Jamie Dobson on Technology's Relay Race Through History

RedMonk — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor interviews Jamie Dobson, Co-Founder of Container Solutions, about his book Visionaries, Rebels and Machines, which traces the evolution of computing technology from 1799 through Edison's workshops, Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, to the modern cloud, creating what he describes as a "relay race of stories" that has not been comprehensively told. The discussion underscores the critical role of leadership in shaping technology's impact on society. James and Jamie ultimately call for ensuring that technological progress translates into broader societal benefits rather than repeating the mistakes of previous industrial revolutions.

Show Notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/12/09/jamie-dobson/

The New Builders: AI - Built on Open Source (With Julia Ferraioli)

RedMonk — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:28:00 GMT

As AI continues to reshape our industry, it's important to understand how it intersects with open source. AI is dependent on and composed of open source software, for one, and it's also triggering new questions on how to define open source in the context of AI. To explore these and other questions, Julia Ferraioli of AWS joined Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk for a lively discussion of all things AI and open source.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on July 9, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Sean McQuaid - from Waffle Fries to TypeScript

RedMonk — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 13:09:37 GMT

Join RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Sean McQuaid, Lead Software Engineer at Chick-fil-A, as they chat about the Atlanta conference scene, software engineering at Chick-fil-A, and some hot takes on the state of Frontend frameworks, micro-frontends, TypeScript, and leveraging AI code assistants.

A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Training Data - What You Need to Know (With Jason Warner)

RedMonk — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:19:00 GMT

As AI continues to reshape the technology industry, it's important to understand its foundations. In this RedMonk Conversation, Stephen O'Grady and Poolside CEO Jason Warner get together to discuss training data. Covering questions that range from ownership and licensing to accessibility and inspection, anyone interested in better understanding the roots of AI and the vital importance of training data will find this conversation of interest.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on June 26, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Transactions at Scale, Bonkers Numbers (With Boris Bialek)

RedMonk — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:09:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation James Governor catches up with Boris Bialek, Field CTO at MongoDB on industry solutions and scalability. Given the story of the company includes one of the most well known memes in database history - “MongoDB is web scale” we felt it might be time to take another look. Bialek has been working on database scale for decades, including work on IBM's venerable relational database DB2, so he's seen it all. He's enjoying life at MongoDB working on customer problems at scale with MongoDB, and that's what the show is about.

The conversation looks at ACID compliance and transactionality, something MongoDB isn't known for, but which it has supported for some time. It explores the complexity and scale of managing ecommerce financial transactions at scale with Black Friday events.. From luxury brands to real-time data management in cars, Boris highlights MongoDB's real-time integration functionality. The discussion also touches upon scalability and optimization in database systems for real-time decision-making.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on February 22, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Misconceptions about Observability, Errors Matter in APM (With David Cramer)

RedMonk — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:18:44 GMT

In which James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk discusses Observability with David Cramer Co-founder and CTO at Sentry. David brings an opinionated view on what he sees as some misconceptions about the market for management tooling. We discuss developer experience, what it actually means in practice. How to build tools for developers and why that matters. David wants to cut through the hype about Observability, with a focused view on content, debugging, and dealing with errors in software.

This RedMonk Conversation was published in video form on June 15, 2022.

The Docs are In: An Examined Life in DevX Engineering with Dr. Ryan Feigenbaum

RedMonk — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:23:41 GMT

In this Docs are In episode, RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff speaks with Dr. Ryan Feigenbaum, Developer Experience Engineer at Ghost. They discuss the state of DevX in 2023; transitioning to the software industry after a career in academia; and documentation best practices. Dr. Feigenbaum draws parallels between his university work in a philosophy department with the research, communication, and pedagogical aspects of his role as a developer.

This RedMonk Conversation was published in video form on January 3, 2024.

The Docs Are In: Documentation - the Bridgework of OSS (With Abigail McCarthy)

RedMonk — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:44:00 GMT

Abigail McCarthy (Staff Technical Open Source Communications Manager at VMware and Kelly's former colleague from their time at Apprenda) joins Kelly and Kate in a conversation that leverages all the civil engineering metaphors: documentation as an avenue into open source projects; Abbie's own pathway from OSS documentation lurker to active participant (her current titles also include Kubernetes SIG Docs Localization Subproject Lead); docs as an essential part of the bridge work needed to meet potential contributors (and even maintainers) where they are and get them comfortable engaging with such projects. Abbie also drops some best practices and recommendations, including the creation of a “culture of docs”.

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on January 25, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: Site Reliability Engineering at Red Hat (With Narayanan Raghavan)

RedMonk — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:37:00 GMT

Join Rachel Stephens (Senior Analyst at RedMonk) and Narayanan Raghavan (Senior Director, Red Hat Site Reliability Engineering) for a discussion of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) discipline at Red Hat.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on April 18, 2022.

Digital Humanities, Open Source, and Communities of Learning (With Dr. Lisa Tagliaferri)

RedMonk — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:33:00 GMT

In this episode of The Docs Are In, Dr. Lisa Tagliaferri (Senior Director, Developer Education, Chainguard; Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University) drops in to chat with Kate and Kelly about her experiences working at tech startups and in academia. Lisa discusses her work in Digital Humanities (or DH--where digital technologies and the humanities intersect), her research into medieval communities of learning (do we have any Catherine of Siena fans out there?), and how this all relates to open source communities. Also of interest: Lisa's experiences with her DH graduate seminar, her work at Chainguard, and how academic training can translate to a career in tech.

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on July 31, 2023.

The Docs Are In: From Academic to AI Startup Founder (With Allen Romano)

RedMonk — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:29:00 GMT

RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Allen Romano, co-founder of Logoi, chat about their experiences as academics turned tech industry professionals. They discuss the discipline of digital humanities; how founding a startup both resembles and diverges from PhD work; and the future of AI.

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on August 18, 2023.

Feature platforms - the data foundation for production ML applications (With Gaetan Castelein)

RedMonk — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:53:00 GMT

There is so much hype around Generative AI right now, but what does that mean for Predictive ML? Senior RedMonk Analyst Rachel Stephens talks with Tecton VP of Marketing Gaetan Castelein about the challenges of getting ML models into product, the role of feature stores vs. feature platforms, and the overlaps and distinctions between Generative AI and Predictive AI.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on September 11, 2023.

AI and Observability (With Elastic's Gagan Singh)

RedMonk — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:32:00 GMT

With so much buzz (and noise) in both the observability and generative AI spaces, how should SRE and Ops teams navigate emerging standards and promises of potentially transformative tooling? Join RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick and Elastic's Gagan Singh (VP of Marketing) as they talk about the present state and potential future of AI and observability amidst increasingly complex systems.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on September 19, 2023.

The Docs Are In: Snark as Rhetoric (With Corey Quinn)

RedMonk — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:32:00 GMT

Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and his team at the Duckbill Group help their clients control their spend with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Service (AWS). Corey has also amassed an impressive following across different media platforms, including his newsletter, podcast, and socials such as X (fka Twitter) and LinkedIn. In this DAI episode, Corey joins Kate and Kelly to discuss his communication style (best characterized by terms such as “snarky” and “$#@!posting”), his vehement support of technical documentation, and why you want to hire well if you hope to get to 500 podcast episodes.

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on October 30, 2023.

AI and IT Automation (With Kaete Piccirilli, Ansible)

RedMonk — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:09:00 GMT

Kaete Piccirilli (Director of Product Marketing, Red Hat Ansible) joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick for a conversation on Red Hat Ansible's domain-specific approach to generative AI. Also of interest: the concerns Kaete and Kelly are hearing from customers around generative AI; an overview of Ansible Lightspeed--a generative AI tool accessed from within VS Code that helps accelerate the creation of automation content such as playbooks; and a discussion of what the intersection of generative AI and IT automation might mean for technical practitioners and their teams.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on October 23, 2023.

Martin Rojas talks Tech Meetups, AI Guilds, Micro Frontends, & More!

RedMonk — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:06:52 GMT

In this MonkCast episode, Martin Rojas, UI Architect at PlayOn Sports and ReactATL Organizer, joins Kate Holterhoff to chat about the tech meetup scene, leveraging AI to enhance sports broadcasting, AI Guilds (not Dungeons & Dragons!), Micro frontends, React, and More!

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/08/19/martin-rojas/

A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of App Development and Databases in 2021 (With Ed Anuff)

RedMonk — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:05:33 GMT

Join Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk and Ed Anuff (Chief Product Officer, DataStax) in a conversation about application development and databases in 2021.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on January 27, 2021.

Organizing Tech Conferences and Java Users Groups (With Vincent Mayers)

RedMonk — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:25:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, analyst Kate Holterhoff chats with Vincent Mayers, who works in Community, DevRel, and Productivity Engineering at Gradle. They discuss the challenges and opportunities afforded by arranging tech events, focusing particularly on Vincent's experiences organizing the Devnexus and Connect.tech conferences, as well as the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG).

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on September 26, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: Why You Should Come to Fastly Xcelerate London 2024 (With Simon Wistow)

RedMonk — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:41:14 GMT

Join James Governor and Simon Wistow, Co-Founder at Fastly, in a short discussion on why you should come to the Fastly Xcelerate event in London on June 18. London has evolved into a thriving tech hub, attracting investment and fostering innovation in deep tech and finance, as exemplified by companies like DeepMind. The Fastly Xcelerate event in Shoreditch highlights this dynamic environment by focusing on enhancing the developer experience and democratizing access to powerful technological tools, aiming to spur diverse creativity and innovation.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 31, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: CRMs and Codifying Business Processes with Steve Bussey

RedMonk — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:26:02 GMT

Steve Bussey, co-founder and CTO of Supered, talks all-things CRMs with RedMonk senior analyst Kate Holterhoff. They discuss the complexities of onboarding and user-friendliness in CRMs, the role of professional help in setting up and maintaining CRMs, the potential of AI in automating certain CRM processes, and the importance of privacy in CRM data. Steve also shares his journey from software engineer to co-founder and offers advice on finding mentors and fostering relationships.

David Mytton on Arcjet’s Vision for Developer Security

RedMonk — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:18:19 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet, chats security and developer experience with James Governor. They discuss the importance of integrating security as a feature in developer workflows, the challenges developers face with traditional security tools, and the need for innovation in this space. David shares insights on how Arcjet aims to make security seamless and developer-friendly, akin to other modern development tools. The discussion also touches on the startup journey of Arcjet, its funding, and the evolving landscape of developer tools.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Arcjet.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/11/18/rmc-david-mytton/

Fear is the Startup Killer: Jack Bridger on Founders, Differentiation, & DevTools

RedMonk — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:45:44 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Jack Bridger, host of Scaling Devtools and Developer Experience at Layercode, chats with Kate Holterhoff about founders. Jack shares insights from his interviews with founders on the importance of understanding users, overcoming fear in business, and challenges faced in the startup ecosystem. They also discuss marketing strategies around the role of differentiation, and the debate between bootstrapping and seeking venture capital, and the necessity of sales teams in DevTools.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/11/13/rmc-jack-bridger/

Daniel Roe on Vercel's NuxtLabs Acquisition

RedMonk — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:53:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Daniel Roe, Nuxt Project Lead at Vercel, discusses the recent acquisition of NuxtLabs by Vercel and its implications for the Nuxt framework, UnJS, and Nitro. They chat about the importance of maintaining Nuxt's independence, the strategic vision behind Vercel's investment, and the role of community governance in open source projects. Daniel shares his personal journey in open source and emphasizes the need for sustainability and a positive approach to funding in the open source ecosystem.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/07/10/rmc-daniel-roe-vercels-nuxtlabs-acquisition/

The New Builders: Tom Callaway talks about Building OSS Culture at AWS

RedMonk — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:37:24 GMT

Amazon Web Services is not always known for its engagement with open source communities, but there are dedicated teams within AWS trying to change that perception. Listen as Tom "Spot" Callaway discusses building open source culture at AWS with Rachel Stephens of RedMonk. Learn more about AWS' open source teams, how AWS thinks about both adopting and releasing open source projects, and some of the ways that they assess project and community health.

This The New Builders episode was originally pubished in video form on June 3, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of Open Source and AI (With Matt Hicks and Ruchir Puri)

RedMonk — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:48:00 GMT

As open source did decades ago, AI is now taking the technology industry by storm. This has led to questions of how open source applies to AI, and how open source can be used to improve the results businesses can expect from their investments in AI. To explore these and other questions, we sat down with Matt Hicks, the CEO of Red Hat, and Ruchir Puri, Chief Scientist for IBM Research.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 29, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: What’s Up with Cloud Optionality? (With Betty Junod, Senior Director of Multi-Cloud Solutions at VMware)

RedMonk — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:25:42 GMT

What's VMware up to with multicloud? Find out in this interview with Betty Junod. She's pretty awesome. "Did multicloud eat hybrid cloud? What's happening with the customer?"

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on September 7, 2021.

A RedMonk Conversation: Engaging with Developers on Hacker News (With Dan Moore)

RedMonk — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:25:00 GMT

Join RedMonk analysts James Governor and Kate Holterhoff as they chat with Dan Moore about Hacker News, the social news website for developers. This conversation digs into significant questions concerning this network that include not only what makes it unique, but also the special sauce that makes developers flock there. Moore suggests strategies for vendors hoping to successfully engage this community, and more general best practices for becoming involved.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on March 28, 2024.

Microsoft Build 2025 Announcements with GitHub's Mario Rodriguez

RedMonk — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:40:00 GMT

In this MonkCast on the Road, Mario Rodriguez, CPO of GitHub, discusses the latest innovations and announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. They chat about GitHub's MCP server, GitHub SWE agents, open sourcing VS Code and WSL, and the future of intelligent applications.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by GitHub.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/05/21/monkcast-on-the-road-microsoft-build-2025-announcements-with-githubs-mario-rodriguez/

What is an Agentic App and How to Build One (w/ Jeff Morris, Couchbase)

RedMonk — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:35:21 GMT

As the industry increasingly talks about AI “agents” and “agentic” apps, that leaves some important questions to answer: what are they? What do those terms mean? In this RedMonk conversation, analyst Steve O'Grady is joined by Couchbase's Jeff Morris to discuss agentic apps, examples of them in practice, and the role of the database in building them.

TThis RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on February 12, 2025.

A RedMonk Conversation with Derek Collison, "the Forrest Gump of Messaging"

RedMonk — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:36:15 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Derek Collison, founder and CEO of Synadia and creator of NATS.io, discusses the evolution and importance of messaging systems with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. In this wide-ranging interview, Derek shares insights from his time at TIBCO building Rendezvous, Google co-founding AJAX APIs, VMware co-founding Cloud Foundry, and now Synadia maintaining NATS. Derek not only talks about the history of the tech industry and how it has evolved since the 90s, but also his current views on AI, streaming, open source foundations, edge computing, distributed systems, and the rise of enterprise application integration (EAI).

Zack Chapple on Zephyr Cloud, Micro Frontends, and Module Federation

RedMonk — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:11:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Zack Chapple, Co-Founder and CEO of Zephyr Cloud, discusses how micro frontends and module federation are empowering developers to work more efficiently. Zack shares insights from Zephyr Cloud's recent Acceleration Week, the importance of open source, the role of AI in development, and how Zephyr Cloud is positioning itself to meet the challenges of the evolving tech landscape.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Zephyr Cloud.

GitLab Duo, Agentic AI, and the SDLC in 2025 (with Emilio Salvador)

RedMonk — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:45:00 GMT

Emilio Salvador, VP of DevRel & Strategy at GitLab, joins RedMonk's Rachel Stephens to discuss current trends around agentic AI: how do agents differ from code assistants; how can AI come into play in the larger software development lifecycle (beyond writing code); where is the “human in the loop” in all of this. Emilo and Rachel also recap some important announcements from GitLab in 2024--including the GitLab Duo Enterprise and AWS Q announced at re:Invent 2024--and discuss what we might expect to see from GitLab in 2024.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on January 21, 2025.

JJ Tang on Incident Management, Cold Emailing CEOs, and the Origins of Rootly

RedMonk — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:52:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, JJ Tang, CEO of Rootly, chats with senior analyst Kelly Fitzpatrick about the evolving landscape of incident management, the significance of consistency over speed, and the impact of AI on business operations. Tang shares his career journey, from landing a job at IBM (involving cold emailing the CEO) to building incident management tools at Instacart, to starting Rootly with cofounder Quentin Rousseau. He focuses on the importance of technical skills, networking, and understanding customer needs. Tang also reflects on the challenges of running a startup during economic shifts and offers valuable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

How Daytona is Simplifying Development Environments (with Ivan Burazin)

RedMonk — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:23:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Ivan Burazin, Co-Founder and CEO of Daytona, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the challenges developers face in managing their environments and how Daytona aims to solve these issues. They discuss the importance of developer experience, security in development environments, and the role of AI in transforming the developer landscape. Ivan shares insights into Daytona's roadmap, including their open-source and enterprise offerings, and emphasizes the need for a seamless developer experience.

This was a RedMonk video, sponsored by Daytona.

Why Engineering Orgs Should be Thinking About Mobile SLOs (w Andrew Tunall)

RedMonk — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:27:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Andrew Tunall, President and Chief Product Officer at Embrace, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the importance of mobile service level objectives (SLOs) in enhancing user experience and performance in mobile applications. They explore the challenges of measuring mobile data, the need for user-centered approaches, and the future of SLOs, particularly with the integration of AI and predictive analytics. The discussion emphasizes the shift from traditional observability metrics to a more user-focused perspective, highlighting the critical role of data in understanding and improving user interactions with mobile applications.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Embrace.

Erin Schnabel on the Commonhaus Foundation

RedMonk — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:23:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Erin Schnabel, distinguished engineer at Red Hat and council chairperson at the Commonhaus Foundation, discusses with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, challenges faced by open source projects, the need for new foundations, and how Commonhaus aims to support developers. Erin emphasizes the importance of supporting open source maintainers, while also addressing the legal and funding challenges involved in running a foundation.

Red Hat is a RedMonk client, but this conversation is independent and unsponsored.

Claire Vo on LaunchDarkly’s Culture of Experimentation

RedMonk — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:26:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Claire Vo, Chief Product and Technology Officer at LaunchDarkly, discusses the significance of experimentation in feature management and software development with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. They address how LaunchDarkly stands out in the experimentation space, the impact of AI on experimentation, and the evolving role of software engineers in this process. Claire emphasizes the importance of a culture of experimentation and risk mitigation in software releases, encouraging organizations to integrate these practices into their operations.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by LaunchDarkly.

LaunchDarkly’s Dan Rogers on AI’s Transformative Impact in Feature Management

RedMonk — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:35:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Dan Rogers, CEO of LaunchDarkly, discusses the transformative impact of AI on software development, particularly in the context of feature management and DevOps, with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. They explore the evolving role of developers, the challenges and opportunities presented by AI adoption, and the importance of leadership in navigating these changes. The discussion also highlights the need for quality control and risk management in AI-generated code, emphasizing the balance between innovation and safety in the development process.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by LaunchDarkly.

A RedMonk Conversation: YouTube for Dev Engagement, How Cloudinary Will Grow From 2M to 5M users.

RedMonk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:35:00 GMT

James Governor from RedMonk and Sanjay Sarathy from Cloudinary discuss the company's strategy for developer engagement, focusing on YouTube as a key channel. Cloudinary, founded by three developers, has grown to 2 million users and aims for 5 million. It targets specific ecosystems like JavaScript (Next, Nuxt, Vue, React,) sponsoring third party developers to create engaging, educational content. These efforts have driven registrations up beyond 45,000 monthly. We also discuss Cloudinary's business model and plans for global growth.

Wesley Faulkner on the Developer Relations Foundation

RedMonk — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:27:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Wesley Faulkner, developer relations professional, discusses the newly formed Developer Relations Foundation with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. Wesley emphasizes the need to elevate the professional practice of developer relations that the Developer Relations Foundation, part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation, aims to meet. The conversation touches on the challenges of defining Developer Relations, the importance of global perspectives, and the challenges inherent in any attempts to formalize this profession.

Why Dr. Scott Stephenson is Building Voice AI

RedMonk — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:28:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, Dr. Scott Stephenson, co-founder and CEO at Deepgram, discusses AI and audio with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. They chat about the history of speech recognition as well as current advancements and their potential impact on culture and industry. Kate and Scott speak about voice's emotional resonance, the future of AI voice agents, and the role synthetic data and active learning will play in training models to understand a range of speech differences and languages.

A RedMonk Conversation: Useable Security is the Best Security (with Avi Douglen)

RedMonk — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:19:36 GMT

"Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security."

Security consultant and OWASP board member Avi Douglen joins RedMonk's Rachel Stephens to explore how to build meaningful security practices into our applications.

Is the OWASP Top 10 a useful standard? (Hint: nope!)

What's the best tool for threat modeling? (Hint: a whiteboard!)

Come listen as Avi explains practical approaches to security.

A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 2 (With Diya Winn)

RedMonk — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:05:56 GMT

Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) and Diya Wynn (Senior Practice Manager, AWS) continue their conversation about responsible AI (more context about how Diya approaches responsible AI as a technologist can be found in our first conversation.) This conversation dives more into data bias and the holistic approach needed to drive responsible AI practices throughout an engineering team.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 9, 2022.

A RedMonk Conversation: Do You Need to Care About Edge? (With Rita Kozlov)

RedMonk — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:15:00 GMT

Beginning in the 1990's, the term “edge computing” was used to describe a variety of compute services that were placed geographically closer to end users. In the ensuing decades, the term came to describe an ever broader array of compute services, and the services at the edge became much more robust. In this video, RedMonk and Cloudflare explore what “edge” means today, and how the evolution of edge services is forcing users to rethink what's possible at the edge.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on April 2, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Cloud Development Environments (With Ketan Gangatirkar)

RedMonk — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:22:00 GMT

In which Stephen O'Grady, co-founder of RedMonk discusses Cloud Development Environments with Ketan Gangatirkar, Vice President Of Engineering and Product at Coder. Ketan has strong opinions on the future of development environments - specifically that they're in the cloud. We discuss the rise of cloud based services, developer preferences for and reliance on local IDEs and where those two things intersect. And we ask the question: is your next workstation in the cloud?

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on June 29, 2022.

A RedMonk Conversation: IBM Sustainability Accelerator (With Michael Jacobs)

RedMonk — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:55:00 GMT

Rachel Stephens, Senior Analyst at RedMonk speaks with Michael Jacobs, Sustainability & Social Innovation Leader at IBM. In this talk Mike provides an introduction to the IBM Sustainability Accelerator. Learn about how IBM partners with NGOs and governmental agencies to further water management projects.

Interested participants should visit https://www.ibm.com/impact/initiatives/ibm-sustainability-accelerator.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on March 10, 2023.

The Docs are In: Docs Like Code (With Anne Gentle)

RedMonk — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:45:00 GMT

Anne Gentle's Docs Like Code was first published in 2017; the third edition came out in December 2022. Anne (who is also Global Leader, Developer Experience at Cisco) joins Kelly and Kate to talk docs-as-code/docs-like-code processes, how the landscape has changed in the last five years, resources for getting started with docs like code, and what changes AI and large language models might bring for docs processes.

This Docs are In was originally published in video form on May 16, 2023.

The Docs Are in: the Taylor Swift Episode (with Dr. Casey Alane Wilson)

RedMonk — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:05:08 GMT

In The Taylor Swift Episode of The Docs Are In, Kelly speaks with Dr. Casey Alane Wilson: a former Georgia Tech colleague and current Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University (and also, clearly, a Swiftie) about her first-year English course on “Taylor Swift as Text”. If you've spent hours on a virtual queue for Eras Tour tickets, pondered the literary references in Swift's songs, wondered why Swift is re-releasing her albums, or just want to hear how LLMs are affecting university classrooms, this episode is for you.

A RedMonk Conversation: The JavaScript Ecosystem and Developer Relations (With Tracy Lee)

RedMonk — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:22:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, analyst Kate Holterhoff speaks with Tracy Lee, CEO at This Dot Labs, about trends in the frontend space. They discuss the JavaScript Ecosystem, focusing on frameworks and runtimes, as well as the future of Developer Relations, including an overview of This Dot Lab's DevRel City.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on November 6, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: What is the DevOps Experience Gap? (With Divanny Lamas)

RedMonk — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:59:00 GMT

As the number of services, APIs and projects used within the average enterprise grows, the challenge for the developer and operational staffs of managing all of the above increases right along with it. How should enterprise SREs and DevOps staff tackle the problem of the DevOps experience gap?

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on February 8, 2023.

Andy Stanford-Clark and Clemens Vasters on a History and Evolution of Messaging

RedMonk — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:17:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Andy Stanford-Clark, Distinguished Engineer and Innovation Leader in IBM Research, and Clemens Vasters, Principal Architect at Microsoft, chat with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the history and evolution of messaging technology. They trace messaging to its roots from early telco technologies to modern events and streaming systems. The conversation highlights the significance of message queues, the role of IBM and Microsoft in advancing message-oriented middleware, and the evolution of open protocols like MQTT, AMQP, and CloudEvents.

A RedMonk Conversation: Jay Miller on the Satanic Panic of Developer Relations and the AI Chainsaw

RedMonk — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:20:15 GMT

Jay Miller, staff developer advocate at Aiven and founder of Black Python Devs, joins Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, for this RedMonk Conversation. Jay discusses what his military service taught him about the importance of real-world problem-solving. He shares his thoughts on the connection between Python and AI, highlighting the importance of responsible AI usage and critical thinking. Jay talks about the state of developer relations and developer advocacy as a profession. He also speaks about Black Python Devs, an organization extending the ecosystem of Python communities to black and colo(u)red communities around the world through initiatives such as supporting conference travel, providing mentorship, and promoting open source contributions.

devopsdays Atlanta 2025 - E1 - (with Andrew Clay Shafer, John Willis, & Katie Anderson)

RedMonk — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:39:00 GMT

RedMonk senior analyst Kate Holterhoff took the MonkCast on the road to devopsdays Atlanta 2025. In episode 1 of this 2-part series, Kate interviews Andrew Clay Shafer, John Willis, and Katie Anderson about their devopsdays talks, their interest in W. Edwards Deming, and the roast of John Willis.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/05/05/monkcast-on-the-road-devopsdays-atlanta-2025-e1/

The Docs Are In: ‘I thought there would be cake’ & other eulogies of academics turned technologists (With Dr. Eli Thorkelson)

RedMonk — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:47:00 GMT

For this episode of The Docs are In, Dr. Eli Thorkelson, software development engineer at Workday, catches up with Dr. Kate Holterhoff, analyst with RedMonk. Related Resources: https://decasia.org/academic_culture/ (Dr. Thorkelson's blog) https://rip-my-academic-career.decasia.org

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on May 22, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Trust (Transparency and Security) with David DeSanto, GitLab

RedMonk — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:54:56 GMT

AI is changing how software is written so it's no surprise that GitLab is investing accordingly. In this conversation with chief product officer David DeSanto we examine the company's strategies and approach to large language models (LLMs) and AI, with a particular focus on trust, security and transparency. GitLab sells to many regulated industry customers, which put a premium on responsible governance. The company's journey began with ModelOps to build, train, deploy, and version AI models alongside software. More recently GitLab has moved into the generative AI space by launching GitLab Duo, an AI platform, which touches all different facets of the software delivery workflow - for example automatically generating detailed issue reports. GitLab's focus on bringing AI to self-hosted customers in air-gapped environments really underscores its commitment to privacy and transparency, and is a significant differentiator in a market which has been defined by the You Only Live Once (YOLO) just ship it approaches of the likes of OpenAI. We talk to DeSanto about GitLab's pledge not to use customer intellectual property for model fine-tuning. We also discuss the company's collaboration with Google Cloud on the security side of DevSecOps lifecycle. It's a good show. Let us know what you think.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on February 6, 2024.

Introducing Agentic DevOps (with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Gene Kim)

RedMonk — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:09:57 GMT

Recorded live at Microsoft Build 2025, this RedMonk Conversation features James Governor speaking with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Gene Kim about the future of DevOps in the era of AI agents and vibe coding. They explore how generative AI is transforming software development, the evolving role of developers, and the importance of maintaining strong processes, culture, and developer experience as code creation accelerates. The conversation also previews their upcoming books on vibe coding and developer experience.

System Design is a Team Sport with Tom Johnson

RedMonk — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:54:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Tom Johnson, co-founder & CTO of Multiplayer, discusses the evolving landscape of system design with Kelly Fitzpatrick, senior analyst at RedMonk. Tom emphasizes the collaborative nature of system design, and the necessity for all team members to understand the architecture of software systems. They explore the importance of documentation, the role of system design in job readiness, and the artistry involved in backend development. The discussion also highlights resources for learning system design and the significance of cost-conscious and secure software design.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Multiplayer.

Stop Diagramming, Start Designing with Tom Johnson

RedMonk — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:38:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Kelly Fitzpatrick, senior analyst at RedMonk, and Tom Johnson, co-founder & CTO of Multiplayer, discuss the evolution of software development and the importance of collaboration and documentation in enhancing developer experience. Tom shares insights on the challenges developers face today, the need for dynamic tools that auto-update documentation, and the distinction between system diagramming and system design. The conversation emphasizes the necessity of adopting new tools to improve productivity and developer happiness. This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Multiplayer.

A RedMonk Conversation: How Fastly is Keeping Open Source Sustainable in the Age of the Licensing Rug Pull

RedMonk — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:24:12 GMT

In this conversation, James Governor of RedMonk and Simon Wistow, co-founder of Fastly, discuss the challenges and future of open source in the tech industry. James highlights a crisis in open source due to a trend of companies switching to source-available licenses, which he refers to as a "rug pull." This shift, often driven by investor pressure, threatens the sustainability of open source projects. Simon, who has a long history with open source, explains how Fastly supports various open source projects, emphasizing the importance of sustainability and non-reliance on short-term funding. He notes that Fastly's business model benefits from open source, which aligns with their commitment to contribute back to the community.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on August 29, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Andrew Boyagi talks Atlassian's 2024 State of Developer Experience Report

RedMonk — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:38:23 GMT

Hear RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick chat with Andrew Boyagi, head of DevOps evangelism at Atlassian, about the critical topic of developer experience. They discuss findings from Atlassian's 2024 State of Developer Experience Report, highlighting the importance of understanding developer satisfaction, productivity, and the misalignment between developers and their leaders. Andrew emphasizes the need for open communication and the role of AI in enhancing developer productivity. The conversation also touches on the concept of 'Developer Joy' as a key objective for organizations to improve developer satisfaction and overall productivity.

This episode of the MonkCast is sponsored by Atlassian

A RedMonk Conversation: Adam Rackis on Web Development and Red-Eye Flights

RedMonk — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:14:51 GMT

Adam Rackis, senior web engineer at Spotify, joins RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff to discuss upskilling, frontend development, and conference travel. They chat about Adam's service in the United States Air Force, his work experience in the software industry, and his thoughts about developer certifications. They also speak about the state of JavaScript frameworks, and the finer points of red-eye flights.

Generative AI is Changing How Developers Work (with Adam Seligman)

RedMonk — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:39:14 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation Adam Seligman, VP of developer experience at AWS, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the continuing importance of developer relations, the impact of developer certification programs, and the changing landscape of software engineering with the advent of generative AI. Adam shares AWS's strategy around AI and highlights the importance of community engagement and education to this new era.

How Coding Bootcamps Leverage AI, Corporate Partnerships, and Community Building (with Tina-Marie Gulley)

RedMonk — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:45:12 GMT

Tina-Marie Gulley, Interim CEO at Ada Developers Academy, discusses her background and the intersection of technology, DEI, and education with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. Tina highlights the importance of AI in the bootcamp industry today as well as the need for partnerships and community building to create a sustainable and inclusive future for tech bootcamps.

The Docs Are In: Making OSS Sticky (With Alyssa Rock)

RedMonk — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:34:10 GMT

In this episode of The Docs Are In, the excellent Alyssa Rock (Staff Technical Writer, VMware; Community Manager, The Good Docs Project; Coordinator, Write the Docs Quorum Program) drops in to chat with Kate and Kelly about the many, many hats she wears. Alyssa discusses her pathway into tech writing (it led through film studies!), some of the good things happening with The Good Docs Project, and her work on the Salt Project as part of her day job with VMware. Also of interest: how to empower folks who are not technical writers to produce effective documentation (while teaching them about tech writing along the way), and how to make open source “sticky” by helping contributors to get started with projects while also creating supportive communities around them.

This Docs Are In episode was originally published in video form on January 19, 2023.

The Docs are In: Clinical Psychology, Scientific Rigor, and Developer Success (With Dr. Carol Lee)

RedMonk — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:06:34 GMT

We hear a lot these days about developer success, productivity, and happiness, but what about developer anxiety? Dr. Carol Lee stops by to talk about her research as Principal Scientist at Pluralsight's Developer Success Lab, and how her training as a clinical psychologist comes into play. Kate and Kelly also learn how Carol created an Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Pluralsight to clarify processes around the creation and maintenance of ethical standards and to enable scientific rigor. Also of interest: a research project on code review anxiety, and the creative process behind Carol's webcomic, Thriving Blobs.

This Docs Are In episode was originally published in video form on April 25, 2024.

The Docs are In: WASM and Philosophy (with Dr. Matt Butcher)

RedMonk — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:48:00 GMT

Dr. Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon, drops in for a discussion with RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick on Web Assembly (WASM), philosophy, and Matt's intersecting interests in the humanities and technology. Topics covered include analytic vs. continental philosophy (and what Descartes has to do with them); Baudrillard on hyperreality; a TL;DR intro to Web Assembly; and how Kant figures into the chapter Matt would write for a book on WASM and Philosophy.

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on February 16, 2024.

Related Resources: Learn more about Web Assembly: https://webassembly.org/

Information on Fermyon: https://www.fermyon.com/

A RedMonk Conversation: CNCF’s Environmental Sustainability TAG (With Niki Manoledaki)

RedMonk — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:38:00 GMT

Rachel Stephens interviews Niki Manoledaki (Software Engineer at Grafana Labs) on her work on the CNCF's Environmental Sustainability TAG. They discuss the Kepler project, the SCI standard, and other efforts to help engineering teams understand the carbon intensity of their cloud workloads.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on January 24, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: GraphQL, towards a declarative model for a web of next gen APIs (With Anant Jhingran)

RedMonk — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:32:08 GMT

In this conversation we caught up Anant Jhingran, CEO and co-founder of StepZen, a GraphQL platform. His experiences make for strong, well justified opinions about the role of GraphQL, its present and future.

He's worked in core database technology, he worked at Apigee during the original API Economy wave, he worked at Google after the acquisition. What should the GraphQL experience be like, and how are folks going to take advantage of it?

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 17, 2022.

Leadership Challenges with Infrastructure Automation (With Rob Hirschfeld)

RedMonk — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:31:00 GMT

In this conversation, RedMonk senior analyst Kelly Fitzpatrick and Rob Hirschfeld (CEO/Founder of RackN) discuss their top takeaways from a recent NYC technology roundtable on the challenges tech leaders face with infrastructure automation. Some challenges discussed: making automation repeatable/reusable; dealing with increasing complexity (and how this can be a cultural as well as technological challenge), and the ongoing battle with organizational silos. Also of interest: why some organizations who have moved workloads to the cloud are moving them back to bare metal.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on August 3, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: An Enterprise’s Journey to Building a Platform (With Johan Marais, Discovery Limited)

RedMonk — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:56:22 GMT

The term “platform engineering” is all the rage right now, but for many organizations the road to building their platform capabilities is years in the making. Join Rachel Stephens as she interviews Johan Marais, the Senior Platform Service Manager of Discovery Limited. Hear about Discovery's path from moving from a traditional IT org to building their own platform to finding their way to VMware Tanzu. The discussion of both the tools and culture changes required is informative to anyone trying to build out platform capacity in their company.

This RedMonk Conversation was published in video form on December 13, 2023.

The Docs Are In: Spicy Takes on Documentation (With Sam Kleinman)

RedMonk — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:56:00 GMT

In this The Docs Are In conversation, Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk, and Sam Kleinman, staff engineer working in distributed systems, discuss documentation: the good, the bad, and how to improve the documentation ecosystem. Sam talks about his experience as a technical communication specialist at MongoDB, as well as his "spicy takes" on what makes the documentation strategies of some companies more successful than others.

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on October 20, 2022.

Jacob Leverich chats Observe and the Future of Observability

RedMonk — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:47:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Jacob Leverich, Co-Founder at Observe, Inc., discusses the evolution of the observability market, focusing on the founding of Observe, and the architectural decisions that shaped its development, with RedMonk's James Governor. They explore the transition from on-premises to cloud-based solutions, the challenges of data collection and interpretation, and the importance of user context in troubleshooting. The discussion also covers the impact of OpenTelemetry on the industry and the ongoing challenges of cost management in observability solutions. They explore emerging trends in data management, including the commoditization of data storage and the impact of AI on observability practices.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Observe.

Ori Saporta on the Architect’s Role In Crisis

RedMonk — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:00:52 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Ori Saporta, VP of Engineering & Co-Founder of vFunction, speaks with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the evolving role of software architects in modern development practices. They discuss Ori's experiences at BlackBerry, the importance of architectural observability, and the disconnect between architectural intent and implementation. Ori emphasizes the need for architects to reclaim their role in ensuring scalable and resilient systems, especially in the face of increasing complexity and the influence of AI in software development.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by vFunction.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/06/05/rmc-ori-saporta-architect-role-in-crisis/

Observability 2.0, Dev Tools, and Debugging with Tom Johnson

RedMonk — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:42:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Kelly Fitzpatrick, senior analyst at RedMonk, talks with Tom Johnson, co-founder & CTO of Multiplayer about the evolution of observability into what some folks have termed “Observability 2.0”. They explore how Observability 2.0 is better positioned to address the specific needs of developers, particularly in debugging and system transparency. The discussion highlights the importance of open standards like OpenTelemetry, the need for better developer tools, and the impact of improved observability on developer experience and productivity. Tom shares insights on how these advancements can lead to more efficient workflows and ultimately foster innovation within development teams.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Multiplayer.

Do Frontend Developers Want Frontend Observability? (with Todd Gardner)

RedMonk — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:27:00 GMT

Todd Gardner, CEO of Request Metrics and TrackJS, discusses "Frontend Observability" with RedMonk senior analyst Kate Holterhoff. In an attempt to answer the question "Is Frontend Observability Hipster RUM?," Kate and Todd delve into the concept of frontend observability by exploring its definition, historical context, and the uphill marketing hurdles involved in educating web developers about observability tools. Their conversation highlights the disconnect between observability terminology and the practical needs of developers (from SREs to frontend engineers), emphasizing the need for a user-centric approach to positioning these products for the market.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/04/22/rmc-frontend-observability-todd-gardner/

A Redmonk Conversation: Modern Java runtimes - No Regrets energy efficiency with Quarkus and GraalVM (With Holly Cummins)

RedMonk — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:52:00 GMT

In this episode we talk to Red Hat's Holly Cummins about modern Java runtimes and how they can make your software and systems more efficient. Small, lightweight Java runtimes and and frameworks like Quarkus and GraalVM can be a game changer in right-sizing your applications and indeed your cloud instance choices and Cummins has brought the data to prove it. Java can be faster, cheaper and more energy efficient.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on December 15, 2022.

A RedMonk Conversation: Shifting Architecture Left (With Amir Rapson)

RedMonk — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:21:00 GMT

In a world where it is increasingly important for organizations to have well-built software, why is it that the industry tends to look down on the traditional role of the software architect? Amir Rapson, co-founder and CTO of vFunction, joins Rachel Stephens to talk about the future of software architecture, how we can make the architecture role more relevant and grounded in reality, and how we can help organizations make more sound architecture decisions.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on July 10, 2023.

How GitHub is Getting Beginners into Git (with Kedasha Kerr and Andrea Griffiths)

RedMonk — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:27:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, Kedasha Kerr, Developer Advocate and Technical Content Creator at GitHub, and Andrea Griffiths, Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, chat about the importance of educational content for developers, language accessibility, community engagement, the value of open source, and the role of AI in learning, with Rachel Stephens, Research Director at RedMonk. They discuss the need for foundational skills in programming and the importance of finding supportive communities for self-taught learners.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by GitHub.

A RedMonk Conversation: SBOMs (With Josh Bressers from Anchore)

RedMonk — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:42:00 GMT

It's not all that often that specific technologies are standards are called out by the White House, but that's exactly what happened with SBOMs. But while there's a lot of chatter on SBOMs, many people still have questions about what they are, what they're for and how to use them. Josh Bressers of Anchore joined us to answer just that question.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on November 30, 2022.

A RedMonk Conversation: Low Code to Full Stack: it's about the apps (With Matthias Steiner)

RedMonk — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:42:00 GMT

In which James Governor discusses low code use cases and platform requirements with Matthias Steiner, Chief Product Officer of Neptune Software, a low code platform that emerged out of the SAP ecosystem. Matthias wants to break down some misconceptions about low code, and that's what he does here.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 25, 2022.

The Docs are In: Upskilling Insights from a Podcaster & Solution Architect at Red Hat (With Angela Andrews)

RedMonk — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:57:00 GMT

Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk discusses upskilling, reskilling, and cross-skilling with Angela Andrews, Solution Architect at Red Hat & Co-Host of the Compiler Podcast. They get into a range of topics including Upskilling's Greenfield Problem, whether certifications are enough to secure an entry-level job in tech, the value of bootcamps, and how Red Hat is meeting the needs of learners.

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on April 12, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: What's the role of generative AI in production ops? (With Anurag Gupta)

RedMonk — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:27:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation between Stephen O'Grady and Anurag Gupta, founder and CEO of Shoreline, the focus is on the potential impact of generative AI on infrastructure. "It's gonna be a game changer." They highlight the challenges faced by those responsible for maintaining operational stability and incident response, such as the lack of reliable and up-to-date information available on platforms like Stack Overflow and Confluence wikis. They also discuss how generative AI can address these challenges by synthesizing data into short, accurate answers, and enabling follow-up questions. The conversation also emphasizes the risk of hallucinations or incorrect responses, while ensuring the reliability of generative AI systems through testing. Anurag concludes with an explanation that curation can help enhance confidence in generative AI and unlock its full potential in infrastructure management.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on June 22, 2023.

Better Security, Faster (With Varun Badhwar)

RedMonk — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:22:00 GMT

For many years, the enterprise approach to security has been scanning vast seas of manifests for open source software and then dumping alerts on developers. But how much of that software being scanned is used? How much time does it take for a developer to investigate an incident, and thus how much time could be saved if they only worked on what software in usage? In this conversation with Endor Labs' CEO Varun Badhwar we'll explore those questions and more as we rethink the traditional approach to enterprise security.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on October 12, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: The Burden of Shifting Left (With John Amaral)

RedMonk — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:19:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation between Stephen O'Grady and John Amaral, CEO and co-founder of Slim.AI, the two discuss the idea of “shifting left,” or moving security tasks earlier in application development workflows. In particular, they examine not just the perceived benefits, but the costs to “shifting left” and what to do about it.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on July 12, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: The State of Mobile Experience (With Andrew Tunall and Virna Sekuj)

RedMonk — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:16:00 GMT

In this conversation, RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff discusses Embrace's State of Mobile Experience Engineering Report with Andrew Tunall, VP and Head of Product at Embrace.io, and Virna Sekuj, Product Marketing Manager at Embrace.io. They review Embrace's research detailing mobile end users' and builders' perspectives of performance issues and app experiences.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on July 26, 2023.

Java at 30 with Sharat Chander

RedMonk — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:29:58 GMT

Java turned 30 this year, and we're celebrating. In this RedMonk conversation, Sharat Chander, Senior Director of Java Product Management & Developer Engagement at Oracle, stopped by to discuss this milestone with Kate Holterhoff. They chat about the history of this language, how perceptions of Java within the tech industry continue to evolve, and the importance of community, consistency, and authenticity for ensuring that Java thrives for the next 30 years.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by Oracle.

Show Notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/11/20/rmc-java-30-sharat-chander/

A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 1 (With Diya Winn)

RedMonk — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:16:28 GMT

Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) and Diya Wynn (Senior Practice Manager, AWS) discuss why responsible AI practices matter.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 9, 2022.

A RedMonk Conversation: Serverless WebSockets and the Serverless Stack (With Matthew O'Riordan)

RedMonk — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:04:00 GMT

Another RedMonk Conversation, this time between RedMonk co-founder James Governor and Ably CEO Matthew O'Riordan. They talk about the rise of real time, the power of WebSockets, the value of product led business models, serverless, and of course, the really big question - why are applications so terrible at handling the apostrophes in Irish names? So what's in a serverless stack anyway? Compute, cache, database etc. What's missing? The problem Ably is working on is a great developer experience for creating a stateful connection back to the client, so you can create a live connection. It's about doing one thing well. Composing services that scale with a great DX to make developers more productive. Why not just use Kafka, for real time? What's the difference? And why WebSockets again? This video delves into all that. Is it worth building your own real time architecture using AWS services? Lots of questions and in this episode you'll get some interesting answers.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on September 14, 2022.

A RedMonk Conversation: Open Source and Security (With Vincent Danen)

RedMonk — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:10:34 GMT

Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk and Vincent Danen (Vice President, Red Hat Product Security) discuss security, open source and the intersection of the two. How should customers be thinking about security and open source in a world of seemingly endless incidents? What can and should they expect from their commercial suppliers with respect to security? And how do vendors think about their responsibilities with respect to securing the open source they provide and rely on?

This RedMonk Conversation was published in video form on December 20, 2021.

An update on VMware Cloud Foundation (with Prashanth Shenoy)

RedMonk — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:38:03 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor talks with Prashanth Shenoy, VP of Marketing for Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). They discuss the impact of VMware's integration into Broadcom, including the shift from perpetual licenses to subscriptions, portfolio and ecosystem simplification, and the evolving role of cloud admins, platform engineers, and developers. Shenoy outlines how VCF supports both VM and containerized workloads, integrates Kubernetes services, and enables flexible developer experiences. The conversation also explores VMware's Private AI strategy with NVIDIA, addressing digital sovereignty, GPU virtualization, and performance benchmarks for AI workloads.

A RedMonk Conversation: Why Distributed Storage? (With Anthony Dutra and Morgan Littlewood)

RedMonk — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:30:00 GMT

While centralized storage systems have been an industry standard for years, decentralized storage options are beginning to emerge. To answer the question of “why distributed storage?” we spoke to two Storj Customers, Anthony Dutra of Zerto and Morgan Littlewood of IX Systems about their experiences.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on January 18, 2023.

The Docs are In: Exploring the Intersection of Tech Comm and Academia (With Dr. Liz Hutter and Dr. Halcyon Lawrence)

RedMonk — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:14:00 GMT

This episode of the Docs are In features the most docs (and Georgia Tech references) yet, as Dr. Liz Hutter (Assistant Professor, University of Dayton) and Dr. Halcyon Lawrence (Associate Professor, Towson University) stop by to discuss some of the crucial work they are doing on the academic side of technical communication. Topics include a critique of the “grand narratives” common to the ways we talk about technical innovation (such as AI), a case study documenting Georgia Tech's CS Tech Comm course sequence, and a little backstory into how both Liz and Halcyon landed on their career paths.

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on July 25, 2023.

devopsdays Atlanta 2025 - E2 - (with Rachel-Lee Nabors, Nathen Harvey, Pratik Parikh & Kimasia Ayers)

RedMonk — Mon, 12 May 2025 12:02:00 GMT

RedMonk senior analyst Kate Holterhoff took the MonkCast on the road to devopsdays Atlanta 2025. In episode 2 of this 2-part series, Kate interviews Rachel-Lee Nabors, Nathen Harvey, Pratik Parikh & Kimasia Ayers about their devopsdays talks and the roast of John Willis. Other subjects covered include how AI is changing the way developers build; the impact of generative AI on the software development lifecycle, including some of the latest research from DORA; IDPs, DevOps, and Kubernetes; and what's often missing when we talk about “user-centered design” in tech.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/05/12/monkcast-on-the-road-devopsdays-atlanta-2025-e2/

A RedMonk Conversation: Thomas Dohmke Chats AI Agents and Shower Coding

RedMonk — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:30:11 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, chats AI agents with Kate Holterhoff, Senior Analyst at RedMonk. They discuss the definition of AI agents, GitHub Copilot's role as peer programmer, and AI as an abstraction layer in software engineering. Thomas highlights how these agents can assist developers by automating tasks such as test generation and code reviews, ultimately enhancing productivity, while underlining the importance of human interaction in AI-assisted programming. The discussion also touches on the future of AI in development, including the need for continuous improvement and adaptation to meet the demands of modern coding practices.

This was a RedMonk video, sponsored by GitHub.

AWS Developer Experience State of the Nation with Ali Spittel

RedMonk — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:11:55 GMT

In this New Builders conversation, RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady chats with Ali Spittel, head of DevRel at AWS, about the importance of developer experience, how the role of developers is evolving, and the new challenges tand opportunities devs face in the AI era. They explore how AWS is focusing on meeting developers' needs, the significance of events, and the balance between developer and buyer perspectives. Ali shares insights on the future of development, emphasizing the need for AWS to listen to developers and adapt to their changing requirements.

This is a RedMonk video, sponsored by Amazon.

Show Notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/aws-developer-experience-state-of-the-nation-with-ali-spittel/

Al Harris On Kiro And Spec-Driven Development

RedMonk — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:26:59 GMT

In this New Builders conversation, Al Harris, Principal Engineer at AWS, discusses the development of a natural language system aimed at helping developers translate specifications into code and vice versa, particularly as it relates to AWS's agentic IDE, Kiro. The conversation explores the significance of this translation process, the challenges faced in natural language processing, and the potential future of software development with AI integration.

This is a RedMonk video, sponsored by Amazon.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/al-harris-on-kiro-and-spec-driven-development/

Clare Liguori on Kiro & AI Spec-Driven Software Development

RedMonk — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:07:51 GMT

In this New Builders conversation, Kate Holterhoff speaks with Clare Liguori, Senior Principal Software Engineer at AWS, about Kiro. They discuss Kiro's Vibe and Spec modes, and how these both factor into better coding practices and outcomes for developers. Clare explains the importance of requirements in software development, the collaborative nature of spec-driven development, as well as Kiro's roadmap.

This is a RedMonk video, sponsored by Amazon.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/tnb-clare-liguori-kiro-ai-spec-driven-software-development/

Introduction to local AI models (with AMD's Anush Elangovan)

RedMonk — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:23:05 GMT

James Governor sits down with Anush Elangovan, VP of AI at AMD, to dig into the fast-evolving world of local LLMs, edge hardware, and the future of AI-powered developer experience.

They cover:

Why local LLMs are exploding in adoption -Privacy, data sovereignty, and on-device intelligence
Running 120B-parameter models on AMD Strix Halo laptops
The software stack Anush uses: ROCm, Llama.cpp, Ollama, ComfyUI, PyTorch & more
How AMD is approaching AI-driven developer tools, coding agents, and predictive ops
The role of custom silicon, inference-optimized chips, and next-gen laptops
What ROCm actually is (and why developers should care)
If you're curious about the future of on-device AI, developer workflows, or AMD's AI strategy, this is a must-watch.

This podcast was sponsored by AMD.

A RedMonk Conversation: A Frontend Optimized Database Stack (With Carl Sverre)

RedMonk — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:24:00 GMT

Kate Holterhoff, analyst with Redmonk, and Carl Sverre, creator of SQLSync and founder of orbitinghail, discuss database management for frontend engineers: an issue that has never been more pressing. Carl expands on the subject of client versus server side data caching, explaining how SQLSync uniquely addresses the data management problem on the frontend. He explains the importance of “offline-first,” meaning that applications are intended to function offline, and lays out his optimism about the future of WebAssembly (Wasm).

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on February 29, 2024.

Kate Soule on Granite 4.0 at IBM TechXchange 2025

RedMonk — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:22:17 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation on the Road at IBM TechXchange 2025, RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady chats with Kate Soule, IBM's Director of Technical Product Management for Granite about the newly announced Granite 4.0 family of large language models. Soule explains IBM's strategic focus on small, efficient models that are open sourced under Apache 2, highlighting how these models achieve better performance than previous generations while reducing costs and improving latency through new architecture and training approaches.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by IBM.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/rmc-ibm-techxchange-granite-kate-soule/

The Docs Are In: Certifications (With Dr. Kate Holterhoff)

RedMonk — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:27:25 GMT

RedMonk's Dr. Kate Holterhoff and Dr. Kelly Fitzpatrick (who each have a Ph.D.) kick off a new series where they sometimes talk to other docs and sometimes talk about documentation. In this video Kelly interviews Kate about Kate's excellent research on certifications in the tech industry.

This is an older recording. This Docs Are In episode was originally published in video form on July 28, 2022.

The New AWS Free Tier (with Bowen Wang)

RedMonk — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:57:44 GMT

In this conversation, Rachel Stephens is joined by Bowen Wang, Principal Product Marketing Manager at AWS. They discuss the newly enhanced AWS Free Tier program, which provides new customers with a zero-cost environment to experiment and learn about AWS services. That's right: no surprise billing! Come learn about how new customers can sign up for a zero-cost environment for up to six months and can receive up to $200 in credits upon sign up. For more information visit https://aws.amazon.com/free/ Here's the Corey Quinn post referenced by Bowen: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/aws-finally-fixes-its-free-tier-problem/

Jason Torres on Developer Hiring, Community, & Content

RedMonk — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:22:57 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Jason Torres, Community Evangelist at Torc, chats developer communities with Kate Holterhoff. They discuss the dynamics of attending tech conferences, the role of Torc in the tech community, the current hiring landscape for developers, the globalization of tech hiring, the impact of social media on career growth, and the significance of authenticity in online presence. The discussion also touches on the future of developer advocacy and the challenges faced in the tech industry today.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/08/05/jason-torres/

The Future of Hashicorp and IBM: A Fireside Chat (with Armon Dadgar and Tarun Chopra)

RedMonk — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:29:00 GMT

At IBM Think 2025, RedMonk's Steve O'Grady sits down with HashiCorp CTO Armon Dadgar and IBM's Tarun Chopra to talk about what the IBM + HashiCorp deal means for devs. They dig into how HashiCorp tools like Terraform, Vault, and Nomad will stay core to the workflow, how IBM plans to invest across the full stack, and how everything will integrate with Red Hat and OpenShift. If you use HashiCorp in your day-to-day or care about hybrid cloud, automation, and scaling infrastructure as code, this one is for you.

This conversation was originally published in video format on July 15, 2025.

Justin Reock on Why Java Devs Use Apache ActiveMQ

RedMonk — Wed, 28 May 2025 11:50:00 GMT

In this conversation, Justin Reock, Deputy CTO at DX, chats with RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff about Java development and message oriented middleware, focusing on Apache ActiveMQ. They discuss the importance of messaging in distributed systems, Justin's experience writing middleware at EarthLink and OpenLogic, and ActiveMQ's advantages for enterprise. The conversation also highlights the history of several additional Apache projects including Geronimo, HornetQ, ServiceMix, Camel, CXF, and Karaf. The discussion highlights the ongoing need for reliable messaging solutions, especially in the face of emerging technologies like AI.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/05/28/rmc-justin-reock-on-apache-activemq/

John O'Hara, Inventor of AMQP, on Why Standards are Worth Persevering With

RedMonk — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:41:00 GMT

In this conversation, John O'Hara, inventor of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), discusses this standard's history and development with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. O'Hara shares insights about the complexities of middleware, the importance of standards, and the evolution of AMQP 0-9-1 and 1-0. He reflects on the AMQP working group, the role of hyperscalers in shaping standards, the limitations of HTTP, and the importance of standards bodies like ISO, OASIS, and IEC. O'Hara emphasizes the need for middleware to become as ubiquitous as the web and shares insights on the future of AMQP and the standards process.

RabbitMQ Was Designed for the Cloud Era (with Alexis Richardson)

RedMonk — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:22:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Alexis Richardson, Founder and CEO of ConfigHub, discusses the evolution and significance of messaging in distributed systems, and particularly RabbitMQ, with Kate Holterhoff, Senior Analyst at RedMonk. Alexis shares insights from his experience in the tech industry, including the development of messaging protocol AMQP, the founding of Rabbit Technologies and its acquisition by VMware, and his role in founding the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The discussion highlights the importance of messaging for asynchronous communication, scalability, and integration in modern technology, particularly in financial services and cloud computing.

Making Docs Better for AI and Humans (with Jennifer Marandola)

RedMonk — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:43:56 GMT

Jennifer Marandola, Technical Writing Manager at Cribl, joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick for a discussion on the evolving role of technical writing in an era of AI copilots and assistants. She shares insights on how her team collaborates with Cribl's AI team to enhance documentation, making it more accessible and effective for both human users and AI tools. The discussion also covers the changing nature of user queries, the importance of clear documentation, and advice for aspiring technical writers navigating this new landscape.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/03/10/rmc-making-docs-better-for-ai-and-humans-with-jennifer-marandola/

Cassidy Williams Talks Companionable Coding & GitHub Copilot

RedMonk — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:48:08 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, discusses GitHub Copilot's role as a coding companion with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. Cassidy addresses Copilot's evolution and newest features, its business value, adoption trends, and the importance of context. In addition to tackling skepticism about AI coding assistants among developers and engineering leadership, Cassidy underscores GitHub's commitment to the open source community and the accessibility of Copilot for all developers.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by GitHub.

E-commerce at the Edge: How Yottaa uses Fastly for Compute, WAF and Analytics

RedMonk — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:59:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation (filmed at Fastly Xcelerate in NYC), Kelly Fitzpatrick of RedMonk interviews Pete Karytko, Director of Technical Operations at Yottaa, to explore how the company leverages its expertise–and Fastly technologies–to help Yottaa's customers deliver performant and secure experiences in the e-commerce space. With “Cyber Five” (the five days from U.S. Thanksgiving through the following “Cyber Monday”) fast approaching, Kelly and Pete discuss how Yottaa has expanded its partnership with Fastly, how Fastly has helped accelerate (pun intended) Yottaa's migration to Fastly's Compute and WAF products, and what they hope to see from Fastly in 2025.

This was a RedMonk video, sponsored by Fastly, and was also published in video form on November 11, 2024.

AI's Grumpy-Fun Era (with Rachel Stephens, Kate Holterhoff, & James Governor)

RedMonk — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:59:45 GMT

In this MonkCast with the Monks episode, RedMonk analysts Rachel Stephens, Kate Holterhoff, and James Governor discuss the current 'grumpy era' of AI, where developers are questioning the ROI of AI tools and their effectiveness. They check in on AI code assistants, vibe coding, agentic IDEs, AI spec-driven development, and the AI Engineer.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/09/11/ais-grumpy-fun-era/

The Docs Are In: Communication and Nursing Education (With Dr. Rebekah Greene)

RedMonk — Thu, 09 May 2024 19:18:00 GMT

In this Docs are In conversation, RedMonk senior analysts KellyAnn Fitzpatrick and Kate Holterhoff chat with Dr. Rebekah Greene, assistant professor at the University of Rochester School of Nursing. Dr. Greene elaborates on her responsibilities in this role and how her as a scholar of 19th century literature actually dovetails and supports her work in clinical nursing. They also discuss the importance of technical communication to the medical profession, and share some strategies and best practices for fostering patient-medical professional communication.

This Docs Are In episode was originally published in video form on May 9, 2024.

Andrew Hutchings on the WordPress War

RedMonk — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:25:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Andrew Hutchings (aka LinuxJedi), a software engineer at wolfSSL, discusses what he terms "a war going on within the WordPress community" with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. Andrew shares his journey into open source, his experiences at MariaDB, and his involvement in the WordPress.org open source community. The discussion delves into the current litigation and his WordPress Slack ban, including this so-called war's broader implications for open source projects.

Why the Python Software Foundation Withdrew a $1.5 Million US Government Grant Proposal (w Deb Nicholson)

RedMonk — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:08:17 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Deb Nicholson, Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation, discusses the PSF's responsibilities, recent challenges with a government grant proposal, and the community's strong support with Kate Holterhoff. The conversation highlights the importance of cybersecurity in open source, the role of PyPI, and the evolving landscape of programming languages. Deb emphasizes the PSF's mission to support the global Python community and the significance of educational initiatives in teaching Python effectively.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/rem-deb-nicholson-psf

The Docs are In: A History of AI (With Dr. Tobias Wilson-Bates)

RedMonk — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:19:00 GMT

RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Tobias Wilson-Bates, Assistant Professor at Georgia Gwinnett College, dig into the history and future of AI. Dr. Wilson-Bates discusses examples of artificial intelligence in Western culture including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Karel Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots. They speak about how large language models and machine learning are disrupting the domains of education, labor, and the commons.

This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on October 17, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Custom Silicon at Annapurna Labs (with Chetan Kapoor, AWS)

RedMonk — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:28:00 GMT

As generative AI drives demand for training and inference workloads, the tech industry has turned to innovations in chip, board and server design to provide the infrastructure and compute power to meet these demands. Annapurna Labs, which Amazon acquired in 2015, plays a key role in AWS's ability to innovate in this area, having developed the Nitro, Graviton, Inferentia, and Trainium families of processors. As a follow-up to RedMonk's tour of Annapurna Labs in Austin, TX, Senior Analyst Kelly Fitzpatrick sits down with Chetan Kapoor (Director of Product Management for the Amazon EC2 Accelerated Computing Portfolio) to discuss how the custom silicon developed at Annapurna Labs is a differentiator for AWS, some of the differences between the infrastructure needs of training and inference workloads, and what AWS is doing to support developers building genAI applications.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on February 20, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Software Delivery Into Heterogeneous Environments at Scale (With Marc Campbell)

RedMonk — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:25:00 GMT

The industry has centered around Kubernetes as the abstraction layer that promises portability. Helm charts are great for packaging, but are they enough? Senior RedMonk Analyst Rachel Stephens talks with Replicated co-founder and CTO Marc Campbell about the challenges of shipping software into heterogeneous environments.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on March 29, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Developer Productivity (Task, Team, Time) with Emilio Salvador, GitLab

RedMonk — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:55:30 GMT

Software quality and engineering metrics is a big topic in the industry right now, as companies seek to become more effective and competitive, and better understand how their engineering teams are performing. In this conversation Emilio Salvador, VP of Development at GitLab, and James Governor from RedMonk talk about the impact on generative AI on these topics, and take a look at GitLab's own framework for better understanding productivity - focusing on Task, Team, and Time dynamics. What is developer productivity, after all? What is team productivity? What does writing code 25% faster actually mean? What if you save an engineer an hour a week - what is that worth? What is breakthrough productivity? What if we could build 10 times as many things as we could before. What are the implications? Measuring, managing and understanding developer productivity requires us to consider these kinds of questions. The discussion delves into the complexities of measuring developer productivity, emphasizing that it cannot be reduced to a single number. The conversation explores the challenges in measuring performance, including the need for a combination of data sources and addressing cultural differences within teams. Emilio argues that we must recognise development as a team sport, with a focus on matching skill sets to internal transformations, always fostering collaboration within development teams.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on February 6, 2024.

A Redmonk Conversation: Shifting Cost Optimisation Left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights (With Saunak "Jai" Chakrabarti, Meera Srinivasan, and Tim Hansen)

RedMonk — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:19:23 GMT

An in-depth conversation between RedMonk analyst James Governor and Spotify engineering leaders including Saunak "Jai" Chakrabarti, Meera Srinivasan, and Tim Hansen about Spotify, cloud infrastructure cost management, FinOps, and empowering engineering teams to optimise infrastructure spend by shifting decisions left.

This RedMonk Conversation was published in video form on April 28, 2021.

A RedMonk Conversation: Industry’s Tardy Response to the AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability (With Simon Willison)

RedMonk — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:58:00 GMT

Kate Holterhoff, analyst with Redmonk, and Simon Willison, founder of Dattasette, co-creator of Django, and expert in AI technologies, speak about the AI prompt injection vulnerability. Simon lays out what prompt injection is and why it is so difficult to mitigate. They also cover major industry players (OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Google), and the common mistake of confusing moderation, in the sense of not letting the model say bad things, with security, not letting an attack trigger the model into performing an action that leaks private data or triggers tools in the wrong way. Prompt injection is a security issue, and not one that can be solved through moderation alone.

This RedMonk Conversation was published in video form on December 20, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: Sustainable Software and Systems - Lightswitch Ops for the Triple Win (With Holly Cummins)

RedMonk — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:49:00 GMT

In this episode RedMonk talks to Red Hat's Holly Cummins about sustainability, the imperatives for greener software, and how to achieve it with modern Java architectures. What is the relationship between workload and hosting choice - is the cloud always greener, and will all workloads move there? Red Hat is doing some engineering to make it easier to run Java workloads more sustainably, and in this conversation we outline why and how.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on December 15, 2022.

A RedMonk Conversation: Haptics, Hallucinations, Retrieval-Augmentation and the multi-model LLM future (With Malte Pietsch)

RedMonk — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:51:00 GMT

OpenAI will be a winner, but not the only one. A concept you'll be hearing a lot more about is Retrieval Augmentation – in terms of improving models. Again we cover that in the conversation. So dive in! In the meantime I will leave you with a story from deepset about a gentleman in his 80s that runs a legal publishing firm in Germany. He called deepset just before Christmas last year to insist on a meeting before the end of the year to discuss ChatGPT's potential implications on his business, and how he could do something similar but without giving his own information away. ChatGPT only launched on November 30th 2022. That's the scale of the challenge, and the opportunity.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on April 26, 2023.

A RedMonk Conversation: Spicy Takes, Platform Engineering, and Dynamic Configuration Management (With Drew Oetzel)

RedMonk — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:40:00 GMT

When it comes to highly opinionated marketing, driving the outrage button, we can't think of a more resonant recent campaign than Humanitec's DevOps is dead, long live Platform Engineering! In this video though we come to discuss platform orchestration and dynamic configuration management. So - a conversation between James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk, and Drew Oetzel, senior customer success engineer at Humanitec. What's the interplay between platform orchestration and platform engineering? Why should platform engineering care about this? What even is wrong with the current state of the art in configuration management? The truth is everybody does some platform engineering; everybody has some form of platform engineering. And at companies like Adobe or Google it can be really slick but at medium sized organisations, it might just be a couple of people clicking around in AWS. As Corey Quinn calls it “ClickOps” Congratulations. You're the platform engineering solution. You get to manually set something up as you go through tickets. According to Humanitec, at the heart of what a platform orchestrator does is it shuffles config files. So it's shuffling Terraform scripts, it's shuffling Helm charts, it's shuffling Kubernetes, YAMLs. Essentially undifferentiated heavy lifting. We discuss the current state of the art, but also what kind of tooling might offer a better, more automated experience for platform engineering teams. How we can avoid config file and script sprawl and focus on our jobs, automating the tedious interactions between dev and ops. Platform Engineering is about standardisation by design, and that happens as part of the process. Golden paths, platform orchestration, and dynamic configuration management.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 24, 2023.

Kelly Shortridge Talks Security at Fastly

RedMonk — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:58:00 GMT

Kelly Shortridge (Senior Director, Security Product Line at Fastly) joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick to talk security. The Kellys cover isolation and modularity (with a few nature metaphors from Kelly S.), bridging the gap between security and development teams, and secure by design thinking (this time with an ice cream cone metaphor). Kelly S. also covers how her security philosophy translates to Fastly through her work with both the Security product line and the Security Research Team.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on October 17, 2024.

The Docs Are In: Tech Writing & Jigsaw Puzzles (With Ember Stevens)

RedMonk — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:46:00 GMT

RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick and Ember Stevens (Technical Writer, LaunchDarkly) discuss technical writing and documentation (docs as code; what it's like being the lone tech writer at an organization vs. working on a team; working with SMEs) as well as their respective tech industry origin stories in public higher education. Ember also shares some tips on how to get started with technical documentation--tips that mirror approaches to piecing together jigsaw puzzles.

This Docs Are In episode was originally published in video form on August 26, 2022.

A Quick(ish) Take On Fast Cars: RedMonk Talks AWS Technology in F1™

RedMonk — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:14:20 GMT

In October 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) invited RedMonk analysts Kelly Fitzpatrick, Kate Holterhoff, and Rachel Stephens to Austin, TX, so that they could report on AWS technology in action at relevant Formula 1™ events (AWS has an existing partnership with Formula 1™). In this the analysts discuss their initial impressions, the technology they saw in play, and their overall takeaways from the events.

This Quick Take was originally published in video form on February 26, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: You Don't Need to be Afraid of the Bleeding Edge (in Tech Adoption)

RedMonk — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:45:35 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor of RedMonk interviews David Annez, VP of Product at loveholidays, to explore the company's approach to adopting absolute cutting-edge technology while managing risk. The company relies heavily on Fastly's edge network services to build its scalable, high-performance platform, supporting its rapid expansion and growing customer base, processing a booking every 40 seconds across the UK, Ireland and Germany.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on August 27, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Developer Led Adoption and Oracle Database 23c Free (With Gerald Venzl)

RedMonk — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:44:00 GMT

James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk talks to Gerald Venzl about Oracle Database 23c Free. RedMonk is all about developers. As industry analysts we occasionally provide a quote for a press release and for the launch of 23c Free I described it as a “radical departure”. This video is about why. The influence of developers on technology decision making is greater than it ever was. So we moved from a model which was the historical top down purchasing led adoption of technology into one where the engineers were the practitioners, much more influential in those choices. Oracle 23c Free is a radical departure because for the first time Oracle has given developers, rather than enterprise IT buyers, the bits first. The model here is let's take all of the new bits, all of the new functionality, get it in the hands of developers first and let them make the market, for example it might be -- a Spring Developer needs to understand how the database is going to work with the applications they're building. Framework support is so important in developer ecosystems. So someone in the ecosystem can really be building before they even think about any purchasing decisions. How significant was the decision to lead with the developer edition? In the end it had to be approved by Larry Ellison, himself. We also talk about JSON support, and Oracle's attempts to make JSON a first class citizen in its architectures, enabling great support with common management models for both document/hierarchical and schema oriented SQL applications. The question is will a free database that supports both document and relational models, with high performance and maintainability, turn the dial for new developer adoption?

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 23, 2023.

The Evolution of AI Agents (with Srini Iragavarapu)

RedMonk — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:18:14 GMT

In this conversation, Rachel Stephens is joined by Srini Iragavarapu, Director of Software Development for Amazon Q Developer, to discuss the evolution of AI agents in software development. Srini explains how Amazon Q Developer leverages generative AI and large language models to assist developers across the entire software lifecycle — from code generation to testing, documentation, and even large-scale code transformations — while keeping developers in full control. They also explore how these tools are transforming developer productivity, onboarding, and problem-solving.

This is a RedMonk conversation, sponsored by Amazon.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/the-new-builders-the-evolution-of-ai-agents/

A RedMonk Conversation: Attracting Developers and Keeping Top Talent (With Chris Wright, Red Hat)

RedMonk — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:59:10 GMT

As we've made our way through the Great Resignation to what some have labeled the “Great Reshuffle,” competition for top tech talent has remained fierce. Retaining such talent can be even trickier, especially in the tech industry, where promotion by job hopping is a common strategy. Under such conditions, how do organizations find and keep exceptional developers and other technical practitioners? How does leadership balance the needs and priorities of technical talent with those of customers, products, and even open source communities? What part might non-managerial leadership opportunities play in keeping developers happy? In this video Chris Wright, CTO and SVP of Global Engineering at Red Hat joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick for a conversation on these larger industry challenges and how Red Hat approaches them.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on April 10, 2023.

How LaunchDarkly’s Guarded Releases Mitigate Risk with Manish Gupta

RedMonk — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:13:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Manish Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer at LaunchDarkly, speaks with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the complexities of software development and the challenges of releasing bug-free software. They discuss the recent launch of LaunchDarkly's Guardian Edition, which aims to help companies manage risk by implementing guarded releases. Manish emphasizes the need for a new approach to software releases that balances innovation with risk mitigation, allowing companies to move quickly without compromising user experience. The discussion also touches on the future challenges companies will face in adapting their risk posture in an increasingly complex software environment.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by LaunchDarkly.

A RedMonk Conversation: Generative AI for Application Modernization on System z (With Keri Olson)

RedMonk — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:39:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation with Keri Olson, IBM VP of AI for code, we discuss IBM's approach to generative AI, focusing on domain specific use cases, such as AI-driven application modernization for IBM's Z Mainframe platform with IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z. IBM is training dedicated models for these use cases, to give customers something they won't find with competitors' models. For example COBOL to Java conversion, with models trained to support all of IBM's mainframe subsystems such as CICS. Olson explains why IBM will allow customers to use AI for specific use cases while maintaining data privacy, security and customer trust. IBM also offers IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, to enable operators to be more productive in using Ansible infrastructure as code for large scale systems.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 8, 2024.

Ryan Dahl on the Deno v Oracle Petition

RedMonk — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:27:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js and Co-Founder and CEO of Deno, chats with Kate Holterhoff about the recent petition filed by Deno to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark. They discuss the historical context of the trademark, Deno's case against Oracle, the legal implications of the cancellation process, and the potential future of JavaScript as a generic term for the entire JavaScript community.

Oracle is a RedMonk client, Deno is not a RedMonk client, and this MonkCast interview is an unpaid and independent piece of content.

https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle

A RedMonk Conversation: LLMs and Secrets Management (With Eric Fourrier, CEO of GitGuardian)

RedMonk — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:23:00 GMT

Join RedMonk's James Governor and GitGuardian CEO Eric Fourrier for a discussion on the role of large language models (LLMs) in secrets management. DevOps processes and microservice architectures continue to drive application development towards a landscape that is more complex, distributed, and fragmented. This increases the prevalence of secrets such as database credentials, API keys, and tokens--which are used to connect all these pieces together--and increases the chance that such secrets may be inadvertently leaked, especially through code. This is where GitGuardian comes in, specializing in helping developers and their organizations with secrets detection and remediation at scale. This conversation focuses on potential advantages and challenges that the rise of generative AI technologies such as LLMs have introduced into the code security space and what this all means for the future of secrets detection and management.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on April 4, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Natalia Venditto and Igor Minar on the Future of Frontend Workloads

RedMonk — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:25:44 GMT

In this conversation about the evolving landscape of front-end development, Natalia Venditto, principal owner of JavaScript developer experience for Azure and Code extensions at Microsoft, and Igor Minar, senior director of engineering at Cloudflare, chat with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. In addition to discussing the future of JavaScript, the significance of server-side rendering, and the potential of WebAssembly, they speak about the challenges of migrating from client-side to server-side architectures, the role of micro frontends in managing organizational complexity, and the importance of open source foundations like the OpenJS Foundation in ensuring sustainable development practices. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast belong to the speakers, and do not necessarily reflect those of their employers.

Microsoft and Cloudflare are RedMonk clients, but this is an independent and unsponsored conversation.

A RedMonk Conversation: Frontend & Prototyping at IBM (With Stephane Rodet)

RedMonk — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:55:07 GMT

Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk discusses Frontend & Prototyping with Stephane Rodet, UX Engineering Manager at IBM. Rodet shares his experience working with the frontend, design, and UX teams at IBM. We discuss trends in this domain in terms of career opportunities, team roles, testing, and tooling. The landscape of frontend and prototyping is shifting fast, and Rodet explains how IBM fosters creativity and innovation in this space.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on July 26, 2022.

Austin Parker on AI, Olly, & OTel

RedMonk — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:35:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honeycomb and a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry project, chats AI, Olly, and OTel with Kate Holterhoff. They explore the implications of AI on SREs and observability practitioners, the development of honeycomb's MCP server, and the challenges vendors face in adapting to changes in the observability space. The discussion also touches on the balance between speed and quality in feedback, the complexities introduced by software abstractions, and the future role of OpenTelemetry in the AI-driven observability space.

Honeycomb is a RedMonk client, but this content is unsponsored.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/10/23/rmc-austin-parker/

Inside AWS's Agentic AI Marketing Strategy with Ali Maaz & Jessie VanderVeen

RedMonk — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:04:25 GMT

In this New Builders conversation, RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff speaks with Jessie VanderVeen, Global Head of Product Marketing, Agentic AI, Developer Experience and Ali Maaz, Head of WW GTM, Agentic AI and Developer Experience about how AWS is approaching the crowded agentic IDE market. They discuss the importance of customer obsession, AWS's unique launch strategy for their agentic IDE Kiro, and the lessons learned from integrating AI into developer workflows. Their conversation touches on the balance between speed and reliability in AI development, the evolving definition of developers, and the future of developer workflows with AI, emphasizing the need for authenticity in marketing AI tools to developers.

This is a RedMonk video, sponsored by Amazon.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/inside-awss-agentic-ai-marketing-strategy-with-ali-maaz-jessie-vanderveen/

Science Fiction, the Hacker Ethic, & We Just Build Hammers (with Coraline Ada Ehmke)

RedMonk — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:42:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Coraline Ada Ehmke discusses her new book, We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech, with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. In addition to outlining the book's argument and major themes, Kate and Coraline also chat about extensible lessons from science fiction including what is means to be a hacker and how the history of science connects to contemporary tech justice movements.

Dan Moore on Newsletters, Authenticity, and Sweating the Assets

RedMonk — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:28:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Dan Moore, principal product engineer at FusionAuth, join James Governor, principal analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, and Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, to discuss the resurgence of newsletters as a tool for authentic expression and community engagement. They explore the importance of optimizing existing content, the power of voice, and best practices for creating effective newsletters. The discussion highlights the evolving landscape of digital communication and the role newsletters play in fostering relationships and sharing knowledge.

A RedMonk Conversation: Private AI (With Himanshu Singh, VMware by Broadcom)

RedMonk — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:12:46 GMT

AI-based solutions are cropping up in every portion of the tech stack and at every stage in the SDLC. From chips to applications, from the instantiation of code to running it in production; when new AI solutions are available across the board, how can enterprises consider where to place their investments in this new and evolving space? Join RedMonk's Rachel Stephens as she discusses these questions with Himanshu Singh, who runs AI Product Marketing at VMware by Broadcom. VMware created their Private AI solution to help address these enterprise AI concerns. Join Stephens and Singh as they discuss how enterprises are adopting this technology, how VMware thinks about privacy and risk when it comes to AI, and how enterprises can orchestrate AI workloads to be part of their broader technology solutions.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on April 22, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Luis Villa on the AI Compliance Dumpster Fire and Doing the Right Thing

RedMonk — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:28:00 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, speaks with Luis Villa, co-founder and general counsel at Tidelift, about new challenges in security and privacy in the AI era. The conversation focuses on the legal and compliance implications of AI which Luis highlighted in a spicy LinkedIn post that inspired this episode. Villa discusses the tension between in-house counsel's responsibility to protect the company and the desire of workers to embrace new technologies. He highlights the disconnect between Silicon Valley's enthusiasm for AI and the concerns of the general public. The conversation also touches on the ethical considerations of AI, such as the need for transparency in data usage and the responsibility of companies to protect customer information.

Matt Klein on why Mobile Observability Lags Behind Server Observability

RedMonk — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:31:11 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Matt Klein, Co-founder and CTO of bitdrift, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about mobile observability's challenges. They discuss how hard mobile observability is compared to server-side observability, the impact of privacy controls on data collection, and the cultural divide within organizations between mobile and backend engineers. Matt shares his perspective on OpenTelemetry, emphasizing that while it helps establish a baseline for telemetry, it's "not going to solve your observability woes," particularly as they relate to broader issues of data overload and vendor lock-in.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/06/09/rmc-matt-klein-mobile-observability/

A RedMonk Conversation with Developer Certification Enthusiast Justin Wheeler

RedMonk — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:23:23 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation Kate Holterhoff, senior industry analyst with RedMonk, talks all-things developer certifications with Justin Wheeler, AWS Community Builder, Senior Software Developer at Bravo LT, and developer certification expert. In addition to passing every AWS certification, Justin is also a CNCF Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate; Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader; and Oracle Certified Associate. Justin talks about his experience and enthusiasm for certifications, explaining the benefits and pitfalls of these tools for furthering both general tech education and career advancement. Justin weighs in of what study materials and exam prep makes a vendor's education portfolio successful, and speaks to the role employers should take in supporting continuing education for software engineers. Find Justin on socials: https://linktr.ee/wheeleruniverse

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on March 21, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: The Developer Experience Gap (With Zenhub’s Aaron Upright)

RedMonk — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:26:00 GMT

As organizations look to improve their operational velocity, one of the things they're increasingly looking at is their developer experience. To understand how that can be improved, however, you have to understand what makes developers happy, and what makes them unhappy. Zenhub explored just this question in a recent survey and founder Aaron Upright joined us to talk about developer likes and dislikes, and where that intersects with the developer experience gap.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on January 25, 2023.

From Containers to Kiro: AI and DX at AWS with Deepak Singh

RedMonk — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:54:55 GMT

In this New Builders conversation, RedMonk's James Governor speaks with Deepak Singh, VP of Agents and Experience at AWS, about the evolution of developer tools, particularly in the context of generative AI and the introduction of Kiro. They discuss the journey of AWS in the container space, the importance of developer experience, and how AI is reshaping the way developers work. Deepak shares insights into the challenges of governance and collaboration in AI development, emphasizing the need for tools that facilitate teamwork and innovation.

This is a RedMonk video, sponsored by Amazon.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/from-containers-to-kiro-ai-and-dx-at-aws-with-deepak-singh/

Alex Russell on PWAs, App Stores, and Mobile Performance

RedMonk — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:19:04 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Alex Russell, Partner Product Architect at Microsoft, discusses the state of mobile development, focusing on JavaScript performance, the state of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), and the impact of major players like Apple (iOS) and Google (Android). They explore the importance of management in addressing web performance issues, the role of web standards in shaping the future, and the implications of AI on web development. Alex emphasizes the need for restraint in JavaScript usage and the importance of creating user-friendly web experiences, particularly on mobile devices.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/11/24/alex-russell/

Meet Bob, IBM's Agentic IDE (with Matt Rodkey at IBM TechXchange 2025)

RedMonk — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:24:32 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation from IBM's TechXchange conference, Matt Rodkey speaks about and demos Bob, IBM's newly announced agentic IDE, with RedMonk senior analyst Kate Holterhoff. Currently in private preview, Bob is designed to help enterprise developers navigate complex codebases and modernization challenges. Rodkey emphasizes that Bob's differentiation lies in addressing enterprise deployment needs—security compliance, regulatory requirements like HIPAA and FedRAMP, and production readiness—rather than just code generation.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by IBM.

Show Notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/rmc-bob-matt-rodkey-ibm-techxchange/

WASM and Edge Compute: Building a Performant Cloud with Akamai and Fermyon

RedMonk — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:13:29 GMT

What happens when you build an ultra low-latency compute platform and then realize the round trips are going to kill you? Absent changing physics or your cap table: you partner!

This RedMonk Conversation explores how Fermyon - a platform that compiles serverless compute into Wasm - partnered with Akamai - a company that started out as a CDN and has evolved into a full-fledged alternative cloud - to build a better together story. Join RedMonk's Research Director Rachel Stephens, Fermyon CEO Matt Butcher, and Akamai's Director of Product Management Allen Duet to discuss the future of serverless computing at the edge.

This RedMonk video is sponsored by Akamai.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/akamai-fermyon/

Bedrock Streaming: From CDN to compute for 50M+ people (w Pascal Martin & Valentin Clavreul)

RedMonk — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:26:43 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Pascal Martin, principal software engineer at Bedrock Streaming, and Valentin Clavreul, principal backend engineer at Bedrock Streaming, discuss the evolution of streaming architectures and their partnership with Fastly as a crucial element in optimizing performance with RedMonk's James Governor. They explore the challenges of scaling streaming services, the transition from PHP to Go for backend development, and the importance of interoperability with AWS and edge compute. The discussion also highlights the significance of observability in ensuring reliable architectures and the preparations needed for major sporting events like the Euros.

This RedMonk Conversation is sponsored by Fastly.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/bedrock-streaming-from-cdn-to-compute-for-50m-people-watching-the-euros/

CRA – The First Horizontal Regulation of the Software Industry (with Mike Milinkovich)

RedMonk — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:10:29 GMT

In this conversation, Rachel Stephens (Research Director at RedMonk) and Mike Milinkovich (Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation) discuss the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Mike explains the law, its implications for the software industry – particularly open source software – and the responsibilities it places on manufacturers. This episode covers:

the evolution of the CRA from a “near-death experience for open source” in its initial drafts to a “workable piece of legislation”
understanding the responsibilities the legislation places upon different industry roles
exploring the CRA's potential impacts on open source communities
discussing how to get prepared

This discussion is emphatically important if you sell software into a European market. Come listen to Mike to help understand the new legal obligations that come with the CRA.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/10/8/rmc-cra-ecplisefoundation

"Good docs are still good docs": AX, DX, & LLMs (with Taylor Barnett-Torabi & Lyle Schemmerling)

RedMonk — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:09:34 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Taylor Barnett-Torabi , Staff Product Manager at Netlify, and Lyle Schemmerling, Senior Software Engineer at FusionAuth, discuss the impact of large language models (LLMs) on developer experience with Kate Holterhoff. They chat about the evolution of agent experience (AX), the integration of LLMs into documentation, and the challenges of ensuring that documentation remains relevant and secure in a rapidly changing landscape.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/09/30/rmc-taylor-barnett-torabi-lyle-schemmerling/

Tales from Agency Life (with Emily Winck and Jess Burns)

RedMonk — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:09:04 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Emily Winck, Staff Engineer at CallRail, and Jess Burns, Engineering Manager at 1Password, join Kate Holterhoff to reflect on their shared experiences working on the engineering team at a digital marketing agency. In addition to trading war stories, they discuss the gender balance in engineering teams, how agency life compares to SaaS companies, the Covid19 pandemic, challenges of remote work, bootcamps, hiring, and the impact of AI on software development.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/09/04/emily-winck-jess-burns/

Kat Cosgrove on The Chaos and Care of Shipping Kubernetes

RedMonk — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:26:51 GMT

In this conversation, Rachel Stephens interviews Kat Cosgrove – a prominent figure in the Kubernetes community – to discuss her journey into Kubernetes, the structure of the release team, and the role of corporate contributions in governing the project. They explore the expectations surrounding open source projects, the importance of sustainability, and the challenges faced by maintainers in the ecosystem.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/kat-cosgrove-shipping-kubernetes/

How Shawn (swyx) Wang Defines the AI Engineer

RedMonk — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:03:36 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Shawn (swyx) Wang discusses the evolving role of the AI Engineer with Kate Holterhoff. They chat about the definition of an AI Engineer, the differences between AI Engineers and traditional software developers, vibe coding, frontend observability, and the AI Engineer World's Fair.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/07/23/shawn-swyx-wang-ai-engineer/

Jeremy Meiss on DevRel & the Mire of Ineffables

RedMonk — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:49:10 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, Jeremy Meiss, Director of Developer Relations at OneStream, discusses the current state of DevRel with Kate Holterhoff. They chat about the importance of engaging front-end developers, the role of content and community, and the nuances of influencer marketing. Jeremy shares insights on how to effectively reach and engage developers, the significance of quantifying DevRel efforts, and the evolving landscape of developer engagement in the tech industry.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/07/17/jeremy-meiss/

Bob Quillin talks Observability, OpenTelemetry & ControlTheory

RedMonk — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:38:36 GMT

In this RedMonk Conversation, Bob Quillin, CEO and co-founder of ControlTheory, chats with Rachel Stephens, Research Director at RedMonk. They discuss ControlTheory's launch and the observability landscape including the importance of feedback loops, and how ControlTheory aims to democratize instrumentation through OpenTelemetry. Bob shares insights on integrating with existing observability tools and the target audience for their solutions, emphasizing the need for more intelligent data management in the cloud era.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/06/30/a-redmonk-conversation-bob-quillin-talks-observability-opentelemetry-controltheory/

Making Container Isolation a Reality with Alex Zenla

RedMonk — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:27:15 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Alex Zenla, founder & CTO at Edera, chats container security and virtualization with Rachel Stephens, research director at RedMonk. Alex shares her unique journey from Minecraft to the tech industry. She emphasizes the importance of security in computing, particularly in the context of IoT and legacy systems. The conversation also explores the differences between eBPF and secure design principles, as well as the potential of WebAssembly in the tech landscape and a proactive approach to security in technology.

Amok, Amok, Amok; or, the State of OSS in 2025 (MonkCast with the Monks)

RedMonk — Mon, 19 May 2025 15:09:00 GMT

In this MonkCast with the Monks, we have mustered the analysts and run amok to discuss recent developments in the open source landscape, focusing on the NATS controversy with the CNCF, the Redis relicense, and the rise of the AGPL. They chat about the implications of licensing changes, the dynamics of community involvement, the sustainability of open source business models, and the contrasting situations of different projects like Linkerd and NATS. The discussion emphasizes the need for nuanced conversations around the value of foundations like the CNCF and challenges faced by smaller open source projects.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/05/19/mwm-amok-state-of-oss/

Automated Governance and Compliance in Software Delivery. What to Even Call This?

RedMonk — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:00:00 GMT

RedMonk co-founder James Governor speaks with Mike Long, CEO of Kosli, about the challenges and evolving practices of software governance and compliance in regulated industries. They explore how sectors like finance, automotive, and healthcare face similar software risks despite differing regulatory language, and discuss efforts to create shared terminology and control patterns. The conversation also covers how modern platforms, including Kosli, help organizations automate compliance, improve delivery metrics, and streamline audits by maintaining detailed, real-time records of software changes.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/a-redmonk-conversation-automated-governance-and-compliance-in-software-delivery-what-to-even-call-this/

Ram Iyengar on DevX at Cloud Foundry from cf push to Korifi

RedMonk — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:21:00 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Ram Iyengar, Chief Evangelist at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, chats with Rachel Stephens, Research Director at RedMonk. Their wide-ranging conversation centers on developer experience from cf push and the promise of PaaS, to Korifi, a developer platform built by the Cloud Foundry community for deploying cloud-native applications on Kubernetes.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

Cloud Foundry's Paketo Buildpacks (with Ram Iyengar)

RedMonk — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:35:32 GMT

In this conversation, Ram Iyengar, Chief Evangelist at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, discusses Paketo Buildpacks and their role in simplifying containerization in the cloud-native ecosystem, with Kelly Fitzpatrick, senior analyst at RedMonk. Ram explains the evolution of Buildpacks, their advantages over traditional Docker workflows, and their applications in various domains, including MLOps. The discussion also highlights the importance of security and compliance in software development, emphasizing how Buildpacks inherently support these aspects. Finally, Ram provides guidance on how to get started with Paketo Buildpacks and where to find more resources.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

Psychology, Technological Innovation, and Why We Need Science (with Dr. Cat Hicks)

RedMonk — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:30:00 GMT

Dr. Cat Hicks, a psychologist studying software teams, joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick to discuss the role of psychology in technological innovation. Dr. Hicks emphasizes the importance of understanding the human aspects of software development and shares insights from her recent research projects, including a study on code review anxiety and the impact of what she calls “AI Skill Threat” on developers. Dr. Hicks also addresses the challenges faced by scientists today, the significance of cumulative cultures in software, and her upcoming book on the psychology of software teams.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/03/03/psychology-technical-innovation-and-why-we-need-science-with-dr-cat-hicks/

Jason Lengstorf from Screamo to CodeTV

RedMonk — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:55:08 GMT

In this conversation, Jason Lengstorf shares his journey from aspiring rock star to tech media mogul with Kate Holterhoff, senior industry analyst at RedMonk. Jason digs into his experiences at IBM, Gatsby, and Netlify—and he doesn't hold back. Jason discusses the challenges of navigating corporate structures, the importance of community in open source projects, and the impact of venture capital on innovation. He also reflects on the current state of GraphQL and front-end frameworks including Next.js, Astro, and Gatsby. In this conversation, Jason outlines the importance of long-term planning in leadership, the challenges executives face in maintaining focus, and the value of doing the 'boring' work that improves products. Finally he shares thoughts about his latest project, CodeTV, including insights on innovative content creation in for developer audiences.

How GitHub Education Aspires to Reach 1 Billion Developers (with Avni Khatri Fein)

RedMonk — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:49:19 GMT

In this RedMonk conversation, Avni Khatri Fein, Senior Director of Education at GitHub, chats with Kelly Fitzpatrick, senior analyst at RedMonk, about GitHub Education's mission to make coding accessible to everyone. They discuss the importance of bridging the gap between coding education and tech careers, the evolving nature of computer science, and how AI can enhance learning experiences. Avni shares insights from her experiences at hackathons and emphasizes the need to lower barriers to entry in technology.

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by GitHub.

A RedMonk Conversation: The Role of Observability in Day Zero Operations

RedMonk — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:13:27 GMT

In this conversation, James Governor of RedMonk talks to Adrian Phillips and Angela Kelly of Dynatrace about the growing importance of Observability, earlier and earlier in the software development lifecycle. Observability isn't something you need to think after production deployment, but rather it need to be a consideration from the earliest phases of development, right through to production and onto the next iteration. This video discusses the factors shaping this change, as companies strive to ship software faster, safely, with ever tighter feedback loops.

James Governor highlights the complexity of modern deployments and thus the need for observability from the start. Adrian Phillips emphasizes that enterprise organizations today integrate observability into Day Zero so they can be proactive and offer a better developer experience. Angela Kelly notes that observability helps address tool sprawl, DevOps maturity, and scalability challenges. Customer examples included Dell improving developer productivity by focusing on developer experience. The conversation underscored the importance of standardization and platform engineering to enhance efficiency and productivity.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on September 24, 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Using Jamstack with Cloudflare (With Nevi Shah)

RedMonk — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 17:21:03 GMT

Rachel Stephens (Sr. Analyst, RedMonk) and Nevi Shah (Product Manager, Cloudflare) discuss the Jamstack application development model and how to build with Jamstack on Cloudflare Pages.

This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on March 31, 2022.

A Quickish Take on VMs (with Stephen O'Grady)

RedMonk — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:15:26 GMT

RedMonk principal analyst and co-founder Stephen O'Grady talks virtual machines (VMs) in this quickish take, outlining what they are, high-points in VM history, major players in the space, how containerization and Kubernetes shook up the infrastructure landscape, and why VMs continue to matter in 2024.

A RedMonk Conversation: Local First, Cryptographic Proofs, and Data Anywhere with J Chris Anderson

RedMonk — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:30:00 GMT

RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and J Chris Anderson, cofounder of Couchbase and CEO of Fireproof, discuss trends in the data space including the history and importance of Apache CouchDB, the evolution of client-side technologies, and the local-first movement. Chris highlights the use of cryptography for data integrity and identity verification, as well as the future of data management in the AI era. He also shares Fireproof's go-to-market strategy, open source philosophy, and approach to community engagement.