The MonkCast
Episodes
A RedMonk Conversation: Jay Miller on the Satanic Panic of Developer Relations and the AI Chainsaw
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Miller, staff developer advocate at Aiven and founder of Black Python Devs, joins Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, for this RedMonk Con...
A RedMonk Conversation: How Fastly is Keeping Open Source Sustainable in the Age of the Licensing Rug Pull
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
A RedMonk Conversation: You Don't Need to be Afraid of the Bleeding Edge (in Tech Adoption)
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor of RedMonk interviews David Annez, VP of Product at loveholidays, to explore the company's approach to ad...
A RedMonk Conversation: Adam Rackis on Web Development and Red-Eye Flights
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Rackis, senior web engineer at Spotify, joins RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff to discuss upskilling, frontend development, and conference travel. They ...
Generative AI is Changing How Developers Work (with Adam Seligman)
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this RedMonk Conversation Adam Seligman, VP of developer experience at AWS, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the contin...
How Coding Bootcamps Leverage AI, Corporate Partnerships, and Community Building (with Tina-Marie Gulley)
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tina-Marie Gulley, Interim CEO at Ada Developers Academy, discusses her background and the intersection of technology, DEI, and education with Kate Ho...
A RedMonk Conversation: Using Jamstack with Cloudflare (With Nevi Shah)
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Stephens (Sr. Analyst, RedMonk) and Nevi Shah (Product Manager, Cloudflare) discuss the Jamstack application development model and how to build...
A Quickish Take on VMs (with Stephen O'Grady)
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
RedMonk principal analyst and co-founder Stephen O'Grady talks virtual machines (VMs) in this quickish take, outlining what they are, high-points in V...
A RedMonk Conversation: Local First, Cryptographic Proofs, and Data Anywhere with J Chris Anderson
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and J Chris Anderson, cofounder of Couchbase and CEO of Fireproof, discuss trends in the data space including the hist...
The New Builders: AI - Built on Open Source (With Julia Ferraioli)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 sour...
A RedMonk Conversation: Sean McQuaid - from Waffle Fries to TypeScript
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Sean McQuaid, Lead Software Engineer at Chick-fil-A, as they chat about the Atlanta conference scene, softwar...
A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Training Data - What You Need to Know (With Jason Warner)
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As AI continues to reshape the technology industry, it's important to understand its foundations. In this RedMonk Conversation, Stephen O'Grady and Po...
A RedMonk Conversation: Useable Security is the Best Security (with Avi Douglen)
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security." Security consultant and OWASP board member Avi Douglen joins RedMonk's Rach...
A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 2 (With Diya Winn)
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) and Diya Wynn (Senior Practice Manager, AWS) continue their conversation about responsible AI (more context about how Diya a...
A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 1 (With Diya Winn)
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) and Diya Wynn (Senior Practice Manager, AWS) discuss why responsible AI practices matter. This RedMonk Conversation was ori...
A RedMonk Conversation: Why You Should Come to Fastly Xcelerate London 2024 (With Simon Wistow)
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ju...
The New Builders: Tom Callaway talks about Building OSS Culture at AWS
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon Web Services is not always known for its engagement with open source communities, but there are dedicated teams within AWS trying to change tha...
A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of Open Source and AI (With Matt Hicks and Ruchir Puri)
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A RedMonk Conversation: Serverless WebSockets and the Serverless Stack (With Matthew O'Riordan)
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another RedMonk Conversation, this time between RedMonk co-founder James Governor and Ably CEO Matthew O'Riordan. They talk about the rise of real tim...
The Docs Are In: Making OSS Sticky (With Alyssa Rock)
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Docs Are In, the excellent Alyssa Rock (Staff Technical Writer, VMware; Community Manager, The Good Docs Project; Coordinator, ...
The Docs Are In: Communication and Nursing Education (With Dr. Rebekah Greene)
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Docs are In conversation, RedMonk senior analysts KellyAnn Fitzpatrick and Kate Holterhoff chat with Dr. Rebekah Greene, assistant professor a...
A RedMonk Conversation: Generative AI for Application Modernization on System z (With Keri Olson)
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Docs Are In: Certifications (With Dr. Kate Holterhoff)
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 some...
The Docs are In: Clinical Psychology, Scientific Rigor, and Developer Success (With Dr. Carol Lee)
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
A RedMonk Conversation: Private AI (With Himanshu Singh, VMware by Broadcom)
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 instantiati...
The Docs Are In: Tech Writing & Jigsaw Puzzles (With Ember Stevens)
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick and Ember Stevens (Technical Writer, LaunchDarkly) discuss technical writing and documentation (docs as code; what it's li...
A RedMonk Conversation: LLMs and Secrets Management (With Eric Fourrier, CEO of GitGuardian)
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join RedMonk's James Governor and GitGuardian CEO Eric Fourrier for a discussion on the role of large language models (LLMs) in secrets management. De...
A RedMonk Conversation: Do You Need to Care About Edge? (With Rita Kozlov)
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Beginning in the 1990's, the term “edge computing” was used to describe a variety of compute services that were placed geographically clos...
A RedMonk Conversation: Software Delivery Into Heterogeneous Environments at Scale (With Marc Campbell)
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The industry has centered around Kubernetes as the abstraction layer that promises portability. Helm charts are great for packaging, but are they enou...
A RedMonk Conversation: Engaging with Developers on Hacker News (With Dan Moore)
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join RedMonk analysts James Governor and Kate Holterhoff as they chat with Dan Moore about Hacker News, the social news website for developers. This c...
A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of App Development and Databases in 2021 (With Ed Anuff)
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk and Ed Anuff (Chief Product Officer, DataStax) in a conversation about application development and databases in 2021. ...
A RedMonk Conversation with Developer Certification Enthusiast Justin Wheeler
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this RedMonk Conversation Kate Holterhoff, senior industry analyst with RedMonk, talks all-things developer certifications with Justin Wheeler, AWS...
A RedMonk Conversation: What’s Up with Cloud Optionality? (With Betty Junod, Senior Director of Multi-Cloud Solutions at VMware)
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 happe...
A RedMonk Conversation: A Frontend Optimized Database Stack (With Carl Sverre)
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Holterhoff, analyst with Redmonk, and Carl Sverre, creator of SQLSync and founder of orbitinghail, discuss database management for frontend engin...
A Quick(ish) Take On Fast Cars: RedMonk Talks AWS Technology in F1™
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) invited RedMonk analysts Kelly Fitzpatrick, Kate Holterhoff, and Rachel Stephens to Austin, TX, so that the...
A RedMonk Conversation: Transactions at Scale, Bonkers Numbers (With Boris Bialek)
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this RedMonk conversation James Governor catches up with Boris Bialek, Field CTO at MongoDB on industry solutions and scalability. Given the story ...
A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Custom Silicon at Annapurna Labs (with Chetan Kapoor, AWS)
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As generative AI drives demand for training and inference workloads, the tech industry has turned to innovations in chip, board and server design to p...
The Docs are In: WASM and Philosophy (with Dr. Matt Butcher)
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon, drops in for a discussion with RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick on Web Assembly (WASM), philosophy, and Matt's intersecti...
A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Developer Productivity (Task, Team, Time) with Emilio Salvador, GitLab
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Software quality and engineering metrics is a big topic in the industry right now, as companies seek to become more effective and competitive, and bet...
A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Trust (Transparency and Security) with David DeSanto, GitLab
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A RedMonk Conversation: CNCF’s Environmental Sustainability TAG (With Niki Manoledaki)
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Stephens interviews Niki Manoledaki (Software Engineer at Grafana Labs) on her work on the CNCF's Environmental Sustainability TAG. They discus...
A RedMonk Conversation: Frontend & Prototyping at IBM (With Stephane Rodet)
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk discusses Frontend & Prototyping with Stephane Rodet, UX Engineering Manager at IBM. Rodet shares his...
A RedMonk Conversation: GraphQL, towards a declarative model for a web of next gen APIs (With Anant Jhingran)
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation we caught up Anant Jhingran, CEO and co-founder of StepZen, a GraphQL platform. His experiences make for strong, well justified o...
A Redmonk Conversation: Shifting Cost Optimisation Left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights (With Saunak "Jai" Chakrabarti, Meera Srinivasan, and Tim Hansen)
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An in-depth conversation between RedMonk analyst James Governor and Spotify engineering leaders including Saunak "Jai" Chakrabarti, Meera Srinivasan, ...
A RedMonk Conversation: Misconceptions about Observability, Errors Matter in APM (With David Cramer)
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk discusses Observability with David Cramer Co-founder and CTO at Sentry. David brings an opinionated vie...
The Docs are In: An Examined Life in DevX Engineering with Dr. Ryan Feigenbaum
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Docs are In episode, RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff speaks with Dr. Ryan Feigenbaum, Developer Experience Engineer at Ghost. They discuss the...
A RedMonk Conversation: Industry’s Tardy Response to the AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability (With Simon Willison)
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Holterhoff, analyst with Redmonk, and Simon Willison, founder of Dattasette, co-creator of Django, and expert in AI technologies, speak about the...
A RedMonk Conversation: Open Source and Security (With Vincent Danen)
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk and Vincent Danen (Vice President, Red Hat Product Security) discuss security, open source and the intersection of the two....
A RedMonk Conversation: An Enterprise’s Journey to Building a Platform (With Johan Marais, Discovery Limited)
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The term “platform engineering” is all the rage right now, but for many organizations the road to building their platform capabilities is ...
A RedMonk Conversation: Attracting Developers and Keeping Top Talent (With Chris Wright, Red Hat)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we've made our way through the Great Resignation to what some have labeled the “Great Reshuffle,” competition for top tech talent has r...
The Docs Are In: Spicy Takes on Documentation (With Sam Kleinman)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this The Docs Are In conversation, Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk, and Sam Kleinman, staff engineer working in distributed systems, d...
A Redmonk Conversation: Modern Java runtimes - No Regrets energy efficiency with Quarkus and GraalVM (With Holly Cummins)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, l...
A RedMonk Conversation: Sustainable Software and Systems - Lightswitch Ops for the Triple Win (With Holly Cummins)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Docs Are In: Documentation - the Bridgework of OSS (With Abigail McCarthy)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abigail McCarthy (Staff Technical Open Source Communications Manager at VMware and Kelly's former colleague from their time at Apprenda) joins Kelly a...
A RedMonk Conversation: SBOMs (With Josh Bressers from Anchore)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
A RedMonk Conversation: Why Distributed Storage? (With Anthony Dutra and Morgan Littlewood)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While centralized storage systems have been an industry standard for years, decentralized storage options are beginning to emerge. To answer the quest...
A RedMonk Conversation: The Developer Experience Gap (With Zenhub’s Aaron Upright)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As organizations look to improve their operational velocity, one of the things they're increasingly looking at is their developer experience. To under...
A RedMonk Conversation: Low Code to Full Stack: it's about the apps (With Matthias Steiner)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which James Governor discusses low code use cases and platform requirements with Matthias Steiner, Chief Product Officer of Neptune Software, a low...
A RedMonk Conversation: Site Reliability Engineering at Red Hat (With Narayanan Raghavan)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Rachel Stephens (Senior Analyst at RedMonk) and Narayanan Raghavan (Senior Director, Red Hat Site Reliability Engineering) for a discussion of th...
A RedMonk Conversation: Cloud Development Environments (With Ketan Gangatirkar)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which Stephen O'Grady, co-founder of RedMonk discusses Cloud Development Environments with Ketan Gangatirkar, Vice President Of Engineering and Pro...
A RedMonk Conversation: What is the DevOps Experience Gap? (With Divanny Lamas)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the number of services, APIs and projects used within the average enterprise grows, the challenge for the developer and operational staffs of manag...
The Docs are In: Upskilling Insights from a Podcaster & Solution Architect at Red Hat (With Angela Andrews)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk discusses upskilling, reskilling, and cross-skilling with Angela Andrews, Solution Architect at Red Hat &...
A RedMonk Conversation: IBM Sustainability Accelerator (With Michael Jacobs)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Stephens, Senior Analyst at RedMonk speaks with Michael Jacobs, Sustainability & Social Innovation Leader at IBM. In this talk Mike provide...
A RedMonk Conversation: Haptics, Hallucinations, Retrieval-Augmentation and the multi-model LLM future (With Malte Pietsch)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 mo...
The Docs Are In: ‘I thought there would be cake’ & other eulogies of academics turned technologists (With Dr. Eli Thorkelson)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode of The Docs are In, Dr. Eli Thorkelson, software development engineer at Workday, catches up with Dr. Kate Holterhoff, analyst with R...
The Docs are In: Docs Like Code (With Anne Gentle)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Expe...
A RedMonk Conversation: Developer Led Adoption and Oracle Database 23c Free (With Gerald Venzl)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk talks to Gerald Venzl about Oracle Database 23c Free. RedMonk is all about developers. As industry analysts we o...
A RedMonk Conversation: Spicy Takes, Platform Engineering, and Dynamic Configuration Management (With Drew Oetzel)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
A RedMonk Conversation: What's the role of generative AI in production ops? (With Anurag Gupta)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this RedMonk Conversation between Stephen O'Grady and Anurag Gupta, founder and CEO of Shoreline, the focus is on the potential impact of generativ...
A RedMonk Conversation: Shifting Architecture Left (With Amir Rapson)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 tra...
A RedMonk Conversation: The Burden of Shifting Left (With John Amaral)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
A RedMonk Conversation: The State of Mobile Experience (With Andrew Tunall and Virna Sekuj)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff discusses Embrace's State of Mobile Experience Engineering Report with Andrew Tunall, VP and Hea...
The Docs are In: Exploring the Intersection of Tech Comm and Academia (With Dr. Liz Hutter and Dr. Halcyon Lawrence)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Docs Are in: the Taylor Swift Episode (with Dr. Casey Alane Wilson)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Profes...
A RedMonk Conversation: The JavaScript Ecosystem and Developer Relations (With Tracy Lee)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this RedMonk Conversation, analyst Kate Holterhoff speaks with Tracy Lee, CEO at This Dot Labs, about trends in the frontend space. They discuss th...
Digital Humanities, Open Source, and Communities of Learning (With Dr. Lisa Tagliaferri)
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Docs Are In, Dr. Lisa Tagliaferri (Senior Director, Developer Education, Chainguard; Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University) dro...
Leadership Challenges with Infrastructure Automation (With Rob Hirschfeld)
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, RedMonk senior analyst Kelly Fitzpatrick and Rob Hirschfeld (CEO/Founder of RackN) discuss their top takeaways from a recent NYC...
The Docs Are In: From Academic to AI Startup Founder (With Allen Romano)
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Allen Romano, co-founder of Logoi, chat about their experiences as academics turned tech industry professionals. T...
Organizing Tech Conferences and Java Users Groups (With Vincent Mayers)
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this RedMonk Conversation, analyst Kate Holterhoff chats with Vincent Mayers, who works in Community, DevRel, and Productivity Engineering at Gradl...
Feature platforms - the data foundation for production ML applications (With Gaetan Castelein)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Tec...
AI and Observability (With Elastic's Gagan Singh)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With so much buzz (and noise) in both the observability and generative AI spaces, how should SRE and Ops teams navigate emerging standards and promise...
The Docs Are In: Snark as Rhetoric (With Corey Quinn)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Se...
Better Security, Faster (With Varun Badhwar)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many years, the enterprise approach to security has been scanning vast seas of manifests for open source software and then dumping alerts on devel...
AI and IT Automation (With Kaete Piccirilli, Ansible)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kaete Piccirilli (Director of Product Marketing, Red Hat Ansible) joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick for a conversation on Red Hat Ansible's domain-spe...
The Docs are In: A History of AI (With Dr. Tobias Wilson-Bates)
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Tobias Wilson-Bates, Assistant Professor at Georgia Gwinnett College, dig into the history and future of AI. Dr. W...