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The MonkCast
Join the developer-focused industry analysts at RedMonk as they discuss news and trends in the software space with leaders and practicioners in cloud, AI, IaC, security, DevOps, developer relations, observability, data, and more.
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Episodes
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Vlad Miricioiu on the Software Stewardship Lab: Binary Dependencies, Burnout, & the Bernies
On this RedMonk conversation, Vlad Miricioiu, Director of the Software Stewardship Lab, chats with Kate Holterhoff about improving open source sustainability…
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Sanjay Sarathy on Core Principles of Developer Trust
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…
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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak on Why Trust & Safety Needs Open Source
In this RedMonk Conversation, Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak, COO of ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) , chats with Kate Holterhoff about the importance of…
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Inside the AWS Agent Toolkit with Liam Greenamyre
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…
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Securing Enterprise Open Source with Coalitions & Clearing Houses: Lightwell from IBM & Red Hat
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…
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Platform Engineering 2.0: Evolution, Not a Reset with Pankaj Gupta
In this RedMonk conversation, Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director of Product Marketing, VCF Division, at Broadcom, chats Platform Engineering in the AI era with…
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The BOM Explosion & Why PQC Stopped Being 10 Years Away with David Pollak & Allan Friedman
In this episode, David Pollak, founder and CEO of Spice Labs, and Allan Friedman, Senior Technical Advisor at the Institute for Security and Technology…
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Good Wigs & Golden Paths: Dev Tools in the AI Era with Victoria Melnikova
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…
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"Somebody is always paying the token bill": AI and Open Source with Brian Proffitt & Jason Brooks
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…
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From Stock Photos to Trillions of Artifacts: Shutterstock's Data Journey with Jefferson Frazer
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…
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Why ChatGPT Recommends Your Competitor: LLMs & the Future of DevTool Marketing with Adam DuVander
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…
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Why AI Agents Are Blowing Up Your Telemetry Bill with Nikhil Mungel
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…
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The Digital Sovereignty Questions Every Enterprise Should Be Asking with Jason Willeford
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…
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The Data Behind the Agents with MongoDB's Boris Bialek & Intellect Design's Raman Jatkar
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…
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Evidence Over Certificates: John Ellis on the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework
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…
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From Dashboards to APIs: Day Two Operations in VCF 9.1 with Sehjung Hah
In this MonkCast conversation, Rachel Stephens talks with Sehjung Hah, a product marketing engineer at Broadcom, about how VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 is…
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Dealing with the Next Bottleneck: Build Management at AI Scale with Helen Altshuler
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…
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"Don't Submit Code You Don't Understand": Angie Byron on AI and Open Source Trust
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…
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Why the Gateway Approach to Agents Sucks (and What to Do Instead) with Marek Poliks
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…
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Where Crochet Meets Code: Fiber Arts and the History of Computing with Abbey Perini
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…
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Charity Majors on AI, Determinism, Instrumentation, & Eating Your Broccoli
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…
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Tech for Chickens with JT Perry
In this MonkCast Conversation, RedMonk Research Director Rachel Stephens talks with JT Perry, co-founder of Barn Analytics, about building ChickenSense — a…
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Going Down the Stack: AI Inference, Kernel Fusion, and Model Tuning with Paul Brookes
In this MonkCast conversation, RedMonk's James Governor talks with Paul Brookes, a senior AI engineer at TurinTech, about making AI inference faster and…
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When Agents Become Users: Rethinking Developer Portals with Balaji Sivasubramanian
Are internal developer portals dead? In this RedMonk conversation, Kate Holterhoff talks with Balaji Sivasubramanian, Senior Director, Product Management…
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AI Code Optimization by Experimentation, Without Free Bread, with Mina Ilieva
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…
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Chris DeMars on Patching and Security in the AI Era
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…
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An Interview with Kyle Daigle at Microsoft BUILD 2026: Models, Tokens, Agents & Developer Calm
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…
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Jack Herrington on TanStack's npm Mini Shai-Hulud Compromise
Kate Holterhoff sits down with Jack Herrington, Principal Software Engineer at Netlify and maintainer of TanStack AI, to walk the May 2026 TanStack npm…
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Inside the Acquisition: VoidZero Joins Cloudflare with Evan You
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…
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Steren Giannini on Google Cloud Run: Past, Present & Future
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…
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Juan Cruz Viotti on JSON Schema, the Invisible Infrastructure Powering APIs and LLMs
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…
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Tanya Janca on AI Slop, Vibe Coding, & the Future of AppSec
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…
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Seth Webster on How Expo and the React Foundation Are Shaping Modern Development
In this conversation, Seth Webster, executive director of the newly launched React Foundation and Chief Developer Evangelist at Expo, chats with RedMonk's Kate…
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VKS: One Platform for VMs and Containers with Audrey Bian
Rachel Stephens sits down with Audrey Bian, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Broadcom, to explore how vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is helping…
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From Data Center Crawler to DevRel with Chris Williams
In this episode of the MonkCast, RedMonk Senior Analyst Kate Holterhoff sits down with Chris Williams, Global Developer Relations Manager at HashiCorp, for a…
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Beyond the Hypervisor: Developing with Ubuntu on VCF
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…
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"Absolute AI Maximalist" Adam Jacob on Building Software That Builds Software
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…
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Sovereignty Meets Simplicity for VMware by Broadcom at KubeCon EU 2026 w Timmy Carr & Himanshu Singh
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…
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Chopping Wood, Carrying Water: VMware by Broadcom's Open Source Story at KubeCon EU 2026
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…
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"Data Is What I Can Control": Why Your AI Strategy Starts at the Data Layer with Boris Bialek
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…
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Mike Basios on Why AI-Era Engineering Needs a Measurement-First Approach
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…
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SDKs in the AI Era with Kin Lane
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)…
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From Clouderatti to theCUBE with Stu Miniman
In this RedMonk conversation, Stu Miniman, Senior Director of Market Insights, Hybrid Platforms at Red Hat, shares his extensive tech industry experience and…
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How The Eclipse SDV is Revolutionizing Open Source Automotive (with Ansgar Lindwedel)
In this RedMonk conversation, Kate Holterhoff speaks with Ansgar Lindwedel, Director of Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse…
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Mapping Complexity from Cynefin to Wardley with Chris Corriere
In this RedMonk conversation, Chris Corriere, Founder of Ecology Computing and an organizer of Devopsdays Atlanta, shares his unique perspective on…
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Alex Moore on Open Web Advocacy and Why “Innovation Doesn’t Come from the Gatekeepers”
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…
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GitLab’s Intelligent Orchestration Platform with Özer Dondurmacıoğlu
In this episode of RedMonk Conversations, Rachel Stephens (Research Director at RedMonk) sits down with Özer Dondurmacıoğlu, VP of Product Marketing at GitLab…
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How Daniel Stenberg, Founder of curl, is Navigating the AI Onslop
In this RedMonk conversation, Kate Holterhoff chats with Daniel Stenberg, founder of the curl project, about the challenges and implications of AI-generated…
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Navigating Bare Metal Automation with Rob Hirschfeld
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…
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Wes Bos on Why Design's Making a Comeback in 2026
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…
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Complex, Not Complicated
Modern software systems are frequently described as “complicated,” but that framing obscures the nature of the challenge. Complicated systems can be…
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Dynatrace and the Observability Market
In this conversation, Rachel Stephens, the research director at RedMonk, discusses the evolution of observability in the tech industry. She highlights: - the…
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Mark Fussell on Dapr, Simple APIs, & Distributed Systems
In this RedMonk conversation, Mark Fussell, CEO of Diagrid, discusses Dapr, a runtime designed to simplify the development of distributed applications, with…
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Mike Hartington on the State of Mobile Development & Why CI/CD is Still So Hard
In this RedMonk conversation, Mike Hartington, Developer Advocate at Prisma, chats mobile development with Kate Holterhoff. They discuss mobile frameworks, the…
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Context Engineering in Practice: How Atlassian Is Building AI for Real Developer Work with Kun Chen
In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor sits down with Kun Chen, Lead Principal Engineer at Atlassian, to explore what “context engineering” really means…
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A New Take on the Terminal with Zach Lloyd
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…
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From Light Bulbs to Large Language Models: Jamie Dobson on Technology's Relay Race Through History
In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor interviews Jamie Dobson, Co-Founder of Container Solutions, about his book Visionaries, Rebels and Machines, which…
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AWS Developer Experience State of the Nation with Ali Spittel
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…
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Inside AWS's Agentic AI Marketing Strategy with Ali Maaz & Jessie VanderVeen
In this New Builders conversation, RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff speaks with Jessie VanderVeen, Global Head of Product Marketing, Agentic AI, Developer Experience…
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Al Harris On Kiro And Spec-Driven Development
In this New Builders conversation, Al Harris, Principal Engineer at AWS, discusses the development of a natural language system aimed at helping developers…