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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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From Containers to Kiro: AI and DX at AWS with Deepak Singh
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…
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Alex Russell on PWAs, App Stores, and Mobile Performance
In this RedMonk conversation, Alex Russell, Partner Product Architect at Microsoft, discusses the state of mobile development, focusing on JavaScript…
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Java at 30 with Sharat Chander
Java turned 30 this year, and we're celebrating. In this RedMonk conversation, Sharat Chander, Senior Director of Java Product Management & Developer…
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Introduction to local AI models (with AMD's Anush Elangovan)
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…
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David Mytton on Arcjet’s Vision for Developer Security
In this RedMonk conversation, David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet, chats security and developer experience with James Governor. They discuss the importance of…
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Fear is the Startup Killer: Jack Bridger on Founders, Differentiation, & DevTools
In this RedMonk conversation, Jack Bridger, host of Scaling Devtools and Developer Experience at Layercode, chats with Kate Holterhoff about founders. Jack…
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Why the Python Software Foundation Withdrew a $1.5 Million US Government Grant Proposal (w Deb Nicholson)
In this RedMonk conversation, Deb Nicholson, Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation, discusses the PSF's responsibilities, recent challenges with…
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Meet Bob, IBM's Agentic IDE (with Matt Rodkey at IBM TechXchange 2025)
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…
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WASM and Edge Compute: Building a Performant Cloud with Akamai and Fermyon
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…
- The MonkCast
Austin Parker on AI, Olly, & OTel
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…
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Kate Soule on Granite 4.0 at IBM TechXchange 2025
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…
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Bedrock Streaming: From CDN to compute for 50M+ people (w Pascal Martin & Valentin Clavreul)
In this RedMonk conversation, Pascal Martin, principal software engineer at Bedrock Streaming, and Valentin Clavreul, principal backend engineer at Bedrock…
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CRA – The First Horizontal Regulation of the Software Industry (with Mike Milinkovich)
In this conversation, Rachel Stephens (Research Director at RedMonk) and Mike Milinkovich (Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation) discuss the EU Cyber…
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"Good docs are still good docs": AX, DX, & LLMs (with Taylor Barnett-Torabi & Lyle Schemmerling)
In this RedMonk conversation, Taylor Barnett-Torabi , Staff Product Manager at Netlify, and Lyle Schemmerling, Senior Software Engineer at FusionAuth, discuss…
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AI's Grumpy-Fun Era (with Rachel Stephens, Kate Holterhoff, & James Governor)
In this MonkCast with the Monks episode, RedMonk analysts Rachel Stephens, Kate Holterhoff, and James Governor discuss the current 'grumpy era' of AI, where…
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Tales from Agency Life (with Emily Winck and Jess Burns)
In this RedMonk conversation, Emily Winck, Staff Engineer at CallRail, and Jess Burns, Engineering Manager at 1Password, join Kate Holterhoff to reflect on…
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Clare Liguori on Kiro & AI Spec-Driven Software Development
In this New Builders conversation, Kate Holterhoff speaks with Clare Liguori, Senior Principal Software Engineer at AWS, about Kiro. They discuss Kiro's Vibe…
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An update on VMware Cloud Foundation (with Prashanth Shenoy)
In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor talks with Prashanth Shenoy, VP of Marketing for Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). They discuss the impact…
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Martin Rojas talks Tech Meetups, AI Guilds, Micro Frontends, & More!
In this MonkCast episode, Martin Rojas, UI Architect at PlayOn Sports and ReactATL Organizer, joins Kate Holterhoff to chat about the tech meetup scene…
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The New AWS Free Tier (with Bowen Wang)
In this conversation, Rachel Stephens is joined by Bowen Wang, Principal Product Marketing Manager at AWS. They discuss the newly enhanced AWS Free Tier…
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Jason Torres on Developer Hiring, Community, & Content
In this RedMonk conversation, Jason Torres, Community Evangelist at Torc, chats developer communities with Kate Holterhoff. They discuss the dynamics of…
- The MonkCast
Kat Cosgrove on The Chaos and Care of Shipping Kubernetes
In this conversation, Rachel Stephens interviews Kat Cosgrove – a prominent figure in the Kubernetes community – to discuss her journey into Kubernetes, the…
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How Shawn (swyx) Wang Defines the AI Engineer
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…
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Jeremy Meiss on DevRel & the Mire of Ineffables
In this RedMonk Conversation, Jeremy Meiss, Director of Developer Relations at OneStream, discusses the current state of DevRel with Kate Holterhoff. They chat…
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The Future of Hashicorp and IBM: A Fireside Chat (with Armon Dadgar and Tarun Chopra)
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…
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Daniel Roe on Vercel's NuxtLabs Acquisition
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…
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Bob Quillin talks Observability, OpenTelemetry & ControlTheory
In this RedMonk Conversation, Bob Quillin, CEO and co-founder of ControlTheory, chats with Rachel Stephens, Research Director at RedMonk. They discuss…
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Jacob Leverich chats Observe and the Future of Observability
In this RedMonk conversation, Jacob Leverich, Co-Founder at Observe, Inc., discusses the evolution of the observability market, focusing on the founding of…
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The Evolution of AI Agents (with Srini Iragavarapu)
In this conversation, Rachel Stephens is joined by Srini Iragavarapu, Director of Software Development for Amazon Q Developer, to discuss the evolution of AI…
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Introducing Agentic DevOps (with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Gene Kim)
Recorded live at Microsoft Build 2025, this RedMonk Conversation features James Governor speaking with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Gene Kim about the future of…
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Matt Klein on why Mobile Observability Lags Behind Server Observability
In this RedMonk conversation, Matt Klein, Co-founder and CTO of bitdrift, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about mobile observability's…
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Ori Saporta on the Architect’s Role In Crisis
In this RedMonk conversation, Ori Saporta, VP of Engineering & Co-Founder of vFunction, speaks with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the…
- The MonkCast
Justin Reock on Why Java Devs Use Apache ActiveMQ
In this conversation, Justin Reock, Deputy CTO at DX, chats with RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff about Java development and message oriented middleware, focusing on…
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Microsoft Build 2025 Announcements with GitHub's Mario Rodriguez
In this MonkCast on the Road, Mario Rodriguez, CPO of GitHub, discusses the latest innovations and announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 with Kate Holterhoff…
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Amok, Amok, Amok; or, the State of OSS in 2025 (MonkCast with the Monks)
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…
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devopsdays Atlanta 2025 - E2 - (with Rachel-Lee Nabors, Nathen Harvey, Pratik Parikh & Kimasia Ayers)
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…
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Automated Governance and Compliance in Software Delivery. What to Even Call This?
RedMonk co-founder James Governor speaks with Mike Long, CEO of Kosli, about the challenges and evolving practices of software governance and compliance in…
- The MonkCast
devopsdays Atlanta 2025 - E1 - (with Andrew Clay Shafer, John Willis, & Katie Anderson)
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…
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Do Frontend Developers Want Frontend Observability? (with Todd Gardner)
Todd Gardner, CEO of Request Metrics and TrackJS, discusses "Frontend Observability" with RedMonk senior analyst Kate Holterhoff. In an attempt to answer the…
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Science Fiction, the Hacker Ethic, & We Just Build Hammers (with Coraline Ada Ehmke)
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…
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John O'Hara, Inventor of AMQP, on Why Standards are Worth Persevering With
In this conversation, John O'Hara, inventor of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), discusses this standard's history and development with Kate…
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RabbitMQ Was Designed for the Cloud Era (with Alexis Richardson)
In this RedMonk conversation, Alexis Richardson, Founder and CEO of ConfigHub, discusses the evolution and significance of messaging in distributed systems…
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Andrew Hutchings on the WordPress War
In this RedMonk conversation, Andrew Hutchings (aka LinuxJedi), a software engineer at wolfSSL, discusses what he terms "a war going on within the WordPress…
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Ram Iyengar on DevX at Cloud Foundry from cf push to Korifi
In this RedMonk conversation, Ram Iyengar, Chief Evangelist at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, chats with Rachel Stephens, Research Director at RedMonk. Their…
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Cloud Foundry's Paketo Buildpacks (with Ram Iyengar)
In this conversation, Ram Iyengar, Chief Evangelist at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, discusses Paketo Buildpacks and their role in simplifying containerization…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Thomas Dohmke Chats AI Agents and Shower Coding
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…
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Making Docs Better for AI and Humans (with Jennifer Marandola)
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…
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Psychology, Technological Innovation, and Why We Need Science (with Dr. Cat Hicks)
Dr. Cat Hicks, a psychologist studying software teams, joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick to discuss the role of psychology in technological innovation. Dr…
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How GitHub is Getting Beginners into Git (with Kedasha Kerr and Andrea Griffiths)
In this RedMonk Conversation, Kedasha Kerr, Developer Advocate and Technical Content Creator at GitHub, and Andrea Griffiths, Senior Developer Advocate at…
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Jason Lengstorf from Screamo to CodeTV
In this conversation, Jason Lengstorf shares his journey from aspiring rock star to tech media mogul with Kate Holterhoff, senior industry analyst at RedMonk…
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How GitHub Education Aspires to Reach 1 Billion Developers (with Avni Khatri Fein)
In this RedMonk conversation, Avni Khatri Fein, Senior Director of Education at GitHub, chats with Kelly Fitzpatrick, senior analyst at RedMonk, about GitHub…
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Making Container Isolation a Reality with Alex Zenla
In this RedMonk conversation, Alex Zenla, founder & CTO at Edera, chats container security and virtualization with Rachel Stephens, research director at…
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What is an Agentic App and How to Build One (w/ Jeff Morris, Couchbase)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation with Derek Collison, "the Forrest Gump of Messaging"
In this RedMonk conversation, Derek Collison, founder and CEO of Synadia and creator of NATS.io, discusses the evolution and importance of messaging systems…
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Cassidy Williams Talks Companionable Coding & GitHub Copilot
In this RedMonk conversation, Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, discusses GitHub Copilot's role as a coding companion with…
- The MonkCast
Zack Chapple on Zephyr Cloud, Micro Frontends, and Module Federation
In this RedMonk conversation, Zack Chapple, Co-Founder and CEO of Zephyr Cloud, discusses how micro frontends and module federation are empowering developers…
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GitLab Duo, Agentic AI, and the SDLC in 2025 (with Emilio Salvador)
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…
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JJ Tang on Incident Management, Cold Emailing CEOs, and the Origins of Rootly
In this RedMonk conversation, JJ Tang, CEO of Rootly, chats with senior analyst Kelly Fitzpatrick about the evolving landscape of incident management, the…
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Ryan Dahl on the Deno v Oracle Petition
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…
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How Daytona is Simplifying Development Environments (with Ivan Burazin)
In this RedMonk conversation, Ivan Burazin, Co-Founder and CEO of Daytona, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the challenges…