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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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Why Engineering Orgs Should be Thinking About Mobile SLOs (w Andrew Tunall)
In this RedMonk conversation, Andrew Tunall, President and Chief Product Officer at Embrace, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the…
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Erin Schnabel on the Commonhaus Foundation
In this RedMonk conversation, Erin Schnabel, distinguished engineer at Red Hat and council chairperson at the Commonhaus Foundation, discusses with Kate…
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E-commerce at the Edge: How Yottaa uses Fastly for Compute, WAF and Analytics
In this RedMonk Conversation (filmed at Fastly Xcelerate in NYC), Kelly Fitzpatrick of RedMonk interviews Pete Karytko, Director of Technical Operations at…
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Claire Vo on LaunchDarkly’s Culture of Experimentation
In this RedMonk conversation, Claire Vo, Chief Product and Technology Officer at LaunchDarkly, discusses the significance of experimentation in feature…
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LaunchDarkly’s Dan Rogers on AI’s Transformative Impact in Feature Management
In this RedMonk conversation, Dan Rogers, CEO of LaunchDarkly, discusses the transformative impact of AI on software development, particularly in the context…
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How LaunchDarkly’s Guarded Releases Mitigate Risk with Manish Gupta
In this RedMonk conversation, Manish Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer at LaunchDarkly, speaks with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the…
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A RedMonk Conversation: YouTube for Dev Engagement, How Cloudinary Will Grow From 2M to 5M users.
James Governor from RedMonk and Sanjay Sarathy from Cloudinary discuss the company's strategy for developer engagement, focusing on YouTube as a key channel…
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Wesley Faulkner on the Developer Relations Foundation
In this RedMonk conversation, Wesley Faulkner, developer relations professional, discusses the newly formed Developer Relations Foundation with Kate…
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Why Dr. Scott Stephenson is Building Voice AI
In this RedMonk Conversation, Dr. Scott Stephenson, co-founder and CEO at Deepgram, discusses AI and audio with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk…
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Andy Stanford-Clark and Clemens Vasters on a History and Evolution of Messaging
In this RedMonk conversation, Andy Stanford-Clark, Distinguished Engineer and Innovation Leader in IBM Research, and Clemens Vasters, Principal Architect at…
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Observability 2.0, Dev Tools, and Debugging with Tom Johnson
In this RedMonk conversation, Kelly Fitzpatrick, senior analyst at RedMonk, talks with Tom Johnson, co-founder & CTO of Multiplayer about the evolution of…
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System Design is a Team Sport with Tom Johnson
In this RedMonk conversation, Tom Johnson, co-founder & CTO of Multiplayer, discusses the evolving landscape of system design with Kelly Fitzpatrick, senior…
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Stop Diagramming, Start Designing with Tom Johnson
In this RedMonk conversation, Kelly Fitzpatrick, senior analyst at RedMonk, and Tom Johnson, co-founder & CTO of Multiplayer, discuss the evolution of software…
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Kelly Shortridge Talks Security at Fastly
Kelly Shortridge (Senior Director, Security Product Line at Fastly) joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick to talk security. The Kellys cover isolation and…
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Dan Moore on Newsletters, Authenticity, and Sweating the Assets
In this RedMonk conversation, Dan Moore, principal product engineer at FusionAuth, join James Governor, principal analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, and Kate…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Natalia Venditto and Igor Minar on the Future of Frontend Workloads
In this conversation about the evolving landscape of front-end development, Natalia Venditto, principal owner of JavaScript developer experience for Azure and…
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A RedMonk Conversation: The Role of Observability in Day Zero Operations
In this conversation, James Governor of RedMonk talks to Adrian Phillips and Angela Kelly of Dynatrace about the growing importance of Observability, earlier…
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A RedMonk Conversation: CRMs and Codifying Business Processes with Steve Bussey
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Andrew Boyagi talks Atlassian's 2024 State of Developer Experience Report
Hear RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick chat with Andrew Boyagi, head of DevOps evangelism at Atlassian, about the critical topic of developer experience. They…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Luis Villa on the AI Compliance Dumpster Fire and Doing the Right Thing
In this RedMonk Conversation, Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, speaks with Luis Villa, co-founder and general counsel at Tidelift, about new…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Jay Miller on the Satanic Panic of Developer Relations and the AI Chainsaw
Jay Miller, staff developer advocate at Aiven and founder of Black Python Devs, joins Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, for this RedMonk…
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A RedMonk Conversation: How Fastly is Keeping Open Source Sustainable in the Age of the Licensing Rug Pull
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: You Don't Need to be Afraid of the Bleeding Edge (in Tech Adoption)
In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor of RedMonk interviews David Annez, VP of Product at loveholidays, to explore the company's approach to adopting…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Adam Rackis on Web Development and Red-Eye Flights
Adam Rackis, senior web engineer at Spotify, joins RedMonk's Kate Holterhoff to discuss upskilling, frontend development, and conference travel. They chat…
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Generative AI is Changing How Developers Work (with Adam Seligman)
In this RedMonk Conversation Adam Seligman, VP of developer experience at AWS, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the continuing…
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How Coding Bootcamps Leverage AI, Corporate Partnerships, and Community Building (with Tina-Marie Gulley)
Tina-Marie Gulley, Interim CEO at Ada Developers Academy, discusses her background and the intersection of technology, DEI, and education with Kate Holterhoff…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Using Jamstack with Cloudflare (With Nevi Shah)
Rachel Stephens (Sr. Analyst, RedMonk) and Nevi Shah (Product Manager, Cloudflare) discuss the Jamstack application development model and how to build with…
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A Quickish Take on VMs (with Stephen O'Grady)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Local First, Cryptographic Proofs, and Data Anywhere with J Chris Anderson
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…
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The New Builders: AI - Built on Open Source (With Julia Ferraioli)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Sean McQuaid - from Waffle Fries to TypeScript
Join RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Sean McQuaid, Lead Software Engineer at Chick-fil-A, as they chat about the Atlanta conference scene, software…
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A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Training Data - What You Need to Know (With Jason Warner)
As AI continues to reshape the technology industry, it's important to understand its foundations. In this RedMonk Conversation, Stephen O'Grady and Poolside…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Useable Security is the Best Security (with Avi Douglen)
"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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 2 (With Diya Winn)
Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) and Diya Wynn (Senior Practice Manager, AWS) continue their conversation about responsible AI (more context about how Diya approaches…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 1 (With Diya Winn)
Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) and Diya Wynn (Senior Practice Manager, AWS) discuss why responsible AI practices matter. This RedMonk Conversation was originally…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Why You Should Come to Fastly Xcelerate London 2024 (With Simon Wistow)
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…
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The New Builders: Tom Callaway talks about Building OSS Culture at AWS
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of Open Source and AI (With Matt Hicks and Ruchir Puri)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Serverless WebSockets and the Serverless Stack (With Matthew O'Riordan)
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…
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The Docs Are In: Making OSS Sticky (With Alyssa Rock)
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…
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The Docs Are In: Communication and Nursing Education (With Dr. Rebekah Greene)
In this Docs are In conversation, RedMonk senior analysts KellyAnn Fitzpatrick and Kate Holterhoff chat with Dr. Rebekah Greene, assistant professor at the…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Generative AI for Application Modernization on System z (With Keri Olson)
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…
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The Docs Are In: Certifications (With Dr. Kate Holterhoff)
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…
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The Docs are In: Clinical Psychology, Scientific Rigor, and Developer Success (With Dr. Carol Lee)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Private AI (With Himanshu Singh, VMware by Broadcom)
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…
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The Docs Are In: Tech Writing & Jigsaw Puzzles (With Ember Stevens)
RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick and Ember Stevens (Technical Writer, LaunchDarkly) discuss technical writing and documentation (docs as code; what it's like being…
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A RedMonk Conversation: LLMs and Secrets Management (With Eric Fourrier, CEO of GitGuardian)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Do You Need to Care About Edge? (With Rita Kozlov)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Software Delivery Into Heterogeneous Environments at Scale (With Marc Campbell)
The industry has centered around Kubernetes as the abstraction layer that promises portability. Helm charts are great for packaging, but are they enough?…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Engaging with Developers on Hacker News (With Dan Moore)
Join RedMonk analysts James Governor and Kate Holterhoff as they chat with Dan Moore about Hacker News, the social news website for developers. This…
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A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of App Development and Databases in 2021 (With Ed Anuff)
Join Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk and Ed Anuff (Chief Product Officer, DataStax) in a conversation about application development and databases in 2021. This…
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A RedMonk Conversation with Developer Certification Enthusiast Justin Wheeler
In this RedMonk Conversation Kate Holterhoff, senior industry analyst with RedMonk, talks all-things developer certifications with Justin Wheeler, AWS…
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A RedMonk Conversation: What’s Up with Cloud Optionality? (With Betty Junod, Senior Director of Multi-Cloud Solutions at VMware)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: A Frontend Optimized Database Stack (With Carl Sverre)
Kate Holterhoff, analyst with Redmonk, and Carl Sverre, creator of SQLSync and founder of orbitinghail, discuss database management for frontend engineers: an…
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A Quick(ish) Take On Fast Cars: RedMonk Talks AWS Technology in F1™
In October 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) invited RedMonk analysts Kelly Fitzpatrick, Kate Holterhoff, and Rachel Stephens to Austin, TX, so that they could…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Transactions at Scale, Bonkers Numbers (With Boris Bialek)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Custom Silicon at Annapurna Labs (with Chetan Kapoor, AWS)
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…
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The Docs are In: WASM and Philosophy (with Dr. Matt Butcher)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Developer Productivity (Task, Team, Time) with Emilio Salvador, GitLab
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Trust (Transparency and Security) with David DeSanto, GitLab
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…