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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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A RedMonk Conversation: CNCF’s Environmental Sustainability TAG (With Niki Manoledaki)
Rachel Stephens interviews Niki Manoledaki (Software Engineer at Grafana Labs) on her work on the CNCF's Environmental Sustainability TAG. They discuss the…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Frontend & Prototyping at IBM (With Stephane Rodet)
Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk discusses Frontend & Prototyping with Stephane Rodet, UX Engineering Manager at IBM. Rodet shares his experience…
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A RedMonk Conversation: GraphQL, towards a declarative model for a web of next gen APIs (With Anant Jhingran)
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…
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A Redmonk Conversation: Shifting Cost Optimisation Left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights (With Saunak "Jai" Chakrabarti, Meera Srinivasan, and Tim Hansen)
An in-depth conversation between RedMonk analyst James Governor and Spotify engineering leaders including Saunak "Jai" Chakrabarti, Meera Srinivasan, and Tim…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Misconceptions about Observability, Errors Matter in APM (With David Cramer)
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…
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The Docs are In: An Examined Life in DevX Engineering with Dr. Ryan Feigenbaum
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Industry’s Tardy Response to the AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability (With Simon Willison)
Kate Holterhoff, analyst with Redmonk, and Simon Willison, founder of Dattasette, co-creator of Django, and expert in AI technologies, speak about the AI…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Open Source and Security (With Vincent Danen)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: An Enterprise’s Journey to Building a Platform (With Johan Marais, Discovery Limited)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Attracting Developers and Keeping Top Talent (With Chris Wright, Red Hat)
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…
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The Docs Are In: Spicy Takes on Documentation (With Sam Kleinman)
In this The Docs Are In conversation, Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk, and Sam Kleinman, staff engineer working in distributed systems, discuss…
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A Redmonk Conversation: Modern Java runtimes - No Regrets energy efficiency with Quarkus and GraalVM (With Holly Cummins)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Sustainable Software and Systems - Lightswitch Ops for the Triple Win (With Holly Cummins)
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…
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The Docs Are In: Documentation - the Bridgework of OSS (With Abigail McCarthy)
Abigail McCarthy (Staff Technical Open Source Communications Manager at VMware and Kelly's former colleague from their time at Apprenda) joins Kelly and Kate…
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A RedMonk Conversation: SBOMs (With Josh Bressers from Anchore)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Why Distributed Storage? (With Anthony Dutra and Morgan Littlewood)
While centralized storage systems have been an industry standard for years, decentralized storage options are beginning to emerge. To answer the question of…
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A RedMonk Conversation: The Developer Experience Gap (With Zenhub’s Aaron Upright)
As organizations look to improve their operational velocity, one of the things they're increasingly looking at is their developer experience. To understand how…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Low Code to Full Stack: it's about the apps (With Matthias Steiner)
In which James Governor discusses low code use cases and platform requirements with Matthias Steiner, Chief Product Officer of Neptune Software, a low code…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Site Reliability Engineering at Red Hat (With Narayanan Raghavan)
Join Rachel Stephens (Senior Analyst at RedMonk) and Narayanan Raghavan (Senior Director, Red Hat Site Reliability Engineering) for a discussion of the Site…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Cloud Development Environments (With Ketan Gangatirkar)
In which Stephen O'Grady, co-founder of RedMonk discusses Cloud Development Environments with Ketan Gangatirkar, Vice President Of Engineering and Product at…
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A RedMonk Conversation: What is the DevOps Experience Gap? (With Divanny Lamas)
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…
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The Docs are In: Upskilling Insights from a Podcaster & Solution Architect at Red Hat (With Angela Andrews)
Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk discusses upskilling, reskilling, and cross-skilling with Angela Andrews, Solution Architect at Red Hat & Co-Host…
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A RedMonk Conversation: IBM Sustainability Accelerator (With Michael Jacobs)
Rachel Stephens, Senior Analyst at RedMonk speaks with Michael Jacobs, Sustainability & Social Innovation Leader at IBM. In this talk Mike provides an…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Haptics, Hallucinations, Retrieval-Augmentation and the multi-model LLM future (With Malte Pietsch)
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…
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The Docs Are In: ‘I thought there would be cake’ & other eulogies of academics turned technologists (With Dr. Eli Thorkelson)
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…
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The Docs are In: Docs Like Code (With Anne Gentle)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Developer Led Adoption and Oracle Database 23c Free (With Gerald Venzl)
James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk talks to Gerald Venzl about Oracle Database 23c Free. RedMonk is all about developers. As industry analysts we…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Spicy Takes, Platform Engineering, and Dynamic Configuration Management (With Drew Oetzel)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: What's the role of generative AI in production ops? (With Anurag Gupta)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: Shifting Architecture Left (With Amir Rapson)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: The Burden of Shifting Left (With John Amaral)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: The State of Mobile Experience (With Andrew Tunall and Virna Sekuj)
In this conversation, RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff discusses Embrace's State of Mobile Experience Engineering Report with Andrew Tunall, VP and Head of…
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The Docs are In: Exploring the Intersection of Tech Comm and Academia (With Dr. Liz Hutter and Dr. Halcyon Lawrence)
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…
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The Docs Are in: the Taylor Swift Episode (with Dr. Casey Alane Wilson)
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…
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A RedMonk Conversation: The JavaScript Ecosystem and Developer Relations (With Tracy Lee)
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…
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Digital Humanities, Open Source, and Communities of Learning (With Dr. Lisa Tagliaferri)
In this episode of The Docs Are In, Dr. Lisa Tagliaferri (Senior Director, Developer Education, Chainguard; Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University) drops in to…
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Leadership Challenges with Infrastructure Automation (With Rob Hirschfeld)
In this conversation, RedMonk senior analyst Kelly Fitzpatrick and Rob Hirschfeld (CEO/Founder of RackN) discuss their top takeaways from a recent NYC…
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The Docs Are In: From Academic to AI Startup Founder (With Allen Romano)
RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Allen Romano, co-founder of Logoi, chat about their experiences as academics turned tech industry professionals. They…
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Organizing Tech Conferences and Java Users Groups (With Vincent Mayers)
In this RedMonk Conversation, analyst Kate Holterhoff chats with Vincent Mayers, who works in Community, DevRel, and Productivity Engineering at Gradle. They…
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Feature platforms - the data foundation for production ML applications (With Gaetan Castelein)
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…
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AI and Observability (With Elastic's Gagan Singh)
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…
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The Docs Are In: Snark as Rhetoric (With Corey Quinn)
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…
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Better Security, Faster (With Varun Badhwar)
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…
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AI and IT Automation (With Kaete Piccirilli, Ansible)
Kaete Piccirilli (Director of Product Marketing, Red Hat Ansible) joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick for a conversation on Red Hat Ansible's domain-specific…
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The Docs are In: A History of AI (With Dr. Tobias Wilson-Bates)
RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Tobias Wilson-Bates, Assistant Professor at Georgia Gwinnett College, dig into the history and future of AI. Dr…