The MonkCast

Join Rachel Stephens (Senior Analyst at RedMonk) and Narayanan Raghavan (Senior Director, Red Hat Site Reliability Engineering) for a discussion of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) discipline at Red Hat. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on April 18, 2022.

In which Stephen O'Grady, co-founder of RedMonk discusses Cloud Development Environments with Ketan Gangatirkar, Vice President Of Engineering and Product at Coder. Ketan has strong opinions on the future of development environments - specifically that they're in the cloud. We discuss the rise of cloud based services, developer preferences for and reliance on local IDEs and where those two things...

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 of the above increases right along with it. How should enterprise SREs and DevOps staff tackle the problem of the DevOps experience gap? This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on February 8, 2023.

Kate Holterhoff, industry analyst at RedMonk discusses upskilling, reskilling, and cross-skilling with Angela Andrews, Solution Architect at Red Hat & Co-Host of the Compiler Podcast. They get into a range of topics including Upskilling's Greenfield Problem, whether certifications are enough to secure an entry-level job in tech, the value of bootcamps, and how Red Hat is meeting the needs of l...

Rachel Stephens, Senior Analyst at RedMonk speaks with Michael Jacobs, Sustainability & Social Innovation Leader at IBM. In this talk Mike provides an introduction to the IBM Sustainability Accelerator. Learn about how IBM partners with NGOs and governmental agencies to further water management projects. Interested participants should visit https://www.ibm.com/impact/initiatives/ibm-sustainabi...

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 cover that in the conversation. So dive in! In the meantime I will leave you with a story from deepset about a gentleman in his 80s that runs a legal publishing firm in Germany. He called deepset just before Christmas last year to insist on...

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. Related Resources: https://decasia.org/academic_culture/ (Dr. Thorkelson's blog) https://rip-my-academic-career.decasia.org This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on May 22, 2023.

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 Cisco) joins Kelly and Kate to talk docs-as-code/docs-like-code processes, how the landscape has changed in the last five years, resources for getting started with docs like code, and what changes AI and large language models might bring fo...

James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk talks to Gerald Venzl about Oracle Database 23c Free. RedMonk is all about developers. As industry analysts we occasionally provide a quote for a press release and for the launch of 23c Free I described it as a “radical departure”. This video is about why. The influence of developers on technology decision making is greater than it ever was. So we moved from a...

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, long live Platform Engineering! In this video though we come to discuss platform orchestration and dynamic configuration management. So - a conversation between James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk, and Drew Oetzel, senior customer success e...

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 infrastructure. "It's gonna be a game changer." They highlight the challenges faced by those responsible for maintaining operational stability and incident response, such as the lack of reliable and up-to-date information available on platfor...

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 role of the software architect? Amir Rapson, co-founder and CTO of vFunction, joins Rachel Stephens to talk about the future of software architecture, how we can make the architecture role more relevant and grounded in reality, and how we ca...

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 security tasks earlier in application development workflows. In particular, they examine not just the perceived benefits, but the costs to “shifting left” and what to do about it. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video for...

In this conversation, RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff discusses Embrace's State of Mobile Experience Engineering Report with Andrew Tunall, VP and Head of Product at Embrace.io, and Virna Sekuj, Product Marketing Manager at Embrace.io. They review Embrace's research detailing mobile end users' and builders' perspectives of performance issues and app experiences. This RedMonk Conversation was origi...

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. Halcyon Lawrence (Associate Professor, Towson University) stop by to discuss some of the crucial work they are doing on the academic side of technical communication. Topics include a critique of the “grand narratives” common to the ways we...

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 English at Francis Marion University (and also, clearly, a Swiftie) about her first-year English course on “Taylor Swift as Text”. If you've spent hours on a virtual queue for Eras Tour tickets, pondered the literary references in Swift's song...

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 JavaScript Ecosystem, focusing on frameworks and runtimes, as well as the future of Developer Relations, including an overview of This Dot Lab's DevRel City. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on November 6, 2023.

In this episode of The Docs Are In, Dr. Lisa Tagliaferri (Senior Director, Developer Education, Chainguard; Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University) drops in to chat with Kate and Kelly about her experiences working at tech startups and in academia. Lisa discusses her work in Digital Humanities (or DH--where digital technologies and the humanities intersect), her research into medieval communities o...

In this conversation, RedMonk senior analyst Kelly Fitzpatrick and Rob Hirschfeld (CEO/Founder of RackN) discuss their top takeaways from a recent NYC technology roundtable on the challenges tech leaders face with infrastructure automation. Some challenges discussed: making automation repeatable/reusable; dealing with increasing complexity (and how this can be a cultural as well as technological c...

RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Allen Romano, co-founder of Logoi, chat about their experiences as academics turned tech industry professionals. They discuss the discipline of digital humanities; how founding a startup both resembles and diverges from PhD work; and the future of AI. This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on August 18, 2023.

In this RedMonk Conversation, analyst Kate Holterhoff chats with Vincent Mayers, who works in Community, DevRel, and Productivity Engineering at Gradle. They discuss the challenges and opportunities afforded by arranging tech events, focusing particularly on Vincent's experiences organizing the Devnexus and Connect.tech conferences, as well as the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG). This RedMonk Conv...

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 Marketing Gaetan Castelein about the challenges of getting ML models into product, the role of feature stores vs. feature platforms, and the overlaps and distinctions between Generative AI and Predictive AI. This RedMonk Conversation was or...

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 potentially transformative tooling? Join RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick and Elastic's Gagan Singh (VP of Marketing) as they talk about the present state and potential future of AI and observability amidst increasingly complex systems. This RedMonk...

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 (AWS). Corey has also amassed an impressive following across different media platforms, including his newsletter, podcast, and socials such as X (fka Twitter) and LinkedIn. In this DAI episode, Corey joins Kate and Kelly to discuss his communic...

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. But how much of that software being scanned is used? How much time does it take for a developer to investigate an incident, and thus how much time could be saved if they only worked on what software in usage? In this conversation with Endor La...