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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. Can"t get enough of the Monks? Visit the RedMonk YouTube channel or check out our research at RedMonk.com. You can also follow RedMonk on Bluesky, Twitter (X), and LinkedIn. Meet RedMonk"s Analysts James Governor, Principal Analyst & Co-founder @monkchips, LinkedIn,

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6:35

A Quickish Take on VMs (with Stephen O'Grady)

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2024/07/22

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 history, major players in the space, how containerization and Kubernetes shook up the infrastructure landscape, and why VMs continue to matter in 2024.

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31:48

A RedMonk Conversation: Local First, Cryptographic...

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2024/07/15

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 importance of Apache CouchDB, the evolution of client-side technologies, and the local-first movement. Chris highlights the use of cryptography for data integrity and identity verification, as well as the future of data management in the AI era. He also shares Fireproof's go-to-market strategy, open source philosophy, and approach to community

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10:52

The New Builders: AI - Built on Open Source (With...

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2024/07/10

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 software, for one, and it's also triggering new questions on how to define open source in the context of AI. To explore these and other questions, Julia Ferraioli of AWS joined Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk for a lively discussion of all things AI and open source.This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on July 9, 2024.

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45:04

A RedMonk Conversation: Sean McQuaid - from Waffle...

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2024/07/09

Join RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Sean McQuaid, Lead Software Engineer at Chick-fil-A, as they chat about the Atlanta conference scene, software engineering at Chick-fil-A, and some hot takes on the state of Frontend frameworks, micro-frontends, TypeScript, and leveraging AI code assistants.

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12:43

A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Training Data - What...

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2024/06/27

As AI continues to reshape the technology industry, it's important to understand its foundations. In this RedMonk Conversation, Stephen O'Grady and Poolside CEO Jason Warner get together to discuss training data. Covering questions that range from ownership and licensing to accessibility and inspection, anyone interested in better understanding the roots of AI and the vital importance of training data will find this conversation of interest. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in

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23:48

A RedMonk Conversation: Useable Security is the Best...

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2024/06/20

"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 to explore how to build meaningful security practices into our applications. Is the OWASP Top 10 a useful standard? (Hint: nope!) What's the best tool for threat modeling? (Hint: a whiteboard!) Come listen as Avi explains practical approaches to security.

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11:51

A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 2 (With...

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2024/06/18

Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) and Diya Wynn (Senior Practice Manager, AWS) continue their conversation about responsible AI (more context about how Diya approaches responsible AI as a technologist can be found in our first conversation.) This conversation dives more into data bias and the holistic approach needed to drive responsible AI practices throughout an engineering team.This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 9, 2022.

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A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 1 (With...

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2024/06/13

Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) and Diya Wynn (Senior Practice Manager, AWS) discuss why responsible AI practices matter. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 9, 2022.

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6:26

A RedMonk Conversation: Why You Should Come to Fastly...

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2024/06/06

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. London has evolved into a thriving tech hub, attracting investment and fostering innovation in deep tech and finance, as exemplified by companies like DeepMind. The Fastly Xcelerate event in Shoreditch highlights this dynamic environment by focusing on enhancing the developer experience and democratizing access to powerful technological tools,

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21:40

The New Builders: Tom Callaway talks about Building...

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2024/06/03

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 perception. Listen as Tom "Spot" Callaway discusses building open source culture at AWS with Rachel Stephens of RedMonk. Learn more about AWS' open source teams, how AWS thinks about both adopting and releasing open source projects, and some of the ways that they assess project and community health.This The New Builders episode was originally

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14:43

A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of Open...

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2024/05/29

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 source can be used to improve the results businesses can expect from their investments in AI. To explore these and other questions, we sat down with Matt Hicks, the CEO of Red Hat, and Ruchir Puri, Chief Scientist for IBM Research.This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 29, 2024.

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30:05

A RedMonk Conversation: Serverless WebSockets and the...

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2024/05/22

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 power of WebSockets, the value of product led business models, serverless, and of course, the really big question - why are applications so terrible at handling the apostrophes in Irish names? So what's in a serverless stack anyway? Compute, cache, database etc. What's missing? The problem Ably is working on is a great developer experience for

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25:44

The Docs Are In: Making OSS Sticky (With Alyssa Rock)

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2024/05/15

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 Docs Quorum Program) drops in to chat with Kate and Kelly about the many, many hats she wears. Alyssa discusses her pathway into tech writing (it led through film studies!), some of the good things happening with The Good Docs Project, and her work on the Salt Project as part of her day job with VMware. Also of interest: how to empower folks

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35:10

The Docs Are In: Communication and Nursing Education...

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2024/05/09

In this Docs are In conversation, RedMonk senior analysts KellyAnn Fitzpatrick and Kate Holterhoff chat with Dr. Rebekah Greene, assistant professor at the University of Rochester School of Nursing. Dr. Greene elaborates on her responsibilities in this role and how her as a scholar of 19th century literature actually dovetails and supports her work in clinical nursing. They also discuss the importance of technical communication to the medical profession, and share some strategies and best practices

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18:10

A RedMonk Conversation: Generative AI for Application...

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2024/05/08

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 AI-driven application modernization for IBM's Z Mainframe platform with IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z. IBM is training dedicated models for these use cases, to give customers something they won't find with competitors' models. For example COBOL to Java conversion, with models trained to support all of IBM's mainframe subsystems such as

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11:18

The Docs Are In: Certifications (With Dr. Kate...

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2024/05/02

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 talk about documentation. In this video Kelly interviews Kate about Kate's excellent research on certifications in the tech industry.This is an older recording. This Docs Are In episode was originally published in video form on July 28, 2022.

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The Docs are In: Clinical Psychology, Scientific...

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2024/04/25

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 research as Principal Scientist at Pluralsight's Developer Success Lab, and how her training as a clinical psychologist comes into play. Kate and Kelly also learn how Carol created an Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Pluralsight to clarify processes around the creation and maintenance of ethical standards and to enable scientific rigor. Also of

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27:09

A RedMonk Conversation: Private AI (With Himanshu...

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2024/04/22

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 code to running it in production; when new AI solutions are available across the board, how can enterprises consider where to place their investments in this new and evolving space? Join RedMonk's Rachel Stephens as she discusses these questions with Himanshu Singh, who runs AI Product Marketing at VMware by Broadcom. VMware created their Private

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14:51

The Docs Are In: Tech Writing & Jigsaw Puzzles (With...

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2024/04/17

RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick and Ember Stevens (Technical Writer, LaunchDarkly) discuss technical writing and documentation (docs as code; what it's like being the lone tech writer at an organization vs. working on a team; working with SMEs) as well as their respective tech industry origin stories in public higher education. Ember also shares some tips on how to get started with technical documentation--tips that mirror approaches to piecing together jigsaw puzzles.This Docs Are In episode was

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A RedMonk Conversation: LLMs and Secrets Management...

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2024/04/10

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 processes and microservice architectures continue to drive application development towards a landscape that is more complex, distributed, and fragmented. This increases the prevalence of secrets such as database credentials, API keys, and tokens--which are used to connect all these pieces together--and increases the chance that such secrets may be

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