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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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Meet RedMonk's Analysts

James Governor, Principal Analyst & Co-founder

@monkchips, LinkedIn, Blog

Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder

@sogrady, LinkedIn, Blog

Rachel Stephens, Research Director

@rstephensme, LinkedIn, Blog

Kate Holterhoff, Senior Industry Analyst

@KateHolterhoff, LinkedIn, Blog


Episode Date
Seth Webster on How Expo and the React Foundation Are Shaping Modern Development
May 14, 2026
VKS: One Platform for VMs and Containers with Audrey Bian
Apr 29, 2026
From Data Center Crawler to DevRel with Chris Williams
Apr 21, 2026
Beyond the Hypervisor: Developing with Ubuntu on VCF
Apr 16, 2026
"Absolute AI Maximalist" Adam Jacob on Building Software That Builds Software
Apr 07, 2026
Sovereignty Meets Simplicity for VMware by Broadcom at KubeCon EU 2026 w Timmy Carr & Himanshu Singh
Apr 03, 2026
Chopping Wood, Carrying Water: VMware by Broadcom's Open Source Story at KubeCon EU 2026
Apr 02, 2026
"Data Is What I Can Control": Why Your AI Strategy Starts at the Data Layer with Boris Bialek
Mar 31, 2026
Mike Basios on Why AI-Era Engineering Needs a Measurement-First Approach
Mar 26, 2026
SDKs in the AI Era with Kin Lane
Mar 19, 2026
From Clouderatti to theCUBE with Stu Miniman
Mar 10, 2026
How The Eclipse SDV is Revolutionizing Open Source Automotive (with Ansgar Lindwedel)
Mar 03, 2026
Mapping Complexity from Cynefin to Wardley with Chris Corriere
Feb 26, 2026
Alex Moore on Open Web Advocacy and Why “Innovation Doesn’t Come from the Gatekeepers”
Feb 24, 2026
GitLab’s Intelligent Orchestration Platform with Özer Dondurmacıoğlu
Feb 20, 2026
How Daniel Stenberg, Founder of curl, is Navigating the AI Onslop
Feb 11, 2026
Navigating Bare Metal Automation with Rob Hirschfeld
Feb 05, 2026
Wes Bos on Why Design's Making a Comeback in 2026
Jan 27, 2026
Complex, Not Complicated
Jan 22, 2026
Dynatrace and the Observability Market
Jan 15, 2026
Mark Fussell on Dapr, Simple APIs, & Distributed Systems
Jan 13, 2026
Mike Hartington on the State of Mobile Development & Why CI/CD is Still So Hard
Jan 06, 2026
Context Engineering in Practice: How Atlassian Is Building AI for Real Developer Work with Kun Chen
Dec 18, 2025
A New Take on the Terminal with Zach Lloyd
Dec 16, 2025
From Light Bulbs to Large Language Models: Jamie Dobson on Technology's Relay Race Through History
Dec 09, 2025
AWS Developer Experience State of the Nation with Ali Spittel
Dec 04, 2025
Inside AWS's Agentic AI Marketing Strategy with Ali Maaz & Jessie VanderVeen
Dec 03, 2025
Al Harris On Kiro And Spec-Driven Development
Dec 02, 2025
From Containers to Kiro: AI and DX at AWS with Deepak Singh
Dec 01, 2025
Alex Russell on PWAs, App Stores, and Mobile Performance
Nov 24, 2025
Java at 30 with Sharat Chander
Nov 20, 2025
Introduction to local AI models (with AMD's Anush Elangovan)
Nov 19, 2025
David Mytton on Arcjet’s Vision for Developer Security
Nov 18, 2025
Fear is the Startup Killer: Jack Bridger on Founders, Differentiation, & DevTools
Nov 13, 2025
Why the Python Software Foundation Withdrew a $1.5 Million US Government Grant Proposal (w Deb Nicholson)
Nov 07, 2025
Meet Bob, IBM's Agentic IDE (with Matt Rodkey at IBM TechXchange 2025)
Nov 04, 2025
WASM and Edge Compute: Building a Performant Cloud with Akamai and Fermyon
Oct 30, 2025
Austin Parker on AI, Olly, & OTel
Oct 23, 2025
Kate Soule on Granite 4.0 at IBM TechXchange 2025
Oct 15, 2025
Bedrock Streaming: From CDN to compute for 50M+ people (w Pascal Martin & Valentin Clavreul)
Oct 14, 2025
CRA – The First Horizontal Regulation of the Software Industry (with Mike Milinkovich)
Oct 09, 2025
"Good docs are still good docs": AX, DX, & LLMs (with Taylor Barnett-Torabi & Lyle Schemmerling)
Sep 30, 2025
AI's Grumpy-Fun Era (with Rachel Stephens, Kate Holterhoff, & James Governor)
Sep 11, 2025
Tales from Agency Life (with Emily Winck and Jess Burns)
Sep 04, 2025
Clare Liguori on Kiro & AI Spec-Driven Software Development
Aug 28, 2025
An update on VMware Cloud Foundation (with Prashanth Shenoy)
Aug 26, 2025
Martin Rojas talks Tech Meetups, AI Guilds, Micro Frontends, & More!
Aug 19, 2025
The New AWS Free Tier (with Bowen Wang)
Aug 14, 2025
Jason Torres on Developer Hiring, Community, & Content
Aug 05, 2025
Kat Cosgrove on The Chaos and Care of Shipping Kubernetes
Jul 29, 2025
How Shawn (swyx) Wang Defines the AI Engineer
Jul 23, 2025
Jeremy Meiss on DevRel & the Mire of Ineffables
Jul 17, 2025
The Future of Hashicorp and IBM: A Fireside Chat (with Armon Dadgar and Tarun Chopra)
Jul 15, 2025
Daniel Roe on Vercel's NuxtLabs Acquisition
Jul 10, 2025
Bob Quillin talks Observability, OpenTelemetry & ControlTheory
Jun 30, 2025
Jacob Leverich chats Observe and the Future of Observability
Jun 23, 2025
The Evolution of AI Agents (with Srini Iragavarapu)
Jun 20, 2025
Introducing Agentic DevOps (with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Gene Kim)
Jun 16, 2025
Matt Klein on why Mobile Observability Lags Behind Server Observability
Jun 09, 2025
Ori Saporta on the Architect’s Role In Crisis
Jun 05, 2025
Justin Reock on Why Java Devs Use Apache ActiveMQ
May 28, 2025
Microsoft Build 2025 Announcements with GitHub's Mario Rodriguez
May 21, 2025
Amok, Amok, Amok; or, the State of OSS in 2025 (MonkCast with the Monks)
May 19, 2025
devopsdays Atlanta 2025 - E2 - (with Rachel-Lee Nabors, Nathen Harvey, Pratik Parikh & Kimasia Ayers)
May 12, 2025
Automated Governance and Compliance in Software Delivery. What to Even Call This?
May 08, 2025
devopsdays Atlanta 2025 - E1 - (with Andrew Clay Shafer, John Willis, & Katie Anderson)
May 05, 2025
Do Frontend Developers Want Frontend Observability? (with Todd Gardner)
Apr 22, 2025
Science Fiction, the Hacker Ethic, & We Just Build Hammers (with Coraline Ada Ehmke)
Apr 15, 2025
John O'Hara, Inventor of AMQP, on Why Standards are Worth Persevering With
Apr 07, 2025
RabbitMQ Was Designed for the Cloud Era (with Alexis Richardson)
Mar 31, 2025
Andrew Hutchings on the WordPress War
Mar 24, 2025
Ram Iyengar on DevX at Cloud Foundry from cf push to Korifi
Mar 20, 2025
Cloud Foundry's Paketo Buildpacks (with Ram Iyengar)
Mar 18, 2025
A RedMonk Conversation: Thomas Dohmke Chats AI Agents and Shower Coding
Mar 13, 2025
Making Docs Better for AI and Humans (with Jennifer Marandola)
Mar 10, 2025
Psychology, Technological Innovation, and Why We Need Science (with Dr. Cat Hicks)
Mar 03, 2025
How GitHub is Getting Beginners into Git (with Kedasha Kerr and Andrea Griffiths)
Feb 27, 2025
Jason Lengstorf from Screamo to CodeTV
Feb 24, 2025
How GitHub Education Aspires to Reach 1 Billion Developers (with Avni Khatri Fein)
Feb 20, 2025
Making Container Isolation a Reality with Alex Zenla
Feb 13, 2025
What is an Agentic App and How to Build One (w/ Jeff Morris, Couchbase)
Feb 12, 2025
A RedMonk Conversation with Derek Collison, "the Forrest Gump of Messaging"
Feb 10, 2025
Cassidy Williams Talks Companionable Coding & GitHub Copilot
Feb 03, 2025
Zack Chapple on Zephyr Cloud, Micro Frontends, and Module Federation
Jan 27, 2025
GitLab Duo, Agentic AI, and the SDLC in 2025 (with Emilio Salvador)
Jan 21, 2025
JJ Tang on Incident Management, Cold Emailing CEOs, and the Origins of Rootly
Jan 15, 2025
Ryan Dahl on the Deno v Oracle Petition
Dec 16, 2024
How Daytona is Simplifying Development Environments (with Ivan Burazin)
Dec 10, 2024
Why Engineering Orgs Should be Thinking About Mobile SLOs (w Andrew Tunall)
Dec 02, 2024
Erin Schnabel on the Commonhaus Foundation
Nov 25, 2024
E-commerce at the Edge: How Yottaa uses Fastly for Compute, WAF and Analytics
Nov 21, 2024
Claire Vo on LaunchDarkly’s Culture of Experimentation
Nov 21, 2024
LaunchDarkly’s Dan Rogers on AI’s Transformative Impact in Feature Management
Nov 20, 2024
How LaunchDarkly’s Guarded Releases Mitigate Risk with Manish Gupta
Nov 19, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: YouTube for Dev Engagement, How Cloudinary Will Grow From 2M to 5M users.
Nov 14, 2024
Wesley Faulkner on the Developer Relations Foundation
Nov 11, 2024
Why Dr. Scott Stephenson is Building Voice AI
Nov 04, 2024
Andy Stanford-Clark and Clemens Vasters on a History and Evolution of Messaging
Oct 28, 2024
Observability 2.0, Dev Tools, and Debugging with Tom Johnson
Oct 24, 2024
System Design is a Team Sport with Tom Johnson
Oct 23, 2024
Stop Diagramming, Start Designing with Tom Johnson
Oct 22, 2024
Kelly Shortridge Talks Security at Fastly
Oct 17, 2024
Dan Moore on Newsletters, Authenticity, and Sweating the Assets
Oct 14, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Natalia Venditto and Igor Minar on the Future of Frontend Workloads
Oct 07, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: The Role of Observability in Day Zero Operations
Oct 02, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: CRMs and Codifying Business Processes with Steve Bussey
Sep 30, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Andrew Boyagi talks Atlassian's 2024 State of Developer Experience Report
Sep 23, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Luis Villa on the AI Compliance Dumpster Fire and Doing the Right Thing
Sep 16, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Jay Miller on the Satanic Panic of Developer Relations and the AI Chainsaw
Sep 09, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: How Fastly is Keeping Open Source Sustainable in the Age of the Licensing Rug Pull
Aug 29, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: You Don't Need to be Afraid of the Bleeding Edge (in Tech Adoption)
Aug 27, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Adam Rackis on Web Development and Red-Eye Flights
Aug 19, 2024
Generative AI is Changing How Developers Work (with Adam Seligman)
Aug 12, 2024
How Coding Bootcamps Leverage AI, Corporate Partnerships, and Community Building (with Tina-Marie Gulley)
Aug 05, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Using Jamstack with Cloudflare (With Nevi Shah)
Aug 01, 2024
A Quickish Take on VMs (with Stephen O'Grady)
Jul 22, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Local First, Cryptographic Proofs, and Data Anywhere with J Chris Anderson
Jul 15, 2024
The New Builders: AI - Built on Open Source (With Julia Ferraioli)
Jul 10, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Sean McQuaid - from Waffle Fries to TypeScript
Jul 09, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Training Data - What You Need to Know (With Jason Warner)
Jun 27, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Useable Security is the Best Security (with Avi Douglen)
Jun 20, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 2 (With Diya Winn)
Jun 18, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 1 (With Diya Winn)
Jun 13, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Why You Should Come to Fastly Xcelerate London 2024 (With Simon Wistow)
Jun 06, 2024
The New Builders: Tom Callaway talks about Building OSS Culture at AWS
Jun 03, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of Open Source and AI (With Matt Hicks and Ruchir Puri)
May 29, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Serverless WebSockets and the Serverless Stack (With Matthew O'Riordan)
May 22, 2024
The Docs Are In: Making OSS Sticky (With Alyssa Rock)
May 15, 2024
The Docs Are In: Communication and Nursing Education (With Dr. Rebekah Greene)
May 09, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Generative AI for Application Modernization on System z (With Keri Olson)
May 08, 2024
The Docs Are In: Certifications (With Dr. Kate Holterhoff)
May 02, 2024
The Docs are In: Clinical Psychology, Scientific Rigor, and Developer Success (With Dr. Carol Lee)
Apr 25, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Private AI (With Himanshu Singh, VMware by Broadcom)
Apr 22, 2024
The Docs Are In: Tech Writing & Jigsaw Puzzles (With Ember Stevens)
Apr 17, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: LLMs and Secrets Management (With Eric Fourrier, CEO of GitGuardian)
Apr 10, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Do You Need to Care About Edge? (With Rita Kozlov)
Apr 04, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Software Delivery Into Heterogeneous Environments at Scale (With Marc Campbell)
Apr 01, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Engaging with Developers on Hacker News (With Dan Moore)
Mar 28, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of App Development and Databases in 2021 (With Ed Anuff)
Mar 26, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation with Developer Certification Enthusiast Justin Wheeler
Mar 21, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: What’s Up with Cloud Optionality? (With Betty Junod, Senior Director of Multi-Cloud Solutions at VMware)
Mar 05, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: A Frontend Optimized Database Stack (With Carl Sverre)
Feb 29, 2024
A Quick(ish) Take On Fast Cars: RedMonk Talks AWS Technology in F1™
Feb 26, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Transactions at Scale, Bonkers Numbers (With Boris Bialek)
Feb 22, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Custom Silicon at Annapurna Labs (with Chetan Kapoor, AWS)
Feb 20, 2024
The Docs are In: WASM and Philosophy (with Dr. Matt Butcher)
Feb 16, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Developer Productivity (Task, Team, Time) with Emilio Salvador, GitLab
Feb 09, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Trust (Transparency and Security) with David DeSanto, GitLab
Feb 06, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: CNCF’s Environmental Sustainability TAG (With Niki Manoledaki)
Jan 29, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Frontend & Prototyping at IBM (With Stephane Rodet)
Jan 23, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: GraphQL, towards a declarative model for a web of next gen APIs (With Anant Jhingran)
Jan 19, 2024
A Redmonk Conversation: Shifting Cost Optimisation Left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights (With Saunak "Jai" Chakrabarti, Meera Srinivasan, and Tim Hansen)
Jan 16, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Misconceptions about Observability, Errors Matter in APM (With David Cramer)
Jan 09, 2024
The Docs are In: An Examined Life in DevX Engineering with Dr. Ryan Feigenbaum
Jan 03, 2024
A RedMonk Conversation: Industry’s Tardy Response to the AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability (With Simon Willison)
Dec 21, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Open Source and Security (With Vincent Danen)
Dec 19, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: An Enterprise’s Journey to Building a Platform (With Johan Marais, Discovery Limited)
Dec 14, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Attracting Developers and Keeping Top Talent (With Chris Wright, Red Hat)
Dec 12, 2023
The Docs Are In: Spicy Takes on Documentation (With Sam Kleinman)
Dec 04, 2023
A Redmonk Conversation: Modern Java runtimes - No Regrets energy efficiency with Quarkus and GraalVM (With Holly Cummins)
Dec 04, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Sustainable Software and Systems - Lightswitch Ops for the Triple Win (With Holly Cummins)
Dec 04, 2023
The Docs Are In: Documentation - the Bridgework of OSS (With Abigail McCarthy)
Dec 04, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: SBOMs (With Josh Bressers from Anchore)
Dec 04, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Why Distributed Storage? (With Anthony Dutra and Morgan Littlewood)
Dec 04, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: The Developer Experience Gap (With Zenhub’s Aaron Upright)
Dec 04, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Low Code to Full Stack: it's about the apps (With Matthias Steiner)
Nov 27, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Site Reliability Engineering at Red Hat (With Narayanan Raghavan)
Nov 27, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Cloud Development Environments (With Ketan Gangatirkar)
Nov 27, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: What is the DevOps Experience Gap? (With Divanny Lamas)
Nov 07, 2023
The Docs are In: Upskilling Insights from a Podcaster & Solution Architect at Red Hat (With Angela Andrews)
Nov 07, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: IBM Sustainability Accelerator (With Michael Jacobs)
Nov 07, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Haptics, Hallucinations, Retrieval-Augmentation and the multi-model LLM future (With Malte Pietsch)
Nov 07, 2023
The Docs Are In: ‘I thought there would be cake’ & other eulogies of academics turned technologists (With Dr. Eli Thorkelson)
Nov 07, 2023
The Docs are In: Docs Like Code (With Anne Gentle)
Nov 07, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Developer Led Adoption and Oracle Database 23c Free (With Gerald Venzl)
Nov 07, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Spicy Takes, Platform Engineering, and Dynamic Configuration Management (With Drew Oetzel)
Nov 07, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: What's the role of generative AI in production ops? (With Anurag Gupta)
Nov 06, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: Shifting Architecture Left (With Amir Rapson)
Nov 06, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: The Burden of Shifting Left (With John Amaral)
Nov 06, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: The State of Mobile Experience (With Andrew Tunall and Virna Sekuj)
Nov 06, 2023
The Docs are In: Exploring the Intersection of Tech Comm and Academia (With Dr. Liz Hutter and Dr. Halcyon Lawrence)
Nov 06, 2023
The Docs Are in: the Taylor Swift Episode (with Dr. Casey Alane Wilson)
Nov 06, 2023
A RedMonk Conversation: The JavaScript Ecosystem and Developer Relations (With Tracy Lee)
Nov 06, 2023
Digital Humanities, Open Source, and Communities of Learning (With Dr. Lisa Tagliaferri)
Nov 03, 2023
Leadership Challenges with Infrastructure Automation (With Rob Hirschfeld)
Nov 03, 2023
The Docs Are In: From Academic to AI Startup Founder (With Allen Romano)
Nov 03, 2023
Organizing Tech Conferences and Java Users Groups (With Vincent Mayers)
Nov 03, 2023
Feature platforms - the data foundation for production ML applications (With Gaetan Castelein)
Oct 30, 2023
AI and Observability (With Elastic's Gagan Singh)
Oct 30, 2023
The Docs Are In: Snark as Rhetoric (With Corey Quinn)
Oct 25, 2023
Better Security, Faster (With Varun Badhwar)
Oct 24, 2023
AI and IT Automation (With Kaete Piccirilli, Ansible)
Oct 24, 2023
The Docs are In: A History of AI (With Dr. Tobias Wilson-Bates)
Oct 19, 2023