The MonkCast

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 of learning (do we have any Catherine of Siena fans out there?), and how this all relates to open source communities. Also of interest: Lisa's experiences with her DH graduate seminar, her work at Chainguard, and how academic training can translate to a career in tech. This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on July 31, 2023.

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 challenge), and the ongoing battle with organizational silos. Also of interest: why some organizations who have moved workloads to the cloud are moving them back to bare metal. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on August 3, 2023.

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 Conversation was originally published in video form on September 26, 2023.

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 originally published in video form on September 11, 2023.

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 Conversation was originally published in video form on September 19, 2023.

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 communication style (best characterized by terms such as “snarky” and “$#@!posting”), his vehement support of technical documentation, and why you want to hire well if you hope to get to 500 podcast episodes. This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on October 30, 2023.

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 Labs' CEO Varun Badhwar we'll explore those questions and more as we rethink the traditional approach to enterprise security. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on October 12, 2023.

Kaete Piccirilli (Director of Product Marketing, Red Hat Ansible) joins RedMonk's Kelly Fitzpatrick for a conversation on Red Hat Ansible's domain-specific approach to generative AI. Also of interest: the concerns Kaete and Kelly are hearing from customers around generative AI; an overview of Ansible Lightspeed--a generative AI tool accessed from within VS Code that helps accelerate the creation of automation content such as playbooks; and a discussion of what the intersection of generative AI and IT automation might mean for technical practitioners and their teams. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on October 23, 2023.

RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff and Tobias Wilson-Bates, Assistant Professor at Georgia Gwinnett College, dig into the history and future of AI. Dr. Wilson-Bates discusses examples of artificial intelligence in Western culture including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Karel Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots. They speak about how large language models and machine learning are disrupting the domains of education, labor, and the commons. This Docs Are In was originally published in video form on October 17, 2023.