The MonkCast

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, aiming to spur diverse creativity and innovation. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 31, 2024.

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 pubished in video form on June 3, 2024.

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.

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 creating a stateful connection back to the client, so you can create a live connection. It's about doing one thing well. Composing services that scale with a great DX to make developers more productive. Why not just use Kafka, for real time? What's the difference? And why WebSockets again? This video delves into all that. Is it worth building your own real time architecture using AWS services? Lots of questions and in this episode you'll get some interesting answers. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on September 14, 2022.

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 who are not technical writers to produce effective documentation (while teaching them about tech writing along the way), and how to make open source “sticky” by helping contributors to get started with projects while also creating supportive communities around them. This Docs Are In episode was originally published in video form on January 19, 2023.

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 for fostering patient-medical professional communication. This Docs Are In episode was originally published in video form on May 9, 2024.

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 CICS. Olson explains why IBM will allow customers to use AI for specific use cases while maintaining data privacy, security and customer trust. IBM also offers IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, to enable operators to be more productive in using Ansible infrastructure as code for large scale systems. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on May 8, 2024.

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.

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 interest: a research project on code review anxiety, and the creative process behind Carol's webcomic, Thriving Blobs. This Docs Are In episode was originally published in video form on April 25, 2024.

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 AI solution to help address these enterprise AI concerns. Join Stephens and Singh as they discuss how enterprises are adopting this technology, how VMware thinks about privacy and risk when it comes to AI, and how enterprises can orchestrate AI workloads to be part of their broader technology solutions. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on April 22, 2024.