James Governor
James, aka @Monkchips is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy and analytics.
The Quickening: a keynote about software development velocity at New Relic’s Futurestack 2018 Conference
This week I gave a keynote at New Relic’s FutureStack conference in SF. Isaac Eldridge did a great write up here – 10 Thoughts on Modern Software from RedMonk’s James Governor. You really need to read his post. Here is my own summary though: Everything is accelerating in business, and the stakes are higher than ever. […]
Towards Progressive Delivery
At RedMonk we generally try to avoid coming up with new terms for technologies and trends – after all, where there is an available term in common use why not just adopt it?. The pragmatic approach means we often end up using terms that seem kind of silly (Ajax, noSQL, Serverless, Cloud even) , but […]
No more tin ear. Google plays the game
In my twenties I was hard work: I was too clever by half. I questioned everything. I had problems with authority. I made things harder for myself and others than I needed to, or should have done. Hopefully I have mellowed a bit, but these characteristics certainly defined me then. One of my bosses, a […]
Some thoughts on Docker post DockerCon 2018
Some impressions from DockerCon. It’s been a month or so since the event, but I didn’t need to be first with coverage. Docker is increasingly a context for business to get done. It struck me for example was how busy the exhibition hall was. Vendors I spoke to with booths were very happy with the […]
Atomist–making software development observable, programmable
I recently sat down with the cofounders of Atomist Rod Johnson and Ryan Day to discuss the state of software development today and how their platform meets the needs of companies undertaking digital transformation and replatforming projects. Organisations are being told to break down monoliths into hundreds, if not thousands, of services but […]
On putting together better keynotes and conferences – stretches and petting zoos
Major tech conferences and their keynotes are often grueling rather than enjoyable. By the time you’re 2 hours into a keynote and there is no sign of an end it becomes an endurance contest. We all have our favorite examples – “oh my god do you remember that time we thought we were done at […]
Rancher Labs: Treating Cattle like Cattle
Rancher Labs recently ran an analyst day in San Francisco. The event had thirteen customer speakers, which, given Rancher claims to have 200 paying customers, is a pretty decent chunk of the installed base. The talks were high on signal and low on noise – every speaker had interesting technical insights to impart. Rancher […]
Kubernetes won – so now what?
One of the questions my colleague Stephen is adept at asking and answering is of the form: “You won, so now what?” On the flight home from Kubecon 2018 recently it struck me that this frame is appropriate for a discussion of the state of the union. Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container […]
On Hortonworks, data management and mind blown by GDPR. First notes from Dataworks 2018
At its DataWorks Summit 2018 in Barcelona this week Hortonworks set out its stall for the next stage in its evolution. A year ago it was looking like the Cloud would simply eat the Big Data market, but geopolitical concerns, and enterprise inertia, have combined to create a somewhat more nuanced picture. Hortonworks argues the […]
Monki Gras 2018: what happened?
We came, we saw, we celebrated craft jeans. I am really proud of the work we did this year. Well… apart from the sound proof curtains. Spoiler alert- they don’t work. From the perspective of a curator I always hope to see resonances between talks, shadow and light and interplay between different ideas, emergent themes […]
