James Governor
James, aka @Monkchips is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy and analytics.
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 […]
Sustaining Craft – quick roundup on Apache, BTC, Pineapple, IBM mainframes and FutureGov
When you’re curating a conference you tend to see everything through the lens of that event. At the moment I am in full Monki Gras mode. The conference is on the 1st and 2nd of February 2018 in Shoreditch, London. The theme is Sustaining Craft. Where last year we examined packaging, convenience and disposability, this […]
When sustainable fashion jumps out as a theme at ur tech conference
When I started looking for talks and examples of sustaining the craft for Monki Gras I didn’t have fashion in mind. But Mazz Mosley, lead backend engineer at Unmade proposed a talk, and now a few other examples have emerged. The Unmade story is cool. Not least because I was thinking just this morning how personalisation […]
On AWS and Pivotal, opinions and overlaps
After a couple of back to back weeks in which I attended AWS re:Invent and SpringOne Platform, with a little time since to think about what I had learned, I got to thinking about the nature of Opinion as Code. Frankly we shouldn’t expect AWS to be too opinionated. Just consider Amazon’s heritage. It began […]
Convenience is the killer app: on consumer choices and developer experience
A couple of weeks ago I gave the closing keynote at the MongoDB Europe conference. I was there to talk about the awesome power of convenience. When we’re making decisions, that hit of dopamine doesn’t just give us a nudge, it grabs, puts the seat belt on, and drives us from A to B with […]
Kubernetes with the Go faster stripes: golang’s velocity advantage
I was talking to Adrian Cockcroft, VP Cloud Architecture Strategy at Amazon Web Services, today about the incredible pace of development and feature velocity that Kubernetes has sustained over the past couple of years when he raised an interesting point about why. What if Kubernetes is moving so fast because it’s written in Go? It’s one […]
On Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services and Beautiful Pull Requests
I attended Microsoft Connect 2017, a one day conference in New York City. There were a few headline technologies and announcements worth noting but the platform that really caught my eye was Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). One reason VSTS got my attention was that it was previously something I had discounted. In a world of […]
Tesla – a personal trainer for the world
Earlier this year I was invited by IBM to an event in Munich. There were a bunch of automotive firms there, talking about the future. At dinner, I was lucky enough sit a table with folks from some of these companies. It was a real eye opener – what struck me was that everyone from […]
It’s not data science but this one surprised me a bit: on Golang
While quick and dirty Google Trends is definitely not data science it can be useful for a sniff test. I was working on a client project today, when I thought I would look at search interest over time. Rails- we’d expect to be tailing off a bit. Node.js – I actually expected to see more […]
