James Governor
James, aka @Monkchips is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy and analytics.
Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat
Yesterday I attended Red Hat’s European analyst day at the Tate Modern art gallery. Here are some of thoughts based on what I heard. So it turns out Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat. By that I mean Red Hat sticks to the knitting, carries water and chops wood, and generally just […]
Open source – we need better pathways so inclusion can flourish
Running a conference with a really strong cohort of diversity scholars this week, with a broad range of skills and backgrounds, really made me think. We had Ian Skerrett, VP of marketing at the Eclipse Foundation, and Abby Kearns, executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation at the event. Both are keen to improve diversity […]
Why data transformation is the new digital transformation, post Equifax
Data transformation is the new digital transformation from James Governor This morning I spoke to the International Payments 2017 conference with a talk about data transformation. I have written about this theme before, and they asked me to turn the ideas into a talk. It’s an interesting conference – because the payments industry is in […]
Thingmonk 2017: our community is getting richer
I am not exactly a kaizen exponent. To be honest I don’t find the continuous improvement mindset easy or natural. But one area we are undoubtedly doing better every time is our diversity scholarship program for RedMonk events. I have been knocked out by the quality of the scholars yet again. So many lovely, smart […]
Java’s late flowering, Solaris cut back to roots.
At the risk of starting from the beginning, which is somewhat unfashionable these days in these days of Netflix box sets with complex chronologies, I am going to start at the beginning. Java, the language, was introduced on May 23, 1995, just as the Internet took off. Netscape’s initial public offering was just a couple […]
ICYMI – Thingmonk is Back. A Diverse, Welcoming, Community Conference about the Internet of Things
It has come to my attention that not all of you got the memo, so I just wanted to step up again. Summer is over, and Thingmonk is here to once again kick off the Autumn/Winter Season 2017. Our program is looking better than ever this year: with crisp and interesting talks on data, user […]
Notes from the field – Spring Boot at Tesla and New Relic
I have written and spoken about Java’s staying power a lot over the years. It continues to be a thing. The rise of cloud native companies, disrupting industries, was seen by some as presaging the end of Java. But when startups grow up they turn into Java shops, or at least start extensively using Java. […]
Amazon Web Services joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation – what does it mean?
Last week Amazon Web Services (AWS) joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Platinum member, giving it a seat on the board, and an opportunity to blunt potential competitive threats. While other major cloud players are a long way behind AWS, the Anyone But Amazon Club has been establishing a solid technical […]
When production is your test lab – what is “canarying”?
If you’ve attended an infrastructure conference recently, particularly of the “cloud native” variety, you’ll likely have heard the term “canarying”. If you don’t know what that means you’ve probably nodded along sagely and thought, oh I better look that up. I’ll do it when I look up “smoke testing”. So anyway – what is […]
So What’s Up with Oracle Cloud?
I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down I caught up with the Oracle Cloud team recently at the Electricity Showrooms in London. It was interesting to see what’s up. […]
