James Governor
James, aka @Monkchips is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy and analytics.
On Open Source Dependencies, GitHub, Gender, Philosophy of Science and the nature of Self
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu Recently I posted about GitHub. One reason it took me so long to write the piece was the amount of thinking time I gave it. Why should a report about a tech conference require that much attention? One reason is that I was deeply inspired by the event. When the framing narrative concerns […]
Thomas Kurian and Google Cloud: convenience is the killer app
Pretty much the first words from Thomas Kurian to analysts at Google Cloud Next 2019 were: “Customer empathy – you have to understand where they are, how you can help them. Every legacy system exists for a reason. Meet customers where they are and be deeply sympathetic.” Empathy, sympathy, legacy. All of those words […]
Is it time to be afraid of IBM again?
On the face of it the question would seem clearly amenable to the adage that for any headline with a question mark in it the answer is no. But a couple of months ago at a conference I was talking to someone steeped in the world of open source standardisation, having been part of the […]
Sympathy for the DevRel
I recently gave the closing keynote at DevRelCon in London, run by Matt Revell and Tamao Nakahara. The conference is building momentum nicely – the first was held above a shop in Shoreditch in 2015, but this year it was held at the QEII center in Westminster. I really wanted to do a good job, […]
On Tech, Power and Responsibility. Notes from Nice
I recently gave the closing keynote address at DevOps world, hosted by CloudBees, in Nice. The conference was excellent. Jenkins is a mature technology and community, but it’s ready for change, under pressure from a raft of new entrants. Rather than digging in its heels, the community is looking to the future, admitting Jenkins’ flaws […]
Pivotal: transactions, Kubernetes, and taking an axe to long term support.
I recently attended Spring One Platform (S1P), Pivotal’s annual developer and user conference, in Washington, DC. Pivotal had invited me to speak at their executive briefing conference, so the CIO access was really good. I came away with a few impressions I wanted to share. Transaction Volumes Customer after customer made it clear they […]
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 […]
