James Governor

London

Analyst, Co-Founder at RedMonk

redmonk co-founder, sunshine in a bag, industry analyst loves developers, "motivating in a surreal kind of way". came up with "progressive delivery". he/him

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Software Delivery Governance and Compliance, but make it automated

1 month ago | redmonk.com | James Governor

Business is essentially software-driven these days and in the era of AI generated code the need for better software delivery compliance tools has never been more critical. For companies in regulated industries, and those simply seeking higher quality software delivery, with processes and effective controls, compliance was already a significant challenge. Compliance and audit are closely related, and too often the approach has been to wait until the audit happens, and then hustle and hope.
Monki Gras 2025- it’s going to be fire. Sustainable Open Source and Pragmatic takes on AI.

Mar 13, 2025 | redmonk.com | James Governor

I encourage you to come to my intimate, inclusive (yeah we still care a lot about that), conference Monki Gras in London March 27th/28th. It’s about sustaining software craft in uncertain times. Expect interesting OSS maintainer talks, personal journeys and pragmatic takes on adoption of AI. The show is set to be a banger.
AI disruption - code editors are up for grabs

Feb 21, 2025 | redmonk.com | James Governor

One of the surprisingly sticky parts of IT infrastructure over recent decades is, weirdly enough, the code editor or IDE. Sure, backend databases and transaction systems may have a long shelf life, but developers are like baby ducks with their mothers – once they imprint on an editor they’re Emacs or Vim for life. But suddenly we’re in a position where there is a surprising amount of turbulence in the market for editors.
Developer Engagement: How Cloudinary drives 45,000 registrations a month with YouTube

Nov 13, 2024 | redmonk.com | James Governor

Cloudinary is an API-first image and video manipulation service. It takes images and videos and resizes or crops them, for portrait or landscape say, or makes AI-based edits. While not perhaps as well known a name as an API-driven business as Stripe or Twilio, it has built a successful business at scale by appealing to developers. The customer list is shiny – enterprise companies like Puma, FC Bayern Munich, Guess, Levi’s, Paul Smith, Puma and Rapha.
Observability as a Day Zero Operation

Sep 25, 2024 | redmonk.com | James Governor

Applications, services and infrastructures are becoming ever more distributed. Meanwhile expectations for fast feedback loops and iterations in the software delivery process are greater than ever. Today we build systems with an expectation that they will fail – so you better have excellent troubleshooting tools. You need to watch and understand the system at baseline, and be ready to deal with surprises.
Open Source Foundations Considered Helpful

Sep 13, 2024 | redmonk.com | James Governor

In the era of the open source rug pull, the role of open source foundations is more important than ever. The “rug pull” here refers to companies that have used open source as a distribution mechanism, building a community and user base, before changing the license to be restricted, rather than truly open source. “This is capitalism, yo. We’ve got shareholders to satisfy. It’s time to relicense that software, move to a Business Source license.”. Why does open source even matter?
Why you should attend the State of Open Conference 2024 in London this week

Feb 5, 2024 | redmonk.com | James Governor

This week it’s The State of Open Conference 2024 at The Brewery, London. It was great last year. I heartily recommend you attend. As I said on twitter last year:The UK now has its own OSCON. the event will happen again and will go from strength to strength. Attendees and speakers were a who’s who of open source, open hardware and open culture people generally. The open data track was particularly lively.
RedMonk beers at Kubecon

Oct 30, 2023 | redmonk.com | James Governor

RedMonk beers are going to be a blast at Kubecon this year. We’ve found just the place, which reflects what we’re all about. The venue is called Maria’s Packaged Goods and Community Bar – described as a “Hybrid liquor store & neighborhood tavern supplying a large rotating menu of rare craft beers.” It has plenty of outdoor space. Rare craft beers, community and outdoor seating? Definitely on brand. Definitely our vibe.
DevSecOps and Progressive Delivery at Dunelm - modern enterprise development practices

Oct 24, 2023 | redmonk.com | James Governor

I saw a great presentation from Dunelm, the UK’s leading home furnishings retailer, at GitLab’s DevSecOps world tour event in London recently. The company has clearly successfully retooled for ecommerce – with a builder mentality, and engineering practices that should stand it in good stead. The company is accelerating its transformation – in 2022 it was doing 11 production deployments a day. Now, in 2023, it’s doing 26.
Introducing the AI Bill of Materials

Oct 18, 2023 | redmonk.com | James Governor

What’s in the black box? As we go forward we will need a model and machine readable bill of materials. It’s becoming increasingly clear that we’re going to need an AI bill of Materials (AIBOM). Just as with a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), there are a set of potentially important questions when we take advantage of an AI model, which we’re just not set up to meaningfully answer at the moment.