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The MonkCast — 192 episodes

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VKS: One Platform for VMs and Containers with Audrey Bian

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From Data Center Crawler to DevRel with Chris Williams

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Beyond the Hypervisor: Developing with Ubuntu on VCF

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"Absolute AI Maximalist" Adam Jacob on Building Software That Builds Software

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Sovereignty Meets Simplicity for VMware by Broadcom at KubeCon EU 2026 w Timmy Carr & Himanshu Singh

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Chopping Wood, Carrying Water: VMware by Broadcom's Open Source Story at KubeCon EU 2026

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"Data Is What I Can Control": Why Your AI Strategy Starts at the Data Layer with Boris Bialek

8

Mike Basios on Why AI-Era Engineering Needs a Measurement-First Approach

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SDKs in the AI Era with Kin Lane

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From Clouderatti to theCUBE with Stu Miniman

11

How The Eclipse SDV is Revolutionizing Open Source Automotive (with Ansgar Lindwedel)

12

Mapping Complexity from Cynefin to Wardley with Chris Corriere

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Alex Moore on Open Web Advocacy and Why “Innovation Doesn’t Come from the Gatekeepers”

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GitLab’s Intelligent Orchestration Platform with Özer Dondurmacıoğlu

15

How Daniel Stenberg, Founder of curl, is Navigating the AI Onslop

16

Navigating Bare Metal Automation with Rob Hirschfeld

17

Wes Bos on Why Design's Making a Comeback in 2026

18

Complex, Not Complicated

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Dynatrace and the Observability Market

20

Mark Fussell on Dapr, Simple APIs, & Distributed Systems

21

Mike Hartington on the State of Mobile Development & Why CI/CD is Still So Hard

22

Context Engineering in Practice: How Atlassian Is Building AI for Real Developer Work with Kun Chen

23

A New Take on the Terminal with Zach Lloyd

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From Light Bulbs to Large Language Models: Jamie Dobson on Technology's Relay Race Through History

25

AWS Developer Experience State of the Nation with Ali Spittel

26

Inside AWS's Agentic AI Marketing Strategy with Ali Maaz & Jessie VanderVeen

27

Al Harris On Kiro And Spec-Driven Development

28

From Containers to Kiro: AI and DX at AWS with Deepak Singh

29

Alex Russell on PWAs, App Stores, and Mobile Performance

30

Java at 30 with Sharat Chander

31

Introduction to local AI models (with AMD's Anush Elangovan)

32

David Mytton on Arcjet’s Vision for Developer Security

33

Fear is the Startup Killer: Jack Bridger on Founders, Differentiation, & DevTools

34

Why the Python Software Foundation Withdrew a $1.5 Million US Government Grant Proposal (w Deb Nicholson)

35

Meet Bob, IBM's Agentic IDE (with Matt Rodkey at IBM TechXchange 2025)

36

WASM and Edge Compute: Building a Performant Cloud with Akamai and Fermyon

37

Austin Parker on AI, Olly, & OTel

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Kate Soule on Granite 4.0 at IBM TechXchange 2025

39

Bedrock Streaming: From CDN to compute for 50M+ people (w Pascal Martin & Valentin Clavreul)

40

CRA – The First Horizontal Regulation of the Software Industry (with Mike Milinkovich)

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"Good docs are still good docs": AX, DX, & LLMs (with Taylor Barnett-Torabi & Lyle Schemmerling)

42

AI's Grumpy-Fun Era (with Rachel Stephens, Kate Holterhoff, & James Governor)

43

Tales from Agency Life (with Emily Winck and Jess Burns)

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Clare Liguori on Kiro & AI Spec-Driven Software Development

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An update on VMware Cloud Foundation (with Prashanth Shenoy)

46

Martin Rojas talks Tech Meetups, AI Guilds, Micro Frontends, & More!

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The New AWS Free Tier (with Bowen Wang)

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Jason Torres on Developer Hiring, Community, & Content

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Kat Cosgrove on The Chaos and Care of Shipping Kubernetes

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How Shawn (swyx) Wang Defines the AI Engineer

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Jeremy Meiss on DevRel & the Mire of Ineffables

52

The Future of Hashicorp and IBM: A Fireside Chat (with Armon Dadgar and Tarun Chopra)

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Daniel Roe on Vercel's NuxtLabs Acquisition

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Bob Quillin talks Observability, OpenTelemetry & ControlTheory

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Jacob Leverich chats Observe and the Future of Observability

56

The Evolution of AI Agents (with Srini Iragavarapu)

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Introducing Agentic DevOps (with Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Gene Kim)

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Matt Klein on why Mobile Observability Lags Behind Server Observability

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Ori Saporta on the Architect’s Role In Crisis

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Justin Reock on Why Java Devs Use Apache ActiveMQ

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Microsoft Build 2025 Announcements with GitHub's Mario Rodriguez

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Amok, Amok, Amok; or, the State of OSS in 2025 (MonkCast with the Monks)

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devopsdays Atlanta 2025 - E2 - (with Rachel-Lee Nabors, Nathen Harvey, Pratik Parikh & Kimasia Ayers)

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Automated Governance and Compliance in Software Delivery. What to Even Call This?

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devopsdays Atlanta 2025 - E1 - (with Andrew Clay Shafer, John Willis, & Katie Anderson)

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Do Frontend Developers Want Frontend Observability? (with Todd Gardner)

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Science Fiction, the Hacker Ethic, & We Just Build Hammers (with Coraline Ada Ehmke)

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John O'Hara, Inventor of AMQP, on Why Standards are Worth Persevering With

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RabbitMQ Was Designed for the Cloud Era (with Alexis Richardson)

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Andrew Hutchings on the WordPress War

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Ram Iyengar on DevX at Cloud Foundry from cf push to Korifi

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Cloud Foundry's Paketo Buildpacks (with Ram Iyengar)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Thomas Dohmke Chats AI Agents and Shower Coding

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Making Docs Better for AI and Humans (with Jennifer Marandola)

75

Psychology, Technological Innovation, and Why We Need Science (with Dr. Cat Hicks)

76

How GitHub is Getting Beginners into Git (with Kedasha Kerr and Andrea Griffiths)

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Jason Lengstorf from Screamo to CodeTV

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How GitHub Education Aspires to Reach 1 Billion Developers (with Avni Khatri Fein)

79

Making Container Isolation a Reality with Alex Zenla

80

What is an Agentic App and How to Build One (w/ Jeff Morris, Couchbase)

81

A RedMonk Conversation with Derek Collison, "the Forrest Gump of Messaging"

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Cassidy Williams Talks Companionable Coding & GitHub Copilot

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Zack Chapple on Zephyr Cloud, Micro Frontends, and Module Federation

84

GitLab Duo, Agentic AI, and the SDLC in 2025 (with Emilio Salvador)

85

JJ Tang on Incident Management, Cold Emailing CEOs, and the Origins of Rootly

86

Ryan Dahl on the Deno v Oracle Petition

87

How Daytona is Simplifying Development Environments (with Ivan Burazin)

88

Why Engineering Orgs Should be Thinking About Mobile SLOs (w Andrew Tunall)

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Erin Schnabel on the Commonhaus Foundation

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E-commerce at the Edge: How Yottaa uses Fastly for Compute, WAF and Analytics

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Claire Vo on LaunchDarkly’s Culture of Experimentation

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LaunchDarkly’s Dan Rogers on AI’s Transformative Impact in Feature Management

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How LaunchDarkly’s Guarded Releases Mitigate Risk with Manish Gupta

94

A RedMonk Conversation: YouTube for Dev Engagement, How Cloudinary Will Grow From 2M to 5M users.

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Wesley Faulkner on the Developer Relations Foundation

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Why Dr. Scott Stephenson is Building Voice AI

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Andy Stanford-Clark and Clemens Vasters on a History and Evolution of Messaging

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Observability 2.0, Dev Tools, and Debugging with Tom Johnson

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System Design is a Team Sport with Tom Johnson

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Stop Diagramming, Start Designing with Tom Johnson

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Kelly Shortridge Talks Security at Fastly

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Dan Moore on Newsletters, Authenticity, and Sweating the Assets

103

A RedMonk Conversation: Natalia Venditto and Igor Minar on the Future of Frontend Workloads

104

A RedMonk Conversation: The Role of Observability in Day Zero Operations

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A RedMonk Conversation: CRMs and Codifying Business Processes with Steve Bussey

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A RedMonk Conversation: Andrew Boyagi talks Atlassian's 2024 State of Developer Experience Report

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A RedMonk Conversation: Luis Villa on the AI Compliance Dumpster Fire and Doing the Right Thing

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A RedMonk Conversation: Jay Miller on the Satanic Panic of Developer Relations and the AI Chainsaw

109

A RedMonk Conversation: How Fastly is Keeping Open Source Sustainable in the Age of the Licensing Rug Pull

110

A RedMonk Conversation: You Don't Need to be Afraid of the Bleeding Edge (in Tech Adoption)

111

A RedMonk Conversation: Adam Rackis on Web Development and Red-Eye Flights

112

Generative AI is Changing How Developers Work (with Adam Seligman)

113

How Coding Bootcamps Leverage AI, Corporate Partnerships, and Community Building (with Tina-Marie Gulley)

114

A RedMonk Conversation: Using Jamstack with Cloudflare (With Nevi Shah)

115

A Quickish Take on VMs (with Stephen O'Grady)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Local First, Cryptographic Proofs, and Data Anywhere with J Chris Anderson

117

The New Builders: AI - Built on Open Source (With Julia Ferraioli)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Sean McQuaid - from Waffle Fries to TypeScript

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A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Training Data - What You Need to Know (With Jason Warner)

120

A RedMonk Conversation: Useable Security is the Best Security (with Avi Douglen)

121

A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 2 (With Diya Winn)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Responsible AI - Part 1 (With Diya Winn)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Why You Should Come to Fastly Xcelerate London 2024 (With Simon Wistow)

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The New Builders: Tom Callaway talks about Building OSS Culture at AWS

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A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of Open Source and AI (With Matt Hicks and Ruchir Puri)

126

A RedMonk Conversation: Serverless WebSockets and the Serverless Stack (With Matthew O'Riordan)

127

The Docs Are In: Making OSS Sticky (With Alyssa Rock)

128

The Docs Are In: Communication and Nursing Education (With Dr. Rebekah Greene)

129

A RedMonk Conversation: Generative AI for Application Modernization on System z (With Keri Olson)

130

The Docs Are In: Certifications (With Dr. Kate Holterhoff)

131

The Docs are In: Clinical Psychology, Scientific Rigor, and Developer Success (With Dr. Carol Lee)

132

A RedMonk Conversation: Private AI (With Himanshu Singh, VMware by Broadcom)

133

The Docs Are In: Tech Writing & Jigsaw Puzzles (With Ember Stevens)

134

A RedMonk Conversation: LLMs and Secrets Management (With Eric Fourrier, CEO of GitGuardian)

135

A RedMonk Conversation: Do You Need to Care About Edge? (With Rita Kozlov)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Software Delivery Into Heterogeneous Environments at Scale (With Marc Campbell)

137

A RedMonk Conversation: Engaging with Developers on Hacker News (With Dan Moore)

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A RedMonk Conversation: The Intersection of App Development and Databases in 2021 (With Ed Anuff)

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A RedMonk Conversation with Developer Certification Enthusiast Justin Wheeler

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A RedMonk Conversation: What’s Up with Cloud Optionality? (With Betty Junod, Senior Director of Multi-Cloud Solutions at VMware)

141

A RedMonk Conversation: A Frontend Optimized Database Stack (With Carl Sverre)

142

A Quick(ish) Take On Fast Cars: RedMonk Talks AWS Technology in F1™

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A RedMonk Conversation: Transactions at Scale, Bonkers Numbers (With Boris Bialek)

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A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Custom Silicon at Annapurna Labs (with Chetan Kapoor, AWS)

145

The Docs are In: WASM and Philosophy (with Dr. Matt Butcher)

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A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Developer Productivity (Task, Team, Time) with Emilio Salvador, GitLab

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A RedMonk Conversation: AI and Trust (Transparency and Security) with David DeSanto, GitLab

148

A RedMonk Conversation: CNCF’s Environmental Sustainability TAG (With Niki Manoledaki)

149

A RedMonk Conversation: Frontend & Prototyping at IBM (With Stephane Rodet)

150

A RedMonk Conversation: GraphQL, towards a declarative model for a web of next gen APIs (With Anant Jhingran)

151

A Redmonk Conversation: Shifting Cost Optimisation Left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights (With Saunak "Jai" Chakrabarti, Meera Srinivasan, and Tim Hansen)

152

A RedMonk Conversation: Misconceptions about Observability, Errors Matter in APM (With David Cramer)

153

The Docs are In: An Examined Life in DevX Engineering with Dr. Ryan Feigenbaum

154

A RedMonk Conversation: Industry’s Tardy Response to the AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability (With Simon Willison)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Open Source and Security (With Vincent Danen)

156

A RedMonk Conversation: An Enterprise’s Journey to Building a Platform (With Johan Marais, Discovery Limited)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Attracting Developers and Keeping Top Talent (With Chris Wright, Red Hat)

158

The Docs Are In: Spicy Takes on Documentation (With Sam Kleinman)

159

A Redmonk Conversation: Modern Java runtimes - No Regrets energy efficiency with Quarkus and GraalVM (With Holly Cummins)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Sustainable Software and Systems - Lightswitch Ops for the Triple Win (With Holly Cummins)

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The Docs Are In: Documentation - the Bridgework of OSS (With Abigail McCarthy)

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A RedMonk Conversation: SBOMs (With Josh Bressers from Anchore)

163

A RedMonk Conversation: Why Distributed Storage? (With Anthony Dutra and Morgan Littlewood)

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A RedMonk Conversation: The Developer Experience Gap (With Zenhub’s Aaron Upright)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Low Code to Full Stack: it's about the apps (With Matthias Steiner)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Site Reliability Engineering at Red Hat (With Narayanan Raghavan)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Cloud Development Environments (With Ketan Gangatirkar)

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A RedMonk Conversation: What is the DevOps Experience Gap? (With Divanny Lamas)

169

The Docs are In: Upskilling Insights from a Podcaster & Solution Architect at Red Hat (With Angela Andrews)

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A RedMonk Conversation: IBM Sustainability Accelerator (With Michael Jacobs)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Haptics, Hallucinations, Retrieval-Augmentation and the multi-model LLM future (With Malte Pietsch)

172

The Docs Are In: ‘I thought there would be cake’ & other eulogies of academics turned technologists (With Dr. Eli Thorkelson)

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The Docs are In: Docs Like Code (With Anne Gentle)

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A RedMonk Conversation: Developer Led Adoption and Oracle Database 23c Free (With Gerald Venzl)

175

A RedMonk Conversation: Spicy Takes, Platform Engineering, and Dynamic Configuration Management (With Drew Oetzel)

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A RedMonk Conversation: What's the role of generative AI in production ops? (With Anurag Gupta)

177

A RedMonk Conversation: Shifting Architecture Left (With Amir Rapson)

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A RedMonk Conversation: The Burden of Shifting Left (With John Amaral)

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A RedMonk Conversation: The State of Mobile Experience (With Andrew Tunall and Virna Sekuj)

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The Docs are In: Exploring the Intersection of Tech Comm and Academia (With Dr. Liz Hutter and Dr. Halcyon Lawrence)

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The Docs Are in: the Taylor Swift Episode (with Dr. Casey Alane Wilson)

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A RedMonk Conversation: The JavaScript Ecosystem and Developer Relations (With Tracy Lee)

183

Digital Humanities, Open Source, and Communities of Learning (With Dr. Lisa Tagliaferri)

184

Leadership Challenges with Infrastructure Automation (With Rob Hirschfeld)

185

The Docs Are In: From Academic to AI Startup Founder (With Allen Romano)

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Organizing Tech Conferences and Java Users Groups (With Vincent Mayers)

187

Feature platforms - the data foundation for production ML applications (With Gaetan Castelein)

188

AI and Observability (With Elastic's Gagan Singh)

189

The Docs Are In: Snark as Rhetoric (With Corey Quinn)

190

Better Security, Faster (With Varun Badhwar)

191

AI and IT Automation (With Kaete Piccirilli, Ansible)

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The Docs are In: A History of AI (With Dr. Tobias Wilson-Bates)