In this RedMonk Conversation, James Governor sits down with Kun Chen, Lead Principal Engineer at Atlassian, to explore what “context engineering” really means in practice—and why it matters far more than one-shot “vibe coding” demos for real software teams. Drawing on Atlassian’s internal experience building Rovo Dev, Kun explains how AI agents become genuinely useful when they are grounded in the lived context of professional development: Jira history, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines, incidents, and organizational standards. The discussion covers how Rovo Dev reduces developer toil, integrates directly into existing workflows and leverages emerging standards such as MCP to stay extensible. Along the way, they dig into hard engineering tradeoffs around models, tokens, cost, and signal-to-noise in code review, and look ahead to a future where AI agents take on more autonomy—shifting the bottleneck from writing code to deciding what’s worth building. https://lnkd.in/efEFnEgp
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Whether it’s crunching public adoption numbers to make a recommendation to product teams on new programming languages to support, helping marketing craft developer-friendly messaging or helping senior leadership understand emerging developer-led trends and their implications, RedMonk exists to help companies understand and work with developers. We see a different world than most. We see: * A world increasingly dominated by the practitioner: the developer, designer, DBA, sysadmin or operator. * A world increasingly driven by bottom up adoption of open source software and cloud based hardware. * A world in which much of the software we deploy was built by Web companies. * A world in which decision making is distributed and social. * A world in which the kingmakers aren’t enterprise salespeople wearing expensive shoes and crisp blue cotton shirts, but hackers in t-shirts writing code. When we founded RedMonk in 2002, things were different. Other industry analyst firms were all about purchasing driven technology adoption, understanding dominant big vendors that sold software to a few senior executives in 18 month sales cycles, who then foisted their choices on to developers in the trenches. But we saw the change coming and helped the industry understand and prepare for it. With each year that passes, our thesis that developers are the New Kingmakers becomes less controversial. But even as the technology world has come around to the idea that developers are important, the question becomes: how best to engage with these new kingmakers? That’s what we do at RedMonk every day. If you’re looking for an analyst or research firm that understands developers, and is easy and fun to work with, we should talk.
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Hooray! The talks from the 2025 #Monktoberfest are now live. Enjoy them all here: https://lnkd.in/e-tsAghu
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Hooray! The talks from the 2025 #Monktoberfest are now live. Enjoy them all here: https://lnkd.in/e-tsAghu
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For this New Builders, hear Stephen O'Grady chat with Ali Spittel, Head of DevRel at Amazon Web Services (AWS), about the importance of developer experience, how the role of developers is evolving, and the new challenges and opportunities devs face in the AI era. https://lnkd.in/ewe4c-GW
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For this New Builders conversation, Kate Holterhoff, Ph.D. speaks with Jessie VanderVeen, JD, MBA, Global Head of Product Marketing, Agentic AI, Developer Experience at AWS, and Ali Maaz, Head of WW GTM, Agentic AI and Developer Experience at AWS, about how Amazon Web Services (AWS) is approaching the crowded agentic IDE market. They discuss the importance of customer obsession, AWS's unique launch strategy for their agentic IDE Kiro, and the lessons learned from integrating AI into developer workflows. Their conversation touches on the balance between speed and reliability in AI development, the evolving definition of developers, and the future of developer workflows with AI, emphasizing the need for authenticity in marketing AI tools to developers. https://lnkd.in/evXFCHVP
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Hear Al Harris, Principal Engineer at AWS, and Rachel Stephens as they discuss natural language systems aimed at helping developers translate specifications into code and vice versa, particularly as it relates to AWS’s agentic IDE, Kiro. The conversation explores the significance of this translation process, the challenges faced in natural language processing, and the potential future of software development with AI integration. https://lnkd.in/eh9CwZpr
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Hear Deepak Singh, VP of Agents and Experience at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and James Governor discuss the evolution of developer tools, particularly in the context of generative AI and the introduction of Kiro in this New Builders conversation. They chat about AWS's journey in the container space, the importance of developer experience, and how AI is reshaping the way developers work. https://lnkd.in/eS3f7aK9
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If you haven’t had the pleasure of hearing Alex Russell, Partner Product Architect at Microsoft, do yourself a favor and check out the latest episode of RedMonk’s MonkCast. Among other topics, we discuss web standards, JavaScript performance, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), the impact of major players like Apple (iOS) and Google (Android) on mobile development. https://lnkd.in/en-PvMzG
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James Governor sits down with Anush E., VP of AI at AMD, for a deep dive into the evolving landscape of GPU development—tile-based programming, Pythonic DSLs, Mojo, ThunderKittens, and everything reshaping how developers write high-performance #AI code. They explore: -ThunderKittens and the shift toward tile-based #GPU programming -How MatMul units and tensor cores are redefining GPU architectures -The rise of Pythonic DSLs: Mojo, Modular, Triton, Gluon, Helion & more -Python vs. C++ rewrites and what “speed as the moat” really means -Where the most surprising GPU/kernel innovation is happening globally -How AMD thinks about enabling developers—academia, startups, enterprise -ROCm as an open, inclusive platform for the next generation of GPU programmers -Why AI today is “the electricity moment”—and we’re only at the frog-leg-twitching stage If you’re into GPU programming, AI systems, developer tooling, or the future of AI hardware/software co-design, this conversation is packed with insights. This video was #Sponsored_by_AMD. https://lnkd.in/e2XSCMks