Rachel Stephens
@rstephens.me
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sunshine and rainbows and f-bombs 🌈 she/her @redmonk
our application to the animal rescue said "our house is already baby proofed" with such confidence. alas...
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so I know that it's just automated marketing. I know it is completely impersonal. I know they are playing me. but I still like it when my dentist, eye doctor, and former mortgage broker wish me a happy birthday.
21 days ago
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There was a moment during this video production where we thought we wouldn't have access to
@kateholterhoff.com
's picture with Weezer. I made this masterpiece as a placeholder, and I think it's pretty good. But you should probably watch the video and see the real one.
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28 days ago
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as someone who has battled with the model to try to get it to stop saying 'goblins' I feel somewhat vindicated reading this also... cc/
@quinnypig.com
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28 days ago
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I recently filmed a MonkCast episode with Audrey Bian from Broadcom. She explained the features of the latest VKS 3.6 release and talked me through how the platform benefits various roles in the enterprise. Check out the full episode (with visuals!) here:
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29 days ago
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I recorded a delightful conversation with Jay Thontakudi, talking about how developers and platform teams can benefit from VMware's partnership with Canonical
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about 1 month ago
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I truly truly can't wait for the edition of
@matt-levine.bsky.social
's Money Stuff that will cover this
ir.allbirds.com/news-release...
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Allbirds, Inc. Executes $50M Convertible Financing Facility Agreement; Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure | Allbirds, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following its prior announcement that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Allbirds brand and footwear assets to American Exchange G...
https://ir.allbirds.com/news-releases/news-release-details/allbirds-inc-executes-50m-convertible-financing-facility
about 1 month ago
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"I'm just calling to see what the Senator is doing today to prevent war crimes?" is not a phone call I had ever planned to make.
about 2 months ago
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not your typical "am I overreacting" content
www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverrea...
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From the AmIOverreacting community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AmIOverreacting community
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverreacting/comments/1se9mjc/aio_27f_or_are_we_sleepwalking_into_mass/
about 2 months ago
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The world feels particularly cruel right now so I want to say this again with my full chest. To the amazing transgender people I know and love (and all those I haven't met yet): you make the world better. Thank you for being you in an increasingly hostile world. We are so lucky to have you. 🏳️⚧️💕
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about 2 months ago
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Valerie 💖
2 months ago
Using this opportunity to talk about my really cool clock again
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Come hang out with
@kateholterhoff.com
and me while we livestream with
@darko.rup12.net
We're live at 9:30 Pacific!
www.twitch.tv/kirodotdev
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kirodotdev - Twitch
Agentic AI development from prototype to production - Kiro helps you do your best work by bringing structure to AI coding with spec-driven development.
https://www.twitch.tv/kirodotdev
2 months ago
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CHEESE MOUNTAIN!
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2 months ago
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Wiredferret!
2 months ago
A system always includes the mental model of the people using it, the people, the tools, and the dialogue. Numbers are scary because they change how the world affects people. Show your working Be correctable, not just correct Extent existing mental models Design for safe failure
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Ricardo J. Méndez
2 months ago
Double-entry accounting as observability and verifiability for money is a sensational parallel. “Don’t just be correct - be correctable.”
@ashley.rolfmore.com
#monkigras
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kicking off
#monkigras
with
@monkchips.com
! (this year’s conference is about preparedness, with a decidedly RedMonk amount of chaos mixed in)
2 months ago
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I love that
@nathenharvey.bsky.social
is making sure we all have enough fucks to give
2 months ago
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David Pollak
2 months ago
Spice Labs is giving away tastes of its Post Quantum Cryptography discovery and inventory tools Get PQC compliance information on post-build artifacts (CBOM, static call analysis, runtime call analysis) as well as a crypto-agility rating without burdening eng
www.einpresswire.com/article/9000...
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Spice Labs Launches 'Amuse Bouche,' a Free Taste of PQC Discovery/Inventory Tools
Security pros can receive a free analysis of their Post-Quantum Cryptography posture in minutes
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/900010169/spice-labs-launches-amuse-bouche-a-free-taste-of-pqc-discovery-inventory-tools
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gaby berkman (she/her)
3 months ago
Video evidence of the time we ran around London
@monkchips.com
talking about all things
#observability
. I love this video. It highlights that context is king, how you approach observability matters, and how to understand what you are looking at. Relatable for both data AND life!
@redmonk.com
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from now on i will now be introducing myself as “rachel with technology“
3 months ago
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from an outsider's perspective, I spent 20 minutes this morning booking appointments. but that myopic view erases the 6 months of avoidance, denial, and general anxiety it took to get me to this 20 minutes. please respect my art.
3 months ago
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There are always so many gems in this newsletter.
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3 months ago
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a joke from my preschooler for your timeline: What does a penguin call its water bottle? … A waddle bottle
3 months ago
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Databases aren’t going away, but how they fit in the modern data landscape is shifting. Here's how we're thinking about the unbundling of storage, compute, and interface layers at
@redmonk.com
redmonk.com/rstephens/20...
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The Disintermediation of Databases
The database has been the center of gravity in data architecture for decades. It owned the storage, the query layer, and the interface. That center of gravity is changing. We’re seeing this structural...
https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2026/02/19/database-disintermediation/
3 months ago
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me, feeling sick over the weekend: Ugh, why am I always the one who catches the preschool colds? me, getting licked on the nose while putting my son to bed: Ahh, I see.
3 months ago
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If you're a technical IC who cares about application performance, you should check out Monster Scale Summit. I had a great time keynoting last year, and the speaker lineup this year looks excellent!
youtu.be/eon5E356kNE
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RedMonk Quick Take: Monster Scale Summit 2026
YouTube video by RedMonk
https://youtu.be/eon5E356kNE
3 months ago
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I'm trying really hard to replace unnecessary apologies with gratitude (in the vein of "thanks for your help" instead of "sorry for the trouble") The problem is my muscle memory around apologizing is strong And so sometimes I ask a server for extra napkins and then say "sorry very much"
4 months ago
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Can everyone building agent orchestration tools *please* stop using the term "overseer" to describe human oversight? We already learned this lesson with master > main. Words matter.
4 months ago
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Wiredferret!
4 months ago
Maybe "Sisu".
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Sheep.
4 months ago
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David Pollak
4 months ago
A fantastic discussion with
@rstephens.me
@aeva.online
and Chris about the Complex World we live in. It’s the power of the
@redmonk.com
community
redmonk.com/videos/compl...
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Complex, Not Complicated
Modern software systems are frequently described as “complicated,” but that framing obscures the nature of the challenge. Complicated systems can be decomposed, reasoned about, and managed through cle...
https://redmonk.com/videos/complexity/
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New video up: a conversation about how the observability market is evolving and the role vendors like
@dynatrace.com
are playing. Worth a watch if you’re thinking about tooling and data strategy.
redmonk.com/videos/obser...
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Dynatrace and the Observability Market
In this conversation, Rachel Stephens, the research director at RedMonk, discusses the evolution of observability in the tech industry. She highlights: – the shift from traditional monitoring to a bro...
https://redmonk.com/videos/observability-dynatrace/
4 months ago
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I really like this piece from
@kateholterhoff.com
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4 months ago
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steve o’grady
4 months ago
very cool. well done, anthropic.
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anth...
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Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anthropic-invests-in-python.html
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steve o’grady
5 months ago
what do VMs, microservices and agents have in common? and what does Yeats have to do with all of that?
redmonk.com/sogrady/2026...
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The Blood Dimmed Tide of Agents
Many years ago, a large European bank spoke to analysts after its first transition from purely physical hardware into virtual machines. While expressing overall satisfaction with the move, its enthusi...
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/01/08/tide-of-agents/
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DORA
5 months ago
Join the
dora.community
today for a discussion with
@wiredferret.bsky.social
about progressive delivery. Heidi will give a brief overview and then we'll have a lean coffee-based discussion about the topic. Meeting starts at 12PM ET, details on the mailing list.
#DORA
#GBGB
#Community
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DORA Community of Practice
The DORA Community provides opportunities to learn, discuss, and collaborate on software delivery and operational performance. Enabling a culture of continuous improvement.
https://dora.community
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Maybe not every SaaS service needs a year in review...
5 months ago
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our kids sleep with stuffed animals that you can warm up in the microwave before bed. the result is super cozy, but it’s always a little unsettling to be the person in charge of nuking the baby animals.
5 months ago
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the most relatable part of Little Mermaid as a parent is the horror of discovering your child has built a shrine out of random trash they found on the playground, and they are emotionally attached to every single “treasure” whole fucking house is full of dinglehoppers I can’t throw away.
5 months ago
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Still can’t speak Spanish past what I remember from high school, still terrible at chess, still fiercely protective of my streak
5 months ago
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The
@redmonk.com
team allows* me to plan activities for the team holiday happy hour every year, and I am SO EXCITED for today's Show and Tell festivities. *begrudgingly allows
5 months ago
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I talked with
@zachlloyd.bsky.social
from
@warp.dev
about how the terminal is changing, why agentic development needs new interfaces, and what comes after writing code by hand.
redmonk.com/blog/2025/12...
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zachlloyd.bsky.social
https://zachlloyd.bsky.social
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Kate Holterhoff, PhD
5 months ago
Have you been following the JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix? Consider recent announcements including
@voidzero.dev
's Vite+,
@bytedance.bsky.social
's Rspack 1.6,
@vercel.com
's
@nextjs.org
16 (beta) release enabling Turbopack by default, &
@anthropic.com
's Bun acquisition.
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ain't no party like a reinvent party cuz a reinvent party don't sto ---- wait hold on, it's almost midnight and I haven't done my duolingo yet, give me a couple minutes
6 months ago
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Text 1: “I’m so excited you texted me! I promise I won’t be annoying!” Texts 2-5: “and if I am annoying here are various ways you can signal that I’m annoying!” (but alas this pattern matching didn’t hit until ~2 hours after text 5.)
6 months ago
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Sudden realization 8 years in - am I still supposed to be gauging the temperature of my kids’ baths with my elbow? Is that just an infant thing that you are naturally supposed to stop doing?
6 months ago
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I love moments when I'm reminded how amazing my colleagues are, and right now is a
@kateholterhoff.com
appreciation moment. She does such great work!
6 months ago
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That feeling when you get ready to go out to dinner and then realize you could have looked presentable all day if you had just done this 8 hours earlier
6 months ago
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Totally not the point of this post, but I love this line from
@charity.wtf
: "infrastructure is the code you have to run in order to run the code you want to run"
www.honeycomb.io/blog/the-meh...
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The "Meh-trics" Reloaded: Why I Was 100% Wrong About Metrics (and Also 100% Right)
Okay, I'm going to say something that would make 2016 Charity want to throw her laptop across the room: we're making a major investment in metrics at Honeycomb. I know, I know.
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/the-meh-trics-reloaded
6 months ago
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gaby berkman (she/her)
7 months ago
Forgot to post this yesterday… twinning with
@rstephens.me
at
#kubeconNA
!
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