RedMonk
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.www.redmonk.com
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Oct 15, 2026
Jeremiah StoneHOST
And now we've got our portion that's at Stark Factory.
Jeremiah StoneHOST
Something that does seem interesting to me, though, Kit, is Dominic's been doing a ton of research and actually just shared a recent post from Stephen O'Grady over RedMonk, which is how the systems that this data is in and the enabling systems are changing and new entrance into the space where we had gone from file-based systems to relational systems to NoSQL, etc., I know, Dominic, you want to talk a little bit about that, the evolution of how the systems where the data is and that support these processes are changing.
Jeremiah StoneHOST
It's not just models.
Jeremiah StoneHOST
It's actually the systems of record and coordination are changing as well.
Michael CotéHOST
Well, I mean, I mean, that, that seems to be like hopefully what's going on with, with, uh, Salesforce.
Michael CotéHOST
Now, another RedMonk, uh, Rachel, she wrote up like Dreamforce stuff, a nice little, uh, piece, and um, you know, it's not exactly her analysis, but like as, as I was reading it and looking at the other Dreamforce stuff or Salesforce stuff, I was thinking like, "I like the direction you're going, but it feels like there's a lot of trust to win back here that you're actually gonna do something." You know, because we've all experienced the, uh, the, the, the Salesforce stuff.
Michael CotéHOST
So hopefully someone's getting the message here, and it's, it's gonna be...
Michael CotéHOST
We're gonna have like the, uh, uh, the, the, the Cloudflare sort of thing of like anything you can do in Salesforce, you can do here.
Brandon WhichardHOST
[upbeat music] And we're back.
Brandon WhichardHOST
Joining me today is Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst and Co-founder of RedMonk.
Brandon WhichardHOST
Welcome to the show, Stephen.
Stephen O'GradyGUEST
My pleasure.
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Brandon WhichardHOST
it happens.
Brandon WhichardHOST
So it'll be fun to watch to see what happens with these IPOs, and I'm sure there will be many ups and downs.
Brandon WhichardHOST
I mentioned at the beginning that everyone knows what RedMonk is, but probably not everyone does.
Brandon WhichardHOST
Why don't you give us a little bit of what exactly do you do at RedMonk, and then most importantly, how do people find you online if they want to talk to you more?