RedMonk November 2026 Update
Hi All,
Steve here. Somewhat incredibly, the calendar says it’s November. The leaves - or lacktherof here in Maine - agree. And that of course means that while it might be past peak for foliage, we’re well into peak conference season. Kubecon looms next week, and Rachel and I will be in attendance. We won’t be doing official RedMonk Beers at the event, but we’re likely to get together somewhere casually so if you’d like to catch us, make sure you’re on our event mailing list here. That will be your best and maybe only opportunity to see us, for better and for worse, because our schedules are absolutely packed with something like twenty meetings over two and a half days. My calendar is the busiest, I think, since the last days of the dearly departed OSCON.
A bit further out is reInvent, meanwhile, and while I can’t make it this year for family reasons my three colleagues will be there and will almost certainly be similarly overloaded calendar-wise.
In between those two events is Thanksgiving here in the United States, and aside from the opportunity to step back and enjoy the holiday with family, it’s nice to have something to be thankful about in the wider world for what seems like the first time in a long time. It’s been a tumultuous period and there are undoubtedly more choppy waters ahead, but here’s hoping that the months, quarters and years ahead become a little less frantic, a little less fraught and a lot more peaceful.
That would be something to truly be thankful for.
For those of you we’ll see next week at Kubecon, we look forward to it, and for everyone else we’ll hope to see you somewhere in person soon as peak conference season winds down as the foliage did before it.
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This is simply a great post by Katelyn Lesse, Anthropic's head of platform, about the engineering problems we still need to solve for agentic software development and deployment.
Another really useful post, again from Anthropic, about the pendulum swinging away somewhat from multi-agent systems.
Daniel Stenberg, founder of the Curl project, is always essential reading on pull requests, agentic software development, and the burden and opportunity for open source maintainers.
Recent RedMonk Research
Reflections on the recent Deno acquisition by Cloudflare and what is says about the state of JS runtimes and the overall fragility of the web in this RedMonk post: The Web Can’t Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture. RM clients mentioned: Cloudflare, Microsoft, and Google
Frontend Without the Browser–WTH?!? We don't know if you're allowed to do that. Check out Kate Holterhoff’s write up on Stanislav Khromov's gpuix-svelte, a project that renders the JavaScript framework #svelte as native desktop apps with no browser underneath. Whoa. RM clients mentioned: Google and Microsoft
Recent Videos and Media Appearances
RedMonk co-founder James Governor reports from Chainguard Assemble 2026 in London with a Quick Take on Chainguard’s third act. RedMonk Quick Take: Chainguard Assemble 2026
Is Cloudflare Connect a developer conference? On day two of Cloudflare Connect 2026, RedMonk’s Kate Holterhoff and James Governor share their reckons in this (not so) Quick Take, live in San Francisco — RedMonk Quick Take: Cloudflare Connect 2026
On this RedMonk conversation, Vlad Miricioiu, Director of the Software Stewardship Lab, chats with Kate Holterhoff about improving open source sustainability, security, and supporting maintainers through innovative funding models. Vlad Miricioiu on the Software Stewardship Lab: Binary Dependencies, Burnout, & the Bernies
Recorded live at Cloudflare Connect 2026 in San Francisco, RedMonk’s Kate Holterhoff and James Governor sit down with Rita Kozlov, Cloudflare’s VP of Developers and AI, as Workers turns ten — Workers at 10, the Agentic Internet, & Slop Forks: Live from Cloudflare Connect 2026 with Rita Kozlov
Meet the Monks
Events we'll be attending:
KubeCon NA: 9-11 November 2026, Salt Lake City, UT
AWS re:Invent: November 30-December 4 2026, Las Vegas, NV
Events we'll be hosting:
Duckbill/Last Week in AWS + Heavybit + RedMonk at re:Invent 2026: December 2, 2026, Atomic Liquors, Las Vegas, NV
Monki Gras 2026: 11-12 March 2026, London, UK
