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Date(s) - 27/03/2025 - 28/03/2025
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I encourage you to come to my intimate, inclusive (yeah we still care a lot about that), conference Monki Gras in London March 27th/28th. It’s about sustaining software craft in uncertain times. Expect interesting OSS maintainer talks, personal journeys and pragmatic takes on adoption of AI. The show is set to be a banger. I spend a lot of time agonising over a theme every year, and in 2025 for the first time it’s a reprise – in 2017 we explored Sustaining Craft, and this year it’s Sustaining (Software Development) Craft. Why relitigate? Because, frankly, the pressure on our craft is greater than ever.

Layoffs in the last couple of years have been absolutely brutal. Now in 2025 folks on x are casually writing long threads about how they’ll never hire another junior dev, because, well, AI. But if we don’t hire, train and mentor junior developers then the industry is simply not sustainable. Experienced engineers will eventually grey out, even if some of them feel like they’re in the catbird seat right now. People need to understand code. That’s not going away. So yeah – we’ll have a couple of great talks from younger engineers refreshing the pool. That’s how we roll. And we’ll be pragmatic about the impacts of AI – far too much of the discourse has been all or nothing. AI is either the devil, or it’s God. Not at Monki Gras. Scrutiny is merited, but tech is about using tools. And AI assisted tooling is not going to simply disappear. That ship has definitely sailed.

Meanwhile, open source is increasingly seen as an inconvenience by software companies, or maybe a point in time tactic. This after we’ve been telling people for the last 20 years that open source was a great route into the industry. Make your contributions, find your people, do the work, use GitHub to show it, and the rest will take care of itself. But apparently not. Relicensing has torn through the industry. Now we find ourselves in the ironic position where hyperscalers look like white knights. Open Source still matters. Open Source foundations still matter. Madelyn Olson is joining us to give us a personal take on how she became the driving force behind the creation of Valkey, the Redis fork. Christopher Neugebauer is a director of the Python Software Foundation – he is a great speaker and I can’t wait to hear what he has to say about sustaining the craft.

Here is a list of our speakers, with another couple being added to the roster in the next couple of days. So many unique voices there, with great stories and meta narratives to tell.

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