The concepts of craft and how it applies to software development is quite relevant but at times contradictory.  Technologists aspire to make great tools and services that reflect their attention and passion for making things but paradoxically we also face a culture with values based upon speed and the mass consumption of resources.

How craft relate to the way we work and how is it relevant in a culture that puts such a premium on speed and consumption is what we discuss in this episode of The New Stack Analysts with RedMonk Co-Founder James Governor and Charity Majors, Honeycomb.io co-founder and CEO. It's also a core theme for Monkigras, the conference in London that Governor is hosting this week and where Majors is one of the speakers.

It's this idea of sustainable craft that Governor is building as a core theme of Monkigras. The conference will put an emphasis on "topics such as apprenticeship, community management, writing sustainable documentation, software archaeology, sustainable open source, hop farming, and typefaces."