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Roaring ElephantEpisode 438 – Our Lifelong Learning ExperienceGoing back to school, after you have just started your career, or much later in life, is a huge undertaking. As both of your co-hosts have some experience in this, Dave early in his career, and Jhon right now, we though it would make some interesting content to discuss how we started on this path.
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Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.2024-02-2029 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 388 – Data Engineer on GenAI: The Good!You have heard Dave and Jhon talk a little bit on GenAI, but now we're brining in the experts! Out first guest is Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, a Data Engineer, A.I. enthusiast and, most importantly, long time fan and Patreon of the show!
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Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us...2020-09-0134 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 206 – Intro to Containers and Kubernetes (1/6)It's the week of KubeCon and while everybody is doing there best to present the greatest and latest of everything surrounding this micro services architecture approach, we're going back to basics with an intro to Containers & Kubernetes, explaining what this stuff is, where it came from and why people feel it is a good idea. With great knowledge comes great power, use it wisely!
When we were recording this, we found that there was really a lot to talk about, so we will be running this subject over multiple episodes over the next month or so.
Please use the Contact...2020-08-1839 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 204 – KubeCon Europe 2020 Preview (part 1)In a couple of weeks we expect to virtually meet a lot of you at Kubecon/CloudNativeCon Europe. As is quickly becoming the new normal, this conference also shifted to a virtual, on-line only event, but that may actually be a blessing! With everything being online (and we expect mostly prerecorded) it should be a lot easier to catch parallel sessions!
In this episode, we go over the schedule as it exists at the time of recording and discuss our top pics for every time slot.
Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send...2020-08-0445 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 203 – Roaring NewsAnother fortnight, another Roaring News episode looking at an Acquisition by SUSE, some privacy shattering interviews and a PSA about unsecured databases!
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And not to spoil anything, there is definitely something strange happening in this one.... ;)
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Don't let this epoisode get you down though! The title is definitely a hint for things to come! :D
Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send...2020-04-2140 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 188 – Roaring NewsArtificial Intelligence will save us from all that ails us! The Big Cloud Providers should pay all the bills! Old stuff is old so you really have to buy news stuff now! Really! Really? When preparing for this weeks episode, we felt a real dissatisfaction with the quality of "the news" so we've selected a handful of articles and try to elevate them to a semblance of serviceability.
Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.2020-04-1428 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 187 – Talking Business Agility with Caroline of Estelia (Part 2)Agile Development is quite popular in the world of software development, but the concepts are applicable to a much broader business environment. Very often, however, the actual implementation of these rather excellent concepts are plagued with faulty expectations and simply not knowing what you are trying to do. Find out how you can benefit, both as an organization and personally, when doing Agile "right" in this two part interview with Caroline from Estelia.
Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us...2020-04-0741 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 186 – Roaring NewsTo counter the current horrible news around the world, we turned to The Register as today's Guest Publication and tried to find a couple of articles that have a more positive tone. Sadly, even at The Register, things are looking bad for NASA, GitHub and even the British military are looking for help... from Facebook?
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Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us...2020-03-2438 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 184- Roaring NewsA Law&Order themed news episode this week where we look at a collection of articles about the many legal implications that come with the ever increasing usage of machine learning and neural networks in the worlds courts. We start with the first traces of "Minority Report" PreCrime, follow on to privacy rights of convicted people and finish with the realities of A.I. based facial recognition.
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If you're in any way connected to cyber security, and honestly, everybody in the tech world should be, you owe it to yourself to...2020-02-2544 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 180 – KubeCon/CloudNativeCon PreviewNot a regular news episode this time. Instead, we are starting our KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Amsterdam coverage and have co-chairs Vicki Cheung and Constance Caramanolis on as guest to tell us all about these conferences. If you've never attended one of these, this discussion will give a good idea on what to expect and for seasoned attendees, there is a little bit of a behind-the-scenes look at how these events take form.
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And in other news, we are discussing how Open Source has shaped the past decade, or not....
Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions...2020-02-0444 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 177- Network Virtualization with Nicolas Thomas (part 1)In this episode we welcome Nicolas Thomas, an NFV pioneer at Fortinet to educate us on everything related to Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). We look at the changes the industry has gone though and how these upcoming new standards are changing how corporations and consumers experience their globally connected environment.
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Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would...2020-01-0753 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 173- Remote Working: The way of the Future? (Part 3)In the effort to hire the best candidates, more and more companies are transforming into distributed organizations where remote working is the way to go. As with any emerging technology, many businesses are still trying to figure out how to make this work and on the other side of the fence, potential employees are looking for guidance on what to expect. Your co-hosts have been working remotely for some time and we are joined by Rodolphe Dutel, founder at Remotive.io for a really deep and extensive discussion on everything related to remote working and distributed companies.
Please use the...2019-12-3144 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 172- Roaring Special: KubeCon+CloudNativeCon & AWS re:InventOur roving word traveling reporter Dave spent some time at Kube+CloudNativeCon ane AWS re:Invent and in today's News special, we're discussing the differences and similarity between these events. We're not going to cover any of the sessions, but rather talk about the conferences.
Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.2019-12-2446 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 171- Remote Working: The way of the Future? (Part 2)In the effort to hire the best candidates, more and more companies are transforming into distributed organizations where remote working is the way to go. As with any emerging technology, many businesses are still trying to figure out how to make this work and on the other side of the fence, potential employees are looking for guidance on what to expect. Your co-hosts have been working remotely for some time and we are joined by Rodolphe Dutel, founder at Remotive.io for a really deep and extensive discussion on everything related to remote working and distributed companies.
Please use the...2019-12-1738 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 170- Roaring NewsThis week, we have the shocking news that Docker Enterprise has been gobbled up by a rather unknown entity. (Shocking not because it happened, but because it took so long.) Also, a new open source license attempt to stem the cloud predation appeared on the scene and Microsoft has all the orchestration you would ever want, in the cloud no less, no really!
Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.2019-12-1038 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 169- Remote Working: The way of the Future? (Part 1)In the effort to hire the best candidates, more and more companies are transforming into distributed organizations where remote working is the way to go. As with any emerging technology, many businesses are still trying to figure out how to make this work and on the other side of the fence, potential employees are looking for guidance on what to expect. Your co-hosts have been working remotely for some time and we are joined by Rodolphe Dutel, founder at Remotive.io for a really deep and extensive discussion on everything related to remote working and distributed companies.
Please use the...2019-12-0338 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 168- Roaring NewsThis week's news is full of spying smart devices and the perceived sprawl of IOT. We finish off discussing the use and non-use of big monolithic government contracts in technology.
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After 166 episodes, we've somehow reached our fourth anniversary and as is by now tradition, we invite guests we had over the year back for this episode to see what they have been up to.
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Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to...2019-10-1544 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 161- The Cloudpod weather report Part 1It cannot be denied that cloud, particularly public cloud has become ever more prevalent across the "Big Tech" universe. In order to give this subject the attention it deserves, we went out and found some podcasting colleagues who specialize on this subject and put them in front of our "question firing squad".
Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.2019-10-0836 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 160- Roaring NewsBefore we dive into the News, we want to really thank you, our audience for helping us reach our YouTube subscriber goal. We now are the proud owner of the www.youtube.com/RoaringElephant url and we could not have done this without you!
For News, we talk about boring one-man companies, something hybrid cloudy at Google and a followup on the open-source David versus the public cloud Goliath story.
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Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.2019-09-2447 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 158 – Roaring NewsThe main topic for this news episode is a revisiting of the Multi-Cloud subject we touched last time. Next we take a look at an article about the state of the Docker project and we end on an article about an excellent post-morten by Monzo about some trouble they had over the summer.
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Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.2019-09-1043 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 156 – Roaring NewsIn this Roaring News episode we start debunking a "85% of companies use multi cloud" statement, look at the future of Data Engineering and are completely astounded at the amount of tracking that happens on the world wide web. We close off with a deeper look at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation open sourcing the Kubernetes audit and go another round on "Smart Data" versus "Big Data".
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Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you...2019-08-2035 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 153 – How Secure is the Future of Open Source?The way open source software is being consumed has changed drastically: originally found on the fringes, open source technology has now become a core part of many organizations of all sizes. We take a look at the confusion and sometimes vocal irritation that has accompanied this adoption by "Big Business" and ask the question if the future of Open Source is in danger.
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Dave had some issues recording his side, our apologies for the rather bad quality of Dave's audio track on this episode.
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Along the way, we go over the different deployment strategies for Hadoop across on premise, private and public cloud and of course, hybrid environments.
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Jhon brings an update on the MLEAP story for productionizing your spark model. We finish off discussing the newly released Apache Atlas version 0.8.1
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Jhon brings a blog on deploying new Kerberos functionality and a tutorial for Kafka Connect for those that have not really looked at it. The ensuing discussion on Nifi vs kafka is purely coincidental.
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Thanks again to Hortonworks for providing the free ticket to our raffle that Pitt won.
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If you ARE here, then look out for us, we'll exchange limited edition Roaring Elephant stickers for audio clips.
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