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Meesterwerk Podcast#187 De plek van de school - In gesprek met Jan Masschelein en Maarten SimonsIn deze bijzondere aflevering duiken we diep in de kern van wat school werkelijk de school maakt. Jan Masschelein en Maarten Simons, beiden verbonden aan de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, nemen ons mee in hun visie op de school als een plek van vrijheid, gelijkheid en vorming. Ze belichten hoe scholen nieuwe generaties de kans bieden zich tot werelden te verhouden, voorbij de dominante prestatiedrang en het efficiëntiedenken.Na een kritisch-pedagogische fase besloten Masschelein en Simons te pleiten voor een herwaardering van de school als een fysieke, sociale én publieke ruimte die van fundamenteel belang is voor de...
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AI: Het Pedagogisch Appèl#26 De plek van de school - In gesprek met Jan Masschelein en Maarten SimonsIn deze bijzondere aflevering duiken we diep in de kern van wat school werkelijk de school maakt. Jan Masschelein en Maarten Simons, beiden verbonden aan de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, nemen ons mee in hun visie op de school als een plek van vrijheid, gelijkheid en vorming. Ze belichten hoe scholen nieuwe generaties de kans bieden zich tot werelden te verhouden, voorbij de dominante prestatiedrang en het efficiëntiedenken.Na een kritisch-pedagogische fase besloten Masschelein en Simons te pleiten voor een herwaardering van de school als een fysieke, sociale én publieke ruimte die van fundamenteel belang is voor de...
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Data Engineering PodcastData Quality Management For The Whole Team With Soda DataSummary
Data quality is on the top of everyone’s mind recently, but getting it right is as challenging as ever. One of the contributing factors is the number of people who are involved in the process and the potential impact on the business if something goes wrong. In this episode Maarten Masschelein and Tom Baeyens share the work they are doing at Soda to bring everyone on board to make your data clean and reliable. They explain how they started down the path of building a solution for managing data quality, their philosophy of how to em...
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Roaring 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.
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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.
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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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2020-07-2832 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 202 – Data Quality: Your place or mine?Data Quality is a subject that comes up a lot now that more organizations are moving towards a data driven decision making system. Obviously, to get good decisions, they need to be based on good quality data and getting that QA stamp is quite a bit harder than it should be...
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2020-07-2128 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 201 – Roaring NewsIn this first "live action" News episode, we take a look at the state of public clouds and how their business models are often more complex that you would think. We end up with a short discussion about Fujitsu's "digital annealer" and how you only need a decent pair of binoculars to eves drop on your neighbors...
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2020-07-1435 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 200 – Bi-Centennial PodcastFor our 200th episode, we're taking a stroll down memory lane, looking back on how the podcast evolved over time. We discuss the content related changes we made over the years, and also talk about some of the technical choices we made.
And not to spoil anything, there is definitely something strange happening in this one.... ;)
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2020-07-0744 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 199 – Azure Data Engineering with Richard NuckollsThis episode, we go deep into everything data related in the public cloud, specifically the Microsoft Azure cloud. Fortunately we don't have to do this on our own since we're joined by Richard Nuckolls, author of the book "Azure Data Engineering", published by Manning publications under their MEAP program.
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2020-06-301h 22Roaring ElephantEpisode 198 – Roaring NewsThis week we tackle some "software is used by the military" controversy, we have a light discussion on Quantum Computing and marvel in the apparent absence of common sense when it comes to putting information on public services.
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2020-06-2324 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 197 – Exploring Redis with Kyle Davis Part 2We're joined by Kyle Davis, head of Developer Advocacy at Redis Labs to discuss the ins and outs of Redis. It's the the in-memory data store that everybody probably uses, whether you know it or not and Kyle does a great job on discussing the pros and cons of deploying Redis in the many use cases it can add tremendous value. This is the final part of our interview with Kyle.
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2020-06-1630 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 196 – Roaring NewsToday we discuss the needs of keeping your software up to date and how A.I. was able to recreate the game of Pac-Man. We finish off with the a look at the new enterprise GPU announcement from NVidia.
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2020-06-0930 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 195 – Exploring Redis with Kyle Davis – Part 1We're joined by Kyle Davis, head of Developer Advocacy at Redis Labs to discuss the ins and outs of Redis. It's the the in-memory data store that everybody probably uses, whether you know it or not and Kyle does a great job on discussing the pros and cons of deploying Redis in the many use cases it can add tremendous value. This is the first part of the interview with Kyle.
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2020-06-0231 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 194 – Roaring NewsThis week we first discus the importance of good documentation using an article that actually did not follow it's own good advice. Next up is a discussion around "Big Irons" IBM and HPE having seen the cloud-first light.
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2020-05-2635 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 193 – Bite-Sized Big PythonWe are joined by John T. Wolohan, writer of the Large Datasets with Python book published by Manning Publications to talk about the business impact of living the Big Data life and how Python has become the programming language darling of Big data programmers and Data Scientist alike.
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2020-05-191h 03Roaring ElephantEpisode 192 – Roaring NewsIn this news inspired news episode, we talk about A.I's filing for patents, Framework SDKs causing major software to crash on mobiles and how the army is teaching the world how not to overspend! Enjoy!
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2020-05-1230 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 191 – The Dawn of False HopeFollowing on from episode 189 where we looked at all things pronounced "dead", we now go in search of all things that will make sure the future is bright and cheerful. Most confusingly, most things pronounced dead also seem to be the future?
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2020-05-0540 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 190 – Roaring NewsToday we talk about the dangers of relying on clod services, how technology is failing us in these items of crisis and how the new world of social distancing is shaping the future for tech conferences.
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2020-04-2827 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 189 – It’s Darkest before DawnMaybe it's the dark days we live in, maybe it's just us being us... But everywhere we looked, we found somebody telling us somethings as dead or dying... Speaking about technology, of course! We are a tech podcast after all! Anyway, we decided to dive deep into the gloom and doom on the internet and see what has been pronounced deceased and how we felt about that.
Don't let this epoisode get you down though! The title is definitely a hint for things to come! :D
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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.
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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.
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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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2020-03-3128 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 185 – Talking Business Agility with Caroline of Estelia (Part 1)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.
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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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2020-03-1727 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 183- Taking Apache Cassandra for a spinIn this episode we have an in depth discussion on Apache Cassandra with Patrick McFadin, VP Developer Relations at DataStax. We had a great conversation with Patrick about topics ranging from basic NoSql topics to more in depth applicability of Apache Cassandra. Apache Cassandra really is one of the most used NoSql solutions out there and this information should really be useful for anybody working in Big Technology!
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2020-03-1045 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 182- Roaring NewsIt has been a little while, but here is a regular Roaring News episode where we discuss three articles. First off is an Ozone benchmark followed by an A.I. directed dungeon crawl and we end with a bit of an ethical discussion about some things that scientists get up to these days....
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2020-03-0327 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 181- DBIR 2019: So, are we doomed yet?Verizon has published their "Data Breach Investigations Report" for some time now and with the news of data leaks, ransomware attacks and more of that kind of horror dominating much of the technology conversation, we gratefully borrow this report to dedicate a full episode on this subject. As ever, we never shy away from deviating form the subject a little (or a lot) but this time we did try to keep close to the subject matter.
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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2020-02-181h 10Roaring ElephantEpisode 179- Network Virtualization with Nicolas Thomas (part 2)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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2020-02-1142 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 178- Roaring NewsIt's been a little while, but here is another full fledged Roaring News Episode! For starters we are happy to announce that the Roaring Elephant is now an official media partner of Kubecon|CloudNativeCon and we will be covering the Amsterdam event in a couple of months. Keep your ear to this podcast to find out how you can win a free ticket to the convention!
And in other news, we are discussing how Open Source has shaped the past decade, or not....
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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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2020-01-2829 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 176- Let’s do the time-warp again! (Part 2)For the first Roaring News episode of the year, we decided to look back at 2019 to discuss the stuff we found noteworthy and perhaps take a chance at predicting what the next year will bring. We actually had so much fun recording this, we went way over time, so we decided to split this one into two parts. Episode 174 had the first part of the discussion and here is part two, bringing it home.
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2020-01-2145 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 175- Stackoverflow Developer Survey Results 2019A few episodes ago, we discovered the Stackoverflow Developer survey from 2019. Now even though it's been a while since the results were published, we found some of the results quite interesting and timeless enough to dedicate an episode about it.
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2020-01-141h 13Roaring ElephantEpisode 174- Let’s do the time-warp again! (Part 1)For the first Roaring News episode of the year, we decided to look back at 2019 to discuss the stuff we found noteworthy and perhaps take a chance at predicting what the next year will bring. We actually had so much fun recording this, we went way over time, so we decided to split this one into two parts. So here is part one and in two weeks time, part two will reach you in episode 176.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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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2019-11-2630 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 167- Year 4: definitely no longer a Toddler!Please join us as celebrate four years of podcasting on Big Data and Big Tech.
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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2019-11-191h 04Roaring ElephantEpisode 166 – Roaring NewsSpaceX will solve the worlds Internet woes, courtesy of Elon Musk, Quantum Supremacy may still be a little while off (like a couple of decades), courtesy of IBM and from now on, the "don't call us, we'll call you" response to your job interview will be courtesy of an artificial intelligence (or lack thereof).
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2019-11-1242 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 165 – Best Practices for Machine LearningA little while ago we came across a blog by Martin Zinkevich about the best practices for ML Engineering at Google. We had this one on the back burner for a while now and we decided to go ahead and do an episode on this subject, using this article as a rough guide.
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2019-11-0531 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 164 – Roaring NewsBelieve it or not, Hadoop is dead, again. In other news, Facebook's Libra coin is getting more and more boxed in and Microsoft thinks the real world is realy just too ugly to look at during your daily commute. Enjoy!
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2019-10-2929 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 163- The Cloudpod weather report Part 2It 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".
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2019-10-2252 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 162- Roaring NewsFor this News episode we are joined by Niels and Carlo from Kuori.io and we discuss the need that some people have to build solutions using technologies that are not really suited for the purpose, while perfectly valid technology is readily available. In the second part, we discuss a whitepaper on "cloud native" and how it seems this drive towards to cloud is still very often a an exercise in marketing...
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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".
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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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2019-10-0134 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 159 – OCMAWDIAM Part 2?Today we are joined by Mark Phillips, product marketing manager and more interestingly, heavily involved with Ansible at Red Hat. Now, rather than making this episode specifically about Ansible, Mark shares his extensive expertise on the subjects of orchestration, config management and automation.
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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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2019-09-1741 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 157 – Orchestration, config management, automation, what does it all mean?Today we are joined by Mark Phillips, product marketing manager and more interestingly, heavily involved with Ansible at Red Hat. Now, rather than making this episode specifically about Ansible, Mark shares his extensive expertise on the subjects of orchestration, config management and automation.
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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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2019-09-0335 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 155 – NoSQL: You keep using that word…For a podcast on Big Data, we were amazed that we never covered the subject of NoSQL. So we're correcting this today. Not by listing and comparing all the NoSQL solutions out there, but rather by going over the differences between the two paradigms. This way we hope to offer enough insight so you can feel comfortable deciding if you should or should not deploy NoSQL in your environment.
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2019-08-2737 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 154 – Roaring NewsIn this News installment, coming to you courtesy of Dave and Endgaget, we talk about how the Osaka track is paving the way for data free flow across borders and take a look at the alleged problem with the UK's facial recognition system. Ending on a "high note", we discuss how Facebook and Googles (and a lot of other's) MLPerf benchmark is going to change the way we look at our machine learning setups. Or not...
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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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2019-08-131h 04Roaring ElephantEpisode 152 – Roaring NewsAnother fortnight, another roaring news episode covering this time: de-anonymizing anonymized data is reportedly easy, Kubernetes is easier than Big Data, Big Data is hard and hard to understand Kafka can be made easier using Factorio visualization.
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2019-08-0642 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 151 – Do you only need 6 principles?A little while ago, Dave came across an article by Francesca Lazzeri titled "The Data Science Mindset: Six Principles to Build Healthy Data-Driven Organizations" and in this episode we're giving our view and expand on those principles.
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2019-07-3053 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 150 – Roaring NewsIn this news episode, we use a nice little article on how you can help keep open source sustainable as a structure for a broader discussion on this subject. The second subject this time goes another round on the "data engineers are not data scientists" (and the reverse) subject.
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2019-07-2333 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 149 – The State of Developer Ecosystem 2019When friend of the show Ward Bekker sent us a link to the recent survey write-up on the State of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 by JetBrains, we immediately set up a recording date with him to go over all the facts and figures...
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2019-07-161h 03Roaring ElephantEpisode 148 – Roaring NewsWith Summer starting and news drying up a little in the heat, we managed to find some interesting things happening at the Apache Software Foundation and we try to find correlations with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. After that, we discover that Robots actually won't be taking all our jobs... Who would have thought...
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2019-07-0932 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 147 – Alex Zeltov on MLOps with mlflow, kubeflow and other tools (part 2)In this episode, Global Black Belt and Technical Architect in Big Data and Advanced Analytics Team at Microsoft, Alex Zeltov, is our guest and he explains the in's and out's of MLOps though various tools like mlflow and kubeflow
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2019-07-0244 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 146 – Roaring NewsA new function is being called into being by Forrester called the "Data Hunter" which sounded interesting enough to us to spend some time on. Then we cover a nice guest blog on the Cloudera site and we finish off with some rambling on he changes in the HPC world. Enjoy!
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2019-06-2536 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 145 – Alex Zeltov on MLOps with mlflow, kubeflow and other tools (part 1)In this episode, Global Black Belt and Technical Architect in Big Data and Advanced Analytics Team at Microsoft, Alex Zeltov, is our guest and he explains the in's and out's of MLOps though various tools like mlflow and kubeflow
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2019-06-1845 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 144 – Roaring newsIn the past week, trouble at Cloudera really stood out and in the context of similar problems at MapR and (somewhat less related to Big Data) Pivotal, we are devoting the entire episode to this.
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2019-06-1137 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 143 – Spark in Action with author Jean-Georges Perrin (Part 2)And now for something completely different: a book review! Not something we have done before, but when Jean-Georges Perrin contacted us with the suggestion of taking a deeper look at the "Spark in Action" book he is currently writing, we certainly did not say no! However, in al honesty, we talked about much, much more...
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2019-06-0458 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 142 – Roaring News – KubeCon 2019 ReportA little over a week ago, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon happened and our independent Roaring Roving Reporter Rubik Dave came back from Barcelona with a comprehensive report.
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2019-05-2847 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 141 – Spark in Action with author Jean-Georges Perrin (Part 1)And now for something completely different: a book review! Not something we have done before, but when Jean-Georges Perrin contacted us with the suggestion of taking a deeper look at the "Spark in Action" book he is currently writing, we certainly did not say no! However, in al honesty, we talked about much, much more...
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2019-05-2148 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 140 – Roaring NewsAnother week another feed of roaring news articles starting with apparent changes at MapR and the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. We go in depth on the open sourcing of the DataBricks developed Delta Lake and finish with some SQL generated fractals.
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2019-05-1436 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 139 – Interview on DataOps with Chris Bergh of DataKitchen.io (Part 2)DataKitchen.io's Chris Bergh takes us down the path towards successful DataOps implementation.
If you have not heard of the DataOps concept yet and data is a big part of your environment (and really, it should be) we're sure you will find more than a couple takeaways here!
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2019-05-0733 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 138 – Roaring NewsThe biggest news is of course the launch of our Patreon! Hop over to https://www.patreon.com/roaringelephant and see if you want to help us thrive and grow! On the technical front, we have a Blog on Machine Learning Model Management, Apache turning 20 and Google breeding aggressive A.I.! And we also have a side-conversation on NginX...
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2019-04-3027 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 137 – Interview on DataOps with Chris Bergh of DataKitchen.io (Part 1)DataKitchen.io's Chris Bergh takes us down the path towards successful DataOps implementation.
If you have not heard of the DataOps concept yet and data is a big part of your environment (and really, it should be) we're sure you will find more than a couple takeaways here!
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2019-04-2345 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 136 – Temet NosceBreaking with tradition, this News Episode does not have any Big data related articles. Instead, this episode is all about our plans for the future of this podcast...
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2019-04-1631 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 135 – Big Data in Cybersecurity with Saad Ayad, featuring Apache Metron (Part 2)DataLeaks and the resulting attack on our privacy have been a major news item in the recent months. Big data tools like Apache Metron, built on top of Hadoop can be instrumental in detecting and preventing intrusions.
In this episode, we are joined by Saad Ayad who was General Manager Security Operations at Telstra and currently is a Director at Digital Fortress Services in Melbourne Australia. Saad has been active in the cybersecurity world for a long time and we are grateful he was willing to spend some time with us and share his knowledge and experience.
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2019-04-0930 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 134 – Roaring News: Dataworks Summit Lightning InterviewsA special edition of Big Data News featuring a number of quick interviews at the booths in the community expo hall.
A big thank you to the brave people there that were willing to face the Roving Roaring Mike at the Barcelona Dataworks summit a couple, of weeks ago.
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2019-04-0237 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 133 – Big Data in Cybersecurity with Saad Ayad, featuring Apache Metron (Part 1)DataLeaks and the resulting attack on our privacy have been a major news item in the recent months. Big data tools like Apache Metron, built on top of Hadoop can be instrumental in detecting and preventing intrusions.
In this episode, we are joined by Saad Ayad who was General Manager Security Operations at Telstra and currently is a Director at Digital Fortress Services in Melbourne Australia. Saad has been active in the cybersecurity world for a long time and we are grateful he was willing to spend some time with us and share his knowledge and experience.
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2019-03-2632 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 132 – Roaring DataWorks Summit Barcelona, ft. John MerticDataworks Summit 2019 Barcelona has come and gone... Recording live from my hotel room, we give our view on the highs and lows of the event and talk about the things we learned.
This episode also include a short interview with John Mertic from the Linux Foundation who talked to us about Data Governance and ODPi Egeria.
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2019-03-211h 18Roaring ElephantEpisode 131 – Dataworks Summit 2019 Barcelona Session PreviewWith the Dataworks summit in Barcelona comming up next week, we take a look at the agenda with the available sessions and take you through our best picks and honorable mentions.
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2019-03-1245 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 130 – Roaring NewsIn this episode of Bite Sized Big Data news, we cover the merging of Data Artisans and Alibaba forming the new Ververica entity, AI related challenges and a BBC cook book for visualizations in R.
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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2019-03-0535 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 129 – DataWorks Summit Barcelona Track Chair InterviewsIn this episode we have interviews with Niels Basjes and Aljoscha Krettek, respectively track chairs for Big Compute & Storage and Internet of Things. We talk with them about what being a track lead means, the sessions in their tracks and of course about what they are doing themselves with Big Data and Advanced Analytics.
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2019-02-2643 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 128 – Roaring NewsIn this Deep learning heavy edition of Big Data News, we have articles about how to get into the Data Scientist life, how and where to get the skills and how you eventually may end up beating pro-gamers at their thing.
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2019-02-1959 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 127 – Sparkling Water with H2O.AI (part 2)We recently sat down with Kuba and Pavel from H2O to discuss how you can easily lift your Spark notebooks to the next level by adding some H20 to it using their open source Sparkling Water project.
In this second part of the interview, we go deeper into the technical details of Sparking Water and how you can deploy and use it in your environment. We end the conversation with a look at the roadmap and anything else the future may bring.
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2019-02-1240 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 126 – Roaring NewsThe second news episode for 2019 is almost entirely devoted to practical AI with some tutorial notebooks and finding a parking space. We end this show with dire warnings of the impending Big Data induced Apocalypse!
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2019-02-0526 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 125 – Sparkling Water with H2O.AI (Part 1)We recently sat down with Kuba and Pavel from H2O to discuss how you can easily lift your Spark notebooks to the next level by adding some H20 to it using their open source Sparkling Water project.
In this first part of the interview, we cover the conceptual principles behind Sparkling water and discuss some existing use case implementations.
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2019-01-2951 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 124 – Roaring NewsThe Hortonworks -Cloudera merger has been finalized and the new CDP (Cloudera Data Platform) has been announced. We also talk about data mining bias, the good and bad of Hackathons and end on a rant about data sizes.
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2019-01-2238 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 123 – Infrastructure and Data Lifecycle (part 2)In episode 121 we discussed the first part of this story and now we conclude with a discussion of the data life-cycle considerations that apply to a Big Data and Advanced Analytics environment.
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2019-01-1557 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 122 – Roaring newsIn this first Big Data News episode of 2019, we cover how A.I. will nudge you to a happier (work)life, the new Hive Data Warehouse connector. We end the episode with unstable artificial intelligence and how you can make a chance on a one million Euro prize!
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2019-01-0832 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 121 – Infrastructure and Data Lifecycle (part 1)Does the standard Dev-Test-Prod cycle make sense in a Big Data environment or should you approach this subject a little differently?
In this episode, we sum up our experiences and best practice tips regarding the infrastructure part and Data Lifecycle will be features in the next topic episode.
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2019-01-0142 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 120 – Roaring NewsMerry Big Data News Christmas!
Since it's the 25th of December, we're investigating how Big Data is changing the operations at the North Pole using a couple of blog posts from Splunk.
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2018-12-2539 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 119 – Knowage: The Open Source Business Analytics SuiteThis time we are joined by Paolo from Knowage who gives us a high level overview of Knowage: a totally open source suite for Business Analytics.
The Knowage suite is composed of several modules, each one conceived for a specific analytical domain. They can be used individually or combined with one another to ensure full coverage of user’ requirements, allowing to build a tailored product.
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2018-12-1848 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 118 – Roaring NewsIn this Big Data News episode, we use an article on how some disgruntled open source projects tried to force the "net giants" to give back as an excuse to talk about open source ethics. The second article for today comes from the hand of Noel Sharkey about possible deception in modern robotics.
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2018-12-1132 minRoaring ElephantEpisode 117 – Big Data Disaster RecoveryWhen Big data projects mature from R&D projects to business critical components, it becomes important to look at how your environment can survive and recover from catastrophic failures.
Considering the not unimportant cost of a good Disaster Recovery plan, it is good to take a good look at your deployment and carefully weigh the good and bad on a granular level.
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