Roaring Elephant

Everybody's favorite agony aunt is being put out to pasture and we felt we cold not let this occasion go unnoticed. Instead we decided to regale our audience with some of our favorite picks of the cornucopia that is Yahoo Answers! And yes, if you had totally forgotten it still existed, so did we... Our Fabulous Picks: The Good:  A question for programmers. Is it too late to start programming at age 35, but to get a job not just for fun. ?https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20210406090153AAv17hOWhat is big data about?https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrC1ClLGHBgvlIAMhdPmolQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny?qid=20130528083829AANsKIH  The Bad: What are some ways to print your emails.?https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20210406211203AAT7E0tHow i can build an artificial intelligence and what programming language I must use?https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrC0CYDGnBgawoAqBRPmolQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny?qid=20141220

While discussing an article on Edge Computing, we discovered we have pretty diverging ideas on the subject an thus, a Roaring Elephant episode was borne! General Edge computing concepts, where it came from and where it could possibly end up in the future all come up in this episode. 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.

Big technology projects have the reputation of failing often and hard. For this episode, we took inspiration from the "Fishbone of Problems" put together by Stephen J. Andriole to discuss some potential pitfalls. 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.

As you might expect, Open Source @ Google works just a little different. Thanks to their scale, they are able to push the "monorepo" paradigm to the extreme where they compile all the critical open source projects from their own repository. In this episode we try to answer the question if everybody should adopt Google approach or not. And unsurprisingly, the answer is the ubiquitous "it depends".... The topic for this episode was the result of reading a number of online articles which we references during the discussion: How Google manages open sourceOpen Source PatchingOpen source: Google wants new rules for developers working on 'critical' projects'We're finding bugs way faster than we can fix them': Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security 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.

We recently came across some content on the do's and dont's, good and bad, ups and downs and lefts and rights when it comes to the much discusses, often misunderstood but definitely vital role of the Enterprise Architect. While we were discussing it, we decided to switch on the microphones and record our musings on the matter. Now please do not expect any kind of conclusion at the end of this episode: it's not that kind of episode, at all! It's much more just two tech veterans reminiscing and grumbling over past experiences.... 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.

Recently there has been some outcry from the community about Red Hat's plans with their free CentOS distribution. Moving to the newly proposed "CentOS Stream" style of making the distro available does seem to make sense for Red Hat, but how does it affect the rest of the world? CentOS Stream Timeline March 31, 2016RedHat launches developer program with “free” subscriptions availableSeptember 24, 2019Transforming the development experience within CentOSDecember 8, 2020CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise LinuxCentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS StreamJanuary 20th 2021New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHELFebruary 25, 2021Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations 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.

With the release of GKE Autopilot by Google, there is now an "easy" button for Kubernetes deployments everywhere. But is an easy button really what the world needs, especially for something as flexible, transformative and yes, definitely complex as Kubernetes? 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.

In this weeks episode, we give our take on how reliable the information on the internet really is. Also, is GitHub leading the way towards a cookie-less future? And if so, what will the consequences be? 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.

In this weeks episode we discuss NEO4J's take on Graph Data Science and take a look at the postmortem that Slack released, following their world-wide outage a month ago. 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.

About a year ago, we had the lucky coincidence to have a discussion with Rodolphe Dutel on the subject of working remotely. Twelve months later, the world is a much different place and working from home has become the norm, especially in the more technical workplaces, we touch base with Rodolphe and get his insights and experiences. In this final episode on the topic, for this year at least, we finish off looking at how we feel, think, hope and fear the situation will stabilize once the troubles are behind us. If you are interesting in working remotely, check out the Remotive.io job board! 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.

About a year ago, we had the lucky coincidence to have a discussion with Rodolphe Dutel on the subject of working remotely. Twelve months later, the world is a much different place and working from home has become the norm, especially in the more technical workplaces, we touch base with Rodolphe and get his insights and experiences. This second part focuses more on how we will transition from the current extreme situation into a more long term, sustainable organization. If you are interesting in working remotely, check out the Remotive.io job board! 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.

About a year ago, we had the lucky coincidence to have a discussion with Rodolphe Dutel on the subject of working remotely. Twelve months later, the world is a much different place and working from home has become the norm, especially in the more technical workplaces, we touch base with Rodolphe and get his insights and experiences. In this first part of our interview with Rodolphe, we look at the current "working from home" situation. In upcoming episodes. we'll try to predict how the "working remotely"situation will evolve in the future. If you are interesting in working remotely, check out the Remotive.io job board! 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.

With the advent of architectures based on Microservices, the days of the monolith really do seem to be numbered. Recently, the good people at The Software House released a report on the State of Microservices 2020 and when reading it, we decided we wanted to dig into our personal experiences and offer our view on the data. 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.

We're continuing our crustal ball peering, trying to divine what the internet will be like in ten years time. Where we looked more at the geopolitical factors last time, we're looking at the technology angle in this episode! 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.

With the disaster that was 2020 coming to an end, we think we can say that the global Internet has been a savior to the economy and, to be frank, our sanity. We decided to do some future gazing today and see if we can predict how the Internet will evolve in the next decade... 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.

The Github "State of the Octoverse" for 2020 is out and we're dedicating this episode to dissecting all the wonderful information presented here. https://youtu.be/3yigp4E2zug 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.

This week we're visited by John Desjardins who regaled us with his knowledge of in-memory computing. https://youtu.be/LHoO2XAQXqM 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.

Did a decade of OpenStack deliver the cloud environment everybody flocks too? Not really.... Fortunately, Matt Turck saves the episode, if not the year, with his 2020 Data and AI landscape poster! OpenStack, the little tech that couldn't? Ten years ago, the new cloud craze called OpenStack hit the scene and they did so with a lot of noise. A decade later, what is left of this once darling of the hypervisor orchestration layer component technology? And yes, that convoluted phrase was written especially as a pun on the incredibly complex gaggle of projects that formed the "Open Stack" and just may have been it's downfall... Pretty visuals are pretty! Matt Turck is at it again and we are very grateful for this yearly graphic representation of the Data and AI landscape. We try to give his hard work a little bit of attention every year and here is the 2020 edition. Thanks Matt! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to su

Today we are joined by Michael Kennedy who is an expert on Python, the little scripting language that is helping solve the worlds biggest problems today. There seems to be no stopping it and it has become the go-to language for anything form devops glue scripts to data scientists' machine learning jobs and everything in between. So how does one get started with Python and what are the tips & tricks of the trade. Find more Michael Kennedy goodness at: Michael Kennedy on Technology:Cutting-Edge Developer and Technology Writin A podcast on Python and related technologies Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. Python Bytes podcast delivers headlines directly to your earbuds. If you want to stay up on the Python developer news but don't have time to scour reddit, twitter, and other news sources, just subscribe and you'll get the best picks delivered weekly.Have feedback for the show? Send it to contact_pythonbytes@talkpython.fm. We'd love to hear f

We have decided long ago that we do not want to work on our birthday, so we were very happy indeed to welcome John Mertic back to the podcast. John talks extensively about all the things the Linux Foundation has been up to and Dave and Jhon simply lay back and enjoy the show. :) For more information about the different projects John talked about, please go to the following web sites With ODPi, building products and services and ensuring the right data is understood, shared and protected is simple. We’re developing the only vendor neutral, open source standards to enable best practices for data governance, connectivity, business intelligence, and analytics. ODPi helps… ODPI The LF AI & Data Foundation supports open source projects within artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and the data space. You can think of us as a greenhouse growing and sustaining open source AI, ML, DL and Data projects from seed to fruition. LF AI & Data Open sourc