Roaring Elephant

It's been a while but News is back! We're taking a long, deep look at how we see the tech industry evolve through this pandemic lock-down environment. And we finish the episode off with Dave's contribution about some Industrial Design... Predicting the Future is not easy... Using this article as a reason to discuss a topic, rather than the article itself, we offer up our views on how the current lock down situation will likely evolve over time. While we definitely do not have a working crystal ball, we do feel we have a decent idea to do a little bit of future gazing.... Everybody thinks they have good taste, that really cannot be true.... Dave certainly missed his calling: interior decorating and industrial design appear to be his real strength! And obviously, Jhon really does not agree with Dave's assessment! (You really did not expect anything different now, did you?) Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to sug

With Machine Learning and AI being on everybody's minds and lips these days, we invited Keith McCormick to joins us and discuss the do's and don'ts of leveraging the undeniable power of ML in your organization. In last week's first part, we covered the technology part and today we have the human side of the story for you! Find out more about Keith on his blog where you can find links to his numerous courses on LinkedIn Learning. 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 Machine Learning and AI being on everybody's minds and lips these days, we invited Keith McCormick to joins us and discuss the do's and don'ts of leveraging the undeniable power of ML in your organization. In this first part, we cover the technology part and we'll have the human side of the story for you next week! Find out more about Keith on his blog where you can find links to his numerous courses on LinkedIn Learning. 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 joined by Chris Short from Red Hat to discuss the ins and outs of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, often abbreviated to CI/CD. With years of experience under his belt, we let loose with every and all questions we could think of! Body 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 news episode is pretty much dominated by IBM. The company has gone through so many divestments and reorganizations recently, the acquisition of Red Hat only one of the noteworthy events, that the sudden news about IBM tearing their IT infrastructure support organization away form the mothership was enough to have your co-hosts busy for most of this episode. We did find some time however to discuss the new Kubernetes GUI's: Doom and Minecraft! 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 joined by Chris Short from Red Hat to discuss the ins and outs of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, often abbreviated to CI/CD. With years of experience under his belt, we let loose with every and all questions we could think of! 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.

A hard task it was, but we actually found some technology news to discuss! I really feels like the world has more or less come to a bit of a standstill, the world holding it's breath while we wait for the current troubles to go away. But we prevailed and have 30 minutes of discussion on if you should build or buy your tech, if Kubernetes really is already last years news in favor of Serverless Compute and we end with a quick look at a nice visualization of "Data Fallacies". Try or Buy? Buying your techn9ology "off the shelf" will likely give you a faster route to deployment. But if you deploy the same tech as your competition, how can you still offer differentiation to your discerning customers? Kubernetes is yesterday's tech already? After spending quite some time discussion containers and Kubernetes in the last few episodes, it would seem that it is already bypassed, at least in promise, by "serverless compute". We discuss our take on the hype vs reality of this "next

The end is in sight! After a heroic voyage across the plains of containers, we reach the mountain called Doom Kubernetes! Join us for this last foray in this epic saga where we look at Kubernetes, some of its alternatives and offer our opinion on the matter of adopting Kubernetes and the micro services architectures, or not... 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.

Almost at the end of our journey, deep into the realms of containers and Kubernetes, we finally reach the destination that is Kubernetes. After this, we'll round of this series of episodes with out closing summary next week. 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.

Returning to our series on containers and Kubernetes, we discuss the concept of Micro Services in this episode. Weaving our way through software best practices and the advent of the Big Web 2.0 companies, we end up in an ever more complex world of Micro Architectures. https://youtu.be/sPCh-ogNlHk 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.

Taking a brief hiatus from our series on containers and micro-service architectures, we have a news episode for you! We discuss whether or not it is smart to move back to on premise, once you have moved to the cloud, take a closer look at the state of A.I. ion law enforcement today and highlight a new project from Netflix for monitoring your streaming environment. https://youtu.be/MmyLhVLQOMg 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.

And this is already installment 3 in the ongoing saga on Containers and Kubernetes, and this time we finally end up actually talking about containers! We promised we'd get there, and here it is. But this is still far form the end of the story: in the next couple of episodes, we'll discuss orchestration and micro services architectures, again covering the good and bad and throw in a bit of history, courtesy of Dave! https://youtu.be/F_-zmhHROwA 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 started this saga on Kubernetes and containers last week during KubCon and we're picking up where we left off then, continuing to dig deeper in the subject of Virtualization, jails and containers. We still have much more to talk about, so catch us next week for the continuation of this epic story! https://youtu.be/4_hHgYqzBKw In this part, we move on from Virtual Machines and into a deep discussion of Linux Jails and LXC containers, the precursors to today's container concepts. 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.

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. https://youtu.be/fUcrSVl6j2k In this part, we actually talk about Virtual Machines because many people know what they are and the recent surge of containers everywhere, is largely a attempt at solving the problems that are inherent to virtualization. For that reason it makes sense to discuss the good and the bad of virtual machines first. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to sugges

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. https://youtu.be/Wb3WFiUiL50 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 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. https://youtu.be/Uedeo3tQz-Y 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.

Another fortnight, another Roaring News episode looking at an Acquisition by SUSE, some privacy shattering interviews and a PSA about unsecured databases! https://youtu.be/kJJ-IVcUReY Another startup bites the dust? We've discussed how a lot of startup's business strategy is to get notices, get popular and cash out. Is Rancher doing this now, or is this acquisition by SUSE more interesting? Do laws make things better, or worse? In another attempt of using unproven technology to solve perceived deficiencies in human, intuition based tasks, legislation conceived to protect the individual, may just be making things worse? Nah, leave it with the default password. It'll be fine! Though Dave feels this isn't worth writing about, Jhon believes that this cannot be repeated often enough: please secure your data stores! 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.

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... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qk7DIcFrnA 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 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... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzRuWrUoz1I Public Cloud as a side-job Every time we look at the state of public cloud today, we are stunned by how "coincidental" the clouds are for 2 out of the 3 major players where the massive public cloud is dwarfed by the organizations real business endeavors. Not really Quantum Fujitsu is the latest player to enter the Quantum playing field with an offering that is decidedly NOT Quantum... If you thought it was bad that the walls have ears... With privacy concerns on the rise, this article detailing a rather simple to execute eves-dropping technique won;t do much to make you sleep better at night... At least the lights ar

For 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.... ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAisApoDUWw 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.