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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. 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 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.... The more things change, the more they stay the same? This article looking at the past 10 years and talks about how Open Source, in it's many guises, has changed the world. We go over the area's covered in the article and give our views. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3481661/how-open-source-changed-everything-again.html Politics to the rescue! As a follow-on to the previous article, this NY Times article pretty much sums up the current state of the license wars.... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/technology/antitrust-h

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. 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.

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. We've meandered over a large number of subjects in this episode, so no summary for this one! :D 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 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. In case you are wondering about the untimeliness of the "cyber-truck with unbreakable windows" reference at 25:50, we originally intended to release this episode a couple of months ago in 2019, but then we recorded the truly excellent series with Rodolphe Dutel on remote working and decided to publish those episodes first. This inevitable meant delaying this episode to, well, now. :) In this hour long episode, we pick and choose the survey results that we found surprising, remarkable, weird or otherwise worth mentioning and give our view on the how and why. And of course, as you are by now accustomed to, your co-hosts definitely did not meander and go of topic... At all... Honestly... Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twi

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. We've meandered over a large number of subjects in this episode, so no summary for this one! :D 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 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. In this three part series with Rodolphe, we are trying to get to the bottom of the whole "is remote working good or bad" issue. For people who are not working remotely, the prospect can be exciting or just down right scary. For businesses that want, or need to embrace the distributed paradigm, it can be equally daunting. Rodolphe has been "helping Tech professionals go remote" for over five years now and we are very h

Our 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. For creators... Taking place twice a year, once in the US and once in Europe, we feel this conference is a good fit for people that want to find out what is new in the world of cloud and, actually, open source in general. We briefly compare this event with the pure open source conferences like FOSDEM and conclude that KubeCon+CloudNativeCon could just be the preeminent open source conference today. Though definitely not without it's faults (you;ll ned to listen to the episode to find out more), we do feel we can recommend attending this conference if you are active in this environment. For Consumers... Compared to KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, this conference is absolutely massive with over 60.000 attende

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. In this three part series with Rodolphe, we are trying to get to the bottom of the whole "is remote working good or bad" issue. For people who are not working remotely, the prospect can be exciting or just down right scary. For businesses that want, or need to embrace the distributed paradigm, it can be equally daunting. Rodolphe has been "helping Tech professionals go remote" for over five years now and we are very h

This 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! How the Mighty have Fallen... Not only has docker now completely ended as an entity, we wonder what kind of "synergy" can be achieved with this acquisition by Mirantis. And apart for the opensource docker format, usually deployed via Kubernetes, does docker still matter? https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-enterprise/ "Eventually open source": the new abandonware? In th eongoing OSS license wars, a new mongrel has appeared with Sentry borrowing the "Business Source License" and adding an "eventual open source" clause. Not sure if serious..? https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/06/relicensing-sentry

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. In this three part series with Rodolphe, we are trying to get to the bottom of the whole "is remote working good or bad" issue. For people who are not working remotely, the prospect can be exciting or just down right scary. For businesses that want, or need to embrace the distributed paradigm, it can be equally daunting. Rodolphe has been "helping Tech professionals go remote" for over five years now and we are very h

This 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. It's not because you're paranoid they're not out to get you... Privacy is foremost in many peoples mind, but on the other hand we keep bringing so called "smart" devices into our pivacy sanctums... And now we need to start thinking on how this trend affects our surroundings... https://lifehacker.com/are-you-morally-obligated-to-tell-house-guests-about-yo-1839174119 We've outsourced all the people? OK, now let's outsource all the bytes! Red Hat is reporting on the apparent trend of outsourcing IOT, but to be honest, how pervasice is IOT in everyday life and is there really a need for this? https://datafloq.com/read/red-hat-report-iot-outsourcing-trend-accelerating/7063 All your bases, they are belong to... Amazon? We don't really care about how the Pentagon sends the taxpayers money and t

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. The internet: an amazing place to find interesting imagery! :D Big thanks to our guests today: Jean-Georges Perrin https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgperrin/ John Mertic https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmertic/ Mark Phillips https://www.linkedin.com/in/markphillips/ 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.

SpaceX 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). Duck! 40.000 Satelites passing through! Satelite Internet services have definitely not been without its issues, but Elon Musk's Starlink has now successfully made (at least) twitter available to the masses! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/elon-musk-sends-tweet-via-spacexs-starlink-satellite-broadband/ The Technology wars of 2020 have started already... After Big Data washing and A.I. washing, prepare for the inevitable supremacy of Quantum washing? Google and IBM are going for round one! https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614604/quantum-supremacy-from-google-not-so-fast-says-ibm/ I for one welcome the our new masters... An AI preforming

A 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. Rules of Machine Learning:Best Practices for ML Engineering The blog post by Martin is definitely worth a thorough read! https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-of-ml/ 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.

Believe 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! How much deader can it get? When Arun Murthy, "father of Yarn" and therefore quite an authority on Hadoop declares said hadoop to be dead (yet again), we take notice. Now this was published a little while ago but for some reason, we kept putting off talking about it. However, today is the day we tackle this subject, yet again, hopefully for the very last time... https://medium.com/@acmurthy/hadoop-is-dead-long-live-hadoop-f22069b264ac FaceBook will "Libra" your wallet When Facebook revealed details about their cryptocurrency Libra, the world certainly noticed. While we shy away from discussing bitcoin variants, this news has been interesting enough, especially the reaction of the world towards this newcomer on the financial markets. https://www.cnbc.com

It 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". Many thanks to our Special Guests: Peter Roosako Twitter: @FoghornCTO Peter is the CTO of Foghorn Consulting, a cloud consulting and DevOps engineering company based in San Francisco. Justin Brodley Twitter:@jbrodley Justin Brodley is an IT Technologist who has worked with cloud computing in the SaaS computing space. He has built out MSP AWS partner organizations, led IT operations for fortune 500 companies and founder and CEO of SaaS 11, a consulting firm specializing in SaaS Software providers. Jonathan Baker Twitter: @cloudkickoff Jonathan Baker is a career problem solver and serverless evangelist. He is currently focused on develo

For 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... If you build it, they will come? Not saying that this is a bad blog, not at all, it discusses the subject matter in clear detail and all in all is a pretty god read. However, the first (and arguably only valid) question that popped into my mind when I read the title was: WHY? Why would anyone want to do something like this? Are there good reasons for trying to build something using tools that are clearly not suited for the purpose? https://yokota.blog/2019/09/23/building-a-relational-database-using-kafka/ Back to the Future? A new whitepaper by Weaveworks begs the question: a

It 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". Many thanks to our Special Guests: Peter Roosako Twitter: @FoghornCTO Peter is the CTO of Foghorn Consulting, a cloud consulting and DevOps engineering company based in San Francisco. Justin Brodley Twitter:@jbrodley Justin Brodley is an IT Technologist who has worked with cloud computing in the SaaS computing space. He has built out MSP AWS partner organizations, led IT operations for fortune 500 companies and founder and CEO of SaaS 11, a consulting firm specializing in SaaS Software providers. Jonathan Baker Twitter: @cloudkickoff Jonathan Baker is a career problem solver and serverless evangelist. He is currently focused on dev

Before 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. It's not because it's boring that it's not Cool! The author if this article is the sole employee of his own company "Listen Notes" and here he explains in pretty deep detail how he was able to setup an internet service, by himself, using mostly open source software and good development practices. https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b You need Hybrid Cloud. Even Google says so! As probably the last of the big three public cloud providers, google has joined the select group that offers a hybrid cloud environment. Does it make sense?