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Episode 187 – Talking Business Agility with Caroline of Estelia (Part 2)

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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.

Episode 186 – Roaring News

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To 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?

Episode 185 – Talking Business Agility with Caroline of Estelia (Part 1)

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Episode 184- Roaring News

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A 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.

Episode 183- Taking Apache Cassandra for a spin

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In 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!