Bite-Sized Big Tech
A weekly community podcast about Big Technology with a focus on Open Source, Advanced Analytics and other modern magic.
Roaring Elephant ran for 480 episodes over ten years. This static page keeps the archive easy to browse, with direct links to the MP3 files for playback or download in your browser.
All good things need to come to and end, and so does this podcast. After 10 years of faithfully providing our weekly download, we have decided this is a perfect point to call this experiment of our complete. We want to thank you, our audience from the bottom of our hearts for your support. There is no way we would have kept this going for so long if we did not have you!
As we are getting closer to our 10 Year anniversary milestone, we will be looking back at our 10 year history on various topics, Right up to our actual birthday episode on November 18th. In this final retrospective, We're joined by our regular guest, John Mertic, to discuss everything around Open Source and The Linux Foundation.
As we are getting closer to our 10 Year anniversary milestone, we will be looking back at our 10 year history on various topics, right up to our actual birthday episode on November 18th. In this fourth installment, we're taking a look at AI, again in all its shapes and sizes, uses and abuses.
As we are getting closer to our 10 Year anniversary milestone, we will be looking back at our 10 year history on various topics, Right up to our actual birthday episode on November 18th. In this third retrospective, we're taking a look at Cloud, in all its shapes and sizes, uses and abuses.
As we are getting closer to our 10 Year anniversary milestone, we will be looking back at our 10 year history on various topics, Right up to our actual birthday episode on November 18th. In this second retrospective, we're taking a look at how the way Big Tech companies communicate has changed over the years...
As we are getting closer to our 10 Year anniversary milestone, we will be looking back at our 10 year history on various topics, Right up to our actual birthday episode on November 18th. In this first retrospective, we're looking back at how Big Data, the reason this podcast exists in the first place, has evolved.
Moving right ahead, taking inspiration form the recent DBIR report from Verizon. So for the next couple of weeks, Security is what it is all about! Closing off the security topics this week with a look at security training for employees. Contrary to our own experiences, these are actually helping things?
Moving right ahead, taking inspiration form the recent DBIR report from Verizon. So for the next couple of weeks, Security is what it is all about! In this episode, we're looking at some ways to keep your security stance up to scratch!
Moving right ahead, taking inspiration form the recent DBIR report from Verizon. So for the next couple of weeks, Security is what it is all about! People are apparently ignoring CVEs? Really? Or is something else going on here...
Moving right ahead, taking inspiration form the recent DBIR report from Verizon. So for the next couple of weeks, Security is what it is all about! This time, everybodies favorite tool is going on the executioners block...
Moving right ahead, taking inspiration form the recent DBIR report from Verizon. So for the next couple of weeks, Security is what it is all about! And front and center is the rise of Ransomware.
It's survey time again! Over the next few episodes, we'll be taking our inspiration from the latest "State of Open Source" report by Perforce OpenLogic. Well, that enough on this subject. Tying off some loose ends and moving on now!
It's survey time again! Over the next few episodes, we'll be taking our inspiration from the latest "State of Open Source" report by Perforce OpenLogic. This time a (not so) slight detour into the dangerous situation created by Red Hat and their change in how CentOS was managed...
It's survey time again! Over the next few episodes, we'll be taking our inspiration from the latest "State of Open Source" report by Perforce OpenLogic. In this episode, we'll be looking at what is holding back Open Source.
It's survey time again! Over the next few episodes, we'll be taking our inspiration from the latest "State of Open Source" report by Perforce OpenLogic. Let's start with some general observations today.
It would seem that the A.I. hype just isn't able to match reality? Who would have thought that would happen? Right? But seriously, if you feel that your AI projects aren't going as smoothly as you had hoped, you're not the only one and there are very good reasons for it!
All good things come to those who wait, and here is (yet another re-occurrence) of Gov-Cloud. Or now it's called Sov Cloud. Same thing, same problems, or is it actually going to make the world a better place this time around?
Who said politics never did anything good for us? Here is a (not so?) brand-new DNS service that you can use to avoid giving ever more data to commercial entities, but to the E.U. instead!
Did Quantum Computing actually produce something useful this time? Well yes, but.... well, they keep using that word and we're not really sure they know what it means?
An update on a cool new way that open source can get funded, and a not so cool trend where Discord is making things worse...
After going over the full Hashicorp tale in the last few episodes, let's recap and see why exactly it is so incredibly difficult for an successful Open Source project to become a profitable enterprise.
Next in this series, lets take a look at the financials and see why it was quite obvious someone, somewhere, made a bad decision....
The great thing about open source is, if you do it right, no matter what happens, there is rarely a real loser.
To fork or not to fork, is it really a question? It's definitely an option! Let's take a look on how OpenTofu came to be.
Continuing our analysis on Opensource enterprises, we continue the Hashicorp example and discuss how a great idea just isn't enough...
We're starting a little series here, looking at how opensource projects have attempted to become profitable enterprises. Some were successful and some failed, but easy it is definitely not. As Hashicorp has gone through the whole roller coaster ride recently, and has now settled down again, we are going to take them as a case study.
Whether they are scams, or legitimate, the bogus copyright claims we have to fight all the time have finally broken the camels back. We have decided to make some changes...
As AI, and specifically GenAI are taking over the world by storm, Ethics is often only of secondary importance. Join our Guest Golestan (Sally) Radwan in a lively discussion on the topic. The wisdom from "Jurassic Park" is more valid than ever: "Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should"...
As AI, and specifically GenAI are taking over the world by storm, Ethics is often only of secondary importance. Join our Guest Golestan (Sally) Radwan in a lively discussion on the topic. The wisdom from "Jurassic Park" is more valid than ever: "Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should"...
As AI, and specifically GenAI are taking over the world by storm, Ethics is often only of secondary importance. Join our Guest Golestan (Sally) Radwan in a lively discussion on the topic. The wisdom from "Jurassic Park" is more valid than ever: "Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should"...
The mysteries around Quantum Computing Unraveled! Right here and especially for you! Join us in a new series where we dive in to the facts and fantasies that exist around this up and coming technology so you can understand and cut through that hype when it inevitably come around.
The mysteries around Quantum Computing Unraveled! Right here and especially for you! Join us in a new series where we dive in to the facts and fantasies that exist around this up and coming technology so you can understand and cut through that hype when it inevitably come around.
The mysteries around Quantum Computing Unraveled! Right here and especially for you! Join us in a new series where we dive in to the facts and fantasies that exist around this up and coming technology so you can understand and cut through that hype when it inevitably come around.
There are times when things change, and for the Roaring Elephant Podcast, that time is now! Right NOW! Listen to this exciting episode to find out what the future holds for your favorite podcast!
Apparently, WEIRD is an acronym neither of us knew about but, depending on who you ask, has a effect on how much trust and acceptance can be expected from a population when it comes to A.I.? Time to go deeper! Inspiration for this episode was found at https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/3279352-the-weird-ai-divide-why-some-nations-trust-ai-while-others-dont
Quantum Computing is slowly becoming the next hype train and in recent weeks, all the major players have gaily jumped on board... Spreading more disinformation than actual useful facts. And it is now up to the Roaring Elephant to make sense of it all for you! Inspiration for this episode was found at: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/02/19/microsoft-unveils-majorana-1-the-worlds-first-quantum-processor-powered-by-topological-qubits/, https://www.investors.com/news/technology/amazon-stock-quantum-chip-stocks-amzn-news/. Quantum Computing Mailing lists: https://resonance-newsletters.beehiiv.com/, https://mailchi.mp/quantumcomputingreport/quantum-computing-report-alerts-december-16-13357492
Is Quantum Computing a purely western world phenomena, or is the rest of civilization also falling under it's spell? Inspiration for this episode was found at: https://research.google/pubs/quantum-supremacy-using-a-programmable-superconducting-processor/, https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/ Quantum Computing Mailing lists: https://resonance-newsletters.beehiiv.com/, https://mailchi.mp/quantumcomputingreport/quantum-computing-report-alerts-december-16-13357492
Quantum Computing is slowly becoming the next hype train and in recent weeks, all the major players have gaily jumped on board... Spreading more disinformation than actual useful facts. And it is now up to the Roaring Elephant to make sense of it all for you! Inspiration for this episode was found at:https://research.google/pubs/quantum-supremacy-using-a-programmable-superconducting-processor/, https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/ Quantum Computing Mailing lists: https://resonance-newsletters.beehiiv.com/, https://mailchi.mp/quantumcomputingreport/quantum-computing-report-alerts-december-16-13357492
The Asahi Linux project was a huge success, but with great success comes a big spotlight and this can have big consequences. Unfortunately, the pressure proved to big for the project leader who has now stepped down. What can we learn from this? Inspiration for this episode was found at: https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/, https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/
Ah, the age-old question about Open Source culture and Open Source licenses. When will we ever be done talking about it? Well, as long as Open Source people keep doing weird and wonderful things, we'll keep talking about it! Inspiration for this episode was found at https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/08/why-the-spirit-of-open-source-means-much-more-than-a-license/
The Chinese Deep Seek model came out of nowhere and definitely changed our AI realities. However, the changes are likely not as profound as you may think, and maybe way lager than you might expect!
Going back to school, after you have just started your career, or much later in life, is a huge undertaking. In this follow-on episode, we go a bit deeper on the things you can do to make it work.
Going back to school, after you have just started your career, or much later in life, is a huge undertaking. As both of your co-hosts have some experience in this, Dave early in his career, and Jhon right now, we though it would make some interesting content to discuss how we started on this path.
Join security veteran Ken Foster and Sotero CEO Purandar DAS for a discussion on the new PCI DSS V4.0 certification. In this second part, we go deeper on the actual practical side of getting this standard up and running in your environment!
Join security veteran Ken Foster and Sotero CEO Purandar DAS for a discussion on the new PCI DSS V4.0 certification. Who should be implementing it, when should it be up and running and, most importantly, why do you really want to do that? This first part of our interview with Purandar and Ken has (almost) all the answers! The rest is coming your way next week!
It's the start of the new year, so let's finish up with the predictions we did not get to in the old year!
It's the end of the year, and it's been a while since we did one of these, so let's do some predictions!
Technology outlooks by reputable firms are usually good inspiration and the McKinsey report turned out to be great for disagreeing with! In this last part, we'll go through the rest of the report, sifting the sands and picking the last golden nuggets.
Technology outlooks by reputable firms are usually good inspiration and the McKinsey report turned out to be great for disagreeing with! Part two is about Applied A.I. Never heard of that one? Neither did we, so lets dive in!
Technology outlooks by reputable firms are usually good inspiration and the McKinsey report turned out to be great for disagreeing with! Part one, we tackle the ubiquitous GenAI which, of course, is the first of the topics.
Getting back to work after last weeks anniversary is hard work, so let's just take a look at the news, shall we?
Join us when we continue to talk with our guest John Mertic and find out everything that is going on at the Linux Foundation!
Civil infrastructure you say? With Open Source? Really? Well, yes, really! It's happening and happening right now. Join us when we talk with our guest John Mertic and find out all about this recent project by the Linux Foundation!
All good things take time, and that is true for A.I. as will. However, it will also take money... A lot of money, more than you expect!
We've said it before and we'll say it again: No Data Science project team is complete without a string Data Engineer contingent!
Even though many people will tell you A.I. is a "quick fix", in reality it is anything but that and the actual time investment required for a good, grounded AI environment is always under estimated...
Have a problem? Fix it with some A.I.! It's sooo easy, you won't believe it! And you shouldn't. Believe it I mean. Nope, nothing that promises so much, should ever be trusted blindly!
Our guest today has an interesting background, moving from the dark side of data collection to a protector of your data. In this final part of our interview with Purandar Das, we talk about the practical side of protecting your data.
Our guest today has an interesting background, moving from the dark side of data collection to a protector of your data. In this first half of our interview with Purandar Das, we talk about his journey and why protecting your data is just so damn hard!
Why do so many people feel the need to cram A.I. in every conceivable nook and cranny, when traditional, proven methods would be just fine? No idea, but it's definitely a bad idea!
So let us take a look at why A.I. projects fail and see how to fix the problem!
Of all projects that an enterprise can undertake, a project involving anything to do with Artificial Intelligence seems to have a disproportionate chance of failure. Is this inevitable, or can something be done to make these highly visible projects more successful?
Platform Engineering is another one of those hype words, the "thing" that solves all your problems, according to the marketing at least... But what is is actually, and what can it be?
Listen to our guest Cory O'Daniel, CEO of Massdriver and one of the outspoken people behind Open Tofu explain why OpenTofu became inevitable after the Terraform license change by Hashicorps.
The age of contributors to Open Source seems to be getting ever higher. let's look at some reasons why and maybe, just maybe find a solution?
DataOps, the promising future that nobody seems to be able to make reality. But not for lack of trying: meet Chris Bergh, "Head Chef" at DataKitchen, joining us again to tell us how te filed evolved over the last few years.
DataOps, the promising future that nobody seems to be able to make reality. But not for lack of trying: meet Chris Bergh, "Head Chef" at DataKitchen, joining us again to tell us how te filed evolved over the last few years.
Benchmarks, you love 'em, you hate 'em, or you really, really hate them, with a vengeance! But they can also actually be useful...
CrowdStrike did "a thing" last week... We've waited until the dust settles (as we are known to do) and now that more information is available, we're doing a deepdive on the day the earth stood still.... almost...
Public cloud provider marketshare numbers are often published and discusses, but what is hard to find is a long term trend and comparison between the major players. We were intrigued, so we did the research and are able to present to you seven years of history, with some rather surprising statistics!
After looking at Tech Acquisitions last week, we're now investigating the other side of the coin: going for an IPO.
For the last few months, we've seen a number of high profile acquisitions in the tech world. What's going on there?
It's been a while, but listener on YouTube @Max6711 posed us an intriguing question on the problems with today's A.I. And today, is the day, when we finally take him up on that question!
So you decided on Kubernetes for your project? Great. So how are you going to deploy it? On bare metal, on virtual machines, or, as apparently some people do, on top of containers?
Nobody is ever going to say Kubernetes is easy, but it has gotten better over time, hasn't it? Or has it? The recent DZone trend report had some interesting details on the topic so we dove right in!
We were lucky to have Matthew join us to talk about Developer Relations. The role has gone through a lot of changes, maturing into something that is now predictably beneficial to an organization. But things are never as easy as they seem at first glance... In this third and last part, Matthew finishes off the interview going over some do's and don'ts.
We were lucky to have Matthew join us to talk about Developer Relations. The role has gone through a lot of changes, maturing into something that is now predictably beneficial to an organization. But things are never as easy as they seem at first glance...
We were lucky to have Matthew join us to talk about Developer Relations. The role has gone through a lot of changes, maturing into something that is now predictably beneficial to an organization. But things are never as easy as they seem at first glance...
The hype around Generative A.I. is everywhere. But just how are you supposed to use this technology? Well, look no further but let Alex and Zach take you on a wild tour on everything around LLM Ops: the "right" way to use and implement GenAI?
The hype around Generative A.I. is everywhere. But just how are you supposed to use this technology? Well, look no further but let Alex and Zach take you on a wild tour on everything around LLM Ops: the "right" way to use and implement GenAI?
Well... Eh... Nope.. Not doing it. You'll just have to watch and/or Listen!
The hype around Generative A.I. is everywhere. But just how are you supposed to use this technology? Well, look no further but let Alex and Zach take you on a wild tour on everything around LLM Ops: the "right" way to use and implement GenAI?
The hype around Generative A.I. is everywhere. But just how are you supposed to use this technology? Well, look no further but let Alex and Zach take you on a wild tour on everything around LLM Ops: the "right" way to use and implement GenAI?
The 2024 State of Open Source Report is out and as usual, we're going through it to find out how things changed. And as an added bonus, we took last years report and made "evolution slides" to compare previous years to the latest report, something we always find missing in the report as OpenLogic publishes it.
The 2024 State of Open Source Report is out and as usual, we're going through it to find out how things changed. And as an added bonus, we took last years report and made "evolution slides" to compare previous years to the latest report, something we always find missing in the report as OpenLogic publishes it.
The 2024 State of Open Source Report is out and as usual, we're going through it to find out how things changed. And as an added bonus, we took last years report and made "evolution slides" to compare previous years to the latest report, something we always find missing in the report as OpenLogic publishes it.
The 2024 State of Open Source Report is out and as usual, we're going through it to find out how things changed. And as an added bonus, we took last years report and made "evolution slides" to compare previous years to the latest report, something we always find missing in the report as OpenLogic publishes it.
The 2024 State of Open Source Report is out and as usual, we're going through it to find out how things changed. And as an added bonus, we took last years report and made "evolution slides" to compare previous years to the latest report, something we always find missing in the report as OpenLogic publishes it.
The 2024 State of Open Source Report is out and as usual, we're going through it to find out how things changed. And as an added bonus, we took last years report and made "evolution slides" to compare previous years to the latest report, something we always find missing in the report as OpenLogic publishes it.
The 2024 State of Open Source Report is out and as usual, we're going through it to find out how things changed. And as an added bonus, we took last years report and made "evolution slides" to compare previous years to the latest report, something we always find missing in the report as OpenLogic publishes it.
Computers have definitely improved life for most, but with the proliferation of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, we might want to take a step back, or at least re-evaluate our priorities?
You have heard Dave and Jhon talk a little bit on GenAI, but now we're brining in the experts! Out first guest is Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, a Data Engineer, A.I. enthusiast and, most importantly, long time fan and Patreon of the show!
You have heard Dave and Jhon talk a little bit on GenAI, but now we're brining in the experts! Out first guest is Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, a Data Engineer, A.I. enthusiast and, most importantly, long time fan and Patreon of the show!
New rules are put in place by the SEC that should make the effects of Data Breaches more visible. However, they seem to be rules without any system to enforce them...
By Chance we found an article from 2020 making predictions for the next few years and could not resist talking about something other than GenAI and LLMs for a change!
Competition is a good thing. It really is. So when Google announced Gemini, we were excited for it. And then we saw the presentation and doubt crept in... Did Google really pull another "Duo"?
It's that time of the year again when honorary fourth host John Mertic joins the regular crew. In this final part we discuss Data Privacy when it relates to AI.
It's that time of the year again when honorary fourth host John Mertic joins the regular crew. In this third part we discuss how GenAI just might not be good for you?
It's that time of the year again when honorary fourth host John Mertic joins the regular crew. In this second part we discuss if any progress was made on the sustainability of Open Source projects.
It's that time of the year again when honorary fourth host John Mertic joins the regular crew. In this first part John takes us on a general update trip.
It's nearing the end of the year and so everybody is dig their predictions for the near and far future. Not surprisingly, it's all about AI!
It's nearing the end of the year and so everybody is dig their predictions for the near and far future. Not surprisingly, it's all about AI!
It's nearing the end of the year and so everybody is dig their predictions for the near and far future. Not surprisingly, it's all about AI!
Nearing the end of the year, it's a time of introspection. A time of deep soul searching, right? So what about the soul of open source?
In our 8th year celebration episode, it's just business as usual. Or is it? Are sinister games of body snatching afoot?
When the world is good, corporations give us APIs to connect to their wonderful contraptions. And then they take it away... Guess we really cannot get have good things...
Do computers, robots and A.I. serve us, or do they just serve as a good excuse?
There seems to exist a motion where people only teach themselves "that" it works, but "how" it works is usually not part of the education. Whether due to time constraints or just laziness doesn't really matter when it turns the world in a place where substandard becomes standard...
Success! Maybe not what you are doing it for, but lack of success can definitely put a damper on the fun of things. So, OK, Success it is! But... What is success? What does it look like for you?
As we are getting to the end of this series, we're doing a little summarization of things with an eye to perfection. Or rather, the dangers that lurk when perfection is the aim!
Making a podcast is certainly fun, but as the saying goes: the more the merrier! So inviting guests onto your podcast really helps keep things fresh. In this episode, we continue about all the logistics and, more importantly, how to get good guests on your show!
Making a podcast is certainly fun, but as the saying goes: the more the merrier! So inviting guests onto your podcast really helps keep things fresh. In this and next episode, we talk about all the logistics and, more importantly, how to get good guests on your show!
In a surprise move to many, the Cisco behemoth decided to gobble up poor little Splunk. Well, of course, Splunk isn't really that small, or that poor either... So does it actually make sense?
Over the years, we've had people ask us about what it's like to start a podcast, how to keep it going and how to not let it ruin your life. (OK, that last one maybe not so much.) In this fourth episode where we take you behind the scenes, we handle the sticky discussion with your employer and how the get hem on-board!
Over the years, we've had people ask us about what it's like to start a podcast, how to keep it going and how to not let it ruin your life. (OK, that last one maybe not so much.) In this third episode where we take you behind the scenes, we go focus on letting the podcast evolve naturally and keeping it fresh.
Over the years, we've had people ask us about what it's like to start a podcast, how to keep it going and how to not let it ruin your life. (OK, that last one maybe not so much.) In this second episode where we take you behind the scenes, we talk about what decision we had to make when we decided to take this ting for a spin.
Over the years, we've had people ask us about what it's like to start a podcast, how to keep it going and how to not let it ruin your life. (OK, that last one maybe not so much.) In this first episode where we take you behind the scenes, we talk about why you would want, or not want to do a podcast.
Everybody is talking about the real or perceived need for regulating all that is A.I.. But who are the powers behind this and why do they really want this?
Open Source is much more than "just code". So much more that our guest John Mertic actually wrote a book to tell you all about it! As we are always happy to invite John on to the podcast, we invited him to talk about the book and, as usual, much more. So much more that this inevitably became a multi-part episode and in this part we are talking mostly about scaling open source projects.
Open Source is much more than "just code". So much more that our guest John Mertic actually wrote a book to tell you all about it! As we are always happy to invite John on to the podcast, we invited him to talk about the book and, as usual, much more. So much more that this inevitably became a multi-part episode and in this part we are talking mostly about actually running an open source project.
Open Source is much more than "just code". So much more that our guest John Mertic actually wrote a book to tell you all about it! As we are always happy to invite John on to the podcast, we invited him to talk about the book and, as usual, much more. So much more that this inevitably became a multi-part episode and in this part we are talking mostly about getting ready for Open Source.
Continuing the current series, here is the next value that we have picked up along the way that we find are important and lead to a healthy, productive, environment.
Continuing the current series, here is the next value that we have picked up along the way that we find are important and lead to a healthy, productive, environment.
Continuing the current series, here is the next value that we have picked up along the way that we find are important and lead to a healthy, productive, environment.
Continuing the current series, here is the next value that we have picked up along the way that we find are important and lead to a healthy, productive, environment.
Continuing the current series, here are the next few values that we have picked up along the way that we find are important and lead to a healthy, productive, environment.
After dissecting and commenting on other organizations' mission statements and values, we are now taking a look at our own house: what values have we picked up along the way that we find are important and lead to a healthy, productive, environment?
Companies have, or pretend to have, values and those are usually nicely encapsulate in a mission statements. But how accurate are these and do they really represent the company fairly? In this and the next few episodes, we are going to have a little bit of fun discussing various well known mission statements and along the way give our personal opinions on them.
Companies have, or pretend to have, values and those are usually nicely encapsulate in a mission statements. But how accurate are these and do they really represent the company fairly? In this and the next few episodes, we are going to have a little bit of fun discussing various well known mission statements and along the way give our personal opinions on them.
Companies have, or pretend to have, values and those are usually nicely encapsulate in a mission statements. But how accurate are these and do they really represent the company fairly? In this and the next few episodes, we are going to have a little bit of fun discussing various well known mission statements and along the way give our personal opinions on them.
Companies have, or pretend to have, values and those are usually nicely encapsulate in a mission statements. But how accurate are these and do they really represent the company fairly? In this and the next few episodes, we are going to have a little bit of fun discussing various well known mission statements and along the way give our personal opinions on them.
Companies have, or pretend to have, values and those are usually nicely encapsulate in a mission statements. But how accurate are these and do they really represent the company fairly? In this and the next few episodes, we are going to have a little bit of fun discussing various well known mission statements and along the way give our personal opinions on them.
Finishing up with the OpenLogic Survey on Open Source Adoption, we focus today on OSS being a tool for employee retention, or rather the opposite?
Integration is king in todays tech world, and without open source, you're pretty much dead out of the gate! In this third episode of this series, we're continuing our look at the OpenLogic State of Open Source survey results for 2023.
Hear some highlights of last weeks KubeCon / CloudNativeCon 2023 that took place in Amsterdam. We did have some audio issues with this recording. Our apologies for that!
Open source technologies keep taking the world by storm... Can organizations even afford it to disregard it? In this second episode of this series, we're continuing our look at the OpenLogic State of Open Source survey results for 2023.
The pace of Open Source usage is not only on the rise, it appears to be totally unstoppable with every type of business finding how they can take advantage of this engine of innovation. In this first episode in what is certain to be a small series, we're looking at the OpenLogic State of Open Source survey results for 2023.
Is any monitoring of employees, from timesheets to recording keystrokes ever a good idea? Or does it do more bad than good?
The pandemic has made it painfully clear that the logistics of remote manufacturing are very fragile. Is it better to move it all back home?
Since we could not even agree on what CX actually stands for, we guess the question is extremely valid?
Some analysts predict that after the pandemic and with the current recession, the high tech world of the FANGs will become less attractive and people will go back to more traditional employers. But what does that mean and how much do we disagree...
Not only has remote working become a normal way of life and work for a lot of people. Working anywhere in the world is also becoming something a trend. Is it sustainable? Wil it last?
We've talking a lot about open source this last few weeks and we can of course not close off this topic without also discussing the free beer conundrum.
We've talked about it before, but the financial situtation for a number of critical open source initiatives is still very much a problem!
Getting started with Open Source development can be hard and having a good mentor, or even a few of them, can be a great way to make it all just that little easier.
Open Source is definitely not the Nirvana that was predicted by the earliest trend-setters, but is it really as bad as some internet sources would suggest?
Is the EU banning open source? Or just being a good legislator, enforcing security in software? Listen to the episode to find out more!
Nobody will dispute that there are too many ads everywhere but the landscape is changing and who knows what the repercussions will be of an Ad free life! (As if that was ever going to happen!)
The big tech companies pretty much own the public clouds which means that everybody's cloud success is directly dependent on the success of these hyperscale companies. So how heathy are they actually, and will all of them weather the coming recession equally well? Join us while we take a look at the usual suspects: AWA, Azure and GCP.
The big hyperscalers, Aws, Azure and Google really like to tell you all about the benefits of their cloud offerings, but is it really all true? Or are there skeletons hidden in the closet...
After all the stress and worry with mass layoffs at the tail and of 2022, things are actually not as bad as they seem and 2023 may just be the best thing that ever happened to you, or your gainful employment!
To end our series on remove working, we're looking at ways to keep a healthy work/life balance while enjoying the benefits of working for a distributed company. In this and the next couple of episodes, we are joined by "Remote Working expert" Rodolphe Dutel from Remotive.com.
The end of 2022, once the effects of the pandemic were slowly disappearing, a lot of tech companies decided to rethink their strategies and this resulted in a big wave of layoffs across the tech industry. Were these necessary and what will the lasting effect of this, perhaps kneejerk, reaction be? In this and the next couple of episodes, we are joined by "Remote Working expert" Rodolphe Dutel from Remotive.com.
Remote working can be extremely rewarding and practical, but it does have a big impact on your life. How can you successfully navigate the pitfalls that come with the remote working lifestyle? In this and the next couple of episodes, we are joined by "Remote Working expert" Rodolphe Dutel from Remotive.com.
The life changed for everyone during the pandemic is pretty much a given. And our work culture definitely also evolved. Now that life is slowly getting back to "normal", is our work culture also going back to a pre=Corona normal, or are the changes here to stay? In this and the next couple of episodes, we are joined by "Remote Working expert" Rodolphe Dutel from Remotive.com.
Public cloud has been lauded for it's flexibility and potential cost savings, but recently some noteworthy companies have decided to say "good bye" to cloud... Do they have a point?
It's our anniversary! Yes, a year has gone by and as is tradition, we are joined by our "honorary co-host" John Mertic who will regale us with news and stories from the various projects under the Linux Foundation umbrella.
It's our anniversary! Yes, a year has gone by and as is tradition, we are joined by our "honorary co-host" John Mertic who will regale us with news and stories from the various projects under the Linux Foundation umbrella.
This week we are joined by Marco Anastasov from Semaphore and we talk about the basics of Continuous Integration and Development.
This week we are joined by Marco Anastasov from Semaphore and we talk about the basics of Continuous Integration and Development.
That some horrible things are being done with Artificial intelligence is without question. What is a question is how best to avoid that. The European Union has recently decided that there is a need to regulate certain types of Machine Learning Models. Good idea, or not at all?
Everything gets a fresh new coat of AI these days and I.T. operations is no exception. Is AIOps real? Can it actually offer benefits when adopted today? Or is it just another snake-oil salesman doing the rounds?
Is it a good question? Well, The UK government certainly thinks so since they are starting a competition probe in a bunch of digital services.
It's happening again! Internet articles telling the world diametrically opposite stories! What do you say? That's normal? Well, never mind, we're still going to tackle this contradicting news about Open Source adoption.
For the next couple of episodes, we are joined by Alexey Grigorev, Principal Data Scientist at OLX Group. Founder of DataTalks.Club and author of the Machine Learning Bookcamp. Join Alexey and us when we take a fresh look at the state of Machine learning today.
For the next couple of episodes, we are joined by Alexey Grigorev, Principal Data Scientist at OLX Group. Founder of DataTalks.Club and author of the Machine Learning Bookcamp. Join Alexey and us when we take a fresh look at the state of Machine learning today.
For the next couple of episodes, we are joined by Alexey Grigorev, Principal Data Scientist at OLX Group. Founder of DataTalks.Club and author of the Machine Learning Bookcamp. Join Alexey and us when we take a fresh look at the state of Machine learning today.
After spending a lot of money for the next shiny thing that will solve all your problems, or at least that's what the salesperson told you, things are often not as rosy as you had expected them to be. Is the vendor at fault, or is some or all of the responsibility to avoid buyer remorse with the buyer?
The new Stack Overflow Dev Survey has been released and as usual, we're taking a look and using all our non-expert knowledge to add our opinions to the results.
The new Stack Overflow Dev Survey has been released and as usual, we're taking a look and using all our non-expert knowledge to add our opinions to the results.
The new Stack Overflow Dev Survey has been released and as usual, we're taking a look and using all our non-expert knowledge to add our opinions to the results.
Today we are joined by our special guest Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp and author of the book "Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and practices" and the topic is, quite obviously: Infrastructure as Code. In this last episode with Rosemary, we end with the required people skills and some lessons learned!
Today we are joined by our special guest Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp and author of the book "Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and practices" and the topic is, quite obviously: Infrastructure as Code. In this second episode with Rosemary, we continue with move information on the components you'll likely need.
Today we are joined by our special guest Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp and author of the book "Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and practices" and the topic is, quite obviously: Infrastructure as Code. In this first episode with Rosemary, we start with an introduction on the topic.
As a final episode in our recent coverage of Career advice, we're tackling the concept of Personal branding and why it is important for your career. And we finish off with potential sources of help and inspiration when you are indeed thinking of making a switch.
After a couple of episodes (trying) to give career advise, we figured it made sense to talk about our own career paths. Now both Dave and Jhon have been "around", so this will be a mini series inside the careers track, and here is the final installment bringing it to the present day.
After a couple of episodes (trying) to give career advise, we figured it made sense to talk about our own career paths. Now both Dave and Jhon have been "around", so this will be a mini series inside the careers track, and here is the second installment covering our middle years.
After a couple of episodes (trying) to give career advise, we figured it made sense to talk about our own career paths. Now both Dave and Jhon have been "around", so this will be a mini series inside the careers track, and here is the first installment covering our early days.
Continuing our series on career choices, today we go deep on the age old question: does career equal a manager position or is that a misconception? With your co-hosts having very different goals, this is sure to be a god one!
After the small pause, looking back at 300 episodes of Roaring Elephant goodness, we're back this week dispensing career advice. This time we focus on the risks of allowing yourself to become stuck in a niche role that could hinder your career chances.
Three centuries of Roaring Elephant podcasts! Well, in number of episodes then... We don't actually believe the universe would be able to survive actual 300 years of our content! :) Why don't you join us on this relaxing episode where we take a slow meandering walk down memory lane...
Following on form last weeks discussion about career choices, we now discuss why, in our opinion at least, fear of change is rarely necessary and more often than not a cause for career stagnation!
As we have been active in the amazing world of IT for a while now and both of us are involved with the process of hiring people, Dave as a hiring manager and Jhon as a mentor and frequent candidate interviewer, we are going to try to share some of our experience and (let's be brave) maybe even some wisdom!
As a conclusion to our continuing series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that Open Source vendors are just the same as regular vendors of proprietary software. This may come as a bit of a shock to some, but since good OSS vendors are well embedded in the open source community and culture, should it really come as a surprise that this also influences the interactions and sales cycles?
In our continuing series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that it does not matter if your enterprise open source vendor is part of, and contributing a healthy amount, to the open source community.
In our continuing series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that Open Source is hopelessly fragmented and therefore impossible to use in an Enterprise setting. While we'll agree to a part of it, we would suggest it's actually one of pen Source's many strengths and nothing to be afraid of!
In our continuing series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that the only reason you should look at open source is because it's cheap. While it may be so that there is a lesser or absent license cost, there are both reasons why the total cost of ownership may well be higher than proprietary software, but the benefits can also far outweigh that...
In a new series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that DYI is just more expensive. And while that may be true in pure monetary terms, switching to Open Source also brings a number of great advantages that, while hard to express in hard currency, are definitely worth having!
In a new series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that security is "their" problem. That's simply not the case. When you leverage the awesome power that is Open Source, it is definitely your responsibility to make sure you have done everything you could to make sure your product or service is secure!
Out with the old, in with the new... snake-oil? Apparently the industry has not learned from the mistakes that were made with Digital Transformation projects, but never fear: the solution to all your ailments is here with the bright new marketing hype of Digital Adoption Platforms! Or are we just too cynically? You be the judge!
We are under constant threat! And by "we", we mean our Tech environment, of course. Malware is rampant and software isn't always the best prepared to fight of the endless onslaught. So who do we blame? The CISO, the Cert team, that security person? Well, maybe we need to look a little closer to home...
Hiring junior employees and training them to become productive members of the team has gotten "out of style" due to the perceived or real problems with longer term employee retention. In this episode, we take a deeper look at this "sticky" topic.
In recent time it has become more and more obvious that the security of Open Source software is something to be taken seriously. For this reason, the Linux foundation, under the banner of the OpenSSF, is experimenting with a new project, prosaically names the Alpha & Omega Project.
Some Cloud updates today where apparently AWS is no longer lagging behind and also, should AI influence business operations, or the other way around? There's something to be said for both opinions, and we don't hold back!
It's not a secret that Open Source is widely used in organizations everywhere. At least, for our listeners this should definitely be no secret! In this episode, we discuss a couple of stats that Dave found on the internet and we're not quite agreeing with them... Shocker! I know!
Cloud statistics apparently cause insomnia, or at least the internet claims that to be true... As true defenders of a good night's sleep, your co-hosts will get to the bottom of this for you and see if we can keep the night terrors at bay! In this final part, we look at budget and costs and why it's never as rosy as you might have predicted!
Cloud statistics apparently cause insomnia, or at least the internet claims that to be true... As true defenders of a good night's sleep, your co-hosts will get to the bottom of this for you and see if we can keep the night terrors at bay! In this second part, we concentrate on the topic of Cloud Security, or lack thereof!
Cloud statistics apparently cause insomnia, or at least the internet claims that to be true... As true defenders of a good night's sleep, your co-hosts will get to the bottom of this for you and see if we can keep the night terrors at bay! In this first part, we concentrate on the topic of Cloud Adoption.
In todays episode, we started talking about the trends towards no-code and low-code, got a bit side tracked towards commoditized A.I. and ended up talking mostly about the apparent voluntary atrophy of internal I.T. knowledge due to outsourcing knowledge to applications.
Open Source is definitely making a lot of head way in the corporate world and today the Roaring Elephant takes a look at how far this adoption of the new reality has actually progressed.
A cry for help or wanton vandalism by Open Source Project maintainers? Last week, the maintainer of the popular NPM package manager was responsible for breaking compatibility far and wide. As it turns out, this was a cry for attention for the plights of small but important OSS projects that are used widely by "Billion Dollar mega corporations" while the few (or even single) maintainers are merely scraping by to pay the bills.A little bit of research proves that this is far from a solitary issue an neither is it a recent development. Over the last decade, many projects that you and I use every day have almost disappeared because the maintainer just could not spend the time for free anymore. How did it get this far and how could this possibly be improved? Listen to this episode to hear our thoughts on the matter.
Cloud Computing is everywhere and apparently more companies feel it's a good idea to claim a piece of that fluffy pie. Recently, the parent company of the well know supermarket chain Lidl decided to join in the fun and they have now solidified their initiative by gobbling up a cloud security firm.... Is this a sign of things to come, or is the new Lidl cloud destined to stay... little?We also take a quick look at how the UK government is going to penalize unsafe password policies... A good thing, for sure, but why is the suggested law already full of security holes?
The yearly job report from The Linux Foundation was releases in cooperation with Edx. In last week's first part we went over the findings of the Linux Foundation and in this episode, we'll cover the Edx angle a bit more.
The yearly job report from The Linux Foundation was releases in cooperation with Edx. In this first part we'll go over the findings of the Linux Foundation and in next episode, we'll cover the Edx angle a bit more.
When we saw IBM put up a "Guide to open source development in the Cloud" website, we were expecting so much.... And we got so little... While we've often lauded IBM for their open source initiatives, this "guide" reads incomplete and pretty much a waste of space. See if you agree with us?
Today we are going deeper, higher, farther and better than we ever went before: it's HPC time at the Roaring Elephant and since we definitely do not qualify as experts on that particular matter, we are overjoyed to welcome Walter Lioen and Valeriu Codreanu who are Surf's rocket scientists, when it comes to High Performance Computing!
Today we are going deeper, higher, farther and better than we ever went before: it's HPC time at the Roaring Elephant and since we definitely do not qualify as experts on that particular matter, we are overjoyed to welcome Walter Lioen and Valeriu Codreanu who are Surf's rocket scientists, when it comes to High Performance Computing! As it turned out, we had way too much contect for a single episode so look forward to part 2, next week.
Another year of The Roaring Elephant Podcast has passed and as has become a bit of a tradition, we invite the incredible source of energy that is John Mertic over to talk to us about all the great stuff The Linux Foundation in doing. Every year, again and again, John succeeds in surprising us with all the different initiatives that are under the stewardship of the Linux foundation, and this year was definitely not an exception!
In a reaction to a "Cloud First" initiative form the UK government, HPE has released a manifesto claiming his is a bad thing. Now, the government plans are already a couple of years old, so why is HPE speaking out against it only now? Well, that only one of the many questions we have!
Uni kernels, Nano Kernels... It was all new to your co-hosts but this tech has been around for a while now and promises faster, safer & cheaper Cloud Infrastructure. Is this just hype or is it everything you could possibly hope for? We invited Ian Eyberg, CEO of nanovms and subject matter expert, to tell us all about it.
Uni kernels, Nano Kernels... It was all new to your co-hosts but this tech has been around for a while now and promises faster, safer & cheaper Cloud Infrastructure. Is this just hype or is it everything you could possibly hope for? We invited Ian Eyberg, CEO of nanovms and subject matter expert, to tell us all about it.
We found some statistics around Open source data sources and we're very keen to find that OSS Data Tech that can solve all your needs, today! Or we'll find out one more time that statistics are less trustworthy than we should like...
Jort Rodenburg, author of Code Like a Pro in C# (Published by Manning) joins your cohost in this second episode where we discuss good software development practices. O, and yea, he wrote a book! :D
Jort Rodenburg, author of Code Like a Pro in C# (Published by Manning) joins your cohost in this and the next episode to discuss good software development practices. O, and yea, he wrote a book! :D
Email as a fundamental way of communication in your enterprise may be much maligned and despised, however, ditching email altogether, as some Internet sources would like you to do is definitely not the best path forwards. At least we don't think so. A better way, possibly even the best way forward, is to use tools for the purpose they are built. Tools that are a good fit for real time communications, are not fit for other, slower communication channels.
Join David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation and us for a discussion about securing the Open Source Ecosystem. The Linux Foundation has had a couple of initiatives around this and they now all culminate in the recently minted Open SSF.
Join David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation and us for a discussion about securing the Open Source Ecosystem. The Linux Foundation has had a couple of initiatives around this and they now all culminate in the recently minted Open SSF.
With Open Source quickly becoming the backbone of most software, both commercial and free, the question about who actually OWNS open source gets asked louder and louder....
Taking your first steps on the road to Data Science is definitely a confusing and uncertain endeavor. With the amount of courses and other information available, it becomes extremely hard to find a straight road towards a result that is actually valuable in your journey towards becoming a professional Data Scientist.
Taking your first steps on the road to Data Science is definitely a confusing and uncertain endeavor. With the amount of courses and other information available, it becomes extremely hard to find a straight road towards a result that is actually valuable in your journey towards becoming a professional Data Scientist.
Moving to cloud can be done in many different ways, but not all paths will be as forgiving. Unfortunately, Some internet sources give really bad advise, at least we think so. Here is the Roaring Elephant to set the record straight and offer some do's and don'ts!
Assembling a perfect team turns out to be closer to alchemy than science! During our research for the Corporate Culture series, we came across an article describing some research that was done by Google on the very subject. We really liked the article but feel it fell short on a couple of points, so here is us talking about our take on this subject.
Voluntarily or not, everything falls victim to the Hype Cycle and Kubernetes is no exception. Should you say 'NO' to Kubernetes? Well, at least one company that seems to be a poster child for the technology published a blog explaining why they are not using it... and the internet exploded....
Assembling a perfect team turns out to be closer to alchemy than science! During our research for the Corporate Culture series, we came across an article describing some research that was done by Google on the very subject. We really liked the article but feel it fell short on a couple of points, so here is us talking about our take on this subject.
Keeping software up to date is not always easy and even the biggest out there are not immune to "Software Update Hell"!
Assembling a perfect team turns out to be closer to alchemy than science! During our research for the Corporate Culture series, we came across an article describing some research that was done by Google on the very subject. We really liked the article but feel it fell short on a couple of points, so here is us talking about our take on this subject.
This episode was inspired by the cancelation of the much talked about 10 billion dollar Pentagon JEDI cloud project. Do enormous single vendor contracts make sense? Is 10 years really a realistic timeline to limit the technological advances to a single provider? Well, the Pentagon ultimately decided against it (or did they?). Should you?
In this continuation of last episode, we discuss the remaining 4 items on the "Corporate Culture to-do list for the dream company". We're slowly closing off this series on the subject with one more, maybe two more episodes coming up. Do let us know how you are enjoying this series?
The SaaS technology company Snowflake has been in the news repeatedly, taking a firm stance on their views on Open Source and it is rather puzzling why they choose to do this...
After focusing on what can go wring when it comes to Corporate Culture and what the impact can be, we're switching gears now and look at the alternative. During our research for this series we fortunately also came across content that covered how it would be possible to build a corporate culture that is supportive and nurturing and in this first episode, we're looking at what kind of impact this can have on the organization and the people.
In the technology space especially, but in general as well, organizations need to "keep up" or become obsolete. But how fast should emerging technology be adopted, if at all?
Continuing our journey on everything about Company Culture, this episode focusses on what actually feeds a Toxic Culture and how one could potentially avoid going down that unfortunate path. Make sure to listen to the two earlier episodes on this topic if you want to get the full picture!
Microsoft just release a blog post where the "guarantee" your data will no move out of the EU. Sounds great, but what are they really after...
In this second episode on Company Culture, we move away from the specific case of Basecamp, though we'll still use it as an example. Specifically their new stance on how a company should distance itself from politics and social issues. Is that really a good idea? Is it even possible? Join us in this episode where we dive deeper into that aspect of Company Culture.
In this episode, we look at how old tech is trying to retake their glory days by embracing Cloud and Apparently, just plain automation is no longer enough...
That Company Culture is a huge part of why someone chooses to work for a certain company (or not) should come as no surprise to anyone really. However as recent news has demonstrated, there are still many ways to stumble by misjudging the consequences of certain decisions made by company execs.We'll be covering this subject over multiple episodes and in this first episode we discuss not only why Basecamp made the news, but also why this news inspired us to do this episode series.
A couple of weeks ago, Signal pulled of a astonishing feat: not only did it do a remarkable job on getting the word out that the big ad companies are tracking you, they actually got Facebook to do most of the talking for them!
Continuing on last weeks Open Source Roundup, this time we focus on concept of security and safety with Open Source projects.
Today's episode features a roundup of Open source related topics, more specifically about the importance of communities.
After a decade of court battles, Oracle finally lost their case against Google about copying the Java API for use in Android. The fact that Java has not been part of Android since version 7 (Nougat) did not mean Oracle would stop the litigation. O, no... Oracle wanted their 9 billion dollar claim and they were prepared to go to the supreme court for that...
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...
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.
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.
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"....
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....
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We found someone brave enough to do some rather bold (and some not so bold) predictions regarding the future of Linux. Obviously we disagree but since we're not brave enough to make our own predictions, we're just going to dissect Jack Wallen's hard work instead!
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!
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...
The Github "State of the Octoverse" for 2020 is out and we're dedicating this episode to dissecting all the wonderful information presented here.
This week we're visited by John Desjardins who regaled us with his knowledge of in-memory computing.
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!
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.
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. :)
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...
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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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".
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...
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Another fortnight, another Roaring News episode looking at an Acquisition by SUSE, some privacy shattering interviews and a PSA about unsecured databases!
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...
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...
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.... ;)
This 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.
This 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.
We'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.
Today 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.
We'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.
This 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.
We 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.
In 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!
Following 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?
Today 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.
Maybe 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
Artificial 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
It 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....
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 download the DBIR or, even better, listen to this episode!
Not 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.
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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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!
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".
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...
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".
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.
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.
The 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.
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.
In 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".
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.
In 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...
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.
Another 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.
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.
In 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.
When 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...
With 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...
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
A 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!
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
In 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.
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...
A 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.
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...
Another 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.
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!
The 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...
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!
Breaking 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...
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.
A 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.
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.
Dataworks 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.
With 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.
In 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.
In 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.
In 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.
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.
The 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!
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.
The 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.
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.
In 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!
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.
Merry 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.
This 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.
In 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.
When 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.
This Machine Learning heavy edition of Big Data News, covers Boston School Bus schedules and Model interpretation using LIME. As a bonus, we have a great source of Nifi knowledge for you!
It's been three years since we started this podcast and as we've done in previous years, we invited the wonderful people that were a guest on our show in the past twelve months and made our little podcast so much better for our listeners!
In this serving of bite-sized Big Data News we talk about the IBM takeover of Red Hat, a new Botnet going for unprotected Hadoop nodes and a somewhat disappointing Cloudera blog post.
Here is our H2O.ai World conference London Roaring Report. We had a blast and we hope that this episode can give you a good taste of what was going on.
In this last Big Data news episode for the month of November, we look forward to the H2O World event next week in London and we have articles on BI Maturity and the upcoming Apache Ozone project that will supplant HDFS in future Hadoop clusters soon(TM).
No interview this time but just Dave and Jhon talking about how public cloud changed Big data. Current news has brought this topic back to the foreground and we though it was a good idea to give our views on this subject.Along the way, we go over the different deployment strategies for Hadoop across on premise, private and public cloud and of course, hybrid environments.
Another week, another Big Data News episode. After going over all the event ticket giveaways that are currently going on, we have an article that goes over the basics on ETL vs ELT and have some fun with R graphs by the XKCD web comic. We finish with an in depth article on columnar data stores and a quick shout-out to Apache Nifi. or to suggest future episode topics you would like us
In this GDPR world, Data Governance and Data Lineage are, or should be, very much top of mind for anybody in the Big Data world. We reached out to Mandy Chessell, who has been very active in this area and were delighted when she accepted to do an interview with us.In this second part, we discuss the ins and outs of good data stewardship and how companies can adopt, implement and contribute.
Another episode of Big Data News and not just another episode, but an episode packed and packed with items. Before we do our regular article reviews, we are doing raffles for not one, not two but three different events! And as if that was not enough, our friends from Pulsar dropped in with their big Apache top-level project announcement.So not very bite sized this time, but smack full of delicious Big Data news!
In this GDPR world, Data Governance and Data Lineage are, or should be, very much top of mind for anybody in the Big Data world. We reached out to Mandy Chessell, who has been very active in this area and were delighted when she accepted to do an interview with us.In this first part, the focus is more on Mandy herself and we lay the groundwork for the second part that will go live in episode 109.
In this edition of Big Data News, we take the pulse of Machine learning adoption and talk about Big Data Online Learning by IBM on Coursera and by Columbia University on Edx. We round the episode off with a look at MR3 and the evil that are benchmarks.
In this episode we welcome Phil Radley, Chief Data Architect at BT to talk about the Big Data deployment at BT.
In this Big Data News episode, we discuss an article with guidelines on how you should arrange your data gathering projects with the customer in mind. Dave brings a matrix of visualization products.
Matteo and Sijie from Streamlio reached out to us and let us know they had an update on Apache Pulsar. It turned out they had a lot to talk about so we cut the interview in two parts. the first of which was published in episode 101. Here is the second part with information on version 2.0 and the future of the Apache Pulsar project.
Big Data News at the end of the summer is not easy to find, but we did end up with three topics to discuss: from isolating GPUs in Hadoop 3.x to replicating big data (to the cloud) and quick tips from Adam's blog.
Matteo and Sijie from Streamlio reached out to us and let us know they had an update on Apache Pulsar. It turned out they had a lot to talk about so we cut the interview in two parts and here is the first part where they introduce Apache Pulsar, go in depth on the correct deployment scaling of a stable Pulsar cluster and clarify Pulsars "at least once vs exactly once" strategy. Part two will go in more depth on what's new. Stay tuned!
100 Big Data episodes! We made it, in no small part thanks to our audience: you are who keeps us going! In this episode we celebrate our centennial by going over the history of Hadoop releases, highlighting the most noteworthy events along the way. Join us down the twisty paths of our memory lanes!
The Roaring Elephant podcast was a guest at the Codemotion conference in Amsterdam a little while ago. This episode contains the audio of the talk we did on the State of Big Data.
In this episode of Big Data Roaring News, Dave laments another announcement of Hadoop's demise and exposes A.I. imposters. Jhon has articles comparing Ranger with Sentry and Apache Nifi reaching the ripe age of 1.7 with a Minifi charged practical demo to prove the point.
In this episode, we welcome back John Mertic one more time. It was quite obvious that John had lots more to talk about at the end of our last interview with him. ODPi has recently reinvented itself, moving away from a strict distribution standards body towards data governance and reference specifications.
In this edition of Roaring news, Ward Bekker returns to discuss what is happening in the world of Big Data. Ward brings news on GPUs in supercomputers and how Big Data could be wrong about you. Dave and Jhon found articles on Big data growth visualizations and GDPR.
Since both Dave and Jhon were not able to attend the Dataworks Summit in San Jose a couple of weeks ago, we have a guest, Ward Bekker, who was happy to join and educate us on the subject.
I this weeks edition of Roaring Big Data News, Dave talks about modernizing Hadoop and a billion java errors. Jhon has an article on improving your learning data sets. We finish with a discussion about the newly released HDP 2.6.5 with an emphasis on the deprecation notices and Yarn Containers.
In this episode Apache PMC member Dong Li joins us to explains how Apache Kylin can deploy Analytical OLAP cubes in your Big Data environment.
Another week, another edition of Roaring Big Data News. This time, Dave talks about driving teens and Jhon takes a detailed look at an Eventbrite data pipeline article.
In this episode, we welcome back John Mertic, director of Program Management for ODPi, R Consortium, and the Open Mainframe Project. It's been almost two years since we checked in with John and the ODPi initiative and as John mentions in the interview, a lot has changed in Hadoop...
In this weeks Roaring News episode, Dave brings up the resilience of Apache Community open source projects and plays some Doom. Jhon has some practical Apache NIFI guides and the emergence of multi modal NoSQL databases.
With the San Jose edition of the DataWorks Summit only a month away, we go over the sessions that are available in the agenda today and offer our top picks. If you're going, or if you will be watching the replays online, we hope to guide you on your selection of sessions.
Returning to our more regular schedule, we have a Roaring News episode today. Dave has articles on multi-cloud readiness, Big Data being a pariah, and Google Duplex and Jhon came up with Synthetic data, data engineers and scientists and a Neural Network sharing cake recipes.
This is the second part of an interview with Fangjin Yang, co-founder and CEO at Imply and committer/PMC member for the Druid project. Druid: a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store which has entered the Hadoop environment with the recent integration with Apache and we since Druid has been around for a while, we are grateful to FJ for spending some time with our listeners.
This is the first part of an interview with Fangjin Yang, co-founder and CEO at Imply and committer/PMC member for the Druid project. Druid: a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store which has entered the Hadoop environment with the recent integration with Apache and we since Druid has been around for a while, we are grateful to FJ for spending some time with our listeners.
This is the final part of our coverage of the DataWorks Summit Berlin 2018. Normally we would not have had an episode this week, since we were in Berlin last week, but we had lightning interviews with the vendors in the Community Expo Are and used that coverage to make this episode.
And with the end of day two of the 2018 DataWorks Summit in Berlin comes the end of this years Europe Summit. But never fear, we have an extra 90 minutes of DataWorks goodness for you to consume on your way home.
Another year, another European Dataworks Summit, and yes, another daily recap show from Jhon and Dave. We walk through the keynotes and sessions we attended and give our thoughts and views. This should be useful for anyone who wasn't able to attend or those seeking to peek into sessions they couldn't make.
Next week is DataWorks Summit Berlin week! Your two hosts will be in attendance and in this episode we go over the agenda and plan which sessions we want to attend and why. Peppered throughout we add further insights and experiences from previous years.
In this installment of Big Data News, we talk about the recent Facebook leak, how everybody is still doing it wrong (according to some at least) and installing Hadoop "the old-fashioned way". Also briefly covered is Elastic's X-Pack, now even more "open" than before, but still rather closed it would seem.
Last June, Wolfie Christl published a 93 page report Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life using big data tracking. Apart from the massive pdf that can be downloaded on the net, an extensive summary can be found on the Cracked Labs website.In this episode we go over the content and give our views on the subject.
Another Big Data news episode! This time we consider the Big or small nodes conundrum based on an article that after close scrutiny doesn't really seem to test the real issue. Other things that get covered are Linkedin's Dynanometer, Cloudera's full production architecture advise for a recommendation service and a really interesting visualization technique based on blobs.
This episode, a group of people from Esgyn join us to talk about the Apache Trafodion transactional SQL for Hadoop database engine.In this second part Rohit, Ken and Rao talk about the internal workings and best practices of Apache Trafodion.
Another Roaring News wpisode where we cover recent Big Data News items we found interesting.This time we talk about Open Source turning 20 years old, the annoyances that come with Smart Homes and a big data device in Germany. Additionally, we talk about some introductory guides to AI.
This episode, a group of people from Esgyn join us to talk about the Apache Trafodion transactional SQL for Hadoop database engine.In this first part Rohit, Ken and Rao talk about the history and goals behind the Apache Trafodion.
In this Big Data News episode, we discuss the 5 year aniversary of Hadoop Weekly, now Data Engineering Weekly, the Strava "data leak" and Twitter Wars, may the data be with you!
As promised, in this final part of our Hadoop Sizing series, we round off the subject with sizing your compute and network resources. Undoubtedly we'll be revisiting this subject in the future, but the three parts of this series should give ample information on the subject for now.Hadoop Data Node Density Tradeoff on HCC: https://community.hortonworks.com/content/kbentry/48878/hadoop-data-node-density-tradeoff.html
In this edition of the Roaring News series, we talk about delivering business value and how to build an analytics team. For the Machine learning aficionados, we cover the top ML algorithms and we round off with an article on sizing a Apache Flink cluster, which fits nicely with the previous and next episode! or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to c
In this continuation of our Hadoop Sizing series we started last September, we move on from sizing your cluster to sizing the individual server chassis or virtual machines in your cluster. We did not finish the entire story just yet, concentrating mainly on the storage component. The final part 3 where we round off the subject with sizing your compute and network resources is planned to be published in the next topic episode. Hadoop Data Node Density Tradeoffpost on HCC: https://community.hortonworks.com/content/kbentry/48878/hadoop-data-node-density-tradeoff.html
This time Dave has prepared some articles for us to discuss. First we talk about something new on our radar: Apache Trafodion which is a transactional SQL on Hadoop. Next we spend some time on Artificial ignorance and we round off with some IoT predictions by IBM
In this trip down memory lane, we go over an article from five years ago and discuss how Hadoop and Big Data have changed since then, or has it...?
The first news episode of 2018 has landed. We discuss the new Big Data architecture at CERN, a curious case of a broken benchmark and the future plans of the Apache Hadoop project.
Welcome to 2018! And welcome to our 110% fact based prediction show for 2018. As you may expect from your two hosts, everything in this episode is 110% sure to become reality in the next twelve months.And since 110% is not actually possible, our predictions might also be just a little bit off? But we have 365 days to bask in the glory of our predictions before we, as usual, are shot back down to earth.
It's here: the final news episode for 2017! We finish off the year talking about Apache Pulsar, Hadoop Delegation tokens (aka Kerberos), the Hadoop on Container hype (or is it?), Apache Hadoop 3.0 release and all you need to know bout Data Prepping (or at least all we can tell you in about 10 minutes, that is).
It the time of the year again where you can call us out on being totally rubbish at predicting much of anything, or can we..? Listen to the episode and find out!In any case, we unabashedly will be recording a new "future predictions" show in a couple of weeks so if you have any predictions you want us to consider, send them to us by tweet or email!
It's another Roaring News episode. Today Jhon talks about machine learning projects for beginners, data visualization and the new neural network hotness which is transfer learning. Dave covers the Dataworks Summit call for papers and Apache Impala reaching Top Level Project status.
A while ago, the all knowing oracle that is twitter pointed out that we really did not do justice to the Apache Pulsar project when we covered it in or Roaring News episode.The good people at Streamlio reached out to us and here is the 80+ minutes long discussion we had with Matteo Merli and Sijie Guo, going in depth on the merits and technical details, setting the Roaring Pulsar record straight!
It's another news episode folks. This time Dave and Jhon talk about extracting telemetry from a PS3 steering wheel and pedal set, IBM sun-setting BigInsights and 6 things a budding Data Scientist should be aware of.
Are there really two years worth of Roaring Elephant podcasts out there? Well, since this is our second anniversary party, it must be!Join some of the guests we had on the podcast this year to reminisce about the months gone by. Due to the drop-in drop-out nature, this episode is a little rough but we hope you can enjoy being part of our little party!Discussion topics ranged from what our guests have been up to, Apache Kafka, Dremio the effects of GDPR on the industry and how our guests see the future of Big Data.
In this episode of Roaring News, we talk about the seemingly inevitable block chain, Fraud detection in banking and a celebration of the DevOps engineer.
In this entry in our "Roles in Big Data" series, we talk to Chuck Waygood, global director of talent Acquisition at Hortonworks. Chuck has been in this space since 2013 and in this episode he talks about his experiences, what recruiters are looking for, how you can attract that perfect candidate and what you can do to improve your chances of landing that great career in Big Data.
It's another installment of Roaring News! This time, we talk about the ensemble recommendation system allegedly used by Spotify, not-so-new kid-on-the-block-after-all Apache Pulsar, the ever so popular "Hadoop is dead" and end with a quick shout-out to the Tokyo Data Platform Conference.
In this entry in our long-running "roles in Big Data" series, we talk to Eduardo Barbaro, a Sr. Data Scientist at Mobiquity. To say that the data scientist is a pivotal person in any big data or advanced analytics project is not an exaggeration and we are really grateful to Eduardo for spending some time on the podcast to give us his views and recount his experiences.
In this second part of Dave's tale of the Sidney Dataworks Summit, the subjects range from Apache Metron, a talk by Telstra, Australia's leading mobile provider, Yarn 3.0 and Apache Zeppelin
Dave has attended the Dataworks Summit in Sidney and we go over the different sessions he attended there. In this first of two episodes, the focus lies on the new goodness that Hadoop 3.0 will bring us soon.
In this edition of Roaring News, Dave covers the release of Apache Metron based HCP 1.3 and an HBase vs Cassandra benchmark battle. Jhon talks about some Spark tuning and scheduler inner-workings and finishes with a tale of a compliance kettle...
In this episode, we took an online article by Chris Riccomini and give our take on the discussion on having a single big cluster versus many smaller ones. If you are architecting a Hadoop cluster and are faced with this choice, this episode should give you a lot of information on the subject.
In this episode of Roaring News, Dave brings up the newly released HDP 2.6.2 which incorporates IBM's move from their proprietary IOP to HDP.Jhon brings an update on the MLEAP story for productionizing your spark model. We finish off discussing the newly released Apache Atlas version 0.8.1
Over the summer, when your hosts enjoyed a well-earned vacation (well, we like to think we earned it) we could not stop being Big-Data Nerds and in this episode we talk about the Hadoop opportunities we spotted.
In this news episode (our very first one), Dave is all-out on Artificial Intelligence and its use in naming "stuff"; for some subjects it apparently works very well, for other subjects not so much...Jhon brings a blog on deploying new Kerberos functionality and a tutorial for Kafka Connect for those that have not really looked at it. The ensuing discussion on Nifi vs kafka is purely coincidental.
This is the final part of our long interview with Alan Gates. In this part, Alan talks more about ODPI, Cloud First, Apache Flink, Apache Pig and we finish off with a little bit of Philosophy.A big thank you to Alan for sharing his pearls of wisdom with us!
In this episode we have an interview with Thomas Henson for you. Thomas is an Isilon Data Lake Evangelist at Dell/EMC, but in this episode he will talk about IoT architectures, related to his talk at the DataWorks Summit San Jose 2017
In this third part of our interview with Alan Gates, PMC member for various Apache projects including Apache Hive and co-founder of Hortonworks, we talk about his sessions at the DataWorks Summits and about the Summits in general.
We've been interested in Kudu for a while. But it's something that neither of your hosts have been exposed to very much. Apache Kudu went from incubation to top level project in record time and now seemed like the time was right to dig into this piece of antelope.Mike Percy, PMC member and committer on the Apache Kudu project and software engineer at Cloudera was only too glad to come on the podcast and answer all our questions!
Dave joined our free ticket raffle winner Pitt at the Data Works Summit in Sunny San Jose last month and they came back with almost two hours worth of exciting stories!Thanks again to Hortonworks for providing the free ticket to our raffle that Pitt won.
Breaking up our series of insights from Alan Gates, we switch gears to another really interesting topic (and guest!) where we talk about the new visualisation features coming in Apache Zeppelin and we get it straight from the brains behind the new code, Bernhard Walter.
In this episode we're joined by Youen Chéné and Aurélien Vandel from Saagie who talk to us about their experiences deploying Spark Streaming workloads in production (based on their Dataworks Summit talk), what worked well, what didn't and what they'd recommend you might want to do if you follow in their footsteps.Enjoy!
In this episode we discuss the maturity of the Hadoop ecosystem and how hard it currently still is to get the value out of data. In the main section, we will have the second part of the interview with Alan Gates, this time talking about the place Hive has in the ecosystem.We still have more from Alan so stay tuned for more Hive goodness in future episodes!
Welcome to the life the universe and everything episode of the Roaring Elephant Podcast. We talk some news and this episode got a little bit ranty... Apologies for that; to balance it out we have a chat with Alan Gates talking about Hive for you.There was so much Alan Gates goodness, we've split it over a few sessions and here's part one...
In this episode, due to us blowing our recording space budget with the Dataworks Summit day by day episodes (39 and 40 if you've not listened yet, go and do so!) we're just bringing you a short episode this time with news, all the news that's new and approved by the Roaring Elephants!
In this episode of the Roaring Elephant podcast, Dave and I continue to share our Dataworks summit experience, meet yet more listeners, sit in on a few more sessions and give our overall view of the day and the summit as a whole! It will make you wish you were here.
In this episode of the Roaring Elephant podcast, Dave and I attend the Dataworks summit, meet listeners, sit in on sessions and give our overall view of the day! It's the next best thing to being here.If you ARE here, then look out for us, we'll exchange limited edition Roaring Elephant stickers for audio clips.
This week, your hosts go over what we consider to be our pick of the sessions that will be presented during the Hadoop Summit Dataworks Summit in Munich next week.The Roaring Elephant will be in attendance, look out for the two guys in distinctive yellow fleeces with the Roaring Elephant logo on the back, we hope to see you there!
In this episode, we start a new series on the different roles in Big Data. Purely by coincidence, it turns out that the winner of our raffle started a new job as a Data Engineer at the beginning of this month, so naturally we decided to invite Marcel-Jan on the show to talk about the how and why of his career move.
No guests today, just Dave and Jhon talking so brace yourselves! This time we're actually going to explain what we mean by "single view of customer" go through explaining an example of a use-case and discuss how you might implement such a thing. Enjoy.
Paul Codding and Sheetal Dolas, both from Hortonworks, join us in this second part of a two part episode where they share their experience with what can go wrong when Hadoop is deployed. Listen to the tips and tricks these gentlemen share and double the throughput for your cluster.
Paul Codding and Sheetal Dolas, both from Hortonworks, join us in this first part of a two part episode where they share their experience with what can go wrong when Hadoop is deployed. Listen to the tips and tricks these gentlemen share and double the throughput for your cluster.
This episode, we have an absolutely brilliant topic that we were going to cover after the news section... But the news section has us talking so much that it ran a bit long. Preferring not to give you a two hour episode, we're rescheduling the delivery of the intended topic to next episode and present you with our first (and probably last) "News only" episode.
In this episode, we talk about the use and abuse of certifications, both the certifications you van achieve by passing an exam and the Industry ISV certifications that should help yu make purchasing decisions.
In this episode, we go over the bold predictions for 2016 we made just before the start of the year. Find out how right we were, or indeed how bad we are at predicting the future of Big Data.Undeterred, we then happily put on our Nostradamus hats and proceed to make even more new bold predictions for 2017. Have a listen and let us know if you agree or disagree with our view on the world?
So many of the tools and projects we talk about and use every day are prefaced by 6 letters, A P A C H E... What does it mean to be an Apache project? What does the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) do for software? Are there other options? Let us tell you about the ASF!
One year of elephants roaring has come and gone so we reminisce a little bit about what happened over the last year. And since we could not have done this podcast nearly as good without them, we asked the special guests we have had on the podcast over the previous year to call in on the Skype call and talk about what they have been up to.
In this episode, Dave is stuck in a hotel basement in the middle of internet nowhere and Erik Stalpers from Datameer joins us to talk about the Datameer exploration and visualization tool.
Rounding out our series on security in Hadoop, we finish with Encryption at rest and in motion. We go over the different approaches, do's and don'ts and mention some higher level application in this space.
In this episode, we continue our coverage on Hadoop security. Where episode 24 dealt with the subject of authentication, we now delve deeper in the why and how of authorization and audit, and cover the major players in the arena.
When we talk about Big Data and Hadoop in particular, we generally have one of the existing distributions from Cloudera, Hortonworks or other Big Data companies in mind. But sometimes, a pre-built distro just does not meet the needs. In this episode, we have a guest on the show that explains why they made the choice to forgo the available distributions in favour of building ones own.
With Hadoop Summit Melbourne 2016 starting the day after we are recording this episode, we go over the published agenda and discuss the current state of the Big Data Technology ecosystem while we pick our favorite sessions. Wish we were there!
In this episode, we discuss this fortnight's interesting big data news that caught our eye and then go on to discuss the basics around authentication in Hadoop for what is the first in a series of episodes that we'll be doing over the next few months on the broad topic of security.
The main subject in this episode features answer to a listener question we received a couple of months ago: How can big data help small businesses? What ways can small business use big data? At the moment all the talk is about big data helping enterprise firms. And we are introducing a new section which we hope you will enjoy!
This episode we have an interview with John Mertic about ODPi. There has been plenty of mystery and even some controversy about ODPi which we attempt to resolve for you. Big thanks to John for giving us some of his time for this interview! Sadly, this time the Skype Gods were not with us and we experienced some drops and hitches. We tried to smooth things over as much as possible, but we were not able to achieve our usual level of quality this time.
In this second part, we discuss the sessions that Dave attended at the San Jose Hadoop Summit and we go in depth on some related topics. Since we ran over an hour with the main topic, and we did not want to make this a three-parter, we decided to forgo the questions from the audience just this one time...
Dave went to the Hadoop Summit 2016 in San Jose last week and came back with a riveting tale to tell. In this first part of the Summit coverage, join me when I ask Dave all about the keynotes and the general event. Join us next episode where Dave will talk about some of the sessions he attended!
In this episode, we have the second part of the interview with Hollin Wilkins and Mikhail Semeniuk, the driving forces behind the MLeap project where they go into more technical details and give tips on deploying MLeap in your environment. If you are working with Spark, are deep into machine learning and are struggling to put those beautifully trained models into production, you definitely do not want to miss this episode!
In this episode, we have an interview with Hollin Wilkins and Mikhail Semeniuk, the driving forces behind the MLeap project. If you are working with Spark, are deep into machine learning and are struggling to put those beautifully trained models into production, you definitely do not want to miss this episode!
Hopefully you enjoyed the first part of our interview with Sumeet, here is part two where we go into more detail about Yahoo's use of Hadoop, with lots of interesting topics coming up including the splintering of the ecosystem, governance and much much more.
Having met Sumeet at the Hadoop Summit we thought he'd make a great guest for the podcast, so here he is for your listening pleasure!
After the last two special edition episodes where we quickly covered each Summit day in a "same-day" episode, we go over the full event in this episode, highlighting the sessions we enjoyed the most and sharing our general feelings about the 2016 Hadoop Summit in Dublin.
Welcome to our second special edition podcast bought to you from day 2 of the Hadoop Summit. Breaking our normal fortnightly flow we're delivering a fresh new podcast at the end of each day of the Hadoop Summit. In this episode we cover our impressions of the second day of keynotes and yet more sessions that we enjoyed.
Welcome to our special edition podcast bought to you from day 1 of the Hadoop Summit. Breaking our normal fortnightly flow we're delivering a fresh new podcast at the end of each day of the Hadoop Summit.In this episode we cover our impressions of the keynotes and some of the sessions we enjoyed during day 1.
Venkatesh is a new contributor to Apache NiFI and during his talk at the Hadoop Summit next week, he takes a light-hearted look at his journey of how to become a contributor to an Apache Project.Venkatesh is one of the Community Choice winners, so congratulation are in order and we are certain you will like this interview! Enjoy, and we looking forward to seeing you at the Hadoop Summit in Dublin next week!
Next month, the European Hadoop Summit will take place in Dublin. Now that the agenda for the event has been nearly finalised we take it upon ourselves to provide a virtual guide to the event. There's a lot of good things happening during the event so we share with you what sessions we think we'll be attending and why. Enjoy, and looking forward to seeing you there! This is another long episode, going over an hour for the first time. We are really curious to know if you like these longer episodes, or if you would prefer it if we kept it under the original 30 to 35 minutes?
SQL was one of the first data access methods added to vanilla Hadoop. Considering that the many of the people working with Hadoop in the early days came from a database background, this is not surprising. Since then, the SQL ecosystem in Hadoop has grown considerably and in this episode we do a general overview of many of the available choices.This episode runs a bit longer than normal but we hope you'll find it worthwhile!
In this episode we'll go into more depth on NiFi complete with our second interview with Joe Witt, Senior Director of Engineering at Hortonworks who dives into how NiFi works under the covers and some considerations to think about when using it for real.
In this episode we'll cover some of the most common options for ingesting data into Hadoop including technologies like Flume, Sqoop, Kafka, NiFi and more.
In this episode we'll cover some an introduction to NiFi complete with an interview with Joe Witt, Senior Director of Engineering at Hortonworks who explains exactly where NiFi came from and how it fits into your Big Data plans.
In this episode we'll cover the basics of Apache Spark, including typical deployment situations, architecture and usage.
A bit of Hadoop history of what we have seen happening over the last 12 months, some trends and interesting technologies. Some ups, some downs and possibly even some round and rounds, capped off with some Bold Predictions for 2016.
What are the hardware and implementation options we see.A discussion ranging from direct attached storage versus network attached storage/storage area networks, to on-premise hardware versus cloud options.
When you are getting started with your journey with Hadoop, how to avoid Hadoop disaster? We have seen many people going through this journey and both of us have seen things people do that makes the project successful, and things people do that make projects more difficult than they should be.
With all the buzz around big data generally, and Hadoop specifically, there's never been a better time for getting started in Hadoop. This episode covers how your two hosts got involved in Hadoop, and also discusses some of the other popular paths into the world of BigData/Hadoop