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Episode 241 – Oracle: 0 – Free API: 1

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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…

Episode 240 – Yahoo Answers… R.I.P.?

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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…

Episode 239 – Living on the Edge!

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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.

Episode 238 – Stop Tech Fails

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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.

Episode 237 – Open Source @ Google

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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”….