Roaring Elephant

Episode 283 – Cloud Adoption Nightmare Statistics

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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.

Episode 282 – Enterprise I.T. Knowledge Atrophy

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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.

Episode 281 – Open Source Adoption Journey

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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.

Episode 280 – Solo Maintainer OSS Projects @Risk!

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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.

Episode 279 – The Lidle Cloud?

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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?