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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! Here are the different initiatives John covered today: ASWF: The Academy Software Foundation The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) was founded in August 2018 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) as a result of a two-year survey by the Science and Technology Council into the use of Open Source Software (OSS) across the motion picture industry. The survey found that almost 84% of the industry uses open source software, particularly for animation and visual effects, but challenges including siloed development, managing multiple versions of OSS li

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! Here is a link to to the HPE Manifesto. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. Get more information from the following websites that were mentioned during the interview with Ian: NanoVMsNanos.orgOPS - Easily Build and Run Unikernels Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. Get more information from the following websites that were mentioned during the interview with Ian: NanoVMsNanos.orgOPS - Easily Build and Run Unikernels Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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... For this episode, we got some inspiration from this (not so good) article on Datanami. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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 Be sure to check out "Code Like a Pro in C#" by Jort Rodenburg! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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 Be sure to check out "Code Like a Pro in C#" by Jort Rodenburg! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. Find out more about the Open SSF foundation and other things David talked about using the following links: OpenSSF Security Metrics Project: https://metrics.openssf.org/search?q=kubernetesBest practices Badge: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/Best practices Badge "passing" criteria: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/criteria/0Best Practices Badge Statistics: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/project_statsOpenSSF edX Courses: https://openssf.org/edx-courses/OpenSSF Security Scorecards: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. Find out more about the Open SSF foundation and other things David talked about using the following links: OpenSSF Security Metrics Project: https://metrics.openssf.org/search?q=kubernetesBest practices Badge: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/Best practices Badge "passing" criteria: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/criteria/0Best Practices Badge Statistics: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/project_statsOpenSSF edX Courses: https://openssf.org/edx-courses/OpenSSF Security Scorecards: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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.... Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. Under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, the recently formed OpenDS4All project is trying hard to solve this problem for you. Join us in this first part of our interview with André de Waal to find out how you can benefit from this! Many thanks to André de Waal for joining us and don't forget to catch our next episode where we will conclude this interview. More information on DS4All can be found on their website. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. Under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, the recently formed OpenDS4All project is trying hard to solve this problem for you. Join us in this first part of our interview with André de Waal to find out how you can benefit from this! Many thanks to André de Waal for joining us and don't forget to catch our next episode where we will conclude this interview. More information on DS4All can be found on their website. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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! We typically list the internet sources we used for inspiration here, but considering we really do not agree with he source in this case, we really do not want to aid in spreading the misinformation... Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. For this episode, we took some inspiration from the following article: What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team – The New York Times Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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.... Fr this episode, we found inspiration in the following internet resources: No, we don’t use Kubernetes | Ably Blog: Data in MotionApplication reveals which congressmen are distracted on their phones (newsbeezer.com) Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. For this episode, we took some inspiration from the following article: What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team - The New York Times Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Keeping software up to date is not always easy and even the biggest out there are not immune to "Software Update Hell"! For this episode, we got inspiration from the following online resources: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 - Facebook Engineering (fb.com)Bleak Cyborg Future from Brain-Computer Interfaces if We're Not Careful - AIP Publishing LLC Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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. For this episode, we took some inspiration from the following article: What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team - The New York Times Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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? Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.