Roaring Elephant

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? In this episode, we took inspiration from this wonderful article on the Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2013/05/creating-the-best-workplace-on-earth 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.

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... In this episode, the following articles were referenced: https://techexec.com.au/?p=3892https://finance.yahoo.com/news/c3-ai-ai-partners-snowflake-140702850.htmlhttps://gcn.com/articles/2021/05/18/open-source-serverless.aspx 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.

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 this episode, we took inspiration from this wonderful article on the Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2013/05/creating-the-best-workplace-on-earth 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.

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? The following articles were referenced n this episode: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/05/24/top-emerging-technologies/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57394831 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.

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! Here are the links to the web resources we touched on this episode: Toxic workplace culture pissing off employees and pushing away customers?7 Signs of a Toxic Workplace Culture 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.

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... Why can't we all just get along? Data and nation borders are not the best of bed fellows and Microsoft is coming to the rescue with a firm guarantee that data that happens in the EU, stays in the EU! Or do they... 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.

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. Here are links to the web resources that we referenced during this episode: Changes at BasecampAmazon extends ban on police use of its facial recognition software ‘until further notice’Thousands of Google employees asked CEO Sundar Pichai to stop providing AI tech for the US military’s dronesMilitary work is a lightning rod in Silicon Valley, but Microsoft will sell the Pentagon all the AI it needs 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.

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... Old Dog, New Tricks? Cloud continues to make live harder and harder for the traditional big tech companies. Is embracing cloud a way out for them, or do they just have their heads in the clouds.... 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.

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. Here are links to the web content we referenced during the episode: The story of Basecamp’s disastrous policyhttps://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22419512/basecamp-political-speech-policy-falloutChanges at Basecamphttps://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5Basecamp Just Broke the Mold to Grow Better, and Fasterhttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/05/07/basecamp_just_broke_the_mold_to_grow_better_and_faster_776155.html Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send

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! When advertising goes Viral It feels like sheer genius: Signal tells the truth about tracking and gets Facebook to help spread the word. 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.

Continuing on last weeks Open Source Roundup, this time we focus on concept of security and safety with Open Source projects. This weeks inspiration came from these articles: Is Open Source More Secure Than Closed Source?https://devops.com/is-open-source-more-secure-than-closed-source/Open-source, cloud-native projects: 5 key questions to assess riskhttps://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/open-source-cloud-native-projects-5-key-questions-assess-risk7 Reasons to Get Serious About Your Open-Source Strategyhttps://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/open-source-program-office 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.

Today's episode features a roundup of Open source related topics, more specifically about the importance of communities. Inspiration was taken from these online articles: What's the point of open source without contributors? Turns out, there are severalhttps://www.techrepublic.com/article/whats-the-point-of-open-source-without-contributors-turns-out-there-are-several/Apache Software Foundation retires slew of Hadoop-related projectshttps://www.zdnet.com/article/apache-software-foundation-retires-slew-of-hadoop-related-projects/New Linux Foundation project takes blockchain and the open source approach to the insurance industryhttps://www.techrepublic.com/article/new-linux-foundation-project-takes-blockchain-and-the-open-source-approach-to-the-insurance-industry/ 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.

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... Today's Articles https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/05/supreme-court-gives-google-the-final-win-versus-oracle/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/back-popular-demand-google-cloud-products-4-words-or-less-2021-edition https://lists.apache.org/x/thread.html/rab2a820507f7c846e54a847398ab20f47698ec5bce0c8e182bfe51ba%40%3Cdev.mesos.apache.org%3E 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.

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... Our Fabulous Picks: The Good:  A question for programmers. Is it too late to start programming at age 35, but to get a job not just for fun. ?https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20210406090153AAv17hOWhat is big data about?https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrC1ClLGHBgvlIAMhdPmolQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny?qid=20130528083829AANsKIH  The Bad: What are some ways to print your emails.?https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20210406211203AAT7E0tHow i can build an artificial intelligence and what programming language I must use?https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrC0CYDGnBgawoAqBRPmolQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny?qid=20141220

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. 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.

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. 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.

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".... The topic for this episode was the result of reading a number of online articles which we references during the discussion: How Google manages open sourceOpen Source PatchingOpen source: Google wants new rules for developers working on 'critical' projects'We're finding bugs way faster than we can fix them': Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security 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 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.... 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.

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? CentOS Stream Timeline March 31, 2016RedHat launches developer program with “free” subscriptions availableSeptember 24, 2019Transforming the development experience within CentOSDecember 8, 2020CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise LinuxCentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS StreamJanuary 20th 2021New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHELFebruary 25, 2021Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations 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 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? 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.