Roaring Elephant

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... 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.

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. 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.

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. https://youtu.be/sPCh-ogNlHk 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 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. https://youtu.be/MmyLhVLQOMg 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.

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! https://youtu.be/F_-zmhHROwA 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 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! https://youtu.be/4_hHgYqzBKw In this part, we move on from Virtual Machines and into a deep discussion of Linux Jails and LXC containers, the precursors to today's container concepts. 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.

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. https://youtu.be/fUcrSVl6j2k In this part, we actually talk about Virtual Machines because many people know what they are and the recent surge of containers everywhere, is largely a attempt at solving the problems that are inherent to virtualization. For that reason it makes sense to discuss the good and the bad of virtual machines first. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to sugges

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. https://youtu.be/Wb3WFiUiL50 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 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. https://youtu.be/Uedeo3tQz-Y 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.

Another fortnight, another Roaring News episode looking at an Acquisition by SUSE, some privacy shattering interviews and a PSA about unsecured databases! https://youtu.be/kJJ-IVcUReY Another startup bites the dust? We've discussed how a lot of startup's business strategy is to get notices, get popular and cash out. Is Rancher doing this now, or is this acquisition by SUSE more interesting? Do laws make things better, or worse? In another attempt of using unproven technology to solve perceived deficiencies in human, intuition based tasks, legislation conceived to protect the individual, may just be making things worse? Nah, leave it with the default password. It'll be fine! Though Dave feels this isn't worth writing about, Jhon believes that this cannot be repeated often enough: please secure your data stores! 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.

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... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qk7DIcFrnA 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 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... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzRuWrUoz1I Public Cloud as a side-job Every time we look at the state of public cloud today, we are stunned by how "coincidental" the clouds are for 2 out of the 3 major players where the massive public cloud is dwarfed by the organizations real business endeavors. Not really Quantum Fujitsu is the latest player to enter the Quantum playing field with an offering that is decidedly NOT Quantum... If you thought it was bad that the walls have ears... With privacy concerns on the rise, this article detailing a rather simple to execute eves-dropping technique won;t do much to make you sleep better at night... At least the lights ar

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.... ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAisApoDUWw 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, 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. Free eBook raffle Manning Publication has been kind enough to give us a couple of download codes for a free eBook version of "Azure Data Engineering" As always, our Patreons get a first chance to get their hands on one of the codes. If you are a Roaring V.I.P. (or higher), you can head over to our Patreon Page now where you will find a  posts containing all the information required. If you become a Patreon now, you immediately get access tot that post!

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. As the final comment on LinkedIn says:"SkyNet is pleased with your progress." When something is open source, even though everybody hopes it will only be used for "good", these moral and ethical questions are very deep and complicated... Let's kill it before it spreads! Here's me thinking the world is trying their utmost to make quantum computing "a thing" and these people are already trying to break it! Who needs a password manager if you have GitHub? A good process and good governance of what you put on GitHub, or any other public service for that matter, are not a luxury, they're a necessity! 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'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. Redis Microservices for Dummies Make sure to check out the free "Redis Microservices for Dummies" e-book by Kyle Davis with Loris Cro on the Redis Labs 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.

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. Who needs enemies with friends like these? And we do not mean the good folks behind HaveIBeenPwned here but rather the people that install good software and then never look at upgrading it when vulnerabilities are patched! Now the A.I. is also making them? A bit of fun looking at how an A.I. recreated the game of Pac-Man, courtesy of NVidia. We also mentioned another YouTube video demonstrating how an adversarial A.I.teaches itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-8nXKmJMmI The more things change, the more they stay the same... It looks like we're on the next cycle of the distribute->consolidate-> distribute->consolidate merry-go-round where NVidia is going back to it's Silicon Graphics roots and decided to base their new Ampere product on the principle of combining many "s

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. Redis Microservices for Dummies Make sure to check out the free "Redis Microservices for Dummies" e-book by Kyle Davis with Loris Cro on the Redis Labs 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.

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. Documentation! Documentation! Documentation! Just use your imagination to add the sweaty overweight bald gentleman, will you? Cloud: the miracle cure! For years, we've been telling everyone willing to listen that cloud is not a "solution". It is a tool you can use for good, or for bad, but in and of itself it does not have any inherent 'miracle juice'. Big Iron organizations IBM and HPE however seem to think that cloud will save them from failing business practices... Maybe they should start listening to the Roaring Elephant... 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 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. Free eBook raffle Manning Publication has been kind enough to give us a couple of download codes for a free eBook version of “Mastering Large Datasets with Python“. As always, our Patreons get a first chance to get their hands on one of the codes. If you are a Roaring V.I.P. (or higher), you can head over to our Patreon Page now where you will find a  posts containing all the information required. If you become a Patreon now, you immediately get access tot that post!