Roaring Elephant

In the effort to hire the best candidates, more and more companies are transforming into distributed organizations where remote working is the way to go. As with any emerging technology, many businesses are still trying to figure out how to make this work and on the other side of the fence, potential employees are looking for guidance on what to expect. Your co-hosts have been working remotely for some time and we are joined by Rodolphe Dutel, founder at Remotive.io for a really deep and extensive discussion on everything related to remote working and distributed companies. In this three part series with Rodolphe, we are trying to get to the bottom of the whole "is remote working good or bad" issue. For people who are not working remotely, the prospect can be exciting or just down right scary. For businesses that want, or need to embrace the distributed paradigm, it can be equally daunting. Rodolphe has been "helping Tech professionals go remote" for over five years now and we are very h

Our roving word traveling reporter Dave spent some time at Kube+CloudNativeCon ane AWS re:Invent and in today's News special, we're discussing the differences and similarity between these events. We're not going to cover any of the sessions, but rather talk about the conferences. For creators... Taking place twice a year, once in the US and once in Europe, we feel this conference is a good fit for people that want to find out what is new in the world of cloud and, actually, open source in general. We briefly compare this event with the pure open source conferences like FOSDEM and conclude that KubeCon+CloudNativeCon could just be the preeminent open source conference today. Though definitely not without it's faults (you;ll ned to listen to the episode to find out more), we do feel we can recommend attending this conference if you are active in this environment. For Consumers... Compared to KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, this conference is absolutely massive with over 60.000 attende

In the effort to hire the best candidates, more and more companies are transforming into distributed organizations where remote working is the way to go. As with any emerging technology, many businesses are still trying to figure out how to make this work and on the other side of the fence, potential employees are looking for guidance on what to expect. Your co-hosts have been working remotely for some time and we are joined by Rodolphe Dutel, founder at Remotive.io for a really deep and extensive discussion on everything related to remote working and distributed companies. In this three part series with Rodolphe, we are trying to get to the bottom of the whole "is remote working good or bad" issue. For people who are not working remotely, the prospect can be exciting or just down right scary. For businesses that want, or need to embrace the distributed paradigm, it can be equally daunting. Rodolphe has been "helping Tech professionals go remote" for over five years now and we are very h

This week, we have the shocking news that Docker Enterprise has been gobbled up by a rather unknown entity. (Shocking not because it happened, but because it took so long.) Also, a new open source license attempt to stem the cloud predation appeared on the scene and Microsoft has all the orchestration you would ever want, in the cloud no less, no really! How the Mighty have Fallen... Not only has docker now completely ended as an entity, we wonder what kind of "synergy" can be achieved with this acquisition by Mirantis. And apart for the opensource docker format, usually deployed via Kubernetes, does docker still matter? https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-enterprise/ "Eventually open source": the new abandonware? In th eongoing OSS license wars, a new mongrel has appeared with Sentry borrowing the "Business Source License" and adding an "eventual open source" clause. Not sure if serious..? https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/06/relicensing-sentry

In the effort to hire the best candidates, more and more companies are transforming into distributed organizations where remote working is the way to go. As with any emerging technology, many businesses are still trying to figure out how to make this work and on the other side of the fence, potential employees are looking for guidance on what to expect. Your co-hosts have been working remotely for some time and we are joined by Rodolphe Dutel, founder at Remotive.io for a really deep and extensive discussion on everything related to remote working and distributed companies. In this three part series with Rodolphe, we are trying to get to the bottom of the whole "is remote working good or bad" issue. For people who are not working remotely, the prospect can be exciting or just down right scary. For businesses that want, or need to embrace the distributed paradigm, it can be equally daunting. Rodolphe has been "helping Tech professionals go remote" for over five years now and we are very h

This week's news is full of spying smart devices and the perceived sprawl of IOT. We finish off discussing the use and non-use of big monolithic government contracts in technology. It's not because you're paranoid they're not out to get you... Privacy is foremost in many peoples mind, but on the other hand we keep bringing so called "smart" devices into our pivacy sanctums... And now we need to start thinking on how this trend affects our surroundings... https://lifehacker.com/are-you-morally-obligated-to-tell-house-guests-about-yo-1839174119 We've outsourced all the people? OK, now let's outsource all the bytes! Red Hat is reporting on the apparent trend of outsourcing IOT, but to be honest, how pervasice is IOT in everyday life and is there really a need for this? https://datafloq.com/read/red-hat-report-iot-outsourcing-trend-accelerating/7063 All your bases, they are belong to... Amazon? We don't really care about how the Pentagon sends the taxpayers money and t

Please join us as celebrate four years of podcasting on Big Data and Big Tech. After 166 episodes, we've somehow reached our fourth anniversary and as is by now tradition, we invite guests we had over the year back for this episode to see what they have been up to. The internet: an amazing place to find interesting imagery! :D Big thanks to our guests today: Jean-Georges Perrin https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgperrin/ John Mertic https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmertic/ Mark Phillips https://www.linkedin.com/in/markphillips/ 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.

SpaceX will solve the worlds Internet woes, courtesy of Elon Musk, Quantum Supremacy may still be a little while off (like a couple of decades), courtesy of IBM and from now on, the "don't call us, we'll call you" response to your job interview will be courtesy of an artificial intelligence (or lack thereof). Duck! 40.000 Satelites passing through! Satelite Internet services have definitely not been without its issues, but Elon Musk's Starlink has now successfully made (at least) twitter available to the masses! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/elon-musk-sends-tweet-via-spacexs-starlink-satellite-broadband/ The Technology wars of 2020 have started already... After Big Data washing and A.I. washing, prepare for the inevitable supremacy of Quantum washing? Google and IBM are going for round one! https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614604/quantum-supremacy-from-google-not-so-fast-says-ibm/ I for one welcome the our new masters... An AI preforming

A little while ago we came across a blog by Martin Zinkevich about the best practices for ML Engineering at Google. We had this one on the back burner for a while now and we decided to go ahead and do an episode on this subject, using this article as a rough guide. Rules of Machine Learning:Best Practices for ML Engineering The blog post by Martin is definitely worth a thorough read! https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-of-ml/ 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.

Believe it or not, Hadoop is dead, again. In other news, Facebook's Libra coin is getting more and more boxed in and Microsoft thinks the real world is realy just too ugly to look at during your daily commute. Enjoy! How much deader can it get? When Arun Murthy, "father of Yarn" and therefore quite an authority on Hadoop declares said hadoop to be dead (yet again), we take notice. Now this was published a little while ago but for some reason, we kept putting off talking about it. However, today is the day we tackle this subject, yet again, hopefully for the very last time... https://medium.com/@acmurthy/hadoop-is-dead-long-live-hadoop-f22069b264ac FaceBook will "Libra" your wallet When Facebook revealed details about their cryptocurrency Libra, the world certainly noticed. While we shy away from discussing bitcoin variants, this news has been interesting enough, especially the reaction of the world towards this newcomer on the financial markets. https://www.cnbc.com

It cannot be denied that cloud, particularly public cloud has become ever more prevalent across the "Big Tech" universe. In order to give this subject the attention it deserves, we went out and found some podcasting colleagues who specialize on this subject and put them in front of our "question firing squad". Many thanks to our Special Guests: Peter Roosako Twitter: @FoghornCTO Peter is the CTO of Foghorn Consulting, a cloud consulting and DevOps engineering company based in San Francisco. Justin Brodley Twitter:@jbrodley Justin Brodley is an IT Technologist who has worked with cloud computing in the SaaS computing space. He has built out MSP AWS partner organizations, led IT operations for fortune 500 companies and founder and CEO of SaaS 11, a consulting firm specializing in SaaS Software providers. Jonathan Baker Twitter: @cloudkickoff Jonathan Baker is a career problem solver and serverless evangelist. He is currently focused on develo

For this News episode we are joined by Niels and Carlo from Kuori.io and we discuss the need that some people have to build solutions using technologies that are not really suited for the purpose, while perfectly valid technology is readily available. In the second part, we discuss a whitepaper on "cloud native" and how it seems this drive towards to cloud is still very often a an exercise in marketing... If you build it, they will come? Not saying that this is a bad blog, not at all, it discusses the subject matter in clear detail and all in all is a pretty god read. However, the first (and arguably only valid) question that popped into my mind when I read the title was: WHY? Why would anyone want to do something like this? Are there good reasons for trying to build something using tools that are clearly not suited for the purpose? https://yokota.blog/2019/09/23/building-a-relational-database-using-kafka/ Back to the Future? A new whitepaper by Weaveworks begs the question: a

It cannot be denied that cloud, particularly public cloud has become ever more prevalent across the "Big Tech" universe. In order to give this subject the attention it deserves, we went out and found some podcasting colleagues who specialize on this subject and put them in front of our "question firing squad". Many thanks to our Special Guests: Peter Roosako Twitter: @FoghornCTO Peter is the CTO of Foghorn Consulting, a cloud consulting and DevOps engineering company based in San Francisco. Justin Brodley Twitter:@jbrodley Justin Brodley is an IT Technologist who has worked with cloud computing in the SaaS computing space. He has built out MSP AWS partner organizations, led IT operations for fortune 500 companies and founder and CEO of SaaS 11, a consulting firm specializing in SaaS Software providers. Jonathan Baker Twitter: @cloudkickoff Jonathan Baker is a career problem solver and serverless evangelist. He is currently focused on dev

Before we dive into the News, we want to really thank you, our audience for helping us reach our YouTube subscriber goal. We now are the proud owner of the www.youtube.com/RoaringElephant url and we could not have done this without you! For News, we talk about boring one-man companies, something hybrid cloudy at Google and a followup on the open-source David versus the public cloud Goliath story. It's not because it's boring that it's not Cool! The author if this article is the sole employee of his own company "Listen Notes" and here he explains in pretty deep detail how he was able to setup an internet service, by himself, using mostly open source software and good development practices. https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b You need Hybrid Cloud. Even Google says so! As probably the last of the big three public cloud providers, google has joined the select group that offers a hybrid cloud environment. Does it make sense?

Today we are joined by Mark Phillips, product marketing manager and more interestingly, heavily involved with Ansible at Red Hat. Now, rather than making this episode specifically about Ansible, Mark shares his extensive expertise on the subjects of orchestration, config management and automation. Mark shares his 25 years of experience on various questions covering the usual  "what, why and who". A bit of history is included and of course the difference in approach for cloud versus on-premise also come up. Specific terminology is explained and we cover the usual excuses for not using things like config management. For those that are still on the fence the information shared by Mark should give you a firm grasp of the concepts and deployment methods and help you get started. During the interview, Mark mentioned a number of blogs and other online resources: Why failure should not be celebrated in the startup world "Migrating the runbook - from legacy to DevOps" at IPExpo London 2015 As work gets m

The main topic for this news episode is a revisiting of the Multi-Cloud subject we touched last time. Next we take a look at an article about the state of the  Docker project and we end on an article about an excellent post-morten by Monzo about some trouble they had over the summer. The Muli-Cloud article we wanted to discuss… When we discussed the subject of Multi-cloud on the last News Episode, we did it from an article we though wasn't very good. As luck or faith has it, we came across a different article that actually gave us a better start to that particular discussion and we're not above doing just that! In this pretty good article, we follow the article along the 5 talking points he find relevant and important, adding our views. And don't fear, with a subject as broad as multi-cloud, there is plenty to talk about! Community does matter in Open Source! Go figure… When I got the title for this article from Dave, my first thought was "I didn't know Docker went a

Today we are joined by Mark Phillips, product marketing manager and more interestingly, heavily involved with Ansible at Red Hat. Now, rather than making this episode specifically about Ansible, Mark shares his extensive expertise on the subjects of orchestration, config management and automation. Mark shares his 25 years of experience on various questions covering the usual  "what, why and who". A bit of history is included and of course the difference in approach for cloud versus on-premise also come up. Specific terminology is explained and we cover the usual excuses for not using things like config management. For those that are still on the fence the information shared by Mark should give you a firm grasp of the concepts and deployment methods and help you get started. During the interview, Mark mentioned a number of blogs and other online resources: Why failure should not be celebrated in the startup world "Migrating the runbook - from legacy to DevOps" at IPExpo London 2015 As work gets m

In this Roaring News episode we start debunking a "85% of companies use multi cloud" statement, look at the future of Data Engineering and are completely astounded at the amount of tracking that happens on the world wide web. We close off with a deeper look at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation open sourcing the Kubernetes audit and go another round on "Smart Data" versus "Big Data". Multi-Cloud Confusion   With this first article, we want to do a little bit of debunking what recently has become one of the more hyped statements in the Big Technology space. If you believe "them", almost every company out there is now operating in multiple clouds! Now, this does not necessarily need to be a false statement, it just depends on how you define "cloud". We discuss the different views and offer some advise on how a successful multi-cloud strategy should work. And it immediately illustrates how difficult a real multi-cloud deployment actually is... Data Engineering of Future Past This article touches on a fe

For a podcast on Big Data, we were amazed that we never covered the subject of NoSQL. So we're correcting this today. Not by listing and comparing all the NoSQL solutions out there, but rather by going over the differences between the two paradigms. This way we hope to offer enough insight so you can feel comfortable deciding if you should or should not deploy NoSQL in your environment. There are definitely a number of really important benefits to using a NoSQL solution in your environment and your co-hosts are big fans of the technology. However, make sure to carefully consider the positive and negative consequences. Make sure you are going for NoSQL for the right reasons. The discussion in this episode should give you a good bases for that decision but do let us know if there is something we missed? 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 News installment, coming to you courtesy of Dave and Endgaget, we talk about how the Osaka track is paving the way for data free flow across borders and take a look at the alleged problem with the UK's facial recognition system. Ending on a "high note", we discuss how Facebook and Googles (and a lot of other's) MLPerf benchmark is going to change the way we look at our machine learning setups. Or not... Data without frontiers! Have world leaders woken up and smelled the coffee that is reality or do they still believe data flow is something that stops at a border check point? The Osaka track that was initiated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems to indicate enlightenment is at hand. However, real concrete information is rather hard to find so we engage in a bout of theory-crafting on this subject in the hopes of coming to a useful conclusion. Wish us luck!   I'm sure I've seen that face before... This article on how some people claim the UK's facial recon system is quite bad and other