Roaring Elephant

After spending a lot of money for the next shiny thing that will solve all your problems, or at least that's what the salesperson told you, things are often not as rosy as you had expected them to be. Is the vendor at fault, or is some or all of the responsibility to avoid buyer remorse with the buyer? Inspiration for this episode came from: https://www.ciodive.com/news/enterprise-IT-buyer-remorse/627758/ 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 new Stack Overflow Dev Survey has been released and as usual, we're taking a look and using all our non-expert knowledge to add our opinions to the results. 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 new Stack Overflow Dev Survey has been released and as usual, we're taking a look and using all our non-expert knowledge to add our opinions to the results. 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 new Stack Overflow Dev Survey has been released and as usual, we're taking a look and using all our non-expert knowledge to add our opinions to the results. 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 are joined by our special guest Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp and author of the book "Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and practices" and the topic is, quite obviously: Infrastructure as Code. In this last episode with Rosemary, we end with the required people skills and some lessons learned! Head over to the Manning Publications website for more information about Rosemary's book: "Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and Practices" 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 are joined by our special guest Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp and author of the book "Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and practices" and the topic is, quite obviously: Infrastructure as Code. In this second episode with Rosemary, we continue with move information on the components you'll likely need. Head over to the Manning Publications website for more information about Rosemary's book: "Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and Practices" 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 are joined by our special guest Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp and author of the book "Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and practices" and the topic is, quite obviously: Infrastructure as Code. In this first episode with Rosemary, we start with an introduction on the topic. Head over to the Manning Publications website for more information about Rosemary's book: "Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and Practices" 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 a final episode in our recent coverage of Career advice, we're tackling the concept of Personal branding and why it is important for your career. And we finish off with potential sources of help and inspiration when you are indeed thinking of making a switch. 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 couple of episodes (trying) to give career advise, we figured it made sense to talk about our own career paths. Now both Dave and Jhon have been "around", so this will be a mini series inside the careers track, and here is the final installment bringing it to the present day. 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 couple of episodes (trying) to give career advise, we figured it made sense to talk about our own career paths. Now both Dave and Jhon have been "around", so this will be a mini series inside the careers track, and here is the second installment covering our middle years. 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 couple of episodes (trying) to give career advise, we figured it made sense to talk about our own career paths. Now both Dave and Jhon have been "around", so this will be a mini series inside the careers track, and here is the first installment covering our early days. 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 series on career choices, today we go deep on the age old question: does career equal a manager position or is that a misconception? With your co-hosts having very different goals, this is sure to be a god one! 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 the small pause, looking back at 300 episodes of Roaring Elephant goodness, we're back this week dispensing career advice. This time we focus on the risks of allowing yourself to become stuck in a niche role that could hinder your career chances. 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.

Three centuries of Roaring Elephant podcasts! Well, in number of episodes then... We don't actually believe the universe would be able to survive actual 300 years of our content! :) Why don't you join us on this relaxing episode where we take a slow meandering walk down memory lane... 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.

Following on form last weeks discussion about career choices, we now discuss why, in our opinion at least, fear of change is rarely necessary and more often than not a cause for career stagnation! 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 we have been active in the amazing world of IT for a while now and both of us are involved with the process of hiring people, Dave as a hiring manager and Jhon as a mentor and frequent candidate interviewer, we are going to try to share some of our experience and (let's be brave) maybe even some wisdom! Unrelated to this episode, you may have caught a glimpse of Dave in the wild recently when he talked about The key tennents of successful presales leadership at demofest. 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 a conclusion to our continuing series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that Open Source vendors are just the same as regular vendors of proprietary software. This may come as a bit of a shock to some, but since good OSS vendors are well embedded in the open source community and culture, should it really come as a surprise that this also influences the interactions and sales cycles? 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 our continuing series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that it does not matter if your enterprise open source vendor is part of, and contributing a healthy amount, to the open source community. 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 our continuing series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that Open Source is hopelessly fragmented and therefore impossible to use in an Enterprise setting. While we'll agree to a part of it, we would suggest it's actually one of pen Source's many strengths and nothing to be afraid of! For this episode, we found inspiration at the following web page: https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/2/4-common-misunderstandings-about-enterprise-open-source-software 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 our continuing series about misunderstandings that (still) surround Open Source, today we are covering the misconception that the only reason you should look at open source is because it's cheap. While it may be so that there is a lesser or absent license cost, there are both reasons why the total cost of ownership may well be higher than proprietary software, but the benefits can also far outweigh that... For this episode, we found inspiration at the following web page: https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/2/4-common-misunderstandings-about-enterprise-open-source-software 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.