Roaring Elephant

Latest Episodes:

Episode 240 – Yahoo Answers… R.I.P.? Apr 13, 2021

Show notes

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... 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.

Episode 239 – Living on the Edge! Apr 06, 2021

Show notes

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.

Episode 238 – Stop Tech Fails Mar 30, 2021

Show notes

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.

Episode 237 – Open Source @ Google Mar 23, 2021

Show notes

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".... 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.

Episode 236 – Enterprise Architect Musings… Mar 16, 2021

Show notes

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.

Episode 235 – The CentOS [R]Evolution Mar 09, 2021

Show notes

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? 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.

Episode 234 – The Kubernetes “EASY” Button Mar 02, 2021

Show notes

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.

Episode 233 – Combating Global Misinformation & No More Cookies from GitHub Feb 23, 2021

Show notes

In this weeks episode, we give our take on how reliable the information on the internet really is. Also, is GitHub leading the way towards a cookie-less future? And if so, what will the consequences be? 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.

Episode 232 – Graph Data Science? Slack Outage Postmortem. Feb 16, 2021

Show notes

In this weeks episode we discuss NEO4J's take on Graph Data Science and take a look at the postmortem that Slack released, following their world-wide outage a month ago. 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.

Episode 231 – Remote Working with Rodolphe @Remotive.io (3/3) Feb 09, 2021

Show notes

About a year ago, we had the lucky coincidence to have a discussion with Rodolphe Dutel on the subject of working remotely. Twelve months later, the world is a much different place and working from home has become the norm, especially in the more technical workplaces, we touch base with Rodolphe and get his insights and experiences. In this final episode on the topic, for this year at least, we finish off looking at how we feel, think, hope and fear the situation will stabilize once the troubles are behind us. 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.

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected