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Dave Russell & Jhon Masschelein

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Episode 240 – Yahoo Answers… R.I.P.?

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2021/04/13

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.

49:26

Episode 239 – Living on the Edge!

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2021/04/06

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.

36:26

Episode 238 – Stop Tech Fails

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2021/03/30

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.

30:46

Episode 237 – Open Source @ Google

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2021/03/23

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

34:42

Episode 236 – Enterprise Architect Musings…

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2021/03/16

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

52:45

Episode 235 – The CentOS [R]Evolution

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2021/03/09

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:

27:07

Episode 234 – The Kubernetes “EASY” Button

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2021/03/02

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.

29:08

Episode 233 – Combating Global Misinformation & No...

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2021/02/23

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.

30:18

Episode 232 – Graph Data Science? Slack Outage...

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2021/02/16

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.

54:45

Episode 231 – Remote Working with Rodolphe...

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2021/02/09

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

48:00

Episode 230 – Remote Working with Rodolphe...

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2021/02/02

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. This second part focuses more on how we will transition from the current extreme situation into a more long term, sustainable organization. If you are

45:15

Episode 229 – Remote Working with Rodolphe...

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2021/01/26

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 first part of our interview with Rodolphe, we look at the current "working from home" situation. In upcoming episodes. we'll try to predict how the "working

46:46

Episode 228 – The State of Microservices 2020

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2021/01/19

With the advent of architectures based on Microservices, the days of the monolith really do seem to be numbered. Recently, the good people at The Software House released a report on the State of Microservices 2020 and when reading it, we decided we wanted to dig into our personal experiences and offer our view on the data. 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.

42:26

Episode 227 – 2021 Predictions for Open Source

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2021/01/12

We found someone brave enough to do some rather bold (and some not so bold) predictions regarding the future of Linux. Obviously we disagree but since we're not brave enough to make our own predictions, we're just going to dissect Jack Wallen's hard work instead! 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.

42:26

Episode 226 – Let’s talk about 2030’s Internet (2/2)

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2021/01/05

We're continuing our crustal ball peering, trying to divine what the internet will be like in ten years time. Where we looked more at the geopolitical factors last time, we're looking at the technology angle 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.

32:34

Episode 225 – Let’s talk about 2030’s Internet

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2020/12/29

With the disaster that was 2020 coming to an end, we think we can say that the global Internet has been a savior to the economy and, to be frank, our sanity. We decided to do some future gazing today and see if we can predict how the Internet will evolve in the next decade... 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.

39:53

Episode 224 – GitHub’s State of the Octoverse

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2020/12/22

The Github "State of the Octoverse" for 2020 is out and we're dedicating this episode to dissecting all the wonderful information presented here. https://youtu.be/3yigp4E2zug 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.

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Episode 223 – In-Memory Computing with John DesJardins

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2020/12/15

This week we're visited by John Desjardins who regaled us with his knowledge of in-memory computing. https://youtu.be/LHoO2XAQXqM 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.

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Episode 222 – 10 years of OpenStack: Success or Failure?

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2020/12/08

Did a decade of OpenStack deliver the cloud environment everybody flocks too? Not really.... Fortunately, Matt Turck saves the episode, if not the year, with his 2020 Data and AI landscape poster! https://youtu.be/WtYcGq2b-00 OpenStack, the little tech that couldn't? Ten years ago, the new cloud craze called OpenStack hit the scene and they did so with a lot of noise. A decade later, what is left of this once darling of the hypervisor orchestration layer component

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Episode 221 – Byte Sized Python with Michael Kennedy

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2020/12/01

Today we are joined by Michael Kennedy who is an expert on Python, the little scripting language that is helping solve the worlds biggest problems today. There seems to be no stopping it and it has become the go-to language for anything form devops glue scripts to data scientists' machine learning jobs and everything in between. So how does one get started with Python and what are the tips & tricks of the trade. https://youtu.be/8uxSVk8-TK0 Find more Michael Kennedy goodness

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