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Episode 200 – Bi-Centennial Podcast

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2020/07/07

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

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Episode 199 – Azure Data Engineering with Richard...

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2020/06/30

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

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Episode 198 – Roaring News

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2020/06/23

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

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Episode 197 – Exploring Redis with Kyle Davis Part 2

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2020/06/16

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

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Episode 196 – Roaring News

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2020/06/09

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

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Episode 195 – Exploring Redis with Kyle Davis – Part 1

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2020/06/02

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

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Episode 194 – Roaring News

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2020/05/26

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

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Episode 193 – Bite-Sized Big Python

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2020/05/19

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

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Episode 192 – Roaring News

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2020/05/12

In this news inspired news episode, we talk about A.I's filing for patents, Framework SDKs causing major software to crash on mobiles and how the army is teaching the world how not to overspend! Enjoy! And so the revolution starts... Of course it's rather obvious that today, having patents filled in an A.I.'s name would not be logical, practical or simply sane. However, a couple of inventors decided to take international patent law to the test and tried to do just that. It

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Episode 191 – The Dawn of False Hope

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2020/05/05

Following on from episode 189 where we looked at all things pronounced "dead", we now go in search of all things that will make sure the future is bright and cheerful. Most confusingly, most things pronounced dead also seem to be the future? Along the way, we discuss the Open Source mentality and all things Machine Learning & A.I. Privacy and something called "converged security" round out the episode. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send

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Episode 190 – Roaring News

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2020/04/28

Today we talk about the dangers of relying on clod services, how technology is failing us in these items of crisis and how the new world of social distancing is shaping the future for tech conferences. Cloud/SaaS for the win! :s The world creates more and more data and simultaneously relies more and more on rather ephemeral cloud based storage and services. One of the consequences that is becoming more and more apparent is that we are no longer in control of our data and while

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Episode 189 – It’s Darkest before Dawn

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2020/04/21

Maybe it's the dark days we live in, maybe it's just us being us... But everywhere we looked, we found somebody telling us somethings as dead or dying... Speaking about technology, of course! We are a tech podcast after all! Anyway, we decided to dive deep into the gloom and doom on the internet and see what has been pronounced deceased and how we felt about that. Don't let this epoisode get you down though! The title is definitely a hint for things to come! :D We found a lot

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Episode 188 – Roaring News

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2020/04/14

Artificial Intelligence will save us from all that ails us! The Big Cloud Providers should pay all the bills! Old stuff is old so you really have to buy news stuff now! Really! Really? When preparing for this weeks episode, we felt a real dissatisfaction with the quality of "the news" so we've selected a handful of articles and try to elevate them to a semblance of serviceability. A good Title, a good article does not make... We take our first shot at his article which does posit

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Episode 187 – Talking Business Agility with Caroline...

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2020/04/07

Agile Development is quite popular in the world of software development, but the concepts are applicable to a much broader business environment. Very often, however, the actual implementation of these rather excellent concepts are plagued with faulty expectations and simply not knowing what you are trying to do. Find out how you can benefit, both as an organization and personally, when doing Agile "right" in this two part interview with Caroline from Estelia. Estelia Find out

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Episode 186 – Roaring News

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2020/03/31

To counter the current horrible news around the world, we turned to The Register as today's Guest Publication and tried to find a couple of articles that have a more positive tone. Sadly, even at The Register, things are looking bad for NASA, GitHub and even the British military are looking for help... from Facebook? Weird that the concept of gravity would be a stranger at NASA... large amounts of data come with a lot of gravity. Data gravity, that is. At NASA, this was

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Episode 185 – Talking Business Agility with Caroline...

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2020/03/24

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Episode 184- Roaring News

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2020/03/17

A Law&Order themed news episode this week where we look at a collection of articles about the many legal implications that come with the ever increasing usage of machine learning and neural networks in the worlds courts. We start with the first traces of "Minority Report" PreCrime, follow on to privacy rights of convicted people and finish with the realities of A.I. based facial recognition. "We can't risk peoples' lives on automated apps that save money." Driven by a shortage of

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Episode 183- Taking Apache Cassandra for a spin

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2020/03/10

In this episode we have an in depth discussion on Apache Cassandra with Patrick McFadin, VP Developer Relations at DataStax. We had a great conversation with Patrick about topics ranging from basic NoSql topics to more in depth applicability of Apache Cassandra. Apache Cassandra really is one of the most used NoSql solutions out there and this information should really be useful for anybody working in Big Technology! Apache Cassandra More information on Apache Cassandra can be

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Episode 182- Roaring News

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2020/03/03

It has been a little while, but here is a regular Roaring News episode where we discuss three articles. First off is an Ozone benchmark followed by an A.I. directed dungeon crawl and we end with a bit of an ethical discussion about some things that scientists get up to these days.... Size matters, but we expected more... This Cloudera blog with benchmark information about the still in pre-beta Apache Ozone felt rather underwhelming. No big speed increase, quite a bit of slowdown

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Episode 181- DBIR 2019: So, are we doomed yet?

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2020/02/25

Verizon has published their "Data Breach Investigations Report" for some time now and with the news of data leaks, ransomware attacks and more of that kind of horror dominating much of the technology conversation, we gratefully borrow this report to dedicate a full episode on this subject. As ever, we never shy away from deviating form the subject a little (or a lot) but this time we did try to keep close to the subject matter. If you're in any way connected to cyber security, and honestly,

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