Welcome to the life the universe and everything episode of the Roaring Elephant Podcast. We talk some news and this episode got a little bit ranty... Apologies for that; to balance it out we have a chat with Alan Gates talking about Hive for you.

There was so much Alan Gates goodness, we've split it over a few sessions and here's part one...

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