Roaring Elephant

This week, we have the shocking news that Docker Enterprise has been gobbled up by a rather unknown entity. (Shocking not because it happened, but because it took so long.) Also, a new open source license attempt to stem the cloud predation appeared on the scene and Microsoft has all the orchestration you would ever want, in the cloud no less, no really!

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In the effort to hire the best candidates, more and more companies are transforming into distributed organizations where remote working is the way to go. As with any emerging technology, many businesses are still trying to figure out how to make this work and on the other side of the fence, potential employees are looking for guidance on what to expect. Your co-hosts have been working remotely for some time and we are joined by Rodolphe Dutel, founder at Remotive.io for a really deep and extensive discussion on everything related to remote working and distributed companies.

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This week's news is full of spying smart devices and the perceived sprawl of IOT. We finish off discussing the use and non-use of big monolithic government contracts in technology.

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Please join us as celebrate four years of podcasting on Big Data and Big Tech.

After 166 episodes, we've somehow reached our fourth anniversary and as is by now tradition, we invite guests we had over the year back for this episode to see what they have been up to.

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SpaceX will solve the worlds Internet woes, courtesy of Elon Musk, Quantum Supremacy may still be a little while off (like a couple of decades), courtesy of IBM and from now on, the "don't call us, we'll call you" response to your job interview will be courtesy of an artificial intelligence (or lack thereof).

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A little while ago we came across a blog by Martin Zinkevich about the best practices for ML Engineering at Google. We had this one on the back burner for a while now and we decided to go ahead and do an episode on this subject, using this article as a rough guide.

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Believe it or not, Hadoop is dead, again. In other news, Facebook's Libra coin is getting more and more boxed in and Microsoft thinks the real world is realy just too ugly to look at during your daily commute. Enjoy!

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It cannot be denied that cloud, particularly public cloud has become ever more prevalent across the "Big Tech" universe. In order to give this subject the attention it deserves, we went out and found some podcasting colleagues who specialize on this subject and put them in front of our "question firing squad".

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For this News episode we are joined by Niels and Carlo from Kuori.io and we discuss the need that some people have to build solutions using technologies that are not really suited for the purpose, while perfectly valid technology is readily available. In the second part, we discuss a whitepaper on "cloud native" and how it seems this drive towards to cloud is still very often a an exercise in marketing...

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It cannot be denied that cloud, particularly public cloud has become ever more prevalent across the "Big Tech" universe. In order to give this subject the attention it deserves, we went out and found some podcasting colleagues who specialize on this subject and put them in front of our "question firing squad".

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.