Social impact of the great depression and new deal Elhem Chniti
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Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
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UI automation Introduction,
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Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
2. The Great Depression
• The greatest social upheaval in Canada in the twentieth
century
• Also known as
• The Dirty Thirties
• The Dust Bowl
• The Great Depression is the source of our social
welfare system. It was developed in response to the
suffering of the population during the Great Depression
3. Causes
1. The Stock Market Crash: October 1929
2. Protectionism: Countries around the world
react by restricting imports from foreign
nations. Canada’s economy was heavily
dependent on exporting wheat and paper
products
- The result is a massive loss of jobs. The
U.S. legislates its highest tariff barriers in
history.
4. Causes (cont.)
3. The dust bowl: Farmers lose their crops
due to the drought on the prairies.
4.The economic contraction feeds on itself.
The loss of jobs leads to less purchasing
which leads to more loss of jobs.
5. Some Statistics
1. Decline in income from 1928
to 1933:
B.C.: 47%
Ont.: 44%
Sask.: 72%
2. Increase in unemployment from
1929 to 1933: from 2.8% to
19.3%
6. Statistics (cont’ d)
3. Decline from 1929 to 1933:
GNP: 42.8%
Exports: 54.1%
Farm Income: 83.2%
• From 1933 onward the economy recovers,
until the recession of 1939. It does not regain
its 1929 levels.
7. Depression Bottoms Out
• By 1933 the depression was at its worst.
• With 25% of the workforce unemployed
the government is pressured to take
immediate action.
United
States
Great
Britain
France
Germany
Industrial production
–46%
–23%
–24%
–41%
Wholesale prices
–32%
–33%
–34%
–29%
Foreign trade
–70%
–60%
–54%
–61%
Unemployment
+607%
+129%
+214%
+232%
8. The Human and Social Impacts
1. Hunger (gophers became food)
2. Homelessness: Hundreds of thousands of
men ride the rails in search of work.
3. Ill health: physical and mental health problems
begin to gain ground
4. Despair: There are many suicides
•Many of the affected are of the WWI generation,
this helps to lead to the “ lost generation” concept
9. The Politics of the Depression
1926 – 1930: Canada has a Liberal Gov’t under King
• Election 1930:
– King states not “a five-cent piece” for relief for any
province that elects a Conservative Gov’t
• The Conservatives win the 1930’s election under R.B.
Bennett. Bennett promises to end the Depression
• He wins with 137 seats (Cons) to 91 seats (Lib)
• Bennett raises tariffs, but fails to revive trade
• Bennett introduces marketing boards for farmers, and
labour legislation in 1935 (minimum wage, working
conditions)
10. The Federal Gov’ t Response
. . . was slow and small
• The government
establishes the Relief
camps
• A Royal Commission is
Formed to address the
Problem of the Depression
• 1937: EI legislation but ruled invalid by
the courts
11. The Relief Camps
• During the Great Depression there was no EI or welfare
• The Governments solution was to send unemployed
men into the woods to work in Government camps
– The men received very low pay
– They were forced to do very hard Work: road construction,
etc.
– The camps had poor living conditions and food
• By 1932: 2,000 men are in camps
• 1935: 150,000 had worked on 200 projects in the relief
camps
• 1936: The Liberal Gov’ t closes the camps
12. Social Unrest: Political Opposition
1. Communist Party active: but banned in 1931, its
leaders jailed
2. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF):
– formed 1932
– The Regina Manifesto: “ No C.C.F.
Government will rest content until it has
eradicated Capitalism . . .”
– Socialist
– Leader: J.S. Woodsworth
13. Social Unrest: Political Opposition
3. Social Credit
• Alberta and “ Bible Bill” Aberhart
• The Gov’ t to give citizens money to make up
deficit in purchasing power
• Elected in 1935: Alberta
4. Fascist movements gain some support
14. Legacy
• Capitalism had failed
• Distrust of Big Business (which had profited in the
Depression)
• Beginning of the public demand for gov’ t
intervention in the economy, for social programs
• Canadian Institutions
– The Bank of Canada
– The CBC
– The Canadian Wheat Board