This document contains information about learning Xamarin, including links to a GitHub repository of a first Xamarin forms app, a GitBook page, and a YouTube channel. It also includes links about the Android emulator and online courses. There are sections about the native and shared approaches in Xamarin, including using native APIs on iOS and Android while sharing C# code. The document discusses Xamarin support for Visual Studio and its infrastructure designed for scale. It also mentions the Contoso Moments sample app that uses Azure services like storage, offline sync, and push notifications.
Xamarin 4 was just announced including some amazing new features and enhancements including the all new Xamarin Mac Agent and Xamarin.Forms 2.0 for enterprise grade mobile development, the brand new Test Recorder, and free crash reporting with the General Availability of Xamarin Insights. This month we will take a look at all the new enhancements into iOS and Android Development in C# with Xamarin and all of the latest features that were just released. There will be something for everyone in this content packed meetup no matter if you are new or have been developing with Xamarin for some time.
From NDC Oslo 2020: https://ndcoslo.com/talk/choosing-the-best-mobile-framework/
Choosing a mobile app framework is overwhelming - there are dozens to evaluate. From native frameworks written in Swift, ObjC, Java, and Kotlin to cross-platform frameworks like React Native and Xamarin, it is difficult to understand the key differences between them.
Xamarin 4 was just announced including some amazing new features and enhancements including the all new Xamarin Mac Agent and Xamarin.Forms 2.0 for enterprise grade mobile development, the brand new Test Recorder, and free crash reporting with the General Availability of Xamarin Insights. This month we will take a look at all the new enhancements into iOS and Android Development in C# with Xamarin and all of the latest features that were just released. There will be something for everyone in this content packed meetup no matter if you are new or have been developing with Xamarin for some time.
From NDC Oslo 2020: https://ndcoslo.com/talk/choosing-the-best-mobile-framework/
Choosing a mobile app framework is overwhelming - there are dozens to evaluate. From native frameworks written in Swift, ObjC, Java, and Kotlin to cross-platform frameworks like React Native and Xamarin, it is difficult to understand the key differences between them.
Extending, optimizing, and accelerating Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms app develop...James Montemagno
Leveraging C# and it’s awesome features to developer iOS and Android apps with Xamarin allows for rapid application development, but how can you go even further. In this session we will take a look at tools, libraries, and other resources to increase productivity enabling you to write less code and share more code across all of your apps. We will additionally dive through everything new in Xamarin.Forms and several tools that Forms has built in to help with cross platform development. No matter how you are developing applications with Xamarin you will be sure to find something new and fun to use on a day to day basis.
Have you ever wanted to build a robot? How about powering it and controlling it completely with C# and .NET? With Monkey.Robotics it is now completely possible. Come learn how Monkey.Robotics simplifies the tasks of building complex .NET Microframework power robots and how you can communicate with them from iOS and Android apps powered by Xamarin. We will take a look at the process of building a robot from start to finish. Then we will implement the microcontroller stack to communicate with sensors and other hardware on a Netduino. Then we will build out a full iOS and Android app in C# to control it!
Join us to openly discuss Xamarin.Forms and receive advice from the experts!
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/c1d6f1b2-49df-4834-b9bc-0f8e194c03b2?source=schedule
Recently Mike & Pierce from Xamarin introduced this amazing library called Azure App Service Helpers. Enabling you to connect to azure in just a few lines of code!
Choosing a mobile app framework can be overwhelming; there are dozens available on the market to evaluate. From native frameworks written in Swift, ObjC, Java, and Kotlin to cross-platform frameworks like React Native and Xamarin, it can be really difficult to understand the key differences between all of them.
In this talk, I'll review the pros and cons of popular mobile app frameworks to help you determine which one is right for you
As the mobile landscape continues to expand and evolve managing multiple code bases in different programming languages and development tools can become a nightmare fast. In this session you will learn about the technology that Xamarin offers and how it works to enable developers to leverage a shared C# code base across all mobile platforms.
James will walk you through developing, designing, deploying, and optimizing your first mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows from a single code base. You will walk away with the knowledge to build cross platform mobile app with C# features such as LINQ, async/await, events, and delegates and inside Visual Studio.
End to-end native iOS, Android and Windows apps wtih XamarinJames Montemagno
Xamarin enables C# developers to become native iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows mobile app developers overnight. Learn how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin. See how to extend an app with Microsoft Azure App Service creating a connected experience while sharing logic with a .NET backend running on Azure. Next, we take a look at automating the mobile apps with Xamarin Test Cloud for automated user interface testing. Finally, we tie it all together into VSTS to build and distribute our mobile apps with HockeyApp with each commit. By the end of this session you will a full grasp of end-to-end development with Xamarin.
Intro to Xamarin for Visual Studio: Native iOS, Android, and Windows Apps in C#Xamarin
James Montemagno shows how to use the power of C# and the .NET framework to create, debug, test, and deploy fully native Android, iOS, and Windows apps. With Xamarin for Visual Studio, you use the language and IDE you know and love to get to market fast, sharing one codebase across all platforms.
Watch webinar recording at aka.ms/xamuintrotovs
Explore Xamarin University at xamarin.com/university
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 is being launched on March 7. This is the 20th anniversary of Visual Studio! We will host a launch event on April 20th that will focus on some of the new features of Visual Studio 2017 and Mobile development with Xamarin for Visual Studio.
Bay.NET user group presentation (Apr-15) on building apps for wearable platform using C#. Samples on https://github.com/conceptdev/xamarin-samples/tree/master/watch-and-wear
Learn from Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza about Xamarin 2.0, including Xamarin Studio, building iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio and the Xamarin Component Store.
Xcoders - iOS & Android Development in C# with XamarinJames Montemagno
amarin enables C# developers to become native iOS, Android, and Windows mobile app developers overnight. In this session, learn how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin. In addition to allowing you to write your iOS and Android apps in C#, Xamarin lets you reuse existing .NET libraries and share your business logic across iOS, Android, and Windows apps. During this session we cover the Xamarin platform and how to create native iOS, Android, and Windows apps in C#. See what is new and next for Xamarin development inside of Visual Studio. Moreover, we focus on the code, with several live coding adventures throughout the entire session and showing you the latest and greatest in native cross-platform development. Additionally, we will take a look at the brand new Embeddinator product that enabled developers to take .NET Libraries and compile them to native language libraries for optimal code reuse without having to rewrite your app.
Chicago Coder Conference 2015
Building cross-platform native UIs with one shared codebase was once just a dream. With Xamarin.Forms, this dream is now a reality. Xamarin.Forms allows you to build a native UI for three platforms with one shared C# codebase. Simply put, if you know C# then you already know how to build iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps. Leverage the .NET Framework to build out your shared business logic including integration with web services and Azure Mobile Services and then build out your shared UI in
C# or XAML. Xamarin.Forms also features a built-in two-way data binding, dependency service to help you implement platform-specific code, an advanced cross-platform animation system, support for custom controls, and lots of other powerful features to help you build the best apps possible in the least amount of time.
During this session we will cover the Xamarin platform and the brand new Xamarin.Forms library to share even more code across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Moreover, we will really focus on the code with several live coding adventures throughout the entire session. When you leave you will have the knowledge to create your first iOS, Android, and Windows Phone mobile apps in C# with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms.
Extending, optimizing, and accelerating Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms app develop...James Montemagno
Leveraging C# and it’s awesome features to developer iOS and Android apps with Xamarin allows for rapid application development, but how can you go even further. In this session we will take a look at tools, libraries, and other resources to increase productivity enabling you to write less code and share more code across all of your apps. We will additionally dive through everything new in Xamarin.Forms and several tools that Forms has built in to help with cross platform development. No matter how you are developing applications with Xamarin you will be sure to find something new and fun to use on a day to day basis.
Have you ever wanted to build a robot? How about powering it and controlling it completely with C# and .NET? With Monkey.Robotics it is now completely possible. Come learn how Monkey.Robotics simplifies the tasks of building complex .NET Microframework power robots and how you can communicate with them from iOS and Android apps powered by Xamarin. We will take a look at the process of building a robot from start to finish. Then we will implement the microcontroller stack to communicate with sensors and other hardware on a Netduino. Then we will build out a full iOS and Android app in C# to control it!
Join us to openly discuss Xamarin.Forms and receive advice from the experts!
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/c1d6f1b2-49df-4834-b9bc-0f8e194c03b2?source=schedule
Recently Mike & Pierce from Xamarin introduced this amazing library called Azure App Service Helpers. Enabling you to connect to azure in just a few lines of code!
Choosing a mobile app framework can be overwhelming; there are dozens available on the market to evaluate. From native frameworks written in Swift, ObjC, Java, and Kotlin to cross-platform frameworks like React Native and Xamarin, it can be really difficult to understand the key differences between all of them.
In this talk, I'll review the pros and cons of popular mobile app frameworks to help you determine which one is right for you
As the mobile landscape continues to expand and evolve managing multiple code bases in different programming languages and development tools can become a nightmare fast. In this session you will learn about the technology that Xamarin offers and how it works to enable developers to leverage a shared C# code base across all mobile platforms.
James will walk you through developing, designing, deploying, and optimizing your first mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows from a single code base. You will walk away with the knowledge to build cross platform mobile app with C# features such as LINQ, async/await, events, and delegates and inside Visual Studio.
End to-end native iOS, Android and Windows apps wtih XamarinJames Montemagno
Xamarin enables C# developers to become native iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows mobile app developers overnight. Learn how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin. See how to extend an app with Microsoft Azure App Service creating a connected experience while sharing logic with a .NET backend running on Azure. Next, we take a look at automating the mobile apps with Xamarin Test Cloud for automated user interface testing. Finally, we tie it all together into VSTS to build and distribute our mobile apps with HockeyApp with each commit. By the end of this session you will a full grasp of end-to-end development with Xamarin.
Intro to Xamarin for Visual Studio: Native iOS, Android, and Windows Apps in C#Xamarin
James Montemagno shows how to use the power of C# and the .NET framework to create, debug, test, and deploy fully native Android, iOS, and Windows apps. With Xamarin for Visual Studio, you use the language and IDE you know and love to get to market fast, sharing one codebase across all platforms.
Watch webinar recording at aka.ms/xamuintrotovs
Explore Xamarin University at xamarin.com/university
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 is being launched on March 7. This is the 20th anniversary of Visual Studio! We will host a launch event on April 20th that will focus on some of the new features of Visual Studio 2017 and Mobile development with Xamarin for Visual Studio.
Bay.NET user group presentation (Apr-15) on building apps for wearable platform using C#. Samples on https://github.com/conceptdev/xamarin-samples/tree/master/watch-and-wear
Learn from Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza about Xamarin 2.0, including Xamarin Studio, building iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio and the Xamarin Component Store.
Xcoders - iOS & Android Development in C# with XamarinJames Montemagno
amarin enables C# developers to become native iOS, Android, and Windows mobile app developers overnight. In this session, learn how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin. In addition to allowing you to write your iOS and Android apps in C#, Xamarin lets you reuse existing .NET libraries and share your business logic across iOS, Android, and Windows apps. During this session we cover the Xamarin platform and how to create native iOS, Android, and Windows apps in C#. See what is new and next for Xamarin development inside of Visual Studio. Moreover, we focus on the code, with several live coding adventures throughout the entire session and showing you the latest and greatest in native cross-platform development. Additionally, we will take a look at the brand new Embeddinator product that enabled developers to take .NET Libraries and compile them to native language libraries for optimal code reuse without having to rewrite your app.
Chicago Coder Conference 2015
Building cross-platform native UIs with one shared codebase was once just a dream. With Xamarin.Forms, this dream is now a reality. Xamarin.Forms allows you to build a native UI for three platforms with one shared C# codebase. Simply put, if you know C# then you already know how to build iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps. Leverage the .NET Framework to build out your shared business logic including integration with web services and Azure Mobile Services and then build out your shared UI in
C# or XAML. Xamarin.Forms also features a built-in two-way data binding, dependency service to help you implement platform-specific code, an advanced cross-platform animation system, support for custom controls, and lots of other powerful features to help you build the best apps possible in the least amount of time.
During this session we will cover the Xamarin platform and the brand new Xamarin.Forms library to share even more code across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Moreover, we will really focus on the code with several live coding adventures throughout the entire session. When you leave you will have the knowledge to create your first iOS, Android, and Windows Phone mobile apps in C# with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms.
Mobile Cross-Platform App Development in C# with XamarinNick Landry
Building native applications across multiple platforms is hard. iOS requires knowledge of Xcode, the iOS SDK and Objective-C or Swift. Android requires Eclipse (or Android Studio), the Android SDK and Java. The Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform requires Visual Studio, C# and the WinRT SDK. Are we really expected to learn all of this? You can take the HTML5 & Cordova route, but not all apps should be built using a hybrid approach. If you want to create a truly competitive app with a premium experience, you’ll need to go native. Fortunately, there is a way you can share a lot of your code across mobile platforms and do so using the C# language you already know and love. Xamarin is a powerful toolset that allows developers to write native Android and iOS apps using C#, thanks to the Mono framework – an Open Source project that brings the C# language and .NET to other platforms. This session explores how you can build cross-platform applications for iOS, Android, and Windows using C#. You’ll learn how to get started with a sample cross-platform solution, which tools you can use, how to design a proper user interface for each platform and how to structure your projects for maximum code reuse. We’ll also look at how you can share UI code with Xamarin.Forms. Native mobile development doesn’t have to be so hard. Come learn how your .NET skills can be transformed for true cross-platform development.
Building Mobile Cross-Platform Apps foriOS, Android & Windows in C# with Xam...Nick Landry
Building native applications across multiple platforms is hard. iOS requires knowledge of Xcode, the iOS SDK and Objective-C or Swift. Android requires Eclipse Android Studio, the Android SDK and Java. The Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform requires Visual Studio, C# and the UWP/WinRT SDK. Are we really expected to learn all of this? You can take the HTML5 & Cordova route, but not all apps should be built using a hybrid approach. If you want to create a truly competitive app with a premium experience, you’ll need to go native. Fortunately, there is a way you can share a lot of your code across mobile platforms and do so using the C# language you already know and love. Xamarin is a powerful toolset that allows developers to write native Android and iOS apps using C#, thanks to the Mono framework – an Open Source project that brings the C# language and .NET to other platforms. This session explores how you can build cross-platform applications for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 using C#. You’ll learn how to get started with a sample cross-platform solution, which tools you can use, how to design a proper user interface for each platform and how to structure your projects for maximum code reuse. We’ll also look at how you can share UI code with Xamarin.Forms. Native mobile development doesn’t have to be so hard. Come learn how your .NET skills can be transformed for true cross-platform development.
Mobile application development does not need to be difficult for us Web Developers. No longer do we need to learn a whole slew of new programming languages to create a mobile application. We can use our existing skills and create mobile applications with Html, JavaScript, and CSS. Then deploy to Android and iOS devices using a single code base that looks, feels, and performs like a native mobile application.
Apache Cordova enables the packaging of our web code into the mobile application that we will deploy to the App Stores but it does not include a UI framework. For the UI framework, we will be using Ionic framework. The Ionic framework takes the worry out of making the UI look, feel and perform correctly on the slew different Apple and Android devices that your users will have. It allows you to focus on your business logic and not the underlying infrastructure. Your time to market will be greatly reduced.
In addition to the free, open-sourced framework, Ionic also has a slew of highly useful cloud based tools that you can pay for it you need them such as Push Notifications, User Authentication, Native Builds, and Live Updates. Push Notifications allows targeted pushes and custom scheduling to improve push notification engagements. User Authentication provides a single authentication solution with email & password authentication, as well as third-party providers like Facebook, Twitter, Google and more. Native Builds turns your code into the native app binaries for the Apple and Android with a single command. Finally, Live Updates gives you the ability to push updates and UI changes to your user immediately without going through the app stores.
In this talk we will dive into what it takes to get started, look at the features of the Ionic framework and finish off by creating a sample application with the Ionic framework. You will walk away from this talk with all of the tools that you need to deliver your first mobile application
Every front end needs a great backend! This is true now more than ever in today’s connected world, where it’s extremely important to have your data with you at all times, even if you are disconnected from the internet.
Learn everything you need to know about Azure App Service, as well as Azure Easy Tables.
Code:
https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/app-coffeecups
State of Union: Xamarin & Cross-Platform .NET in 2016 and BeyondNick Landry
Xamarin is a free & powerful toolset from Microsoft that allows developers to write truly *native* Android and iOS apps using C#, thanks to the Mono framework – an Open Source project that brings the C# language and .NET to other platforms. With Xamarin you can share from 70% to 100% of your code across mobile platforms, and the platform has evolved a lot over the last few years. This session starts with a recap on how you can build native cross-platform applications for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 using C#. You’ll learn how to get started with a sample cross-platform solution, which tools you can use, how to design a proper user interface for each platform and how to structure your projects for maximum code reuse. We’ll also look at how you can share UI code with Xamarin.Forms.
Beyond the basics, we’ll look at the world of Cross-Platform .NET, how Xamarin & Mono fit in, .NET Core and the new .NET Standard. We’ll also peek at some of the new features in the Xamarin Platform, including the Xamarin.Forms XAML Previewer, iOS Simulator for Windows, Workbooks and upcoming features landing this Fall. Whether you’re a Xamarin veteran or a complete newbie, this is a level-setting session you do not want to miss.
Xamarin as a mobile development platform getting huge adoption starting from startups to huge enterprises which creates lot of opportunities for developers like us.
In this user group meetup, Arul, a practicing Xamarin architect will share his experience, insights and best practices on building apps using Xamarin.
Agenda
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• iOS Native Development with Xamarin (90 Mins)
• Enhancing MonoTouch.Dialog (60 Mins)
• Discussion & QA (30 Mins)
Building Connected and Disconnected Mobile ApplicationsJosiah Renaudin
Creating a great connected experience across multiple platforms is an essential element of great mobile applications. However, what happens when there is little to no connectivity—such as on an airplane or in some foreign countries? Does your mobile app effortlessly synchronize data when the device gets back online? Although users expect and deserve this type of behavior, James maintains that developing your own cloud backend and an API across all operating environments is time consuming and error prone. Even more, managing multiple projects, languages, IDEs, and continuous integration processes is unsustainable in the long run. Fear not! Industry leaders such as Amazon, Couchbase, and Microsoft can help solve this problem on iOS, Android, and Windows mobile devices. Join James to investigate the wide range of options for creating a connected and unconnected mobile experience. Come see a full implementation using the latest features of Azure App Service and mobile apps across iOS, Android, and Windows with Xamarin.
Going Mobile with C#, Visual Studio, and XamarinMatthew Soucoup
The mobile landscape continues to expand and evolve at a rapid pace. Users expect great native experiences in the palm of their hands on each and every platform. A major hurdle for developers today is the separate programming language and tools to learn and maintain for each platform. Even if you tackle the burden of learning Objective-C, Swift, or Java, you'll still have to manage multiple code bases, which can be a nightmare for any development team large or small. It doesn't have to be this way as you can create Android, iOS, Windows apps leveraging the .NET framework and everything you love about C#.
In this session, you'll learn about the technology that Xamarin offers and how it works to enable developers to leverage a shared C# code base across all mobile platforms. You'll walk through developing, designing, deploying, and optimizing your first mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows from a single code base. You'll even see how to share more code with Xamarin.Forms, which enables you to build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows from a single, shared C# codebase. You will walk away with the knowledge to build cross platform mobile app with C# features such as LINQ, async/await, events, and delegates and inside of both Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio.
DEVIntersection 2014 iOS and Android Development for C# DevelopersJames Montemagno
As the mobile landscape continues to expand and evolve managing multiple code bases in different programming languages and development tools can become a nightmare fast. In this session you will learn how to leverage the awesome features of C# and combine them with Xamarin technology to design and develop beautiful native cross platform mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows from a shared C# code base with the tools that you love. We will even see how to share more code with Xamarin.Forms, which enables you to build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows Phone from a single, shared C# codebase.
You'll understand how hackers can attack resources hosted in the Azure and protect Azure infrastructure by identifying vulnerabilities, along with extending your pentesting tools and capabilities.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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/
So what is Native?
What is it mean to create a native application?
To create a Native app, you need a great Native User Interface. There’s a reason someone bought an iOS,Android or Windows device. They like the hardware,but they also love the software. So, we want access to every single control.
And as developers, we want access to every single Native API to really set our application apart in the App store.
And then finally they had to be super performance. When u click on a button, you juz want it to react immediately. So you get access to all the Native UI, API and Performance.
So u wanna talk about cross platform. We want all 3 things. And that’s where Xamarin Comes in with our unique approach to mobile development. Enabling you to build all of your iOS,Android,Mac, and Windows applications all in C# with beautiful C# features, having access to 100% of the APIs and sharing bulk of your business logic. So your models, view models,RESTful service calls, SQL databases,things are the same.We can still craft up beautiful user interfaces for each platform and get native performance.
Now when you build out the user interface, we have two approaches. Xamarin Native, building ona Native iOS storyboard, Android-XML and XAML for any of your Windows applications. But typing in that shared C# business logic,. So that really gives you the high fidelity applications, access to every single UI components, anything that you possibly need. But if you’re building an application, you wanna go even further in shared code.
Maybe wanna share some of the UI layer but not lose that native goodness,that’s where Xamarin.Forms comes in. With a cross platform user interface abstraction, you build one XAML but you still get native controls on each platform. But it is an abstruction so it is the common controls and elements. Things that are really good like conference applications or forms over data type applications. There's tons of great applications that have been built with Xamarin.Forms today. And it just sits on top of Xamarin Native as you would expect to build of this native Applications.
Now, how does that work? Well, if you're a Windows developer, you have all of .NET available to you and for a long time, that's been restricted to just a Windows machine. So, you'd get .NET, install it, or be bundled into your application. And then, when you wanna go and develop for maybe, ASP.NET or UWP, you download an SDK and you get some great name spaces associated with that application.
Think of it exactly the same when you want to go to iOS or Android with Xamarin. You'd have all of that .NET goodness running on there with the .NET runtime optimized for iOS, but you get 100% API coverage for every single API inside iOS.
And the same for Android. You get all of the Android name spaces and all that .NET goodness right there. But we don't stop there, because what we do is we add an advanced C# features like a single weight, lambdas, events, delegates. So even though you're accessing a Native API, you're still doing it all in C# with beautiful C# features. And this enables you to build a shared business logic layer. Our average is 60 to 70% code sharing with Xamarin Native and all the way up to nearly 95% with Xamarin.Forms in that shared UI.
We still get that native performance. So what we do on iOS is we do a full ahead of time compilation. Compile your C# code down into IL, one more time into LVM bytecode and then finally send that through an LVM compiler and optimizer to get, boom, a beautiful native ARM binary. Since your users there's no difference, they just go to the app store, hit download, and boom you have a great application on your device. In fact you probably have tons of Xamarin applications already installed on your phone.
Now you can use Visual Studio either on the PC or on Mac to develop Xamarin applications, including the community edition. Everything in Xamarin is free in the community edition. Everything in Xamarin is free in the community edition. Everything in Xamarin is free in the community edition.
Everything in Xamarin is free in the community edition. So truly anything that you can do in objective-C, Swift or Java, you can do it in C# with Xamarin, inside of Visual Studio.
So we'll talk about what else I wanna do with my applications, because while it's easy to just do a file new, we know that every great application needs a great backend. And you need to handle scenarios like online offline data synchronization.
we have an amazing infrastructure for you to use, which is Azure, with hundreds of data centersMore than AWS and Google Cloud combined.where you can deploy your code into over 38 compute regions. More than AWS and Google Cloud combined.
And inside of Azure lives Azure Mobile Apps, part of App Service.
Extremely powerful
You can do almost anything your backend would ever need to do with Azure. Data storage, authentication/authorization, push notifications, custom APIs, blob storage, etc.
Flexible
Need something lightweight? Azure is there.
Need something robust and powerful? Azure is there.
C# clients
I’m a frontend developer, I care a lot about how easy this makes MY job (selfish)
Many C# clients are written by Java developers, etc.
Easy to use C# client
Abstracts away much of pain of using a RESTful API
C# Features
Async / Await / TPL
Uses C# idioms
Properties, Fluent API
Seems obvious, but not always true (first class citizen)
It works a little bit like this. You install it into your Xamarin and Windows applications an SDK that's cross platform. And there's a RESTful API that lays between your applications and your backend service codes, where it does your data connections to SQL Azure or user authentication even push notifications. But it handles all this through a seemless API and even does online offering data synchronization automatically for you storing it in a local SQL database. And you can of course leverage and deploy your backend code or wherever you want.