What is over the Horizin for the CPA Profession? Tom Hood covers the latest developments in the CPA Profession and looks to the future in this four hour (Free CPE) session for members of the Maryland Association of CPAs. It covers the latest in the four major trend areas of Economic, Politica;/Legislative/Regulatory, Social/Demographic, and Technology. He finishes with tools and resources to help CPAs thrive in the "Extreme Future".
This document is an excerpt from the book "Drupal in Action" which provides inspiring examples and cautionary tales of Drupal websites. It highlights several types of organizations that have successfully used Drupal including nonprofits, news/magazines, government, and entertainment. For each, it lists key benefits of Drupal and potential pitfalls to watch out for. The document concludes by providing additional resources for learning more about real-world Drupal sites.
What is over the Horizin for the CPA Profession? Tom Hood covers the latest developments in the CPA Profession and looks to the future in this four hour (Free CPE) session for members of the Maryland Association of CPAs. It covers the latest in the four major trend areas of Economic, Politica;/Legislative/Regulatory, Social/Demographic, and Technology. He finishes with tools and resources to help CPAs thrive in the "Extreme Future".
This document is an excerpt from the book "Drupal in Action" which provides inspiring examples and cautionary tales of Drupal websites. It highlights several types of organizations that have successfully used Drupal including nonprofits, news/magazines, government, and entertainment. For each, it lists key benefits of Drupal and potential pitfalls to watch out for. The document concludes by providing additional resources for learning more about real-world Drupal sites.
This document discusses the fragility of civilization and importance of preparing for long-term survival. It contains several bullet points stating that civilization is more fragile than it seems, survival is a long-term game, and now is the best time to start preparing. There are also images showing technological progress over time and links related to survival skills and seed banking. The overall message is that civilization could collapse and individuals should start developing skills to be self-sufficient.
Embracing failure is important for game developers according to Tim Lossen of Wooga. They use a portfolio approach, developing multiple games simultaneously so a failure of one game does not jeopardize the company. It is also important to fail early in the development process through frequent testing. While the emotional side of failure is difficult, being proud of failures can help companies improve through learning.
Embracing Failure is a document about why and how game company Wooga embraces failure in their development process. It discusses how Wooga uses a "hit filter" to identify promising games from a portfolio of projects, reviews ideas early, and cultivates a culture where it's okay to fail quickly. The document advocates embracing failure through a portfolio approach, making hard decisions, and viewing failures as learning opportunities rather than punishments in order to encourage risk-taking and innovation.
This document appears to be a short Q&A between Tim Lossen and Wooga about whether he is an "enemy of the state." It provides contact information for Tim Lossen's website and Wooga's jobs website but no other context or answers are given in the excerpt provided.
The document discusses 12 patterns for collaboration beyond DevOps at a company called Wooga. The patterns are divided into three categories: Broadcasting, Self Service, and Connecting. Broadcasting patterns include weekly info meetings and brownbag sessions. Self Service patterns involve open data and internal directories. Connecting patterns promote mentorship, lunches, and social events to foster relationships among employees.
The document discusses a problem and its solution, providing a demo and Q&A session. It focuses on ownership of core components and how a solution framework addresses this issue by presenting an ownership model and live demonstration for discussion.
The document discusses the benefits of a podular or cellular organizational structure for companies. It notes that supercell organizes into independent teams called "cells" that are given autonomy. The structure promotes connections between people and communication. It also mentions benefits like onboarding, weekly status updates, lunch and learning sessions as part of the culture.
A raised bed or high bed is a bed with sides that is elevated from the surrounding ground. It is used in gardening to grow vegetables and other plants. Square foot gardening is a gardening technique where plants are grown in modular raised beds divided into one-foot squares to efficiently use small spaces and make gardening easier.
The document discusses using dashboards and information radiators to track key metrics and provide visibility. It provides examples of metrics that could be tracked, such as requests per second and installs per minute. It also discusses Kafka, a tool for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications, and how it provides high-throughput, persistent, publish-subscribe messaging capabilities. The document recommends not flying blind, checking out Kafka, and being creative with dashboards and information radiators.
Kafka is a high-throughput, persistent, and publish-subscribe messaging system. It uses a producer-broker-consumer model where producers publish messages to topics, brokers distribute messages to consumers, and consumers subscribe to topics. The document discusses how game company Wooga uses Kafka for event streaming to track metrics like requests per second and installs per minute. It also describes Wooga's open source Kafka libraries for Ruby and Erlang called Kafkaesque.
Tim Lossen discusses the challenges of building social games at Wooga including high traffic of 2 million users and 15 million visits per day, and storing large amounts of user data for their 40 million total users. He notes that hot game data needs fast access and questions whether a database is even needed. Lossen also provides recommendations on using Amazon S3 for storage, the JRuby programming language, and challenging assumptions in their systems.
The document discusses various approaches to concurrency in programming languages like Ruby, Java, Erlang and Scala. It covers different implementations of concurrency in Ruby like threads, actors, and software transactional memory. The document also mentions several frameworks for concurrency including Akka, Disruptor, and evented architectures and includes links to additional resources on the topic.
This document discusses dashboard mania and provides examples and links related to monitoring technologies like Apache Kafka and Librato metrics. It also includes a quote about the explanatory power of mania from author Stephen King and contact information for job opportunities at Wooga.
This document appears to be a Twitter handle for an individual named Tim Lossen. It contains only Tim Lossen's Twitter handle "@tlossen". There is no other text or context provided about Tim Lossen or the purpose of this Twitter handle.
The document discusses how the mobile game company wooga used Redis as the data store for their Facebook game Happy Hospital to achieve their goals of 1 million daily active users with a small production cluster. It describes their data model of storing user and game entity data in Redis hashes and lists, and how their architecture evolved over time from the initial setup in 2010 to the current production setup in 2011 to address Redis limitations around memory usage and durability. The document highlights Redis' performance and stability but also warns of memory consumption and durability issues.
Redis was used to improve performance for two game companies experiencing rapid growth. For Monster World, moving write-intensive inventory data to Redis reduced load on MySQL by 10% and allowed further data migration. For Happy Hospital, Redis served as the main database to handle peak loads of 4000 requests/second, achieving response times of 10ms. The main challenge was ensuring durability with Redis' virtual memory, but a diskstore solution currently in development was promising. Both cases found Redis provided order-of-magnitude performance improvements over MySQL.
The document discusses the GA144, the smallest computer cluster in the world. It is a single-chip system with 144 processing nodes, each with 20KB of memory, capable of 96 billion operations per second while consuming only 14-650 milliwatts of power. It provides parallel processing capabilities on a small scale and is being used for applications like cryptography, signal processing, and neural networks.
This document contains links to a photo on Flickr and the website for Euruko2011, a conference for Ruby developers in Europe, as well as a Twitter handle for the conference.
This document discusses using Redis as a database for the backend of a Facebook game application. It describes the requirements of supporting 1 million daily users with high write throughput needs. A Redis database was chosen because it provides fast in-memory performance suitable for the application's random access workload. Redis was able to meet the throughput requirements of 200,000 requests per minute and support storing 100KB of data per user in memory. The document provides advice to choose the right tool for the job and avoid sharding until necessary to keep the database configuration simple.
The document discusses key-value stores as options for scaling the backend of a Facebook game. It describes Redis, Cassandra, and Membase and evaluates them as potential solutions. Redis is selected for its simplicity and ability to handle the expected write-heavy workload using just one or two servers initially. The game has since launched and is performing well with the Redis implementation.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
This document discusses the fragility of civilization and importance of preparing for long-term survival. It contains several bullet points stating that civilization is more fragile than it seems, survival is a long-term game, and now is the best time to start preparing. There are also images showing technological progress over time and links related to survival skills and seed banking. The overall message is that civilization could collapse and individuals should start developing skills to be self-sufficient.
Embracing failure is important for game developers according to Tim Lossen of Wooga. They use a portfolio approach, developing multiple games simultaneously so a failure of one game does not jeopardize the company. It is also important to fail early in the development process through frequent testing. While the emotional side of failure is difficult, being proud of failures can help companies improve through learning.
Embracing Failure is a document about why and how game company Wooga embraces failure in their development process. It discusses how Wooga uses a "hit filter" to identify promising games from a portfolio of projects, reviews ideas early, and cultivates a culture where it's okay to fail quickly. The document advocates embracing failure through a portfolio approach, making hard decisions, and viewing failures as learning opportunities rather than punishments in order to encourage risk-taking and innovation.
This document appears to be a short Q&A between Tim Lossen and Wooga about whether he is an "enemy of the state." It provides contact information for Tim Lossen's website and Wooga's jobs website but no other context or answers are given in the excerpt provided.
The document discusses 12 patterns for collaboration beyond DevOps at a company called Wooga. The patterns are divided into three categories: Broadcasting, Self Service, and Connecting. Broadcasting patterns include weekly info meetings and brownbag sessions. Self Service patterns involve open data and internal directories. Connecting patterns promote mentorship, lunches, and social events to foster relationships among employees.
The document discusses a problem and its solution, providing a demo and Q&A session. It focuses on ownership of core components and how a solution framework addresses this issue by presenting an ownership model and live demonstration for discussion.
The document discusses the benefits of a podular or cellular organizational structure for companies. It notes that supercell organizes into independent teams called "cells" that are given autonomy. The structure promotes connections between people and communication. It also mentions benefits like onboarding, weekly status updates, lunch and learning sessions as part of the culture.
A raised bed or high bed is a bed with sides that is elevated from the surrounding ground. It is used in gardening to grow vegetables and other plants. Square foot gardening is a gardening technique where plants are grown in modular raised beds divided into one-foot squares to efficiently use small spaces and make gardening easier.
The document discusses using dashboards and information radiators to track key metrics and provide visibility. It provides examples of metrics that could be tracked, such as requests per second and installs per minute. It also discusses Kafka, a tool for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications, and how it provides high-throughput, persistent, publish-subscribe messaging capabilities. The document recommends not flying blind, checking out Kafka, and being creative with dashboards and information radiators.
Kafka is a high-throughput, persistent, and publish-subscribe messaging system. It uses a producer-broker-consumer model where producers publish messages to topics, brokers distribute messages to consumers, and consumers subscribe to topics. The document discusses how game company Wooga uses Kafka for event streaming to track metrics like requests per second and installs per minute. It also describes Wooga's open source Kafka libraries for Ruby and Erlang called Kafkaesque.
Tim Lossen discusses the challenges of building social games at Wooga including high traffic of 2 million users and 15 million visits per day, and storing large amounts of user data for their 40 million total users. He notes that hot game data needs fast access and questions whether a database is even needed. Lossen also provides recommendations on using Amazon S3 for storage, the JRuby programming language, and challenging assumptions in their systems.
The document discusses various approaches to concurrency in programming languages like Ruby, Java, Erlang and Scala. It covers different implementations of concurrency in Ruby like threads, actors, and software transactional memory. The document also mentions several frameworks for concurrency including Akka, Disruptor, and evented architectures and includes links to additional resources on the topic.
This document discusses dashboard mania and provides examples and links related to monitoring technologies like Apache Kafka and Librato metrics. It also includes a quote about the explanatory power of mania from author Stephen King and contact information for job opportunities at Wooga.
This document appears to be a Twitter handle for an individual named Tim Lossen. It contains only Tim Lossen's Twitter handle "@tlossen". There is no other text or context provided about Tim Lossen or the purpose of this Twitter handle.
The document discusses how the mobile game company wooga used Redis as the data store for their Facebook game Happy Hospital to achieve their goals of 1 million daily active users with a small production cluster. It describes their data model of storing user and game entity data in Redis hashes and lists, and how their architecture evolved over time from the initial setup in 2010 to the current production setup in 2011 to address Redis limitations around memory usage and durability. The document highlights Redis' performance and stability but also warns of memory consumption and durability issues.
Redis was used to improve performance for two game companies experiencing rapid growth. For Monster World, moving write-intensive inventory data to Redis reduced load on MySQL by 10% and allowed further data migration. For Happy Hospital, Redis served as the main database to handle peak loads of 4000 requests/second, achieving response times of 10ms. The main challenge was ensuring durability with Redis' virtual memory, but a diskstore solution currently in development was promising. Both cases found Redis provided order-of-magnitude performance improvements over MySQL.
The document discusses the GA144, the smallest computer cluster in the world. It is a single-chip system with 144 processing nodes, each with 20KB of memory, capable of 96 billion operations per second while consuming only 14-650 milliwatts of power. It provides parallel processing capabilities on a small scale and is being used for applications like cryptography, signal processing, and neural networks.
This document contains links to a photo on Flickr and the website for Euruko2011, a conference for Ruby developers in Europe, as well as a Twitter handle for the conference.
This document discusses using Redis as a database for the backend of a Facebook game application. It describes the requirements of supporting 1 million daily users with high write throughput needs. A Redis database was chosen because it provides fast in-memory performance suitable for the application's random access workload. Redis was able to meet the throughput requirements of 200,000 requests per minute and support storing 100KB of data per user in memory. The document provides advice to choose the right tool for the job and avoid sharding until necessary to keep the database configuration simple.
The document discusses key-value stores as options for scaling the backend of a Facebook game. It describes Redis, Cassandra, and Membase and evaluates them as potential solutions. Redis is selected for its simplicity and ability to handle the expected write-heavy workload using just one or two servers initially. The game has since launched and is performing well with the Redis implementation.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Things to Consider When Choosing a Website Developer for your Website | FODUUFODUU
Choosing the right website developer is crucial for your business. This article covers essential factors to consider, including experience, portfolio, technical skills, communication, pricing, reputation & reviews, cost and budget considerations and post-launch support. Make an informed decision to ensure your website meets your business goals.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on BlockchainClaudio Di Ciccio
Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus.
Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.