Session Presented @IndicThreads Cloud Computing Conference, Pune, India ( http://u10.indicthreads.com )
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The concept of cloud computing is quickly scaling the chasm between hype and reality. Cloud Computing is rapidly becoming popular amongst enterprises that realize the benefits of shared infrastructure, lowered costs and minimal management overheads. But not all organizations and applications may benefit from a cloud computing platform. A legacy application ported in a native fashion to a cloud computing platform may not utilize any of the platform’s USPs at all. More importantly, wrong choice of platform can be disastrous. Deciding the optimal cloud vendor or platform for your requirements is a complex task.
Consider the plethora of choices available in the world of cloud computing:
* Public Cloud or Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud
* Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): Amazon AWS, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, Terremark,
* Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): Google AppEngine, Microsoft Azure, Heroku
* Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): Salesforce, Netsuite, Google Apps, saas.com
* Should you use IaaS, PaaS or SaaS for your application?
* Which cloud database fits your application? SimpleDB, SQL, RDS, Hadoop?
We will discuss the various business and technology factors to consider, while choosing a cloud vendor. We will explore the pros and cons of various cloud vendors and their offerings. Lastly, we will also discuss some real-life use-cases of applications and servers being migrated to cloud computing and what factors led to selection of a particular cloud vendor.
Takeaways from the session
This talk would serve as an introduction to a wide variety of cloud computing platforms. The audience would be able to answer questions like: “What options are available for cloud computing?”, “What are their pros and cons?”, “Should I consider migrating my application or server to the cloud?”, “Should I use IaaS, PaaS or SaaS?”, “Which is the best cloud vendor for my use-case?”
Presentation for Introduction to Google Cloud Platform. This PPT provides basic understanding for services provided by Google Cloud Platform like Compute, Storage, VPC, IAM.
Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises, from live data serving to data analytics/ML to data archiving.
High performance, internet-scale, immutable BLOB (binary large object) storage
Simple Abstraction Storage buckets, immutable objects with mutable metadata and Globally unique URI identifiers for buckets, objects
Common storage for Google Cloud Platform services
Introduction to Google Cloud Services / PlatformsNilanchal
The presentation provides a brief Introduction to Google Cloud Services and Platforms. In the course of this slide, we will introduce you the different Google cloud computing options, Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud function, Databases, file storage and security features of Google cloud platform.
Presentation for Introduction to Google Cloud Platform. This PPT provides basic understanding for services provided by Google Cloud Platform like Compute, Storage, VPC, IAM.
Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises, from live data serving to data analytics/ML to data archiving.
High performance, internet-scale, immutable BLOB (binary large object) storage
Simple Abstraction Storage buckets, immutable objects with mutable metadata and Globally unique URI identifiers for buckets, objects
Common storage for Google Cloud Platform services
Introduction to Google Cloud Services / PlatformsNilanchal
The presentation provides a brief Introduction to Google Cloud Services and Platforms. In the course of this slide, we will introduce you the different Google cloud computing options, Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud function, Databases, file storage and security features of Google cloud platform.
This is a 1-hr tech talk designed for developers to give a comprehensive, vendor-agnostic overview of cloud computing, primarily targeting educators in the higher education market but is open to any developer. This is followed by an introduction to products in Google Cloud, focusing on the serverless products. The talk ends with several inspirational examples of what can be built with Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform is a cloud computing platform by Google that offers hosting on the same supporting infrastructure that Google uses internally for end-user products like Google Search and YouTube. Cloud Platform provides developer products to build a range of programs from simple websites to complex applications.
Google Cloud Platform is a part of a suite of enterprise solutions from Google for Work and provides a set of modular cloud-based services with a host of development tools. For example, hosting and computing, cloud storage, data storage, translations APIs and prediction APIs.
Topic Covered
Why Google Cloud Platform ?
Google Cloud Platform Services: First Insight !!!
Cloud computing overview & Technical intro to Google Cloudwesley chun
This is a 60-min tech talk designed for developers to give a comprehensive, vendor-agnostic overview of cloud computing. This is followed by an introduction to products in Google Cloud, focusing on the serverless & machine learningproducts. The talk ends with several inspirational examples of what can be built with Google Cloud
explosive growth of mobile devices usage and the quick
increase of the mobile applications are facing many challenges in
their resources as low computing power, battery life, limited
bandwidth, and storage. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has
been introduced to be a potential technology for mobile services
and to solve the mobile resources problem by moving the
processing and the storage of data out from mobile devices to the
cloud. The cloud enables the integration with additional
development tool as graphical processing power (GPU) to
increase the computational power. This paper presents a novel
approach for real time face detection using GPU acceleration.
The results of developed Applications demonstrate that the
proposed Mobile GPU cloud computing increase both speed and accuracy of facial detection systems.
Next Generation Cloud Computing With Google - RightScale Compute 2013RightScale
Speaker: Martin Gannholm - Lead Engineer, Google
Google Cloud Platform provides everything you need to build, run, and scale social, mobile, and online applications. Already, tens of thousands of popular applications like Khan Academy, Angry Birds, SnapChat, and Pulse are benefiting from the power of running on top of Google infrastructure. Come join Google as we go deep on how to best leverage our technology with RightScale to build your next masterpiece.
Openbar Kontich // Google Cloud: past, present and the (oh so sweet) future b...Openbar
Although a giant player in anything software related Google Cloud still feels a bit under appreciated. How did it get where it is now? What are its core strengths? Most of all, we want to provide a glimpse of the future in determining major shifts in Cloud computing. Every company is a data company but their data still remains under-utilised due to a lack of execution power, let’s find this power.
Due to Cloud pricing models efficient software engineering is gaining in importance, let’s unlock this efficiency. Hybrid and multi-Cloud is easily one of the largest investment domains in the Cloud world. Let’s find out why and see how we can stay vendor neutral as much as possible.
Learn how to deliver software like Pivotal and Google.
In this one-day program, Pivotal and Google share how we deliver software applications. By demonstrating the capabilities of a cloud-native software organization, we’ll share the promises Pivotal Cloud Foundry can help you keep when combined with industry-leading services and infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
We built Pivotal Cloud Foundry so you can deliver software with increased velocity and reduced risk. Together we will share how to make the principles of Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) achievable on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Google and Pivotal collaborated to make Pivotal Cloud Foundry a reliable place for your applications to live.
The day will open with an introduction to Pivotal, Google, and our shared partner ecosystem. Pivotal will share how culture and technology combine to reinforce each other. We will go hands-on to show you how easy it is to develop applications with Spring Boot, integrate with Google Cloud services, and use Concourse to automate shipping applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
In the afternoon, we’ll show you how Pivotal Cloud Foundry operators can empower development teams by enabling GCP integrations in their Pivotal Cloud Foundry environment. We’ll then focus on the developer experience of integrating applications with GCP’s powerful services.
Questions? Please email us at cloudnativeroadshow@pivotal.io.
This is a 1-hr tech talk designed for developers to give a comprehensive, vendor-agnostic overview of cloud computing, primarily targeting educators in the higher education market but is open to any developer. This is followed by an introduction to products in Google Cloud, focusing on the serverless products. The talk ends with several inspirational examples of what can be built with Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform is a cloud computing platform by Google that offers hosting on the same supporting infrastructure that Google uses internally for end-user products like Google Search and YouTube. Cloud Platform provides developer products to build a range of programs from simple websites to complex applications.
Google Cloud Platform is a part of a suite of enterprise solutions from Google for Work and provides a set of modular cloud-based services with a host of development tools. For example, hosting and computing, cloud storage, data storage, translations APIs and prediction APIs.
Topic Covered
Why Google Cloud Platform ?
Google Cloud Platform Services: First Insight !!!
Cloud computing overview & Technical intro to Google Cloudwesley chun
This is a 60-min tech talk designed for developers to give a comprehensive, vendor-agnostic overview of cloud computing. This is followed by an introduction to products in Google Cloud, focusing on the serverless & machine learningproducts. The talk ends with several inspirational examples of what can be built with Google Cloud
explosive growth of mobile devices usage and the quick
increase of the mobile applications are facing many challenges in
their resources as low computing power, battery life, limited
bandwidth, and storage. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has
been introduced to be a potential technology for mobile services
and to solve the mobile resources problem by moving the
processing and the storage of data out from mobile devices to the
cloud. The cloud enables the integration with additional
development tool as graphical processing power (GPU) to
increase the computational power. This paper presents a novel
approach for real time face detection using GPU acceleration.
The results of developed Applications demonstrate that the
proposed Mobile GPU cloud computing increase both speed and accuracy of facial detection systems.
Next Generation Cloud Computing With Google - RightScale Compute 2013RightScale
Speaker: Martin Gannholm - Lead Engineer, Google
Google Cloud Platform provides everything you need to build, run, and scale social, mobile, and online applications. Already, tens of thousands of popular applications like Khan Academy, Angry Birds, SnapChat, and Pulse are benefiting from the power of running on top of Google infrastructure. Come join Google as we go deep on how to best leverage our technology with RightScale to build your next masterpiece.
Openbar Kontich // Google Cloud: past, present and the (oh so sweet) future b...Openbar
Although a giant player in anything software related Google Cloud still feels a bit under appreciated. How did it get where it is now? What are its core strengths? Most of all, we want to provide a glimpse of the future in determining major shifts in Cloud computing. Every company is a data company but their data still remains under-utilised due to a lack of execution power, let’s find this power.
Due to Cloud pricing models efficient software engineering is gaining in importance, let’s unlock this efficiency. Hybrid and multi-Cloud is easily one of the largest investment domains in the Cloud world. Let’s find out why and see how we can stay vendor neutral as much as possible.
Learn how to deliver software like Pivotal and Google.
In this one-day program, Pivotal and Google share how we deliver software applications. By demonstrating the capabilities of a cloud-native software organization, we’ll share the promises Pivotal Cloud Foundry can help you keep when combined with industry-leading services and infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
We built Pivotal Cloud Foundry so you can deliver software with increased velocity and reduced risk. Together we will share how to make the principles of Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) achievable on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Google and Pivotal collaborated to make Pivotal Cloud Foundry a reliable place for your applications to live.
The day will open with an introduction to Pivotal, Google, and our shared partner ecosystem. Pivotal will share how culture and technology combine to reinforce each other. We will go hands-on to show you how easy it is to develop applications with Spring Boot, integrate with Google Cloud services, and use Concourse to automate shipping applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
In the afternoon, we’ll show you how Pivotal Cloud Foundry operators can empower development teams by enabling GCP integrations in their Pivotal Cloud Foundry environment. We’ll then focus on the developer experience of integrating applications with GCP’s powerful services.
Questions? Please email us at cloudnativeroadshow@pivotal.io.
2016 Cloud vs. On Premise Brand Leader Survey ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for fourteen classes of Cloud Service and On-Premise Providers.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
Read the 2016 Cloud and On-Premise Brand Leader Survey Press Release: http://www.itbrandpulse.com/press-release/it-pros-vote-2016-cloud-and-on-premise-brand-leaders/
Beyond PaaS v.s IaaS: How to Manage BothRightScale
The lines between IaaS and PaaS are blurring. Cloud providers are offering dozens of individual IaaS+ services as an alternative to “all-in-one” PaaS options like OpenShift and Cloud Foundry. Container-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings based on Docker are also being used as a basis for PaaS offerings. In fact, many enterprises are using PaaS, IaaS, IaaS+, and CaaS side-by-side. We decode the various options and show how you can manage them all with a single pane of glass.
IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk: Cloud Foundry Summit 2016, Frankfurt, Germany: The Fut...OpenWhisk
Learn more about the IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk, a serverless event-driven compute platform, which quickly executes application logic in response to events or direct invocations from web/mobile apps or other endpoints.
AWS re:Invent 2016: The Cloud Is Enterprise Ready: How the University of Ariz...Amazon Web Services
As enterprises seek to fully realize the scalability, availability, security, and agility of cloud computing, many are learning that they must migrate core business applications, such finance and human resource systems, not just public-facing websites. The University of Arizona shares how they addressed the challenge of creating a more efficient and agile IT operation. After initial success in migrating their Research Administration system, UA became the first major university to migrate their PeopleSoft application environments—Learning (EL), Human Resources (HR), and Student (SA)—to AWS. Learn about the university's enterprise migration roadmap, lessons learned, plans and budgets, and the tools available to support major enterprise migrations. See how to create a roadmap to cloud computing, transform application development, deploy mission-critical workloads at scale, and retrain staff.
Accel Connect 2016 talk for portfolio founders & CEOsAccel
This November, we gathered our global founders and CEOs in San Francisco for our Accel Connect event. For part of the day, we discussed the current environment, independent of founders’ stage, as well as the changing requirements for building great, enduring companies. It’s a day we look forward to each year.
It’s also where we (Accel) attempted to synthesize a year’s worth of our own thinking: what’s happened in the markets, what trends caught our attention, and how have our own theses evolved. If successful, we ground our founders in the current state of affairs, while keeping an eye on what’s to come in 2017.
We’ve been talking to folks around our community about the discussion at Connect. Based on feedback, we wanted to share some of the presentation. Though it’s slightly “dated” (the material was built pre-election) and curated (for Accel’s global CEOs), we hope there are some nuggets of wisdom that can be useful in your own thinking — whether as a founder, employee, investor, or just an interested observer.
The summary to accompany the slides can be found here: https://medium.com/@Accel/reflecting-on-2016-and-looking-ahead-to-2017-6e6efe224224#.wl0y72oor
2016 Cloud Trends and Stats: RightScale State of the Cloud ReportRightScale
In January 2016, RightScale conducted its fifth annual State of the Cloud Survey of the latest cloud computing trends, with a focus on infrastructure-as-a-service. We highlight several key findings from the survey, including stats on hybrid cloud adoption, top challenges among cloud users, and the demand for DevOps. We've also provided a link to download the full report for free.
🌥️ “Cloud 101” is an event organized by our club's ☁️ Cloud lead to introduce students to the world of cloud computing. The event aims to equip students with the 🔧 skills and 💡 knowledge needed to get started with cloud computing.
👨💼 Host: The event will be hosted by the ☁️ Cloud lead of our club, who has an amazing experience in cloud computing.
🎯 Aim: The event aims to provide an introduction to cloud computing for students who are new to the field.
📚 Topics: The event will cover a range of topics related to cloud computing, such as ☁️ cloud architecture, 🔒 cloud security, ☁️ cloud services, ☁️ cloud deployment, and more.
👥 Activities: In addition to talks and workshops, the event will also feature hands-on activities and interactive sessions, designed to help students get a first-hand experience of working with cloud computing tools and technologies.
🤝 Networking: The event will provide ample opportunities for networking and connecting with like-minded individuals who share a passion for cloud computing.
📖 Prerequisites: No prior knowledge or experience in cloud computing is required to attend the event. The event is open to all students who are curious about the field and willing to learn.
📝 Registration: The event is free of cost and open to all students. However, pre-registration is mandatory to attend the event, as seats are limited.
So, if you want to get started with cloud computing and learn from an experienced ☁️ Cloud lead, join us at Cloud 101 – Your Introduction to Cloud Computing! 🚀
Making of a Successful Cloud Business:
Current Status & Future Requirements
Rajarshi Bhose and Sumit Kumar Bose
Infosys Technologies Limited
Delivered as part of Cloud symposium, at ACM Bangalore COmpute 2009.
Overview of Cloud Storage Enablement and Intelligent Storage CloudsTwinStrata
The following presentation provides an overview of cloud storage enablement solutions and its role in delivering intelligent storage clouds to companies.
Here are some of the topics:
+ Cloud ecosystem
+ XaaS: Cloud Compute Overview
+ Cloud Storage Ecosystem
+ Intelligent Storage Cloud and Cloud Enablement
+ Business Needs for Intelligent Storage Clouds
Hybrid clouds are quickly forming on the horizon, and they are transforming the way that organizations do business. Join David Butler, SVP of Marketing at Eucalyptus, Judith Hurwitz, President and CEO, and Marcia Kaufman, COO and partner, of Hurwitz & Associates and co-authors of “Hybrid Cloud For Dummies” to learn what this new cloud deployment model is all about.
Hybrid clouds are quickly forming on the horizon, and they are transforming the way that organizations do business. Join David Butler, SVP of Marketing at Eucalyptus, Judith Hurwitz, President and CEO, and Marcia Kaufman, COO and partner, of Hurwitz & Associates and co-authors of “Hybrid Cloud For Dummiesto learn what this new cloud deployment model is all about.
Http2 is here! And why the web needs itIndicThreads
Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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Understanding Bitcoin (Blockchain) and its Potential for Disruptive ApplicationsIndicThreads
Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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Go Programming Language - Learning The Go Lang wayIndicThreads
Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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How to Think in RxJava Before ReactingIndicThreads
Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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IoT testing and quality assurance indicthreadsIndicThreads
Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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Functional Programming Past Present FutureIndicThreads
Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Streams IndicThreads
Presented at the IndicThreads.com Software Development Conference 2016 held in Pune, India. More at http://www.IndicThreads.com and http://Pune16.IndicThreads.com
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Internet of things architecture perspective - IndicThreads ConferenceIndicThreads
Internet of Things is gaining unprecedented amount of traction across the globe. And the large organizations are making huge investments on IoT, which is going to change the shape of the 'Connected World'. Hence, it becomes necessarily important to understand the components, technologies and their interaction in the world of IoT.
The session would cover the Introduction of IoT, its components, the forces that have brought the ecosystem to mainstream and its adoption across industries. Then along with the Reference Architecture, I would discuss a few of industry implementations in IOT area with reference to the architecture. Next would be a comparative analysis of various IOT platforms available in the market and their architectures. And finally I would take up the challenges in making IOT as pervasive as it is believed to be.
A key take away would be the architectural appreciation of IOT landscape. As of now, any and every player in the market has begun to advertise their product as an IOT platform but a comprehensive review of fundamental design and architecture would bring this plethora of products (including open source ones) in the right purview. And that's the objective of this talk.
Session at the IndicThreads.com Confence held in Pune, India on 27-28 Feb 2015
http://www.indicthreads.com
http://pune15.indicthreads.com
Cars and Computers: Building a Java CarputerIndicThreads
The average family car of today has significantly more computing power than got the first astronauts to the moon and back. Modern cars contain more and more computers to monitor and control every aspect of driving, from anti-lock brakes to engine management to satellite navigation.
This session will look at how Java can (and is) used in cars to add more data collection. This will cover a project that was written to collect a variety of data from a car whilst driving (including video) and then play it back later so driving style and performance could be evaluated. There will be plenty of demonstrations.
Session at the IndicThreads.com Confence held in Pune, India on 27-28 Feb 2015
http://www.indicthreads.com
http://pune15.indicthreads.com
Remember the last time you tried to write a MapReduce job (obviously something non trivial than a word count)? It sure did the work, but has lot of pain points from getting an idea to implement it in terms of map reduce. Did you wonder how life will be much simple if you had to code like doing collection operations and hence being transparent* to its distributed nature? Did you want/hope for more performant/low latency jobs? Well, seems like you are in luck.
In this talk, we will be covering a different way to do MapReduce kind of operations without being just limited to map and reduce, yes, we will be talking about Apache Spark. We will compare and contrast Spark programming model with Map Reduce. We will see where it shines, and why to use it, how to use it. We’ll be covering aspects like testability, maintainability, conciseness of the code, and some features like iterative processing, optional in-memory caching and others. We will see how Spark, being just a cluster computing engine, abstracts the underlying distributed storage, and cluster management aspects, giving us a uniform interface to consume/process/query the data. We will explore the basic abstraction of RDD which gives us so many awesome features making Apache Spark a very good choice for your big data applications. We will see this through some non trivial code examples.
Session at the IndicThreads.com Confence held in Pune, India on 27-28 Feb 2015
http://www.indicthreads.com
http://pune15.indicthreads.com
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Jenkins & DockerIndicThreads
Continuous Integration (CI) is one of the most important tenets of agile practices. And Continuous Delivery (CD) is impossible without continuous integration. All practices are good and enhance productivity when other good practices and tools back them. For example CI & CD without proper automation test cases can be a killer. It kills the team productivity and puts deliver on risk. Via this session I will try to share my experiences of how CI and CD can be done in optimized fashion (specifically for feature branch based development approach)
We will discuss the best practices and ways of ensuring proper CI and CD in feature branch based development approach.
I will showcase an automated Jenkins based setup, which is geared to ensure that all feature branches and master remain in cohesive harmony.
At the end we will conclude on what are the essential components for ensuring successful CI and CD. We will also discuss what are the associated must haves to make it a success.
Take away for participants
1. Understanding of CI and CD and how CI can lead to CD.
2. How a devops engineer can leverage Jenkins and scripting to automate the CI and CD for feature branch based development.
3. Demo of CI setup devloped on Jenkins.
4. Generic understanding and Q&A related to CI and CD.
5. Learning of how docker can be used in such scenarios.
Session at the IndicThreads.com Confence held in Pune India on 27-28 Feb 2015
http://www.indicthreads.com
http://pune15.indicthreads.com
Speed up your build pipeline for faster feedbackIndicThreads
In this talk I will share how we brought down our Jenkins build pipeline time down from over 90 minutes to under 12 minutes. I will share specific techniques which helped and also some, which logically made sense, but actually did not help. If your team is trying to optimize their build times, then this session might give you some ideas on how to approach the problem.
Development Impact – The number of builds in a day have increased over a period of time as the build time has reduced. Frequency of code check-in has increased; Wait time has reduced; failed test case faster to isolate and fix.
The sessions will look at: Why long running pipeline was hurting, Key Principles to Speed Up Your Build Pipeline, Bottlenecks , Disk IO examples and alternatives, Insights from CPU Profiling, Divide and Conquer, Fail Fast, Results
The talk will highlight: Importance of getting fast feedback, How to investigate long running tests, How to run Tests concurrently, RAM Disks, SSD, Hybrid disks, Why you should not assume; but validate your hypothesis.
Session at the IndicThreads.com Confence held in Pune India on 27-28 Feb 2015
http://www.indicthreads.com
http://pune15.indicthreads.com
OpenStack – an open source initiative for cloud management – has become a sensation is today’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud space. With more than 10 subprojects to manage server, storage, network, security and monitoring of the cloud, OpenStack has provided a competitive and scalable open source solution in cloud space. Big giants in public and private cloud such as VMware, Amazon and IBM are actively investing into OpenStack and developing their products to integrate with it.
The session will talk about the architecture of OpenStack and will discuss why it has become a differentiating factor for business in cloud space through scalability, automation, intuitiveness and flexibility. The session will also discuss how it integrates with the Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer and scales to public and private cloud.
The session will also contain a live demo of how a simple private cloud can be set up using OpenStack. The demo will explain how OpenStack makes the cloud management easy even for universities and small enterprises to rapidly adapt to their business needs at almost no costs.
Finally, the session will discuss current challenges and trends in OpenStack community and how can one contribute to OpenStack as an enterprise or individual.
The speaker leads development of IBM’s new OpenStack based Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) solution and will share his insights into OpenStack services and components.
Session at the IndicThreads.com Confence held in Pune, India on 27-28 Feb 2015
http://www.indicthreads.com
http://pune15.indicthreads.com
Digital Transformation of the Enterprise. What IT leaders need to know!IndicThreads
This presentation will be about the changing times and nature of IT services delivered to the consumer. In the past, it used to be delivered through thick or thin clients on the desktop. Today, these are primarily delivered to the mobile in the form of a digital service.
While a lot of talk is about disruption that the smart phones have brought, the truth is, that the backend has to be more industrialised than ever before due to the massive number of transactions that terminate in the legacy IT infrastructure. Companies need both, industrial IT and innovation IT to be able to compete effectively in the digital marketplace. This presentation will be about the different imperatives the new IT leaders have to think about in the digital era.
Session at the IndicThreads.com Confence held in Pune, India on 27-28 Feb 2015
http://www.indicthreads.com
http://pune15.indicthreads.com
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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.
2. About Me
Kalpak Shah
Founder & CEO, Clogeny Technologies
Passionate about economics and technology evolving
through cloud computing
Leading innovation on exciting projects across the cloud
computing stack
@ kalpak@clogeny.com
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3. Agenda
Cloud Computing Overview
Cloud Spectrum
Infrastructure as a Service Description
Platform as a Service Comparison
Software as a Service Examples
Ways to “Cloudify”
Cloud Mobility – federated clouds, cloud bursting
Private Cloud platforms
Microsoft Azure – Covering the cloud stack
Business Considerations & Examples
Questions
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5. Why do we want to go to the cloud?
No CAPEX, only OPEX
Reduced IT administration & managed services costs
Elasticity: Fast & Inherent scale-up and scale-down
Variable & unpredictable loads
Ideal loads for the cloud
Commoditization of IT
Only storage, only content delivery, only messaging
Programmability – Automation
Tools and ecosystem: Pay-as-you-go
Reduced time-to-market: Focus on core competency
Buzz… - Variety of options
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6. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Pay-as-you-go Virtualized Resources – CPU, Storage, Network
Infrastructure management services & tools
Application cannot dynamically scale on-demand
Local Server moved into the cloud – managing, patching,
securing, monitoring is still a responsibility
Extremely flexible
Very little vendor lock-in
Examples: Amazon EC2, Terremark vCloud, GoGrid Cloud,
Rackspace Cloud
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7. Considerations for IaaS - 1
Support & HelpDesk
email, phone, 24x7
Hardware & Performance
Operating System Support
Distribution versions and range of support
Imaging of server?
Distribution and re-selling of images?
Software availability and partner network
Middleware?
Database layer?
For example, Amazon EC2 has partnered with IBM, Symantec,
Microsoft, Redhat, Oracle, etc. to provide a wide variety of pre-
packaged software
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8. Considerations for IaaS - 2
APIs / Ecosystem
Bindings in various languages – maintenance, backward
compatibility
Tools and ecosystem
Licensing
Big pain from our experience!
Brings limitations to cloud migration
Ex: IBM Websphere clustering not available on EC2
Ex: Windows licenses cannot be migrated from local datacenter
to cloud
Other services
Databases storage, backups, monitoring, auto-scaling, load-
balancing, messaging, etc.
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9. Let’s compare IaaS Vendors
OS Disk Choice of Tools / Perform-
Hosting
Support Persistence resources Ecosystem ance
Good but
Amazon Extensive – by a
not Yes & No Medium Ideal ?
AWS long way
flexible
Rackspace Limited Yes Limited Good Good ?
Limited
GoGrid but Yes Limited Medium Good ?
growing
Extensive
Terremark Yes Extensive Very limited Not good ?
& Flexible
Performance needs to be tested for various applications across vendors.
Lot of variation depending on CPU, network or disk bound application.
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10. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Scalable platform, hosted framework to develop and deploy
applications
Development language and platform decided by vendor
No infrastructure management headaches
No licensing concerns
Scalability & availability are managed by the vendor
Little flexibility – limited to choices provided by vendor
Vendor lock-in concerns
Examples: Google AppEngine, Microsoft Azure, Heroku
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11. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Consumer facing – Business oriented
Business layer is provided – extensions can be written
Very similar to traditional hosting but with cloud models
Consumed over the web
No flexibility
Almost complete vendor lock-in unless vendor follows
standards for data extraction
Examples:
SalesForce
Google Apps
Box.net
ZOHO
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12. Storage-as-a-Service
Storage – attractive to store in the cloud
Populated & consumed in the cloud
Enterprise usage increasing
No management overhead, backups, disaster recovery
Amazon S3 provides all in $15 cents/GB/month
Pricing to the tune of $5 per month for unlimited storage
High consumer penetration
Examples
Mozy from EMC
Amazon S3
Rackspace CloudFiles
Carbonite
DropBox
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13. Comparing PaaS & SaaS Vendors
Development language & available skill-sets
Google AppEngine supports Java & Python frameworks
Heroku is a Ruby on Rails Cloud platform
Microsoft Azure has a PaaS offering
Cost of development
Ease of deployment & maintenance
Size of vendor & ecosystem maturity
Tools, monitoring, connectors, adaptors – will my development
time be reduced?
Maturity of APIs & bindings available
Does vendor allow private cloud integration?
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14. The Cloud Spectrum
IaaS PaaS SaaS
Amazon Force.com SalesForce
GoGrid Google AppEngine Google Apps
Terremark Microsoft Azure Microsoft Live
Rackspace EngineYard NetSuite
Linode Heroku Many others….
Others…
Application User Interface,
API
API, IDE, Libraries,
Tools, Connectors Business Layer
API, Connectors, Tools,
Services App Framework App Framework
Compute Compute Compute
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16. Ways to Cloudify - 1
Public Clouds
Large datacenters with cloud capabilities
Provide many services – CPU, storage, CDN, Databases, Messaging,
Monitoring, Load balancing
Large enterprises face security, latency and bandwidth hurdles
Private Clouds
Normal on-premise datacenters with cloud capabilities
Elasticity, Self-service, Pay-as-you-go, programmability
Higher utilization levels and management flexibility
Offerings from VMWare, IBM, Microsoft, Eucalyptus for Infrastructure
Private setups of PaaS also available from Intalio, Wolf frameworks,
etc.
Cloud bursting is an option
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17. Ways to Cloudify - 2
Hybrid Clouds
Best of both public and private clouds
Disaster recovery and business continuity
Regulation & compliance issues
Seamless scalability
VPN approach – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
IBM Private Cloud
Ex: Websphere cluster with some nodes in public cloud
Windows Azure AppFabric
On-premise & cloud database remains in sync through use
of this layer
Shared Windows framework gives unique advantage to
Microsoft
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18. Ways to Cloudify - 3
SaaS
CRM, accounting, taxation
Any business or domain
Virtual Desktops
Client virtualization & application streaming
Trainings, virtualized desktops, centralized management
Mixture of IaaS & SaaS
Cloud Storage
Backup
Collaboration
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19. Cloud Mobility – Federated, Bursting
OS Images
Hybrid
Cloud Applications
Control Data
Management
Management
Virtualization
Bridge Virtualization
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Public Clouds Private Clouds
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20. Interesting Private Cloud Platforms - 1
Eucalyptus
Open-source IaaS cloud computing platform
Compatible with Amazon’s AWS enabling (almost) seamless
movement with AWS
Supports VMWare, Xen and KVM
Extremely flexible and easy to administer
VMWare vCloud
“Run, secure and manage applications in the private cloud or
have them federated on-demand to partner-hosted public
clouds with VMware vCloud”
Forging partnerships with public cloud providers like
Terremark
Expensive but worth it!
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21. Interesting Private Cloud Platforms - 2
Appistry
Application platform for private, public and hybrid clouds
Can be hosted on private data center, EC2, Terremark, etc
CloudIQ Manager – Application Deployment and Management
Software
CloudIQ Engine – Cloud Application Server for App Scalability and
deployment
CloudIQ Storage – Distributed Storage System for Data
management across the cloud
Other platforms:
Rackspace – OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Storage
CloudStack – formerly VMOps: Open source and enterprise
editions
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22. Microsoft Azure
Cloud Services Operating System
Development, service hosting and service management environment
Integrates with existing on-premises environment – Windows
Framework
Provides services across the cloud stack: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
End-to-end services
Private Cloud Integration
SQL Azure, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM
Visual Studio as development and testing environment
Supports multiple development languages
Unique positioning in the market!
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23. Cloud Databases
Relational databases
Traditional databases like SQL, MySQL, Oracle
Should be used for quick porting of legacy applications
Known loads & ability to serve them
Scaling & performance needs to be managed
Quicker development time & skills available
Amazon’s MySQL based Relational Database Service (RDS) is
interesting
NoSQL databases
SimpleDB, Hadoop, BigTable
Non-relational databases
Supported & managed by the cloud vendor (in some cases)
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24. Business Considerations - 1
Licensing
Still not pay-as-you-go
Per-CPU pricing, flat fees, limitations
Can spoil cloud pricing and make it unattractive
Expected to get better with time
Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Around 99.9% for most vendors but read the fine print…
Still evolving – sometimes does not meet enterprise
demands
Notification onus on customer, all commodities are not
covered, limited liability
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25. Business Considerations - 2
Pricing
Complex pricing – difficult to estimate without testing
No APIs for automation
Examples:
$0.10 per 1 million I/O requests on Amazon EBS
$0.01 / 10K storage transactions on Azure
Geography & Government laws
Location of datacenters
Compliance
Protocol Support
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27. Example Cloud Migrations
Porting existing stand-alone application to cloud platform
Reach out to global customers without high sales cost
Save normal hosting costs since load would be arbitrary
Extremely CPU intensive
IaaS or PaaS?
Analytics application to be written on cloud platform
Application being written from scratch
Basic load can be estimated – scaling amount and times cannot be
estimated
Cannot use virtualization locally as it affects performance
Client ready for CAPEX to save costs over a period of time
Application architecture designed as per plan to utilize public
clouds
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