Kofi discusses how their media product both uses and challenges conventions of real music magazines. They incorporated some typical conventions like having a main artist photo on the cover and a double-page feature story. However, they also challenged conventions by experimenting with layouts and incorporating styles from different music genres. Through the process, Kofi learned important skills in Photoshop and how to create a professional-looking magazine. They have grown from initial preliminary tasks and can now effectively design magazines targeted towards specific audiences.
Kofi discusses how their media product both uses and challenges conventions of real music magazines. They incorporated some typical conventions like having a main artist photo on the cover and a double-page feature story. However, they also challenged conventions by experimenting with atypical layouts for the contents page. Overall, the product aimed to represent the hip-hop genre and social group while learning new skills in Photoshop and the magazine design process.
The Works is a hands-on science museum in Edina, Minnesota that aims to inspire interest in STEM fields through interactive exhibits and educational programs. It seeks to prepare children for careers involving science, technology, engineering and math. The museum has over 40 hands-on exhibits and offers field trips, workshops, summer camps and professional development programs to teach STEM concepts in a fun, engaging manner. It strives to make engineering accessible and reach underrepresented groups to address the declining number of students entering engineering fields.
This document provides a summary of a 3-hour workshop on mastering license negotiations for electronic resources. The workshop aims to teach practical strategies and tips through presentations and examples. It covers topics such as analyzing license agreements, understanding different pricing models, best practices for negotiations, and standards for resource sharing. References are provided for over 80 articles, books, and websites dealing with license agreements, consortial licensing, and standards like SERU.
Kofi discusses how their media product both uses and challenges conventions of real music magazines. They incorporated some typical conventions like having a main artist photo on the cover and a double-page feature story. However, they also challenged conventions by experimenting with layouts and incorporating styles from different music genres. Through the process, Kofi learned important skills in Photoshop and how to create a professional-looking magazine. They have grown from initial preliminary tasks and can now effectively design magazines targeted towards specific audiences.
Kofi discusses how their media product both uses and challenges conventions of real music magazines. They incorporated some typical conventions like having a main artist photo on the cover and a double-page feature story. However, they also challenged conventions by experimenting with atypical layouts for the contents page. Overall, the product aimed to represent the hip-hop genre and social group while learning new skills in Photoshop and the magazine design process.
The Works is a hands-on science museum in Edina, Minnesota that aims to inspire interest in STEM fields through interactive exhibits and educational programs. It seeks to prepare children for careers involving science, technology, engineering and math. The museum has over 40 hands-on exhibits and offers field trips, workshops, summer camps and professional development programs to teach STEM concepts in a fun, engaging manner. It strives to make engineering accessible and reach underrepresented groups to address the declining number of students entering engineering fields.
This document provides a summary of a 3-hour workshop on mastering license negotiations for electronic resources. The workshop aims to teach practical strategies and tips through presentations and examples. It covers topics such as analyzing license agreements, understanding different pricing models, best practices for negotiations, and standards for resource sharing. References are provided for over 80 articles, books, and websites dealing with license agreements, consortial licensing, and standards like SERU.
Eleanor of Aquitaine lived from 1122 to 1204 and was born into a wealthy French family, with her father being the King of France. She held many titles throughout her life, including Queen of France and Queen of England through her marriages. Eleanor helped establish the concept of courtly love and was one of the most influential women of the Middle Ages due to her accomplishments and leadership abilities.
This document summarizes several legal cases involving Google and issues of copyright, privacy, and liability. It discusses how Google originated as a search engine project and has expanded into other products. It also describes cases such as Field v. Google where the court found Google was not liable for caching copyrighted works, and Parker v. Google where Google was not found responsible for third-party content in its search results and archives.
One of the dying skill sets in today’s engineering teams is the multi-disciplinary analyst that can truly dissect dysfunction in the radically complex architectures of today. As tools emerge that connect the dots, it might be faster to collect the data needed to analysis and decision making, but the knowledge and techniques to actually make the assessments needed are hard to come by.
In this session, we’ll walk through a complex architecture and discuss what an engineer in this role really needs to understand. We’ll analyze a few anecdotal problems and see why this world of magical automation and elastic deployments will never really displace the need for root on a production box, a debugger, and the ability to move fast, take risks and destroy performance problems.
This document provides an overview and instructions for installing and configuring Reconnoiter, a system for large-scale trending and fault detection. It describes the goals of the system, its architectural design including main components, and steps for installing the code, database, and web console. It also provides information on setting up SSL, configuring the noitd and stratcond components, and contact information for support and hiring.
This document discusses how organizations can better monitor their systems and processes. It notes that large organizations often have fractured operations where technical operations are separated from business operations. Startups do not usually have this problem and are more transparent and agile. It also discusses the importance of understanding business needs and direction. While numbers and metrics are used to monitor systems, they do not always paint a complete picture and systems can be more variable than metrics suggest. True monitoring requires understanding these limitations and getting multiple perspectives on system performance and user experience.
There are many modern techniques for identifying anomalies in datasets. There are fewer that work as online algorithms suitable for application to real-time streaming data. What’s worse? Most of these methodologies require a deep understanding of the data itself. In this talk, we tour what the options are for identifying anomalies in real-time data and discuss how much we really need to know before hand to guess at the ever-useful question: is this normal?
Technical debt refers to code that is "not-quite-right" and requires extra work in the future to fix issues. Interest on technical debt is the time spent fixing problems in code that lacks elegance, extensibility, or meets functional/security/performance requirements. While some technical debt can speed up development, it must be managed to avoid issues down the line. Unmanaged technical debt can overwhelm organizations over time. When fixing code to add new features or requirements, the cost of refactoring existing code should be included in budgets.
User generated data is an old problem. Systems and network telemetry, page analytics and application state combine to form an ever growing mountain of data collected by today's tools. Collecting and storing this data requires more than just a single application, having no single point where the user touches the system and gets an answer makes debugging a nightmare and reproducing the error intractable. Distributed systems require a clear perspective on production systems and access to data in real time to have any hope of solving complex problems related to state, all while not impacting user experience.
We will explain the problem, the pains and how we solved them. Develop in production; push code to development.
This document discusses scalable internet architectures and operating at scale. It begins by introducing the author and their expertise and experience in scalable web applications and open source software. The document then outlines topics that will be covered, including what constitutes an architecture, scaling patterns for dynamic content, databases, and complex systems. It emphasizes that an architecture encompasses many interconnected components and that awareness of other disciplines is important. It stresses the importance of tools, experience, knowledge, and discipline in successfully operating architectures at scale.
This document summarizes a presentation about using PostgreSQL with message queues. It discusses how PostgreSQL can integrate with other systems by using the pg_amqp extension to publish messages to an AMQP broker on transaction commit. This allows actions like cache purges or search index updates to happen automatically when related database records change. While the current implementation uses AMQP 0.8, future support for AMQP 1.0 would add two-phase commit to make the process safer.
This document discusses techniques and tools for having coherent discussions about performance in complex systems. It emphasizes making performance relevant and important, developing a performance culture focused on small wins, and using consistent terminology. The document also describes Dapper, Google's distributed tracing infrastructure, how it works, and examples of its use. It advocates for moving away from Thrift and Scribe in favor of other open source alternatives like Zipkin and libmtev that provide distributed tracing functionality with better performance.
Eleanor of Aquitaine lived from 1122 to 1204 and was born into a wealthy French family, with her father being the King of France. She held many titles throughout her life, including Queen of France and Queen of England through her marriages. Eleanor helped establish the concept of courtly love and was one of the most influential women of the Middle Ages due to her accomplishments and leadership abilities.
This document summarizes several legal cases involving Google and issues of copyright, privacy, and liability. It discusses how Google originated as a search engine project and has expanded into other products. It also describes cases such as Field v. Google where the court found Google was not liable for caching copyrighted works, and Parker v. Google where Google was not found responsible for third-party content in its search results and archives.
One of the dying skill sets in today’s engineering teams is the multi-disciplinary analyst that can truly dissect dysfunction in the radically complex architectures of today. As tools emerge that connect the dots, it might be faster to collect the data needed to analysis and decision making, but the knowledge and techniques to actually make the assessments needed are hard to come by.
In this session, we’ll walk through a complex architecture and discuss what an engineer in this role really needs to understand. We’ll analyze a few anecdotal problems and see why this world of magical automation and elastic deployments will never really displace the need for root on a production box, a debugger, and the ability to move fast, take risks and destroy performance problems.
This document provides an overview and instructions for installing and configuring Reconnoiter, a system for large-scale trending and fault detection. It describes the goals of the system, its architectural design including main components, and steps for installing the code, database, and web console. It also provides information on setting up SSL, configuring the noitd and stratcond components, and contact information for support and hiring.
This document discusses how organizations can better monitor their systems and processes. It notes that large organizations often have fractured operations where technical operations are separated from business operations. Startups do not usually have this problem and are more transparent and agile. It also discusses the importance of understanding business needs and direction. While numbers and metrics are used to monitor systems, they do not always paint a complete picture and systems can be more variable than metrics suggest. True monitoring requires understanding these limitations and getting multiple perspectives on system performance and user experience.
There are many modern techniques for identifying anomalies in datasets. There are fewer that work as online algorithms suitable for application to real-time streaming data. What’s worse? Most of these methodologies require a deep understanding of the data itself. In this talk, we tour what the options are for identifying anomalies in real-time data and discuss how much we really need to know before hand to guess at the ever-useful question: is this normal?
Technical debt refers to code that is "not-quite-right" and requires extra work in the future to fix issues. Interest on technical debt is the time spent fixing problems in code that lacks elegance, extensibility, or meets functional/security/performance requirements. While some technical debt can speed up development, it must be managed to avoid issues down the line. Unmanaged technical debt can overwhelm organizations over time. When fixing code to add new features or requirements, the cost of refactoring existing code should be included in budgets.
User generated data is an old problem. Systems and network telemetry, page analytics and application state combine to form an ever growing mountain of data collected by today's tools. Collecting and storing this data requires more than just a single application, having no single point where the user touches the system and gets an answer makes debugging a nightmare and reproducing the error intractable. Distributed systems require a clear perspective on production systems and access to data in real time to have any hope of solving complex problems related to state, all while not impacting user experience.
We will explain the problem, the pains and how we solved them. Develop in production; push code to development.
This document discusses scalable internet architectures and operating at scale. It begins by introducing the author and their expertise and experience in scalable web applications and open source software. The document then outlines topics that will be covered, including what constitutes an architecture, scaling patterns for dynamic content, databases, and complex systems. It emphasizes that an architecture encompasses many interconnected components and that awareness of other disciplines is important. It stresses the importance of tools, experience, knowledge, and discipline in successfully operating architectures at scale.
This document summarizes a presentation about using PostgreSQL with message queues. It discusses how PostgreSQL can integrate with other systems by using the pg_amqp extension to publish messages to an AMQP broker on transaction commit. This allows actions like cache purges or search index updates to happen automatically when related database records change. While the current implementation uses AMQP 0.8, future support for AMQP 1.0 would add two-phase commit to make the process safer.
This document discusses techniques and tools for having coherent discussions about performance in complex systems. It emphasizes making performance relevant and important, developing a performance culture focused on small wins, and using consistent terminology. The document also describes Dapper, Google's distributed tracing infrastructure, how it works, and examples of its use. It advocates for moving away from Thrift and Scribe in favor of other open source alternatives like Zipkin and libmtev that provide distributed tracing functionality with better performance.