Consistently delivering and maintaining well performing applications doesn't just happen, it requires a solid architecture, sound development, continual attention, diligence and expertise. It also requires appropriate testing, not simply of release-candidate builds, but of designs, units, integrations, and physical components... both during development and in production. The question is, how can a team accomplish all of that under all of today's pressure to deliver quickly and cheaply?
Join Scott Barber for this Keynote Address to hear about what successful organizations are doing to consistently deliver well performing applications, to learn the underlying principles and practices that enable those organizations to create, test, and maintain those well performing applications without breaking either the budget or the schedule, and what the key items are that virtually every team can implement right away, to dramatically improve the consistency and overall performance of their applications.
Testing Missions in Context From Checking to AssessmentScott Barber
Sometimes we test to find bugs.
Sometimes we test to comply with regulations.
Sometimes we test to answer a question for someone.
Sometimes we test because its what was done before.
Sometimes we’re not even sure what we are testing for, only that someone is paying us to “just test it”.
Whether or not someone has told us why we are testing, or what we are testing for, if we are being paid (or otherwise compensated) for testing, there is a reason that someone is willing to pay for that testing to be done. That reason is (or should be) our testing mission.
During this keynote, Scott Barber explores some of the most commonly assigned or assumed testing missions, shares his thoughts on contexts in which these missions may or many not be particularly valuable and, publicly for the first time, discusses a software product assessment model that he believes has the potential to dramatically improve the alignment of our assigned or assumed testing missions with the wants and needs of the businesses paying us to conduct that testing.
An oft-recycled presentation that outlines how managers misunderstand software performance testing (and testers) and how performance testers misunderstand managers.
Performance Testing in Context; From Simple to Rocket ScienceScott Barber
When most people think of performance testing, they think about the hard parts – the very hard parts. They think about the expensive and complicated tools that are required to simulate the activity of thousands of end-users all at the same time, while collecting tens or hundreds of thousands of measurements.
In reality, many performance issues can be detected and diagnosed with exactly the tools and knowledge you already have at your disposal using information obtained from quick, easy and cheap performance tests. In fact, much of the performance related information that stakeholders need to make good decisions and development teams need to dramatically improve system performance is easily obtainable by the performance-testing layman. The trick is knowing what performance tests to apply when, and how much time/effort is worth investing based on the business importance of performance — in other words, context!
In this hands-on tutorial (bring your laptop or risk reduced value and intermittent boredom), Scott Barber will introduce you to several techniques that the performance testing layperson can use to speed up and simplify the collection of valuable performance-related information; many of which you can use during the tutorial to test your current website if it’s accessible from the classroom. You’ll also receive an introduction to the ‘rocket science’ side of performance testing along with some things that you can do to make life easier for your resident ‘performance testing rocket scientist’.
Consistently delivering and maintaining well performing applications doesn't just happen, it requires a solid architecture, sound development, continual attention, diligence and expertise. It also requires appropriate testing, not simply of release-candidate builds, but of designs, units, integrations, and physical components... both during development and in production. The question is, how can a team accomplish all of that under all of today's pressure to deliver quickly and cheaply?
Join Scott Barber for this Keynote Address to hear about what successful organizations are doing to consistently deliver well performing applications, to learn the underlying principles and practices that enable those organizations to create, test, and maintain those well performing applications without breaking either the budget or the schedule, and what the key items are that virtually every team can implement right away, to dramatically improve the consistency and overall performance of their applications.
Testing Missions in Context From Checking to AssessmentScott Barber
Sometimes we test to find bugs.
Sometimes we test to comply with regulations.
Sometimes we test to answer a question for someone.
Sometimes we test because its what was done before.
Sometimes we’re not even sure what we are testing for, only that someone is paying us to “just test it”.
Whether or not someone has told us why we are testing, or what we are testing for, if we are being paid (or otherwise compensated) for testing, there is a reason that someone is willing to pay for that testing to be done. That reason is (or should be) our testing mission.
During this keynote, Scott Barber explores some of the most commonly assigned or assumed testing missions, shares his thoughts on contexts in which these missions may or many not be particularly valuable and, publicly for the first time, discusses a software product assessment model that he believes has the potential to dramatically improve the alignment of our assigned or assumed testing missions with the wants and needs of the businesses paying us to conduct that testing.
An oft-recycled presentation that outlines how managers misunderstand software performance testing (and testers) and how performance testers misunderstand managers.
Performance Testing in Context; From Simple to Rocket ScienceScott Barber
When most people think of performance testing, they think about the hard parts – the very hard parts. They think about the expensive and complicated tools that are required to simulate the activity of thousands of end-users all at the same time, while collecting tens or hundreds of thousands of measurements.
In reality, many performance issues can be detected and diagnosed with exactly the tools and knowledge you already have at your disposal using information obtained from quick, easy and cheap performance tests. In fact, much of the performance related information that stakeholders need to make good decisions and development teams need to dramatically improve system performance is easily obtainable by the performance-testing layman. The trick is knowing what performance tests to apply when, and how much time/effort is worth investing based on the business importance of performance — in other words, context!
In this hands-on tutorial (bring your laptop or risk reduced value and intermittent boredom), Scott Barber will introduce you to several techniques that the performance testing layperson can use to speed up and simplify the collection of valuable performance-related information; many of which you can use during the tutorial to test your current website if it’s accessible from the classroom. You’ll also receive an introduction to the ‘rocket science’ side of performance testing along with some things that you can do to make life easier for your resident ‘performance testing rocket scientist’.
Add Security Testing Tools to Your Delivery PipelineTechWell
Developing a delivery pipeline means more than just adding automated deploys to the development cycle. To be successful, quality testing of all types must be incorporated throughout the process to ensure that problems aren’t slipping through. Those checks must include security, or you risk developing insecure software. Fortunately, the delivery pipeline opens up opportunities to add more security testing to the delivery process. Continuous integration builds can add static analysis tools to test for simple security errors and check if components with known vulnerabilities are being used. Gene Gotimer introduces several types of open-source and free security testing tools, that can be quickly added to a delivery pipeline. Security tools reduce the initial investment of both time and money, and help eliminate some barriers to adding security testing to the process.
Managing Application Performance: A Simplified Universal ApproachTechWell
In response to increasing market demand for well-performing applications, many organizations implement performance testing programs, often at great expense. Sadly, these solutions alone are often insufficient to keep pace with emerging expectations and competitive pressures. Scott Barber shares the fundamentals of implementing T4APM™ including specific examples from recent client implementations. T4APM™ is a simple and universal approach that is valuable independently or as an extension of existing performance testing programs. The approach hinges on applying a simple and unobtrusive "Target, Test, Trend, Tune” cycle to tasks in your application lifecycle—from a single unit test through entire system production monitoring. Leveraging T4APM™ on a particular task may require knowledge specific to the task, but learning how to leverage the approach does not. Scott provides everything you need to become the T4APM™ coach and champion, and to help your team keep up with increasing demand for better performance, regardless of your current title or role.
DOES15 - Sherry Chang - Intel’s Journey to Large Scale DevOps Transformation Gene Kim
Sherry Chang, Enterprise Architect, Intel
Is it possible to transform large enterprises with 100’s of in-flight projects across myriad technology stacks and entrenched processes, requiring massive workforce re-skilling? In this session, I’ll share approaches we employed to increase the likelihood of success through DevOps adoption by:
-Offering of a common Continuous Delivery Service, similar to industry offerings from Codeship.io, CloudBees, and others
-Establishing a Maturity Model to help teams incrementally adopt DevOps practices
-Coaching teams through Kaizen sessions to eliminate bottlenecks and waste in their value stream
Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
Writing and maintaining a suite of acceptance tests that can give you a high level of confidence in the behaviour and configuration of your system is a complex task. In this session, Dave will describe approaches to acceptance testing that allow teams to:
work quickly and effectively
build excellent functional coverage for complex enterprise-scale systems
manage and maintain those tests in the face of change, and of evolution in both the codebase and the understanding of the business problem.
This workshop will answer the following questions, and more:
How do you fail fast?
How do you make your testing scalable?
How do you isolate test cases from one-another?
How do you maintain a working body of tests when you radically change the interface to your system?
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8539/acceptance-testing-for-continuous-delivery
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Managing Application Performance: A Simplified Universal ApproachTechWell
In response to increasing market demand for well-performing applications, many organizations implement performance testing programs, often at great expense. Sadly, these solutions alone are often insufficient to keep pace with emerging expectations and competitive pressures. Scott Barber shares the fundamentals of implementing T4APM™ including specific examples from recent client implementations. T4APM™ is a simple and universal approach that is valuable independently or as an extension of existing performance testing programs. The approach hinges on applying a simple and unobtrusive "Target, Test, Trend, Tune” cycle to tasks in your application lifecycle—from a single unit test through entire system production monitoring. Leveraging T4APM™ on a particular task may require knowledge specific to the task, but learning how to leverage the approach does not. Scott provides everything you need to become the T4APM™ coach and champion, and to help your team keep up with increasing demand for better performance, regardless of your current title or role.
Over the past twenty years, Mary Thorn has had the opportunity to work at many startups, creating several QA/test departments from scratch. For the past ten years, she has done this in agile software companies. Recently Mary moved from leading small agile test organizations to leading a large agile test organization. She has learned how to lead agile testers and agile testing in large contexts. Mary takes you through what she has learned, identifies the keys to transitioning your test organization as it grows, and discusses the techniques required to lead it through the changes. Agile testing is difficult, and training your testers to be consistent and interchangeable across large scale agile teams is even more difficult. And still more difficult is test automation at scale. Mary shares her experience in creating an automation strategy that works in a large scale context. Join Mary as she discusses her learnings from leading large agile test organizations.
Application Performance Testing: A Simplified Universal ApproachTechWell
In response to increasing market demand for high performance applications, many organizations implement performance testing projects, often at great expense. Sadly, these solutions alone are often insufficient to keep pace with emerging expectations and competitive pressures. With specific examples from recent client implementations, Scott Barber shares the fundamentals of implementing T4APM™, a simple and universal approach that is valuable independently or as an extension of existing performance testing programs. The T4APM™ approach hinges on applying a simple and unobtrusive Target, Test, Trend, Tune cycle to tasks in your application lifecycle—from a single unit test through entire system production monitoring. Leveraging T4APM™ on a particular task may require knowledge specific to the task, but learning how to leverage the approach does not. Scott provides everything you need to become the T4APM™ coach and champion, and to help your team keep up with increasing demand for better performance, regardless of your current title or role.
DevOps in Practice: When does "Practice" Become "Doing"?Michael Elder
DevOps has emerged as the hot trend in development buzzword-ology. With a few quick paragraphs, it proposes to decimate all of the traditional problems you've encountered during your development experience.
In IBM UrbanCode, we build products to help customers follow good DevOps practices. You may think DevOps is about the release process, but really it's about applying a mix of automation and operational practices earlier in your development life cycle so that rolling out to production becomes easier. DevOps promotes a focus on small-batch changes over large complex updates which are harder to predict and harder to roll back when problems occur. With greater velocity, rolling out smaller changes becomes more common place. Additionally, IBM UrbanCode makes extensive application of cloud technology that intercepts well with practices in DevOps around production-like environments.
In this talk, Michael Elder describes how we practice DevOps internally with a mixture of IBM-built and open source tools. He'll discuss the areas that we do well and the challenges that we have with changing our culture around areas like test automation. On top of that, he'll describe how you can leverage these approaches in your own development process!
What does a Maturity Curve for Enterprise Adoption of Agile and DevOps look like? Where would an organization like yours rank on the curve? Are there specific areas of improvement you might want to consider?
A presentation that provides an overview of software testing approaches including "schools" of software testing and a variety of testing techniques and practices.
Add Security Testing Tools to Your Delivery PipelineTechWell
Developing a delivery pipeline means more than just adding automated deploys to the development cycle. To be successful, quality testing of all types must be incorporated throughout the process to ensure that problems aren’t slipping through. Those checks must include security, or you risk developing insecure software. Fortunately, the delivery pipeline opens up opportunities to add more security testing to the delivery process. Continuous integration builds can add static analysis tools to test for simple security errors and check if components with known vulnerabilities are being used. Gene Gotimer introduces several types of open-source and free security testing tools, that can be quickly added to a delivery pipeline. Security tools reduce the initial investment of both time and money, and help eliminate some barriers to adding security testing to the process.
Managing Application Performance: A Simplified Universal ApproachTechWell
In response to increasing market demand for well-performing applications, many organizations implement performance testing programs, often at great expense. Sadly, these solutions alone are often insufficient to keep pace with emerging expectations and competitive pressures. Scott Barber shares the fundamentals of implementing T4APM™ including specific examples from recent client implementations. T4APM™ is a simple and universal approach that is valuable independently or as an extension of existing performance testing programs. The approach hinges on applying a simple and unobtrusive "Target, Test, Trend, Tune” cycle to tasks in your application lifecycle—from a single unit test through entire system production monitoring. Leveraging T4APM™ on a particular task may require knowledge specific to the task, but learning how to leverage the approach does not. Scott provides everything you need to become the T4APM™ coach and champion, and to help your team keep up with increasing demand for better performance, regardless of your current title or role.
DOES15 - Sherry Chang - Intel’s Journey to Large Scale DevOps Transformation Gene Kim
Sherry Chang, Enterprise Architect, Intel
Is it possible to transform large enterprises with 100’s of in-flight projects across myriad technology stacks and entrenched processes, requiring massive workforce re-skilling? In this session, I’ll share approaches we employed to increase the likelihood of success through DevOps adoption by:
-Offering of a common Continuous Delivery Service, similar to industry offerings from Codeship.io, CloudBees, and others
-Establishing a Maturity Model to help teams incrementally adopt DevOps practices
-Coaching teams through Kaizen sessions to eliminate bottlenecks and waste in their value stream
Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
Writing and maintaining a suite of acceptance tests that can give you a high level of confidence in the behaviour and configuration of your system is a complex task. In this session, Dave will describe approaches to acceptance testing that allow teams to:
work quickly and effectively
build excellent functional coverage for complex enterprise-scale systems
manage and maintain those tests in the face of change, and of evolution in both the codebase and the understanding of the business problem.
This workshop will answer the following questions, and more:
How do you fail fast?
How do you make your testing scalable?
How do you isolate test cases from one-another?
How do you maintain a working body of tests when you radically change the interface to your system?
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8539/acceptance-testing-for-continuous-delivery
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Managing Application Performance: A Simplified Universal ApproachTechWell
In response to increasing market demand for well-performing applications, many organizations implement performance testing programs, often at great expense. Sadly, these solutions alone are often insufficient to keep pace with emerging expectations and competitive pressures. Scott Barber shares the fundamentals of implementing T4APM™ including specific examples from recent client implementations. T4APM™ is a simple and universal approach that is valuable independently or as an extension of existing performance testing programs. The approach hinges on applying a simple and unobtrusive "Target, Test, Trend, Tune” cycle to tasks in your application lifecycle—from a single unit test through entire system production monitoring. Leveraging T4APM™ on a particular task may require knowledge specific to the task, but learning how to leverage the approach does not. Scott provides everything you need to become the T4APM™ coach and champion, and to help your team keep up with increasing demand for better performance, regardless of your current title or role.
Over the past twenty years, Mary Thorn has had the opportunity to work at many startups, creating several QA/test departments from scratch. For the past ten years, she has done this in agile software companies. Recently Mary moved from leading small agile test organizations to leading a large agile test organization. She has learned how to lead agile testers and agile testing in large contexts. Mary takes you through what she has learned, identifies the keys to transitioning your test organization as it grows, and discusses the techniques required to lead it through the changes. Agile testing is difficult, and training your testers to be consistent and interchangeable across large scale agile teams is even more difficult. And still more difficult is test automation at scale. Mary shares her experience in creating an automation strategy that works in a large scale context. Join Mary as she discusses her learnings from leading large agile test organizations.
Application Performance Testing: A Simplified Universal ApproachTechWell
In response to increasing market demand for high performance applications, many organizations implement performance testing projects, often at great expense. Sadly, these solutions alone are often insufficient to keep pace with emerging expectations and competitive pressures. With specific examples from recent client implementations, Scott Barber shares the fundamentals of implementing T4APM™, a simple and universal approach that is valuable independently or as an extension of existing performance testing programs. The T4APM™ approach hinges on applying a simple and unobtrusive Target, Test, Trend, Tune cycle to tasks in your application lifecycle—from a single unit test through entire system production monitoring. Leveraging T4APM™ on a particular task may require knowledge specific to the task, but learning how to leverage the approach does not. Scott provides everything you need to become the T4APM™ coach and champion, and to help your team keep up with increasing demand for better performance, regardless of your current title or role.
DevOps in Practice: When does "Practice" Become "Doing"?Michael Elder
DevOps has emerged as the hot trend in development buzzword-ology. With a few quick paragraphs, it proposes to decimate all of the traditional problems you've encountered during your development experience.
In IBM UrbanCode, we build products to help customers follow good DevOps practices. You may think DevOps is about the release process, but really it's about applying a mix of automation and operational practices earlier in your development life cycle so that rolling out to production becomes easier. DevOps promotes a focus on small-batch changes over large complex updates which are harder to predict and harder to roll back when problems occur. With greater velocity, rolling out smaller changes becomes more common place. Additionally, IBM UrbanCode makes extensive application of cloud technology that intercepts well with practices in DevOps around production-like environments.
In this talk, Michael Elder describes how we practice DevOps internally with a mixture of IBM-built and open source tools. He'll discuss the areas that we do well and the challenges that we have with changing our culture around areas like test automation. On top of that, he'll describe how you can leverage these approaches in your own development process!
What does a Maturity Curve for Enterprise Adoption of Agile and DevOps look like? Where would an organization like yours rank on the curve? Are there specific areas of improvement you might want to consider?
A presentation that provides an overview of software testing approaches including "schools" of software testing and a variety of testing techniques and practices.
The DevOps Dance - Shift Left, Shift Right - Get It RightInflectra
As more organizations move towards continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) with DevOps pipelines becoming the norm, where is the right place to do different kinds and levels of testing? In this presentation, I will provide a blueprint for test managers on how to think about shifting left and shifting right while keeping the overall QA picture and goals in mind.
The Tester’s Role: Balancing Technical Acumen and User AdvocacyTechWell
Ten years ago, many of us started our careers in testing, generally moving from a different internal role. It was common for people who were product users to be hired to jump start their technical career. Now, we see the growth of tester positions that require coding experience or a computer science degree. Melissa Tondi discusses the changing landscape of the role of testers, the challenges when hiring developers with no previous testing experience, and a way to shift the pendulum back to balance technical acumen with a user advocacy role. Melissa leads a thoughtful discussion on what makes a good tester, how we can continue to promote our profession, and how to accentuate the value testers bring to organizations. She identifies factors that caused the test/QA role to become mainstream and how it shifted to become more technically focused. Melissa helps fill in the gaps with a test strategy that balances time for the test team to continue supporting the development efforts while equally emphasizing user advocacy tests. She presents recommendations you can take back to your team to achieve the right balance for your organization.
Continuous Testing through Service VirtualizationTechWell
The demand to accelerate software delivery and for teams to continuously test and release high quality software sooner has never been greater. However, whether your release strategy is based on schedule or quality, the entire delivery process hits the wall when agility stops at testing. When software or services that are part of the delivered system, or required environments are unavailable for testing, the entire team suffers. Al Wagner explains how to remove these testing interruptions, decrease project risk, and release higher quality software sooner. Using a real-life example, learn how service virtualization can be applied across the lifecycle to shift integration, functional, and performance testing to the left. Gain an understanding of how service virtualization can be incorporated into your automated build and deployment process, making continuous testing a reality for your organization. Learn what service virtualization can do for you and your stakeholders. The ROI is worth it!
Exploratory testing is an approach to testing that emphasizes the freedom and responsibility of testers to continually optimize the value of their work. It is the process of three mutually supportive activities done in parallel: learning, test design, and test execution. With skill and practice, exploratory testers typically uncover an order of magnitude more problems than when the same amount of effort is spent on procedurally scripted testing. All testers conduct exploratory testing in one way or another, but few know how to do it systematically to obtain the greatest benefits. Even fewer can articulate the process. James Bach looks at specific heuristics and techniques of exploratory testing that will help you get the most from this highly productive approach. James focuses on the skills and dynamics of exploratory testing, and how it can be combined with scripted approaches.
[Webinar] Test First, Fail Fast - Simplifying the Tester's Transition to DevOpsKMS Technology
DevOps is a spectacular mish-mash of development and operations processes and practices that has been growing increasingly popular in recent years. With the upward trending rate in adoption comes the need for organizations to fully understand the key practices as well as thoroughly integrating team members, especially testers, throughout the delivery pipeline. Getting started with DevOps practices can be a little tricky when choosing the right tools, people, and processes. In this webinar, we’ll focus on helping you make the switch without diminishing the team’s delivered product quality, so that the transition meets the enterprise objectives of speed and reliability.
Tune in to learn:
The biggest concern when moving to DevOps - and how to handle it
Why you need ‘Coding Testers’
The best tools for the job
The process of failing fast, and its significance to testers
Measuring the transition - recommended metrics
The value of DevOps long-term - efficiency, repeatability & reliability
Don’t worry about failing - it’s a part of the process!
Everything You Need to Know About Regression Testing Automation.pdfRohitBhandari66
As software applications grow larger and more complex, comprehensive regression testing is essential to ensure existing functionality remains intact through ongoing enhancements and fixes. But lengthy manual testing efforts struggle to keep up with accelerating release cycles. This is where regression testing automation delivers game-changing benefits. Automating regression tests provides fast feedback on code changes, expands test coverage, and improves software quality.
OOW15 - Testing Oracle E-Business Suite Best Practicesvasuballa
This session presented by Oracle and a customer, provides an overview of how the quality assurance team tests Oracle E-Business Suite. The session covers main areas that you should consider during functional testing, approaches for new feature and regression testing, how to reduce the test script generation and execution time, experiences on capturing and presenting metrics to showcase the ROI of a testing investment, leveraging automation for testing Oracle E-Business Suite applications, and more.
Continuous Testing through Service VirtualizationTechWell
The demand to accelerate software delivery and for teams to continuously test and release high quality software sooner has never been greater. However, whether your release strategy is based on schedule or quality, the entire delivery process hits the wall when agility stops at testing. When software/services that are part of the delivered system or required environments are unavailable for testing, the entire team suffers. Al Wagner explains how to remove these testing interruptions, decrease project risk, and release higher quality software sooner. Using a real-life example, Al shows you how service virtualization can be applied across the lifecycle to shift integration, functional, and performance testing to the left. Gain an understanding of how service virtualization can be incorporated into your automated build and deployment process, making continuous testing a reality for your organization. Learn what service virtualization can do for you and your stakeholders. The ROI is worth it!
As the world of software development changes, software testing organizations are challenged to be more innovative to match the speed at which software releases are being deployed. The new software industry buzzword is DevOps; so you might wonder if your software testing organization is still important and how it fits in to this new industry trend. Erik Stensland shares his research into what the DevOps model is, the three ways of implementing DevOps, testing solutions for DevOps, and the benefits of DevOps. Erik discusses the major challenges of a DevOps test team and offers solutions to elevate your own testing automation to become part of the daily-automated deployment process. With a real-world example, see how Erik helped Pearson’s engineering team transform itself through technology and new ideas to successfully build a DevOps team that focuses on reliability, repeatability, and quality of features released to market.
Build And Test Automation - Shortening the Feedback LoopRally Software
Agile teams embrace build and test automation to shorten the time between coding and testing feedback, gain productivity leverage, and lower the cost of change.
Explore the automation practices that Agile teams adopt.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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.