This document provides a summary of new features and enhancements for GitLab versions 10.0, 10.1, and beyond. Key updates include new group issue boards, object storage for large file storage, LDAP improvements, AutoDevOps beta, new navigation, and protected runners. Additional 10.1 features are LDAP user filtering, commit author restrictions, unsigned commit rejection, and saved issue board configurations. Looking beyond, suggestions are made for increasing automation, analytics capabilities, supported platforms, and security features to further improve GitLab similar to advances a car manufacturer might make.
FME the Workhorse of the Enterprise SystemSafe Software
I would like to talk about the enterprise level system implementation that TransCanada carried out over the last couple of years. FME is the core component of the solution, responsible for all data synchronization between numerous data sources and various input formats.
Planned Topics:
1. FME the connector that makes it attainable
2. FME server architectural setup considerations / workflows control
3. Importance of workflow performance / efficiency
4. Supportability, an aspect that we often forget about
Agile software development with its short life cycles and frequent updates poses high risks with respect to breaking existing functionalities and, as a consequence, may compromise the correctness of an application. We discuss the issues and challenges that arise in the context of the data-intensive business applications developed by abuscom and show how certain risks can be mitigated by our approach to API level regression testing.
WEBridge 4 SAP
WEBridge is publishing to SAP
Part create and update
Part Revision update
BOM create and update
ECN with part
ECN with revised part
ECN with BOM
ECN with revised BOM
FME the Workhorse of the Enterprise SystemSafe Software
I would like to talk about the enterprise level system implementation that TransCanada carried out over the last couple of years. FME is the core component of the solution, responsible for all data synchronization between numerous data sources and various input formats.
Planned Topics:
1. FME the connector that makes it attainable
2. FME server architectural setup considerations / workflows control
3. Importance of workflow performance / efficiency
4. Supportability, an aspect that we often forget about
Agile software development with its short life cycles and frequent updates poses high risks with respect to breaking existing functionalities and, as a consequence, may compromise the correctness of an application. We discuss the issues and challenges that arise in the context of the data-intensive business applications developed by abuscom and show how certain risks can be mitigated by our approach to API level regression testing.
WEBridge 4 SAP
WEBridge is publishing to SAP
Part create and update
Part Revision update
BOM create and update
ECN with part
ECN with revised part
ECN with BOM
ECN with revised BOM
Using restful APIs can be hard on your React applications. Before you know it, you are doing lots of parallel queries to the server. Using GraphQL instead of REST might help a lot. Instead of downloading many complete resources each component declares its own needs. Then the GraphQL client library then combines these requirements. The result is a single optimized query for the server. In this session, Maurice de Beijer is going to show you how to get started with GraphQL in you React applications.
https://rome2018.codemotionworld.com/
7-Step Recipe For Continuous Integration Using OpenStack - Part 2Platform9
Looking to automate your CI/CD workload and wondering how OpenStack can help? Then look no further.
In this webinar, we captured best practices for running a smoothly integrated CI/CD environment using OpenStack. These are lessons from running a large scale private cloud internally at Platform9.
Topics covered in this webinar:
1. The Ingredients: Basic requirements for setting up your CI/CD workflow with OpenStack, including recommended hardware specification.
2. The Recipe:
- Getting your OpenStack environment up and running
- Choosing the appropriate Continuous Integration Tool (TeamCity, Jenkins, etc)
- End to end 7-step workflow with examples, starting with Developers pushing changesets source control, to those changes being picked up and tested via a 100% automated workflow using OpenStack.
SDE to SPS (Synergi Pipeline Simulator) - Spatial Data to TextSafe Software
Leveraging a rich amount of data in our corporate SDE to create, both tabular and spatial, to create text-based models for SPS used for pipeline design, optimization and leak detection.
A lot of list building and converting it to text lines, resulting in a sizable text file from spatial data.
Using restful APIs can be hard on your React applications. Before you know it, you are doing lots of parallel queries to the server. Using GraphQL instead of REST might help a lot. Instead of downloading many complete resources each component declares its own needs. Then the GraphQL client library then combines these requirements. The result is a single optimized query for the server. In this session, Maurice de Beijer is going to show you how to get started with GraphQL in your React applications.
7-Step Recipe For Continuous Integration Using OpenStack - Part 1Platform9
Looking to automate your CI/CD workload and wondering how OpenStack can help? Then look no further.
In this webinar, we captured best practices for running a smoothly integrated CI/CD environment using OpenStack. These are lessons from running a large scale private cloud internally at Platform9.
Topics covered in this webinar:
1. The Ingredients: Basic requirements for setting up your CI/CD workflow with OpenStack, including recommended hardware specification.
2. The Recipe:
- Getting your OpenStack environment up and running
- Choosing the appropriate Continuous Integration Tool (TeamCity, Jenkins, etc)
- End to end 7-step workflow with examples, starting with Developers pushing changesets source control, to those changes being picked up and tested via a 100% automated workflow using OpenStack.
[Solution by pSeven for multiple engineering software users.]
Multiple software integration operations and data unification methods. In addition, an introduction to optimization and prediction model generation using data.
[Agenda]
- Integration & Automation
- Design Exploration
- Run-Ready Workflows
- Use Cases
This session will explore the new JSON functionality introduced in SQL Server 2016 and what improvements are added with 2017. We will use T-SQL examples to learn how these functions can be used to parse, create, and modify JSON data. More importantly, we will discuss how to optimize performance when using these functions.
By the end of this session DBAs and developers will know how to efficiently work with JSON in SQL Server 2016.
Download demos
This session will explore the new JSON functionality introduced in SQL Server 2016. We will use T-SQL examples to learn how these functions can be used to parse, create, and modify JSON data. More importantly, we will discuss how to optimize performance when using these functions.
By the end of this session DBAs and developers will know how to efficiently work with JSON in SQL Server 2016.
Demo code available at https://bertwagner.com/presentations
Json usage and performance in sql server 2016Bert Wagner
JSON has become the standard format for transmitting serialized data in today's websites, APIs, and applications. With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft has made it easy to work with JSON strings in T-SQL. This session is an introduction to the new JSON functions added in SQL Server 2016. We will use T-SQL query examples to learn how these new functions can be used to parse, create, and modify JSON data. We will also discuss when it's appropriate to store JSON in databases as well as how to optimize performance when using these new functions. By the end of this presentation DBAs and developers will know how to efficiently work with JSON data in SQL Server 2016.
If you are convinced that actor model can drive your design of scalable and performant .NET applications, you will very likely give a chance to Akka.NET - a port of JVM Akka framework that gained popularity among .NET developers. And if you are fan of a functional programming, you will certainly try Akka.NET F# API. But which of them? There is an official one, but there is also an experimental one, called Akkling that offers typed actors and F# support for actor lifecycle, cluster sharding and reactive streams.
Come to this talk and you will be convinced that Akkling is the way to go!
Using restful APIs can be hard on your React applications. Before you know it, you are doing lots of parallel queries to the server. Using GraphQL instead of REST might help a lot. Instead of downloading many complete resources each component declares its own needs. Then the GraphQL client library then combines these requirements. The result is a single optimized query for the server. In this session, Maurice de Beijer is going to show you how to get started with GraphQL in you React applications.
https://rome2018.codemotionworld.com/
7-Step Recipe For Continuous Integration Using OpenStack - Part 2Platform9
Looking to automate your CI/CD workload and wondering how OpenStack can help? Then look no further.
In this webinar, we captured best practices for running a smoothly integrated CI/CD environment using OpenStack. These are lessons from running a large scale private cloud internally at Platform9.
Topics covered in this webinar:
1. The Ingredients: Basic requirements for setting up your CI/CD workflow with OpenStack, including recommended hardware specification.
2. The Recipe:
- Getting your OpenStack environment up and running
- Choosing the appropriate Continuous Integration Tool (TeamCity, Jenkins, etc)
- End to end 7-step workflow with examples, starting with Developers pushing changesets source control, to those changes being picked up and tested via a 100% automated workflow using OpenStack.
SDE to SPS (Synergi Pipeline Simulator) - Spatial Data to TextSafe Software
Leveraging a rich amount of data in our corporate SDE to create, both tabular and spatial, to create text-based models for SPS used for pipeline design, optimization and leak detection.
A lot of list building and converting it to text lines, resulting in a sizable text file from spatial data.
Using restful APIs can be hard on your React applications. Before you know it, you are doing lots of parallel queries to the server. Using GraphQL instead of REST might help a lot. Instead of downloading many complete resources each component declares its own needs. Then the GraphQL client library then combines these requirements. The result is a single optimized query for the server. In this session, Maurice de Beijer is going to show you how to get started with GraphQL in your React applications.
7-Step Recipe For Continuous Integration Using OpenStack - Part 1Platform9
Looking to automate your CI/CD workload and wondering how OpenStack can help? Then look no further.
In this webinar, we captured best practices for running a smoothly integrated CI/CD environment using OpenStack. These are lessons from running a large scale private cloud internally at Platform9.
Topics covered in this webinar:
1. The Ingredients: Basic requirements for setting up your CI/CD workflow with OpenStack, including recommended hardware specification.
2. The Recipe:
- Getting your OpenStack environment up and running
- Choosing the appropriate Continuous Integration Tool (TeamCity, Jenkins, etc)
- End to end 7-step workflow with examples, starting with Developers pushing changesets source control, to those changes being picked up and tested via a 100% automated workflow using OpenStack.
[Solution by pSeven for multiple engineering software users.]
Multiple software integration operations and data unification methods. In addition, an introduction to optimization and prediction model generation using data.
[Agenda]
- Integration & Automation
- Design Exploration
- Run-Ready Workflows
- Use Cases
This session will explore the new JSON functionality introduced in SQL Server 2016 and what improvements are added with 2017. We will use T-SQL examples to learn how these functions can be used to parse, create, and modify JSON data. More importantly, we will discuss how to optimize performance when using these functions.
By the end of this session DBAs and developers will know how to efficiently work with JSON in SQL Server 2016.
Download demos
This session will explore the new JSON functionality introduced in SQL Server 2016. We will use T-SQL examples to learn how these functions can be used to parse, create, and modify JSON data. More importantly, we will discuss how to optimize performance when using these functions.
By the end of this session DBAs and developers will know how to efficiently work with JSON in SQL Server 2016.
Demo code available at https://bertwagner.com/presentations
Json usage and performance in sql server 2016Bert Wagner
JSON has become the standard format for transmitting serialized data in today's websites, APIs, and applications. With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft has made it easy to work with JSON strings in T-SQL. This session is an introduction to the new JSON functions added in SQL Server 2016. We will use T-SQL query examples to learn how these new functions can be used to parse, create, and modify JSON data. We will also discuss when it's appropriate to store JSON in databases as well as how to optimize performance when using these new functions. By the end of this presentation DBAs and developers will know how to efficiently work with JSON data in SQL Server 2016.
If you are convinced that actor model can drive your design of scalable and performant .NET applications, you will very likely give a chance to Akka.NET - a port of JVM Akka framework that gained popularity among .NET developers. And if you are fan of a functional programming, you will certainly try Akka.NET F# API. But which of them? There is an official one, but there is also an experimental one, called Akkling that offers typed actors and F# support for actor lifecycle, cluster sharding and reactive streams.
Come to this talk and you will be convinced that Akkling is the way to go!
CI/CD with Kubernetes from development to production at GoEuro, a Europe-wide web scale travel search and booking engine startup. Presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 Europe. Link: https://goo.gl/HTSUuu
Building an MLOps Stack for Companies at Reasonable ScaleMerelda
A practical talk on showing the following:
1. Challenges of Deploying ML today
2. How to do MLOps:
- Principles over Technology
- Convention over Configuration
3. What's a reasonable MLOps Stack
4. Demo on Google Collab to Deployed Endpoint
Taking Care of Business at Office Depot with Elastic Cloud Enterprise Elasticsearch
Learn how Office Depot consolidated and migrated stand-alone Elasticsearch clusters into Elastic Cloud Enterprise to minimize compute costs while improving overall performance and time to market.
Upgrading to Esri ArcGIS 10: Avoid the Pitfalls, Reap the BenefitsSSP Innovations
Upgrading to ArcGIS 10
Describes industry best practices when upgrading and Esri and/or Schneider Electric GIS system from 9.x to 10.x at a utility company. How to avoid the common problems, take advantage of the common benefits.
What we can learn from hackers (about the definition of work)🌍 Job van der Voort
Spending hours a week travelling to sit in front of a screen in an office doesn't make sense when you can do the same work better from literally any other place.
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.
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 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
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
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/
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
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
4. 10
—[EEP] Group Issue Boards
—[EEP] Object Storage for LFS
—[EES EEP] LDAP improvements
—[CE EES EEP] AutoDevOps beta
—[CE EES EEP] New navigation
—[CE EES EEP] Protected Runners
6. 10.1
—[EEP] LDAP User filter
—[EEP] Commit Author Restrictions
—[EEP] Reject unsigned commits
—[EES EEP] Saved configuration for issue boards
—[CE EES EEP] Comment on Images
—[CE EES EEP] Lock issue, MR
—[CE EES EEP] Create a GKE cluster
—[CE EES EEP] Online view of HTML artifacts
8. If GitLab as a car factory..
—More robots
—More cool counters
—More types of cars
—More in-house
—Long term planning (Model S => 3)
—Safer cars
9. If GitLab as a car factory..
—Auto DevOps
—Reporting, auditing tools
—Better support for platforms / frameworks (e.g.
Java)
—Cloud IDE, build everything in GitLab
—Roadmaps, portfolio management
—Security out of the box
