The document provides 8 rules for building a web application effectively on Google App Engine: 1) Design a simple data model, 2) Handle data model updates via a non-default version, 3) Use techniques like Appstats and caching to reduce costs, 4) Improve cold startup time by minimizing dependencies, 5) Prefer Google Guice as a dependency injection framework, 6) Use GWT for a desktop-like experience, 7) Adopt the GWT MVP pattern, and 8) Consider frameworks like Apache Wicket.
The impact of innovation on travel and tourism industries (World Travel Marke...Brian Solis
From the impact of Pokemon Go on Silicon Valley to artificial intelligence, futurist Brian Solis talks to Mathew Parsons of World Travel Market about the future of travel, tourism and hospitality.
The impact of innovation on travel and tourism industries (World Travel Marke...Brian Solis
From the impact of Pokemon Go on Silicon Valley to artificial intelligence, futurist Brian Solis talks to Mathew Parsons of World Travel Market about the future of travel, tourism and hospitality.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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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/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
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.
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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/
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.
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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...
Google appps
1. 8 rules to build web app on
top of Google AppEngine
effectively
Lessons learned
www.comvai.com
2. Google App Engine
• Keep in mind Google AppEngine supports
subset of Java EE specifications. Check at
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/W
www.comvai.com
3. 1. Design Data model as simple as
possible
• The App Engine Datastore is not traditional relational SQL database and
there are several important differences.
• AppEngine datastore is schemaless. Entities of the same kind can have
different properties. The application itself is responsible for ensuring that
entities conform to it.
• If you want to migrate your existing data model to App Engine you will
probably need it to redesign.
• Data-model consistency will be split to the data-model and application.
• Check app engine datastore limitations to understand it. It gives you better
overview regarding your future data-model design.
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/datastore/overview.html
www.comvai.com
4. How to
• Use recommended High Replication Datastore HRD.
• Use Objectify with JPA annotations over built-in JPA or JDO.
• Prefer to use unowned relationships between entities.
• Forget about count entities over filtered query result. Design your UI so
that count is not being required.
• If you need statistic calculations, do it on entity update.
• Note: Building data model on top of built-in either JPA or JDO doesn't
guarantee that application will be vendor independent because of different
behavior of AppEngine datastore in some cases. Even it doesn't mean that's
not possible to do so just requires understanding of AppEngine datastore
behavior.
www.comvai.com
5. 2. Handle your data model via non
default version of your GAE app
• The AppEngine allows you to deploy more than one non default version of
your application. Deploy specifically designed application to perform update
of your data model only as a non default version to be independent from
your main application release cycle.
www.comvai.com
6. 3. Price shields tips
• Use Appstats out of the box tool to detect datastore bottleneck. Just plug
in. It helps you to find the hidden unnecessary datastore operations that are
dragging you down.
• Use memcache. Datastore operations costs money and caching of "static"
data could save you from using unnecessary datastore operations.
• Use as many static files as possible. Static files are handled with high
performance static front-end servers (CDN) which are highly optimized for
this type of content.
• See more
http://www.gregtracy.com/revisiting-google-app-engines-pricing-changes
www.comvai.com
7. 4. Improve cold startup time
• AppEngine instances starts quite often thus cold startup time (known as
well as warmup request, loading request) is more important than in
traditional Java EE application. Good startup time improves user experience.
• Minimize number of your application java library dependencies as much as
possible. Make sure if all your libs are really needed. Otherwise it will slow
your cold startup time down.
• Don't use JSP if you are already using another Frontend framework
• Using JSPs will add additional libraries into your lib directory that are used
for processing of JSP.
http://www.listry.com/blog/2010/03/google-app-engine-cold-start-tip-dont
• Use Objectify over built-in JPA or JDO.
http://www.listry.com/blog/2010/03/google-app-engine-cold-start-guide-for
www.comvai.com
8. 5. Prefer Google Guice as DI framework
• It's simple, small in size and powerful library and you probably won't need
more.
www.comvai.com
9. 6. Use GWT for your desktop like web
app
• GWT together with GAE offers lot of built-in technics to improve your
web app performance. Built-in features coming as advice from the book
High Performance Web Sites.
• It's better to have only one framework for the UI even it means to build
some components yourself. Among other things it means less dependencies
and simplified upgrade process.
www.comvai.com
10. How to GWT
• Use built-in optimization technics with help of GWT's ClientBundles.
• ClientBundles and ImageResource makes using images more efficient.
• CssResource for CSS minification, CSS image strips and much more, see
docs for ClientBundles (DataResource, TextResource,
ExternalTextResource).
• Switch on minification and obfuscation of the Java-JavaScript compiler.
www.comvai.com
11. How to GAE
• Content Delivery Network CDN
• Gzip compression
• Memcache
www.comvai.com
12. 7. Use GWT MVP pattern
• It's not easy to work with but worth of time. GWT has built-in support for
MVP pattern.
www.comvai.com
13. Benefits
• Well suited for large scale application.
• Separation of functionality into components. Helps simplify UI unit testing.
• Built-in browser history management. MVP is not concerned with browser
history management, but Activities and Places may be used very well with
MVP development.
• Built-in event bus as a central point for app events.
• Caching all of your code books via GWT event bus as a central pipe to go
to the backend.
www.comvai.com
14. 8. Use Apache Wicket for website
• The component based web framework. Version 1.5 or higher optimized for
Google AppEngine
• In Java ecosystem there is a lot of front-end frameworks thus to choose the
right one depends on many varying factors. We like Apache Wicket because
it's Java, feature rich component-oriented framework with good API. As
version 1.5 it very well operates on App Engine. So it's up to you and your
requirements but ones Apache Wicket is good fit for you we recommend it.
• Add wicketstuff-gae-initializer dependency along side with wicket core
dependencies
• Alternative Play framework as it has specific module for App Engine.
www.comvai.com
15. • Visit http://www.comvai.com/google-app-engine-development and register
yourself to get development of your Google AppEngine project's Proof of
Concept for free.
• Validate suitability of your project to be built on top of Google App Engine.
www.comvai.com