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Hardware for a Soft World with Stacey Mulcahy and David Sheinkopf OVERVIEW Two salty dogs of the hardware and software world duke it out and ask the questions that you would never dare to ask…but always wanted to know. You should also come to see things done to hardware that deny general good sense. Presented at FITC Toronto 2014 on April 27-29, 2014 More info at www.FITC.ca
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Designers and front-end developers who want to understand why and how to deliver faster user experiences.
THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
User expectations through the ages (or at least the past 40 years)
The psychology of web performance
The impact of load time on business metrics (revenue, conversions, bounce rate, user satisfaction/retention)
The cost of slow time versus downtime
The insidiousness of “page bloat”
Mobile performance
16 things you can do to deliver a faster user experience
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Adapt or Die
with James Callahan and Andrew Jones
OVERVIEW
FutureDeluxe is an experimental creative studio driven by research, technology and the pursuit of new aesthetics and techniques. As a studio, 30% of their time is spent exploring different disciplines and developing new ways of working. This allows them to continually adapt and evolve their (and their clients) creative output.
OBJECTIVE
They’ll explore both the pros and cons of growing a creative studio with experimentation at its heart.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Industry professionals & students
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
Adapt or die
They don’t know what they want until you show them
Growing up doesn’t have to mean giving up
Inhale the good shit and exhale the bullshit
Go home and go home happy
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I Heard React Was Good
with Ryan Christiani
There is no doubt React is here to stay, it’s popularity is on the rise. But if you are new to JS or new to JS frameworks you might be wondering WHY is it so popular. In this talk we will look at why we have React and what problems it solves. The concepts of reusable components, their life cycles and the common terminology. We will also explore what the workflow for building a modern React app looks like, and where React can fall short. Learning React in 2016 will be an important step in your career, so lets dive in!
OBJECTIVE
Break down the concepts behind React and make it easy for people to start building with it.
TARGET AUDIENCE
JavaScript developers or project mangers looking to get a better understanding of React.
ASSUMED AUDIENCE KNOWLEDGE
Intermediate understanding of JavaScript.
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
Why do we have react, what problems does it solve
React components
Component life cycles
Common terminology
Where React falls short
Managing The Process
The document discusses the importance of establishing processes for managing work as a business or team grows beyond just one person. It recommends designating a process leader to define the key processes such as production, creative work, technology, client services, leadership, and more. The processes should be thoroughly documented, involve input from the entire team, and evolve over time with reviews and edits to improve. Establishing and following processes helps define roles, expectations, how work gets done, develops a strong work culture, and prevents repeating work.
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Managing Responsive Design Projects
with Andrew Smyk
Presented on September 18 2014 at
FITC's Web Unleashed Toronto 2014 Conference
Please join Andrew Smyk in this session to learn and discuss how to:
Manage client expectations and get sign off for multi-screen, responsive projects with interactive mock-ups.
Move away from the traditional use of Photoshop for interface mock-ups for multi-device interface and interaction designs.
Incorporate client involvement for flexible decision making in responsive web design projects and building cost of devices into pricing models, guerrilla usability testing and project deliverables.
OBJECTIVE
Learn why you should be designing at the very end in the desired devices.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This session is for freelancers, account managers, project managers or anyone who produces deliverables for clients.
ASSUMED AUDIENCE KNOWLEDGE
Attendees should have a working knowledge of project workflows and deliverables.
AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
Wire-framing in the browser
Moving away from Photoshop mock-ups
Flexible decision making using dynamic mock-ups
Guerilla user testing
Building a device lab and device testing
Exposure to new tool sets
A Journey with React
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A Journey with React
with Tasveer Singh
OVERVIEW
React has been receiving a lot of buzz lately but does it live up to it? Taz was curious about this exact question and decided to embark on a journey to find out more. Since then he has fallen in love with React, its simple paradigm, and what it has enabled him to do. From modelling large front-end applications with Flux and WebPack code splitting to search engine optimized isomorphic rendering, he really has explored React from one end to the other and will share his experience and insights with you along with tips and tricks along the way.
OBJECTIVE
To provide the audience with enough information to understand how React is different and to explore further.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Intermediate to Advanced JavaScript developers.
ASSUMED AUDIENCE KNOWLEDGE
Basic knowledge of client side JavaScript frameworks, JavaScript modules, ES6, asset management, SEO, and isomorphic JavaScript.
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
What is React
How React is different
Pros and Cons of a Flux architecture
Pros and Cons of WebPack
Pros and Cons of Isomorphic JavaScript
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Google Web Designer, building a tool for the next web. Get a glimpse on the thinking process behind Google’s new software for creative coding. Embark on a journey through the challenges of building a tool at a scale for the future web.
OBJECTIVE
Inside tips on how to create software for the web.
TARGET AUDIENCE
You want to write your own software, or you are curious to see how Google works.
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
How to write software in an uncertain environment
How to understand your users
Prioritize features
Drive adoption from zero to millions of users
How to fail, learn, and get better
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Overview
Examining our responsibility as creators to design for disconnection.
The “restore connection” alert isn’t just for devices– it applies to people too. And it’s more important now than ever before.
Digital creators, we need to talk. The rise in mental health as a result of situational stress is a prevailing theme in today’s society, and some of the products we’re building are the root cause. But we have the power to change this. As creators of digital products, how might we enable our users to be more present in their lives? How might we invest in features like Instagram’s activity timer, despite the fact that they’re fundamentally counterintuitive to the usage metrics most behemoth tech companies are driving towards?
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Objective
To share actionable strategies, principles and considerations for designing with digital health top of mind. Andrea will get into some #realtalk about how we can collectively create more balance and presence for the humans using our products.
Target Audience
Designers and digital creators of all kinds – especially those building digital products at scale!
Level
Open to audience members of any skill level (this is a more high-level talk)
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Tips and best-in-class examples of designing for digital health
Design guidelines and principles for designing with digital health in mind
Evidence-based practices to ground your future design decisions
Strategies for re-framing the success metrics of digital products
Design ethics resources
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JavaScript’s popularity has exploded over the last decade, taking it from a laughable scripting language to one that powers much of the web today. Because it’s so flexible and so easy to learn, it’s extremely popular with new developers looking to cut their teeth in programming. However, these strengths are also weaknesses, as it’s incredibly easy to write bad JavaScript without even knowing it.
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Objective
To help developers understand how to better make use of the JavaScript profiler.
Target Audience
Any JavaScript developers
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Basic JavaScript
Level
Beginner / intermediate
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Javascript inner-workings
Profiling concepts
Identifying bottlenecks
Profiling node applications
Tooling
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More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
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Overview
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Objective
Learn the tools and techniques required to pitch an augmented reality project.
Target Audience
Designers, product managers, product stakeholders.
Assumed Audience Knowledge
An understanding of product design and an awareness of AR
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The right language to use when explaining ‘spatial’ design
The different requirements and considerations for scoping an AR project
The tools that are currently available for AR authoring
Insights into what the near and far future will hold for this medium.
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Designers, researchers, strategists, product managers, and technology leads
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Visual communicators eager to become more evocative storytellers
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Overview
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Objective
Learn a process for building a hyper-lightweight version of your website for establishing reasonable performance budgets, grounded in reality, to work from.
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Web developers
Assumed Audience Knowledge
HTML, CSS, Javascript, some server-side awareness.
Level
Intermediate
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Overview
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Objective
Things often don’t go as planned, but often that’s the fun part.
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Creative technologists and experience designers
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Overview
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Those interested in the future of human life in space
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New forms, new materials, new ideas — (what might be)
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Overview
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Objective
Teach the ins and outs of what it means to be a creative social influencer.
Target Audience
Creatives looking to up level their social media presence and strike brand partnerships.
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How to set yourself up for “success” on social media
The importance of working with the right brands
Figuring out compensation and negotiating contracts
The ins and outs of disclosure and liability
How to not mess it up
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Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
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Overview
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Objective
To let the audience in on the behind the scenes of developing an AR experience like East of the Rockies.
Target Audience
For those interested in Augmented Reality storytelling and game development.
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Storytelling in AR
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Game optimization techniques in Unity
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Crescendo
Overview
The reports are in: how we relate to technology directly affects how we relate to other humans, to our environments, and to ourselves. Are we headed for a technological dystopia, where robots are in charge and empathy is just a word for the history books? Not necessarily! Learn how the interfaces we interact with can teach us how to be better communicators, increase our understanding of each other, and how product design might be the key to building a positive future for all.
Objective
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Product designers, HR specialists, and anyone skeptical about technology
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Web development teams
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Web Development fundamentals
Objective
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Why PWA’s require performance engineering
What tools are available to measure performance metrics
Offline caching strategies
Host device considerations: desktop and mobile
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Inspiration
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Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdf
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Choosing The Best AWS Service For Your Website + API.pptx
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
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Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
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Dmitrii Kamaev, PhD
Senior Product Owner - QIAGEN
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor Ivaniuk
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and Milvus
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Apps Break Data
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Leveraging the Graph for Clinical Trials and Standards
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Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
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before the computed tomography, it had been widely used.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity server
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Harnessing the Power of NLP and Knowledge Graphs for Opioid Research
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5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
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