Life science global trade implementation case studyJeff Collins
AbbVie streamlined its global supply chain by replacing various legacy trade systems with SAP GTS. This allowed AbbVie to exit transitional service agreements and standardize processes across 114 countries and 6 manufacturing sites in multiple languages. The project established a single SAP instance, consolidated over 50 legacy ERP systems, and transitioned 11,000 users to the new platform within tight time constraints.
International Trade Compliance Strategy Responsibility MatrixGHY International
A quick reference tool that supports the white paper, The Case for an Integrated Trade Compliance Strategy. It shows a road map of relationships, owners, and tasks that are intertwined when an organization is active in international trade. This road map can assist an organization to benchmark their current practice versus that proposed with an Integrated Trade Strategy.
Sven Hakan Olsson Composability Index V2SOA Symposium
This document contains a questionnaire to calculate a composability index for a SOA interface. It asks questions about various quality aspects such as how the interface handles ACID transactions, exceptions, availability and more. For each aspect, it provides alternatives and assigns weights to calculate a resulting index. The index calculated for this interface was 7.18 out of 14.
Thomas Erl Introducing S O A Design PatternsSOA Symposium
This document introduces SOA design patterns. It discusses how design patterns provide proven solutions to common SOA problems. The upcoming book "SOA Design Patterns" will document 85 patterns addressing issues like service architecture, composition, messaging and security. Patterns can be viewed as reusable building blocks for assembling SOA solutions. The presentation also outlines various SOA types, pattern types, relationships between patterns and examples like the domain inventory and enterprise service bus patterns.
Radovan Janecek Avoiding S O A PitfallsSOA Symposium
This document outlines the BTO Blueprint for an IT organization, with the goal of simplifying big initiatives through a service-oriented architecture approach. It describes establishing governance over the SOA approach, including managing business and IT portfolios, quality, and applications. The blueprint also covers managing the full lifecycle of services from design through operations.
Natasja Paulssen S A P M D M And E S O A At PhilipsSOA Symposium
This document discusses how master data management (MDM) enables extended service-oriented architecture (eSOA). It provides an overview of the MDM SPOT solution design at Philips, which uses MDM to manage product content from various systems and syndicate XML content to other applications. The speaker, John Wenmakers, then explains that MDM is a prerequisite for eSOA by freeing the flow of information and acting as a central repository. He concludes by discussing lessons learned with MDM and taking questions.
Anthony Carrato S O A Business ArchitectureSOA Symposium
This presentation discusses developing service-oriented architectures (SOA) with a business focus. It recommends taking a top-down or meet-in-the-middle approach to identify business goals and processes and map them to candidate services. The presentation also covers SOA design best practices such as business component analysis, service-oriented modeling and architecture (SOMA), and using SOA to enable business process management. Finally, it discusses how IBM capabilities can support the various phases of SOA development from a business perspective.
This presentation discusses using a service grid to manage state for SOA applications. A service grid combines orchestration, mediation, state caching, demand-based provisioning and deterministic garbage collection. It provides state-aware continuous availability for service infrastructure, services, application data and processing logic. Using a service grid can reduce the cost of accessing backend systems, improve response times, and provide improved fault tolerance and scalability. Several case studies are presented that demonstrate how organizations have benefited from using a service grid to manage state in SOA applications.
Life science global trade implementation case studyJeff Collins
AbbVie streamlined its global supply chain by replacing various legacy trade systems with SAP GTS. This allowed AbbVie to exit transitional service agreements and standardize processes across 114 countries and 6 manufacturing sites in multiple languages. The project established a single SAP instance, consolidated over 50 legacy ERP systems, and transitioned 11,000 users to the new platform within tight time constraints.
International Trade Compliance Strategy Responsibility MatrixGHY International
A quick reference tool that supports the white paper, The Case for an Integrated Trade Compliance Strategy. It shows a road map of relationships, owners, and tasks that are intertwined when an organization is active in international trade. This road map can assist an organization to benchmark their current practice versus that proposed with an Integrated Trade Strategy.
Sven Hakan Olsson Composability Index V2SOA Symposium
This document contains a questionnaire to calculate a composability index for a SOA interface. It asks questions about various quality aspects such as how the interface handles ACID transactions, exceptions, availability and more. For each aspect, it provides alternatives and assigns weights to calculate a resulting index. The index calculated for this interface was 7.18 out of 14.
Thomas Erl Introducing S O A Design PatternsSOA Symposium
This document introduces SOA design patterns. It discusses how design patterns provide proven solutions to common SOA problems. The upcoming book "SOA Design Patterns" will document 85 patterns addressing issues like service architecture, composition, messaging and security. Patterns can be viewed as reusable building blocks for assembling SOA solutions. The presentation also outlines various SOA types, pattern types, relationships between patterns and examples like the domain inventory and enterprise service bus patterns.
Radovan Janecek Avoiding S O A PitfallsSOA Symposium
This document outlines the BTO Blueprint for an IT organization, with the goal of simplifying big initiatives through a service-oriented architecture approach. It describes establishing governance over the SOA approach, including managing business and IT portfolios, quality, and applications. The blueprint also covers managing the full lifecycle of services from design through operations.
Natasja Paulssen S A P M D M And E S O A At PhilipsSOA Symposium
This document discusses how master data management (MDM) enables extended service-oriented architecture (eSOA). It provides an overview of the MDM SPOT solution design at Philips, which uses MDM to manage product content from various systems and syndicate XML content to other applications. The speaker, John Wenmakers, then explains that MDM is a prerequisite for eSOA by freeing the flow of information and acting as a central repository. He concludes by discussing lessons learned with MDM and taking questions.
Anthony Carrato S O A Business ArchitectureSOA Symposium
This presentation discusses developing service-oriented architectures (SOA) with a business focus. It recommends taking a top-down or meet-in-the-middle approach to identify business goals and processes and map them to candidate services. The presentation also covers SOA design best practices such as business component analysis, service-oriented modeling and architecture (SOMA), and using SOA to enable business process management. Finally, it discusses how IBM capabilities can support the various phases of SOA development from a business perspective.
This presentation discusses using a service grid to manage state for SOA applications. A service grid combines orchestration, mediation, state caching, demand-based provisioning and deterministic garbage collection. It provides state-aware continuous availability for service infrastructure, services, application data and processing logic. Using a service grid can reduce the cost of accessing backend systems, improve response times, and provide improved fault tolerance and scalability. Several case studies are presented that demonstrate how organizations have benefited from using a service grid to manage state in SOA applications.
This presentation discusses the implementation of a Federal Service Bus (FSB) by Fedict, the Belgian Federal Agency for ICT. It provides an overview of Fedict and introduces the FSB as a solution for integrating systems across different government agencies. The presentation describes the FSB's platform architecture and governance structure. It also outlines the process for managing changes to FSB services and provides examples of services in the FSB catalog.
This presentation discusses how combining a Business Rule Management System (BRMS) with Business Process Management (BPM) tools can help organizations manage complex decision-intensive business processes. It describes how extracting decision logic from processes into transparent decision services supported by a BRMS allows business users to define and maintain rules-based decisions. This improves process maintenance, consistency, and transparency while reducing costs and speeds up change cycles. The presentation provides examples of how various organizations have benefited from taking this approach.
Jim Webber Guerrilla S O A With Web ServicesSOA Symposium
This document summarizes a presentation on implementing SOA without relying on proprietary integration middleware like ESBs. It argues that SOA is best realized using open web services standards and keeping integration logic decentralized rather than centralized in a vendor-controlled bus. Adopting this "guerrilla SOA" approach avoids lock-in and allows services to evolve independently over time in a loosely coupled way.
This document discusses the importance of governance in software development for service-oriented architectures (SOA). It notes that while developers are often resistant to governance requirements, governance is necessary to realize the benefits of SOA like reuse and agility. The document recommends that organizations provide training, tools, and incentives to help developers adopt governance practices and reduce the perceived burden on their work.
This presentation discusses 10 strategies for overcoming technological challenges with SOA governance: 1) Include governance technology in the SOA roadmap, 2) Use an agnostic governance platform, 3) Support multiple service deployment technologies, 4) Recognize testing's importance, 5) Collect and review governance metrics, 6) Track activity across IT layers, 7) Integrate repositories and registries, 8) Use a formal RFP for selection, 9) Avoid tools requiring code modifications, and 10) Ensure the tool fits existing IT governance.
This document discusses an ESB symposium that took place in Amsterdam on October 7-8, 2008. It includes information on sponsors and an agenda item about real-life ESB use cases, deployment scenarios, and experiences. The remainder of the document consists of presentation slides covering various ESB patterns and concepts such as protocol bridging, security, transformations, routing, monitoring, and asynchronous delivery. Risks of ESB implementations are also examined.
The document discusses operationalizing service-oriented architecture (SOA). It recommends integrating development and operations to improve service quality. It also recommends building an SOA architecture with a vision for the future, focusing on SOA management best practices from past projects, and taking an exemplary project approach that runs functional and operational activities in parallel.
The document discusses several key organizational and management issues that are vital to the success of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) initiatives. It notes that SOA and BPM projects often cross organizational boundaries and systems, requiring new approaches to areas like project management, development processes, and governance. Specifically, it recommends having an enterprise architecture group to provide guidance and ensure cohesion across projects, as well as establishing an enterprise projects group and key leadership roles to manage multi-silo initiatives.
This document summarizes an SOA case study of a flight data processing system used by an air traffic control organization. It describes how the system uses an enterprise service bus architecture with decision services, routing services, transformation services, and message-oriented middleware. The system allows flight plans to be processed according to business rules, routed to the correct recipients, and supports various data and protocol standards.
This document summarizes a presentation on policy-based runtime governance for SOA applications. It discusses how policies can specify governance constraints declaratively, provide benefits like improved productivity and reduced policy obsolescence, and be enforced at runtime using a policy engine. The architecture involves defining policies for stakeholders like business operations and security, and enforcing them at runtime execution points across the service network.
Mark Little Web Services And TransactionsSOA Symposium
This document summarizes a presentation on transactions for web services. It discusses relaxing the ACID properties for web services, including relaxing isolation, atomicity, and consistency. It describes the WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity specifications that define transaction models for closely coupled and long duration activities respectively. The presentation concludes that transactions are still important but the definition needs to be rethought for web services, and that OASIS WS-TX provides standard transaction protocols.
This document provides a summary of a presentation on developing a Composability Index to evaluate how well designed SOA interfaces support composition. The presentation discusses 11 composability quality aspects that could be used to calculate an Index, including considerations around ACID transactions, loop invocations, exception handling, availability and statelessness. The goal of the Index is to provide a quick way to assess how useful a given SOA design would be when components need to be composed together.
Art Ligthart Service Identification TechniquesSOA Symposium
The document provides information about a workshop on service identification techniques held by Ordina. The workshop organizers are introduced and the goal of gaining practical experience with service identification methods is described. The agenda includes an introduction, a case study exercise, feedback, and an award announcement. Several service identification methods are explained, including starting from current systems and process decomposition. Participants are then instructed to read a case study assignment within 2 minutes and identify services from existing systems within the next 8 minutes.
This presentation discusses SOA governance essentials. It defines SOA as services being shared across organizational boundaries, requiring governance to establish rules for service creation, usage, and management. It outlines the need for both run-time governance, enforced by systems to monitor service usage, and design-time governance, enforced by processes to guide service development. Finally, it addresses organizational issues in coordinating governance across multiple projects and establishing an enterprise architecture function to manage overall SOA adoption.
Mohamad Afshar Moving Beyond Project Level S O A V1SOA Symposium
This document discusses moving beyond project-level SOA adoption to achieve departmental and enterprise SOA. It outlines strategies for adopting SOA at the project, infrastructure, and enterprise levels and the benefits and downfalls of each approach. Key recommendations include standardizing on SOA platforms and design principles, building and managing reusable artifacts, and establishing governance policies to encourage reuse. Case studies demonstrate lessons learned from transitions between adoption strategies.
This document discusses Microsoft's "Oslo" modeling platform and related technologies. It aims to simplify creating and managing distributed applications by making everything model-driven. Key elements include model-driven development where the application model resides in a repository, and a new "Dublin" Windows application server that can host workflows and services. BizTalk Server will integrate as a host and the technologies will be released in waves over time to enhance Microsoft's distributed applications platform.
This document provides an introduction to service modeling for SOA projects. It discusses that service modeling is part of the service-oriented analysis process and produces conceptual service definitions called service candidates. It describes different types of services like entity services, utility services, and task services. It also covers topics like service layers, service granularity, and SOA project roles. The document aims to establish foundational concepts and terminology for service modeling in SOA.
This presentation discusses (1) the rise of social networking and its impact on software development, (2) introduces zembly as a platform for building social applications, and (3) demonstrates how to build a service, widget, and Facebook application using zembly in 3 steps or less for each. Zembly allows developers to easily create and publish reusable services, widgets, and social applications targeting various platforms from the browser.
This document summarizes a presentation on fighting SOA fatigue. It provides evidence of SOA fatigue through quotes highlighting challenges with vendors, technology, design, projects, culture, and management. It then discusses how good governance through enterprise architecture can help address these challenges by representing long-term business interests, increasing influence, and guiding infrastructure development. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the need to connect SOA initiatives to higher-level business priorities in order to engage stakeholders and address SOA fatigue.
Anne Thomas Manes Using User ExperienceSOA Symposium
This document provides an agenda for a presentation on using user experience in service-oriented architecture. It discusses common user experience problems like feature saturation and application design issues. The document recommends integrating anthropologists into the development process to better understand users, and increasing system flexibility to manage complexity and decrease coupling.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE RolesDianaGray10
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
This presentation discusses the implementation of a Federal Service Bus (FSB) by Fedict, the Belgian Federal Agency for ICT. It provides an overview of Fedict and introduces the FSB as a solution for integrating systems across different government agencies. The presentation describes the FSB's platform architecture and governance structure. It also outlines the process for managing changes to FSB services and provides examples of services in the FSB catalog.
This presentation discusses how combining a Business Rule Management System (BRMS) with Business Process Management (BPM) tools can help organizations manage complex decision-intensive business processes. It describes how extracting decision logic from processes into transparent decision services supported by a BRMS allows business users to define and maintain rules-based decisions. This improves process maintenance, consistency, and transparency while reducing costs and speeds up change cycles. The presentation provides examples of how various organizations have benefited from taking this approach.
Jim Webber Guerrilla S O A With Web ServicesSOA Symposium
This document summarizes a presentation on implementing SOA without relying on proprietary integration middleware like ESBs. It argues that SOA is best realized using open web services standards and keeping integration logic decentralized rather than centralized in a vendor-controlled bus. Adopting this "guerrilla SOA" approach avoids lock-in and allows services to evolve independently over time in a loosely coupled way.
This document discusses the importance of governance in software development for service-oriented architectures (SOA). It notes that while developers are often resistant to governance requirements, governance is necessary to realize the benefits of SOA like reuse and agility. The document recommends that organizations provide training, tools, and incentives to help developers adopt governance practices and reduce the perceived burden on their work.
This presentation discusses 10 strategies for overcoming technological challenges with SOA governance: 1) Include governance technology in the SOA roadmap, 2) Use an agnostic governance platform, 3) Support multiple service deployment technologies, 4) Recognize testing's importance, 5) Collect and review governance metrics, 6) Track activity across IT layers, 7) Integrate repositories and registries, 8) Use a formal RFP for selection, 9) Avoid tools requiring code modifications, and 10) Ensure the tool fits existing IT governance.
This document discusses an ESB symposium that took place in Amsterdam on October 7-8, 2008. It includes information on sponsors and an agenda item about real-life ESB use cases, deployment scenarios, and experiences. The remainder of the document consists of presentation slides covering various ESB patterns and concepts such as protocol bridging, security, transformations, routing, monitoring, and asynchronous delivery. Risks of ESB implementations are also examined.
The document discusses operationalizing service-oriented architecture (SOA). It recommends integrating development and operations to improve service quality. It also recommends building an SOA architecture with a vision for the future, focusing on SOA management best practices from past projects, and taking an exemplary project approach that runs functional and operational activities in parallel.
The document discusses several key organizational and management issues that are vital to the success of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) initiatives. It notes that SOA and BPM projects often cross organizational boundaries and systems, requiring new approaches to areas like project management, development processes, and governance. Specifically, it recommends having an enterprise architecture group to provide guidance and ensure cohesion across projects, as well as establishing an enterprise projects group and key leadership roles to manage multi-silo initiatives.
This document summarizes an SOA case study of a flight data processing system used by an air traffic control organization. It describes how the system uses an enterprise service bus architecture with decision services, routing services, transformation services, and message-oriented middleware. The system allows flight plans to be processed according to business rules, routed to the correct recipients, and supports various data and protocol standards.
This document summarizes a presentation on policy-based runtime governance for SOA applications. It discusses how policies can specify governance constraints declaratively, provide benefits like improved productivity and reduced policy obsolescence, and be enforced at runtime using a policy engine. The architecture involves defining policies for stakeholders like business operations and security, and enforcing them at runtime execution points across the service network.
Mark Little Web Services And TransactionsSOA Symposium
This document summarizes a presentation on transactions for web services. It discusses relaxing the ACID properties for web services, including relaxing isolation, atomicity, and consistency. It describes the WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity specifications that define transaction models for closely coupled and long duration activities respectively. The presentation concludes that transactions are still important but the definition needs to be rethought for web services, and that OASIS WS-TX provides standard transaction protocols.
This document provides a summary of a presentation on developing a Composability Index to evaluate how well designed SOA interfaces support composition. The presentation discusses 11 composability quality aspects that could be used to calculate an Index, including considerations around ACID transactions, loop invocations, exception handling, availability and statelessness. The goal of the Index is to provide a quick way to assess how useful a given SOA design would be when components need to be composed together.
Art Ligthart Service Identification TechniquesSOA Symposium
The document provides information about a workshop on service identification techniques held by Ordina. The workshop organizers are introduced and the goal of gaining practical experience with service identification methods is described. The agenda includes an introduction, a case study exercise, feedback, and an award announcement. Several service identification methods are explained, including starting from current systems and process decomposition. Participants are then instructed to read a case study assignment within 2 minutes and identify services from existing systems within the next 8 minutes.
This presentation discusses SOA governance essentials. It defines SOA as services being shared across organizational boundaries, requiring governance to establish rules for service creation, usage, and management. It outlines the need for both run-time governance, enforced by systems to monitor service usage, and design-time governance, enforced by processes to guide service development. Finally, it addresses organizational issues in coordinating governance across multiple projects and establishing an enterprise architecture function to manage overall SOA adoption.
Mohamad Afshar Moving Beyond Project Level S O A V1SOA Symposium
This document discusses moving beyond project-level SOA adoption to achieve departmental and enterprise SOA. It outlines strategies for adopting SOA at the project, infrastructure, and enterprise levels and the benefits and downfalls of each approach. Key recommendations include standardizing on SOA platforms and design principles, building and managing reusable artifacts, and establishing governance policies to encourage reuse. Case studies demonstrate lessons learned from transitions between adoption strategies.
This document discusses Microsoft's "Oslo" modeling platform and related technologies. It aims to simplify creating and managing distributed applications by making everything model-driven. Key elements include model-driven development where the application model resides in a repository, and a new "Dublin" Windows application server that can host workflows and services. BizTalk Server will integrate as a host and the technologies will be released in waves over time to enhance Microsoft's distributed applications platform.
This document provides an introduction to service modeling for SOA projects. It discusses that service modeling is part of the service-oriented analysis process and produces conceptual service definitions called service candidates. It describes different types of services like entity services, utility services, and task services. It also covers topics like service layers, service granularity, and SOA project roles. The document aims to establish foundational concepts and terminology for service modeling in SOA.
This presentation discusses (1) the rise of social networking and its impact on software development, (2) introduces zembly as a platform for building social applications, and (3) demonstrates how to build a service, widget, and Facebook application using zembly in 3 steps or less for each. Zembly allows developers to easily create and publish reusable services, widgets, and social applications targeting various platforms from the browser.
This document summarizes a presentation on fighting SOA fatigue. It provides evidence of SOA fatigue through quotes highlighting challenges with vendors, technology, design, projects, culture, and management. It then discusses how good governance through enterprise architecture can help address these challenges by representing long-term business interests, increasing influence, and guiding infrastructure development. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the need to connect SOA initiatives to higher-level business priorities in order to engage stakeholders and address SOA fatigue.
Anne Thomas Manes Using User ExperienceSOA Symposium
This document provides an agenda for a presentation on using user experience in service-oriented architecture. It discusses common user experience problems like feature saturation and application design issues. The document recommends integrating anthropologists into the development process to better understand users, and increasing system flexibility to manage complexity and decrease coupling.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE RolesDianaGray10
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
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.
Keywords: AI, Containeres, Kubernetes, Cloud Native
Event Link: https://meine.doag.org/events/cloudland/2024/agenda/#agendaId.4211
MySQL InnoDB Storage Engine: Deep Dive - MydbopsMydbops
This presentation, titled "MySQL - InnoDB" and delivered by Mayank Prasad at the Mydbops Open Source Database Meetup 16 on June 8th, 2024, covers dynamic configuration of REDO logs and instant ADD/DROP columns in InnoDB.
This presentation dives deep into the world of InnoDB, exploring two ground-breaking features introduced in MySQL 8.0:
• Dynamic Configuration of REDO Logs: Enhance your database's performance and flexibility with on-the-fly adjustments to REDO log capacity. Unleash the power of the snake metaphor to visualize how InnoDB manages REDO log files.
• Instant ADD/DROP Columns: Say goodbye to costly table rebuilds! This presentation unveils how InnoDB now enables seamless addition and removal of columns without compromising data integrity or incurring downtime.
Key Learnings:
• Grasp the concept of REDO logs and their significance in InnoDB's transaction management.
• Discover the advantages of dynamic REDO log configuration and how to leverage it for optimal performance.
• Understand the inner workings of instant ADD/DROP columns and their impact on database operations.
• Gain valuable insights into the row versioning mechanism that empowers instant column modifications.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
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.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
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).
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
AI in the Workplace Reskilling, Upskilling, and Future Work.pptxSunil Jagani
Discover how AI is transforming the workplace and learn strategies for reskilling and upskilling employees to stay ahead. This comprehensive guide covers the impact of AI on jobs, essential skills for the future, and successful case studies from industry leaders. Embrace AI-driven changes, foster continuous learning, and build a future-ready workforce.
Read More - https://bit.ly/3VKly70
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
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?
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems