"Migrating to the cloud saves money!” “Not running your own infrastructure reduces your bottom line!” “Lift and shift is a legitimate first step towards moving to the cloud!” These are all potential pitfalls if you’re not careful. Proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Using a real chaotic cloud migration as a guide, we’ll walk through the pitfalls of cloud migrations and how to avoid them and the terrifying vendor lock-in (when it makes sense).
3d Powerpoint Templates including Spheres & Cubes in PowerpointAurelien Domont, MBA
Go to www.slidebooks.com to Represent your Ideas Quickly & Visually by Downloading and Reusing Now 3d Powerpoint Templates including Spheres & Cubes | By ex-Deloitte Powerpoint Designers.
Architecture diagrams are a great way to communicate your design, deployment, and topology. On this page you will find an official collection of AWS Architecture Icons (formerly Simple Icons) that contain AWS product icons, resources, and other tools to help you build diagrams.
Slide guide for consulting-style presentationsreallygoodppts
This document presents the guidelines used by top-tier consulting firms to craft effective presentations.
All the top-tier management consulting firms have templates and ‘style-guides’ to ensure consistent quality. Until now, these guides have been locked up inside corporate firewalls. For the first time, ReallyGoodPowerPoints has made these building blocks for consulting-style presentations available to the public
3d Powerpoint Templates including Spheres & Cubes in PowerpointAurelien Domont, MBA
Go to www.slidebooks.com to Represent your Ideas Quickly & Visually by Downloading and Reusing Now 3d Powerpoint Templates including Spheres & Cubes | By ex-Deloitte Powerpoint Designers.
Architecture diagrams are a great way to communicate your design, deployment, and topology. On this page you will find an official collection of AWS Architecture Icons (formerly Simple Icons) that contain AWS product icons, resources, and other tools to help you build diagrams.
Slide guide for consulting-style presentationsreallygoodppts
This document presents the guidelines used by top-tier consulting firms to craft effective presentations.
All the top-tier management consulting firms have templates and ‘style-guides’ to ensure consistent quality. Until now, these guides have been locked up inside corporate firewalls. For the first time, ReallyGoodPowerPoints has made these building blocks for consulting-style presentations available to the public
Leveraging AWS Cloudfront & S3 Services to Deliver Static Assets of a SPAJohn Varghese
Most new SAAS are structured as a SPA (single page applications). In this presentation we will discuss how to reduce the load on your application servers by serving the static assets of your applications from the S3 service by leveraging the Cloudfront service.
AWS Transit Gateway-Benefits and Best PracticesJohn Varghese
Managing connectivity between many Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks can be operationally complex and costly. In this tech talk, we will discuss how AWS transit gateway simplifies network architecture, reduces operational costs and improves security. We will also discuss best practices for designing and monitoring a global network using AWS transit gateway and Network Manager.
Bridging Operations and Development With ObservabiltyJohn Varghese
Monitoring and observability are often viewed as post-deployment tools focused on operations. But development done in isolation limits visibility to the system as a whole, and issues tend to manifest only in production.
In this talk I will show:
How to leverage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to manage AWS ECS/EC2 and Datadog across development and production environments
How introducing monitoring and observability earlier provides greater visibility for both developers and operations.
Strategies to segment development and production environments within ECS and Datadog
Security Observability for Cloud Based ApplicationsJohn Varghese
You can't control what you can't see. Security observability is an intrinsic attribute of an application that provides direct observation of software vulnerabilities and attempted exploits as they happen, in order to allow rapid proactive remediation and prevention. Security Observability can be achieved by taking an instrumentation based approach that provides continuous visibility and exposure of vulnerabilities and threats and their context from within the software itself. This approach is particularly appropriate for cloud-based and hybridized distributed environments, because the instrumentation is agnostic to deployment methodologies and runtime environments. A demonstration will be provided that demonstrates the benefits of this approach for both custom code and open source dependencies, as well as across the software development lifecycle, showing both the rapid pinpointing of line-of-code level vulnerabilities for developers, and realtime exploit prevention in production.
Usually we launch hundreds of instances in AWS for day to day work. As long as they are accessible from our hosts (probably a RHEL or Ubuntu or your own mac), we are good to go. But there are some instances where you might get a patch from IT for your host. Once you apply the patch, you realize that you are unable to access your AWS instances anymore. And your IT team doesn't have any clue on what happened. You contact AWS support, and they say it all looks good. So how do you proceed from this scenario? Where to start and what to do. This talk goes through all the steps starting with most basic checks all the way to updating the crypto key exchange algorithms on your host.
Building an IoT System to Protect My LunchJohn Varghese
What do you do when your dog keeps eyeing your lunch? Build an IoT monitoring system to make sure you get a text message every time she gets close to nabbing your sandwich! In this presentation, you’ll learn the basics of connecting a Raspberry Pi device with a PIR sensor to AWS IoT. You’ll see how to:
Secure the connection between the device and AWS IoT
Leverage services like AWS Lambda to act on MQTT events that come from the device
Build a web portal to keep track of past alerts
And send yourself text notifications whenever your sandwich is at risk After the presentation, you'll have access to all the code used and other resources on getting started with using a Raspberry Pi and AWS IoT.
Amazon S3 probably gets a lot of use at your company—the object storage service was one of the first cloud services offered by AWS way back in 2006. Its ease of use, reliability, and scalability have proven incredibly popular over the years.
But S3 security isn’t so simple—it’s easy to get wrong and think you got it right. Recent high-profile cloud-based data breaches that involved S3 cannot be chalked up to simple customer mistakes. Rather, advanced cloud misconfiguration attacks exploit S3 buckets that otherwise appear to be configured securely.
In this talk, Fugue CTO Josh Stella will dig into the complex layers of S3 security to help you think critically about security for your unique AWS use cases. You’ll understand how other AWS services such as IAM and EC2 can create S3 vulnerabilities you may not be seeing—and how malicious actors exploit them.
Reduce Amazon RDS Costs up to 50% with ProxiesJohn Varghese
Amazon RDS is one of the more expensive line items in an AWS bill. In this session, we will discuss techniques to offload SQL for improved performance while reducing database costs. Features include:
Query caching into Amazon ElastiCache
Read/Write split We will go over customer case studies on how they were able to drive down costs while scaling out.
John will talk about how progress happens constantly in every field and keeps pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. He will review the advances in the field of cloud computing as a microcosm where progress is always happening on every front. How does one keep up with the change? Is it just good enough to keep up with the change? John wants you to not just keep up with the changes, not just stay ahead of the curve, but to lead the change so that your work benefits everyone.
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.
Leveraging AWS Cloudfront & S3 Services to Deliver Static Assets of a SPAJohn Varghese
Most new SAAS are structured as a SPA (single page applications). In this presentation we will discuss how to reduce the load on your application servers by serving the static assets of your applications from the S3 service by leveraging the Cloudfront service.
AWS Transit Gateway-Benefits and Best PracticesJohn Varghese
Managing connectivity between many Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks can be operationally complex and costly. In this tech talk, we will discuss how AWS transit gateway simplifies network architecture, reduces operational costs and improves security. We will also discuss best practices for designing and monitoring a global network using AWS transit gateway and Network Manager.
Bridging Operations and Development With ObservabiltyJohn Varghese
Monitoring and observability are often viewed as post-deployment tools focused on operations. But development done in isolation limits visibility to the system as a whole, and issues tend to manifest only in production.
In this talk I will show:
How to leverage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to manage AWS ECS/EC2 and Datadog across development and production environments
How introducing monitoring and observability earlier provides greater visibility for both developers and operations.
Strategies to segment development and production environments within ECS and Datadog
Security Observability for Cloud Based ApplicationsJohn Varghese
You can't control what you can't see. Security observability is an intrinsic attribute of an application that provides direct observation of software vulnerabilities and attempted exploits as they happen, in order to allow rapid proactive remediation and prevention. Security Observability can be achieved by taking an instrumentation based approach that provides continuous visibility and exposure of vulnerabilities and threats and their context from within the software itself. This approach is particularly appropriate for cloud-based and hybridized distributed environments, because the instrumentation is agnostic to deployment methodologies and runtime environments. A demonstration will be provided that demonstrates the benefits of this approach for both custom code and open source dependencies, as well as across the software development lifecycle, showing both the rapid pinpointing of line-of-code level vulnerabilities for developers, and realtime exploit prevention in production.
Usually we launch hundreds of instances in AWS for day to day work. As long as they are accessible from our hosts (probably a RHEL or Ubuntu or your own mac), we are good to go. But there are some instances where you might get a patch from IT for your host. Once you apply the patch, you realize that you are unable to access your AWS instances anymore. And your IT team doesn't have any clue on what happened. You contact AWS support, and they say it all looks good. So how do you proceed from this scenario? Where to start and what to do. This talk goes through all the steps starting with most basic checks all the way to updating the crypto key exchange algorithms on your host.
Building an IoT System to Protect My LunchJohn Varghese
What do you do when your dog keeps eyeing your lunch? Build an IoT monitoring system to make sure you get a text message every time she gets close to nabbing your sandwich! In this presentation, you’ll learn the basics of connecting a Raspberry Pi device with a PIR sensor to AWS IoT. You’ll see how to:
Secure the connection between the device and AWS IoT
Leverage services like AWS Lambda to act on MQTT events that come from the device
Build a web portal to keep track of past alerts
And send yourself text notifications whenever your sandwich is at risk After the presentation, you'll have access to all the code used and other resources on getting started with using a Raspberry Pi and AWS IoT.
Amazon S3 probably gets a lot of use at your company—the object storage service was one of the first cloud services offered by AWS way back in 2006. Its ease of use, reliability, and scalability have proven incredibly popular over the years.
But S3 security isn’t so simple—it’s easy to get wrong and think you got it right. Recent high-profile cloud-based data breaches that involved S3 cannot be chalked up to simple customer mistakes. Rather, advanced cloud misconfiguration attacks exploit S3 buckets that otherwise appear to be configured securely.
In this talk, Fugue CTO Josh Stella will dig into the complex layers of S3 security to help you think critically about security for your unique AWS use cases. You’ll understand how other AWS services such as IAM and EC2 can create S3 vulnerabilities you may not be seeing—and how malicious actors exploit them.
Reduce Amazon RDS Costs up to 50% with ProxiesJohn Varghese
Amazon RDS is one of the more expensive line items in an AWS bill. In this session, we will discuss techniques to offload SQL for improved performance while reducing database costs. Features include:
Query caching into Amazon ElastiCache
Read/Write split We will go over customer case studies on how they were able to drive down costs while scaling out.
John will talk about how progress happens constantly in every field and keeps pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. He will review the advances in the field of cloud computing as a microcosm where progress is always happening on every front. How does one keep up with the change? Is it just good enough to keep up with the change? John wants you to not just keep up with the changes, not just stay ahead of the curve, but to lead the change so that your work benefits everyone.
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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
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.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
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.
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.
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
"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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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