Companies are using the AWS cloud to enable faster disaster recovery of their critical IT systems without incurring the infrastructure expense of a second physical site. In a few hours, Evgeny Rudinsky, Solutions Architect at CloudBerry Lab, will talk about a set of cloud-based disaster recovery services AWS provides to enable rapid recovery of your IT infrastructure and data.
Companies are using the AWS cloud to enable faster disaster recovery of their critical IT systems without incurring the infrastructure expense of a second physical site. In a few hours, Evgeny Rudinsky, Solutions Architect at CloudBerry Lab, will talk about a set of cloud-based disaster recovery services AWS provides to enable rapid recovery of your IT infrastructure and data.
This presentation covers how to use CloudFormation for deploying customized services on AWS. It goes through the background and advantages, as well as some commonly-used functions. Presented by Joseph Maxwell: lead developer at SwiftOtter Studios.
Amazon EBS Snapshot is an easy to use feature that backs up your data on an Amazon EBS volume. This session covers filesystem selection (XFS, ext*, etc.), quiescing of the filesystem, tagging of snapshots, and life-cycle management of snapshots. In this session, we introduce two new OSS tools. One tool manages arrays of snapshots using tagging, making it easier to snapshot and recover a RAID array of Amazon EBS volumes; another tool manages snapshots of root volumes across an AWS account, and automatically snapshotting and applying lifecycle management to root volume snapshots.
AWS re:Invent re:Cap 행사에서 발표된 강연 자료입니다. 아마존 웹서비스의 양승도 솔루션스 아키텍트가 발표한 내용입니다.
내용 요약: re:Invent에서 새로 발표된 Amazon Aurora는 My-SQL과 호환되는 관계형 데이터베이스 엔진으로, 상용 고급 데이터베이스의 속도 및 가용성과 오픈소스 데이터베이스의 간편함 및 비용효율성을 모두 갖춘 서비스입니다. 이 세션에서는 MySQL과 Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL에 이어 Amazon RDS로 구동되는 다섯 번째 데이터베이스 엔진 Amazon Aurora의 특징과 이점에 대해 소개하도록 하겠습니다.
Scaling MongoDB on Amazon Web Services (DAT209) | AWS re:Invent 2013Amazon Web Services
Over the past year, mobile in-app feedback provider Apptentive has scaled MongoDB on AWS from a single machine to a sharded, thousands-of-operations-per-second, several hundred gigabyte cluster. This session—packed with demos, code, and actual performance numbers—shares the lessons learned along the way. Topics include picking the right tools for the job (instance sizing and selection, I/O choices, and topological choices); using chef/AWS OpsWorks and AWS CloudFormation to deploy and scale; monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch and MMS; managing backups with Amazon EBS snapshots; and using Amazon Elastic MapReduce alongside MongoDB instances.
Simple Service for Managing Pools of 10s or 100s of Virtual Machines
With Provisionr we want to solve the problem of cloud portability by hiding completely the API and only focusing on building a cluster that matches the same set of assumptions on all clouds, assumptions like: running a specific operating system (e.g. Ubuntu LTS), having the same set of pre-installed packages and binaries, sane dns settings (forward & reverse ip resolution - as needed for Hadoop), ntp settings, networking settings, ssh admin access, vpn access etc.
This presentation covers how to use CloudFormation for deploying customized services on AWS. It goes through the background and advantages, as well as some commonly-used functions. Presented by Joseph Maxwell: lead developer at SwiftOtter Studios.
Amazon EBS Snapshot is an easy to use feature that backs up your data on an Amazon EBS volume. This session covers filesystem selection (XFS, ext*, etc.), quiescing of the filesystem, tagging of snapshots, and life-cycle management of snapshots. In this session, we introduce two new OSS tools. One tool manages arrays of snapshots using tagging, making it easier to snapshot and recover a RAID array of Amazon EBS volumes; another tool manages snapshots of root volumes across an AWS account, and automatically snapshotting and applying lifecycle management to root volume snapshots.
AWS re:Invent re:Cap 행사에서 발표된 강연 자료입니다. 아마존 웹서비스의 양승도 솔루션스 아키텍트가 발표한 내용입니다.
내용 요약: re:Invent에서 새로 발표된 Amazon Aurora는 My-SQL과 호환되는 관계형 데이터베이스 엔진으로, 상용 고급 데이터베이스의 속도 및 가용성과 오픈소스 데이터베이스의 간편함 및 비용효율성을 모두 갖춘 서비스입니다. 이 세션에서는 MySQL과 Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL에 이어 Amazon RDS로 구동되는 다섯 번째 데이터베이스 엔진 Amazon Aurora의 특징과 이점에 대해 소개하도록 하겠습니다.
Scaling MongoDB on Amazon Web Services (DAT209) | AWS re:Invent 2013Amazon Web Services
Over the past year, mobile in-app feedback provider Apptentive has scaled MongoDB on AWS from a single machine to a sharded, thousands-of-operations-per-second, several hundred gigabyte cluster. This session—packed with demos, code, and actual performance numbers—shares the lessons learned along the way. Topics include picking the right tools for the job (instance sizing and selection, I/O choices, and topological choices); using chef/AWS OpsWorks and AWS CloudFormation to deploy and scale; monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch and MMS; managing backups with Amazon EBS snapshots; and using Amazon Elastic MapReduce alongside MongoDB instances.
Simple Service for Managing Pools of 10s or 100s of Virtual Machines
With Provisionr we want to solve the problem of cloud portability by hiding completely the API and only focusing on building a cluster that matches the same set of assumptions on all clouds, assumptions like: running a specific operating system (e.g. Ubuntu LTS), having the same set of pre-installed packages and binaries, sane dns settings (forward & reverse ip resolution - as needed for Hadoop), ntp settings, networking settings, ssh admin access, vpn access etc.
Nuts and bolts of running a popular site in the aws cloudDavid Veksler
I will share how we develop and host a popular publishing platform in the cloud with a limited budget and technology team.
We'll cover architecture, including a variety of services at Amazon Web Services such as elastic load balancing, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, and RDS in the context of a real site.
We'll cover how we control costs with Spot and burstable instances and scale up with distributed caching.
Finally we'll discuss continuous deployment strategies for Windows and Linux-based cloud applications in the context of a distributed team using an agile process.
Understanding Elastic Block Store Availability and PerformanceAmazon Web Services
Depending on your application needs, Elastic Block Store’s volumes can be configured for optimal performance and higher availability. In this session, we will present the different design characteristics of EBS Standard and Provisioned IOPS volumes, provide technical insights on how to think about EBS performance and availability, and share best practices to achieve higher availability and performance.
AWS September Webinar Series - Visual Effects Rendering in the AWS Cloud with...Amazon Web Services
Visual effects rendering has traditionally been a time consuming, resource intensive process. As a result, content producers are moving rendering workloads to the AWS cloud to take advantage of the scalable, on-demand compute resources that can accelerate their rendering workloads.
By attending this webinar, you will learn how to create a scalable rendering infrastructure to grow your farm for any size workload, reduce overall processing time with on-demand and reserve compute instances, and move to a project based cost structure. You will also learn how to implement hybrid rendering workloads using Thinkbox dependency manager.
Learning Objectives:
How to use AWS Cloud to rapidly scale up and down rendering infrastructure to power ThinkBox Deadline software in the cloud for visual effects rendering
Who should attend:
IT administrators, rendering and visual effects professionals
Big Data Day LA 2015 - Lessons learned from scaling Big Data in the Cloud by...Data Con LA
Companies analyzing big data help achieve important business objectives such as customer retention, real-time in-context marketing, omni-channel marketing productivity, campaign productivity and operational efficiencies. Cloud-based big data architectures create lower risk, lower startup costs and faster time-to-market. This session will examine the key advantages from deploying big data in the cloud, such as the flexibility to auto scale and the ability to experiment with on-demand and hybrid nodes. We will also discuss lessons learned from big data in the cloud, such as how to avoid bottlenecks by building caches or how to design instances to leverage spotting.
There and Back Again: How We Drank the Chef Kool-Aid, Sobered Up, and Learned...Chef
From ChefConf 2015.
https://youtu.be/FI5sQQh8aKw
When we first began using chef at Parse, we fell in love with it. Chef became our source of truth for everything. Bootstrapping, config files, package management, deploying software, service registration & discovery, db provisioning and backups and restores, cluster management, _everything_. But at some point we reached Peak Chef and realized our usage model was starting to cause more problems than it was solving for us. We still love the pants off of chef, but it is not the right tool for every job in every environment. I'll talk about the evolution of Parse's chef infrastructure, what we've opted to move out of chef, and some of the tradeoffs involved in using chef vs other tools.
Configuring and maintaining a continuous integration environment is quite a bit of work. It requires ongoing resources both in terms of manpower and hardware infrastructure. As an application evolves so does the number of ongoing projects. The challenge is creating a scalable continuous integration environment which does not impede development and can handle the complexities of Java EE testing. This session covers how to setup and configure a cloud-based continuous integration environment for Java EE applications.
The presentation will focus on demonstrating how to use Atlassian Bamboo running on AWS to build and test a Maven/Gradle Java EE project that uses Arquillian for testing. Topics that will be covered include creating a custom AWS VM for use with Bamboo, creating an Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) along with test database using Amazon RDS. The presentation will delve into the specifics of testing EJBs, WebSocket endpoints, RESTful web services, as well as performing load testing in this environment. Security, cost control, and build monitoring will be covered as well.
FOSS4G In The Cloud: Using Open Source to build Cloud based Spatial Infrastru...Mohamed Sayed
Using Open Source and Cloud Computing principles, these slides walk through the architectural patterns for building scalable cloud services. The second part of the presentation focuses on profiling common geolocation tasks like importing large datasets and rendering map tiles.
Why Scale Matters and How the Cloud is Really Different (at scale)Amazon Web Services
Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as being able to scale your application on demand. As a new business looking to use the cloud, you inevitably ask yourself, "Where do I start?" Join us in this session to understand best practices for scaling your resources from zero to millions of users. We will show you how to best combine different AWS services, make smarter decisions for architecting your application, and best practices for scaling your infrastructure in the cloud.
Presenter:
Santanu Dutt, Solution Architect, Amazon Internet Services
Vinayak Hegde, Vice President – Engineering, Helpshift
Sunny Saxena, Product Lead, Sprinklr
AWS Summit 2013 | Auckland - Your First Week with Amazon EC2Amazon Web Services
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and is often the starting point for your first week using AWS. This session will introduce these concepts, along with the fundamentals of EC2, by employing an agile approach that is made possible by the cloud. Attendees will experience the reality of what a first week on EC2 looks like from the perspective of someone deploying an actual application on EC2. You will follow them as they progress from deploying their entire application from an EC2 AMI on day 1 to more advanced features and patterns available in EC2 by day 5. Throughout the process we will identify cloud best practices that can be applied to your first week on EC2 and beyond.
Similar to LocalSocial, Dial2Do and the Cloud (20)
This is a getting started guide to help retailers and partners evaluate the LocalSocial In-Store Engagement platform. LocalSocial is a soup-to-nuts proximity platform that supports iBeacon (among other things).
This guide covers the basics of setting up a Merchant Account, configuring in-store welcome messages, product cards, promotions and loyalty points, and setting up your iBeacons / BLE Beacons so that they're available in your merchant account.
Videos available here: https://vimeo.com/album/3328680
Our slides from a presentation at AppsWorld London Nov 2014 covering iBeacon, Proximity, Retail, In-Store Engagement and more. Covers our belief in the power of proximity as a force for good. Don't push offers, instead, acquire great data!
Slides from a talk by LocalSocial at NFC World Congress describing how Savills used LocalSocial and iBeacon during the launch of a new housing development in Dublin, Ireland. An app provided greetings and contextual information about the house as visitors walked through the showhouses, and Savills got in-depth analytics around visit and dwell behaviours across the showhouse areas.
Indoor Location / iBeacon @ Digital Summit Ireland by LocalSocialSean O'Sullivan
Slides from a talk we gave at the 5th Digital Media Summit in Ireland, covering Indoor Location Technologies, iBeacon, Proximity Platforms, Use Cases and some takeaways.
LocalSocial is a proximity platform that makes it easy to add in-store engagement features to a Retailer's mobile apps and services. Using in-store beacons powered by Low Energy Bluetooth, WiFi and NFC, it makes it easy for Retailers to offer Loyalty Points for Walk-ins, trigger offers and specials just for being in-store, and create apps that can be smart about where the customer is located. LocalSocial provides Retailers with greater insight about their store visitors, deepens engagement with customers, and helps drive the customer conversation.
LocalSocial Presentation from WIMA NFC Conference : Beyond The Check-In. A quick tour of current state of retail and mobile, with LocalSocial positioned among the players.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
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.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
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
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
3. Motivation
• Ease of use / Speed of use
• Experimentation
• AMIs
• Flexibility
• Pricing
4. LocalSocial
• S3
– Stores our AMI
– Fedora 8 from AWS
– Plus all our own stuff (RoR, Scripts, …)
• EC2
– One “small instance” Server
• 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2
Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
– Runs our AMI fulltime
– Two domains right now
• gigmonkey.com
• mylocalsocial.com
– And our VPN
• EBS
– Connected to running EC2 Instance
– Persistent Store for all mySQL DBs
7. LocalSocial: Tools etc.
• Wrote some wrappers around the command line tools
– start_instance: start a new instance of our Base AMI
– attach_database_volume: mount our EBS volume to our EC2 instance
• Gets a new instance running with the required EBS volume (with our
mySQL DB) mounted.
• Also have commands to do with bundling up the AMI. Used if we make
system changes that want to reflect across all newly started instances.
– Excludes our application code - this is deployed after the instance is started.
• Start to finish deploy
– 1. Start new Instance of Base AMI
– 2. Attach the DB EBS volume
– 3. Setup our application environment (Capistrano deploy:setup)
– 4. Deploy our application from our SVN repository.
– 5. Restart services
• Backup tasks
– backup : wraps the ec2 snapshot command (creates a snapshot of our
EBS volume)
– Did this ourselves, but may use ec2onrails in future
8. Dial2Do: CloudFront
• Amazon's CDN service
• Delivery of static assets
– e.g. images, javascript, stylesheets
– Huge increase in speed (3x to 10x depending….)
• Drawback
– Can't manually expire the local caches in CF
– If you upload a new image it's fine
– If you update a CSS file without changing it's name then the
change will not be picked up for 24 hours.
• Workarounds
– Version every filename (a pain!),
– Use multiple "buckets" in Amazon
14. Wish List / to be done…
• Auto scaling
• Cost management
• Monitoring
15. Conclusions
• Nowadays: This stuff works!
• Excellent for startups
– Contrast with “old days”
• Killer combo
– Virtualisation
– On-demand compute and storage
• Gets better month by month
– The “grid” is becoming a reality