There are a lot of great things about the cloud, but the "destroy and rebuild" philosophy which is really good for building a continuous delivery pipeline, really sucks when applied to troubleshooting production problems. When your application goes haywire, the most valuable engineering skill is not the the ability to bring up a copy of your system or even the knowledge of your technology stack (although it doesn't hurt). It is the skill of understanding and solving problems.
Finding the root cause of the issue and mitigating it with minimal disruption in production is a must-have skill for engineers responsible for managing and maintaining production systems, which nowadays includes ops, dbas and devs alike. In this talk I will discuss the skills required to troubleshoot complex systems, traits that prevent engineers from being successful at troubleshooting and discuss some techniques and tips and trick for troubleshooting complex systems in production.
There are a lot of great things about the cloud, but the "destroy and rebuild" philosophy which is really good for building a continuous delivery pipeline, really sucks when applied to troubleshooting production problems. When your application goes haywire, the most valuable engineering skill is not the the ability to bring up a copy of your system or even the knowledge of your technology stack (although it doesn't hurt). It is the skill of understanding and solving problems.
Finding the root cause of the issue and mitigating it with minimal disruption in production is a must-have skill for engineers responsible for managing and maintaining production systems, which nowadays includes ops, dbas and devs alike. In this talk I will discuss the skills required to troubleshoot complex systems, traits that prevent engineers from being successful at troubleshooting and discuss some techniques and tips and trick for troubleshooting complex systems in production.
We’ve all heard culture is vital to creating and sustaining a healthy organization. It was even Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year in 2014. We also know culture is notoriously hard to describe in a meaningful way. Even harder than describing culture is demonstrating its contribution to organizational performance.
Culture’s importance is reinforced in the DevOps movement as the “C” in “CALMS” – one of the key aspects of DevOps. Culture also shapes how an organization shares information – “sharing” being the “S” in “CALMS” and another key aspect of DevOps.
But for all its importance, we’ve had few tools and limited research to describe or quantify culture.
Or so we thought. Work from Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Sydney Dekker, Dr. Ron Westrum, and the State of DevOps Reports is all contributing to our understanding of culture and how it impacts the performance of an organization and its people.
This talk will discuss how culture connects to organizational performance, vocabulary for how to describe culture, research about the effects of culture, an d tactics you can use to change your culture for the better.
Best Practices for IT management: Investment‐based BudgetingDevOpsDays Baltimore
Or How to actually win the budget argument for the people you need.
Have you heard, "I'm going to need you to reduce your IT budget by 10% this year over last year" from an executive who didn't know the business impact of this request? Did your budget help you or hinder you in fighting him off?
This is the bittersweet story of Continuous Integration. CI is practice that we fell in love with, embraced and then never fully committed to. I’ll share with you the current state of CI, what we think we are doing when we say CI and what we are really doing in terms of CI. Then I’ll remind us all why we fell in love with CI in the first place and make some suggestions on how to get back to the good stuff.
The worldwide DevOps community is strong and growing every year. Last year there were 42 DevOps Days conferences. These conferences are all organized by local community volunteers who are passionate about DevOps. The first DevOps Days in Baltimore is an inflection point for the local community. Let’s look back on the history of DevOps through the eyes of someone who’s been a community participant from the early days of the movement. As we do so, we’ll look at some tips you can takeaway to help make sure your DevOps Days Baltimore experience is delightful. We'll also discuss ways that you can help build and participate in the local DevOps community. Hear about some successful teams are incorporating lessons learned from open source, DevOps, and other communities. Leave with some ideas of things to try in your own environment. Be prepared to learn, be prepared to make new friends, and, most importantly, be prepared to be surprised.
Getting Away from it All - Living an Unplugged Life as an IT ProDevOpsDays Baltimore
Plan a digital cleanse! Schedule a technology detox days! Unplug to Reconnect!
The internet is littered with articles promoting the benefits of getting away from our devices. They aren't wrong, but most frame such an activity as a rare event, one that falls somewhere between darning your socks and filing your taxes in terms of frequency.
Believe it or not, there is sizable group within the IT professional community who do exactly that every week. For 25 hours, they turn off more than just their cell phones. Anything with an on switch is off-limits, from cell phones and computers to televisions and toaster ovens. As extreme as some may see that lifestyle, there are lessons which can be learned even for the occasional email hiatus.
This talk offers insight into:
current research (along with his own experience) on the benefits of unplugging
what disconnecting from all tech on a weekly basis "looks like" - how it really works
The challenges and risks of disconnecting specifically for an IT pro.
Options for negotiating those challenges and mitigating the risk
This talk is for anyone who has ever considered taking a break from tech, whether for an hour, a day, or longer; or anyone who heard about people who disconnect and called them freaky crazy luddites, whether to their face or behind their back.
Product owners are under pressure from Marketing and Leadership to focus on features, while operability (availability, performance, monitoring, etc) are an afterthought to be bolted on later. Deployments fail, customers complain, and work isn't fun. How can DevOps reach out to Product?
People from a "Product background" often have zero technical experience, but find themselves needing to dictate the deliverables. Product owners are under great pressure from Marketing and Leadership to focus on "features" from a customer perspective; the so-called "non-functional requirements" often fall by the wayside. Operability - monitorabilty, recoverability, availability, performance, among other aspects - is difficult to bake into an application that was developed without such consideration.
This talk will present practical approaches to bridge-building between Ops and Product. Focusing especially on cross-functional Agile teams with leadership with little or no Ops background, we will explore whether "planning the work will result in the planned work being the work that is done." When working with a mixed team, doing development, deployment, incident response, and everything in support of that, such plans go off the rails. Methods of championing Ops needs while avoiding "the sky is falling" perceptions will be presented. What kinds of unplanned work exist? Are there steps we can take to convert unplanned work into planned work? How does work flow through the team? How does unplanned work disrupt the flow?
In high security environments, we are often behind proxies, firewalls or obnoxious corporate policies that disallow access to Github or RubyGems. What gives?! In this session, I will talk about what problems we need to solve to build and manage environments in an offline world and how infrastructure as code is at the heart of making it happen.
There are a lot of great things about the cloud, but the "destroy and rebuild" philosophy which is really good for building a continuous delivery pipeline, really sucks when applied to troubleshooting production problems. When your application goes haywire, the most valuable engineering skill is not the the ability to bring up a copy of your system or even the knowledge of your technology stack (although it doesn't hurt). It is the skill of understanding and solving problems.
Finding the root cause of the issue and mitigating it with minimal disruption in production is a must-have skill for engineers responsible for managing and maintaining production systems, which nowadays includes ops, dbas and devs alike. In this talk I will discuss the skills required to troubleshoot complex systems, traits that prevent engineers from being successful at troubleshooting and discuss some techniques and tips and trick for troubleshooting complex systems in production.
We’ve all heard culture is vital to creating and sustaining a healthy organization. It was even Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year in 2014. We also know culture is notoriously hard to describe in a meaningful way. Even harder than describing culture is demonstrating its contribution to organizational performance.
Culture’s importance is reinforced in the DevOps movement as the “C” in “CALMS” – one of the key aspects of DevOps. Culture also shapes how an organization shares information – “sharing” being the “S” in “CALMS” and another key aspect of DevOps.
But for all its importance, we’ve had few tools and limited research to describe or quantify culture.
Or so we thought. Work from Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Sydney Dekker, Dr. Ron Westrum, and the State of DevOps Reports is all contributing to our understanding of culture and how it impacts the performance of an organization and its people.
This talk will discuss how culture connects to organizational performance, vocabulary for how to describe culture, research about the effects of culture, an d tactics you can use to change your culture for the better.
Best Practices for IT management: Investment‐based BudgetingDevOpsDays Baltimore
Or How to actually win the budget argument for the people you need.
Have you heard, "I'm going to need you to reduce your IT budget by 10% this year over last year" from an executive who didn't know the business impact of this request? Did your budget help you or hinder you in fighting him off?
This is the bittersweet story of Continuous Integration. CI is practice that we fell in love with, embraced and then never fully committed to. I’ll share with you the current state of CI, what we think we are doing when we say CI and what we are really doing in terms of CI. Then I’ll remind us all why we fell in love with CI in the first place and make some suggestions on how to get back to the good stuff.
The worldwide DevOps community is strong and growing every year. Last year there were 42 DevOps Days conferences. These conferences are all organized by local community volunteers who are passionate about DevOps. The first DevOps Days in Baltimore is an inflection point for the local community. Let’s look back on the history of DevOps through the eyes of someone who’s been a community participant from the early days of the movement. As we do so, we’ll look at some tips you can takeaway to help make sure your DevOps Days Baltimore experience is delightful. We'll also discuss ways that you can help build and participate in the local DevOps community. Hear about some successful teams are incorporating lessons learned from open source, DevOps, and other communities. Leave with some ideas of things to try in your own environment. Be prepared to learn, be prepared to make new friends, and, most importantly, be prepared to be surprised.
Getting Away from it All - Living an Unplugged Life as an IT ProDevOpsDays Baltimore
Plan a digital cleanse! Schedule a technology detox days! Unplug to Reconnect!
The internet is littered with articles promoting the benefits of getting away from our devices. They aren't wrong, but most frame such an activity as a rare event, one that falls somewhere between darning your socks and filing your taxes in terms of frequency.
Believe it or not, there is sizable group within the IT professional community who do exactly that every week. For 25 hours, they turn off more than just their cell phones. Anything with an on switch is off-limits, from cell phones and computers to televisions and toaster ovens. As extreme as some may see that lifestyle, there are lessons which can be learned even for the occasional email hiatus.
This talk offers insight into:
current research (along with his own experience) on the benefits of unplugging
what disconnecting from all tech on a weekly basis "looks like" - how it really works
The challenges and risks of disconnecting specifically for an IT pro.
Options for negotiating those challenges and mitigating the risk
This talk is for anyone who has ever considered taking a break from tech, whether for an hour, a day, or longer; or anyone who heard about people who disconnect and called them freaky crazy luddites, whether to their face or behind their back.
Product owners are under pressure from Marketing and Leadership to focus on features, while operability (availability, performance, monitoring, etc) are an afterthought to be bolted on later. Deployments fail, customers complain, and work isn't fun. How can DevOps reach out to Product?
People from a "Product background" often have zero technical experience, but find themselves needing to dictate the deliverables. Product owners are under great pressure from Marketing and Leadership to focus on "features" from a customer perspective; the so-called "non-functional requirements" often fall by the wayside. Operability - monitorabilty, recoverability, availability, performance, among other aspects - is difficult to bake into an application that was developed without such consideration.
This talk will present practical approaches to bridge-building between Ops and Product. Focusing especially on cross-functional Agile teams with leadership with little or no Ops background, we will explore whether "planning the work will result in the planned work being the work that is done." When working with a mixed team, doing development, deployment, incident response, and everything in support of that, such plans go off the rails. Methods of championing Ops needs while avoiding "the sky is falling" perceptions will be presented. What kinds of unplanned work exist? Are there steps we can take to convert unplanned work into planned work? How does work flow through the team? How does unplanned work disrupt the flow?
In high security environments, we are often behind proxies, firewalls or obnoxious corporate policies that disallow access to Github or RubyGems. What gives?! In this session, I will talk about what problems we need to solve to build and manage environments in an offline world and how infrastructure as code is at the heart of making it happen.
A3 Thinking is a proven technique for developing a learning organization enabled to drive rapid cycles of continual improvement, but the original method needs some tweaks to work best in a DevOps context. This Ignite talk will provide a quick overview of A3 Thinking and its roots. Then I’ll discuss how DevOps practitioners are modifying A3 Thinking to better fit DevOps. I’ll close with some suggestions on other ways in which the A3 could be modified to meet the needs of DevOps teams. Links to sources for those interested in learning more about A3 Thinking and DevOps will be provided.
Artificial intelligence, bots and agents, conversational interfaces, IoT, and cyborgs. Until recently, such things were more hype than substance, but now, the awaited brave new world may actually be dawning. “Pokémon GO anyone?” says Alexa. This talk will explore what these advances means for DevOps conceptually and practically. How do we help our organizations and communities deliver “applications” across multiple senses, devices, media, and realities with the same level of speed, agility, precision, and security we have achieved in much simpler realms?
CompTIA exam study guide presentations by instructor Brian Ferrill, PACE-IT (Progressive, Accelerated Certifications for Employment in Information Technology)
"Funded by the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Grant #TC-23745-12-60-A-53"
Learn more about the PACE-IT Online program: www.edcc.edu/pace-it
In-depth Troubleshooting on NetScaler using Command Line ToolsDavid McGeough
Webinar recording - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/753997104
Citrix NetScaler has a rich Web-based management suite of tools available. To dig deep troubleshooting NetScaler, sometimes it’s best to roll up your sleeves and dig out the command line!
The goal of this session is to demystify some useful command line tools and provide a tactical approach to troubleshooting of NetScaler.
In this session we will demonstrate troubleshooting approaches using the command line and many tips for common issues seen in customer deployments.
In this session you will learn about:
· Differences between NetScaler kernel and BSD
· Processes and disk layout
· Look up stats and statuses
· Troubleshoot using various different logs
· Use counters to help identify issues
Explains what troubleshooting is, what skills are involved, and clears up some common misconceptions. Originally designed with IT Helpdesks in mind, but it could apply to any kind of troubleshooting.
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Wrote this a VERY long time ago! I always meant to revisit/revamp it, but never quite got round to it. But people seem to get value from it, so I'll leave it up :)
How to Become a Thought Leader in Your NicheLeslie Samuel
Are bloggers thought leaders? Here are some tips on how you can become one. Provide great value, put awesome content out there on a regular basis, and help others.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018: Black Mirror Season 5: DevOps - Brendan O'LearyDevOpsDays Baltimore
Black Mirror presents a haunting view of how modern technology places society a “minute away” from a dystopian future. DevOps and those of us that practice it find ourselves in a similar situation - partially mature technologies whose implications we don’t yet fully understand. Heartbleed, Equifax and now Meltdown & Spectre can make us feel like there is no escaping this dark future. But just as Black Mirror examines the extremes of these concepts as a canary in the mine shaft for society, we too can carefully employ practices that will prevent season 5 from featuring Site reliability engineer, DevOps engineer, or CISO characters.
In this talk, we'll learn how to use the powerful concepts and tools behind DevOps for good...with great power comes great responsibility....but also great opportunity to do good for our businesses, each other and our world. By working together with product, business, and external teams; embedding security into how we operate; and measuring everything we do we can empower our teams to thrive.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018:: Avoiding pitfalls of non technical managers - Vic...DevOpsDays Baltimore
This talk is intended to help folks who are managing technical projects avoid common pitfalls, and help technical teams better prepare managers for overall project success.
Every day we make decisions. Those decisions can be around improving your product, process, company; sometimes even bettering yourself. But many of our decisions are not made consciously. We all have biases. And even though most of our biases are unconscious, those biases still can get in a way of making the best possible decision. This is not a talk about gender and racial bias in tech hiring (altho I will also touch on hiring procedures and biases). This is a talk about different biases that skew our technical decision process that we deal with in out day-to-day operations.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018: A Definition of Done for DevSecOps - Gene GotimerDevOpsDays Baltimore
DevOps cannot be achieved without considering many different aspects of software quality, including security. The term DevSecOps was developed to highlight that security was being focused on as part of the pipeline, not a second-class citizen.
Fortunately, DevOps and continuous delivery practices give us opportunities to add different types of security testing to our pipeline so that security can be part of our definition of done. Continuous integration can invoke static analysis tools to test for simple security errors and check if components with known vulnerabilities are being used. Automated deployments and virtualization make dynamic environments available for testing in a production-like setting. Regression test suites can be used to drive traffic through proxies for security analysis. From the code to the systems where the software is being deployed, the process can make sure that security best practices are followed and insecure software is not being produced.
Gene will talk about how to construct a definition of done that focuses on security along with other types of quality in a DevOps pipeline. He will discuss how to define security practices and criteria that are appropriate for our teams and our projects to be confident that we are doing DevSecOps, and how those practices and criteria might mature over time.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018: The Difference Between DevOps and Everything Else ...DevOpsDays Baltimore
DevOps seems to have broken an age old rule that said IT investment don’t affect the bottom line and can’t create a strategic advantage. In this talk I’ll explore how the ‘people’ part of people, process and tools is the key difference between devops and every other silver bullet to come before it.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018: Comparative studies in highways, organizations, au...DevOpsDays Baltimore
I want you to imagine your organization as a freeway/highway and vehicles on it as the teams within the organization. Now, imagine if you could strip every major attribute you know about driving safely on a highway. What would it reveal about you, your team and your organization? In this talk, we will do this quick exercise and hopefully have some catharsis-based-revelations along the way.
DevOps trends are clear on measuring systems Mean Time To Recovery rather than Mean Time Between Failures. I argue that worrying about time between failures actually causes more harm than worrying about recovery. But do we think of our human systems the same way as our digital? I’ll apply lessons learned in SysOps to HumanOps. I’ll talk about how our complex social systems act like complex computer systems and how focusing on MTTR rather than MTBF is a good thing between people, not just machines. I'll cover the environmental requirements for focusing on MTTR and discuss potential conflict resolution steps for a jumping off point in your organization or community.
A3 Thinking is a proven technique for developing a learning organization enabled to drive rapid cycles of continual improvement, but the original method needs some tweaks to work best in a DevOps context. This Ignite talk will provide a quick overview of A3 Thinking and its roots. Then I’ll discuss how DevOps practitioners are modifying A3 Thinking to better fit DevOps. I’ll close with some suggestions on other ways in which the A3 could be modified to meet the needs of DevOps teams. Links to sources for those interested in learning more about A3 Thinking and DevOps will be provided.
Artificial intelligence, bots and agents, conversational interfaces, IoT, and cyborgs. Until recently, such things were more hype than substance, but now, the awaited brave new world may actually be dawning. “Pokémon GO anyone?” says Alexa. This talk will explore what these advances means for DevOps conceptually and practically. How do we help our organizations and communities deliver “applications” across multiple senses, devices, media, and realities with the same level of speed, agility, precision, and security we have achieved in much simpler realms?
CompTIA exam study guide presentations by instructor Brian Ferrill, PACE-IT (Progressive, Accelerated Certifications for Employment in Information Technology)
"Funded by the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Grant #TC-23745-12-60-A-53"
Learn more about the PACE-IT Online program: www.edcc.edu/pace-it
In-depth Troubleshooting on NetScaler using Command Line ToolsDavid McGeough
Webinar recording - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/753997104
Citrix NetScaler has a rich Web-based management suite of tools available. To dig deep troubleshooting NetScaler, sometimes it’s best to roll up your sleeves and dig out the command line!
The goal of this session is to demystify some useful command line tools and provide a tactical approach to troubleshooting of NetScaler.
In this session we will demonstrate troubleshooting approaches using the command line and many tips for common issues seen in customer deployments.
In this session you will learn about:
· Differences between NetScaler kernel and BSD
· Processes and disk layout
· Look up stats and statuses
· Troubleshoot using various different logs
· Use counters to help identify issues
Explains what troubleshooting is, what skills are involved, and clears up some common misconceptions. Originally designed with IT Helpdesks in mind, but it could apply to any kind of troubleshooting.
=========================
Wrote this a VERY long time ago! I always meant to revisit/revamp it, but never quite got round to it. But people seem to get value from it, so I'll leave it up :)
How to Become a Thought Leader in Your NicheLeslie Samuel
Are bloggers thought leaders? Here are some tips on how you can become one. Provide great value, put awesome content out there on a regular basis, and help others.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018: Black Mirror Season 5: DevOps - Brendan O'LearyDevOpsDays Baltimore
Black Mirror presents a haunting view of how modern technology places society a “minute away” from a dystopian future. DevOps and those of us that practice it find ourselves in a similar situation - partially mature technologies whose implications we don’t yet fully understand. Heartbleed, Equifax and now Meltdown & Spectre can make us feel like there is no escaping this dark future. But just as Black Mirror examines the extremes of these concepts as a canary in the mine shaft for society, we too can carefully employ practices that will prevent season 5 from featuring Site reliability engineer, DevOps engineer, or CISO characters.
In this talk, we'll learn how to use the powerful concepts and tools behind DevOps for good...with great power comes great responsibility....but also great opportunity to do good for our businesses, each other and our world. By working together with product, business, and external teams; embedding security into how we operate; and measuring everything we do we can empower our teams to thrive.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018:: Avoiding pitfalls of non technical managers - Vic...DevOpsDays Baltimore
This talk is intended to help folks who are managing technical projects avoid common pitfalls, and help technical teams better prepare managers for overall project success.
Every day we make decisions. Those decisions can be around improving your product, process, company; sometimes even bettering yourself. But many of our decisions are not made consciously. We all have biases. And even though most of our biases are unconscious, those biases still can get in a way of making the best possible decision. This is not a talk about gender and racial bias in tech hiring (altho I will also touch on hiring procedures and biases). This is a talk about different biases that skew our technical decision process that we deal with in out day-to-day operations.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018: A Definition of Done for DevSecOps - Gene GotimerDevOpsDays Baltimore
DevOps cannot be achieved without considering many different aspects of software quality, including security. The term DevSecOps was developed to highlight that security was being focused on as part of the pipeline, not a second-class citizen.
Fortunately, DevOps and continuous delivery practices give us opportunities to add different types of security testing to our pipeline so that security can be part of our definition of done. Continuous integration can invoke static analysis tools to test for simple security errors and check if components with known vulnerabilities are being used. Automated deployments and virtualization make dynamic environments available for testing in a production-like setting. Regression test suites can be used to drive traffic through proxies for security analysis. From the code to the systems where the software is being deployed, the process can make sure that security best practices are followed and insecure software is not being produced.
Gene will talk about how to construct a definition of done that focuses on security along with other types of quality in a DevOps pipeline. He will discuss how to define security practices and criteria that are appropriate for our teams and our projects to be confident that we are doing DevSecOps, and how those practices and criteria might mature over time.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018: The Difference Between DevOps and Everything Else ...DevOpsDays Baltimore
DevOps seems to have broken an age old rule that said IT investment don’t affect the bottom line and can’t create a strategic advantage. In this talk I’ll explore how the ‘people’ part of people, process and tools is the key difference between devops and every other silver bullet to come before it.
DevOpsDays Baltimore 2018: Comparative studies in highways, organizations, au...DevOpsDays Baltimore
I want you to imagine your organization as a freeway/highway and vehicles on it as the teams within the organization. Now, imagine if you could strip every major attribute you know about driving safely on a highway. What would it reveal about you, your team and your organization? In this talk, we will do this quick exercise and hopefully have some catharsis-based-revelations along the way.
DevOps trends are clear on measuring systems Mean Time To Recovery rather than Mean Time Between Failures. I argue that worrying about time between failures actually causes more harm than worrying about recovery. But do we think of our human systems the same way as our digital? I’ll apply lessons learned in SysOps to HumanOps. I’ll talk about how our complex social systems act like complex computer systems and how focusing on MTTR rather than MTBF is a good thing between people, not just machines. I'll cover the environmental requirements for focusing on MTTR and discuss potential conflict resolution steps for a jumping off point in your organization or community.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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.
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
60. @papa_fire
OURTEAM
[2017-02-01 16:46:31] Queuing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
[2017-02-01 16:46:31] AbandonedReservation successfully enqueued.
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Processing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Parsed args
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Posting to API
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Initializing args
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Loading reservation_form_data
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Reservation Form Data loaded successfully
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending campaign info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Reservation name: [Some very very very long name]
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Using code = SUPERHERO:20171007 for this instance.
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Setting currency to US Dollar
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending marketing info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Have a non-sku source_code
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Marketing: setting campaignid = GOOGLE
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending match rule = Match Rule
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending user info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending order info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Fetching cost range for item_id = 975, sku_id = 4871
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Determining actual cost table
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending comment notes
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending abandoned flag
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] API GET data:
{ token = gEcre26reWrAdEnufE3HesVupRepahuDumapHuyap2evufreWrufraBebre7u4a6
contact.address1_city = New York
contact.address1_country = USA
contact.address1_line1 = 123 test lane
contact.address1_line2 =
contact.address1_postalcode = 12345
contact.address1_stateorprovince =
contact.emailaddress1 = joe.smith@gmail.com
contact.firstname = joe
contact.lastname = smith
contact.mobilephone = 1234567890
...
}
[2017-02-01 19:04:03] Post complete, took 420 seconds
[2017-02-01 19:04:03] ERROR: Curl returned unsuccessfully with return code 28 (Timeout was reached)
[2017-02-01 19:04:04] Finishing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
61. @papa_fire
OURTEAM
[2017-02-01 16:46:31] Queuing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
[2017-02-01 16:46:31] AbandonedReservation successfully enqueued.
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Processing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Parsed args
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Posting to API
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Initializing args
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Loading reservation_form_data
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Reservation Form Data loaded successfully
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending campaign info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Reservation name: [Some very very very long name]
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Using code = SUPERHERO:20171007 for this instance.
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Setting currency to US Dollar
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending marketing info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Have a non-sku source_code
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Marketing: setting campaignid = GOOGLE
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending match rule = Match Rule
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending user info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending order info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Fetching cost range for item_id = 975, sku_id = 4871
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Determining actual cost table
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending comment notes
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending abandoned flag
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] API GET data:
{ token = gEcre26reWrAdEnufE3HesVupRepahuDumapHuyap2evufreWrufraBebre7u4a6
contact.address1_city = New York
contact.address1_country = USA
contact.address1_line1 = 123 test lane
contact.address1_line2 =
contact.address1_postalcode = 12345
contact.address1_stateorprovince =
contact.emailaddress1 = joe.smith@gmail.com
contact.firstname = joe
contact.lastname = smith
contact.mobilephone = 1234567890
...
}
[2017-02-01 19:04:03] Post complete, took 420 seconds
[2017-02-01 19:04:03] ERROR: Curl returned unsuccessfully with return code 28 (Timeout was reached)
[2017-02-01 19:04:04] Finishing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
usefulinformation
[2017-02-01 16:46:31] Queuing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Processing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] API GET data:
[2017-02-01 19:04:03] Post complete, took 420 seconds
[2017-02-01 19:04:04] Finishing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
62. @papa_fire
OURTEAM
[2017-02-01 16:46:31] Queuing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
[2017-02-01 16:46:31] AbandonedReservation successfully enqueued.
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Processing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Parsed args
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Posting to API
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Initializing args
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Loading reservation_form_data
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Reservation Form Data loaded successfully
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending campaign info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Reservation name: [Some very very very long name]
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Using code = SUPERHERO:20171007 for this instance.
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Setting currency to US Dollar
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending marketing info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Have a non-sku source_code
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Marketing: setting campaignid = GOOGLE
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending match rule = Match Rule
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending user info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending order info
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Fetching cost range for item_id = 975, sku_id = 4871
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Determining actual cost table
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending comment notes
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] Appending abandoned flag
[2017-02-01 18:57:03] API GET data:
{ token = gEcre26reWrAdEnufE3HesVupRepahuDumapHuyap2evufreWrufraBebre7u4a6
contact.address1_city = New York
contact.address1_country = USA
contact.address1_line1 = 123 test lane
contact.address1_line2 =
contact.address1_postalcode = 12345
contact.address1_stateorprovince =
contact.emailaddress1 = joe.smith@gmail.com
contact.firstname = joe
contact.lastname = smith
contact.mobilephone = 1234567890
...
}
[2017-02-01 19:04:03] Post complete, took 420 seconds
[2017-02-01 19:04:03] ERROR: Curl returned unsuccessfully with return code 28 (Timeout was reached)
[2017-02-01 19:04:04] Finishing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
informationIneed
[2017-02-01 18:57:02] Processing UUID: FC0470D4-E19D-11E6-8FB4-CB1814EF18C0
[2017-02-01 19:04:03] ERROR: Curl returned unsuccessfully with return code 28 (