OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform that allows organizations to create public and private clouds from commodity hardware. IBM has significantly contributed to OpenStack's success through early participation in the project, contributions of code and capabilities, and evangelism of OpenStack within the industry. IBM leverages OpenStack in its own cloud offerings and enables key IBM technologies through its contributions to OpenStack.
Slides from "Spring Java Web Apps to the Cloud" webinar, demonstrates how to take your Spring and Java web apps and deploy them to the CloudBees RUN@cloud platform and Ryan Campbell (Architect DEV@cloud) takes these deployed applications and ties them into DEV@cloud's Jenkins as a Service and sets up a continuous deployment environment.
Open stack swift_essex_meetup_2012_06_21_judd_maltinKamesh Pemmaraju
OpenStack Object Storage (code-named Swift) is open source software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of accessible data. It is not a file system or real-time data storage system, but rather a long-term storage system for a more permanent type of static data that can be retrieved, leveraged, and then updated if necessary. Primary examples of data that best fit this type of storage model are virtual machine images, photo storage, email storage and backup archiving. Having no central "brain" or master point of control provides greater scalability, redundancy and permanence.
Swift Version 1.5 is set for release the week of June 11th. Get a clear understanding of the power of Swift, the changes in the current release and the features slated for the next major OpenStack release: Folsom. As a bonus, watch how easy it is to setup OpenStack Swift with Dell's "Crowbar - the Cloud Unboxer." Discussion that follows will include scalability considerations, monitoring, and management of the system.
Slides from "Spring Java Web Apps to the Cloud" webinar, demonstrates how to take your Spring and Java web apps and deploy them to the CloudBees RUN@cloud platform and Ryan Campbell (Architect DEV@cloud) takes these deployed applications and ties them into DEV@cloud's Jenkins as a Service and sets up a continuous deployment environment.
Open stack swift_essex_meetup_2012_06_21_judd_maltinKamesh Pemmaraju
OpenStack Object Storage (code-named Swift) is open source software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of accessible data. It is not a file system or real-time data storage system, but rather a long-term storage system for a more permanent type of static data that can be retrieved, leveraged, and then updated if necessary. Primary examples of data that best fit this type of storage model are virtual machine images, photo storage, email storage and backup archiving. Having no central "brain" or master point of control provides greater scalability, redundancy and permanence.
Swift Version 1.5 is set for release the week of June 11th. Get a clear understanding of the power of Swift, the changes in the current release and the features slated for the next major OpenStack release: Folsom. As a bonus, watch how easy it is to setup OpenStack Swift with Dell's "Crowbar - the Cloud Unboxer." Discussion that follows will include scalability considerations, monitoring, and management of the system.
Comparing IaaS :VMware vs OpenStack vs Google’s GanetiGARL
No matter if you are a lonely system administrator or the CTO of the largest carrier in the World, getting to know what’s out there is a jungle. Is VMware still the lead? I’ve heard about OpenStack, how mature is that? And what this “Ganeti” I’ve never heard of?
In this presentation Giuseppe Paternò, CTO of GARL, gives a quick overview of the state-of-the-art in the IaaS and virtualization world. This is not a sales or marketing presentation: no vaporware, just pure and real experience from the field.
This session reviews what customers need to know about using EMC products in an OpenStack cloud OS environment. This session also reviews which products are available for use in Folsom, Grizzly, and upcoming OpenStack releases. We briefly examine best practices for those products in lab and production deployments. Finally, we will consider where EMC's future participation in OpenStack may lead.
Objective 1: Understand what OpenStack open source software is, how it can be used as a framework to build private clouds, and how EMC is contributing to this open source community.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Identify which EMC products are available for use in OpenStack today, and how those products add value to private cloud solutions that use OpenStack.
Objective 3: Understand requirements, configurations, and best practices for deployment of EMC products in both lab and production environments.
This talk covered the OpenStack basics that VMware Administrators need to be aware of to be successful in their deployments. We also had the Tesora team join us on stage to discuss the importance of Database-as-a-Service with the Trove project!
20 Comprehensive Checklist of Designing and Developing a WebsitePixlogix Infotech
Dive into the world of Website Designing and Developing with Pixlogix! Looking to create a stunning online presence? Look no further! Our comprehensive checklist covers everything you need to know to craft a website that stands out. From user-friendly design to seamless functionality, we've got you covered. Don't miss out on this invaluable resource! Check out our checklist now at Pixlogix and start your journey towards a captivating online presence today.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
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.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
5. OpenStack Roadmap
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Feb Apr Sep
Cactus
(Apr’11) Havana:
Easy to install
and deploy Grizzly: (Sep’13)
Enterprise
ready
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Essex (Sep’12)
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(Apr’12) blueprints,
Austin (Oct’10) Diablo:
- Volume
backups
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- Generic
- Deployability
1st Release (Sep’11) Improvements: - Per-VM hw driver
Simplified configurati interface
Live Migration - Hyeprvisor
configuration, on of for
VMWare ESXi - Automate feature
disk/NIC
easier upgrades, quantum
Multi-tenant and control parity
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6. We’ve seen this before: open source fosters markets & innovation
In the era of a Smarter
Planet, IBM will continue to
leverage open source
ecosystems ….
In the era of e-business…
IBM leverages the nascent open
source software movement…
…and becomes the market leader in SOA
implementations and the world’s largest
software company
November 2001 – IBM rallies 150 influential vendors and the development
community around a new tools environment with a $40 Million software
donation disrupting the leadership of the software development ecosystem
September 1999: IBM capitalizes on an untapped market trend and begins
participating in the community development of Linux with a $60M annual investment
June 1998 – IBM enters into an engineering agreement with The Apache Group for
development of the open-source Apache HTTP server software eventually becoming the
leader of the new Application Server market
7. Capabilities of IBM’s common cloud management services
Orchestration Services:
Eases coordination of complex tasks and Orchestration Services
worklflows, leveraging existing skills, processes and
technology artifacts
Supports OSLC from OASIS
Platform Services:
Simplifies deployment and lifecycle management of
Platform Level Services
middleware and application patterns (Image Lifecycle Mgmt) (Pattern Services)
Supports TOSCA from OASIS
Infrastructure Services:
Highly flexible, scalable infrastructure on
heterogeneous resources
Built on OpenStack
Infrastructure Level Services
Extensibility: (Provisioning, configuration, resource
allocation, security, metering, etc.)
Plug and play operational service management
integration
Rational development tooling integration Cloud Resources
Pre-built images, patterns, process / configuration
automation Storage Compute Network
8. Many IBM SmartCloud offerings leverage common cloud services
Simple 3-tier structure, increasing client value at each tier and
extending across hybrid cloud environments Related Standards &
Using open, common, standards-based architecture providing Organizations
choice, flexibility, interoperability and portability CCRA OSLC
Clean upgrade paths with progression to fully integrated and
factory optimized PureApplication System CIMI &
TOSCA
Significant benefits including ease of installation, enterprise OVF
hardening and additional capabilities above base OpenStack
SmartCloud Orchestration
Orchestration, Platform and Infrastructure Services across multiple environments and domains
SmartCloud SmartCloud
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Platform and Platform and
Infrastructure Services Infrastructure Services
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Infrastructure Services Infrastructure Services
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Platform Services
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integrated
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hardware
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9. Contributions to OpenStack success deliver value
OpenStack Compute
Provision and manage large networks of virtual machines
•Platform integration
•High Availability enhancements
•Resource optimization
•Live upgrade contributions
•Enablement for P & Z Systems, DB2
•ESXi support
•VM group enablement in scheduler
•CPU allocation for vCPUs
•Cross hypervisor testing and validation
OpenStack Networking
Create petabytes of secure, reliable storage using standard OpenStack Shared Services
HW Libraries that provide image management, authentication &
•Support for key emerging networking standards security across all OpenStack projects
•Quantum blueprints & migration from Nova •Security & authentication enhancements
•FibreChannel support •Image activation for OVF
•Guest level metric collection
OpenStack Storage •APIs: Enablement for key emerging standards
Create petabytes of secure, reliable storage using standard HW •Membership services enhancements
•Block & object storage enablement for IBM capability •Glance: multiple image locations
•Nova blueprints
•Cinder local storage & local instance clone
•Efficient clone image in Cinder SVC driver for cFlex General OpenStack contributions
•Nova & Cinder storage blueprints •Globalization and crowd-sourced translation integration
•Storwise/SVC driver update – support iSCSI CHAP auth •Drive IBM value-add capability from SCP
•Wsgi application interface enabling external web server •Community facing contributions – bug fixing, community
•Swift / Keystone interface for Keystone v3 API building & promotion
•QA items
10. How Can You Contribute to OpenStack?
Impact to OpenStack ecosystem growth
• Be an Open Stack evangelist and promote OpenStack usage in your companies
• Try to become a direct contributor to the project
• Contributions can be made in several different ways:
• Develop code to support new feature/capability
• Write technical or user level documentation
• Review, verify and improve upon the user documentation
• Help provide translation support to local languages
• Test the code and report bugs and vulnerabilities
• Work to fix bugs and contribute patches
• Testing of the early code snapshots of a release: