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Romania's forests cover approximately one third of the country's surface area. The forests can be divided into coniferous and hardwood forests based on the dominant tree species and altitude. Coniferous forests are mostly found at higher elevations and contain evergreen trees like fir, spruce, pine, and larch. Hardwood forests have deciduous trees like oak, beech, maple, birch, elm, and chestnut. Forests are important because they produce oxygen, regulate rainfall and soil quality, prevent erosion, and provide habitat for wildlife.
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Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
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QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
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Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
This innovative blend of technology aims to enhance cybersecurity measures and protect users from potential threats hidden within QR codes 🖥 🔒
This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
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"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor Ivaniuk
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
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Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
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• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
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Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
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Відео та деталі заходу: https://bit.ly/45tILxj
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- 2. In our country, thanks to the existing varied relief and the temperate climate, there are numerous types of natural ecosystems, among which forests represent a third of Romania`s surface.
- 3. Taking into account the dominant type of vegetation and also the altitude, the forests in our country could be divided in hardwood forests and conifers forests.
- 4. Conifers Forest Covers most of the highest regions in our mountains. Conifers are tall trees with straight trunks without ramifications, with narrow leaves called needles which have a wax coating. These leaves do not fall in autumn.
- 5. White Fir TreeWhite Fir Tree
- 7. Black Pine TreeBlack Pine Tree
- 8. Larch TreeLarch Tree It is the only coniferous tree whose leaves turn golden and fall in autumn.
- 10. JuniperJuniper The only shrub which grows in our mountains.
- 11. Hardwood Forest Trees lose their leaves in autumn and the photosynthesis process stops.
- 12. Oak TreeOak Tree
- 16. Elm TreeElm Tree
- 18. Lime Tree (Tilia)Lime Tree (Tilia)
- 20. Forests are not only beautiful and a place where the modern man can relax, they produce oxygen, so they clean the air. Forests also bring rain and make the soil richer. They prevent land erosion and land slides too. A very important thing is that forests are home to many animals, birds and insects, some of them unique in their beauty.
- 21. A hectare of forest take 3,7 tones of carbon dioxide and produces 2 million tones of oxygen!!!
- 22. It is necessary to cut down 24 trees in order to get one tone of laser paper, and for another tone of newspapers 12 trees must die!... Paper can be recycled up to seven times without adding any new fibers and every tone of recycled paper saves 17 trees from being cut down!
- 23. A single oak tree, during its existence, can offer oxygen enough for a human being to breathe for 20 years.
- 24. Forests produce about two thirds of the oxygen used by the living world.
- 25. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This presentation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. You, the one who are just passing by, stop for a moment and listen to the trees of your forests, they have something to say! Listen carefully and if you can, stop the killing axe! Trees -vertical- are our connection to the sky…if we cut them down, we will be nothing but some poor, hopeless and frozen-hearted beings, alone on earth, without the axis necessary to sustain the universe of our existence… It will be difficult, after cutting them down, to support - we, just some poor human beings - the burden of the whole sky on our shoulders!