This document appears to be from an OpenStack summit on April 20, 2013 in Portland, Oregon. It includes summaries from Jonathan Bryce about the formation of the OpenStack Foundation in September 2012. It also discusses the goals of the OpenStack platform to provide a powerful, innovative cloud operating system through successful users, an ecosystem of partners, and powerful software.
A listing of evaluation tools and articles that may be useful if not interesting: "Information Quality Resources on the Internet," by Marcus P. Zillman, Published on December 2, 2011:
Uri budnik moving from virtualized infrastructure to open stack-4.17.13OpenStack Foundation
This document discusses the differences between virtualization and cloud computing. While virtualization allows for virtual servers to be launched, it does not provide the key attributes of cloud computing such as self-service provisioning, speed of deployment, and granular cost tracking. The document introduces OpenStack as an open source cloud computing platform and describes how RightScale's platform can be used to deploy and manage applications on OpenStack using server templates that define complete server configurations and allow for consistent deployments across different cloud infrastructures.
The document summarizes OpenStack's mission, growth, and success over three years. It notes that OpenStack has expanded from compute and object storage to include networking, storage, and shared services. Major companies now use OpenStack both publicly and privately. OpenStack's success is attributed to its technology, growing ecosystem of contributors and users, and open development model.
This document discusses how clouds are used in high energy physics research. It describes how clouds provide computing resources for experiments like the Large Hadron Collider. Clouds help process massive amounts of data from particle collisions and allow global collaboration between researchers. They also help preserve data and software from past experiments for long-term analysis. Clouds enable high energy physics to further understanding of fundamental questions about the universe.
The document appears to be notes from the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon on April 20, 2013. It includes welcome messages from Mark Collier, the Chief Operating Officer of OpenStack, and introduces speakers for the day such as Nathanael Burk and Randall Sobie who work in computer science and particle physics research.
This document provides information about the OpenStack Global Update and Icehouse release. It summarizes key details about OpenStack's growth in contributors, features, and bug fixes for the Icehouse release. Charts show significant growth in the OpenStack ecosystem size, cumulative contributors, and average monthly contributors between 2013 and 2014. A chart also shows strong growth in attendees at OpenStack Summits from 2010 to 2014.
Joel Champion has over 10 years of experience in graphic design and print production. He is proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Champion holds a B.A. in Art with an emphasis in Fine Art from Luther College. For the past 7 years, he has worked at Lands' End designing various print and digital marketing materials.
A listing of evaluation tools and articles that may be useful if not interesting: "Information Quality Resources on the Internet," by Marcus P. Zillman, Published on December 2, 2011:
Uri budnik moving from virtualized infrastructure to open stack-4.17.13OpenStack Foundation
This document discusses the differences between virtualization and cloud computing. While virtualization allows for virtual servers to be launched, it does not provide the key attributes of cloud computing such as self-service provisioning, speed of deployment, and granular cost tracking. The document introduces OpenStack as an open source cloud computing platform and describes how RightScale's platform can be used to deploy and manage applications on OpenStack using server templates that define complete server configurations and allow for consistent deployments across different cloud infrastructures.
The document summarizes OpenStack's mission, growth, and success over three years. It notes that OpenStack has expanded from compute and object storage to include networking, storage, and shared services. Major companies now use OpenStack both publicly and privately. OpenStack's success is attributed to its technology, growing ecosystem of contributors and users, and open development model.
This document discusses how clouds are used in high energy physics research. It describes how clouds provide computing resources for experiments like the Large Hadron Collider. Clouds help process massive amounts of data from particle collisions and allow global collaboration between researchers. They also help preserve data and software from past experiments for long-term analysis. Clouds enable high energy physics to further understanding of fundamental questions about the universe.
The document appears to be notes from the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon on April 20, 2013. It includes welcome messages from Mark Collier, the Chief Operating Officer of OpenStack, and introduces speakers for the day such as Nathanael Burk and Randall Sobie who work in computer science and particle physics research.
This document provides information about the OpenStack Global Update and Icehouse release. It summarizes key details about OpenStack's growth in contributors, features, and bug fixes for the Icehouse release. Charts show significant growth in the OpenStack ecosystem size, cumulative contributors, and average monthly contributors between 2013 and 2014. A chart also shows strong growth in attendees at OpenStack Summits from 2010 to 2014.
Joel Champion has over 10 years of experience in graphic design and print production. He is proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Champion holds a B.A. in Art with an emphasis in Fine Art from Luther College. For the past 7 years, he has worked at Lands' End designing various print and digital marketing materials.
The document appears to be a quality control sheet containing numbers in various sections. It lists section names, numbers, dates and totals for different models. In the analysis section it states that model B has a large number of defects and needs further analysis to determine the reason for the high defect rate.
The document discusses how the difference between the area where touch gestures are performed (execution area) and the area where they take effect (effect area) can hinder the use of multi-touch gestures on touchpads. It presents three hypotheses: 1) that more informative instructions will lead to more multi-touch gesture use, 2) that more informative instructions will lead to higher ratings of intuitiveness and usability, and 3) that prior experience with touchscreens is not correlated with gesture use. The study involved participants using a touchpad under different instruction conditions and measuring gesture usage and perceptions. It found that gestures required instruction to be used, instruction impacted perceptions, and touchscreen experience did not correlate with usage or perceptions.
The document ranks 20 inventions by importance according to surveys. The top 5 inventions are:
1. Fridge
2. TV
3. DVD player
4. iPad
5. Airplane
The conclusion states that some inventions are essential to live while others are less important or even bad, and inventions can vary in their usefulness.
The C7.R Corvette took on the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France, where craftsmanship and engineering are tested to their limits. The all-American Corvette competed against highly specialized prototypes built specifically for endurance racing. Though it did not win, the C7.R's performance demonstrated the skills of American engineers and highlighted Chevrolet's technological abilities.
1) The document defines arrays A, B, and C to represent sets. It also defines functions or() and contain() to test properties of sets A and B.
2) The contain() function checks if every element of A is in B by comparing elements and setting flags in C.
3) The main() function calls contain(), prints the sets, and based on the containment result, concludes whether A union B is equal to B.
This document introduces the Navigator-AS3 library for handling navigation and state management in Flex applications. It discusses key concepts like navigation state, current state, state containment, and behavior interfaces. It also covers how Navigator-AS3 integrates with frameworks like RobotLegs to allow just-in-time instantiation of actors, views, and commands for each navigation state. Examples of real-world applications using this approach are provided.
1. The document discusses how wearable physiological monitoring devices can help address global health issues by supporting preventive medicine and combating sedentary lifestyles.
2. It notes that over 50% of health plan spending is concentrated on just 5% of patients, representing an opportunity for mobile intervention with these high-risk groups.
3. The document argues that mobile technologies can help address issues like poor medication adherence, which is associated with increased hospitalizations and healthcare costs. Wearables and connected platforms are presented as a way to provide more continuous, real-time, and actionable healthcare data.
The passage describes a meal consisting of various dishes:
- Salads made with lettuce, almonds, and small fish.
- Stews with beans, squash, and pork.
- Vegetables like olives, peppers, and small cakes are served alongside the salads and stews.
The document is a brochure for the 2015 Dodge Dart that provides information about its features and technology. It includes the following key details:
- Instructions for how to navigate through the digital brochure using touchscreen buttons or arrows.
- An overview of the Dart's class-leading technology, safety features, fuel efficiency, and engine options.
- Descriptions of the interior space, comfort features, and entertainment system options.
- Information on the exterior design and available LED taillights and dual exhaust.
- Details about the reconfigurable digital instrument cluster and available Uconnect infotainment system.
- An overview of the Dart's standard and available driver assistance and safety features.
Bruce Du Portfolio - Graduate architect / Architecture DesignerBruce Du
Graduated from RMIT with master degree;2+ years Melbourne and 5 years CHINA architecture design experience; Engaged in residential and commercial projects both.
In this webinar, we will review all important information for sponsors packages, add-ons, venue details, and how to become a sponsor.
Webinar recording: https://youtu.be/kUjMTNoX6yM
A few quick points for those who may be attending an OpenStack Summit for the first time. We are excited to see you in Barcelona, Spain October 25-28, 2016.
An overview of the 1H2016 OpenStack Marketing Plan shared with the marketing community during our regular calls. Learn more at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/Marketing#Open_Marketing_Meetings_2016
The document lists the birthdays of various cities around the world, with dates ranging from June 30 to July 18. Cities celebrating on June 30 include Paris, France and Bucharest, Romania. Cities celebrating on July 1 include Sevilla, Spain, Athens, Greece, and Manila, Philippines. The list continues with over 30 cities across Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Oceania celebrating their birthdays on subsequent dates throughout the month of July.
The Foundation marketing team put together a high level overview of 2H 2015 plans in order to get input from the marketing community and provide more information on how marketers can take advantage of the work, as well as get involved and contribute.
This is a content overview of the important information and details for sponsors of the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Japan taking place October 27 - 30.
You can watch a recording of the webinar here: https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/ldr.php?RCID=d48605b7ca9fdccd990ab20eb9334be8
This document provides an update on the OpenStack Cinder Liberty release. It outlines that 19 new volume drivers were added with CI testing, 29 blueprints and 134 bug fixes were completed. New features discussed include nested quotas to manage descendant project quotas, force detach to safely detach stuck volumes, a generic image cache to speed up volume creation from images, and improved migrations. It encourages reviewing the full specifications and provides contacts for more information.
The document summarizes updates to OpenStack Glance from the Kilo to Liberty releases. In Kilo, Glance added features like artifact repository, catalog indexing, image conversion/introspection, and support for multiple datastores in storage drivers. Liberty priorities included additional image listing filters, store refactor/cleaner API, encrypted/authenticated image support, and tag metadata CLI support. It also focused on Glance v3 API evolution and increasing adoption of the v2 API within OpenStack. The presenter invites questions by IRC, email, the OpenStack mailing list tagged [Glance], or the weekly Glance meeting.
The OpenStack Heat project update from July 2015 summarizes the Kilo release and previews plans for the upcoming Liberty release. Key accomplishments of the Kilo release included 74 implemented blueprints, 389 fixed bugs, and over 1100 code commits. New Kilo features improved nested stacks and added template functions, while new resources included alarms, volumes, and identity services. Upcoming changes in Liberty will add resources for encryption, monitoring, and containers, move tests and documentation into the Heat project, and focus on convergence and role-based availability of resources.
Neutron will focus on plugin decomposition in Liberty, improving the API, and enabling quality of service bandwidth limiting. Additional priorities include making the Linuxbridge driver ready for the gate, implementing role-based access control for networks, and integrating NFV and load balancing as a service features.
The summary discusses OpenStack Nova project updates post Liberty-1 release. Key points include:
- Kilo release focused on major architecture evolution, release of API v2.1, and reduced API downtime during upgrades.
- Plans for Liberty include continuing architectural evolution, improvements to API v2.1, reducing upgrade downtime, and making Cells v2 the default configuration.
- Scaling the Nova community focuses on better communication, renewed mentoring and onboarding, continued innovation within scope, and goals of supporting the Nova API ecosystem and improving stability, scalability and upgradability.
The document appears to be a quality control sheet containing numbers in various sections. It lists section names, numbers, dates and totals for different models. In the analysis section it states that model B has a large number of defects and needs further analysis to determine the reason for the high defect rate.
The document discusses how the difference between the area where touch gestures are performed (execution area) and the area where they take effect (effect area) can hinder the use of multi-touch gestures on touchpads. It presents three hypotheses: 1) that more informative instructions will lead to more multi-touch gesture use, 2) that more informative instructions will lead to higher ratings of intuitiveness and usability, and 3) that prior experience with touchscreens is not correlated with gesture use. The study involved participants using a touchpad under different instruction conditions and measuring gesture usage and perceptions. It found that gestures required instruction to be used, instruction impacted perceptions, and touchscreen experience did not correlate with usage or perceptions.
The document ranks 20 inventions by importance according to surveys. The top 5 inventions are:
1. Fridge
2. TV
3. DVD player
4. iPad
5. Airplane
The conclusion states that some inventions are essential to live while others are less important or even bad, and inventions can vary in their usefulness.
The C7.R Corvette took on the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France, where craftsmanship and engineering are tested to their limits. The all-American Corvette competed against highly specialized prototypes built specifically for endurance racing. Though it did not win, the C7.R's performance demonstrated the skills of American engineers and highlighted Chevrolet's technological abilities.
1) The document defines arrays A, B, and C to represent sets. It also defines functions or() and contain() to test properties of sets A and B.
2) The contain() function checks if every element of A is in B by comparing elements and setting flags in C.
3) The main() function calls contain(), prints the sets, and based on the containment result, concludes whether A union B is equal to B.
This document introduces the Navigator-AS3 library for handling navigation and state management in Flex applications. It discusses key concepts like navigation state, current state, state containment, and behavior interfaces. It also covers how Navigator-AS3 integrates with frameworks like RobotLegs to allow just-in-time instantiation of actors, views, and commands for each navigation state. Examples of real-world applications using this approach are provided.
1. The document discusses how wearable physiological monitoring devices can help address global health issues by supporting preventive medicine and combating sedentary lifestyles.
2. It notes that over 50% of health plan spending is concentrated on just 5% of patients, representing an opportunity for mobile intervention with these high-risk groups.
3. The document argues that mobile technologies can help address issues like poor medication adherence, which is associated with increased hospitalizations and healthcare costs. Wearables and connected platforms are presented as a way to provide more continuous, real-time, and actionable healthcare data.
The passage describes a meal consisting of various dishes:
- Salads made with lettuce, almonds, and small fish.
- Stews with beans, squash, and pork.
- Vegetables like olives, peppers, and small cakes are served alongside the salads and stews.
The document is a brochure for the 2015 Dodge Dart that provides information about its features and technology. It includes the following key details:
- Instructions for how to navigate through the digital brochure using touchscreen buttons or arrows.
- An overview of the Dart's class-leading technology, safety features, fuel efficiency, and engine options.
- Descriptions of the interior space, comfort features, and entertainment system options.
- Information on the exterior design and available LED taillights and dual exhaust.
- Details about the reconfigurable digital instrument cluster and available Uconnect infotainment system.
- An overview of the Dart's standard and available driver assistance and safety features.
Bruce Du Portfolio - Graduate architect / Architecture DesignerBruce Du
Graduated from RMIT with master degree;2+ years Melbourne and 5 years CHINA architecture design experience; Engaged in residential and commercial projects both.
In this webinar, we will review all important information for sponsors packages, add-ons, venue details, and how to become a sponsor.
Webinar recording: https://youtu.be/kUjMTNoX6yM
A few quick points for those who may be attending an OpenStack Summit for the first time. We are excited to see you in Barcelona, Spain October 25-28, 2016.
An overview of the 1H2016 OpenStack Marketing Plan shared with the marketing community during our regular calls. Learn more at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/Marketing#Open_Marketing_Meetings_2016
The document lists the birthdays of various cities around the world, with dates ranging from June 30 to July 18. Cities celebrating on June 30 include Paris, France and Bucharest, Romania. Cities celebrating on July 1 include Sevilla, Spain, Athens, Greece, and Manila, Philippines. The list continues with over 30 cities across Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Oceania celebrating their birthdays on subsequent dates throughout the month of July.
The Foundation marketing team put together a high level overview of 2H 2015 plans in order to get input from the marketing community and provide more information on how marketers can take advantage of the work, as well as get involved and contribute.
This is a content overview of the important information and details for sponsors of the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Japan taking place October 27 - 30.
You can watch a recording of the webinar here: https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/ldr.php?RCID=d48605b7ca9fdccd990ab20eb9334be8
This document provides an update on the OpenStack Cinder Liberty release. It outlines that 19 new volume drivers were added with CI testing, 29 blueprints and 134 bug fixes were completed. New features discussed include nested quotas to manage descendant project quotas, force detach to safely detach stuck volumes, a generic image cache to speed up volume creation from images, and improved migrations. It encourages reviewing the full specifications and provides contacts for more information.
The document summarizes updates to OpenStack Glance from the Kilo to Liberty releases. In Kilo, Glance added features like artifact repository, catalog indexing, image conversion/introspection, and support for multiple datastores in storage drivers. Liberty priorities included additional image listing filters, store refactor/cleaner API, encrypted/authenticated image support, and tag metadata CLI support. It also focused on Glance v3 API evolution and increasing adoption of the v2 API within OpenStack. The presenter invites questions by IRC, email, the OpenStack mailing list tagged [Glance], or the weekly Glance meeting.
The OpenStack Heat project update from July 2015 summarizes the Kilo release and previews plans for the upcoming Liberty release. Key accomplishments of the Kilo release included 74 implemented blueprints, 389 fixed bugs, and over 1100 code commits. New Kilo features improved nested stacks and added template functions, while new resources included alarms, volumes, and identity services. Upcoming changes in Liberty will add resources for encryption, monitoring, and containers, move tests and documentation into the Heat project, and focus on convergence and role-based availability of resources.
Neutron will focus on plugin decomposition in Liberty, improving the API, and enabling quality of service bandwidth limiting. Additional priorities include making the Linuxbridge driver ready for the gate, implementing role-based access control for networks, and integrating NFV and load balancing as a service features.
The summary discusses OpenStack Nova project updates post Liberty-1 release. Key points include:
- Kilo release focused on major architecture evolution, release of API v2.1, and reduced API downtime during upgrades.
- Plans for Liberty include continuing architectural evolution, improvements to API v2.1, reducing upgrade downtime, and making Cells v2 the default configuration.
- Scaling the Nova community focuses on better communication, renewed mentoring and onboarding, continued innovation within scope, and goals of supporting the Nova API ecosystem and improving stability, scalability and upgradability.
Sahara provides scalable data processing by provisioning and operating data processing clusters and scheduling jobs. In the Kilo release, Sahara added support for new plugins like Apache Storm, improved the Sahara UI for guided cluster creation and job execution, and added features like indirect VM access, an event log, and default templates via the CLI. Looking ahead, upcoming Liberty releases will focus on high availability for CDH and HDP, support for Spark, improved data sources handling, editing existing objects, and enhanced testing.
Searchlight is an OpenStack project that provides advanced indexing and search capabilities across multi-tenant cloud resources using Elasticsearch. It was originally developed as an experimental feature of Glance called the "Glance Catalog Index Service" but has expanded to index other resources like Nova instances. The current priorities for Searchlight in the Liberty release include completing the separation from Glance, adding deployment options, indexing additional resources like Glance images and Nova instances, initial Horizon integration, and improving documentation. The long term vision is for Searchlight to provide a unified search interface across all major OpenStack services.
Trove provides database services and improved in several areas for the Kilo and Liberty releases. Key improvements included adding new database engines like CouchDB and Vertica, improving replication functionality for MySQL and Redis, and enhancing clustering support. Testing and CI were moved to OpenStack infrastructure. For Liberty, backup/restore was added for MongoDB and Redis, and limitations on flavors per datastore were introduced. Community involvement also grew significantly over this period.
The document summarizes OpenStack developments including its mission to produce an open source cloud computing platform that is simple, scalable, and meets the needs of public and private clouds. It discusses trends like applications on OpenStack, identity federation enabling hybrid multi-cloud scenarios, and new community app catalog. User stories from Walmart and PayPal highlight how they rely on OpenStack. The document outlines upcoming OpenStack events and releases.
This document provides a PTL update on the state of the community for the Liberty open source object storage project. It notes continued active participation and growth in contributors. It outlines recent work on encryption, erasure coding, storelets, policy migrations, sharding, fast POST, SDKs, documentation, notifications, and performance. It indicates future plans include native media support and improving the client ecosystem.
Congress is an OpenStack project that provides policy management and enforcement across OpenStack services. It allows defining policies like restricting network access based on group membership. In Kilo, Congress focused on the core capabilities of monitoring for violations and basic proactive/reactive enforcement. Liberty adds controls for limiting enforcement actions and expands the number of integrated services. It also introduces scale out and high availability architectures using a shared database and load balancing. Liberty may also integrate delegation of enforcement through Keystone.
This document discusses challenges in coordinating the production of OpenStack and proposed changes to address those challenges. It describes reforming the project structure to recognize more projects as part of OpenStack if they help with the mission. It also discusses establishing a single OpenStack Security Team portal and moving away from integrated releases to a larger collection of coordinated projects. The Liberty development cycle will use a 6-month time-based model with three interim releases before the final Liberty release in October 2015.
At OpenStack Day CEE 2015, we discuss the latest user survey results, some real-world OpenStack case studies and how new users and cloud operators can get involved with the community.
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Keywords: AI, Containeres, Kubernetes, Cloud Native
Event Link: https://meine.doag.org/events/cloudland/2024/agenda/#agendaId.4211
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Discover the Unseen: Tailored Recommendation of Unwatched ContentScyllaDB
The session shares how JioCinema approaches ""watch discounting."" This capability ensures that if a user watched a certain amount of a show/movie, the platform no longer recommends that particular content to the user. Flawless operation of this feature promotes the discover of new content, improving the overall user experience.
JioCinema is an Indian over-the-top media streaming service owned by Viacom18.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
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.
This is achieved through:
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!
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
74. ///////////////// WHO WE
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Best Buy is the world’s largest multi-channel consumer
electronics retailer with stores in the United States, Canada,
China, Europe and Mexico.
11th largest online retailer
More than 1.6 billion visitors to our stores and BestBuy.com
each year
Reward Zone largest loyalty program in the U.S. – more than 40
million active members
Provide customers with outstanding choice, unbiased advice
and unmatched support for the tech needs
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75. ///////////////// CLOUD
ECTURE
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In 2011 we began planning a new Ecommerce Platform
Our traffic profile features an approximately 7X peak around
Thanksgiving
Majority of traffic is browse and search
Re-architect browse tier to cloud for elasticity, scalability and
reliability
Served ~25% of traffic in 2012
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78. ///////////////// CONTINUOUS DELIVERY CLOUD
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At any time we may have 40+ teams working in parallel
Many were bypassing our internal integration environments and
instead using public cloud based environments
- Serious inconsistencies in environment quality
- No ability to integrate with other Dotcom services
- QA became the integration environment
- Expensive
Solution: create an internal cloud for integration testing and
tooling to consistently recreate the Dotcom infrastructure
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79. ///////////////// WHAT THE CDC
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Innovation catalyst
Push button development environments – “Omnitank”
Self-service API driven environments for development teams
Early integration
Automated testing at scale
Reduce variability in environments
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80. ///////////////// WHAT THE CDC
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Innovation catalyst
Push button development environments – “Omnitank”
Self-service API driven environments for development teams
Early integration
Automated testing at scale
Reduce variability in environments
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81. ///////////////// BUSINESS CASE AND USE
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What we knew circa mid 2011:
- Value stream mapping exercise showed that QA (as a process)
consumed approx. $500,000 per major release (for our legacy
platform)
- A large fraction of the costs attributed to environment setup,
discrepancies, and availability problems
- Needed to find a way to support parallel development and
product teams
- High costs for new infrastructure – upwards of $20,000 to
provision a VM in existing managed environments
What we didn’t know:
- That we would receive the green light and funding to develop
a new platform
- The rapid pace of development and change we were headedSaturday, April 20, 13
82. ///////////////// WHAT IT DOES FOR US:
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Focused on developer driven, self-managed teams:
- A culture of self service vs. COE
- Remove the blame game regarding environments and
environment state
- Parallel development
- Teams are free to innovate
- Reduce cycle times for code complete and code deploy
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88. ///////////////// A LITTLE
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About Comcast
-Two primary businesses: Comcast Cable & NBCUniversal
-Comcast Cable is the largest US provider of video, Internet, phone services
(XFINITY)
-NBCUniversal operates 30 news & entertainment cable networks, NBC &
Telemundo broadcast networks, TV production & station groups, Universal
Pictures, and Universal Parks & Resorts
Our video development stack has been…
-Vertically integrated, closed HW & SW
-Most of the consumer experience accomplished on the set-top
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90. ///////////////// X1
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X1 platform moves functionality out of the box and into the
network
–Connect the set-top box to our cable services using standard IP technologies
–Built on open source server & software infrastructure on private cloud
–More personalized experience that makes it easy to discover, access, and share
OpenStack brings
–A vibrant, diverse, and vendor agnostic development & user community
–Agility, efficiency and velocity across the entire lifecycle
Today’s demo is live
More details about our OpenStack plans in our case study (Wed 1:50pm)
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