The three panels of the digipak feature one edited photo stretched across them to provide visual cohesion. Disks are placed on either side of the middle panel containing lyrics. Sans-serif fonts and bright colors like green, blue and black are used. The white rabbit in the photo links to an Alice in Wonderland theme of nature and freedom. The digipak would be sold online and in stores for £12.99. The inverted photo used in the advert relates to psychedelic and surreal themes. Quotes were chosen for the target audience. The music video has subtle links to the digipak through its surreal Alice in Wonderland theme shown through the white rabbit, but direct links were not possible due filming
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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/
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.
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
5. The 3 inside panels of my digipak are all made up of one picture, I edited the contrast of the original picture, so the colours would complement each other more. I used the one picture to stretch across because I think it works more effectively than if I were to have used 3 seperate pictures. The disks in the digipak were to be stored each side of the middle panel. This was because I placed the disks according to the branches in the image so it was more coordinated . A lyric book including special thanks and credits would be stored in the middle panel. For my Digipak and I used sans-serif fonts. The colours included are mainly Greens, Blues, and Blacks. For the photos for my Digipak I used quite bright lighting, this was because I wanted the colours to be bright to attract attention. The white rabbit featured in the pictures links to Alice in Wonderland theme, the visual theme of my digipakis nature and freedom. My digipak shows a rabbit sat innocently, he then hops off towards stars, which I edited in to suggest the ‘new world’. My digipak would be sold online on sites such as Play.com and Amazon.co.uk and be available for download on Itunes. It would be sold in high street shops such as HMV. But it would not be sold in supermarkets. It would be priced at £12.99.
6. I used the picture in my advert because I liked how simple it was, I then inverted it and carefully edited the contrast and colour levels because after researching into psychedelia and surrealism I found that images that related to these themes required you to look deeper to understand them or made the expected, unexpected. I tried to make my image more unexpected by inverting it, this made the colours less expected as shading is lighter and it looks like the floor is glowing beneath the rabbit. Because Vermilion Skies are a psychedelic group, I thought this might make the advert more appealing to the target audience but also attract attention from other audiences. For my Advert I used the same fonts as I did for my digipak, and the colours included are mainly white, purples/blues and blacks. I edited the logo used in both my advert and digipak using a 3D, 2 panel effect on a new mesh from grey-scale. This branding along with the rabbit featured on both, provides a link between the digipak and advert. I chose the quotes and sources of quotes based on my target audience and the media and publishing's that would appeal to them.
7. The lighting use in my video isn’t very bright, this was to add to the entropy. However there are lots of different colours used in costumes, make-up and props which adds to the interest. I slightly adjusted the colour on some takes to make them clearer or just to add effect. The only text used in my video is at the beginning, and is a serif font.
8. The house style of my music video has no obvious coherence to that of my digipak and advert. There is however a subtle link between them, which is the Alice in Wonderland surreal theme. This theme is shown by the use of images of a white rabbit on the digipak, then inverted on the advert and in the narrative of the music video. The reason I did my work like this is because I expect my target audience to look deeper in order to find the link, rather than making it obvious and easy to notice straight away. Originally I did plan for there to be more of a link between all of the texts I produced, but after plans with the band fell through, I made a plan B which was the rabbit, but unfortunately filming the rabbit and getting suitable shots for use in the video proved to be unachievable, so the rabbit was not featured in the video as we had originally planned. The pictures taken of the rabbit were taken in same place that we filmed the video, however because of the nature of the shots taken and the lighting used, this would not be obvious to the audience. I used key conventions in all of my texts, which I decided to use after research into similar products. From this research I learnt that a digipak should include: The band name, The album name, Track list, a copyright logo along with the name of the record company that produced the album. Similarly for the advert.