Microsoft has embraced open source software and collaborates openly on GitHub. Open source allows software to be developed and improved through collaboration and sharing of code. Microsoft sees open source as a way to enhance its products and services by integrating open technologies and contributing to open projects. Customers have responded positively to Microsoft's increased involvement in open source.
Несколько лет тому назад Интернет лихорадила тяга к Raspberry Pi, одноплатному компьютеру от одноименного фонда. Многие покупали себе "малинку" или её многочисленные клоны, вертели в руках и в лучшем случае делали из неё домашний сервер. Но мало кто догадывался, что загадочный разъем на этой плате хранит в себе потенциал для чего-то большего: от моргания светодиодами до управления сервомоторами, подключения внешних дисплеев и многого другого.
Имя ему - GPIO.
Aprende como crear una aplicación móvil multiplataforma para iOS, Android y Windows con Xamarin.Forms. En este taller organizado en diferentes bloques, vamos a crear una aplicación desde cero, conoceremos todos los conceptos básicos, aplicaremos MVVM y terminaremos conectando la misma con la nube.
Last updated on Dec 12, 2014
The Sightly template language, shipped with Adobe Experience Manager 6.0, simplifies a lot the component development workflow by allowing front-end developers to edit components themselves directly.
Learn about the main features of that template language, and about the tools available to make project development work more efficient.
Несколько лет тому назад Интернет лихорадила тяга к Raspberry Pi, одноплатному компьютеру от одноименного фонда. Многие покупали себе "малинку" или её многочисленные клоны, вертели в руках и в лучшем случае делали из неё домашний сервер. Но мало кто догадывался, что загадочный разъем на этой плате хранит в себе потенциал для чего-то большего: от моргания светодиодами до управления сервомоторами, подключения внешних дисплеев и многого другого.
Имя ему - GPIO.
Aprende como crear una aplicación móvil multiplataforma para iOS, Android y Windows con Xamarin.Forms. En este taller organizado en diferentes bloques, vamos a crear una aplicación desde cero, conoceremos todos los conceptos básicos, aplicaremos MVVM y terminaremos conectando la misma con la nube.
Last updated on Dec 12, 2014
The Sightly template language, shipped with Adobe Experience Manager 6.0, simplifies a lot the component development workflow by allowing front-end developers to edit components themselves directly.
Learn about the main features of that template language, and about the tools available to make project development work more efficient.
Exploring VR with Tom Emrich
Save 10% off any FITC event with discount code 'slideshare'.
Details at www.FITC.ca
OVERVIEW
Virtual reality is hitting the mainstream hard with mobile-powered solutions already available for users today and large manufacturers entering the market with dedicated devices in 2016. This session is an overview of the VR ecosystem before diving deep into the VR trends; and a look at what is to come in the near future.
OBJECTIVE
To provide the audience with a good understanding of the VR opportunity today and tomorrow
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
VR Ecosystem
VR by the Numbers
VR Trends Today
VR Predictions for Tomorrow
Opportunities & Challenges
A simple Slideshare I put together exploring how wearables may be turning us into the cyborgs of science fiction. It may not be as far away as we think... from Doctor Who's Daleks, to Robocop, Darth Vader, Inspector Gadget, the Borg, and more...
A reproduction of the official pitch deck template recommended by leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE THESE PITCH DECK EXAMPLES & TEMPLATES:
> Airbnb pitch deck @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/airbnb-pitch-deck
> Sequoia Capital pitch deck template @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/sequoia-capital-pitch-deck
> FREE pitch deck template download @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/free-pitch-deck-template
> Pitch deck guide with hints, tips, and a worked example @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/pitch-deck-template
NEED HELP WITH YOUR PITCH DECK?
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UX, ethnography and possibilities: for Libraries, Museums and ArchivesNed Potter
These slides are adapted from a talk I gave at the Welsh Government's Marketing Awards for the LAM sector, in 2017.
It offers a primer on UX - User Experience - and how ethnography and design might be used in the library, archive and museum worlds to better understand our users. All good marketing starts with audience insight.
The presentation covers the following:
1) An introduction to UX
2) Ethnography, with definitions and examples of 7 ethnographic techniques
3) User-centred design and Design Thinking
4) Examples of UX-led changes made at institutions in the UK and Scandinavia
5) Next Steps - if you'd like to try out UX at your own organisation
Hacktoberfest is an annual, month-long event that spans the globe throughout October. It's a fantastic opportunity for developers to dive into open-source contributions on GitHub. Even better, you have the chance to score some cool swag once your contributions are accepted. During the event, we will cover everything related to Git and GitHub, from the fundamentals to advanced techniques, while emphasizing the significance of open-source contributions.
Business Models and Open Source Licenses in 2019: Can we all get along?Jeffrey Borek
The open source definition is over 20 years old. Cloudera and Hortonworks have completed their all-stock merger of their software companies. Major companies in the open source ecosystem are being snapped up by traditional IT companies. Seems like a good business model, yes? But Stephen would like to observe that despite these successes, there is NO open source business model.
Jeffrey would beg to differ! From data centers to the cloud, from self-driving cars to drones - open source software is everywhere. Major enterprise companies that are bottom-line driven are changing the way they participate in open source, starting to actively engage and contribute to open source projects - not just consume them as products. Having OS in your business model looks great, or does it?
Over the last year a major conflict has emerged between Cloud Platforms and VCs looking to make $$$ with open source.
Creating Authentic Value: Open Source vs. Open CoreDeborah Bryant
Recent emphasis on cloud technologies has brought a lot of attention to how software companies work in today’s business and technical environments. Some companies have chosen to try to protect their software through creative licenses. Unlike open source, where value is placed on community, collaboration, and services, open core businesses place their value on software features. Red Hat’s successful experience as a completely open source company has shown that value is not in the code, but in the support and expertise by being a part of a true community. In this talk, Red Hat’s Deb Bryant will share observations and cautionary tales from the world’s most successful open source company on how the idea of open core has time and again been demonstrated to not be truly open, limits community innovation, and delivers essentially proprietary software to customers
Open Source and Open Innovation - Dr. Sabine Brunswicker - Red Hat Summit 2016Purdue RCODI
From Open Source Towards Open Innovation: Fostering Corporate Innovation with Open Source Software (OSS) Communities presented by Dr. Sabine Brunswicker.
Dr. Sabine Brunswicker presented the latest work on how firms and individuals collaborate in an open source software community in the Red Hat Summit 2016. In particular, she highlighted how firms, whether they are OSS vendors or OSS uses, and also the individual developer, can support each other in order to successfully integrating new features in the software. Red Hat Summit is the premier open source technology event to showcase the latest and greatest in cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies.
Open source software (OSS) is booming. Working the OSS way has become the new standard of software development. This trend has also changed the nature of OSS communities. While originally the domain of hobbyists and hackers, OSS communities are now attracting the participation of firms, both small and large ones. Indeed, OSS communities offer firms the opportunities to engage in what experts call ‘open innovation’. They open up to OSS communities and participate in OSS communities in order to create direct and indirect corporate innovation benefits. This presentation will focus on open innovation for new ‘industrial’ OSS communities, which bring together OSS vendors, OSS customers, as well as independent developers. One of the prominent examples of these new OSS communities is the OpenStack community in the area of cloud computing. These communities create unique opportunities not only for vendor but also for OSS customers to actively shape the agenda of the development activities and also implement this agenda. At the same time, these communities also expose firms to new management challenges given the size and diversity of the actors involved. In my talk I will provide very recent insights gained from a big data analysis focused on the ‘inner working mechanism’ of the OpenStack community. A deep dive into the contribution behavior of different vendors and OSS customers suggest that firms need to align their open innovation strategy with their idiosyncratic innovation interest, the development capabilities of their own employees, and their role in the community. For example, firms that seek to drive more radical changes in the OSS software should behave differently than those firms that are more focused on immediate quality improvements. In sum, the presentation will give those firms, which already participate in new ‘industrial’ OSS communities, as well as those ones, that only use OSS products, practical guidelines in how to use open innovation for the new ‘breed’ of OSS communities. Concrete examples will depict what kinds of features contributors suggested and how OSS vendors, OSS customers and independent developers collaborate in implementing those features.
Open Source can be a great foundation for building a business. That being said, keeping the balance between community building and commercial activities can be tricky. In this talk I want to share my experience and practical tips, which can help you leverage OS and boost your business, while meeting fantastic people and learning a lot in the process.
TODO group has published a series of useful guidelines on how to create an open source program office but the reality of implementing can come with unexpected challenges and surprising opportunities. The broad scope of an open source program requires cross-functional coordination between multiple teams with differing goals, culture, focus areas, perspectives, and priorities, including legal, engineering, design, product, business, marketing, and branding. The success of the open source movement has made the concept of open source software so pervasive that it created another layer of challenges in education and communication. This talk will provide the honest story of my one-year journey of building the open source program office at Uber. I will share my observations and takeaways, as well as what I found rewarding and impactful during the process.
An introduction to Symphony Softwar Foundation, community, projects, open source and open standards focused initiatives for innovation in financial services and fintech.
For more information check out:
Website: http://symphony.foundation
Wiki: https://symphonyoss.atlassian.net/wiki/
Github: https://github.com/symphonyoss/
SpringOne Platform 2017
Shilla Saebi, Comcast; Nithya Ruff, Comcast
"Want to learn more about how to build an active, and diverse community in your organization and maybe even have it expand company wide? Behind open source, there is a strong culture, and sometimes in some organizations debate on whether or not to use it, or contribute to it, can rise. Open source strikes a challenge for people to approach things in an innovative way, look for solutions that are outside the traditional box, and collaboratively where transparency is the most significant asset. Often times, enterprises struggle with the idea of using open source and major changes are needed to be able to play in this world.
Nithya Ruff has started and grown Open Source Software (OSS) practices and strategy inside 2 companies both of which may seem like unlikely OSS cultures. She will talk about her first 90 days of starting the practice inside both companies and what it takes to assess, create plan, and communicate. She will also cover sponsorship, charter, reporting structure, and how to start the process of change.
Shilla will discuss the importance of open source community collaboration and upstream contributions, and dive deeper into why active community participation even matters. As open source software is embraced by the enterprise, companies are starting to look at more than just the technical aspect of open source projects. Building a community around these open source projects is extremely important. They are also vital to create because they provide support to the individuals who are working together on the same project. It brings a sense of unity, and can be made possible through processes such as communication, inter-group relations, tools, and networking. Starting the base for a vibrant community is not always easy or straightforward and is often not the first thing engineers and developers are thinking about.
In this presentation, we will discuss practical tips on how to change an organization’s mindset towards embracing open source and inclusiveness, community building, and how to find resources to start contributing upstream. Comcast is an active contributor in various open source projects, and sponsors some key open source foundations. We will jump into the existing projects we have contributed back to, such as Cloud Foundry, Apache, and OpenStack. We will be including real examples of Comcast’s contributions to the Pivotal community, and the Cloud Foundry community. Additionally, we will talk about some of the cool projects that we have open-sourced recently and show you how to get started with them. Together we will discuss the techniques, the tools, and the practices needed to get started and make an impact!"
Comcast: Comcast's Journey & Transformation to Open SourceFINOS
Nithya Ruff, Comcast: Comcast's Journey & Transformation to Open Source.
Comcast is a Fortune 50 company and many do not know that it has been quietly transforming itself into a software company. And this transformation has included building an open source strategy office. I would like to cover why we started the OS office and what the benefits to the company are. This is very relevant to many companies which have not always started out as technical or software companies.
Shift Remote: DevOps: Devops with Azure Devops and Github - Juarez Junior (Mi...Shift Conference
This talk explores how to modernize your infrastructure with Microsoft Azure DevOps and GitHub, the cultural transformation required to get there end, the opportunities that arise from such a shift.
Exploring VR with Tom Emrich
Save 10% off any FITC event with discount code 'slideshare'.
Details at www.FITC.ca
OVERVIEW
Virtual reality is hitting the mainstream hard with mobile-powered solutions already available for users today and large manufacturers entering the market with dedicated devices in 2016. This session is an overview of the VR ecosystem before diving deep into the VR trends; and a look at what is to come in the near future.
OBJECTIVE
To provide the audience with a good understanding of the VR opportunity today and tomorrow
FIVE THINGS AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL LEARN
VR Ecosystem
VR by the Numbers
VR Trends Today
VR Predictions for Tomorrow
Opportunities & Challenges
A simple Slideshare I put together exploring how wearables may be turning us into the cyborgs of science fiction. It may not be as far away as we think... from Doctor Who's Daleks, to Robocop, Darth Vader, Inspector Gadget, the Borg, and more...
A reproduction of the official pitch deck template recommended by leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE THESE PITCH DECK EXAMPLES & TEMPLATES:
> Airbnb pitch deck @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/airbnb-pitch-deck
> Sequoia Capital pitch deck template @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/sequoia-capital-pitch-deck
> FREE pitch deck template download @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/free-pitch-deck-template
> Pitch deck guide with hints, tips, and a worked example @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/pitch-deck-template
NEED HELP WITH YOUR PITCH DECK?
See how I can help then book a free call @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/
MORE PITCH DECK RESOURCES @ https://pitchdeckcoach.com/pitch-deck-template#resources
UX, ethnography and possibilities: for Libraries, Museums and ArchivesNed Potter
These slides are adapted from a talk I gave at the Welsh Government's Marketing Awards for the LAM sector, in 2017.
It offers a primer on UX - User Experience - and how ethnography and design might be used in the library, archive and museum worlds to better understand our users. All good marketing starts with audience insight.
The presentation covers the following:
1) An introduction to UX
2) Ethnography, with definitions and examples of 7 ethnographic techniques
3) User-centred design and Design Thinking
4) Examples of UX-led changes made at institutions in the UK and Scandinavia
5) Next Steps - if you'd like to try out UX at your own organisation
Hacktoberfest is an annual, month-long event that spans the globe throughout October. It's a fantastic opportunity for developers to dive into open-source contributions on GitHub. Even better, you have the chance to score some cool swag once your contributions are accepted. During the event, we will cover everything related to Git and GitHub, from the fundamentals to advanced techniques, while emphasizing the significance of open-source contributions.
Business Models and Open Source Licenses in 2019: Can we all get along?Jeffrey Borek
The open source definition is over 20 years old. Cloudera and Hortonworks have completed their all-stock merger of their software companies. Major companies in the open source ecosystem are being snapped up by traditional IT companies. Seems like a good business model, yes? But Stephen would like to observe that despite these successes, there is NO open source business model.
Jeffrey would beg to differ! From data centers to the cloud, from self-driving cars to drones - open source software is everywhere. Major enterprise companies that are bottom-line driven are changing the way they participate in open source, starting to actively engage and contribute to open source projects - not just consume them as products. Having OS in your business model looks great, or does it?
Over the last year a major conflict has emerged between Cloud Platforms and VCs looking to make $$$ with open source.
Creating Authentic Value: Open Source vs. Open CoreDeborah Bryant
Recent emphasis on cloud technologies has brought a lot of attention to how software companies work in today’s business and technical environments. Some companies have chosen to try to protect their software through creative licenses. Unlike open source, where value is placed on community, collaboration, and services, open core businesses place their value on software features. Red Hat’s successful experience as a completely open source company has shown that value is not in the code, but in the support and expertise by being a part of a true community. In this talk, Red Hat’s Deb Bryant will share observations and cautionary tales from the world’s most successful open source company on how the idea of open core has time and again been demonstrated to not be truly open, limits community innovation, and delivers essentially proprietary software to customers
Open Source and Open Innovation - Dr. Sabine Brunswicker - Red Hat Summit 2016Purdue RCODI
From Open Source Towards Open Innovation: Fostering Corporate Innovation with Open Source Software (OSS) Communities presented by Dr. Sabine Brunswicker.
Dr. Sabine Brunswicker presented the latest work on how firms and individuals collaborate in an open source software community in the Red Hat Summit 2016. In particular, she highlighted how firms, whether they are OSS vendors or OSS uses, and also the individual developer, can support each other in order to successfully integrating new features in the software. Red Hat Summit is the premier open source technology event to showcase the latest and greatest in cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies.
Open source software (OSS) is booming. Working the OSS way has become the new standard of software development. This trend has also changed the nature of OSS communities. While originally the domain of hobbyists and hackers, OSS communities are now attracting the participation of firms, both small and large ones. Indeed, OSS communities offer firms the opportunities to engage in what experts call ‘open innovation’. They open up to OSS communities and participate in OSS communities in order to create direct and indirect corporate innovation benefits. This presentation will focus on open innovation for new ‘industrial’ OSS communities, which bring together OSS vendors, OSS customers, as well as independent developers. One of the prominent examples of these new OSS communities is the OpenStack community in the area of cloud computing. These communities create unique opportunities not only for vendor but also for OSS customers to actively shape the agenda of the development activities and also implement this agenda. At the same time, these communities also expose firms to new management challenges given the size and diversity of the actors involved. In my talk I will provide very recent insights gained from a big data analysis focused on the ‘inner working mechanism’ of the OpenStack community. A deep dive into the contribution behavior of different vendors and OSS customers suggest that firms need to align their open innovation strategy with their idiosyncratic innovation interest, the development capabilities of their own employees, and their role in the community. For example, firms that seek to drive more radical changes in the OSS software should behave differently than those firms that are more focused on immediate quality improvements. In sum, the presentation will give those firms, which already participate in new ‘industrial’ OSS communities, as well as those ones, that only use OSS products, practical guidelines in how to use open innovation for the new ‘breed’ of OSS communities. Concrete examples will depict what kinds of features contributors suggested and how OSS vendors, OSS customers and independent developers collaborate in implementing those features.
Open Source can be a great foundation for building a business. That being said, keeping the balance between community building and commercial activities can be tricky. In this talk I want to share my experience and practical tips, which can help you leverage OS and boost your business, while meeting fantastic people and learning a lot in the process.
TODO group has published a series of useful guidelines on how to create an open source program office but the reality of implementing can come with unexpected challenges and surprising opportunities. The broad scope of an open source program requires cross-functional coordination between multiple teams with differing goals, culture, focus areas, perspectives, and priorities, including legal, engineering, design, product, business, marketing, and branding. The success of the open source movement has made the concept of open source software so pervasive that it created another layer of challenges in education and communication. This talk will provide the honest story of my one-year journey of building the open source program office at Uber. I will share my observations and takeaways, as well as what I found rewarding and impactful during the process.
An introduction to Symphony Softwar Foundation, community, projects, open source and open standards focused initiatives for innovation in financial services and fintech.
For more information check out:
Website: http://symphony.foundation
Wiki: https://symphonyoss.atlassian.net/wiki/
Github: https://github.com/symphonyoss/
SpringOne Platform 2017
Shilla Saebi, Comcast; Nithya Ruff, Comcast
"Want to learn more about how to build an active, and diverse community in your organization and maybe even have it expand company wide? Behind open source, there is a strong culture, and sometimes in some organizations debate on whether or not to use it, or contribute to it, can rise. Open source strikes a challenge for people to approach things in an innovative way, look for solutions that are outside the traditional box, and collaboratively where transparency is the most significant asset. Often times, enterprises struggle with the idea of using open source and major changes are needed to be able to play in this world.
Nithya Ruff has started and grown Open Source Software (OSS) practices and strategy inside 2 companies both of which may seem like unlikely OSS cultures. She will talk about her first 90 days of starting the practice inside both companies and what it takes to assess, create plan, and communicate. She will also cover sponsorship, charter, reporting structure, and how to start the process of change.
Shilla will discuss the importance of open source community collaboration and upstream contributions, and dive deeper into why active community participation even matters. As open source software is embraced by the enterprise, companies are starting to look at more than just the technical aspect of open source projects. Building a community around these open source projects is extremely important. They are also vital to create because they provide support to the individuals who are working together on the same project. It brings a sense of unity, and can be made possible through processes such as communication, inter-group relations, tools, and networking. Starting the base for a vibrant community is not always easy or straightforward and is often not the first thing engineers and developers are thinking about.
In this presentation, we will discuss practical tips on how to change an organization’s mindset towards embracing open source and inclusiveness, community building, and how to find resources to start contributing upstream. Comcast is an active contributor in various open source projects, and sponsors some key open source foundations. We will jump into the existing projects we have contributed back to, such as Cloud Foundry, Apache, and OpenStack. We will be including real examples of Comcast’s contributions to the Pivotal community, and the Cloud Foundry community. Additionally, we will talk about some of the cool projects that we have open-sourced recently and show you how to get started with them. Together we will discuss the techniques, the tools, and the practices needed to get started and make an impact!"
Comcast: Comcast's Journey & Transformation to Open SourceFINOS
Nithya Ruff, Comcast: Comcast's Journey & Transformation to Open Source.
Comcast is a Fortune 50 company and many do not know that it has been quietly transforming itself into a software company. And this transformation has included building an open source strategy office. I would like to cover why we started the OS office and what the benefits to the company are. This is very relevant to many companies which have not always started out as technical or software companies.
Shift Remote: DevOps: Devops with Azure Devops and Github - Juarez Junior (Mi...Shift Conference
This talk explores how to modernize your infrastructure with Microsoft Azure DevOps and GitHub, the cultural transformation required to get there end, the opportunities that arise from such a shift.
FOSS Things to Pay Attention to in 2020
Today, preservation of free and open software faces new challenges from wildly differing forces. On the one hand, new and creative ways have entered the marketing place of ideas, recasting open source with a bias for profit while withholding software freedom. On the other hand a movement is forming making the case for social good and human benefit though software licensing – but in part by discriminating against software use, at odds with fundamental freedoms intended for the user.
What are the present threats? Are these in fact threats, or simply signs that the world is changing around the legacy of free and open source yet to evolve? Deb Bryant, recently appointed back to the Open Source Initiative Board, invites the audience to help shape needed civil discourse to bring our best ideas to refresh the role of free and open source software in society and sustain it while preserving those imperatives that have historically enabled it through several decades.
Open Source for Enterprise: Architecting Digital Change. Reading Room
Digital is a strategic competency, not just another channel for your company marketing message.
How can your company use the nature of Open Source as a strategy to cope with change.
Similar to Haack Lander @ Tech Summit PR 2015 (20)
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Topics covered:
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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.
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**Phil:** This talk is about the power of open source as a differentiator for organizations. You probably have open source in your pocket right now. How many of you have an iPhone or an Android phone in your pocket? How many of you use Chrome, Safari or FireFox browsers? Open source has been instrumental in delivering these products from companies like Apple and Google.
**Rich:** Open source has also been instrumental for Microsoft in building a world class cloud platform in Azure. And these technology companies are objectively very successful. Apple, Google and Microsoft are the top of the S&P 500.
**Phil:** At GitHub, we may not be on the S&P 500 yet. Open source has been core to our business, of delivering a place for developers to build and host software.
**Phil** It's not just businesses that are improving through open source. Governments are embracing open source on GitHub as a way of improving services and also transparency for their citizens.
How has open source been transformative to these organizations? And how can your organization achieve similar results? This is what we're going to discuss.
**Phil:** But first, a little about me. My name is Phil Haack and I work at GitHub as an engineering manager. I've been there for three and a half years. Prior to GitHub, I worked at Microsoft for four years pushing to make this open source thing happen. I got my first computer when I was around 5 or 6 years old. As you can see, I was pretty mature for my age. I've been in love with computers ever since. I believe they are a transformative force. But it's not the computers and source code that transforms the world, but how we organize around them and use them to work together. It's the social changes they help enable. This is something I'm deeply interested in.
**Rich:** Hi, I'm Rich Lander. In my spare time, I pretend to be a long-distance athlete, hence the picture. I've done several half-marathons and half-ironmans. That isn't to suggest that I usually do half the job, but more than I typically have a long view on my work and a lot of patience. It's pretty helpful, particularly when others around me are wondering why we haven't seen the payoff yet.
I've been working at Microsoft for 15 years on products for developers. I work on a product called the .NET Framework, which is a development platform that is part of Windows and is now extending to other operating systems. It's also a big part of Microsoft Azure.
** Rich ** I'm more used to - and this won't surprise anyone - to closed development practices. More recently, Microsoft has been shifting to the development approaches that GitHub uses. We've shifted to using open source where it makes sense and also contributing big parts of our product to the community. We have a new CEO, Satya, that is driving this change. Like GitHub, we're now doing more than just using open source, but making it a core part of the business we offer for cloud computing.
**Phil:** First, it might help to define what open source is. Technically, it's about software that has a license that meets the Open Source Definition, an explicit set of conditions every open source license must meet such as allowing others to change it without condition.
The definition is created by the OSI or Open Source Initiative. Popular licenses such as MIT, GPL, and Apache meet this definition.
But what we're talking about goes beyond that. It’s about the spirit of open source, which is about being open and collaborative.
An open source license is just the beginning. It doesn't mean that people are going to start contributing to your project. Being open is about being working with others and being open to change. It's also about enabling other people to use your code, possibly in ways you never imagined that might benefit people a world away from you.
**Rich:** Earlier, we talked about how big tech businesses have been succesful with open source. It's not like they transformed their businesses over night, nor did they go all or nothing into open source. Really, they were very thoughtful, worked with their legal teams and defined a new engineering approach to build products. And out of this, we see a lot of companies using hybrid open and commercial models successfully.
**Phil:** At Build, the CEO of GitHub said that Microsoft products used to be all or nothing. Now they are more mix-and-match. The old model may have worked well with existing customers, but it a huge challenge for the company to be successful with new audiences, such as startups in Silicon Valley.
Visual Studio Code is a great example of this new strategy. It runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. I've personally seen interest in a Microsoft product from people who have traditionally been hostile to Microsoft products.
**Rich:** Both of our companies have made big bets on open source.
**Rich** At Microsoft - We see open source 3 ways: interoperability, integration and contribution.
**Rich** We use open implementations of industry protocols and standards . It's great if you can use the reference implementation and even better if you can update it and its free. LibGit2 is a perfect example. It enables Microsoft to build products that make using git repositories easier . GitHub uses it as well.
**Rich** Customers often ask us to integrate open source components and systems into our products. We've integrated both Apache Cordova and Node.js into Visual Studio so that you can write client and server apps in JavaScript with those open source app frameworks.
**Rich** We also contribute key products to the community. .NET Core and Roslyn are good examples. We want to make .NET Core one of the primary cross-platform app frameworks that people use, particularly for use on the Microsoft Azure cloud. It's always a good idea to expand your business to new markets. Open source software helps us do that.
**Phil:** At GitHub, our big bet is not just about source code and licenses . We are heavily inspired by the open source way of working together to build high quality software.
There's this great observation by Melvin Conway which states...
**Phil** A lot of people interpret this as a cynical observation, but Conway didn’t see it that way. To him, this was a sociological observation.
So we take this to heart. We model the way we communicate internally after the way many open source projects do. We primarily work asynchronously using issues and pull requests. This allows people in different time zones a chance to see what's happened and to chime in. And we've found this to be a really great way to developer software.
**Phil:** This enables us to work in a distributed fashion with people all over the world, much in the same way that the open source community does. This is a distinct competitive advantage. It's not necessarily the case that the expert for any given technology lives in the Bay Area. The world's best expert in a particular technology that we need could be a scrappy kid in Puerto Rico. And we want to work with those experts wherever they are.
**Phil** Our product reflects this way of working and brings these things not only to others who want to build open source products, but to organizations who want to build proprietary products as well.
This is where we make our money. This is our business model.
**Phil** We also leverage a ton of open source software to build our products. Ruby on Rails, MySql, LibGit2, the list goes on. We also try to open source almost everything .We're not in the business of selling CSS frameworks or Git libraries, so anything not core to our business, we open source. The ton of open source projects we've created not only raise our profile, but also benefit from the work of other individuals and companies to improve the software. Electron is a great example of this. It's the shell used by our Atom Editor. Microsoft uses it in their Visual Studio Code product. Facebook also uses it in Nuclide, their new editor. We benefit as they improve Electron for their needs and vice versa.
**Phil** But these benefits aren't the only reason we create so many open source projects. We feel it's the right thing to do. We use a lot of open source to build our products. It's only right that we contribute back.
A rising tide lifts all boats .
**Rich:** Microsoft Azure is a great example to look at more closely. It's a commercial service that millions of customers use globally. There's something like 90k new subscribers per month for the service. It changes at a fast pace and is operating in a competitive environment. We cannot wait 3 years to bring up a new service that customers want yesterday.
**Phil:** So, how are you tackling that need for agility?
**Rich:** We're leveraging open source components that meet our needs. For example, Azure needed a distributed cache. In typical old Microsoft fashion, we built our own cache for Azure. After a while, we asked ourselves "Why?". There's already a great cache out there that's freely available that is well understood by large numbers of developers. We now host the open source Redis cache as a distributed cache for customers to use.
**Phil:** When I was at Microsoft, I and my cohorts fought against re-inventing the wheel all the time. This is why we adopted jQuery and replaced our own similar library.
**Rich:** This approach has generates a lot of love from customers using Azure. They expect a certain set of services to be there and they don't care how we built it as long as it has the quality they've come to expect. Open source components enable us to implement those services in weeks and months, not years. Linux is another perfect example. Our customers want to host various flavors of Linux in Azure. OK, now you have Ubuntu, CentOs and SUSE Linux in Azure. Done . What else do you need? They also appreciate not being locked in.
**Rich:** Little known fact ... Microsoft has been releasing open source for 10 years and collaborating with open source communities.
**Rich:** This is before GitHub even existed, before GitHub really broadened the use of open source. More recently, Microsoft has made a much bigger commitment to open source by releasing key assets that have really surprised people. It's actually having a big impact on our ecosystem. I don't want to take too much credit, but many of our customers have responded with a simple and deep "thank you", meaning that our more liberal choices are fundamentally meaningful to them. That "thank you" then shifts to an expectation that we'll continue on this path, which is indeed our plan.
**Phil:** Over at GitHub, we've been pretty impressed with the extent of the changes happening at Microsoft. I believe they've really embraced open source in a sincere manner. Last night, I was talking to some speakers that included Tim O'Reilly and Jennifer Pahlka and I said, could you imagine anyone believing this would happen ten years ago. Tim dryly replied, I predicted it ten years ago, but I couldn't imagine it. His point was that unless it embraced open source, Microsoft would become irrelevant. Microsoft wants to be relevant to new audiences.
**Phil:** Likewise, we at GitHub want to help them and their audiences come on over. We started planning to build an extension to their flagship IDE (Integrated Developer Environment), Visual Studio. My CEO, Chris Wanstrath, casually asked me, "Why don't we ask Microsoft to include our extension in Visual Studio?" If I had been drinking milk at the time, it would have come out of my nose from my scoff. I gave him a rock solid case based on my experience why that would never happen.
**Phil** But later that week, I went out to dinner with my former manager at Microsoft. I didn't tell him about this extension idea, but he started talking about all the drastic changes Satya was making at Microsoft. He said it was a new Microsoft and nothing is a sacred cow anymore.
So it got me thinking. It doesn't hurt to ask. I arranged a meeting with Somasegar, a Vice President in charge of Developer Division (which includes Visual Studio and Team System) and gingerly asked him, hey, this is a crazy idea, and don't feel obliged, but what do you think about including GitHub in Visual Studio.
**Phil** And then I cringed awaiting the response. And he immediately said, "Yes, let's do it!"
I pressed further, it'll need to connect to GitHub Enterprise. A product that somewhat competes with their own Team System. And he said, Microsoft is about giving customers choices now. I was shocked and pleasantly surprised. This wasn't lip service, this is the real deal.
**Rich:** We released .NET Core, Roslyn, TypeScript and other recent projects. The repository activity on GitHub and the adoption of those projects has been beyond our expectations. We have companies coming to us ever day asking us to support .NET Core on Linux in Azure.
As an example of cats and dogs living together, open source has brought even Google and Microsoft together to enable Google to use Microsoft's TypeScript as the language to write their Angular2 web framework. These things are really happening.
**Phil:** We have seen this increase in activity in Microsoft-related projects in our telemetry on GitHub.
I asked a colleague at GitHub to create this graph of total commits to C# repositories. C# is one of several Microsoft programming languages. I’m using it as a proxy for their community. It’s a bit early to see if there’s a significant trend here, but initial from the time Microsoft joins GitHub to March, that’s been the steepest climb in commits to C# repos.
In this graph, we’re seeing the percent change month to month of people pushing to C# repositories month to month. We can see that C# is growing faster than the overall GitHub growth rate. This is a sign of a healthy OSS community.
All this cross-polination in open source unlocks innovation. Where all would you see Microsoft, GitHub, Facebook, Google, all working together to advance technology they have in common. It's not the future that you might have expected, but it is here.
**Phil:** The way we work at GitHub, we have access to every project in GitHub .I'm a died-in-the-wool C# developer, but I have access to and have made changes to github/github, which is a Ruby based site, and they've been accepted. If I have an idea, I go to the right place to go implement and do that. We have a saying that "its more productive to debate a pull request than an issue". Once you've removed all the barriers to innvovation, you just innovate.
**Rich:** At Microsoft, we've made a lot of changes to our internal engineering process to get much closer to the model that Phil talked about at GitHub. We're still not to the final place we need to be, but as an organization, we've decided at a very high level where we need to be in order to build the products our customers want.
**Phil:** You can get these same results by collaborating within your own organizations. Use the same techniques and approaches as we use at GitHub and Microsoft .
**Phil** For example, SAP is the largest business software vendor in the world, with a workforce to match - 20,000 developers on teams located all over the world.
Dominik Tornow, Director of Engineering with the SAP Labs Processes and Tools group, gave this quote after they adopted GitHub enterprise as a means of employing open source style development internally.
**Phil** We offer products and services to help you. GitHub Enterprise is private instance of GitHub that you run on either you own servers on your own network or on Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure . And if you want something easier than that, you can always host private repos on GitHub.com.
**Rich:** Microsoft also offers private repos on VisualStudio.com
**Rich:** It's not all about open source. Microsoft and GitHub both sell commercial products that we put a lot of time, effort and money into to provide a great product for you. We focus on end-to-end scenarios, performance, reliability and security. Oh, there's also support. You can continue to buy products from Microsoft and GitHub to get the experience you want and need . As with many of our products, you can extend them to make them do something custom for your environment. It's a great idea to rely on open source software to make it faster and easier to build your custom layer on top of our enterprise-grade products.
**Phil** It’s not just businesses that are improving through open source. Governments and government agencies around the world are jumping on board and reaping the benefits of open source.
GitHub caters to Governments. We see open government as being more than just software code, but also data and policies. It's a great way of increasing government access and civic participation. This has created a fertile environment for a new movement of civic hackers. Governments sharing resources and enabling them to be part of the process can result in new apps for citizens to use or new insights on government data.
**Phil** The GitHub and Government site - https://government.github.com/ - showcases a lot governments that are doing great work. You'll notice that the most valuable projects have been forked many times. Governments also want to avoid reinventing the wheel and find high quality resources that are available. In the United States, there are projects hosted at all levels of government. Digital organizations like the white house and 18F are very active.
**Phil** There's semi-private peer group for government employees to discuss open government practices and how to make the most of open source. It isn't just about resources. There is also a lot of learning that needs to happen. There are many people that are part of this community that can help.
I’ll quickly show some examples of interesting things various government agencies are doing at the federal and local level.
If you go to the WhiteHouse.gov/developers website, you can see they link to their GitHub profile.
Follow that link and you’ll find a data dump of the President’s 2016 budget.
The office of management and budget is embracing GitHub. Here’s what they had to say.
The USA.gov site, a place to learn more about federal government services…
Also uses GitHub issues to solicit feedback for the website.
Nasa and JPL use GitHub to develop tools that help them accomplish their missions.
I got pretty excited when I saw a project named “Europa” but sadly, it’s not a mission to Europa but a tool for planning, scheduling, and constraint programming.
**Phil** And finally, local governments are providing rich data sets on GitHub. Here’s a geojson file showing all the community gardens in Cambridge, MA. When you post a geojson file to GitHub, it renders it as a map. This benefits civic hackers who can take this data and remix it in ways governments never anticipated, and improve local government.
**Rich** Microsoft Azure hosts freely available govt data sets that you can use to inform your work. It also provides business intelligence tools to derive insights from that data. You can also post your data sets to Azure so that other users, individuals, commercial, and govt can get access to them.
**Rich:** We're experiencing a shift today to more open models of development. At Microsoft, we've developed one engineering system to build software that's available to anyone in the company. Most projects at Microsoft don't require the secrecy of a project like HoloLens . We start with the idea that code should be available to all employees. If there is a passionate employee who wants to improve my product, we're happy to add them to the virtual team. This now extends to the world at large, since several of our products are now open source. Fundamentally, it's about collaboration, about removing barriers to innovation. There are a lot of smart people in the world that have great ideas and great insight. A bunch of those people are in the audience today. We'd love to work with you.
**Phil:* In this talk, we covered the benefits of open source to organizations whether they be businesses or government agencies. It's a force multiplier. It's a community builder. It's an innovation driver. We showed the transformative effect of open source on a 100,000 person company like Microsoft, no small feat. We've seen how governments are becoming more open and transparent by publishing code and data on GitHub. This enables civic hackers (for example, organizations like Code 4 Puerto Rico) to take that data and improve local governments in ways nobody could anticipate.
**Phil:* Open source is a monumental change in how individuals and organizations work together to build software. Not just software, but hardware, companies, policies, pretty much anything. If your organization is not yet on board with adopting open source in a deep way, I hope what we've shown here helps you make a compelling case. It's already changed the world, will it change you and your organization? Thank you very much.