Custom-hardware development is known for its challenges related to development costs, pace of execution and manufacturing issues. This is where reconfigurable computing (also known as Field Programmable Gate Arrays or FPGAs) steps in for the rescue. What are its implications for the software development industry?
TWISummit 2019 - Embracing a Service MeshThoughtworks
Does your Microservices setup actually benefit you? Or are you bogged down with managing the network operations, observability, release management and more? A Service Mesh can actually help reduce operational complexity and manage your microservices better.
With agile and faster delivery becoming a norm, building security into the software is the best way to deliver secure software at the pace of DevOps. Then, what are the different people aspects, processes, practices and tools that uphold security seamlessly?
2017-05-31 Praxiswerkstatt Agilität und digitale TransformationAlexander Much
This is a slide-set shown during a presentation on the event "2. Praxiswerkstatt
Agilität und Digitale Transformation –
Vom Hype zur nutzbringenden Realisierung" on May 31st 2017.
Cisco InterCloud Strategy, Overview and Deployment Models. It provides an overview of Cisco InterCloud, its components and shows how enterprises and service provides can deploy it based on what best suites their needs.
Multimedia document processing using the Weblab platform: AXES project use ca...OW2
AXES (http://axes-project.eu) was a project co-funded by the European Union’s Seventh Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration. The goal of AXES was to develop tools that provide various types of users with new engaging ways to interact with audiovisual libraries, helping them to discover, browse, search and enrich video archives.
The OW2 WebLab (http://weblab-project.org) integration platform for multimedia processing has been used to aggregate the services developed by 9 partners in order to build the three demonstrators targeting various user groups: the media professionals, the journalists and researchers as well as the home users.
As a result of the AXES project, OW2 "Open AXES", is born. It provides a complete solution that gathers innovative audiovisual content analysis technologies (shot and keyframes detection, image classification, speech transcription, large scale indexing, similarity search, etc.) as well as an ergonomic interface to retrieve and navigate in video archives.
Is Linux ready for safety related applications?Alexander Much
The presentation is from a talk I gave at the ETAS Connections 2018 event. It details the reasoning for the use of Linux in the Automotive domain for safety-critical systems.
The content is based on our OSADL approach taken in the SIL2MP Linux project
TWISummit 2019 - Embracing a Service MeshThoughtworks
Does your Microservices setup actually benefit you? Or are you bogged down with managing the network operations, observability, release management and more? A Service Mesh can actually help reduce operational complexity and manage your microservices better.
With agile and faster delivery becoming a norm, building security into the software is the best way to deliver secure software at the pace of DevOps. Then, what are the different people aspects, processes, practices and tools that uphold security seamlessly?
2017-05-31 Praxiswerkstatt Agilität und digitale TransformationAlexander Much
This is a slide-set shown during a presentation on the event "2. Praxiswerkstatt
Agilität und Digitale Transformation –
Vom Hype zur nutzbringenden Realisierung" on May 31st 2017.
Cisco InterCloud Strategy, Overview and Deployment Models. It provides an overview of Cisco InterCloud, its components and shows how enterprises and service provides can deploy it based on what best suites their needs.
Multimedia document processing using the Weblab platform: AXES project use ca...OW2
AXES (http://axes-project.eu) was a project co-funded by the European Union’s Seventh Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration. The goal of AXES was to develop tools that provide various types of users with new engaging ways to interact with audiovisual libraries, helping them to discover, browse, search and enrich video archives.
The OW2 WebLab (http://weblab-project.org) integration platform for multimedia processing has been used to aggregate the services developed by 9 partners in order to build the three demonstrators targeting various user groups: the media professionals, the journalists and researchers as well as the home users.
As a result of the AXES project, OW2 "Open AXES", is born. It provides a complete solution that gathers innovative audiovisual content analysis technologies (shot and keyframes detection, image classification, speech transcription, large scale indexing, similarity search, etc.) as well as an ergonomic interface to retrieve and navigate in video archives.
Is Linux ready for safety related applications?Alexander Much
The presentation is from a talk I gave at the ETAS Connections 2018 event. It details the reasoning for the use of Linux in the Automotive domain for safety-critical systems.
The content is based on our OSADL approach taken in the SIL2MP Linux project
CWIN16 UK Event - The Future of Infrastructure Gunnar Menzel
What technologies made the biggest impact and which ones will impact us in the future? Will technology advances slow down, stay the same of speed up? What trends and technologies should I consider?
The Digital agenda, shifting business models, as well as the need for speed at lower cost are impacting, shaping and forming new technologies; creating new opportunities at an ever increasing pace.
During the 30 min presentation Gunnar will outline the various key infrastructure related trends and technologies that are and will be key going forward.
This presentation aims to create awareness for IoT device makers on the various aspects they might encounter with their products. Security challenges which need to be addressed are listed to try to guide developers along the right path.
Roger Dickinson - Making Enterprise Virtual Reality a Practical Reality - Cod...Codemotion
Virtual Reality is set to be one of the most disruptive technologies. Whether you work in Gaming, Construction, Financial Services or even for a Formula1 team, chances are you will be working with VR in the very near future. But current VR architectures are not practical for the Enterprise. So how do you go about building an Enterprise VR platform? How do you deliver solutions like Nvidia Holodeck, integrate with Google Hangouts, leverage infrastructure as code for a consistent user experience? In the session, you’ll get a glimpse at the VR Platform Cisco is building with our partner eBB3
Edge computing offloading: status & perspectivesIIT CNR
Multi-access edge computing is a fundamental pillar of future 5G mobile networks. One of the most promising applications is computation offloading: the mobile user outsources computational-heavy tasks to devices in the edge tier, which is intermediate between user devices and remote clouds. While most research studies so far focus on reducing energy consumption of mobile devices, the importance of this metric may shrink in the future due to an increase of the number of dedicated engines in mobile phones/tables. However, new devices will appear that have _no_ computational power at all (such as smart glasses/contact lenses) for which computational offloading will be a key enabler.
The top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2018 according to the recent CompTIA community meeting. From Artificial Intelligence to Quantum Computing, see how the latest technologies will affect the IT Channel, Solution Providers, and MSPs
[SiriusCon 2020] Pushing Limits in Automotive Model Visualization at BOSCH - ...Obeo
In this session, we shall present our model visualizations based on Sirius framework used in multicore automotive software production tools at Bosch. We will provide insights into the decision criteria and benefits achieved with Sirius. The talk shall also highlight the pros and cons of using the framework in real-life projects containing over 300 million model objects. Our experience report in this session can serve as a guideline for the developer community in the industry. Further, our presentation will highlight the performance optimization and lay-outing challenges. Additionally, we present a case study of problems faced during development and its solutions so as to not re-invent the wheel.
Syed Aoun Raza, Robert Bosch
Syed Aoun Raza is working as Lead Software Architect and Multi-Core system design expert for Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart (Germany). He has earned several years of experience in tool development using MDSD approaches. Additionally, he has research contributions in design and implementation of static analysis tools and techniques with focus on parallel/concurrent programs.
Rakesh Nidavani, Robert Bosch
Rakesh is a specialist at Robert Bosch, India. He has over 8 years of software development experience. Mostly works on applications based on EMF and Eclipse Sirius.
Amal Jose Vallavanthara, Robert Bosch
Currently works on multi-core automotive model domain at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. He specializes in machine learning and embedded systems.
Supermicro AI Pod that’s Super Simple, Super Scalable, and Super AffordableRebekah Rodriguez
The worlds of HPC and AI are evolving at a tremendous rate. The demands of modern-day applications put immense pressure on local IT teams and resources. More often than not, this pressure can come from requiring an AI strategy to speed up mission-critical applications - but this can come at a cost which can hinder adoption. In this webinar, Supermicro, together with International Computer Concepts (ICC) and Define Tech, will demonstrate their AI Super Pod that delivers on AI strategy needs without breaking the bank.
Healthcare has became one of the most important aspects of everyones life. Its importance has surged due to the latests outbreaks and due to this latest pandemic it has become mandatory to collaborate to improve everyones Healthcare as soon as possible.
IBM has reacted quickly sharing not only its knowledge but also its Artificial Intelligence Supercomputers all around the world.
Those Supercomputers are helping to prevail this outbreak and also future ones.
They have completely different features compared to proposals from other players of this Supercomputers market.
We will try to make a quick look at the differences of those AI focused Supercomputers and how they can help in the R&D of Healthcare solutions for everyone, from those ones with access to a big IBM AI Supercomputer to those ones with access to only one small IBM AI focused server.
Healthcare has became one of the most important aspects of everyones life. Its importance has surged due to the latests outbreaks and due to this latest pandemic it has become mandatory to collaborate to improve everyones Healthcare as soon as possible.
IBM has reacted quickly sharing not only its knowledge but also its Artificial Intelligence Supercomputers all around the world.
Those Supercomputers are helping to prevail this outbreak and also future ones.
They have completely different features compared to proposals from other players of this Supercomputers market.
We will try to make a quick look at the differences of those AI focused Supercomputers and how they can help in the R&D of Healthcare solutions for everyone, from those ones with access to a big IBM AI Supercomputer to those ones with access to only one small IBM AI focused server.
VEDLIOT – Accelerated AIoT. Jens Hagemeyer. 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning for IoT (DL4IoT), co-located with HiPEAC 2023, Toulouse, France, January 2023
The Implementing AI: High Performance Architectures webinar, hosted by KTN and eFutures, was the fourth event in the Implementing AI summer webinar series.
Every business is increasing the use of artificial intelligence to gain efficiency and to make better decisions. These new demands for data processing are not well delivered by traditional computer architectures. Enterprises, developers, data scientists, and researchers need new platforms that unify all AI workloads, simplifying infrastructure and accelerating ROI. This has led to the development of high performance and specialised hardware devices to meet these new demands.
The focus of this webinar was the impact of processing AI data on data centres - particularly from the technology perspective. The webinar had four presentations from experts, covering the opportunities, implementation techniques and Case Studies, followed by a panel Q&A session.
Arm A64fx and Post-K: Game-Changing CPU & Supercomputer for HPC, Big Data, & AIinside-BigData.com
Satoshi Matsuoka from RIKEN gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe.
"With rapid rise and increase of Big Data and AI as a new breed of high-performance workloads on supercomputers, we need to accommodate them at scale, and thus the need for R&D for HW and SW Infrastructures where traditional simulation-based HPC and BD/AI would converge, in a BYTES-oriented fashion. Post-K is the flagship next generation national supercomputer being developed by Riken and Fujitsu in collaboration. Post-K will have hyperscale class resource in one exascale machine, with well more than 100,000 nodes of sever-class A64fx many-core Arm CPUs, realized through extensive co-design process involving the entire Japanese HPC community.
Rather than to focus on double precision flops that are of lesser utility, rather Post-K, especially its Arm64fx processor and the Tofu-D network is designed to sustain extreme bandwidth on realistic applications including those for oil and gas, such as seismic wave propagation, CFD, as well as structural codes, besting its rivals by several factors in measured performance. Post-K is slated to perform 100 times faster on some key applications c.f. its predecessor, the K-Computer, but also will likely to be the premier big data and AI/ML infrastructure. Currently, we are conducting research to scale deep learning to more than 100,000 nodes on Post-K, where we would obtain near top GPU-class performance on each node."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-k6G
Learn more: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/supercomputers/post-k
and
http://hpcuserforum.com
The digital world is facing a crisis that has at the same time opened new windows of opportunity. To tackle the shortage of potential leaders joining the digital sector, the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) has crafted a new course: Masters of Science (MSc) in Computer Science and Software Engineering – to better prepare graduates for leadership roles, specifically within the IT and Science disciplines.
At the #SITinsights in Technology talk, we’re blending computing and economics, bringing knowledge and expertise from all relevant fields to help enable global efforts.
About Schaffhausen Institute of Technology:
With its pioneering curriculum, the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) offers a new model of education. Focusing on the most important areas of technology, SIT will drive research, development and innovation in a next generation learning and research environment. Using state-of-the-art facilities, SIT's students, researchers and business allies will address large-scale world problems by developing a technology curriculum based on global issues.
OpenACC and Open Hackathons Monthly Highlights August 2022OpenACC
Stay up-to-date with the OpenACC and Open Hackathons Monthly Highlights. August’s edition covers the 2022 OpenACC and Hackathons Asia-Pacific Summit, NVIDIA’s GTC, upcoming Open Hackathons and Bootcamps, EuroHPC, the launch of Frontier and Polaris supercomputers, recent research, new resources, and more!
CWIN16 UK Event - The Future of Infrastructure Gunnar Menzel
What technologies made the biggest impact and which ones will impact us in the future? Will technology advances slow down, stay the same of speed up? What trends and technologies should I consider?
The Digital agenda, shifting business models, as well as the need for speed at lower cost are impacting, shaping and forming new technologies; creating new opportunities at an ever increasing pace.
During the 30 min presentation Gunnar will outline the various key infrastructure related trends and technologies that are and will be key going forward.
This presentation aims to create awareness for IoT device makers on the various aspects they might encounter with their products. Security challenges which need to be addressed are listed to try to guide developers along the right path.
Roger Dickinson - Making Enterprise Virtual Reality a Practical Reality - Cod...Codemotion
Virtual Reality is set to be one of the most disruptive technologies. Whether you work in Gaming, Construction, Financial Services or even for a Formula1 team, chances are you will be working with VR in the very near future. But current VR architectures are not practical for the Enterprise. So how do you go about building an Enterprise VR platform? How do you deliver solutions like Nvidia Holodeck, integrate with Google Hangouts, leverage infrastructure as code for a consistent user experience? In the session, you’ll get a glimpse at the VR Platform Cisco is building with our partner eBB3
Edge computing offloading: status & perspectivesIIT CNR
Multi-access edge computing is a fundamental pillar of future 5G mobile networks. One of the most promising applications is computation offloading: the mobile user outsources computational-heavy tasks to devices in the edge tier, which is intermediate between user devices and remote clouds. While most research studies so far focus on reducing energy consumption of mobile devices, the importance of this metric may shrink in the future due to an increase of the number of dedicated engines in mobile phones/tables. However, new devices will appear that have _no_ computational power at all (such as smart glasses/contact lenses) for which computational offloading will be a key enabler.
The top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2018 according to the recent CompTIA community meeting. From Artificial Intelligence to Quantum Computing, see how the latest technologies will affect the IT Channel, Solution Providers, and MSPs
[SiriusCon 2020] Pushing Limits in Automotive Model Visualization at BOSCH - ...Obeo
In this session, we shall present our model visualizations based on Sirius framework used in multicore automotive software production tools at Bosch. We will provide insights into the decision criteria and benefits achieved with Sirius. The talk shall also highlight the pros and cons of using the framework in real-life projects containing over 300 million model objects. Our experience report in this session can serve as a guideline for the developer community in the industry. Further, our presentation will highlight the performance optimization and lay-outing challenges. Additionally, we present a case study of problems faced during development and its solutions so as to not re-invent the wheel.
Syed Aoun Raza, Robert Bosch
Syed Aoun Raza is working as Lead Software Architect and Multi-Core system design expert for Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart (Germany). He has earned several years of experience in tool development using MDSD approaches. Additionally, he has research contributions in design and implementation of static analysis tools and techniques with focus on parallel/concurrent programs.
Rakesh Nidavani, Robert Bosch
Rakesh is a specialist at Robert Bosch, India. He has over 8 years of software development experience. Mostly works on applications based on EMF and Eclipse Sirius.
Amal Jose Vallavanthara, Robert Bosch
Currently works on multi-core automotive model domain at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. He specializes in machine learning and embedded systems.
Supermicro AI Pod that’s Super Simple, Super Scalable, and Super AffordableRebekah Rodriguez
The worlds of HPC and AI are evolving at a tremendous rate. The demands of modern-day applications put immense pressure on local IT teams and resources. More often than not, this pressure can come from requiring an AI strategy to speed up mission-critical applications - but this can come at a cost which can hinder adoption. In this webinar, Supermicro, together with International Computer Concepts (ICC) and Define Tech, will demonstrate their AI Super Pod that delivers on AI strategy needs without breaking the bank.
Healthcare has became one of the most important aspects of everyones life. Its importance has surged due to the latests outbreaks and due to this latest pandemic it has become mandatory to collaborate to improve everyones Healthcare as soon as possible.
IBM has reacted quickly sharing not only its knowledge but also its Artificial Intelligence Supercomputers all around the world.
Those Supercomputers are helping to prevail this outbreak and also future ones.
They have completely different features compared to proposals from other players of this Supercomputers market.
We will try to make a quick look at the differences of those AI focused Supercomputers and how they can help in the R&D of Healthcare solutions for everyone, from those ones with access to a big IBM AI Supercomputer to those ones with access to only one small IBM AI focused server.
Healthcare has became one of the most important aspects of everyones life. Its importance has surged due to the latests outbreaks and due to this latest pandemic it has become mandatory to collaborate to improve everyones Healthcare as soon as possible.
IBM has reacted quickly sharing not only its knowledge but also its Artificial Intelligence Supercomputers all around the world.
Those Supercomputers are helping to prevail this outbreak and also future ones.
They have completely different features compared to proposals from other players of this Supercomputers market.
We will try to make a quick look at the differences of those AI focused Supercomputers and how they can help in the R&D of Healthcare solutions for everyone, from those ones with access to a big IBM AI Supercomputer to those ones with access to only one small IBM AI focused server.
VEDLIOT – Accelerated AIoT. Jens Hagemeyer. 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning for IoT (DL4IoT), co-located with HiPEAC 2023, Toulouse, France, January 2023
The Implementing AI: High Performance Architectures webinar, hosted by KTN and eFutures, was the fourth event in the Implementing AI summer webinar series.
Every business is increasing the use of artificial intelligence to gain efficiency and to make better decisions. These new demands for data processing are not well delivered by traditional computer architectures. Enterprises, developers, data scientists, and researchers need new platforms that unify all AI workloads, simplifying infrastructure and accelerating ROI. This has led to the development of high performance and specialised hardware devices to meet these new demands.
The focus of this webinar was the impact of processing AI data on data centres - particularly from the technology perspective. The webinar had four presentations from experts, covering the opportunities, implementation techniques and Case Studies, followed by a panel Q&A session.
Arm A64fx and Post-K: Game-Changing CPU & Supercomputer for HPC, Big Data, & AIinside-BigData.com
Satoshi Matsuoka from RIKEN gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe.
"With rapid rise and increase of Big Data and AI as a new breed of high-performance workloads on supercomputers, we need to accommodate them at scale, and thus the need for R&D for HW and SW Infrastructures where traditional simulation-based HPC and BD/AI would converge, in a BYTES-oriented fashion. Post-K is the flagship next generation national supercomputer being developed by Riken and Fujitsu in collaboration. Post-K will have hyperscale class resource in one exascale machine, with well more than 100,000 nodes of sever-class A64fx many-core Arm CPUs, realized through extensive co-design process involving the entire Japanese HPC community.
Rather than to focus on double precision flops that are of lesser utility, rather Post-K, especially its Arm64fx processor and the Tofu-D network is designed to sustain extreme bandwidth on realistic applications including those for oil and gas, such as seismic wave propagation, CFD, as well as structural codes, besting its rivals by several factors in measured performance. Post-K is slated to perform 100 times faster on some key applications c.f. its predecessor, the K-Computer, but also will likely to be the premier big data and AI/ML infrastructure. Currently, we are conducting research to scale deep learning to more than 100,000 nodes on Post-K, where we would obtain near top GPU-class performance on each node."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-k6G
Learn more: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/supercomputers/post-k
and
http://hpcuserforum.com
The digital world is facing a crisis that has at the same time opened new windows of opportunity. To tackle the shortage of potential leaders joining the digital sector, the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) has crafted a new course: Masters of Science (MSc) in Computer Science and Software Engineering – to better prepare graduates for leadership roles, specifically within the IT and Science disciplines.
At the #SITinsights in Technology talk, we’re blending computing and economics, bringing knowledge and expertise from all relevant fields to help enable global efforts.
About Schaffhausen Institute of Technology:
With its pioneering curriculum, the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) offers a new model of education. Focusing on the most important areas of technology, SIT will drive research, development and innovation in a next generation learning and research environment. Using state-of-the-art facilities, SIT's students, researchers and business allies will address large-scale world problems by developing a technology curriculum based on global issues.
OpenACC and Open Hackathons Monthly Highlights August 2022OpenACC
Stay up-to-date with the OpenACC and Open Hackathons Monthly Highlights. August’s edition covers the 2022 OpenACC and Hackathons Asia-Pacific Summit, NVIDIA’s GTC, upcoming Open Hackathons and Bootcamps, EuroHPC, the launch of Frontier and Polaris supercomputers, recent research, new resources, and more!
The present paper describes a novel Raspberry Pi and Arduino UNO architecture used as a meteorological station. One of the advantages of the proposed architecture is the huge quantity of sensors developed for its usage; practically one can find them for any application, and weather sensing is not an exception. The principle followed is to configure Raspberry as a collector for measures obtained from Arduino, transmitting occurs via USB; meanwhile, Raspberry broadcasts them via a web page. For such activity is possible thanks to Raspbian, a Linux-based operating system. It has a lot of libraries and resources available, among them Apache Web Server, that gives the possibility to host a web-page. On it, the user can observe temperature, humidity, solar radiance, and wind speed and direction. Information on the web-page is refreshed each five minute; however, measurements arrive at Raspberry every ten seconds. This low refreshment rate was determined because weather variables normally do not abruptly change. As an additional feature, system stores all information on the log file, this gives the possibility for future analysis and processing.
With the rise of fog and edge-computing as the basic paradigms for future communication standards such as 6G, new processing requirements are established. On the other hand, new security algorithms appear with the scaling of quantum technology, increasing the complexity of the cryptography applications for IoT devices with a tight standardization timeline. Finally, the integration of satellites as nodes for communication networks includes fault-tolerance and error-correction codes as design parameters.
FPGA-based soft-processors are supported by industry and space agencies as promising candidates to overcome all these challenges, due to their flexibility and power consumption compared to GPUs or multithreading CPUs with co-processors. To optimize these architectures to a wide range of scenarios, common methods, and arithmetic functions need to be integrated into the ISA. This talk will show some examples of the RISC-V EL2 core for both classical and post-quantum cryptography and error correction codes, reducing the latency of standardized solutions at a cost of a small cross-section increase keeping the behavior under radiation effects similar to the original core.
In this talk, we will briefly review the current trend toward Edge Computing first. Then, characteristics and requirements for the Industrial Edge Computing will be addressed and discussed. Among them, Decentralized Fault-Resilient Architecture, Time-sensitive Operations, Data-centric Computation, Autonomous Systems and Flexibility are the most important ones. Some influential open-source projects for the industrial edge computing will also be introduced in this talk, including Cyclone DDS, ROS2, Autoware and zenoh.
The first "Insights in Technology Conference" was in Schaffhausen on December 16, 2019. The event is organized by the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology SIT. Special guest is Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Ketterle.
Schaffhausen Institute of Technology website: http://sit.org
Many HPC applications are massively parallel and can benefit from the spatial parallelism offered by reconfigurable logic. While modern memory technologies can offer high bandwidth, designers must craft advanced communication and memory architectures for efficient data movement and on-chip storage. Addressing these challenges requires to combine compiler optimizations, high-level synthesis, and hardware design.
In this talk, I will present challenges, solutions, and trends for generating massively parallel accelerators on FPGA for high-performance computing. These architectures can provide performance comparable to software implementations on high-end processors, and much higher energy efficiency thanks to logic customization.
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Design System as a Product - Maria Elena Duenias, Esther Butcher
Design systems are a great example where web development and design meet. You can find innumerable resources on the internet, books and conferences on how to build them, and how they are exactly what your organization needs. But, building one requires a lot more than following a recipe. In this talk we are going to discuss how to build a design system as an internal product, and how it evolves to become what the users need.
Designers, Developers and Dogs: Finding the magic balance between product and tech - Charlotte Vorbeck, ShareNow and Sahil Bajaj
How can an agile delivery team become a successful product team? When does collaboration between product and tech succeed and when not? Why do people in some teams inspire each other while others in the same environment don't speak the same language? In this talk we want to share our learnings and experiences from rebuilding an internal tool for customer support at ShareNow. What could have been just another boring rewrite surprisingly became one of our best experiences in collaboration. We will look at how a joint discovery phase helped us to come up with a shared vision, how a better team setup enabled us to do the necessary work, how focusing on the customer kept us aligned during our journey, and also how we built upon existing collaborative techniques to achieve this new level of cooperation and trust.
During this presentation, Ward Coessens, ThoughtWorks' Consultant will share best practice insights from the Daimler partnership, helping the automotive group on their cloud innovation journey.
How to create more business impact with flexible teams - Jan Hegewald, Zalando & Rebekka Beels, Zalando
Usually, Software Engineering teams are organized around a fixed set of components which they develop further and maintain. Such component teams gain a high level of expert knowledge about their services. However, with agile product development, it often is difficult to implement the most important initiatives with such teams. This leads to a situation where the teams do not work on the most relevant business topics but on those for the respective team. At Zalando, we introduced a new model where we shape teams flexibly around business goals to create the highest impact. How we organize these teams and which challenges especially for the software quality need to be addressed, will be explored in this talk.
Amazon’s Culture of Innovation & The Working Backwards session
Working Backwards; leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. Where do you begin? By focusing on the customer.
During this webinar, Amazon will discuss key innovation principles which have been instrumental in their continued success and their Working Backwards approach.
Dual-Track Agile for Discovery & Development - Adriana Katrandzhieva
The talk will focus on one of the ways teams can ensure continuous delivery and design in their projects. The so-called ‘Dual-track’ model shows the parallel tracks of discovery and development throughout the product design and delivery process. These continually feedback into each other informing new hypothesis that can be tested in order to be proven/disproven. This model is not always easy to implement out of the box and so I will share my own experiences in applying it in practice - what worked, what didn't and how the model can be adjusted to fit different teams and organisational environments.
Designing the Developer Experience - Tanja Bach, Jacob Bo Tiedemann
Working with software that some other people have built, is not only daily business for private and business users but also for developers. Just like any other product, a product for developers needs to solve their problems and focus on the right jobs-to-be-done in order to be successfully adopted by the developer community. In this talk, we will explain why the developer experience matters not only to developers but also to the business. We will share our learnings and real-world examples of how we created a developer experience for a cloud infrastructure product and an IoT platform that the developers love.
When we design together - Sabrina Mach, Ammara Gafoor and James Emmott
From three distinct perspectives, this talk will contend that design is an activity undertaken by everyone in a software development team. It occurs throughout the process of delivery — not only at the beginning or the end — and it is a powerful instrument for learning about and adapting to the problems our work seeks to solve, which is a shared responsibility. Making the best use of our multidisciplinary expertise in the activity of design requires forms of collaboration that are too often disrupted by the role-based silos that keep us separated and weaken the valuable contribution our diverse approaches could make to our collective efforts. If you care about accelerating time to market, improving customer experience, or building happy and productive teams, you will want to know why and how it matters that we believe ‘design is in everything that we do’.
Hardware is hard(er): designing for distributed user experiences in IoT - Claire Rowland, www.clairerowland.com
Designing connected devices and hardware-enabled services is significantly more complex than pure software. There are more devices on which code can run, connectivity and data sharing patterns to consider, and often multiple and varied touchpoints for users to interact with. Pulling this all together into a coherent experience involves strong collaboration between design and engineering, and a systems thinking approach to UX. In this talk, we’ll introduce what designers need to know about the tech, what engineers need to know about UX for IoT, and how to facilitate the whole-collaboration needed to create great products.
www.clairerowland.com
Customer-centric innovation enabled by cloudThoughtworks
Working Backwards - Leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. In this upcoming webinar, we’ve partnered with AWS to bring you exclusive insights from one of the world’s most innovative companies, Amazon.
Working Backwards - Leading organisations achieve growth by marrying customer-obsession with a modern technology strategy. In this upcoming webinar, we’ve partnered with AWS to bring you exclusive insights from one of the world’s most innovative companies, Amazon.
Find out how to validate hypotheses quickly using feedback that comes from a (large enough) number of actual users interacting with your product. In this talk, we will show you the technical foundations, research techniques and organisational setup that we have used successfully on large-scale products. These will save you development time, enable you to go live with confidence, make decisions based on real behaviour instead of best guesses, and solve the actual problems your users are facing.
As a tech leader at ThoughtWorks, a large part of my job involves recommending practices to our clients so they can build and deliver good quality software faster. In doing so repeatedly for many clients I have created a toolkit that contains practical advice from being on the ground. This is what we do, we know it works. When Julius Caesar entered Rome with his army by crossing the river Rubicon, he did something that couldn’t be undone ever again. In your journey as a leader, avoid mistakes that are difficult to correct later. Here are a set of practices that you want to adopt as soon as possible.
Handling error conditions is a core part of the software we write. However, we often treat it as a second class citizen, obscuring our intent through abuse of null values and exceptions that make our code hard to understand and maintain. In the functional programming community, it is common to use datatypes such as Option, Either or Validated to make our intentions explicit when dealing with errors. We can leverage the compiler to verify that we are handling them instead of hoping for the best at runtime. This results in code that is clearer, without hidden path flows. We’ll show how we have been doing this in Kotlin, with the help of the Arrow library.
Mutation testing in software development surfaced in academia during the 70's and has recently seen a resurgence in popularity as a legitimate tool in your testing arsenal. In this session we review the conventional testing pyramid, modern approaches to testing software and look at how mutation testing can help fill in those blind spots.
The continued adoption of containers for deployments has introduced a new path for security issues. In this talk, we will cover the most common areas of vulnerabilities, the challenges in securing your containers, some good practices to help overcome these issues and how to run container security scanning as part of your deployment pipeline.
Mainframes handle 30 billion business transactions each day and 87% of all credit card transactions*, they are not traditionally associated with flexible, fail-fast development approaches. Can we bring the practices of agile, CI/CD and fully automated deployments to applications running on a mainframe? During our talk, we'll tell you a story about test automation; redefining the smallest testable unit of a program. And we'll discuss our learnings from introducing continuous integration and agile practices to the world of insurance and mainframes.
*9 Mainframe statistics that may surprise you
ThoughtWorks' Lucy Kurian, James Lewis & Kief Morris discuss tech trends in our latest Technology Radar, covering techniques, platforms, tools, languages and frameworks.
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
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
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.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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/
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.
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.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.