Danté Vitulano, Sr. Solutions Architect
Jeremy Richmond, Customer Obsession Readiness Lead
The Voxeo University team discusses best practices and lessons learned from large-scale deployments: sample architectures, multi-site data centers, multi-tenancy, SIP Proxies, SBCs, and more.
VMworld 2013: Capacity Jail Break: vSphere 5 Space Reclamation Nuts and Bolts VMworld
VMworld 2013
Aboubacar Diare, Hewlett-Packard
Abid Saeed, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Fail-Safe Cluster for FirebirdSQL and something moreAlexey Kovyazin
With Firebird HQbird it is possible to create high available cluster or warm standby solution. This presentation defines the problem and describes ways how to create such solutions.
Tips for Administering Complex Distributed Perforce EnvironmentsPerforce
Most users do not have administrator privileges, so how do you allow selected users to forcefully delete their changes and clients? What can be automated to proactively prevent database growth before it affects performance? How do you handle controlled failover in a hierarchical server system between dozens of servers? How do you work around the limitations of shelves in distributed environments? Learn several top tips and tricks we use to handle Perforce servers and how to use the broker’s filtering functionality to your advantage to administer complex Perforce environments.
XPDS14 - RT-Xen: Real-Time Virtualization in Xen - Sisu Xi, Washington Univer...The Linux Foundation
Recent years have seen an increasing demand for supporting real-time systems in virtualized environments. To combine real-time and virtualization, a real-time scheduler at the hypervisor level is needed to provide timing guarantees to the guest virtual machines. RT-Xen provides a suite of multi-core real-time schedulers to deliver real-time performance to domains running on the Xen hypervisor. Work is underway to incorporate RT-Xen in the Xen distribution to replace the legacy SEDF scheduler. We have implemented and empirically compared a diverse set of multicore real-time scheduling policies within the RT-Xen scheduling framework. Based on extensive experiments of different scheduling policies, we plan to submit a patch on global EDF scheduler to the xen-devel as the first step to incorporate multicore real-time scheduling support within the Xen hypervisor.
VMworld 2013: Capacity Jail Break: vSphere 5 Space Reclamation Nuts and Bolts VMworld
VMworld 2013
Aboubacar Diare, Hewlett-Packard
Abid Saeed, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Fail-Safe Cluster for FirebirdSQL and something moreAlexey Kovyazin
With Firebird HQbird it is possible to create high available cluster or warm standby solution. This presentation defines the problem and describes ways how to create such solutions.
Tips for Administering Complex Distributed Perforce EnvironmentsPerforce
Most users do not have administrator privileges, so how do you allow selected users to forcefully delete their changes and clients? What can be automated to proactively prevent database growth before it affects performance? How do you handle controlled failover in a hierarchical server system between dozens of servers? How do you work around the limitations of shelves in distributed environments? Learn several top tips and tricks we use to handle Perforce servers and how to use the broker’s filtering functionality to your advantage to administer complex Perforce environments.
XPDS14 - RT-Xen: Real-Time Virtualization in Xen - Sisu Xi, Washington Univer...The Linux Foundation
Recent years have seen an increasing demand for supporting real-time systems in virtualized environments. To combine real-time and virtualization, a real-time scheduler at the hypervisor level is needed to provide timing guarantees to the guest virtual machines. RT-Xen provides a suite of multi-core real-time schedulers to deliver real-time performance to domains running on the Xen hypervisor. Work is underway to incorporate RT-Xen in the Xen distribution to replace the legacy SEDF scheduler. We have implemented and empirically compared a diverse set of multicore real-time scheduling policies within the RT-Xen scheduling framework. Based on extensive experiments of different scheduling policies, we plan to submit a patch on global EDF scheduler to the xen-devel as the first step to incorporate multicore real-time scheduling support within the Xen hypervisor.
Cloudbreak (https://hortonworks.com/open-source/cloudbreak/), as part of the Hortonworks Data Platform (https://hortonworks.com/products/data-center/hdp/) (HDP), makes it easy to provision, configure and elastically grow clusters across cloud infrastructure providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and OpenStack.
It has been designed and developed in a micro-service architecture since the beginning and shipped in Docker.
This talk is about the challenges of how we scaled the application using Kubernetes on ACS (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-service/) (Azure Container Services) and how handle the hosted service challenges like:
- Exposing metrics regarding the application
- Collecting application, k8s, and system logs
- Handling scenarios when one of the application node dies
- Preparing for high workloads
Learn more about the meetup, here: https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-budapest/events/244277121/
VMworld 2013: Protection for All - VMware vSphere Replication & SRM Technical...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Lee Dilworth, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Ken Werneburg, VMware
This session from DockerCon 18 covers the types of applications that have a requirement of persistent or shared storage, it discusses the various implementation methods with Docker and finally looks at automating the process with both Swarm and Kubernetes.
The original deck in PPTX is available here https://www.dropbox.com/s/pzqi0wbaxdqeca7/DCSF18_Docker%20Storage.pptx?dl=0
Relax and Recover (http://rear.sourceforge.net) is an automated tool for Linux bare-metal disaster recovery.
This presentation by one of the authors explores ideas about build a centralized managemend server to complement the ReaR software installed on all your Linux servers in your data center.
Perforce Administration: Optimization, Scalability, Availability and ReliabilityPerforce
In this session, Michael Mirman of MathWorks describes the infrastructure and maintenance procedures that the company uses to provide disaster recovery mechanisms, minimize downtime and improve load balance.
The CICS Provisioning Toolkit is a simple command line utility for rapidly provisioning and de-provisioning CICS environments. Version 2 adds the ability to build and run an application image that can be moved between the various stages of the CICS application lifecycle without change. Samples are included for scenarios including z/OS Connect EE, SOAP web services and WebSphere Liberty Profile applicaitons.
Delivered by Russell Pavlicek at CentOS Dojo, Denver, CO, April 10. 2014.
A basic introduction to Xen4CentOS: What it provides, how to install it, and where it is going.
Fast Incremental Backups with Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup / PLMCE 2014Laurynas Biveinis
Percona Live 2014 presentation
https://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2014/sessions/fast-incremental-backups-percona-server-and-percona-xtrabackup
Many significant improvements have been made to Xen and Linux for the ARM architecture since September 2012, when initial support for Xen on ARM was introduced in the kernel. The number of contributors considerably increased as the number of different companies behind them. Xen on ARM has become a true multivendor project. Today Linux 3.11 can run on Xen on ARM as a DomU or Dom0, 32-bit or 64-bit, with one or more CPUs. Xen 4.3, out since July 2013, is the first hypervisor release to support ARMv7 and ARMv8 platforms. This talk will discuss the current status of the project, the principal technical advancements achieved during the last year of development and the problems still left unsolved. It will relate the experience of porting Xen to many new ARM SoCs and working with multiple hardware vendors in the ARM ecosystem, within and outside the Linaro Enterprise working Group.
Module 13: Recovering Network Data and Servers
This module explains how to recover network data and servers. There are a variety of scenarios where a network data or a server that provides networks services can be lost. Volume shadow copies can be used to restore previous versions of files when a file is accidentally deleted or modified on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008. Windows Server Backup can be used to back up and restore data files or an entire server.
Lessons
Recovering Network Data with Volume Shadow Copies
Recovering Network Data and Servers with Windows Server Backup
Lab : Recovering Network Data and Servers
Configuring Shadow Copies
Configuring a Scheduled Backup
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe how to configure and use volume shadow copies.
Describe how to configure and use Windows Server Backup.
Putting Kafka In Jail – Best Practices To Run Kafka On Kubernetes & DC/OSLightbend
Apache Kafka–part of Lightbend Fast Data Platform–is a distributed streaming platform that is best suited to run close to the metal on dedicated machines in statically defined clusters. For most enterprises, however, these fixed clusters are quickly becoming extinct in favor of mixed-use clusters that take advantage of all infrastructure resources available.
In this webinar by Sean Glover, Fast Data Engineer at Lightbend, we will review leading Kafka implementations on DC/OS and Kubernetes to see how they reliably run Kafka in container orchestrated clusters and reduce the overhead for a number of common operational tasks with standard cluster resource manager features. You will learn specifically about concerns like:
* The need for greater operational knowhow to do common tasks with Kafka in static clusters, such as applying broker configuration updates, upgrading to a new version, and adding or decommissioning brokers.
* The best way to provide resources to stateful technologies while in a mixed-use cluster, noting the importance of disk space as one of Kafka’s most important resource requirements.
* How to address the particular needs of stateful services in a model that natively favors stateless, transient services.
Whats new in Enterprise 5.0 Product SuiteMicro Focus
This What's New? document covers some of the new features and functions in the latest release of theMicro Focus Enterprise Product Suite. Updates apply to the following products:•Micro Focus Enterprise Developer which provides a contemporary development suite for developingand maintaining mainframe applications, whether the target deployment is on or off the mainframe.•Micro Focus Enterprise Test Server which provides a comprehensive test platform that takesadvantage of low cost processing power on Windows environments, to supply scalable capacity fortesting z/OS applications without consuming z/OS resources.•Micro Focus Enterprise Server which provides the execution environment to deploy fit-for-purposemainframe workload on Linux, UNIX and Windows (LUW) environments on IBM LinuxONE (IFLs),standalone servers, virtual servers, or the Cloud.•Micro Focus Enterprise Server for .NET which provides the execution and modernization platform todeploy fit-for-purpose mainframe workload on a scale-out .NET infrastructure and the Azure Cloud.This document helps you to quickly understand the new capabilities within the 5.0 release.
Cloudbreak (https://hortonworks.com/open-source/cloudbreak/), as part of the Hortonworks Data Platform (https://hortonworks.com/products/data-center/hdp/) (HDP), makes it easy to provision, configure and elastically grow clusters across cloud infrastructure providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and OpenStack.
It has been designed and developed in a micro-service architecture since the beginning and shipped in Docker.
This talk is about the challenges of how we scaled the application using Kubernetes on ACS (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-service/) (Azure Container Services) and how handle the hosted service challenges like:
- Exposing metrics regarding the application
- Collecting application, k8s, and system logs
- Handling scenarios when one of the application node dies
- Preparing for high workloads
Learn more about the meetup, here: https://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-budapest/events/244277121/
VMworld 2013: Protection for All - VMware vSphere Replication & SRM Technical...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Lee Dilworth, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Ken Werneburg, VMware
This session from DockerCon 18 covers the types of applications that have a requirement of persistent or shared storage, it discusses the various implementation methods with Docker and finally looks at automating the process with both Swarm and Kubernetes.
The original deck in PPTX is available here https://www.dropbox.com/s/pzqi0wbaxdqeca7/DCSF18_Docker%20Storage.pptx?dl=0
Relax and Recover (http://rear.sourceforge.net) is an automated tool for Linux bare-metal disaster recovery.
This presentation by one of the authors explores ideas about build a centralized managemend server to complement the ReaR software installed on all your Linux servers in your data center.
Perforce Administration: Optimization, Scalability, Availability and ReliabilityPerforce
In this session, Michael Mirman of MathWorks describes the infrastructure and maintenance procedures that the company uses to provide disaster recovery mechanisms, minimize downtime and improve load balance.
The CICS Provisioning Toolkit is a simple command line utility for rapidly provisioning and de-provisioning CICS environments. Version 2 adds the ability to build and run an application image that can be moved between the various stages of the CICS application lifecycle without change. Samples are included for scenarios including z/OS Connect EE, SOAP web services and WebSphere Liberty Profile applicaitons.
Delivered by Russell Pavlicek at CentOS Dojo, Denver, CO, April 10. 2014.
A basic introduction to Xen4CentOS: What it provides, how to install it, and where it is going.
Fast Incremental Backups with Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup / PLMCE 2014Laurynas Biveinis
Percona Live 2014 presentation
https://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2014/sessions/fast-incremental-backups-percona-server-and-percona-xtrabackup
Many significant improvements have been made to Xen and Linux for the ARM architecture since September 2012, when initial support for Xen on ARM was introduced in the kernel. The number of contributors considerably increased as the number of different companies behind them. Xen on ARM has become a true multivendor project. Today Linux 3.11 can run on Xen on ARM as a DomU or Dom0, 32-bit or 64-bit, with one or more CPUs. Xen 4.3, out since July 2013, is the first hypervisor release to support ARMv7 and ARMv8 platforms. This talk will discuss the current status of the project, the principal technical advancements achieved during the last year of development and the problems still left unsolved. It will relate the experience of porting Xen to many new ARM SoCs and working with multiple hardware vendors in the ARM ecosystem, within and outside the Linaro Enterprise working Group.
Module 13: Recovering Network Data and Servers
This module explains how to recover network data and servers. There are a variety of scenarios where a network data or a server that provides networks services can be lost. Volume shadow copies can be used to restore previous versions of files when a file is accidentally deleted or modified on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008. Windows Server Backup can be used to back up and restore data files or an entire server.
Lessons
Recovering Network Data with Volume Shadow Copies
Recovering Network Data and Servers with Windows Server Backup
Lab : Recovering Network Data and Servers
Configuring Shadow Copies
Configuring a Scheduled Backup
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe how to configure and use volume shadow copies.
Describe how to configure and use Windows Server Backup.
Putting Kafka In Jail – Best Practices To Run Kafka On Kubernetes & DC/OSLightbend
Apache Kafka–part of Lightbend Fast Data Platform–is a distributed streaming platform that is best suited to run close to the metal on dedicated machines in statically defined clusters. For most enterprises, however, these fixed clusters are quickly becoming extinct in favor of mixed-use clusters that take advantage of all infrastructure resources available.
In this webinar by Sean Glover, Fast Data Engineer at Lightbend, we will review leading Kafka implementations on DC/OS and Kubernetes to see how they reliably run Kafka in container orchestrated clusters and reduce the overhead for a number of common operational tasks with standard cluster resource manager features. You will learn specifically about concerns like:
* The need for greater operational knowhow to do common tasks with Kafka in static clusters, such as applying broker configuration updates, upgrading to a new version, and adding or decommissioning brokers.
* The best way to provide resources to stateful technologies while in a mixed-use cluster, noting the importance of disk space as one of Kafka’s most important resource requirements.
* How to address the particular needs of stateful services in a model that natively favors stateless, transient services.
Whats new in Enterprise 5.0 Product SuiteMicro Focus
This What's New? document covers some of the new features and functions in the latest release of theMicro Focus Enterprise Product Suite. Updates apply to the following products:•Micro Focus Enterprise Developer which provides a contemporary development suite for developingand maintaining mainframe applications, whether the target deployment is on or off the mainframe.•Micro Focus Enterprise Test Server which provides a comprehensive test platform that takesadvantage of low cost processing power on Windows environments, to supply scalable capacity fortesting z/OS applications without consuming z/OS resources.•Micro Focus Enterprise Server which provides the execution environment to deploy fit-for-purposemainframe workload on Linux, UNIX and Windows (LUW) environments on IBM LinuxONE (IFLs),standalone servers, virtual servers, or the Cloud.•Micro Focus Enterprise Server for .NET which provides the execution and modernization platform todeploy fit-for-purpose mainframe workload on a scale-out .NET infrastructure and the Azure Cloud.This document helps you to quickly understand the new capabilities within the 5.0 release.
Spot Trading - A case study in continuous delivery for mission critical finan...SaltStack
This is a presentation given by Jeremy Alons, Spot Trading, at the DevOps Summit Chicago in August 2014. Jeremy shares how Spot Trading does automated deployments for mission-critical financial services with a case study in continuous delivery.
What is coming for VMware vSphere?
Delivered at VMUG DK/UK/BE in November 2014. Session is all about vSphere futures, what can be expected in the near future.
A GitOps model for High Availability and Disaster Recovery on EKSWeaveworks
Enterprises today require high availability and disaster recovery for critical business systems. One of the advantages Kubernetes can bring to the table is greater reliability and stability. When disaster strikes, cluster or application recovery should be quick and dependable.
Paul Curtis, Principal Solutions Architect at Weaveworks will demonstrate how to leverage Weave Kubernetes Platform and GitOps to create disaster recovery plans and highly available clusters with minimal effort on EKS.
In this webinar you will learn:
The 4 principles of GitOps (operations by pull request)
How to build for reproducibility, security and scale with EKS from the start
GitOps driven cluster and cluster lifecycle management with WKP
All-flash storage is the wave of the future, and IBM and Catalogic have joined forces to provide the most cost-effective, management-efficient and value-adding flash array solution in the market. Join us to learn how the IBM FlashSystem V9000 and Catalogic Software can jump-start your most critical IT projects.
Hitchhiker's guide to Cloud-Native Build Pipelines and Infrastructure as CodeRobert van Mölken
As more and more application deployments move to the cloud the scale and complexity becomes harder to manage. Instead of a handful of large instances, you might have many smaller instances, so there are many more things you need to provision. Because of this cloud vendors provide API abstraction of their compute, storage, network and other platform services. In this talk I present a guide to provision these services, such as a Kubernetes cluster, using infrastructure as code and deploy your applications through cloud-native build pipelines. Get to know the concepts behind these DevOps practices and come hear which tools to use like Terraform and Oracle Container Pipelines to automate these laborious tasks on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Enterprises, mid-market, and SMBs all have one thing in common: their business applications are critical. Companies of all sizes are running SAP, Oracle, Exchange, and many other business applications in the cloud to simplify infrastructure management, deploy more quickly, and lower cost. AWS offers a reliable and flexible cloud infrastructure platform that enables customers to run any type of Windows or Linux based business application, from small departmental solutions to world-wide mission-critical production ERP (remove) systems in a secure, scalable and robust environment. Come along to this session to learn how large scale systems like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others are being used by enterprise customers of all shapes and sizes. In this session you will discover some of the challenges and approaches that will make you successful in deploying and operating these systems on AWS. This is a must session for enterprise customers that are looking at moving material workloads into the cloud.
Speaker: Nam Je Cho, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
WebSphere Technical University: Top WebSphere Problem Determination FeaturesChris Bailey
Problem determination is an important focus area in the IBM WebSphere Application Server. Serviceability improvements have been added that have greatly improved the ability to find root causes of problems in both the full IBM WebSphere Application Server profile, and the newer Liberty profile. The session focuses on how to effectively use serviceability improvements added to the application server since V8.0. This includes high performance extensibe logging, cross-component trace, IBM Support Assistant data collector, timed operations, memory leak detection/prevention, and IBM Support Assistant 5.
Presented at the WebSphere Technical University 2014, Dusseldorf
oVirt CBT feature to boost your VMs backup performance.
Use Changed Block Tracking strategy to get the full potential of incremental backups to vastly save time and resources while protecting your existing virtual machines.
Register now for our free #webinar and discover new features of vProtect 4.0 and #oVirt 4.4.
☑ Deep-dive how a new #backup strategy works (data flow, etc.)
✅ What are the advantages of using the CBT strategy?
☑ oVirt Backup API.
✅ CBT implementation in Storware vProtect.
Voxeo Jam Session: What's New in Prophecy 11 and VoiceObjects 11?Voxeo Corp
In this developer jam session, Dan York, Director of Conversations at Voxeo, walks through the changes in each of Voxeo's core products, Prophecy and VoiceObjects, and explains what they mean to developers and how those new change can enable you to build even more powerful communications applications.
http://blogs.voxeo.com/jamsessions/
IPv6 and How It Impacts Communication ApplicationsVoxeo Corp
What is all the IPv6 buzz about? And how will it impact your communications applications? In February 2011, the last IPv4 addresses were allocated to the global registries. While IPv4 addresses will be available for some time, the reality is that IPv6 addresses will be required in the future. Service providers, enterprises and integrators need to understand how IPv6 works and what impacts it may or may not have on applications. In this session, Dan York provides an overview of IPv6, how it impacts the SIP protocol and potential future action. Along the way he provides links for more information. This was part of a webinar found at http://blogs.voxeo.com/jamsessions/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
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.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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/
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13. Key Points on Licensing
• Prophecy Browsers are licensed individually
• Prophecy log search indexers are licensed as a
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• Prophecy Licensing is tied to, among other
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• Windows updates have been known to break
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Licensing
15. • Software upgrades are included in the annual
Maintenance you pay on the Prophecy Ports
• Upgrades are recommended with each major
release, which generally happens once a year
• Upgrading too often is not recommended unless
there is a bug fix you are waiting on
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Prophecy Upgrades
16. • Upgrades should be performed first in a
development environment, and tested as you would
with any software
• While upgrades can be performed with little to no
downtime, a scheduled Maintenance window is
recommended
• When Upgrading major releases, we recommend
that you remove all boxes from the
community, upgrade the controller/s and re-add
boxes as they are upgraded
• Licensing for various components can be
affected, which is why it is recommended to first
test the upgrade in a development environment
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Prophecy Upgrades
20. All data written by CXP Server to System DB logging and
Custom DB logging goes through a message queue using the
point-to-point Java Message Service API.
The queue is persisted on disk to ensure that no data is lost if
the database temporarily becomes unavailable.
For the explicit message Brokers in between Producer and
Consumers, we
recommend using
the FuseSource
ActiveMQ
distribution,
version 5.5.1
or higher.
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Brokers – ActiveMQ
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Virtual CXP Commander
To monitor and manage
multiple Voxeo CXP clusters
as an integrated unit, the
Virtual CXP Commander
stands in place of a regular
CXP Server. So using the
Virtual CXP Commander
consists of two steps:
1. Setting up the Virtual CXP
Commander process.
2. Configuring a CXP Commander
connection pointing to it.
23. Voxeo CXP Application Server(s):
• Generally have 2-4 instances running per server with
a JVM heap size of 1-2 GB.
• Instances can each handle roughly 500 sessions.
VCC, Metadata, Brokers and Consumers
are not as CPU intensive, so they can
be combined, but care should
be taken.
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Sizing
24. Your database(s) must be able to handle a large
amount of records inserted per second.
• Number of inserts depends on Input States, Module
Objects, Business Tasks, etc.
The amount of data to be stored and for how also long
needs to be considered.
• For specific
information:http://help.voxeo.com/go/help/vo.cxp13.info
storeguide.overview.sizing
If you have any questions about sizing,
please call us. We are here to help!
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Sizing