Windows Azure is jam packed with features to choose from for building web applications and services that scale - but there are a core set of choices and features that are applicable to most scenarios. This session will get you up to speed on the essential features developers should be aware of, and how to apply them in practical scenarios. You’ll learn why cloud services are the typical choice for feature-rich applications, and learn what you can’t live without in terms of startup tasks, SMTP services, blob storage, message queuing options, diagnostics, monitoring and security features.
BizTalk Server 2013 in Windows Azure IaaSBizTalk360
Biztalk Server 2013 windows azure in this session will take a look at Windows Azure IaaS and how best to leverage it with BizTalk Server 2013. This session will start with a quick IaaS primer so someone new to Azure IaaS will not miss out. Next we will take a look at how best to use BizTalk Server 2013 in Azure IaaS and the new scenarios that are now available. We will see how simple it can be to script via PowerShell the creation of a fully configured standalone BizTalk Server or even an entire isolated BizTalk Domain. Last we will take a look at some of the basics for administration and supporting your Virtual Machines running in IaaS.
Brought to you by BizTalk360
Enter The Matrix Securing Azure’s AssetsBizTalk360
This talk is mainly on the security aspects of Azure, in any context. you’ll get an overview on where security is handled, some practices and how to monitor and act accordingly to certain threats and issues. It will focus on IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. As security is an integral part of an environment, the integration aspect is not far away. Focus products include Azure and all related services.
BizTalk Server 2013 in Windows Azure IaaSBizTalk360
Biztalk Server 2013 windows azure in this session will take a look at Windows Azure IaaS and how best to leverage it with BizTalk Server 2013. This session will start with a quick IaaS primer so someone new to Azure IaaS will not miss out. Next we will take a look at how best to use BizTalk Server 2013 in Azure IaaS and the new scenarios that are now available. We will see how simple it can be to script via PowerShell the creation of a fully configured standalone BizTalk Server or even an entire isolated BizTalk Domain. Last we will take a look at some of the basics for administration and supporting your Virtual Machines running in IaaS.
Brought to you by BizTalk360
Enter The Matrix Securing Azure’s AssetsBizTalk360
This talk is mainly on the security aspects of Azure, in any context. you’ll get an overview on where security is handled, some practices and how to monitor and act accordingly to certain threats and issues. It will focus on IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. As security is an integral part of an environment, the integration aspect is not far away. Focus products include Azure and all related services.
Windows Azure for Developers - Building Block ServicesMichael Collier
Learn about the next generation building block services available in Windows Azure that help to create connected, secure, and reliable services.
With services such as Caching, Service Bus (relay, queues, and topics), and Access Control Services (ACS) developers can focus more on building great solutions and less on plumbing services necessary to do so. In this webcast, we will take a look at many of the additional services offered as part of Windows Azure. We'll see just how easy it can be to add scalable caching with Windows Azure Caching, create robust connected solutions with the Service Bus, and secure applications with ACS.
The Top 10 Things Oracle UCM Users Need To Know About WebLogicBrian Huff
A presentation I gave at IOUG Collaborate 2010 about what Oracle Universal Content Management customers need to know about WebLogic. It's a WebLogic intro from the perspective of a UCM admin.
This presentation is for the developers who want to embark upon the SharePoint development and don\'t know where to start, how does it differ from traditional ASP.NET development, etc.
By leveraging services in the cloud, businesses can host new applications and services in a cost effective manner. Existing systems can also leverage the cloud in its entirety or for specific aspects of the system to reduce infrastructure management costs and to support potential scale-out requirements as usage increases. Windows Azure offers many services from application hosting, storage, content delivery, messaging, caching and security. Pricing each of these services to estimate your costs requires some thoughtfulness around how you will use each service within your architecture, and some predictions about the number of users, payload traffic and number of transactions. How then can you estimate your costs, or price your own offering to customers when there are so many variables? Pricing is not a perfect science and each business will have its own level of tolerance for cost absorption vs. costs to be deferred to customers. In this session we will break down the pricing model of the cloud, look at ways to quantify your service using various architectural examples, and look at ways you can track usage, validate costs and ultimately collect your costs across the core Windows Azure features to gain perspective on what you need to charge your customers for those services, along with some ideas on how to project revenue.
Windows Azure for Developers - Building Block ServicesMichael Collier
Learn about the next generation building block services available in Windows Azure that help to create connected, secure, and reliable services.
With services such as Caching, Service Bus (relay, queues, and topics), and Access Control Services (ACS) developers can focus more on building great solutions and less on plumbing services necessary to do so. In this webcast, we will take a look at many of the additional services offered as part of Windows Azure. We'll see just how easy it can be to add scalable caching with Windows Azure Caching, create robust connected solutions with the Service Bus, and secure applications with ACS.
The Top 10 Things Oracle UCM Users Need To Know About WebLogicBrian Huff
A presentation I gave at IOUG Collaborate 2010 about what Oracle Universal Content Management customers need to know about WebLogic. It's a WebLogic intro from the perspective of a UCM admin.
This presentation is for the developers who want to embark upon the SharePoint development and don\'t know where to start, how does it differ from traditional ASP.NET development, etc.
By leveraging services in the cloud, businesses can host new applications and services in a cost effective manner. Existing systems can also leverage the cloud in its entirety or for specific aspects of the system to reduce infrastructure management costs and to support potential scale-out requirements as usage increases. Windows Azure offers many services from application hosting, storage, content delivery, messaging, caching and security. Pricing each of these services to estimate your costs requires some thoughtfulness around how you will use each service within your architecture, and some predictions about the number of users, payload traffic and number of transactions. How then can you estimate your costs, or price your own offering to customers when there are so many variables? Pricing is not a perfect science and each business will have its own level of tolerance for cost absorption vs. costs to be deferred to customers. In this session we will break down the pricing model of the cloud, look at ways to quantify your service using various architectural examples, and look at ways you can track usage, validate costs and ultimately collect your costs across the core Windows Azure features to gain perspective on what you need to charge your customers for those services, along with some ideas on how to project revenue.
The Windows Azure Platform is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers that provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together. The Azure platform can be used to build new applications to run from the cloud or enhance existing applications with cloud-based capabilities. The open and extensible nature of Azure’s architecture gives developers the choice to build web applications, applications running on connected devices, PCs, servers, or hybrid solutions offering the best of online and on-premises.
In this session, Wade Wegner will focus on two scenarios – new application development and the migration of existing applications. While walking through demos, Wade will discuss concepts such as application authentication and authorization, data synchronization between the cloud and on-premises databases, application integration, delegation of identity, and operations and management. Particular emphasis will be placed on the migration of existing internal applications to Windows Azure, securing applications through claims-based authentication and passive federation with Geneva Server, using relational databases in the cloud with SQL Azure, and the migration of data to the cloud through tools like SSIS.
The presentation covers in detail how to build intelligent microservices solutions using Azure App Service features in Azure. The presentation is a demo driven and demonstrate how to design and provision complete end-to-end solutions using cloud services & Azure App Services capabilities.
Wars I’ve SeenFrom Java EE to Spring and more, Azure has you coveredEdward Burns
Ed Burns brings his seventeen years of server side Java experience to bear on the topic of Enterprise Java on Microsoft Azure. Before the advent of cloud infrastructure, the stack was the main thing. This gave rise to many entertaining platform wars, and even personality feuds among the principals. Spring or J2EE? Spring MVC or JSF (or Struts/Wicket/Tapestry/WebWork...)? Spring REST or JAX-RS? Spring DI orCDI? Spring Boot or MicroProfile? Single-vendor proprietary de-facto standard or multi-vendor community developed standard? Ed has seen these "wars" come and go, and even fought in some of them. While "wars" make for great conference talks, blog posts, and articles, at the end of the day creating business value is the whole point of enterprise Java. Ed contends that nowadays, the cloud vendor is the main thing, and the best cloud vendor is one that best supports "all of the above", from lift and shift of existing workloads, to lift and improve, on through to turn-key PaaS solutions. This session will briefly survey the history of enterprise Java to establish the need for an "all of the above" enterprise cloud platform, examine some ways enterprises can use the current offerings from Microsoft Azure, and give a peek into what's in store in the near future.
Powering Test Environments with Amazon EKS using Serverless Tool | AWS Commun...Chargebee
Vision: Optimizing Feature-ready to Production Release cycle by reducing the cycle length from Days to Hours.
Bottlenecks:
1. Developers spending more time on Dev Environment due to various Testing activities and other factors ( DB Migrations, Infrastructure Changes etc.)
2. Developers has to wait for more time for Environment availability
Solution:
1. Spin Test Environments as and when needed with low maintenance overhead
2. Enable Integration Testing across microservices
3. Enabling CI/CD pipeline
Implementation:
Minions Serverless Architecture — a user portal, where developers can just simply go and create their test environments whenever needed. Minions power test environments dynamically as needed, backed by AWS EKS and other Services. This was built by:
1. Leveraging AWS Managed Services such as EKS along with community projects (Kube2iam, External DNS, Ingress Controller etc.) helps us to solve the problem of building an Infrastructure dynamically with low maintenance overhead and cost-effective
2. Leveraging AWS Serverless Services helped us to accelerate building a User portal for management activities
GIDS 2019: Developing Apps with Containers, Functions and Cloud ServicesPatrick Chanezon
Cloud native applications are increasingly composed of containers, serverless functions responding to events and managed cloud services. What is the best workflow and set of tools to provide a rapid, iterative development experience and to package applications using these three components?
This hand-on talk will compare and contrast several sets of tools and their associated workflows:
Using Docker Desktop, with its local Docker engine and Kubernetes cluster, with open source tools such as the Virtual Kubelet, or the Gloo hybrid app gateway, to build the most productive development inner-loop for these type of applications
OpenFaaS, Fn, or Nuclio open source serverless framework to run functions in containers locally
Telepresence to run a container locally, connected to a remote cluster
Helm and Draft
Knative
The talk will also cover how you can use the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) format and tools to package your applications and share them using a container registry.
An updated version of my keynote, Surviving Microservices, as delivered at OOP, Munich, Feb 2018. A previous version was delivered at Developer Days, Poland, Oct 2017. The fonts are graphics so the slides are as well. Enjoy.
When you design your microservices strategy you will likely come up with patterns for when and how your services should execute. Traditional container scheduling services often deal with running container instances and distributing those instances across your cluster according to resource constraints – but your microservices design may also have other requirements such as message-based services that run and listen for topics; services that run on a scheduled job cycle; and services that may run in different ways based on initialization and have many instances running in parallel at any given time. This session looks at architecture patterns for container-based solutions; and illustrates the execution of these patterns with Docker containers and related tools. Concepts are platform independent but demos will be based on Kafka and Azure Container Service with Mesosphere DC/OS, Mesos, Marathon and Chronos.
Docker is a key player in the microservices movement and is arguably the leader in containerization technology.
That said, there are many ways to “do Docker”.
Between the leading cloud providers AWS, Azure, and Google; plus other platform stacks like Docker/Swarm, Apache Mesos – DC/OS, and Kubernetes; it can get confusing.In this session, Michele will bring her customer experiences building solutions across most of these platforms – to provide you with the highlights, the architecture topologies, and some perspective on the way she helps her customers choose the right platform for their cloud, on premise or hybrid solutions.
When companies endeavor to move their applications and services to the cloud, they tend to worry more about security up front. Interestingly, platforms such as Azure provide an even more secure environment than most self-managed co-location facilities can hope to offer, not to mention the plethora of features on the platform that help you secure your solutions end to end. In this session Michele will review the mini-avalanche that comprises Azure security across features. Taking the architect's view of the platform (with demos) she’ll cover best practices for securing Azure solutions end to end and discuss the tangential benefits of moving to Azure and how it can help you with checking the boxes on those pesky security surveys.
Logging is one of those things that everyone complains about, but doesn't dedicate time to. Of course, the first rule of logging is "do it". Without that, you have no visibility into system activities when investigations are required. But, the end goal is much, much more than this. Almost all applications require security audit logs for compliance; application logs for visibility across all cloud properties; and application tracing for tracking usage patterns and business intelligence. The latter is that magic sauce that helps businesses learn about their customer or in some cases the data is FOR the customer. Without a strategy this can get very messy, fast. In this session Michele will discuss design patterns for a sound logging and audit strategy; considerations for security and compliance; the benefits of a noSQL approach; and more.
I presented this at a user group in Sweden, as a compilation discussion of practical customer experiences with WIndows Azure. The slides led the discussion. Enjoy.
Session I delivered at Oredev, with some updates, more detail, reviewing all of the security standards including ws-federation, saml, ws-trust, oauth,openID connect.
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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/
"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.
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
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
23. Web Site Configuration
Web.config as usual (use transforms during publish)
Portal surfaces some settings
Application settings, handler mappings, connection strings
24. Cloud Service Configuration
Avoid web.config for
Settings that vary between staging, production
Settings for test, diagnostics or performance
Use Configuration Profiles to distinguish settings
Select a profile during Publish
Select a web.config transform during Publish
Portal surfaces settings from service configuration
Use an indicator for which items should recycle the instance vs. not
27. Service Bus and Storage Queues
Service Bus Queues Storage Queues
Unlimited message lifetime Message expires in 7 days
Max 64K message size Max 256K message size
Max 5GB total storage Max 100TB total storage
Duplicate detection
Order guarantees
Dead letter queue
Storage metrics
Purge capability
Long polling Manual back-off polling
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