The document discusses Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and how it enables full virtualization on x86 hardware. KVM uses Intel VT-x and AMD-V virtualization extensions to allow a Linux kernel to function as a hypervisor. Guest virtual machines see a bare metal interface while the host kernel manages scheduling and resource allocation. Qemu is used as a processor emulator to add missing guest architectures.
FOSDEM15 SDN developer room talk
DPDK performance
How to not just do a demo with DPDK
The Intel DPDK provides a platform for building high performance Network Function Virtualization applications. But it is hard to get high performance unless certain design tradeoffs are made. This talk focuses on the lessons learned in creating the Brocade vRouter using DPDK. It covers some of the architecture, locking and low level issues that all have to be dealt with to achieve 80 Million packets per second forwarding.
This document summarizes a presentation on static partitioning virtualization for RISC-V. It discusses the motivation for embedded virtualization, an overview of static partitioning hypervisors like Jailhouse and Xen, and the Bao hypervisor. It then provides an overview of the RISC-V hypervisor specification and extensions, including implemented features. It evaluates the performance overhead and interrupt latency of a prototype RISC-V hypervisor implementation with and without interference mitigations like cache partitioning.
Video: https://www.facebook.com/atscaleevents/videos/1693888610884236/ . Talk by Brendan Gregg from Facebook's Performance @Scale: "Linux performance analysis has been the domain of ancient tools and metrics, but that's now changing in the Linux 4.x series. A new tracer is available in the mainline kernel, built from dynamic tracing (kprobes, uprobes) and enhanced BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), aka, eBPF. It allows us to measure latency distributions for file system I/O and run queue latency, print details of storage device I/O and TCP retransmits, investigate blocked stack traces and memory leaks, and a whole lot more. These lead to performance wins large and small, especially when instrumenting areas that previously had zero visibility. This talk will summarize this new technology and some long-standing issues that it can solve, and how we intend to use it at Netflix."
The document provides information about virtual machine extensions (VMX) on Juniper Networks routers. It discusses hardware virtualization concepts including guest virtual machines running on a host machine. It then describes the different types of virtualization including fully virtualized, para-virtualized, and hardware-assisted. The rest of the document goes into details about the VMX product, architecture, forwarding model, and performance considerations for different use cases.
FOSDEM15 SDN developer room talk
DPDK performance
How to not just do a demo with DPDK
The Intel DPDK provides a platform for building high performance Network Function Virtualization applications. But it is hard to get high performance unless certain design tradeoffs are made. This talk focuses on the lessons learned in creating the Brocade vRouter using DPDK. It covers some of the architecture, locking and low level issues that all have to be dealt with to achieve 80 Million packets per second forwarding.
This document summarizes a presentation on static partitioning virtualization for RISC-V. It discusses the motivation for embedded virtualization, an overview of static partitioning hypervisors like Jailhouse and Xen, and the Bao hypervisor. It then provides an overview of the RISC-V hypervisor specification and extensions, including implemented features. It evaluates the performance overhead and interrupt latency of a prototype RISC-V hypervisor implementation with and without interference mitigations like cache partitioning.
Video: https://www.facebook.com/atscaleevents/videos/1693888610884236/ . Talk by Brendan Gregg from Facebook's Performance @Scale: "Linux performance analysis has been the domain of ancient tools and metrics, but that's now changing in the Linux 4.x series. A new tracer is available in the mainline kernel, built from dynamic tracing (kprobes, uprobes) and enhanced BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), aka, eBPF. It allows us to measure latency distributions for file system I/O and run queue latency, print details of storage device I/O and TCP retransmits, investigate blocked stack traces and memory leaks, and a whole lot more. These lead to performance wins large and small, especially when instrumenting areas that previously had zero visibility. This talk will summarize this new technology and some long-standing issues that it can solve, and how we intend to use it at Netflix."
The document provides information about virtual machine extensions (VMX) on Juniper Networks routers. It discusses hardware virtualization concepts including guest virtual machines running on a host machine. It then describes the different types of virtualization including fully virtualized, para-virtualized, and hardware-assisted. The rest of the document goes into details about the VMX product, architecture, forwarding model, and performance considerations for different use cases.
WebKit, along with its JavaScript engines, is not a magical black box. We will show you the internal of various WebKit building blocks (10,000-foot overview) and how they work together. In particular, learn also the simple steps on how to experiment with WebKit with your own and leverage WebKit functionalities to find the performance problems, track the network issues, automate effective smoke tests, and implement per-pixel correctness tests. In addition, armed with a little extra knowledge about JavaScript engines, you will be ready to improve both the quality and performance of your JavaScript code.
Attacking the Webkit heap [Or how to write Safari exploits]Seguridad Apple
The document discusses exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities in the WebKit heap allocator TCMalloc. It provides an overview of TCMalloc's allocator hierarchy and data structures, including thread caches, free lists, spans, and the page heap. It then describes techniques for exploiting TCMalloc, such as freeing invalid pointers, overflowing thread cache free lists to control allocation addresses, and corrupting span object lists to inject fake free list entries. The goal is to achieve arbitrary code execution on browsers and devices using the WebKit rendering engine.
This document provides an overview of QEMU, including its use of dynamic translation and Tiny Code Generator (TCG) to emulate target CPUs on the host system. It discusses how QEMU translates target instructions into a RISC-like intermediate representation (TCG ops), optimizes and converts them to host instructions. The document also mentions Linaro's work with QEMU and a QEMU monitor tool for debugging ARM systems emulated by QEMU.
This document discusses CPU virtualization and scheduling techniques. It covers topics such as deprivileging the operating system, virtualization-unfriendly architectures like x86, hardware-assisted virtualization using VMX mode, and proportional-share scheduling. It also summarizes research on improving VM scheduling by making it task-aware to prioritize I/O-bound tasks and correlate I/O events with tasks to boost their performance while maintaining inter-VM fairness. The document provides historical context on the evolution of virtualization technologies and research challenges in building lightweight and intelligent VMM schedulers.
Virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)Novell
As a technical preview, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 contains KVM, which is the next-generation virtualization software delivered with the Linux kernel. In this technical session we will demonstrate how to set up SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for KVM, install some virtual machines and deal with different storage and networking setups.
To demonstrate live migration we will also show a distributed replicated block device (DRBD) setup and a setup based on iSCSI and OCFS2, which are included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 High Availability Extension.
This document discusses KVM virtualization and why it is considered the best platform. It states that KVM provides high performance, strong security through EAL4+ certification and SE Linux, and can save customers up to 70% on costs compared to other solutions. It also supports various operating systems and works with Red Hat products like OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for managing virtualization. Charts are included showing KVM outperforming VMware on benchmark tests using different CPU core counts.
KVM and docker LXC Benchmarking with OpenStackBoden Russell
Passive benchmarking with docker LXC and KVM using OpenStack hosted in SoftLayer. These results provide initial incite as to why LXC as a technology choice offers benefits over traditional VMs and seek to provide answers as to the typical initial LXC question -- "why would I consider Linux Containers over VMs" from a performance perspective.
Results here provide insight as to:
- Cloudy ops times (start, stop, reboot) using OpenStack.
- Guest micro benchmark performance (I/O, network, memory, CPU).
- Guest micro benchmark performance of MySQL; OLTP read, read / write complex and indexed insertion.
- Compute node resource consumption; VM / Container density factors.
- Lessons learned during benchmarking.
The tests here were performed using OpenStack Rally to drive the OpenStack cloudy tests and various other linux tools to test the guest performance on a "micro level". The nova docker virt driver was used in the Cloud scenario to realize VMs as docker LXC containers and compared to the nova virt driver for libvirt KVM.
Please read the disclaimers in the presentation as this is only intended to be the "chip of the ice burg".
Secrets of building a debuggable runtime: Learn how language implementors sol...Dev_Events
Bjørn Vårdal, J9VM Software Developer, IBM, @bvaardal
New language runtimes appear all the time, but most of them die young. Failure can be attributed to
different reasons, but an important factor is that lack of support can limit the community’s and
industry’s willingness to adopt the new language.
Quicker development and improved serviceability allows emerging languages to overcome this obstacle.
By building on the proven technology available in Eclipse OMR, language developers can get more than
performance and stability; you also get tools that help you quickly debug your language runtime,
allowing you to provide competitive serviceability.
From this presentation, you will learn how to enable Eclipse OMR’s mature debugging features in your
language runtime, and also how Eclipse OMR can assist with development and debugging
This document discusses various hardware and software issues that can occur from power-on to operating system boot, and potential solutions. It covers topics like bootloaders, kernel porting, workarounds for hardware issues, and reimplementing functionality in software when hardware has errors. The document provides examples of specific issues like camera problems and touchscreen false presses, and how software workarounds were developed to address them.
This document discusses several changes and improvements to the Linux kernel in version 2.6.30, including:
1. A new O(1) scheduler that improves CPU scheduling performance.
2. Changes to the LRU page replacement algorithm, including splitting the active and inactive lists.
3. The introduction of asynchronous I/O (AIO) to improve I/O performance.
Mingbo Zhang, Rutgers University
Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University
Time-of-check-to-time-of-use (TOCTOU) also known as “race condition” or “double fetch” is a long standing problem. Since memory read/write is so common an operation, it barely triggers no security mechanisms. We leverage a CPU feature called SMAP(Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) to efficiently monitor the events of kernel accessing user-mode memory. When user pages being accessed by kernel, our mitigation kicks in and protect them against further modifications from other user-mode threads. We also leverage the same CPU feature to find double fetch errors in kernel modules. A simple hypervisor is used to confine a system wide CPU feature such as SMAP to particular process.
This document discusses techniques for dynamically overriding software on Mac OS X at runtime, including function overriding and code injection. Function overriding involves replacing the first instruction of a function with a branch to override code, while code injection allows injecting new code into any process. These techniques allow modifying software in memory without changing the original files. The document provides technical details on implementing these techniques using Mach APIs.
This document discusses dynamic malware analysis and the challenges posed by self-modifying code. It examines existing general purpose dynamic binary instrumentation frameworks like Pin and DynamoRIO, finding that while they handle self-modifying code, they are not designed with a "malware mindset" and have exploitable gaps. The document demonstrates these gaps through examples, showing how transitions in virtual memory protections and program counter virtualization can be exploited. It concludes that a framework with a "malware mindset" is needed to properly handle malware analysis at scale.
In this slide, I introduced how Gameboy works and how to build a Gameboy emulator using Rust programming language. Also, I introduce how to migrate the Rust emulator to Webassembly, so that we can run the emulator using browser.
Video of presentation of this slide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqcEg3IVziQ
The document is a presentation on ESXi performance principles given by Valentin Bondzio, a VMware employee. The presentation covers topics such as CPU scheduling and accounting, ESXi memory management, CPU topology abstraction, I/O, vMotion, and backup. It includes slides on the CPU scheduler overview describing what the scheduler does in terms of balancing and placing workloads, and slides on CPU usage accounting states such as idle, ready, running, and what is charged against VMs.
This document provides a summary of Mike Malone's talk on scaling Django web apps. It discusses how Pownce scaled to handle hundreds of requests per second and thousands of database operations per second while serving millions of users, relationships, notes, and terabytes of static data. It also covers some of the common bottlenecks Pownce encountered and eliminated in scaling their Django application, including using caching, load balancing, and queuing to improve performance and scalability.
The document discusses memory hierarchy and management. It describes how memory is organized in a hierarchy from fastest and smallest registers to slower but larger magnetic disks and tapes. It also covers concepts like cache hits and misses, main memory, multiprogramming and partitioning memory between multiple processes, and memory protection through relocation and segmentation.
The document discusses virtualization techniques used in KVM. It describes how KVM uses shadow page tables to virtualize memory management. The shadow page tables allow virtual addresses used by a guest OS to be translated to physical addresses on the host machine. Different techniques for implementing shadow page tables are described, including pre-validation of guest page tables and using a virtual translation lookaside buffer to cache translations.
The document discusses virtualization and how it works at a high level. It introduces concepts like virtual machines, hypervisors, and how virtualization allows multiple operating systems and applications to run concurrently on the same hardware by dividing the physical resources. It provides examples of how instructions are fetched, decoded and executed for a virtual machine, with the hypervisor supervising and managing access to physical resources.
- lev is a platform for building servers more easily than Node. It is based on Lua and libuv and is faster and uses less memory than Node.
- The founders of lev overhauled lua-event and reimplemented many parts like cBuffer and MessagePack for better performance.
- lev supports multicore processing out of the box and has a redesigned API compared to lua-event.
Programming for Lego Mindstorms using Eclipse to take you back to your childh...Benjamin Cabé
Did the little boy -or girl- in you ever wondered if Eclipse was cool enough to develop code for Lego Mindstorms?
The answer is definitively yes, and this talk will show you how fun it is to use Eclipse technologies dedicated to embedded development (CDT, TM, ...) to create the brain of your future cybernetic buddy!
The document appears to be a collection of messages and links posted on a forum discussing various programming languages and parallel computing topics, including threads, actors, and memory walls. References are made to languages and technologies like Erlang, Go, Java, Haskell, and Intel's Single-Chip Cloud Computer. The posts also discuss parallelism approaches on different platforms and applications of parallel programming.
This document provides an overview of boot loaders and memory management units (MMUs) on the iMX31 microcontroller. It discusses the iMX31 bootstrap ROM codes that help developers download and execute binary images in RAM or flash memory. It describes the iMX31 NAND flash boot mode where the first 2048 bytes of NAND are used to boot the system. It also discusses how Windows CE uses an Ethernet boot loader (eboot) to launch the kernel from NAND flash. Finally, it introduces concepts of MMUs like memory relocation, copy-on-write protection, and virtual memory translation.
Slides for JJUG(Japan Java User Group) 2009 Fall BOF.
Talking about groovy history, new features in Groovy 1.6,1.7.
Especially focused on AST Transformations.
This document provides an introduction to assembly language programming. It begins by analyzing a simple program segment and showing the equivalent code in high-level language, assembly language, and machine language. It then discusses the Von Neumann architecture and how instructions are fetched, decoded, and executed sequentially from memory. The document compares a simple "Hello World" program written in assembly language and C. It discusses some advantages and disadvantages of using assembly language like compact code, speed, and flexibility versus ease of use, predefined functions, and portability of high-level languages. Finally, it provides a brief history of microprocessors and their increasing transistor counts, shrinking feature sizes, and faster clock speeds over time.
With the advent of ESM modules, any tool that dynamically loads modules needs
to do so asynchronously: due to its runtime plugins and configuration systems,
Babel is slowly migrating from a synchronous to an asynchronous API. However,
sometimes you really need your libraries to be synchronous: learn with us how
we solved this problem, thanks to Workers and Atomics!
(c) The Belgian Javascript Conference (BeJS Conf) 2023
12 May 2023
Brussels & Online
https://www.bejs.io/conf
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL53Z0yyYnpWhtlmFjyX1cIlisuFvHv1JK
YARN: a resource manager for analytic platformTsuyoshi OZAWA
The document discusses YARN, a resource manager for Apache Hadoop. It provides an overview of YARN and its key features: (1) managing resources in a cluster, (2) managing application history logs, and (3) a service registry mechanism. It then discusses how distributed processing frameworks like Tez and Spark work on YARN, focusing on their directed acyclic graph (DAG) models and techniques for improving performance on YARN like container reuse.
Spark on YARN allows Spark jobs to run efficiently on YARN clusters. It supports two modes: yarn-client mode where the driver runs locally, and yarn-cluster mode where the driver runs in a YARN container. Dynamic resource allocation allows Spark to dynamically allocate containers based on workload, launching and killing executors as needed. This improves resource utilization by avoiding inefficient allocation where containers remain unused after tasks complete. Configuration changes are required to enable the external shuffle service to store RDD state externally rather than within executors.
Taming YARN @ Hadoop Conference Japan 2014Tsuyoshi OZAWA
The document discusses YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator), a resource management framework for Hadoop. It describes YARN components like the ResourceManager, NodeManager, and ApplicationMaster. It covers YARN configuration, capacity planning, health checks, thread tuning, and enabling high availability of the ResourceManager through ZooKeeper.
Taming YARN @ Hadoop conference Japan 2014Tsuyoshi OZAWA
The document discusses Resource Manager high availability in YARN. It describes how the active and standby Resource Managers store state information in ZooKeeper, and how the standby automatically fails over to become active if it detects a failure of the active. Key configurations include enabling HA, specifying the ZooKeeper addresses, and setting timeouts.
This document introduces fluent-logger-scala, a simple logger for Scala apps that sends logs to fluentd servers. It allows Scala objects to log to fluentd with just 3 lines of code added to build.sbt. The logger currently supports Scala 2.9.x and sbt 0.12.x, with a roadmap to support Scala 2.10 by using an alternative JSON serialization library instead of msgpack-scala. A demo is shown of how to start casually collecting logs from Scala apps.
Multilevel aggregation for Hadoop/MapReduceTsuyoshi OZAWA
The document proposes a multi-level aggregation approach for Hadoop MapReduce to reduce shuffle costs by combining map outputs at the node and rack level. A prototype showed a job was 1.7 times faster and restricted shuffle costs to 50% by having mappers call a combiner before outputs are shuffled. Future work includes adding fault tolerance and supporting frameworks like Pig and Hive. Feedback is welcomed on the approach.
The document discusses implementing Memcached as a service (MaaS) for Cloud Foundry. NTT Communications developed a MaaS based on Redis that is available on GitHub. It supports basic resource restrictions and multiple instances. A pull request was submitted to integrate MaaS into Cloud Foundry but there has been no response from CloudFoundry teams. Future work includes SASL support and more configurable parameters.
This document discusses implementing dynamic ticks in the FreeBSD kernel. Currently, the kernel handles timer interrupts periodically at a fixed frequency (HZ), which is expensive when the CPU is idle. Dynamic ticks would generate timer interrupts using a one-shot timer based on when the next timer event is scheduled to occur, reducing overhead when idle. The author has started implementing this by adding code to scan the callout queue and determine when the next timer needs to fire. When an idle process detects there is no work to do, it could trigger a mode transition from periodic to dynamic ticks until the next scheduled event.
This document discusses virtualization techniques such as Intel VT and VMX. It explains the ring protection model of x86 CPUs and how virtualization works by having a hypervisor sit at the highest ring/privilege level. Key virtualization concepts covered include VMX root/non-root operation, VMCS data structures, VM exits/entries, and instructions for accessing and modifying VMCS like VMPTRLD, VMPTRST, VMWRITE, VMREAD, VMCLEAR. Memory mapped and port IO virtualization techniques are also summarized.
The document discusses KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and Intel VT-x virtualization technologies. It covers CPU rings, virtual machine monitors (VMMs) like Xen and VMware, Intel VT-x features like VMX root/non-root mode, VMCS, VMREAD/VMWRITE, and how KVM on Linux utilizes these features to enable full virtualization on Intel processors.
Data-Driven Public Safety: Reliable Data When Every Second CountsSafe Software
When every second counts, you need access to data you can trust. In this webinar, we’ll explore how FME empowers public safety services to streamline their operations and safeguard communities. This session will showcase workflow examples that public safety teams leverage every day.
We’ll cover real-world use cases and demo workflows, including:
Automating Police Traffic Stop Compliance: Learn how the City of Fremont meets traffic stop data standards by automating QA/QC processes, generating error reports – saving over 2,800 hours annually on manual tasks.
Anonymizing Crime Data: Discover how cities protect citizen privacy while enabling transparent and trustworthy open data sharing.
Next Gen 9-1-1 Integration: Explore how Santa Clara County supports the transition to digital emergency response systems for faster, more accurate dispatching, including automated schema mapping for address standardization.
Extreme Heat Alerts: See how FME supports disaster risk management by automating the delivery of extreme heat alerts for proactive emergency response.
Our goal is to provide practical workflows and actionable steps you can implement right away. Plus, we’ll provide quick steps to find more information about our public safety subscription for Police, Fire Departments, EMS, HAZMAT teams, and more.
Whether you’re in a call center, on the ground, or managing operations, this webinar is crafted to help you leverage data to make informed, timely decisions that matter most.
Revolutionizing Field Service: How LLMs Are Powering Smarter Knowledge Access...Earley Information Science
Revolutionizing Field Service with LLM-Powered Knowledge Management
Field service technicians need instant access to accurate repair information, but outdated knowledge systems often create frustrating delays. Large Language Models (LLMs) are changing the game—enhancing knowledge retrieval, streamlining troubleshooting, and reducing technician dependency on senior staff.
In this webinar, Seth Earley and industry experts Sanjay Mehta, and Heather Eisenbraun explore how LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) are transforming field service operations. Discover how AI-powered knowledge management is improving efficiency, reducing downtime, and elevating service quality.
LLMs for Instant Knowledge Retrieval – How AI-driven search dramatically cuts troubleshooting time.
Structured Data & AI – Why high-quality, organized knowledge is essential for LLM success.
Real-World Implementation – Lessons from deploying LLM-powered knowledge tools in field service.
Business Impact – How AI reduces service delays, optimizes workflows, and enhances technician productivity.
Empower your field service teams with AI-driven knowledge access. Watch the webinar to see how LLMs are revolutionizing service efficiency.
Getting Started with AWS - Enterprise Landing Zone for Terraform Learning & D...Chris Wahl
Recording: https://youtu.be/PASG0NTKUQA?si=1Ih7O9z0Lk0IzX9n
Welcome innovators! In this comprehensive tutorial, you will learn how to get started with AWS Cloud and Terraform to build an enterprise-like landing zone for a secure, low-cost environment to develop with Terraform. We'll guide you through setting up AWS Control Tower, Identity and Access Management, and creating a sandbox account, ensuring you have a safe and controlled area for learning and development. You'll also learn about budget management, single sign-on setup, and using AWS organizations for policy management. Plus, dive deep into Terraform basics, including setting up state management, migrating local state to remote state, and making resource modifications using your new infrastructure as code skills. Perfect for beginners looking to master AWS and Terraform essentials!
THE BIG TEN BIOPHARMACEUTICAL MNCs: GLOBAL CAPABILITY CENTERS IN INDIASrivaanchi Nathan
This business intelligence report, "The Big Ten Biopharmaceutical MNCs: Global Capability Centers in India", provides an in-depth analysis of the operations and contributions of the Global Capability Centers (GCCs) of ten leading biopharmaceutical multinational corporations in India. The report covers AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Novartis, Sanofi, Roche, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, and Eli Lilly. In this report each company's GCC is profiled with details on location, workforce size, investment, and the strategic roles these centers play in global business operations, research and development, and information technology and digital innovation.
Transcript: AI in publishing: Your questions answered - Tech Forum 2025BookNet Canada
George Walkley, a publishing veteran and leading authority on AI applications, joins us for a follow-up to his presentation "Applying AI to publishing: A balanced and ethical approach". George gives a brief overview of developments since that presentation and answers attendees' pressing questions about AI’s impact and potential applications in the book industry.
Link to recording and presentation slides: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/ai-in-publishing-your-questions-answered/
Presented by BookNet Canada on February 20, 2025 with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
"Kubernetes operators. How we migrated Release Management to controllers", De...Fwdays
Kubernetes Controllers and Operators are a trending topic in conferences, interviews, and production today. I will share the story of the evolution of our Promotion (Release) system, from simple Kubernetes API REST calls to Informers and Controllers, based on my own experience. This story is particularly interesting because it serves as a great case for personal growth for you as well as for your DevOps/SRE team. It touches on Kubernetes architecture details, Networking, GitOps, IaC, Caching, development patterns, and Golang data structures. Even if you have no development experience (as is the case for most of our team), I will share how a Cursor AI assistant became yet another — though virtual — engineer on our team.
Bonus: 10 years of Kubernetes & trends KubeCon24 North America.
"DevOps culture and digital transformation process of Temabit Fozzy Group", O...Fwdays
The transformation of a large organization is a marathon where every step requires coordinated teamwork, creative solutions, and a willingness to embrace mistakes.
We will discuss:
- How to properly plan global changes in a company with over 25,000 clients.
- Why communication between technical teams and the business is the key to success.
- SRE, R&D, and Architecture as drivers of transformation.
- The role of FinOps in sustainable development.
- Real-life cases, mistakes, and lessons learned.
This will be a story of ups and downs that helped us turn challenges into opportunities.
This is session #3 of the 5-session online study series with Google Cloud, where we take you onto the journey learning generative AI. You’ll explore the dynamic landscape of Generative AI, gaining both theoretical insights and practical know-how of Google Cloud GenAI tools such as Gemini, Vertex AI, AI agents and Imagen 3.
"Reality of Managing 100+ “Managed” RDS Postgres Databases", Mykyta HlushakFwdays
During the lecture, Mykyta will share the story of Solidgate's journey in building a high-performing and reliable fintech company, striving for 99.999% uptime on AWS’s SaaS platform. He'll uncover numerous caveats in doing things right without full system access, addressing product requirements, and staying up to date.
Artificial Intelligence Quick Research Guide by Arthur MorganArthur Morgan
This is a Quick Research Guide (QRG).
QRGs include the following:
- A brief, high-level overview of the QRG topic.
- A milestone timeline for the QRG topic.
- Links to various free online resource materials to provide a deeper dive into the QRG topic.
- Conclusion and a recommendation for at least two books available in the SJPL system on the QRG topic.
QRGs planned for the series:
- Artificial Intelligence QRG
- Quantum Computing QRG
- Big Data Analytics QRG (coming 2025)
- Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation & Control QRG (coming 2026)
- UK Home Computing & The Birth of ARM QRG (coming 2027)
Any questions or comments?
- Please contact Arthur Morgan at [email protected].
100% human made.
"Building Trust: Strengthening Your Software Supply Chain Security", Serhii V...Fwdays
The talk focuses on developing and integrating automation tools to enhance Supply Chain security. It addresses reproducible security practices with tools like Renovate and Wiz, as well as GitLab and JFrog Artifactory, to enforce consistent security scans seamlessly within existing workflows.
We will cover centralized artifact management for improved oversight and consistency. Furthermore, we will discuss the seamless integration of security scans into deployment tooling, featuring automatic deployment blocks for vulnerabilities and a controlled override option for flexibility.
The talk also examines tactics to keep the source code secure and up to date. We will explore the integration of runtime monitoring systems with detection capabilities and SLAs to manage and resolve issues on time.
"Turning Kubernetes into a full-fledged private cloud", Volodymyr TsapFwdays
At the conference, I will present an approach to extending the capabilities of Kubernetes, transforming it into a fully-fledged private Cloud with support for virtualization, isolated networks, and multi-organization authentication.
The goal of the presentation is to demonstrate that Kubernetes is not just a platform for containers, but a fully-featured private cloud that can be easily adapted to business needs.
"10 Pitfalls of a Platform Team", Yura RochniakFwdays
There are many obstacles and pitfalls on the path towards operational zen. Many routes could lead to dead ends and many detours could end up being loops.
In this semi-comedy talk I share some examples of how processes fail for engineering teams that I observed through my career, using two pillars of the Internet culture - memes and numbered lists.
Recipes are a major leap forward for adopting Drupal and website building in general. Learn how they can also make it easier than ever to manage dates and times in your website.
Quantum Computing Quick Research Guide by Arthur MorganArthur Morgan
This is a Quick Research Guide (QRG).
QRGs include the following:
- A brief, high-level overview of the QRG topic.
- A milestone timeline for the QRG topic.
- Links to various free online resource materials to provide a deeper dive into the QRG topic.
- Conclusion and a recommendation for at least two books available in the SJPL system on the QRG topic.
QRGs planned for the series:
- Artificial Intelligence QRG
- Quantum Computing QRG
- Big Data Analytics QRG (coming 2025)
- Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation & Control QRG (coming 2026)
- UK Home Computing & The Birth of ARM QRG (coming 2027)
Any questions or comments?
- Please contact Arthur Morgan at [email protected].
100% human made.
Benchmark Testing Demystified: Your Roadmap to Peak PerformanceShubham Joshi
Benchmark testing is the cornerstone of understanding your system’s performance, and this guide breaks it down step-by-step. Learn how to design tests that simulate real-world conditions, measure key performance metrics, and interpret results effectively. This comprehensive roadmap covers everything from selecting the right tools to creating repeatable tests that help identify bottlenecks and optimize resource usage. Whether you're dealing with web applications, mobile apps, or enterprise software, this guide offers practical tips and real-life examples to ensure your system runs at peak efficiency.
Mastering ChatGPT & LLMs for Practical Applications: Tips, Tricks, and Use CasesSanjay Willie
Our latest session with Astiostech covered how to unlock the full potential of ChatGPT and LLMs for real-world use!
✅ Key Takeaways:
🔹 Effective Prompting: Crafting context-specific, high-quality prompts for optimal AI responses.
🔹 Advanced ChatGPT Features: Managing system prompts, conversation memory, and file uploads.
🔹 Optimizing AI Outputs: Refining responses, handling large texts, and knowing when fine-tuning is needed.
🔹 Competitive Insights: Exploring how ChatGPT compares with other AI tools.
🔹 Business & Content Use Cases: From summarization to SEO, sales, and audience targeting.
💡 The session provided hands-on strategies to make AI a powerful tool for content creation, decision-making, and business growth.
🚀 Are you using AI effectively in your workflow? Let’s discuss how it can improve efficiency and creativity!
#AI #ChatGPT #PromptEngineering #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Productivity #Astiostech
In this pdf inculde the slide that shows about the use of nano technology in agriculture that is also a content for BSC agriculture and MSc agriculture ( in favour agronomy support)