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The document discusses NoSQL databases as an alternative to SQL databases. It defines NoSQL as structured data storage that does not rely on SQL for access. The document notes that NoSQL does not mean SQL is bad, and explores when a NoSQL database may be preferable to a SQL database, such as when an application's data needs are not well suited to the transactions and joins supported by SQL. It then summarizes different types of NoSQL databases and provides MongoDB as an example use case, highlighting how it avoids some of the overhead of SQL through its flexible schema and high performance.

Berkeley Drupal Users Group (BDUG) Slides from 7/23/12 presentation on Responsive Web Theming with Zen 5, Sass, and Compass

The document summarizes updates to Alfresco's public API, including improvements to OAuth keys that allow longer refresh times, new favorites and site membership request APIs, and examples of calling the APIs. It also outlines the roadmap to merge the APIs into the next Alfresco release and add new API types and versions.

doit marketing, doit-marketing, do it marketing: http://www.doitmarketing.com Website Redesign for marketing results. Special Report by Hubspot. Includes 7 specific website redesign tips for more effective small business marketing websites.

This tutorial introduces about basic programming PHP. In this topic you'll learn how to code PHP and how to develop your first PHP application(Khmer Date)

The document provides an overview of strategies for effective patent searching on the internet. It discusses searching the general web versus specific material types and how Google's search landscape is ever-changing. Key tips include using verbatim searching, checking dates and reliability of sources, and exploring search options beyond Google like other search engines and social media/forum tools for specialized searching. Beyond general web searches, focusing searches on specific material types and using the right tools can help find relevant patent information.

This document provides an overview of search engine optimization (SEO) in 3 easy steps. Step 1 is to understand how search engines work by learning about their bots, algorithms, and what they can and cannot see on a website. Step 2 is to make the website bot-friendly by providing clean HTML code without unnecessary JavaScript or Flash that bots cannot read. Step 3 is to build an SEO toolkit for WordPress by adding relevant metadata, keywords and linking to optimize the site's discoverability. The overall goal is to empower website owners to effectively optimize their own WordPress sites for search engines.

Explores how websites work, options for building a website, free CMSs & tools, and options for marketing your site.

This document provides an overview of how to code and design a first website. It discusses HTML, CSS, and web development fundamentals. It guides the reader through building a simple "About Me" webpage using Codepen.io to practice HTML and CSS. Tips are provided on downloading the code to a text editor and making the page viewable locally. The document also briefly touches on additional layout concepts like inline vs block elements and the box model. Overall, the document serves as an introductory tutorial for someone with little to no experience to code their first website.

The document discusses how to become a WordPress rockstar, including installing necessary software like a web server, Subversion, and text editor. It covers Subversion commands, setting up multiple WordPress installations for development, useful plugins, constants for debugging, using actions and filters in the plugin API, taking advantage of WordPress UX features, navigating the WordPress source code, contributing to core, following other community members, attending meetups and WordCamps, and information on an upcoming local meetup.

The document provides an introduction to search engine optimization, explaining how search engines work, the basic SEO formula including keyword and competitor research and making pages search engine friendly, and various on-page and off-page optimization techniques one can use to improve search engine rankings. It also discusses myths about SEO and answers common questions, emphasizing the importance of ongoing research, content creation, and natural link building rather than manipulative tactics.

Dennis Lembrée gave a presentation on building accessible web applications. He covered topics like HTML semantics and structure, CSS design principles, JavaScript accessibility, ARIA roles and properties, and writing for accessibility. He used his own web application Easy Chirp as an example of an accessible site and discussed how it works across different browsers, devices, and assistive technologies.

Thinkful's live Meetups in Washington DC. Tonight we talk about coding and designing your first website.

This document provides an overview of hyperlinks, including: - Hyperlinks allow pages to link to other documents, files, locations or sections using <a href> tags. - Common hyperlink attributes include href, name, target. Sample codes demonstrate linking within pages, to external sites, emails, and files. - Navigation should be clear and distinct. Common types include left, top, and tab navigation. - Anchor tags <a name> identify locations on a page, while <a href> links to those locations from other parts of the page or other pages. - Images, headings, and other elements can be made into hyperlinks by enclosing them in <a> tags

http://newtricks.me Beginners to WordPress sometimes miss the valuable role that Posts can play in making a website a Content Management System.

The document provides tips for optimizing a website, including using Google Analytics to track website activity, choosing relevant keywords, designing effective web pages, and using content management systems like Dreamweaver, Joomla, and WordPress. It recommends having multiple web pages focused on different services, and uniquely optimizing the title, description, and keywords for each page. The document also discusses using blogs, social media, mailing lists, and other tools to engage visitors and drive traffic.

With the emergence of heavy javascript / AJAX heavy frameworks and the growing popularity of things like AngularJS, Ember, Backbone.js, CanJS, and even JQuery; making sites and single page apps crawlable to search engines are becoming increasingly difficult. It doesn't have to be. This presentation takes a look at some of the largest and trending publishers and some of the AJAX features they employ.

1. A website is loaded by a browser through a multi-step process involving DNS lookups, TCP connections, downloading resources like HTML, CSS, JS, and images. This process can be slow due to the number of individual requests and dependencies between resources. 2. Ways to optimize the loading process include making the server fast, inlining critical resources, gzip compression, an optimized caching strategy, optimizing file delivery through techniques like CDNs and HTTP/2, bundling resources, optimizing images, avoiding unnecessary domains, minimizing web fonts, and JavaScript techniques like PJAX. Minifying assets can also speed up loading.

Points.com webdev lunch and learn #2: Page performance. What makes websites slow, how to make them faster.

Convincing an organization that performance matters and is worth investing in is often a tough thing to sell. This was no different at Intuit, who operated many sites built in the pre “web standards” era. Then, one day, one test changed everything – an A/B comparison successfully demonstrated that faster page loads increased conversion and SEO. And the conversation quickly changed from “Not interested” to “How quickly can you make the rest of our pages faster?” A performance team was formed, and optimization began across multiple properties in a phased approach with each release delivering incremental performance gains. As we iterated through the core performance principles, the team introduced additional techniques that led us to exceed our original performance goals. Techniques such as lazyloading, prefetching, smarter image optimization/spriting, and module rewrites enabled us to successfully shave off additional time. This session will cover the steps that we took, lessons learned including what worked well or didn’t work well, as well as the performance improvements that were realized, and their impact on business metrics. Some of the topics include: * How we went from 15s web pages to 2s web pages * How combining CSS/JS files and image sprites had both positive as well as negative impact * How lazy loading of resources and JavaScript rewrites improved our page render times (including our experiments with Control.js) * How we addressed blocking as well as high-latency third-party components * How we solved for issues/constraints arising from shared code across multiple sites * How we optimized for user flows spanning multiple pages with positive results * How automated benchmarking enabled us to continuously monitor our performance health * How we succeeded in making “performance” a common theme among developers, marketers, and stakeholders

A walkthrough of various application performance tuning tools and a good workflow for where to start, from a presentation at WindyCityRails 2011 in Chicago, IL. See the video, and more Web and Ruby/Rails Performance info at www.RailsPerformance.com -John McCaffrey

This document provides practical strategies for improving front-end performance of websites. It discusses specific techniques like making fewer HTTP requests by combining files, leveraging browser caching with far-future expires headers, gzipping components, using CSS sprites, and deploying assets on a content delivery network. It also summarizes key rules from tools like YSlow and PageSpeed for optimizing front-end performance.

Drupal is a powerful and flexible tool to create web applications without building everything from scratch. This ability can drive developers to build complex websites without understanding what is Drupal doing behind the scenes. The majority of Drupal performance talks mostly focus in aspects like infrastructure changes, caching strategies or comparisons between modules and architectures. Unfortunately when performance problems occur, development teams also follow strategies to replace different aspects of the platform looking only to standard aspects like slow queries without understanding and profiling the real problem. The majority of times it is fundamental to measure and analyze what is the application is actually doing to understand te real problems. Drupal is a platform used by million of websites worlwide and its performance can in most cases be compared after measured. In Acquia we do dozens of performance assessments per year, and even in most clients we find the same problems, often we find situations that only can be detected when measured and analized when looking to a profiler report. In this session, I will explain how to detect performance problems looking to simple data, from logs to profiler data and providing some nice targets that can be analyzed to understand what is causing the uncommon bad performance of a site.

Slides from a brownbag tech talk at eBay. A holistic approach to web performance and intimate details on YSlow's points and grading algorithm.

This document discusses how slow loading websites can negatively impact business by reducing conversions and increasing abandonment. It covers: 1. Research showing websites that load faster increase donations, click-through rates, and conversions while decreasing abandonment. 2. How browsers load pages over TCP and HTTP, including how objects like JavaScript, CSS, images are retrieved. 3. Methods for measuring page speed like load time, start render time, and speed index. 4. Techniques for speeding up websites like GZip compression, caching, optimizing images, bundling resources, and minimizing web fonts.

Learn: Why your website MUST be fast to be competitive, how a page is loaded by the browser, how to measure page speed and 5 simple ways to speed up YOUR website .

В этом докладе я собираюсь поделиться нашим опытом обхода испанского интернета. Мы поставили перед собой задачу обойти около 600 тысяч веб-сайтов в зоне .es с целью сбора статистики об узлах и их размерах. Я расскажу об архитектуре робота, хранилища, проблемах, с которыми мы столкнулись при обходе, и их решении. Наше решение доступно в форме open source фреймворка Frontera. Фреймворк позволяет построить распределенного робота для скачивания страниц из Интернета в больших объемах в реальном времени. Также он может быть использован для построения сфокусированных роботов для выкачивания подмножества заранее известных веб-сайтов. Фреймворк предлагает: настраиваемое хранилище URL документов (RDBMS или Key Value), управление стратегиями обхода, абстракцию транспортного уровня, абстракцию модуля загрузки. Доклад построен в увлекательной форме: описание проблемы, решение и проблемы, которые возникли в ходе разработки решения.

The document discusses the importance of website speed and performance. It notes that slower sites can result in lower conversion rates, more bounces, and reduced revenue. It recommends tools for measuring performance like WebPagetest and YSlow. The document outlines best practices like reducing HTTP requests through image sprites and CSS/JS combining. It suggests design techniques like using a grid system and optimizing images. The goal is to reduce page weight and browser work to achieve load times under 100ms for the best user experience.

Why is Web Performance Optimization Important and what are some things developers can do to ensure their applications perform well and please end users?

Web Performance tuning presentation given at http://www.chippewavalleycodecamp.com/ Covers basic http flow, measuring performance, common changes to improve performance now, and several tools and techniques you can use now.

Traditionally, content delivery networks (CDNs) were known to accelerate static content. Amazon CloudFront has come a long way and now supports delivery of entire websites that include dynamic and static content. In this session, we introduce you to CloudFront’s dynamic delivery features that help improve the performance, scalability, and availability of your website while helping you lower your costs. We talk about architectural patterns such as SSL termination, close proximity connection termination, origin offload with keep-alive connections, and last-mile latency improvement. Also learn how to take advantage of Amazon Route 53's health check, automatic failover, and latency-based routing to build highly available web apps on AWS.

My talking points for the presentation on optimization of modern web applications. It is a huge topic, and I concentrated mostly on technical aspects of it.

Is your farm struggling to server your organization? How long is it taking between page requests? Where is your bottleneck in your farm? Is your SQL Server tuned properly? Worried about upgrading due to poor performance? We will look at various tools for analyzing and measuring performance of your farm. We will look at simple SharePoint and IIS configuration options to instantly improve performance. I will discuss advanced approaches for analyzing, measuring and implementing optimizations in your farm as well as Performance Improvements in SharePoint 2013.

Taylor Jasko gave a presentation on building WordPress web applications (webapps) to provide faster site performance. Some key points included: 1) Webapps are like desktop applications that use the latest technologies and feel native on devices. 2) WordPress can be used to create webapps by leveraging plugins, templating, and custom fields. 3) Performance can be improved by rendering content dynamically with JSON/JavaScript instead of traditional HTML pages. This reduces page size and load times. 4) Caching and cache busting techniques like hashing can make the content nearly instantly for users while still allowing search engines to crawl pages.

As we build richer, more complex web applications it’s easy to forget that speed is the cornerstone of user experience. Bing have found that a 2 second delay reduces revenue by 4%. Google know that half a second delay drops traffic by 20%. AOL have shown that users with a speedy experience stay 50% longer than users who have to wait. The evidence is clear – speed matters. What’s more, most latency comes from the front-end, not the backend so the fixes are not specific to a particular platform. This session will examine a range of techniques from DOM & CSS tricks to web server and HTTP tweaks that can help improve front-end performance by 25-50%. Whether you’re looking to save bandwidth, increase your conversion rate, retain visitors, save time or just make your users happy – the speed of your site matters.

This document discusses web performance optimization techniques. It is a summary of rules for web performance by Mark Tomlinson, who has 27 years of experience in performance. Some of the key techniques discussed include reducing HTTP requests, optimizing file compression, minimizing code, improving web font and image performance, prefetching resources, avoiding unnecessary redirects, and optimizing infrastructure and databases. The document emphasizes measuring performance through load testing and monitoring to identify bottlenecks.

This document provides recommendations for optimizing performance of a SharePoint farm. It suggests architecting the farm with separate web, service application, and database servers. It also provides tips for SQL Server tuning, such as setting the maximum RAM, formatting disks, and configuring maintenance plans. Additionally, it recommends techniques like caching, minimizing page size, limiting navigation depth, and leveraging tools to identify bottlenecks. The overall message is to consider each layer of the farm and apply techniques like caching, SQL optimization, and network configuration to improve performance.

The document discusses using Node.js to build streaming services. It describes how Node.js allows for scalable server-side code using JavaScript and mentions libraries like JSONStream that can be used to parse JSON streams. The document also discusses different types of streaming like simplex, throughput, and duplex streaming and how to manage backpressure in streams.

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The document is a presentation about using Node.js to improve mobile app and mobile web performance. It discusses how Node.js can help address issues like high latency on mobile networks by allowing for event-driven and asynchronous server-side code. It also covers how Node.js helps optimize resource usage on mobile devices.

This document provides an introduction and overview of a Node.js tutorial presented by Tom Hughes-Croucher. The tutorial covers topics such as building scalable server-side code with JavaScript using Node.js, debugging Node.js applications, using frameworks like Express.js, and best practices for deploying Node.js applications in production environments. The tutorial includes exercises for hands-on learning and demonstrates tools and techniques like Socket.io, clustering, error handling and using Redis with Node.js applications.

This document discusses how JavaScript is well-suited for creating applications for the Internet of Things. It notes that batteries and network bandwidth have improved over time based on various laws, but batteries have improved more slowly. It advocates for an event-driven programming model where devices only transmit interesting event data rather than a continuous stream of sensor data. This reduces power consumption and data transmission costs. JavaScript is highlighted as an easy way to create dynamic IoT applications that can be updated over the network. Example IoT development platforms that use JavaScript like BeagleBone and NinjaBlocks are also mentioned.

The document discusses using Node.js to build scalable server-side code with JavaScript in a way that works for all users regardless of device or browser capabilities. It covers topics like balancing goals of speed, maintainability and cost when building applications that need to work across computers, mobile phones and other devices with varying processing power and bandwidth. It provides examples of using JSON instead of HTML for lightweight data transfer and techniques like client-side MVC patterns and templates. It also emphasizes the importance of server-side fallbacks for HTML5 features not supported on all browsers to ensure a good experience for all users.

This document discusses benchmarks and performance testing of Node.js. It notes that while Node.js can handle over 1 million connections, benchmarks are not that important as other factors like productivity. It explores how to meaningfully measure Node.js performance, compares Node.js to other frameworks like Erlang and Tornado, and argues that benchmarks should reflect real-world use cases rather than simplistic "hello world" tests. The document questions overreliance on benchmarks and emphasizes picking the right tool based on the task.

This document provides an overview and summary of a Node.js workshop presented by Tom Hughes-Croucher. The workshop covers: 1. Why use server-side JavaScript and how Node.js enables this through its event-driven and non-blocking architecture. 2. An introduction to Node.js, including how to install Node.js and build basic HTTP servers. 3. More advanced Node.js topics like modules, events, streams, debugging, and popular frameworks like Express.js. 4. Exercises are provided to help attendees get hands-on experience building Node.js applications.

This document provides lessons from a coding veteran organized into 3 rules. Rule 1 is to avoid complexity by having a clear goal, writing understandable code, picking conventions, and using abstraction wisely. Rule 2 is not to optimize too soon, and to rewrite code that is better understood, documenting any optimizations and using tools when possible. Rule 3 acknowledges that rules will be broken for deadlines, but that breaking rules requires cleanup and is not sustainable, advising to focus on Rules 1 and 2 for future success.

1. The document discusses multi-tiered Node.js architectures to improve scalability and efficiency. It suggests moving non-client facing work like logging and processing to separate "farms" or clusters to avoid blocking the main event loop. 2. Another approach presented is to use front-end clusters or "shards" to distribute client requests across multiple Node processes to take advantage of parallel processing. This improves response times. 3. The key goals are to minimize client response times by keeping the main event loop available, while maximizing server resource efficiency by moving heavy processing tasks out of the main process.

Node.js and JavaScript are well-suited for Internet applications because Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, capable of supporting many more concurrent connections than traditional server-side models like Apache. This event loop system allows Node.js to handle multiple requests simultaneously without blocking any specific request. It also minimizes memory usage so more requests can be served from fewer servers.

Increasingly we want to do more with the web and Internet applications we build. We have more features, more data, more users, more devices and all of it needs to be in real-time. With all of these demands how can we keep up? The answer is choosing a language and a platform that are optimized for the kind of architecture Internet and web applications really have. The traditional approach prioritises computation, assigning server resources before they are actually needed. JavaScript and Node.js both take an event driven approach only assigning resources to events as they happen. This allows us to make dramatic gains in performance and resource utilization while still having an environment which is fun and easy to program.

Doing horrible things to DNS involves using CNAME records to create multiple domain names that resolve to the same IP addresses. This allows making a single DNS query but receiving responses for multiple domains, enabling more parallel HTTP requests. The technique involves creating a chain of CNAME records that ultimately resolve to a single canonical name, gaining the ability to load resources from different apparent hostnames while only requiring one DNS lookup.

The document discusses techniques for improving website performance through modifications to DNS. It describes how serial HTTP loading is slower than parallel loading due to round trip times for DNS lookups. It then evaluates options for implementing parallel DNS lookups, including using CNAME records to alias multiple hostnames to a single IP address, and placing additional IP addresses in the answer or additional sections of DNS responses to allow parallel lookups. While these techniques could improve performance, they may violate DNS standards or caching assumptions.

Node.js allows JavaScript to be used for server-side programming. It is a popular choice because JavaScript programmers can reuse code and libraries on both the client-side and server-side. Node.js is also fast and non-blocking which allows for high concurrency levels. The Node.js ecosystem includes many libraries like Express for building web servers and Mustache.js for templating that make building server-side JavaScript applications easy.

The document discusses techniques for improving website performance through modifications to DNS. It describes how serial HTTP loading is slower than parallel loading due to round trip times for DNS lookups. It then evaluates options for implementing parallel DNS lookups, including using CNAME records to alias multiple hostnames to a single IP address, and placing additional IP addresses in the answer or additional sections of DNS responses to allow parallel hostname resolutions. While these techniques could improve performance, they may violate DNS standards or caching assumptions.

Node.js is a highly concurrent JavaScript server written on top of the V8 JavaScript runtime. This is awesome for a number of reasons. Firstly Node.js has re-architected some of the core module of V8 to create a server implementation that is non-blocking (similar to other event driven frameworks like Ruby’s Event Machine or Python’s Twisted). Event driven architectures are a natural fit for JavaScript developers because it’s already how the browser works. By using an event driven framework Node is not only intuitive to use but also highly scalable. Tests have shown Node instances running tens of thousands of simultaneous users. This session will explore the architectural basics of Node.js and how it’s different from blocking server implementations such as PHP, Rail or Java Servlets. We’ll explore some basic examples of creating a simple server, dealing with HTTP requests, etc. The bigger question is once we have this awesome programming environment, what do we do with it? Node already has a really vibrant collection of modules which provide a range of functionality. Demystifying what’s available is pretty important to actually getting stuff done with Node. Since Node itself is very low level, lot’s of things people expect in web servers aren’t automatically there (for example, request routing). In order to help ease people into using Node this session will look at a range of the best modules for Node.js.

This document discusses using JavaScript on the server side with Node.js and the YUI framework. It begins by explaining why server-side JavaScript is useful and discusses JavaScript runtimes like V8, SpiderMonkey, and Rhino. It then covers Node.js, CommonJS frameworks, and how to use YUI modules on the server by enabling YUI's module loader. Examples are provided for accessing remote data, rendering HTML on the server, and implementing progressive enhancement.

These fighter aircraft have uses outside of traditional combat situations. They are essential in defending India's territorial integrity, averting dangers, and delivering aid to those in need during natural calamities. Additionally, the IAF improves its interoperability and fortifies international military alliances by working together and conducting joint exercises with other air forces.

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To help you choose the best DiskWarrior alternative, we've compiled a comparison table summarizing the features, pros, cons, and pricing of six alternatives.

Today’s digitally connected world presents a wide range of security challenges for enterprises. Insider security threats are particularly noteworthy because they have the potential to cause significant harm. Unlike external threats, insider risks originate from within the company, making them more subtle and challenging to identify. This blog aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of insider security threats, including their types, examples, effects, and mitigation techniques.

This is a slide deck that showcases the updates in Microsoft Copilot for May 2024

We are honored to launch and host this event for our UiPath Polish Community, with the help of our partners - Proservartner! We certainly hope we have managed to spike your interest in the subjects to be presented and the incredible networking opportunities at hand, too! Check out our proposed agenda below 👇👇 08:30 ☕ Welcome coffee (30') 09:00 Opening note/ Intro to UiPath Community (10') Cristina Vidu, Global Manager, Marketing Community @UiPath Dawid Kot, Digital Transformation Lead @Proservartner 09:10 Cloud migration - Proservartner & DOVISTA case study (30') Marcin Drozdowski, Automation CoE Manager @DOVISTA Pawel Kamiński, RPA developer @DOVISTA Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner 09:40 From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Citizen Development in action (25') Pawel Poplawski, Director, Improvement and Automation @McCormick & Company Michał Cieślak, Senior Manager, Automation Programs @McCormick & Company 10:05 Next-level bots: API integration in UiPath Studio (30') Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner 10:35 ☕ Coffee Break (15') 10:50 Document Understanding with my RPA Companion (45') Ewa Gruszka, Enterprise Sales Specialist, AI & ML @UiPath 11:35 Power up your Robots: GenAI and GPT in REFramework (45') Krzysztof Karaszewski, Global RPA Product Manager 12:20 🍕 Lunch Break (1hr) 13:20 From Concept to Quality: UiPath Test Suite for AI-powered Knowledge Bots (30') Kamil Miśko, UiPath MVP, Senior RPA Developer @Zurich Insurance 13:50 Communications Mining - focus on AI capabilities (30') Thomasz Wierzbicki, Business Analyst @Office Samurai 14:20 Polish MVP panel: Insights on MVP award achievements and career profiling

Have you noticed the OpenSSF Scorecard badges on the official Dart and Flutter repos? It's Google's way of showing that they care about security. Practices such as pinning dependencies, branch protection, required reviews, continuous integration tests etc. are measured to provide a score and accompanying badge. You can do the same for your projects, and this presentation will show you how, with an emphasis on the unique challenges that come up when working with Dart and Flutter. The session will provide a walkthrough of the steps involved in securing a first repository, and then what it takes to repeat that process across an organization with multiple repos. It will also look at the ongoing maintenance involved once scorecards have been implemented, and how aspects of that maintenance can be better automated to minimize toil.

Support en anglais diffusé lors de l'événement 100% IA organisé dans les locaux parisiens d'Iguane Solutions, le mardi 2 juillet 2024 : - Présentation de notre plateforme IA plug and play : ses fonctionnalités avancées, telles que son interface utilisateur intuitive, son copilot puissant et des outils de monitoring performants. - REX client : Cyril Janssens, CTO d’ easybourse, partage son expérience d’utilisation de notre plateforme IA plug & play.

Blockchain technology is transforming industries and reshaping the way we conduct business, manage data, and secure transactions. Whether you're new to blockchain or looking to deepen your knowledge, our guidebook, "Blockchain for Dummies", is your ultimate resource.

Are you interested in dipping your toes in the cloud native observability waters, but as an engineer you are not sure where to get started with tracing problems through your microservices and application landscapes on Kubernetes? Then this is the session for you, where we take you on your first steps in an active open-source project that offers a buffet of languages, challenges, and opportunities for getting started with telemetry data. The project is called openTelemetry, but before diving into the specifics, we’ll start with de-mystifying key concepts and terms such as observability, telemetry, instrumentation, cardinality, percentile to lay a foundation. After understanding the nuts and bolts of observability and distributed traces, we’ll explore the openTelemetry community; its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), repositories, and how to become not only an end-user, but possibly a contributor.We will wrap up with an overview of the components in this project, such as the Collector, the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP), its APIs, and its SDKs. Attendees will leave with an understanding of key observability concepts, become grounded in distributed tracing terminology, be aware of the components of openTelemetry, and know how to take their first steps to an open-source contribution! Key Takeaways: Open source, vendor neutral instrumentation is an exciting new reality as the industry standardizes on openTelemetry for observability. OpenTelemetry is on a mission to enable effective observability by making high-quality, portable telemetry ubiquitous. The world of observability and monitoring today has a steep learning curve and in order to achieve ubiquity, the project would benefit from growing our contributor community.

As a popular open-source library for analytics engineering, dbt is often used in combination with Airflow. Orchestrating and executing dbt models as DAGs ensures an additional layer of control over tasks, observability, and provides a reliable, scalable environment to run dbt models. This webinar will cover a step-by-step guide to Cosmos, an open source package from Astronomer that helps you easily run your dbt Core projects as Airflow DAGs and Task Groups, all with just a few lines of code. We’ll walk through: - Standard ways of running dbt (and when to utilize other methods) - How Cosmos can be used to run and visualize your dbt projects in Airflow - Common challenges and how to address them, including performance, dependency conflicts, and more - How running dbt projects in Airflow helps with cost optimization Webinar given on 9 July 2024

Slide of the tutorial entitled "Paradigm Shifts in User Modeling: A Journey from Historical Foundations to Emerging Trends" held at UMAP'24: 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (July 1, 2024 | Cagliari, Italy)

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Sustainability requires ingenuity and stewardship. Did you know Pigging Solutions pigging systems help you achieve your sustainable manufacturing goals AND provide rapid return on investment. How? Our systems recover over 99% of product in transfer piping. Recovering trapped product from transfer lines that would otherwise become flush-waste, means you can increase batch yields and eliminate flush waste. From raw materials to finished product, if you can pump it, we can pig it.

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Cybersecurity is a major concern in today's connected digital world. Threats to organizations are constantly evolving and have the potential to compromise sensitive information, disrupt operations, and lead to significant financial losses. Traditional cybersecurity techniques often fall short against modern attackers. Therefore, advanced techniques for cyber security analysis and anomaly detection are essential for protecting digital assets. This blog explores these cutting-edge methods, providing a comprehensive overview of their application and importance.

Stream processing is a crucial component of modern data infrastructure, but constructing an efficient and scalable stream processing system can be challenging. Decoupling compute and storage architecture has emerged as an effective solution to these challenges, but it can introduce high latency issues, especially when dealing with complex continuous queries that necessitate managing extra-large internal states. In this talk, we focus on addressing the high latency issues associated with S3 storage in stream processing systems that employ a decoupled compute and storage architecture. We delve into the root causes of latency in this context and explore various techniques to minimize the impact of S3 latency on stream processing performance. Our proposed approach is to implement a tiered storage mechanism that leverages a blend of high-performance and low-cost storage tiers to reduce data movement between the compute and storage layers while maintaining efficient processing. Throughout the talk, we will present experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in mitigating the impact of S3 latency on stream processing. By the end of the talk, attendees will have gained insights into how to optimize their stream processing systems for reduced latency and improved cost-efficiency.

Your comprehensive guide to RPA in healthcare for 2024. Explore the benefits, use cases, and emerging trends of robotic process automation. Understand the challenges and prepare for the future of healthcare automation

Presented at Gartner Data & Analytics, London Maty 2024. BT Group has used the Neo4j Graph Database to enable impressive digital transformation programs over the last 6 years. By re-imagining their operational support systems to adopt self-serve and data lead principles they have substantially reduced the number of applications and complexity of their operations. The result has been a substantial reduction in risk and costs while improving time to value, innovation, and process automation. Join this session to hear their story, the lessons they learned along the way and how their future innovation plans include the exploration of uses of EKG + Generative AI.

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