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Every major brand has a web presence that may include product sites, a corporate site, apps and social media. As their customers and constituents transition to mobile consumption of brand assets organizations find they need to rebuild their web sites to be more usable, or responsive, in a variety of contexts. The two main approaches to achieve this are to either redevelop the site and architecture from the ground up, or to responsively retrofit the site over time. Each approach has benefits and drawbacks. This webinar will explain the features and benefits of each and make contingent recommendations for choosing between the two. Examples from Cantina’s responsive site evaluation research project will be included. • Topics to be covered include: • Understanding Responsive Design • The Customer’s Multi-device Experience • Ground Up Responsive Redesign: Process and Benefits • Responsive Retrofitting: Process and Benefits • How to decide between ground-up and responsive retrofitting

The document summarizes a presentation on reactive programming given by Steven Pember and David Fox of Cantina. It discusses what reactive programming is, the four traits of reactive systems according to the Reactive Manifesto (responsiveness, resilience, elasticity, and message-driven), and reactive technologies like Akka and Spray. It also covers actor models, how actors work, supervision strategies in Akka, and promises and futures.

Lean enterprises focus on building products that solve urgent customer problems through a process of formulating hypotheses about customer needs, building minimum viable products to test those hypotheses, and using data from real-world tests to evaluate and evolve their ideas. Key questions addressed include identifying the problem being solved, why the proposed solution is better than alternatives, who the target customer is, and how to effectively reach and build a business serving that customer through iterative development that prioritizes learning from tests with real customers.

Content strategy is about planning for the creation, publication, and governance of useful content to engage users and businesses. It aims to provide user parity, content portability, and put content first. An effective content strategy establishes structure first and delivers outcomes like institutional knowledge, a repeatable content method, and adaptable content. It involves defining goals, messages, an evaluation framework, page tables, and an editorial calendar to optimize engagement, communication, and measurement across changing contexts.

Domain Driven Design (DDD) is an approach to software development that models the problem domain using concepts and language from the real world. It recognizes that real businesses have multiple departments that communicate by sending messages, rather than being monolithic. By separating responsibilities into bounded contexts like different departments, complexity is reduced. This also allows the system to scale more easily. DDD uses the "ubiquitous language" of the domain or business to model it, rather than using only technical terms that developers understand. The benefits include gaining a useful model of the domain, refined definitions, domain experts contributing to design, improved user experience, clean boundaries, better enterprise architecture, agile modeling, and new strategic and tactical tools.

The document discusses the importance of website speed, noting that sites can lose significant percentages of traffic and bounce rates as load times increase from 100ms to 3 seconds. It also notes that 85% of mobile users expect similar response times to desktop. Two graphics show the simplified process of a mobile vs desktop web request, with mobile requiring more steps through various towers. The document asks how to get load times down to 1 second and suggests techniques like responsive design combined with server-side changes and prioritizing loading above-the-fold content.

The document discusses designing connected experiences by delivering digital content and services across different contexts, devices, and environments to provide a continuous experience for users. This is done to maximize convenience by allowing people to easily access content and services regardless of their context, device, location, activity, or other factors through a seamless experience. Ensuring continuity is the goal so users feel connected regardless of changes in these variables.

Real world aspects of implementing flexible, mobile and future-friendly sites through responsive design.

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If you’ve ever had to analyze a map or GPS data, chances are you’ve encountered and even worked with coordinate systems. As historical data continually updates through GPS, understanding coordinate systems is increasingly crucial. However, not everyone knows why they exist or how to effectively use them for data-driven insights. During this webinar, you’ll learn exactly what coordinate systems are and how you can use FME to maintain and transform your data’s coordinate systems in an easy-to-digest way, accurately representing the geographical space that it exists within. During this webinar, you will have the chance to: - Enhance Your Understanding: Gain a clear overview of what coordinate systems are and their value - Learn Practical Applications: Why we need datams and projections, plus units between coordinate systems - Maximize with FME: Understand how FME handles coordinate systems, including a brief summary of the 3 main reprojectors - Custom Coordinate Systems: Learn how to work with FME and coordinate systems beyond what is natively supported - Look Ahead: Gain insights into where FME is headed with coordinate systems in the future Don’t miss the opportunity to improve the value you receive from your coordinate system data, ultimately allowing you to streamline your data analysis and maximize your time. See you there!

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This presentation, delivered at the Postgres Bangalore (PGBLR) Meetup-2 on June 29th, 2024, dives deep into connection pooling for PostgreSQL databases. Aakash M, a PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Mydbops, explores the challenges of managing numerous connections and explains how connection pooling optimizes performance and resource utilization. Key Takeaways: * Understand why connection pooling is essential for high-traffic applications * Explore various connection poolers available for PostgreSQL, including pgbouncer * Learn the configuration options and functionalities of pgbouncer * Discover best practices for monitoring and troubleshooting connection pooling setups * Gain insights into real-world use cases and considerations for production environments This presentation is ideal for: * Database administrators (DBAs) * Developers working with PostgreSQL * DevOps engineers * Anyone interested in optimizing PostgreSQL performance Contact info@mydbops.com for PostgreSQL Managed, Consulting and Remote DBA Services

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

In the modern digital era, social media platforms have become integral to our daily lives. These platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat, offer countless ways to connect, share, and communicate.

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.

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