So welcome to this not a technology problem. My name is Colin. I work for engineer better. We're a Consultancy in London England. We do a lot of work in Europe, but have also done work in the States, Canada And I was in Singapore last year we do general consultancy around cloud foundry concourse digital transformation Kubernetes a bit now training delivery really a mixed bag Personally, I spend a lot of my time doing deployment management Automation operations of cloud foundry and helping customers do that I've been working with cloud foundry for about four years now It's originally an application developer and then I moved into the off side So I mostly do delivery of dojos and health checks staff augmentation and we deliver training as well and In working with lots of different customers I've found that Lots of times the questions we get asked fall into similar categories every customer has a diverse set of problems But they all kind of Distilled down to similar things. So an alternative title for this talk is things customers keep asking me on engagements so in general the Broad problems that customers seem to face fall into the categories of cloud foundry is difficult to operate our platforms unreliable and Why hasn't cloud foundry or any technology we've bought made us more agile? So my response to most of these starts off with this is not a technology problem so I'm going to try and go through common symptoms of the problems and Then causes from my experience things that are causing these to be problems And then some solutions that have seemed to work at companies that I've worked at so Without further ado launching into it got cloud foundry is difficult to operate There is some truth to this cloud foundry is fairly complicated But it's not quite as difficult to operate as a lot of people seem to think so a lot of times this manifests as The platform team doesn't have enough time good working lots over time falling behind on updates and difficulty keeping up with platform feature requests So you've got updates to cloud foundry itself and you've got updates that people using cloud foundry want So what causes this well? Most of the time it's a lack of automation so it could also be a lack of understanding about existing automation or Problems with the implementation, but every customer I've worked with who have complained about the platform team working too many Hours too much over time not enough time to do things have had some kind of problem with their automation setup And also no dedicated platform team So it's really hard to hire people with kind of cloud foundry knowledge or pure dev ops or cloud Technologies because it's such a wide range of skills that you need So a lot of times I see company is pull people from different parts of the business Which is a pretty good strategy So someone from the databases team and someone from the networking team But most of the time they still have responsibilities for whatever teams they were seconded from So I worked with one customer where the platform team was effectively 75% of one person and 50% of another and they lived in different countries in different time zones and It didn't quite work as well as they were hoping So most of the time this problem leads to the platform team being CF push as a service So actually at the same at the same company as the previous example The development teams weren't trusted with any access to production So they weren't given See if push access, but they also weren't given access to get logs out or to look at events or to see How their apps running or to scale their apps? So the platform team that was already heavily taxed ended up getting ticket after ticket that went along the lines of Deploy this app if it breaks fix it when you don't know how to fix it because you didn't write the app Then join a Webex call and kind of funnel logs through to the developers and then type into the console what they tell you What does this have to do with running a reliable platform? Well nothing Cloud Foundry needs to be developed in its own right. It isn't something that just exists and then will work forever And the final cause is cutting corners on training. I see this a lot at the start of dojos you have The mindset of we really want to get going now. We've got we bought cloud foundry. We want to get going We'll train up as we go. How hard could it be? Well, there's a thing called Bosch that you need to control it and it's got a fairly legendary learning curve Cloud Foundry is a complex distributed system. So you have complex tooling to to manage it So kind of Trying to learn as you go rather than putting in the time at the start doesn't always pay off but there are some things you can do to set yourself up for success and The primary one is if you're still deploying cloud foundry manually You are objectively doing it wrong and please stop Come talk to me afterwards or talk to any of the other companies over in the foundry on how they're managing their cloud Foundries and how they're pushing updates out Yesterday in the keynotes chip mentioned that across all cloud foundry foundation projects, there's a hundred and thirty-seven releases a month on average If you expect your platform team to keep up with a hundred and thirty-seven updates a month across all your foundations manually It's not going to happen So effectively you need to change the focus of your team from a team that operates a platform to a team that builds tooling To operate a platform So a lot of the teams have been on We're just building a concourse pipeline like that that manages cloud foundry and The foundation itself is a nice byproduct of the thing that the team is working on Another good approach is treating the platform as a software product if you consider a case where you have updates and you have production in The world of application development is it acceptable for your developers to take those updates and push them directly into production without testing them Of course not no one would ever sign off on that But then what about making changes to the platform that the apps are running on? What about we need this build pack in production now or we need Diego cells to scale or something like that That's a lot more acceptable for some reason to push directly into production without testing and without running it through earlier environments But it really shouldn't be Applications and the platform they run on should be treated the same And the first step to treating the platform as a software product is have a dedicated team looking after Software product that is the platform So in the old world you have application developers that make the apps and you have platform operators or sys admins that run the platform They're kind of separated by an organizational divide So you've got they're in different departments or different offices and if one side wants the other to do something It's bureaucracy and it takes a lot of time Fall being there Cloud Foundry allows for a high degree of self-service within development teams where they can manage the full life cycle of their applications I used to work for a major retailer in the UK and I was on the team that made the mobile website and We were pushing our application to cloud foundry and there were five people in our team We took 60% of traffic to the website We wrote the app ourselves. We pushed the app ourselves and we were the on-call support for the app ourselves And it was beneficial both sides of the company It was really empowering for us and it was and the company didn't need a separate team to deploy our stuff And if you're the one that gets called at 3 in the morning because you pushed a sketchy update at 5 p.m On Friday, you're not going to push sketchy updates at 5 p.m. On Friday So I think we had five minutes of production downtime in a year and a half But on the other side You've got platform operations, but you've also got platform development You shouldn't expect the platform to work out of the box whether be it CF deployment or CF. Yeah, CF deployment used to be CF release and Any vendor provided cloud foundry it won't solve all your problems out of the box You need to look at what problems you're trying to solve and mold the platform to do what you want hear a lot of Customers thinking that cloud foundry will reach a done state you install it and then it's done and you don't need to develop it anymore That doesn't really work So what you want to do talk to all the people using your platform Figure out what matters to them and what value they're trying to gain and then take all of that and put it in an ordered backlog Sort it by what's actually important to the people that are going to use your platform and Put the most important things at the top and have your dedicated team work on those So you're always working on what's most important to the people that matter and Well, your team is developing and making these things a reality Who's going to be talking to the stakeholders and making sure it's the right stuff to be working on That's a job for a product manager And this is not a project manager who sits on the peripheral and sort of manages the Day-to-day BAU stuff on the team This is someone who sits with the team goes to all the meetings with the team and is part of the team full-time Who bridges the gap between the technical side and the stakeholders and the customers and make sure that What's being developed is what actually delivers value because that's what all of us are here for at least hopefully So iterate quickly and check that you're implementing features that people actually want rather than spending lots of time on things that don't really deliver value and Finally, it's not enough to just have a team. The team actually has to work together I worked with a large government agency in Europe who had created a team where they pulled people from different parts of the business But it was geographically separated they were in three different cities across the country and They had one half hour meeting a week where they would talk to each other about what they were doing the platform and Result was one person had pretty good knowledge of Bosch and pretty good knowledge of how the platform worked and the rest of the Team didn't it's all well and good while that person's there But what if they go on holiday leave the company get hit by a bus you often hear this phrased as the bus factor Well, then The platform team can't manage the platform and all that learning that person has done needs to be done again You can solve this through pairing and mobbing so pairing two people one computer working on one story Before you discount it and say that won't work in our industry I've seen this work with financial companies large banks energy companies security companies Give it a shot works really well, and it means Even though someone on your team came from the network team and they're your subject matter expert If they pair with everyone else in your team over time Everyone becomes knowledgeable about networking same goes for everything else Mobbing also works three to five people on one machine Works for introducing new concepts And if you want to know more about mobbing look up the video for my talk at CF summit Europe in October So Going to the next misunderstanding Because this one isn't really true our platform is unreliable Cloud Foundry is very reliable. In fact, I've seen cloud foundry foundations continue to serve traffic Even as the underlying I as in storage melts into oblivion We had a situation where the storage on the on the I as was being Broken by another team cloud foundry continued to serve application traffic without missing a beat for about four hours But this usually manifests and the reason people tell me this you see down time during upgrades You see downtime when you're not changing anything the same issues keep reoccurring and Successful staging deploys be it of applications or if the platform itself lead to unsuccessful production deploys Mentioned before Most of the time this is with platform upgrades being tested in production or staging so from the pull from the platform team perspective the Pre-production environment is production because the application developers are disrupted if it goes down I worked with a company in Europe that was running no sandbox for financial reasons and Only stood up their production foundation Right before they had a contractual obligation to deploy applications to it and it didn't work And it was pretty stressful firewall rules were different Some of you maybe went to the zero-to-hero training at the start of the summit This is a really good way to go from zero to a severity zero incident as quickly as possible another cause somewhat self-explanatory past incidents are not documented so You have an instant you solve it You forget about it pretended didn't happen same thing happens the next month someone else is on call Maybe they remember something happening, but no one seems to know how to fix it.  This usually stems from automation problems. It's mentioned before so you deploy your sandbox Manually tweak some things so it works deploy your production manually tweak some things so it works you deploy your app to Pre-production everything's great. All right, cool. We deploy it to production. Something's different doesn't work Why is cloud foundry so unreliable? Maybe it's not cloud foundry Another one big batch releases see this a lot in big companies with big governance models where There's fear of failure. So Rather than pushing small updates through frequently the view is an update will cause downtime So we should do as few updates as possible and put a month's worth of changes And and just deploy that as a really good way to guarantee there's going to be a problem with the deploy Especially on the operation side of cloud foundry rollbacks aren't really a thing so if you get part way through a platform upgrade it Can it ranges from? Challenging to almost impossible to roll back to where you were initially But the general approach is to fix forward if you have a month's worth of changes and thousands of lines of code in an update It's gonna be really hard to figure out what broke to fix forward if you made one change and pushed it through It's almost trivial to figure out how to fix it So solutions have a sandbox environment Updates in complex systems like cloud foundry will break on occasion. You can't avoid it So make it so the first time you try something is in an environment where failures have no impact on users Give the platform team somewhere to test changes before they put them somewhere where it actually matters and With your sandbox environment you can then set up a system of environment promotion and continuous delivery so You take your automation and you take your sandbox environment and you deploy using a certain set of inputs And then you test that it's good to go and it fits your purpose Then you take the same set of inputs and use the same automation and deploy to pre-production and test that It's fit for purpose and now you've deployed twice and it's been fit for purpose both times and you deployed with the same mechanism You should be fully confident. It's going to work in production So you deploy it and you test that it's fit for purpose Ideally the arrows in this diagram are automatic. There's no manual gates Because if you get to production and it doesn't work it means you need to fix your tests If this isn't possible for you for some or at least currently for some governance reason or it's too much changed too quickly See if you can automate some of the governance or the overhead that's making these changes slow Next up we have document causes and solutions to incidents. So you have a problem in production Fix it as quickly as possible. Sure But then sit down look at what caused it look at These solution that you implemented and when you're looking at causes make sure you're looking at it in terms of process and not in terms of personal failure So say there was a problem because someone accidentally deleted the production database The problem isn't that that person deleted the production database The problem is that it's possible for someone to accidentally delete the production database So look at fixing that and document it and once you've documented it Write some tests for it and these can be both automated tests in your deployment pipeline and also game days one of my colleagues ran a game day for the UK government last week where they took a Foundation that no one was using and intentionally broke it in Devious ways and had the operations team try to figure out how to fix it as if it was a production incident I Also worked with a large bank where we developed a test suite That went after every deploy with their every deploy with their automation We ran a test suite which checked every failure case They'd ever had with cloud foundry in the last three years So this caught regressions in the product. It caught regressions in our code It caught underlying I as problems and it was really valuable And And the crux of it is that failure free operation requires fit experience with failure so expet expose your team to failure rather than trying to shield them from it because that will lead to their ability and improve their ability to handle failure when it occurs because it will occur and This brings me into the last section which is a little bit more nebulous. It's not a clear-cut thing but Most of the marketing materials things like cloud foundry and the vendor versions of it talk a lot about speeding up workflows Transforming your business cloud foundry absolutely does this and all the evidence you needs and the other talks and all the keynotes but It can't solve everything by itself So a lot of times I hear we've deployed cloud foundry, but our releases are still big our deployment processes are still slow feature life cycles are still measured in months and Applications haven't moved over to it and many other things like this. The crux of it is that Digital transformation requires total organizational commitment So if the mindset of the organization Organizations a whole doesn't change the transformation won't stick In Abby's keynote on Tuesday, she mentioned that technology is the easy part and changes the hard part so the real Underlying problem here is changing from this is the way we've always done it to this is what we need to do to succeed So I'll leave you with a Quote from Chip Childers from a recent computer weekly article Ultimately, you can't buy devops so adopting a devops approach or a Agile digital transformation approach is all about changing culture Choosing the technology and the tools and the products that make sense given whatever you're trying to achieve at your company and spend all of the time on choosing the right approach rather than latching on whatever cool technology use last saw in hacker news or in in the news So the tool and technologies that you need to achieve transformation will become apparent once everyone's oriented towards the same goal and with that Anyone have questions? Yep Yeah Yeah, so the mic I don't know if Mike picked that up, but it's a Total organizational commitment requires more than just the IT teams and yeah listening some of the keynotes today on on the parts that I caught it Yeah, so it's the company as a whole needs to Embrace it. So I was working with the bank recently where They were trying they were trying to operate in a really agile way, but the higher powers that be still required 90-day plans and sprint planning and everything. It was really hard to meld What they were trying to do in technology with what the bank as a whole wanted to do? so it is about Trying to change perceptions of in the old world where you roll back changes and Kind of Operate in a really waterfall kind of way trying to show that Operating in this new way delivers value and operating in this new way solves the problems that you were trying to solve with the old Framework, but also provides more value. So it's trying to project that upwards, which is the challenge always Yep, so I Yeah, so it's that's true different parts of the company change at different speeds and it's it's trying to Try to make the culture expand out of your team if you have a team that's doing really well try to share it So something we've done before at clients is So you have your platform team and you have application teams and try to find people in the application teams that are Kind of interested in the ops side of things and rotate them into the platform team maybe rotate someone through a platform team into the development teams and that kind of Bridges understanding between them and that at least helps figure out the like application dev application ops and the platform dev platform ops thing, but then solving it Going outside of technology It's even harder unfortunately Product managers are fairly rare in teams even the ones that I've seen. So this is almost a call to almost a call to action that Even teams that I work with it. We have a lot of trouble Convincing the company that a product manager is valuable Because it's not part of the engineering pool, but in a way they deliver more value than adding another engineer So this is where This is where the organizational change thing comes in it's it is hard to do that So the teams that I've seen that work really well Maybe they've changed the reporting structure entirely or they've made like shadow reporting structures where everyone on the platform team is The same role effectively a platform engineer and they all report to a Central project manager or product owner or at least appear to report to them And that way it consolidates everything in that's some of my sources the slides are uploaded So don't worry about taking photos I guess I could throw in that I I learned all of this because I go in and pair with customers Try it now there we go now works. Did you see a flattening of pay scales between so like We said our company the ops team is not paid as much as our developers and Because it's just their different skill sets Did you see any sort of flattening of pay or you know or career tracks? I can't comment on pay because I go in on the engineering level not the levels above it We do see a lot of ops people getting more interested in the developer side and trying to learn the development Tools and I've also seen developers get more interest in the ops side like I started as a developer and moved into the ops side But the first case is much more common So in terms of skill melding definitely I have no idea about pay structure sandbox as platform one of the things that I think Organizations forget about is that your the platform supports the developers and has a whole bunch of customers there You take the platform out for an upgrade. You've killed development. Yeah, so you have to do it in a non Customer-facing thing which everybody else has is dev but for you as platform. Yeah, it's something else So as platform dev and production our production So any change to dev is a changed production So you need somewhere that isn't either of those to test things on a platform level anything else Great, thanks Colin. Thank you


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Hello, everyone. We're about to start just in a few seconds.  I'm sure when some of you got your tickets, you didn't realize you've signed up for the Saturday morning of this three-day weekend. But that's OK. It's awesome to see so many of you make it today. So a huge welcome to all of you to the inaugural Coding Girls Day 2017. I'm Charlotte. I'm a university program specialist at Google. I'm really excited to be your host for these morning sessions. I hope you've all come prepared for a day of learning, sharing, and networking with each other in the room and also with our tech leaders who've come down today and given us their time to share their stories, experiences, and even lend us some pieces of advice. It's also great to see men in the room as well as I know the event is called Coding Girls Day. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for supporting diversity across all of our industries and also supporting your female colleagues. So Coding Girls Day was proudly presented by Coding Girls, a nonprofit organization that was created locally to eliminate barriers that women faced when trying to go into the technical industry but had very little or maybe no tech background at all. They've created this platform for sharing and learning. And today, they've built an amazing itinerary of a lineup of great speakers to inspire us, an afternoon of hands-on coding workshops, and also some highlight sessions on technical careers. So without further ado, I'd love to invite Ann Lueau, one of the co-founders of this organization, to come up on stage to officially start Coding Girls Day. So I'm really, really delighted to see so many of you here in the earlier Saturday morning and especially as we can still the long weekend. So I feel really, really honored to have all our awesome speakers here to share the experiences as a leader in tech industry, which by longer it's still male dominated, but with your presentation here, I think the perception will change and your story will definitely inspire all the audience. And encourage them to pursue their tech career. So yeah, to making today's session for me is like, okay, I got idea and I need to put everything back together, but without all the support I cannot make possible. So I really, really thank for all our honored speakers here to help me to share your stories and inspire the next generation of the girls. And I also want to thank my, I also want to thank for our Charlotte here. Yeah, yeah, I'm not really a good speaker. So Shantung know how to bring the energy here. So she's the best. Yeah, yeah, and yeah. And I also want to thank our general, general sponsor Microsoft have sponsored us for the venue for the workshops and the Charlotte from Google have paid, have sponsored over the food and drinks. So thanks for the generation deletion. Yeah, so yeah, I also want to thank for my team members, my volunteers, it's their part time job. So they helped me to put it together. Yeah, so yeah, and also I also want to thank for all the audience here. So your turn off is a great thing to me. You make me feel like what we are doing is meaningful, so thank you. So yeah, I really, really once again feel thanks for all to come here and help me to put in together. So let's hand back to Charlotte and start the session of the day to get inspiring.


So I was drawn to the Votion booth because you have a sign that says MFI, what does it say? MFI licensed manufacturing. And MFI stands for made for iOS. It's the original term. But it basically means home cut compatibility. And a lot of companies have had trouble getting into this market. It sounds like Samuel Lowe of Votion is working on solving that problem for other manufacturers and for yourselves, right? We have two companies. One is called Active, which is the MFI licensee. We help other companies OEM and OEM their products and allow them to work with the home kit platform to integrate this part and submit their product plan so that they could get their products accepted and approved to the Apple ecosystem. Okay, that's very good. So that's the active part of the company. And then what is Votion? Votion is our own brand. We have a line of products that supports various voice based system now. The big three, HomeKit, Alexa, and Google Assistant. For our lines of products, we have the Wi-Fi based and the Bluetooth based products. The Wi-Fi based products, we will include all three. And for the Bluetooth part, it's HomeKit only. Alexa and Google Assistant don't have that extra step for the Bluetooth part. So we have a distinction. For battery based system, we use Bluetooth and the AC power system, we have Wi-Fi.  And Bluetooth is good. It's safe, a lot of power. So it's all battery based, but the limitation, it doesn't have that extra step to link to the cloud. Okay, great. Well, let's walk across this wall here. To the audio listeners, we're standing against a wall where he's got a bunch of different devices. What do we got up here above here? Yeah, so we have a motion sensor and light sensor. This here is IR sensor that could detect movement. It also has a light sensor to detect if it's daytime or nighttime. So we could trigger some smartness saying if it's nighttime, we will have an LED activated back to give you some light during the stairs or so we can have that. Well, sometimes a nightlight just makes people happy.  It seems like a funny thing. It's a feature that we want to throw in. So because that's home compatible, you could then create an automation that said when I sense motion, take this other action, turn on a light. You can set a timeout for like 10 seconds for the light to keep on glowing until I think you pass this area then you can shut it down. Oh, that's fantastic. Okay, now I'm going to get down on my knees here for a leak sensor. Yeah, leak sensor is for detecting water leakage. Like if there's a flood, you'll be able to detect or if it's a flood, you can send a notification to the user saying that you may want to move this stuff this way. Okay, so I might want one of these next to my water heater. Yeah, just make sure that you don't have a lot of water in the nearby area. That would be a good thing. Okay, wait, a smart water valve. What are we doing here? Speaking of water. Yeah, water. So this is basically a valve to open and close the water to go through. So if you have a sprinkler system attached to it or even a tub that you want to fill, you will be able to do this remotely. Oh, really? So open the water. Basically it's letting the water in. It's a gate to let the water out and close it. So what do you hook this up to? This could be your tap and the tube to go out. Interesting. Okay, what do we got down here? Just to detect the fertility of the soil to make sure that your soil is moist enough and you don't need the watering. So you can link these two. So if the soil is too dry, you can add more water. Neat, neat. I like it. Now we got a remote hub. So we're working on a remote hub to simulate a remote control. So for a lot of air conditionings, it doesn't have a smart in it. So it doubles up as a remote control device that you could trigger remotely for Wi-Fi. Okay. All right. And a smart light switch. You got to have a smart light switch, right? Yeah. So a light switch to turn on the relay at the back to trigger could be lighting or even fans or anything AC. I like it. All right. An all-purpose button. There we go. It could be linked to anything. So you could use it for single click, double click, long click to assign it to various things that you want to happen. So you could say single click, turn on the water valve. Yeah. Or double click to turn on the light. I've heard that these are often useful in homes where somebody's a geek but somebody is not. And they just want to hit the switch to turn the light on and off. We can link it to a scene. So a certain keystone would give you a certain special scene for your environment. All right. We've got two more down here. Smart electrical switch for the fuse box. So instead of a light switch, some user may want to put this at the fuse box area. So instead of the endpoint where the light is, you could put it in the fuse box area when the installer gets everything mapped out at the back end. So you get your house all mapped out. This region will be all based on this switch so you can all work the wiring at the back end and get the same benefits on the switch outside.  Oh, that's an interesting solution. I haven't seen that. And a smart outlet. That's really pretty. Smart outlet for giving AC control for turning on fans, anything like, you know, and there's also a metering inside so you can get the power usage. Well, it looks like Votion has one of everything. How would people find out more about these products? Yeah, you can check us on our website at www.Votion.io. Votion.io, that's V-O-T-I-O-N. Thank you very much, Samuel.


USS Newport News arrived at Sudabay, Greece after completing a multinational training exercise in the Ionian Sea. The LA-class submarine is among the most technologically advanced submarines ever built. Newport News is a 688-class submarine. Our ASD capabilities are, we have the ability to launch torpedoes, and to seek and destroy missions if caught upon. We also have advanced sonar systems, the ability to detect modern diesel and nuclear submarines. We also have the ability to perform strike warfare if needed with our Tomahawk missiles. We have a great crew and talent we have on board is the best in the world. I feel confident that whatever mission we're tasked with, we'll be able to perform successfully with first-time success. The annual NATO Exercise Dynamic Manta 2016 involved more than 5,000 sailors from nine NATO nations. The exercise is based on the generic fictitious scenario aimed at demonstrating the alliances and partner nations' solidarity and strength. It's an opportunity for us to exercise and practice real-world scenarios with our NATO partners. Practice actually real-world scenarios that you don't get to see anywhere else. USS Newport News is currently deployed to the U.S.-European Command Area of Responsibility. Pere Officer Anaíra Rodriguez, Sudabay, Crete.


Well, are you happy all of you?  I'm Rick. I put a little shelf. Yeah, it's nice. That's its own special little dedicated shelfy-melfie and we're, hey, she hid. Yeah. He also got such a, right. Yeah. We got some yawks. Yeah. And then we got, there was some, oh. Nice. Oh. And ooh. The best picture ever of Nassiridh and Shah. And then our little tribute to Prabhu Devan. Nice. Anyways, that's all this is about. We're doing a movie review of the new film that just came out. Wait, it's new. I thought it was from the 90s. Great quality if it's from the 90s. Incredible. But the 2022 film Love Hostile, it's still romance month, so of course. Yes. By the way, I'm not texting right now. I'm looking up my paragraph. But obviously, if you didn't see our trailer reaction to this, we were going. Goo Goo Gaga. Yes. When we saw the trailer. Yep. Directed by Shankar Rahman. Rahman, right? Yes. Rahman. Shankar Rahman. And then the. And written, partly written as well by Shankar Rahman. And then starring Sanya Mohokhtra. Obviously Vivek. I mean. Vikrant. Vikrant, Messi. And then Bobby Dole. Or is it? Yeah, it's Dole, right? I know it's spelled like deal, but I think it's pronounced Dole. I just, because I heard in Johnny Prans at once and she said it like. Yeah. I was like, okay, that sounds right. Exactly. Exactly. That happens all of the time with us. But anyways, since this just came out, we're going to do a little non-spoiler review. Yep. And then we'll get into some spoilers but we'll let you know before we get there. But we do that with new films because a lot of you might not have seen it. It's on Z5. Just came out. You can go watch it. It's a short one for an Indian film. It's only an hour 40, but it's a crime romance thriller. That would be true. But yeah, so if you haven't watched it, we're going to do a little non-spoiler. Yeah, non-spoiler. Rick, your paragraph. Well, it's our 14th of the year, our 138th Hindi and our 221st all time. Those, as you mentioned, Yeah, 221. Those who saw us react to the trailer of this movie not too long ago, recognized how excited we were for this film based on what we saw there. Not only did it live up to the excitement we had based on that trailer, but it added a cornucopia of other elements that not only pleased me in terms of entertainment value, but surprised me in terms of artistic excellence and cinematic artistry. In short, I'm 100% in the deep end on this one. Think it's one of the best films of the year. We'll remain so throughout the year and we'll be talking about multiple categories of this film when we present the dummies for best performances of 2022.  I know, I'm kidding. I'm absolutely kidding. I was 100%, I was like, are you kidding me? No, of course I love this movie. If you watch this movie, you know this is my type of film. That would have been the biggest shocker ever of all the years. I did have a few issues. I have a couple of issues and you and I are going to have the same issue about something for sure. But I do agree that it's one of the better ones of the year. I'd say this, the Pico one that I can't pronounce. Correct. And then the Malayalam horror. Yep. Those are probably the three best new films of the year. That gravy you 100%. That's at least in my opinion. Yep, and of course, obviously, it's still early. We should probably, when we get to the dummies next year, we might want to consider giving awards for the current things. It all depends on how many films came out that year and how many days out. Exactly, because like I'm thinking about the things already, just classic month. My dummies nominations are loaded. But anyways, yeah, so I really, really enjoyed this film. I think, for non-spoilers, if you just want a really fun taut. Taut. Just surprising. Yes. Well, obviously very well acted by everybody. Including, even though I know, even though I know he's not known in his career for his acting, Bobby Dole, apparently he's having like a resurgence in his career. Playing stuff like this. We'll talk about him. But apparently, like back in the day, he's like, when I called him, I think I was mistaking him for somebody else. I mistaked him for somebody else. Right. If somebody else named Bobby, I think. But when I said he was a legend, people were like, yeah, he's not a legend. Yeah, well, he carried himself like one in this. But apparently he's had a resurgence in his career playing unique stuff like this. Well, I wanted to give a shout out before we continue the casting in this. Whenever an entire ensemble does pretty much immaculate work from everybody. Oh my God, look, who casted this? I know. We have two people. It was Anmal Ahuja, and then this unknown guy that we've never heard of named Abashek of Energy. Love you, Dost. My goodness, you guys. As always, if you, you could probably just go to Abashek's IMDB and look at things he's cast and watch them just because he cast them. Obviously we haven't seen everything he's done, but everything we've seen he's cast, the acting's been superb. Absolutely, yeah. But anyways, yeah, so overall, it's a really well-acted, surprising, beautiful cinematography. Great story. By what was the cinematography? Yeah, of Vivek Shah. It's a brilliant cinematography and lighting by his whole team. Agreed the whole team.  I didn't see it on the credits here.  Every little blood droplet from frame to frame on the face, everything was continuity perfection. Yeah. There's really, there's very little to gripe about this film and I'm not really gonna put in the non-spoilers because that wasn't really on my issues. I think it's- No, I can't talk about anything unless we talk about the film. So it's a great film. Go watch this film. It's well done in every aspect. The issues I have are minute. And one thing before we get into spoilers for those of you who have not seen this, I want you to go with excitement. I don't wanna set the bar too high, but one of the things I was surprised by that I don't think spoils anything is the fact that in the trailer we got that entertainment value. We got what we thought were gonna be great performances and direction and everything. One of the things I didn't expect was, and we can talk about this in a few minutes, was how often this touched upon deeply important issues. It wasn't talking really great. It wasn't talking about anything like in terms of like a real event, obviously. No, no, no. But in terms of, you know what they were talking about. And how these things happen. Yeah, yeah. So I do agree. The stuff we have problems with, you will get into the non-spoilers, but it's, I think if you go in with like, I'm gonna have a really fun time with a kind of almost an assassin film almost. I guess that's how you would describe it. It's not really a spoiler for seeing the trailer. It does work for romance month. It does. It really does. It still does. But Vivek and Sonja and Bobby are obviously, but I don't wanna say they're standing because actually everybody was waiting. Well, you've been thick, Ron. You said Vivek. Sorry. But yeah, so that's our non-spoiler. We're gonna get into spoilers now. So if you haven't watched it, please go watch it. It's only an hour 40, like I said. It's a real short. And it feels like 90. So go watch it. It's on Z5. Come back, we're getting into spoilers. Let's talk about Bobby Dole, man. He was great. It was actually funny. When I texted the group of ours that helps us out, right? And I said, I just put, they didn't know I was watching it, but I put love hostile fire. And I just put that emoji. And they're like, really? And I'm like, yeah. And they're like, Bobby Dole's doing some amazing stuff nowadays.  But I said, I was like, maybe what he did was that he gave him like the John Wick treatment. Obviously I don't think a lot of counter eaves as an actor, as a person, he's an amazing person. But it works in John Wick.  He doesn't actually have a ton of lines. I bet he had less than a sheet of lines in the entire script. That doesn't mean he didn't have a lot to do. Obviously he's a lot of screen time and there's more to acting in lines. But I thought he did a really good job. He, and I actually looked up a picture of him. He looks so much different without a beard. I know. Oh, he had such a presence in this. I knew it was him. And when I looked at IMDb and saw his IMDb headshot, I went, that's him? Cause it didn't look anything like this character. Shout out to the makeup and the scar on the face. Yeah, everybody. Makeup, not just for the scar on his face, but the consistency, like I said, just like with continuity, there was a combination that was pretty seamless of visual effects and makeup in terms of the graphic nature of a lot of the woundedness that happens with people. And that can really screw up bad. We take it for granted. When you're in a film that's clickin' and going like this one and suspension of disbelief is just right there the whole time, you can take for granted how many elements are going right that just one of them going wrong pulls you and you don't believe it anymore.  Oh, that didn't look like real brands. That never happened. This, in the way the writing wrote his character and obviously the way he portrayed it, immediately you were captivated by him and this awful person that he was playing because it starts off with his introduction. Once again, we're on spoilers. We're just hanging a couple. Incredible. Like just, and the shots of them even though they were people hanging, man, they just grip you immediately and also shock you. Cause like, obviously he hangs him and that's shocking enough, right?  Exactly. I thought it had an incredible opening and I haven't enjoyed watching an assassin kill people and take their pictures since Bob. Yeah, exactly. He did such a good job in the writing of it was so good because you were like, I 100% believe you and they gave, this is what kind of one of the things we were talking about in the Ali, the new Sanjay film that I wanted to see this little, this little monster behind the Ali was talking. See real depiction of what these people really do. Obviously that's not what they were trying to go for in that one, but they brought it in this one. And he, man, I could see him play an assassin for the next 10 years. I thought he was amazing. I did too. And that's something I have about the film that we'll talk about at spoiler time, but since we're focusing on the acting performances right now, I not only felt that he did a great job, I felt like they filmed him and wrote him really, really well. I liked the messaging in his getting the dog. I liked the fact that he wasn't just a mindless Michael Myers because they could have just done that. It would have worked, but it wouldn't have had that extra level that took this from just being an entertainer to being something that actually, it was this weird blend of being both like this just cool movie and actually feeling like a film festival film. I can't remember a film that I thought blended the two so well, that's hard to do. Yeah, he did a really good job. He was incredible. Perfect for this character, couldn't imagine anyone else. And the way everybody, they wrote him. Obviously every single scene from the beginning, they kind of just were, you could think he could do anything. Yeah. And he did. I was scared of him. He did. He just shot everybody in the family and then left that kid to be alone. Playing the video games. And then when he walks into the hostel, because he knows she's in there, and he's just, nothing, nothing going on behind me. Mike Myers, man. Yeah. It was incredible. It was so fun to watch. So fun. And so he also, he left me with a sense of, nobody's safe in this thing.  And that's another thing about the film that I loved and what they did in the end to like Vikrant. Oh yeah, we'll get in that, we'll get it. I wanna talk about those two. Yeah, Sanya Mahotra and Vikrant, who I think are two probably the most underrated actors that at least in my opinion. Prinyan, brother preach of Indian cinema. Preach, brother preach. Obviously the first time we saw Vikrant was, the, Miesoper. Correct. Such a different character. And he's, he also picks, I feel, he's, I feel like he's an actor. If we've talked to him, he kind of like a lot of people we've talked to. I've talked to him 100%. He just, he wants to pick unique roles. And I believe he loves the craft. Yeah, and so I 100% believe it. I think he's a very versatile actor. I think he's a very committed actor. And her as well. I think the first thing we saw in her was probably Donkel, right? Yeah. I mean, we've seen her in Ludo and a couple other things. But man, she, I feel, is the same exact way. She likes picking unique projects and she likes picking projects she can really sink her teeth into and that really delve into the human condition. And they were great together. And they had moments together where I felt like I was watching a really, really good scene study where you're sitting in an acting class and watching two people who've worked on their scene together and you're just loving the chemistry they have with each other and that one person does something and you're like guaranteed they didn't rehearse but that came out of the moment and it was improbbed and you reacted to it and you took it and you're, they're just fun, fun actors to watch and guys can't stress enough. There were so many moments for both of them but especially for him, two things where he either had to be in emotion alone where he had to prep himself before action and be in an emotional state like when he's burying his mom. There was nothing to cue him, nothing to prep him, he just had to be there and I'm sure the director gave him time but I can't tell you how hard it is to not let a scene build you toward a moment emotionally and where you have to be believable and not contrive something in that moment to make us believe we're watching a grieving guy. And then he had to do those moments where he gave you an emotional output of something deep whether it was his love or his anger and the director did it like this. You had to be looking in camera and I can't explain how hard it is on screen for the character to look in camera and we become the person they're talking to but for the actor to be looking into a lens and get some human connectivity with that, it takes extremely talented actors to give you that. It's not easy and they did a great job, both of them.  I'd like to see everything either of these actors have done. Yeah, they're too that when I, if I see their name getting elevated into bigger projects and larger things, I want to celebrate them because they're so, so good. I know we've seen, there was one last year, who we saw in our bedahel obviously in Ludo and Dungal, there was one last year that came out that we missed and I was sad. I've heard it was like really good. A lot of people really enjoyed it but we missed it but hope she's in photograph, that's with Nawaz. Oh, right? Yeah, another person that we're not mentioning by name because we've been searching and it's driving us bonkers.  The grandma Dawn in this. Oh yeah, you can't find, I recognize her. We recognize her. It's bothering us that we're not remembering, but IMDb doesn't list her, Google doesn't list her, nobody lists her as far as who, her character name and her person. If they do, it's like there's no picture, there's nothing. I was like, I wonder if this is who, this is what Gunkabai was like in her later years. Yeah. She reminded me a lot of, she's a really famous actor, she was in Tenet. She was that one, what's her name? Real famous actors. Yeah, I just can't remember, I'm sorry. You guys know who I'm talking to, you've already put it in the comments. Yep. But yeah, she was phenomenal and we'll talk about it everybody else. How is this film Patakaha for Shahbar Dwash? Cause she's the lead in it, Sanya. Not a surprise that she's right. DJ Ross is in it too, oh my god. Oh wow. Not a surprise that she's worked with Vishal. Tell me how this film is because I'm very... With DJ Ross. DJ Ross on her. And I think we've actually reacted to the trailer, I just don't remember it at all. But I think we've reacted to the trailer. So please let me know this is an amazing film cause I'd like to watch it now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the officer at the Love Hostel. Yes. We've seen many times. He was so goodness. Always good. He's always really good. Always good. I thought the lead police officer as well. Everybody was great. It's believable. Who am I missing? I feel like there was one that I... Oh, the daughter of the guard. Yeah. Yes. She was really, really good too. And how about that twist? Yeah. And this had so many twists. Obviously it caught you off guard many times. Many times. In terms of... Andrani can tell you how many times cause I started watching it when she was asleep. So I'm watching it with my airplugs on and I'm watching... I don't know how many times I went... Oh no! Don't go in there! No, no.  When the two guys, when they're dancing, like they're dead. They're dead. Brains on her face. Brains aren't... There it is. I was actually really excited for that part. Not because I was actually real sad cause I thought those two actually did a really good job. That was a really interesting aspect they added to the story. Agreed. Those two. But I was actually just native dancing. I was like, I could see it coming. And I was like... Yup.  And then it happened. Yes. I was sad but I was happy because, cinematically, it was wonderful. It worked well. But a lot of those moments, especially at the end, the spoiler once again, when Vikrant just gets... Am I saying his name wrong? Is it Vikrant? No, that was right. Okay. Yeah, the Vek is the cinematographer. Vikrant is the... Sorry, sorry. I keep thinking I'm messing up. But when, once again, spoiler, the brother, the little kid... Who did great. Great job. That was a great element because it kind of like, even though you just, you killed the grandma, this patriarchal system is continuing with the young... Continuing with the rage in this young man. But it just... Boom!  That's exactly how I responded. I was like, yes! I love that. The parts that I didn't enjoy were what came after. I didn't like when they met once they died. I didn't feel like that was needed. Here's where I... It didn't ruin anything. No. But I just, in my personal preference... I, the film, the minute it faded out, the gar is driving away. He makes his left hand turn and you hear... And it faded. I went, please give me credits. Please give me credits. And when another scene came up, I went... Yeah? No! I didn't like that. And I didn't like the running them down like a dog. Yeah. At all. Yeah, they... I get it. I understand the karmic communication here. It's obviously at the beginning, she said, I hope you love something so much and you follow it and... Yeah.  Whatever. I get it. Whatever.   This is actually one of the moments that I don't like him, like the... I agree. Dying in the end.  Number two, there was so much reality in this, I was hoping it would have ended on the stark reality that in this world, bad things happen to good people, innocent people are wrongfully hurt and there is no payback. There's no explanation. It's wrong and it always will be wrong. And I wanted a sequel with him. I wanted him killing more people. Yeah. So yeah, those are like the, when they met after they died, I did, I was like... I'm with you. Whatever. I don't really... Me too. I didn't like that. Me too. I would just prefer them on dead on the ground. That's arriving away.   Didn't need any of it. Wives away, gunshot fade to black. Obviously it's not my film. Right. And it didn't ruin the film. It didn't ruin it at all. I would still watch this film and I would still recommend this film. Yes. I was just telling you my personal preference and what how I think it should have ended. That for me was the only thing... That's the only flaw for me I have is the ending is just not my personal preference. And it didn't do anything to me in terms of ruining the film because it ended that way. Yeah. That all happened. I agree. And that's... Sad because I was like, yeah. And I was like, oh. I wanted to end on like that. Yay. And then I was like, I guess, but... You know I love a film. Okay. When I'm in, I enjoyed watching it and that's about it. And I would recommend you see it. If I love a film, while I'm watching it and when it ends, my first thought is, who can I go watch this with? I typically see... When I love a film, I typically see it three or four times because I want to give it more box office and I want to experience it with people I love and value their opinion because I know it's going to blow. So I saw, I saw Badle like four times because I went back and took Alexis, I went back and took Micah, watched it again with my mom and this one had the same thing for me. I'm like, oh my goodness. I want the kids to see this. Oh yeah, they'll love it. I want Andrani to, I was ready. If Andrani was today, if we left and she said I want to watch it, I would happily start it over. Absolutely. Happily. One, it's a quick one and it just, it grips you immediately. Instantly. It doesn't let go. Yeah. Fast paced, you're always engaged and everybody does amazing. And I think it's, I would consider this, I would give it an A plus, I'd probably give it an A minus just because of the end. Just the end. Exactly. But that's a fragment. And the other thing, we touched on it a little bit and I guess we can end on this too. There were for a lot, especially the first half, I was extremely sad in some of the depictions of what was happening because it's real. In some parts, you know. The fact that people can't be together because of the way they're treated. I loved that moment when she turned the car on, the gun on the two guys. And they were afraid because that's what happens.  When they got to the hostel, the way that he talked to her and her husband wouldn't stand up for her. And just religious bigotry, human bigotry of all kinds and how it's just always there permeated this thing throughout that made me very sad throughout a lot of the first half. Absolutely. And those, the two actors who were playing the gay couple did a phenomenal job, especially in that scene when she came there. I legitimately thought he was scared and the other guy came there to comfort him and I felt that they were actually in a relationship together and it's just not, I mean, they show up in there in two scenes. It's not, I'm sure, I don't think they're a real couple. Maybe they are, but to do that in that quick, it's not an easy thing.  And I would, this is one of the films people ask me a lot. What's a movie you recommend to somebody in the West, like someone in America? I would, this would absolutely shock to the core. People I know that love cinema but have no clue how good it is in India and would digest it because it would be more of what they're accustomed to cinematically. Absolutely. I guarantee there would be people who watch this and have their mind blown and say, I had no idea India is creating stuff this good. I'm excited to share this movie with people. Yeah, absolutely. So, and obviously all this goes into the directing of, I know he didn't specifically talk about him, but Shankar... Ramon. Shankar, and I know he did direct this film, which is Pankaj playing a, we've reacted to the trailer. We reacted to the trailer. And he, this is apparently, this is one we haven't gotten to yet. I wanted to because I love Pankaj. Of course. This is one of his better performances. A lot of people say he plays like this mob boss. Obviously it's gonna be amazing. It's a stretch for him. I know. I'm doing his Mirzapur. This was before Mirzapur too. But apparently it's like a really good film. But I thought he did a really good job of keeping everything real tight. The taut is the bet. Yeah, it's a tight.  It's lean, it's strong, it moves. The end. And the sound department, the editing department. The cinematography once again. The score, everything is top notch. Top notch. Fantastic movie. Very happy that it's as good as the trailer. Yes, thank you. It's probably one of the first ones in a while. Yes. It's been as good as the trailer. Yeah, actually for me it was better than the trailer because of all the other little surprises. Absolutely, so you guys can let us know what you thought about this film. And also let us know about the Vishal film with her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As well because I'm quite interested in seeing her and Vijay and Vishal film. So let us know what you thought about this film and what should be the next film we watch down below.


A lot of the students who come into Mount Holyoke choose to go into the STEM fields. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Traditionally in co-ed schools and in the world, those are typically male-dominated fields. We are committed to putting women and women of color in STEM and in computer science and now companies like Google and Facebook actually recruit from our college and I think that's really remarkable. So all of my friends at Mount Holyoke who study STEM, I'm so impressed by them because they are going to go out into the world, into their fields and dominate because they have the experience of being supported, of being listened to and of really being challenged in a classroom that is inclusive of who they are. Through the professors that supported me, through my classmates who supported me, I can really kind of fend for myself in these fields and I can really make a difference.