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So today, I actually had to shorten this webinar because like I was making, I was like, holy crap, this is going to be like four hours long. It was originally going to be called Entries, Exits, Risk and Targets and I had to cut off the second half because it's going to be a long webinar. So anyway, I figured it would be a good time to go over entries and exits and go over like, it's kind of rudimentary, but hopefully it's a little less confusing for the people who are still hesitating at putting entries and exits places and I feel like a whole lot of people are going to show up today. So I wanted to go over something universal. So far, we got like 60, 70, but I expected to increase. Everybody's always late. It's just 100%.  I just, I don't wait for people anymore. I can't wait for it. It's recorded anyway, so. It's recorded. Anyway, Tash reminding us. Okay, so anyway, let's get started. So we're going to go over the key traders and I'm going to show ones that I place trades on. Tom will show you once that he did. If we miss any trade, just throw him in there and say, hey, can you guys go over this one and we'll pull up the chart and we'll kind of talk about it. Then we'll go into the market sentiment, like where the market's at, big caps and small caps, mostly small caps because Joe kind of handles the large cap in his webinars on Tuesday, which you guys should all go. They're really good. Then I don't even know if I'll have time for this, but I'm hoping to get a little break from like a lecture and I want you guys to pick a topic that we, something like a weekend mentoring kind of question that like we can't quickly answer, but something that like Tom and I could go back and forth and give you a really good answer on. You guys are going to vote for that. And then we'll get into entries and exits and then we'll have a Q&A. So without further ado, let's go. So BMRA was a first bounce trade that I had earlier in the week. And I say this almost every webinar.  It's such a good long set. It's such a good literal, just objective setup. Like even if you're a short bias trader, you can understand the first bounce. But if you're a short bias trader, you're looking at the first, you're looking at a stock that's about to make a first bounce. And you're like, okay, I have to short the pop, right? That's what you're saying as a short trader. I need to short the pop. I mean, the first bounce comes right before the short the pop. So like you can, like you know the bounce you're waiting for, the bounce you're waiting to short into is the first bounce. So that's, I mean, if you're trying to look for another setup, you know, like you don't need borrows for it. It's a really good setup. Anyway, so yeah, again, it's just a little first bounce. Again, I hope to have one here every single week. That'll be my goal for the week. Like every single week I want to have a first bounce trade. Anyway, I just want to go over the classic three. These are the three criteria for a great first bounce trade. And I say it, I've said it multiple times before, but the first bounce, I look for a 50% retracement from the start of the move. And I consider this to be the start of the move, like from around 750 where it broke out 775 here. So from like this bottom to this top, I look for about a 50% retracement. If I can couple it with a whole and a half dollar, that's, you know, even better. You know, that's gravy on the cake. If I can couple it with, you know, a niche, that's even better. Like for me, these are the top three, right? And so one thing I want to bring up here, you could look at this entire move like, and say, oh, maybe I can first bounce this move. This might warrant a pull down to here even for a bounce. You zoomed out maybe like on a 15 minute chart. So I believe first bounces happen on larger timeframes too. So like if you're a larger timeframe trader, maybe your move is from like 650 to 10. And now you're looking to buy somewhere around eight or 775 and I can't, what did this chart do? Look, it even had one. Look, and see, this is kind of like the larger timeframe first bounce if you want to consider that. See what I'm saying? Like this is kind of, this kind of goes into what I was talking about last time when I said, I think every, it's just little timeframes inside big timeframes. Like this would be in my opinion, the bigger timeframe first bounce. And this is like the one minute one for this move. So that's kind of right there. I got a question. What is my timeframe first bounce? Like I just went over that. Like I normally do the first one minute, but I think it appears on every timeframe. First bounce orders are always fantasy orders, right? Yes. Uh-huh moments, kind of. No, like how did you get yourself through the break even the slightly green moment? Cause like for me, that was a resistance wall.    And so I think the moment I realized the trading is more systematic. Like I track my stats and everything, right? And I kind of focused more on those, you know, risk and reward kind of trade. It makes me, you know, better as a, you know, before I was calculating only like on one trade, right? After that, I realized, I mean, you know, I want to see the outcome of hundred trades or like thousand trades.      I don't know how to say it, but it's better that way. Because, you know, at the end of the day, you want to be profitable, right? You just don't want to, you know, work yourself every day and, you know, not getting paid.  It's like really totally waste of time for me. And after realizing that, you know, it helps a lot. And I think the moment when I accept the fact that I know shit about training, you know, it works even better. I mean, I just put my stops and put my covers and that's it. Very systematic.  So a few questions got missed on DMR, if you don't. So that list is your criteria for entry location. Yes. How many shares are you putting in on a trade that nets 50 cents range, I'm guessing? How many folks are looking for home runs because I feel like 20 or 30 cents isn't big enough move to take. It honestly doesn't matter. Like it's honestly, a first bounce, I'll take a first bounce that's like $2 a share or that's $50 a share. It all, the range almost doesn't matter. So like it's more of I want to get up to about that, you know, from the top to where the bounce is. Again, I want it to bounce about 50% of the way on the first bounce. I want it 50% down and then like, I almost want a 50% up, you know, ideally more because on first bounces I like to see them break high day eventually anyway. But you know, I sell some in anticipation of a lower high and then sell some later. I don't take sense into account really on the first bounce trade.  I use less shares on the $50 trade than I do on the $2 trade. But you know, like, I don't really look at it as a, it's more of almost like percentage range, like retracement. Yeah, I think it's all depends on your account size.  But if for someone's using like, you know, 100 shares, right? That's probably maybe scalp. 20,000 shares scalp. Now we're getting into Guy Gentile territory. Oh, Vic, this is a good question. It's one of my favorite trading questions actually ever. How do you differentiate between low volume versus illiquid? It's a very important distinction. Normally they go together, which is why people confuse the two, but a low volume stock could be very, very, very, very, very liquid. And an illiquid stock could have a whole lot of volume. Think about drives. Drives, when it went from five to a hundred, drives had very, very, very high volume. It was the most illiquid ticker there was. I mean, the spread was literally like, you can tell a stock's illiquid normally by the spread, but you can also see how like illiquid is basically, you know, how small, how I say this. Maybe the range. A small amount of capital, a small amount of shares can move an illiquid stock, but not a liquid stock. You know, an example of a stock that's really liquid, but low volume, think about GE in pre-market. Now GE in pre-market, general electric, it's like $8 a share or something like that. Think about pre-market at the start of the day, right? At the start of the day, like right at the open, like it is very, very, very, very liquid, even if no shares are trading. It is low volume, but there's no way if you had 20,000 bucks and you wanted to buy everything you could of GE, you wouldn't even move at 10 cents because it's very liquid. There's a whole lot of shares there, even if they're not trading. Now, volume is just an indicator of how much it's trading, but just because something is trading high volume, that's where it's dangerous. When stocks are trading high volume and then they say, oh, look at how much it's trading. It's very liquid. No, it's not. If a stock is trading high volume, it can still be insanely illiquid. Like if you buy 1,000 shares, you could move it, right? That's an illiquid stock. It's one of my favorite. It's important for newer traders to know that because newer traders will look at a stock like, I don't know, BLPH. It might be trading 30 million shares on the day and it's super illiquid and it's a very risky stock. Illiquid is, thin is a synonymous with illiquid. Well, thanks guys. Thanks guys. Right on. All right, see you tomorrow. Thanks for coming. Good stuff, bro. Right on. Yeah, later, bro. Later, guys. Later, everybody. Thank you so much for watching our video. 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As the kickoff of the semi-professional football league in St. Lucia gets closer, the organisers celebrate conference at the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports Friday to make further announcements on the start of the league, set for March 10th, 2024. Francis Daniel, the league's chief executive officer, provided details ahead of the competition. I spoke to the tournament format, it's going to be 10 and 9 respectively, and it's going to be in a league format with a playoff, okay? So we're talking about 49 and 40 games over a six-month period in tier one and tier two. Price money, I know y'all want to know about that. Basically we're looking at 25, 59 and five for now. That's what's in the budget. But we're hoping with your cooperation in terms of popularising the sport, raising confidence, public confidence in what we do, we'll be able to learn some serious sponsorship, and like everything else, that will redone to the tournament and the participants in this tournament. The President of the Senegal Football Association, Lyndon Cooper, expressed optimism that the new league will boost the quality of football on island. I want to take this opportunity on behalf of the Senegal Football Association and myself personally to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to the Ministry of Responsibility for Sports by Extension, the Government of Senegal by seeing the importance in trying to assist the SLFA achieve its overall objective. We occupy note that this country is going to benefit in the next three years football and all the key partners are going to be the beneficiaries in this project. So once again, I just want to thank you for being there and on behalf of the SLFA, we are grateful to be part and parcel of this project. Minister responsible for youth development and sports, the Honourable Kenson Kazumi, reiterated the intention of the league to transform lives and noted that it will not merely be a means of providing income for young men playing football. You see, the vision is not just to compensate young men for kicking a ball and scoring goals, it is to transform their lives and so through the assistance of the time on this Government and through the collaboration and the Ministry of Education and NSDC, we will be having a program instituted for them that will allow them to go beyond football and get certification in whatever skill, whatever other skill they have, be it plumbing, be it carpentry, be it bartending, but the opportunity will be there for them to get certification under the Semi-Pro Football League. We also will be instituting programs on conflict resolution. We know some of the issues we have in our communities and so the young men will be part of those programs throughout the season and the off season. We will also be instituting a fatherhood program because when you dig deep into what's happening in our society, we see that a lot of the families that are affected, a lot of the deviant behaviour that we experience comes from the lack of a proper father in a household. The league's March 10th opening double header at the Mindofile Park will see Marsha taking on Babuno at 2 p.m. followed by an encounter between Grozile and Lecleri. From the Ministry of Development and Sports, I'm Ryan O'Brien.


Despite the latest crackdown on illegal refineries in the Niger Delta, criminal elements have refused to back down as the anti-vandal squad of the Niger Security and Civil Defence Corps River State Command has uncovered a local refinery at Adobe Ocar Settlements in H.A. Lockegam area of our River State. Now the anti-vandal unit had narrated the operation techniques of the operators of the local illegal refineries. From the point of our extradition, our extraction of crude drew to cooking in the various ovens where the content is subjected to high temperature and transmitted through pipes to reservoirs for storage and onward trans-loading to buyers. That's the coolant. Behind this oven is the coolant. We have the product. It's intense. Temperature of the product removes to the receiving point, which is called reservoir. With high temperature, you can derive D.P.K., A.G.O., and P.M.S. It will be not that degrading. This is supposed to be where the reservoir will flow. If I open it now, you'll see the coolant. You can see the coolant. The water is at the same level as the sports. Now the Interdadi commander will not relent in the fight against the liquid dealings in petroleum products. But the public should assist by providing actionable intelligence that would end the possible arrest of economic saboteurs in the state. What we have witnessed is one of the largest domes atissinary refinery we have recovered in River State. Personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, River State Command, anti-bander units, two credible intelligences discovered this place and we are here to dismantle this atissinary refinery. In line with the Commander-in-General's Directive, Mbaka Aoudi, MNI, PhD, wherefore, that we are not going to relent. Now the Commander-in-Chief Marcel Igweboise solicits for more cooperation from the traditional institutions or community youth who are true advocates against environmental degradation, pollution and health hazards generated by illegal dealings in petroleum products in River State.


Here's a striking view of two stars called XZ-Tari and HL-Tari, and several nearby young stellar objects. XZ-Tari is blowing a hot bubble of gas into the surrounding space, which is filled with bright protostars that are emitting strong winds and jets, illuminating the region, and creating a number of HH objects. Called HL-Tari, wisps of deep red seem to be streaming away from the blue-tinged clumps on the right. This star is associated with her big horo object HH-150. These two stars are textbook examples of a class of star called T-Taris, young and rapidly rotating with strong magnetic fields and powerful winds. They have yet to reach the temperatures necessary for hydrogen fusion deep in their cores. It will take around 100 million years for these stars to trigger these reactions and evolve into fully fledged stars like the Sun.


So let's enter the Huawei booth and let's check out some of the latest things they've been talking about. Something that I think is quite exciting is the smart AI and codecs and the deployment of the 5G network for people who do live streaming and for people who watch video on the internet. It's a huge challenge to get high quality, at least 1080p experience to everybody. In China, there's a billion people watching live streams and her live stream is being optimized. So the highest quality, no matter where she is and where she's streaming from, Tiktok is communicating with the network provider to optimize the 5G connectivity in every region of every city, depending on how much usage there is. If there's a lot of people watching, this is how they downstream, they upstail the quality. So it looks at least like 1080p, even if there's thousands and thousands of people watching at the same time. Even if there's something very popular and even in the corner of a city, they optimize the number of base bands to have the best experience, 27% more traffic. And it's over 5G. Now it's in the cloud. This is a cloud phone. Yeah, this is on cloud phone. So on the cloud phone, you can see the same screen, the same environment like the physical phone. You can see this one is a physical phone. Physical phone, when we install one game application, it's more than 20 gigabytes. It's a big one. So you install here, when you play, you say that the reaction is very snow. And this one is on the cloud. We install the same game on the cloud phone. So you can see the reaction is very quick. It's very quick. Zero GB. Yeah, it's like a real-time experience. It's like you have a big computer, a big cloud computer. Yeah, because it uses cloud computing. All right. I can download one 2GB game, right? You can see the time. It's around 10 seconds. Very quick. Just like a dream. Yeah, very quick. Yeah, now it's installing. So I'm walking here at the U-Garden and there's flying whales with rabbits. And it's flying all over us in this historical U-Garden with those beautiful buildings around here. And it's an AR. And it's helping me maybe go around here to find the best restaurant because I'm hungry. So I will look for the AR experience. It's going to be powered by 5G and everything in the future. And it just downloads when you reach it. You download it here. You can follow the whale. I'm a little bit of a whale, you know. So I like following the whale. And the whale tells me maybe I should consider this restaurant or some of these things that happened here during the... And then we can just continue walking around in AR. Europe should embrace competition, should invite the best of China, the best of the U.S., the best of Europe to compete on features, on price, to bring the best technology to the market. There's no need to limit yourself to not use Chinese technology because then everything is going to be more expensive. When you connect to the internet, it's going to be worse and it's going to be higher price. There's no point in that. There's all these promises of 5G that can maybe realize the internet of things in new ways that we're just thought of before and now potentially you can bring more connectivity to way more devices all over the planet. This is a huge news. This is very important. It also connects to satellites. It also brings new users for smart AI, for potentially robots, for self-driving cars, all these things. We want better quality. We want lower price. So enable competition and stop limiting the competition. That's what I think European countries should do and they should talk with Huawei and if they have any concerns, discuss it, ask maybe to look at the source code, whatever you want to do, just embrace technology, embrace competition. This is the best way forward for the last 20 years. I've been talking about on my YouTube channel of all the competition that's on the market, all the different suppliers, all the different innovators, inventors and in China, Huawei works really hard to try to bring the latest and the best. So this is what I think. Don't limit yourself. Enable competition, embrace competition. Thanks for watching. So Huawei is launching this very interesting AI-based weather forecasting model. It's a free product. You can find it on the internet. It's called PENGO Weather. It's linked on this website of the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts. And there's a nature article where Huawei claims to be 10,000 times faster than the IFS, which is kind of like a global standard for weather forecasting. It's using all kinds of AI prediction models, some of the cutting-edge AI prediction models that Huawei has been suggesting would be the most optimal to predict the weather. So you get like 10 days into the future and you can see at the different air pressure levels and you can go to, for example, North America and you can see that, you know, all the hot areas here, it says high 30 degrees Celsius when you go like here and then it develops like that. There's like tracking for the impending hurricane. You can see, you can see the hurricane is moving this way here. It might impact Canada. And so the expert should check it out. It's free. I will put the link and you can check out whether the prediction is correct or not. It's like the experts can try to analyze the prediction with the reality 10 days into the future and then choose any of the global regions. You can check even the North Pole, how it's going up there, if you want. And it just loads looking like this. The temperature on the North Pole is around minus eight or something like that. And yeah, there it is. Try to understand what AI models they've been using. So it's fully open. People can check it out and it's just very important for many industries for the whole planet actually to understand what's the weather going to be because that changes everything in terms of how we can manage. You see, even in the future, down all this area here is going to be in the 40s. It's still going to be hot according to this AI towards even the end of September. Even towards the 40 something degrees. And if we take, if you go to Africa and then you can see what will happen. I'm not sure how that can predict also the rain because the rain is difficult, I guess, to predict because you never know. But in terms of temperatures and maybe the currents and stuff like that, you can see towards the end of September it's going to get quite hot all over Africa in the in the in the 40s nearly in the high 30s Celsius. All right, thanks for watching.


So this is lightning talks. Again, this is a last minute impromptu thing that we thought would be great. We've always had lightning talks at Agile India conference and we wanted to do one this year as well. So the concept with lightning talks is basically these are very short three minute talks. And this is a great way for anyone to share their ideas and present to the greater forum. Especially if you are a first time speaker, it's a great way to get up there and speak and present and kind of, you know, be heard. What I would request you is if you want to come up and speak, then please use the Q&A tab and propose your topic as a question like you use just the Q&A. It doesn't have to be a question, but propose a topic using the Q&A. I'll select the topic based on the number of likes in case we have too many topics. We cannot fit everybody. Then we'll use the likes.  If you can see the raise hand, you raise the hand and then I can bring you on stage and you can present the topic. Okay. You can choose to use slides. You could choose to ignore and just present the topic without slides. It's up to you.  Great. This is such an awesome crowd. I see four topics there. Yeah. So we will get started and maybe, you know, more people will get encouraged when they see some of them. Okay. Keep hitting those like buttons and we'll get started. Cool. So I think the one with the highest likes is the empathy one.  Hello. Yes. Hi, Babita. Thank you. Thanks for proposing a very important topic. I think empathy is extremely important. So I'm going to set my timer for three minutes. Are you going to do slides or are you just going to talk? I just want to talk. Perfect. Take it away. Yeah. Thank you, everyone, for voting that. Empathy is the word that I have learned long back. And one of my team leader who used to talk more about this empathy word. But I started to feel it recently when I've taken the role of Scrum Master and thought to understand people more. Now I'm trying to relate it to my daughter as well while living with all the noticed stuff. What I observed with this is that when someone is being emotional, very, very emotional, that is being because of the work that we are doing or because of the little kid who has been hurt from someone or want something. What I observed, they don't need any of your advice. They don't need what solution you are up to and what can solve your problem. What I observed is they need listening them out. You listen to whatever they have, try asking them what mode they have, what happened then, what happened then, until they calm down to tell you all the problem that they have faced. I feel that at that moment when you go and share what you have, something that you could help them out.  And then maybe they couldn't think the problem or whatever with a different direction altogether. So that's what was my learning. I thought maybe I will be happy to share that. I don't think I'll need three more minutes. Thank you. Great. So empathy and what you talked about is people don't need advice or any of that stuff. So that's great. Cool. Thanks, Babita. I think next up we have is FinCy, who wants to talk about stop using the term agile with customers. So FinCy, if you can put up your hand or actually FinCy can join directly, either ways is fine. So I actually wanted to encourage people to put up topics and that's the only reason why I did this. Some enemies of mine over here just hit like over there. Since I am on the stage and on the screen, let me just... So we had this discussion earlier in the morning today. I don't know if Sridhavi and Lakshman are listening to this, but we spoke about customers being walked down by this term called agile. So every time we use this term, different people perceive it differently. So we spoke about mindset and all that. So I don't want to go into that, but I felt and I think I'm doing it for quite some time now. I stopped using any agile terminologies or the term itself in front of customers because they hear a lot about agile in the market. They wanted to agile, but they don't know. Even we are not experts. We are all learning that we are here to learn. So I think we should slow down on using that terminology or using agile terminologies with customers and slowly start using facts instead to prove the point. If you really want to be agile, it actually means that mindset of doing things and adapting to change quickly. If you understand that part of agile, you really don't have to prove your point by putting words into their mind. Instead, just show them the results, show them facts and slowly they'll start getting used to it. So I want to share a very personal, I wouldn't say a story, but something that happened to me off late. There was a client who heard this term and wanted to use it into their projects and said that if you get this done for us, it's going to be project after project. So everybody wanted to showcase that they are agile. I know this, I know that, but the problem that happened is the person who actually proposed the project, the client did not know anything about it. So slowly we started showing results which actually helped him understand what it meant, what we meant. We brought him into demos, product demos and it was a product. So slowly he started understanding what it meant. So my general opinion, maybe it's just a thought that I want to put out there is stop using the word agile or anything to do with agile just out there with the customers because for them, especially people who are completely into the business side of it, they might not understand the technicality behind it, but they would love to see results and facts. I'm done, Naresh. Awesome. So results over terminology. Yes, please. All right. Thank you. All right. I am going to go next and then there are this one other topic after that, but you know, folks, please go ahead and propose your topics. We're going to bring you up on stage. So I'm going to quickly go next. And so my topic is after about after evangelizing TDD for about 10 plus years and maybe practicing it for 15 years. Why I stopped TDD. And what are the lessons I learned after I stopped TDD. So the first thing that I basically discovered is when I would, when I was doing TDD, I've got quite proficient with it. I was able to get away with a lot more complexity. You know, when, when I was doing TDD, I could, my code could be fairly sophisticated, fairly, you know, dense and complex. And I could get away with it because I had the safety net of TDD. And somewhere deep down, I felt like basically, you know, one of the core principles that we always strive towards is simplification and simplifying things. And so this started a bit contradicting with it. And this is again one of the places where I moved away from object orientation and got influenced by functional programming and started writing more functional code, if you will, trying to embrace simplification and minimalism. So that's like the first, you know, problem that I saw that I could get away with complexity. I had the safety net of those tests and I could do that. And then basically when I stopped TDD immediately hit me that, you know, I no longer have that safety net, I cannot write complex code. So I really need to focus on simplicity and, you know, functional programming to some extent was kind of at risk for me. The second thing that was, was bothering me for quite some time and I mentioned this today in the keynote as well is, you know, I often kept making the statement that code is a liability. Code is not an asset, code is a liability and you need to be throwing away code. You need to invest less in code and throw it away more frequently, which allows you to experiment more. So when you do TDD, when you write very elegant code and you start getting attached with the whole thing, you know, and so when you stop writing tests, you don't have the safety net and you also want to experiment more. Of course, you can't afford to throw away everything, but you have to now start becoming extra careful of how you will decouple your code, because then you can throw away small parts of the code, not the whole thing. And, you know, you can move away from that attachment and some costs which plays on your mind. And so, you know, if you're trying to get into this exploratory mode where you want to try things and, you know, throw away things and move very rapidly, not having that, you know, pristine code written with tests really helps you get into more of an experimental mindset. You know, it also gets you, you know, to think about how you will decouple things in a much more deeper and meaningful way. So that's the second reason. The third thing which often people keep saying is you, you know, to refactor code, you need tests. You cannot refactor code without tests. And this, for a lot of people, like they cannot think of refactoring their code, it's a nightmare for them. And what I discovered over the years is that, you know, there are actually a lot of safe refactoring techniques which you can still do and refactor large amounts of code. Without needing any tests, it just needs you to be a little bit more thoughtful and methodical and use the right tools. So refactoring without tests is very much possible. We've done large amounts of refactoring without tests and it's, you know, the earth is not stopped. You know, so things can be quite easy. So the third point I want to make is basically, you know, refactoring without tests is quite possible. And sometimes actually not having tests makes you refactor in very interesting ways which you have not have done other ways. And so that was like a moment of revelation for me. So I think those are the three kind of big ticket items that I would say that kind of really helped me. And like I was saying earlier, the convention code is predominantly does not have any tests, you know, barely any tests. And, you know, it's working fine. We've done lots of transactions, financial transactions, a lot of systems. I'm not saying we don't have any bugs. We may have bugs, but I don't think those bugs, if you go test would have gone away. Or we would have gone away. So sometimes I think it's important to kind of just step back and look at, you know, what's the benefits you're getting from DVD. And if you don't do what are some of the advantages and disadvantages. And so just keep an open mind. Don't be very dogmatic about it. These are all important tools as developers in your toolkit use what works best in the given context. So thank you. That is my quick three minute on lessons I learned from quitting DVD.   Hey, so, as I said, pick an argument. Yeah. Small stories. We should shouldn't do sodium testing in the bills. What is the bills? Plenty of things I'm ready to argue about if you are ready to say something controversial about if you wanted to pick one of those or something else. I've been a big proponent of not writing end to end UI tests, you know, or at least drastically limiting them. I think I gave it a talk a few years ago about linear detox.  And so I was kind of trying to find a reverse of now we have too much of selenium poisoning. So we need to move away from that. So for a start, I don't like the term E2E. And I don't use it end to end or E2E because every person I ask says a different thing. What is E2E and they give me a different account. So is it full stack testing? Well, for some people it is, for others it's not. And I don't do it. I'm going to engineer something with unit tests after compile. And then when that all passes, I'm going to follow with integration tests. And then those could be headless service tests. You and I do those with service virtualization technologies, you know, but they seldom involve a UI aspect. And then I'm going to bring up the functional testing with selenium or apium or something, you know, Flutter driver in my new life in Flutter. But I'm not going to run that against full stack. I'm going to bring up the smallest viable testable thing that I can as quickly as possible. And I mean, it looks split seconds. I'm going to do that on the same machine as the tests are running on. So the same local host as selenium is running on web driver. And I'm going to test something that could be in a Docker container. Or I'm going to test something that's just stood up within a JVM or nodes or a rack or a, you know, Python provision that is only servicing the particular sequence of operations I want to do within the browser. And if I can, I'm not going to include the whole site. I'm just going to concentrate on the rectangle and leave everything else out. So I'll have need in my dev side rather than my test side. I'll have need to settle that up so that I can go and functionally test rectangles. But I'm running selenium now at three tests a second or five tests a second, depending on the technology. And I can crank through a lot of tests without involving a selenium cloud or a grid and without parallelizing. And I can focus on individual things like if I'm testing a credit card page, I can test every single permutation that could be represented in parts in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. And I can test every permutation there. But what am I hitting in the tier below? It's probably not the database. It's probably something that is only stood up minimally to support the functional stories within that test sequence. And I would again do compile followed by unit test, followed by service test, followed by these component tests using selenium or APM or Flutter driver. And I want the whole build to be finished in one minute, all of it. Compile, unit, service and functional tests. So in that particular vision, I don't at all ever say that was an E2E test or a representation of any E2E exercise. Each particular thing that was tested was tested directly. Like if you have to log in before you get to the credit card page, in my test suite, I'll bypass the login page and just load up with a cookie, the credit card page ready to go. Cards not filled. Pretend that I filled the card. I'm straight on the credit card page. I'll be paying for a hypothetical card. And I'll test every single edge case that could possibly happen from there. So I don't say myself. I don't say E2E. And I refuse to cooperate when people start having the conversation that features the expression end to end, because they don't do it. Dammit, we can't disagree with each other. We need to pick an argument here. Yeah. I think the guy started E2E. I think they coined it back in 2011 or something like that. And it's run away. People say E2E testing frameworks and it's like nobody knows what that means. Just for the benefit of the folks in the audience, Paul Hammett here is the co-author of Selenium. So he's someone that I would trust when he makes that statement. He's been there. He's done that. And so when he says that this is not what Selenium should be used for, that means a lot. It's not some Joe off the street making the statement. So I just want to clarify that. But I'm controversial in that it's possible that the Selenium team themselves don't agree with me anymore. So I'm happy to be in a club of one around component testing and in avoidance of E2E testing. I mean, from whatever my interaction with Simon and the gang, I think a lot of them are on similar pages, in my opinion, that they are not encouraging or pushing people to be very top-heavy in that sense. Like right a lot of these Selenium tests, they are actually recommending you push those tests at the lower layers of the pyramid. I stopped using some of these terms because everybody has their own interpretation of what an integration test is. You ask five people and everyone will have a very different definition of what an integration test is. So I stopped using that term. It just means nonsense now. Yeah, integration tests might be easier to argue that you could say, I think this means this and have a reasonable case for it. But E2E, functional testing, they weigh out there now. You can't get any five people to agree on even two different alternates. But yeah, it's problematic. Now, Paul, what do they think of integration tests? If you want to just quickly type out in the chat window, what according to you is integration tests? I'm curious because every time I talk to people, I find quite different definitions of what an integration test will be. How do we get back to the chat window? Just on the right, you would see the discuss. Yeah. Aslak spoke maybe three years ago at Agile India. He actually did a fairly good presentation on the need for fast cycle times within functional testing suites too using some of the techniques we're alluding to. Correct. Aslak being the cucumber guy, Mr. Cucumber. I remember him building this framework at one of the clients where we were. And basically any code that did not have tests, he basically just deleted them from the repository. And that was wicked. But I think it drove home the point that people could not just throw in code. And he was talking about the subprofessional malpractice. And so Aslak can be quite intense. He's an extremist sometimes, right? In a good way. All right, I think it's just you and me, Paul, because I don't see any interactions on this discussion. I need some discussion here. So what do you think integration tests are? If it helps, I can use a very cliched example that I typically use. So I have a calculator application. It has a calculator UI, which is basically the front end where people can type in the numbers. And hit the equals. It also has a little display which shows the results and the numbers that you're typing in. Then it makes a service call to these days serverless is the fashionable thing. So it makes there's a function in the cloud. So it makes a call to the serverless thing that then looks up some kind of a data store. And then does some computation based on that and then returns the result back to you. And so you have to keep it simplistic. You have three components, if you will, at play, your UI, you have your function as a service, and then you have some kind of a data store. So if this is just a typical any credit application type thing, what would be an integration test in this context? Can folks in the audience please type out what they think a integration test would be? So Vinaya says, making sure these components work well together as expected. Anyone else? If you agree with that answer, do a thumbs up. And so only three people I see doing the thumbs up. What about the rest of the folks? They don't have a thumbs down feature. Thumbs up if you hate that as a definition of integration tests.  It's too abstract. I think it's fine. Vinaya said she did a couple of thumbs up. So it looks like it's just three of us then. Vinaya, do you want to come up on stage? Yeah, hi Vinaya. So I think, again, just in the spirit of being a little controversial and having an interesting discussion here, not trying to pick on anybody. But what I was trying to make a point earlier is, you know, making sure the components work well together as expected seems to abstract to me. So please help me with an example of what would be an example of an integration test in this context. Sure. So the way I'm thinking about it is that anything that has been developed separately but is meant to work together, we want to make sure that that happens. So let's say in the example that you gave of the calculator, let's say there's a UI layer and there's a host layer. And the work has been done separately on those. Then, and each of them works well by themselves. I have been unit tested so you know individually. And now to make sure that when both of these are brought together. So if I'm putting in a number from the UI, it's hitting the right services, returning the right responses, getting displayed correctly. So just, you know, maybe taking a cut across the components, seeing if that flow works or not. I would call that an integration test. So just again trying to build on that. So you would have some kind of a test which would punch in numbers into the UI, would send the request like would hit enter and it would send the request and then the response will come back and you will assert whether the response that came back is what you expected. So you sent two and three and then you would verify that five came back. Right. So great. Now, here's something for you to think about, right? How is this now different from the other higher level tests like your end to end tests? Is this not a kind of a full stack test in some sense? How is this different from those tests? Right. So like I'm going back to my experience from many, many years ago as a developer and thinking about it. And I would say that maybe when we are thinking of integration, we are probably focusing a little more on the interface, just that bit. And the other functionality, et cetera, maybe is taking a backseat. Whereas when we are looking at higher level functional tests, maybe we are a lot more concerned about the overall business flow, the functionality within each of the modules, behaving right and all of those things. What is the integration usually from what I remember? We used to focus more on whether the interface, whether the two components know how to speak to each other the way we expected to. Absolutely. So that's what I would prefer as the focus of integration tests is whether two components can talk to each other, can communicate with each other. And the first thing is I would never assert that the response that I got back is five, because that's now functional. It really doesn't matter if I got five back, I got six back, I got nine back. That is not a concern of the integration test. That is the functional aspect. It would let functional tests deal with it, ideally at a unit level or maybe at a higher level. But certainly the integration test should not be asserting, for example, what the results came back as long as the result was a valid number. Or an integer will be expected. Yeah, that's good enough. That's one thing. The second is do you want to drive from the UI in this specific case or do you want to go to the last mile from where you're actually making the API call like in this case? So you have some kind of a client which is making an HTTP client which is making an API call. And so you probably are interested in hitting from the HTTP layer and seeing if it can communicate to the right service. So there is some kind of a configuration lookup to figure out where the server is, whether you can connect to that, whether you're using the right protocol. So if your server is expecting an HTTP JSON request and you're sending an XML, it's not going to work. So those kinds of things that generally people talk about when they talk about integration tests. And that's what is making sure that these two components that were independently developed, whether we can talk to each other. Right. While that's true, I would just say that again, I'm talking about history, but we did tend to mix the functional and the interface test unless we were talking about API calls from third party vendors, et cetera. Over there, we knew that the functionality wasn't going to work at the first go. So that is where we really narrowed it down and said, okay, let's just look at whether the interface works and park everything else for later. But I appreciate the point. Cool. So thank you.  And now, you know, it's a mix of technologies into this. It could further complicate things. Absolutely. And, you know, it's quite interesting to try. And so I've now stopped using the term integration tests because I think people have a lot of baggage when they come with it. In my morning's talk, I basically talked about unit tests, component tests, you know, components like service tests, contract tests, and, you know, application tests. And application tests is something everyone understands. And then, you know, more of acceptance tests and then essentially shadow mode tests which you run in the production. And those are the kind of terminologies that I seem to be sticking these days. But who knows, even those can be problematic. So contract test is your terminology of choice right now for integration tests. It's a subset in some sense. It is only verifying whether these two components, you know, contractually can talk to each other and they adhere to the contract. So that's the terminology that we're using. The moment you say contract, everyone knows that you're not asserting functionality. Everyone knows that all you're interested in is basically seeing if this other thing meets the contract and is backward compatible with the contract because those are the kind of important concerns when you're integrating. True. Because everything else I can test at a component level or at a unit level in terms of functionality and other kinds of things. So I think just using that kind of a terminology has at least helped us clarify some of these thinking process with people. Sure. Thank you. That was very useful. Thank you. Yeah, I do see Shakti, you're back. So I'm going to quickly invite you. Can you accept? There we go. Finally. All right. Okay. Finally, I'm there with my Safari browser. I'm not sure. Yeah. I think for three minutes it should work. Awesome. Cool. So your topic, Shakti, was about personal agility. So take it away. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for this opportunity. Yeah. Hi all. So, yeah, just a small background about me. I'm an agile coach working in society general, right? So we have been talking about agility, agile and things as such. When it comes to personal agility, it becomes very personal to us, right? So what I'm trying to say is if I had a slide that I could share here, I would strike out agility and I would make it ability, right? So personal agility is nothing but personal ability, right? When I say ability, our ability to cope up with the situation, our ability to wind up the work which we start, our ability to handle the failures, right? So these are the different terms we have been, talking about in the agile world also, right? So when all these are boiled down, I have found out that it's really about the mindset, right? So we are talking about personal agility. So we have to talk about mindset shift, right? Which makes us personally agile, right? So there are four mindset shifts that I would like to talk about. First is self-awareness, right? So in Shane Hastie's session, I raised a question asking how do we build the coaching culture, right? How do we start with acceptance of people to be coached, teams to be coached, people to understand that, okay, it's not only me, it's not only about me, I can take help from others and I can still get the job done, right? So self-awareness becomes a very important aspect here to transform ourselves. We have to first know our strengths, our weaknesses, right? Are we really vulnerable? Which means are we ready to accept the failures? Are we ready to do the failures? Are we ready to take the risks? Are we ready to expose our limitations? And next is, do we have some limiting beliefs? Do we have that biases in our mind that, okay, maybe I can't do this because... maybe this can't happen because of so-and-so reasons instead of diving into the doing part, right? And also we need to be checking on ourselves that are we really courageous to make decisions? A lot of times we get an opportunity to get that ownership or get that responsibility, but do we really have that courage to make decisions based on our context, based on our experiences, based on our feelings that we have at that moment, right? So when we assess ourselves on self-awareness, that's where we start. That mindset is the first stepping stone for personal agility, right? So the second mindset shift that, according to me, is growth mindset, right? So if we don't know how to celebrate our failures, if we don't know... I'll give you a last minute to quickly wrap up, please. Okay, okay, fine. So I think we know about growth mindset, right? So we should learn to fail and we should learn from our failures, right? So this I call as the second mindset shift for personal agility. Next is to do things that really matter to be able to prioritize our work, right? So unless we know how to prioritize, unless we know what is very important, unless we know to do the things in a timely manner, our agility is at stake, which in turn hampers our abilities, right? The fourth is to be innovative, right? When I say innovative, it does not mean that we go down and learn the latest technologies, right? In our own perspective, how innovative are we in completing or taking up the deep dive into a new responsibility that we can do. So these are the four mindsets that I would like to stress upon. One is self-awareness. Second is growth mindset. Third is able to prioritize, right? Fourth is to be innovative. So these are the four key aspects. I would call to build our personal agility, which in turn makes us personally able to meet our goals, right? So yeah, that's all I had. All right, great. Thanks, Jeffrey. I love the, you know, you should strike out the word agility and replace it with the ability. I think that's great. I'll steal that. Thank you. All right. I think, thank you very much. We've run out of time.


from Las Vegas. It's theCUBE, covering AWS re-invent 2018.  And welcome back here on The Sands, as we're at the AWS re-invent day one of our coverage here. We're here Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday live here on theCUBE as we continue our coverage from the show floor. Hall D, again, if in the area, come on by and say hi to Justin Warren and myself. Along with Justin, I'm John Walls. We're joined by Andy Langsom, who's the COO of N2WS. Andy, good to see you today. Good to see you too. Thanks for being here, and Danny Allen, who's the Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam Software. Danny, good afternoon to you. Thank you very much. Now we can talk about a lot of things. Canadian citizenship, fractional ownership, a lot of great conversation, but let's talk about data. And of course, the paramount need these days, right? Everybody's got to know I'm all right. I'm secure. I've got this big warm blanket around me. What are the two of you doing to give people with those kinds of concerns the ability to sleep at night peacefully knowing their data's safe? Well, N2W was founded on the premise of not to worry. That was the founder's vision. And if you could convince somebody that was doing the backup and disaster recovery, not to worry, that was a great way to get started. But we're excited today. We've announced N2WS version 2.4, and it's focused on taking your EC2 snapshots and putting them into S3 storage to lower your costs by up to 40 and 50%. And so that's one of the things that we're talking about today. All right, Danny? Yeah, and so if you expand on that, so this is data protection for the cloud. And one of the things historically we've focused on as well as data protection in the data center. So this brings the two together and gives you data protection holistically across wherever your environment happens to be. And it goes beyond that, not just data protection, but how can I take the data and do more with it? And so we're excited and seems to be resonating with customers. We have, what, 189% year-over-year growth on the cloud side. It's just huge. It's a booming business. I would assume, yeah, you don't have any problem getting people's attention these days, I would assume. No, we don't. At the booth, it's just amazing. 8,000, 9,000 signup badge scans and people all wanting demos and wanting trials of the software. Anytime you can talk about cost reduction from five cents a gig on EC2 storage to two cents on S3, it's a tremendous savings for our customer base. And so they're very excited. We did a survey recently and over 50% of our customers spend over 10,000 a month on storage costs in AWS. So if you think about that, and if they can save 40% on that, that's real savings. More than the cost of the software alone. Sure, yeah. Yes. One thing about cloud that has often sort of went past people because they were used to the data center and they were used to how they protected their data in the data center. And cloud kind of changed the way that you had to do that and you have to think about it in a slightly different way. So clearly, NGWS is part of the solution to that. But when you have people who have a bit of data in both of those systems, how do you help them understand which techniques they should use for data which is in the cloud compared to data that's in their data center? Or am I able to just use the same techniques and just go, you know what? I'll take care of you and we'll just turn it on and it'll magically work for you. It's not the same techniques, but it's the same platform. And the reason I say that is in the cloud, if you're in AWS, for example, you don't have access to the hypervisor. So you can't do a snapshot of the hypervisor. You have to call an API and say, give me a copy of the data. If you're in your own data center, you say, take a snapshot at the storage level or at the hypervisor level. So there's different techniques, but at the end of the day, it's still data protection. And with a single platform, that's what's so exciting about this release back up in Recovery 2.4 is you have a single platform that you can manage data protection both on and off premises so that you can leverage where is the best place, location for this workload, and I can protect it across, no matter where it chooses to live. Yeah, that is something that we've been hearing all day today here at theCUBE is that people are talking about putting their data wherever they want it to live. It could be in the cloud. It could be on their own data site. Could be out at the edge. So what do you see as the vision, like where are customers going with this? Where do we want to put data? We heard for a long time that we should migrate all of our applications into the cloud. Clearly, there are a lot of organizations who are doing that. There are some who have put some things into the cloud and they're actually taking them back out again. Where are you seeing customers moving their data around? Well, the answer to that, of course, is it depends. There's no single answer for everything. What I say is that cloud is excellent for certain things like variable based workloads or you need a massive amount of compute for a certain amount of time. What people have tried to do sometimes is just lift and shift, take what's on premises and move it to the cloud. And sometimes what happens up happening is they put it back on premises because they realize, hey, the cloud's not a charity. They're actually putting in marriage in there for that workload. Really? Very good. So there's use cases for all of this. What I think actually what gets exciting is as people design for the cloud, use Lambda and serverless type functionality, that will become a lot more sticky. And so our focus is, wherever the customer chooses to run the workload, we're not going to dictate it one way or the other. In fact, one of the great things that we enable is this portability. If you choose to be in point A today, you can move it to point B and back again. So we give that portability that ultimately allows the customer to solve what their business need is. You mentioned the customer growth. I think it was like 189% USA. Is that net new customers to Veeam completely? Is that Veeam customers who are growing into using this new product and putting their data in the cloud? Where is that growth coming from? So that growth, that growth has been since we've been acquired by Veeam back in December. It's almost been a year now. We were acquired by Veeam and being acquired has allowed us to focus on the customer and innovation versus going out and raising money from investors as a small company, right? And so we've had 189% growth in our business in terms of revenue since we've been acquired. And it's really accelerating both on the growth side in all sizes of customers. We've got customers recently like Notre Dame and Cardinal Health. And then we have people getting into the cloud for the very first time. And they go to the Amazon Marketplace. They search for the catalog. They find the N2W product. They download it and well, they provision it and onward they go. Yeah, you mentioned Cardinal Health. Yeah. Let's talk about the sector in general. I mean, very unique concerns, obviously, when it comes to whether it's protecting imaging or patient information or whatever it might be. What have you seen in terms of addressing the needs of that sector? Because obviously this is an area that's growing. There's more capability than ever. And yet our concerns in it are growing with that. So I mean, what do you guys see in that space? Yeah, so I think in the health care sector in general, I think what they're really concerned about is the compliance requirements. It's not just backing up the data, but it's the requirement that you have a backup and can restore and you can recover from a disaster or from internal hacking or from whatever an outage or whatever it may be. And if they don't do it, the repercussions are very, very high. And I think that the whole world with GDAPRS and things like that are all coming together to dramatically raise the requirement to be more secure than ever. And your backup and disaster recovery strategy is paramount to them. They won't be talking about we're going to do that. Some customers say we're going to do this ourselves. We'll write our own code. You won't see that in the health care space or the financial space. So I see kind of three interesting areas. One is they typically will have very specific applications like Epic and Metatec that they need you to protect that are aware of that type of application. So that's one part of it. The second is there's a lot of certifications required to deliver health care services. So you have HIPAA and high tech and BAA certifications and all these things. And that certainly comes into play when you're talking about the cloud. So you need to have that conversation. Then lastly, ransomware comes up a lot because there's been a lot of ransomware attacks and malware attacks specifically directed at the health care industry. So those are the three kind of areas that we have probably the most conversations about. Right, malware has been the best advertisement for backup and recovery ever. It's a kind of fabulous in a way, a scary way. We don't actually want to encourage this kind of behavior. But for those of us who've lived and breathed backup for a while, it was like finally people can take this seriously. So that's something that people have realized that, okay, I need to have this. What are they looking at next? Where are customers looking to Veeam and to NTWS? What are they looking for you to add next? So I'd say the next kind of big step. So today we've been very much reactive as an industry, right? Help me protect my data. Let me get it back. Let me recover to the cloud or move from one cloud to another cloud. Now we're getting customers saying, you have all this data. You understand the context of everything that I own. Help me get smarter in my business so that I can drive the business to make decisions more quickly. So give developers a copy of the data so that they can iterate on it more quickly. Give a copy of the data to my GDPR experts because they need to analyze the data and do something with it. And so we're moving away from just being reactive to business need, to being proactive and driving the business forward. And I think work, it's really interesting. As we go down the road, and now this is Buzz words I admit, but around machine learning and artificial intelligence, we're actually, we leverage a lot of the algorithms that are existing in clouds like AWS to help analyze the data and make decisions that they don't even know that they need to make. And that decision could be, hey, you need to run this analysis at two in the morning because the instances are cheaper. That type of predictive analysis helps the customer reduce costs but also drive the business forward. Yeah, so how do you move into that kind of advisory space from a multi-traditionalist that will protect your data? It's like, how do the customers come to you and say, actually, you have our data anyway, why don't you do this for us? Or are you going to customers proactively and saying, hey, we can do this for you. We have access to this data and we can tell you that we can provide these insights to you. Would you like some more of this? Which way does that conversation tend to go? It's a bit of a mix. What I'd say is that the data protections face or the storage, you know, the traditional IT person becomes kind of the help desk. And then because they've enabled self-service, recovery, file level recovery, etymological recovery, these other areas of the business come in and say, hey, can I use that self-service to do X and Y? So it's a new buyer, it's a new constituent, but they're actually looking to IT to enable them to do more stuff with the data. Okay, so it's basically, I want to interact with you in a similar way than I'm already doing it and you've proven your worth in this area. It's like, maybe you could do it over here as well. Exactly. Sounds like a great opportunity for growth. And not just on legacy. I mean, one of the interesting things with the N2W software is we enabled, for example, data protection on DynamoDB. So people think of databases and I think SQL Server and Oracle, but we can do this even in cloud RDS type workloads with DynamoDB to help them drive cloud-hosted workloads faster for the business as well. Well, you mentioned Notre Dame. Can we have any connections on the playoff ticket situation? I wish. I wish. Just want to make sure. Gentlemen, thanks for being with us and let's get back and maybe three or four weeks we'll talk about that, okay? It's been great. Yeah, well, it's been interesting to see who the final four are going to be. Yeah, that's for sure. Thank you both. Thank you for your time and the information. We really enjoyed the conversation. Thanks. Back with more here from AWS ReInvent. We are live in Las Vegas, Nevada.


Yeah football is where we begin the Sports Mac zone today action in the red nephew Jamaica Premier League nearing fever pitch as Teams jostle for positions with just five match weeks to go before the playoffs begin Let's first have a look at the match week 22 fixtures And those will include the matches you'll see an asterisk which are the Sports Macs live matches Typically Dunbar Holden and Harbourview against Mullines. That's a doubleheader on Sunday and the Monday game between Dunbar hold the Monday game is typically Against I'll tell you who that would be in a moment Born more waterhouse humble and fair Mount Pleasant Cavalier Montego Bay United Treasure Beach are the other matches on tap Yeah, there is a repeat there of the Monday Typically Dunbar Holden thing Sunday and Monday, so we'll fix that in a moment a key Developing story is a race for the top six places with Dunbar Holden waterhouse and Montego Bay United all having their sights on the last Playoff spot. Let's keen on the top eight of the table and see how that is looking at the moment Mount Pleasant a point ahead of Cavalier who missed the opportunity to go top yesterday in a 2-2 draw with Arnett gardens Tivity gardens are five points off the lead in third spot So are Portmore or fourth but with an inferior goal difference to Tivity gardens Arnett Dunbar Holden Complete the top six spots and waterhouse and Montego Bay United just outside of the top six playoff position looking for a place in the playoffs and pretty key Remaining matches remaining because it would be very interesting if waterhouse doesn't get there because they are perennial playoff Contenders waterhouse so with us to discuss the exhilarating race and more is sportsmax football analyst Lige Williams Lige We want to talk about this race for the last playoff spot because it will mean a lot to the two teams but can we start first by a comment on the Mount Pleasant Cavalier clash the top two clashing this weekend Cavalier had won the first round when they met It could be the key this key result to who actually becomes regular season champions How important is this fixture to both teams? I think it's more important for the psychology like how the psychological aspect of it So Cavalier won the first battle. We all know that Mount Pleasant got the better of Cavalier in the Premier League final last season So psychologically, I think going into the playoffs if Cavalier were to beat Mount Pleasant twice Going into the playoffs I think he would give Cavalier the psychological edge going into if they were to play Mount Pleasant again in the final So Cavalier, I think they'll be going pretty hard to win this game Mount Pleasant They won their last game against Waterhouse missing nine or ten players So I'm not quite sure if all of those players will be returning immediately into the starting lineup or into the squad So and it will be a different contest for them But definitely honest in a psychological way, I think Cavalier it means much more to them than Mount Pleasant Yeah, and I see they're on a 14 game on beat and run Cavalier Joint best on beat and streak with Portmore at the moment, but neither of them are top of the table But I guess that tells something about their consistency and how how steady they have been Yeah, it also goes to say the amount of draws that they've had as well Portmore lead the league with eight draws, I believe so and Cavalier and too far Ben. I think they have six So I do think that this team both teams do think that they have a couple of Attacking kinks that they maybe need to sort out and they will sort them out I think because I have the quality to do so Especially in the playoffs when the games won't be as frantic in terms of the tempo But Mount Pleasant proved last week without their players that are still thinking that they're the best team Going into the playoffs are still thinking that the best team in the island So yeah a lot of quality in the top six And there's going to be a really good race to see who's going to join these top teams, right? And a quick word on Kylie ovry. I had him one in case you missed it this week And I asked him about this clash and he said just be aware He will be ready because I asked him about like what can I look forward from you this week? And he's like just know I'll be ready, you know, so he's excited He's a training player playing now for Mount Pleasant your thoughts on him. Yeah, I think he's a really quality player I was on the show previously and I said that I think he's one of the best one-view one-wingers in the league My pleasant have been moving up all of that talent in terms of Daniel green the Vante Campbell as well So I came on a bailing so they have some of the best one-view one-wingers in the league But I think he hasn't been getting the consistent start so far Yeah, when he comes off of the bench has been making a real impact getting in cross is beating his man I think once he continues to do that the eventually the Contributions go contributions will flow. So yeah, I think he's a quality player And he'll add a lot or is going to continue to add a lot to this month present outfit. Yeah, okay Well, let's have a look now closely leisure at what the contending teams for that layer Last playoff spot have to do because the run into the end of the regular season is Critical to how this may go and when I look at the matches ahead There are some teams that appear to have an easier run in Than than the other is done beholden having the toughest run in here for sure because in Tivoli and the Cavalier They are teams in the top five and the orange Colored Montego Bay United and Waterhouse are playoff competitors. So of the five games they have remaining You could reasonably think that they have four tough ones among them Waterhouse having just two tough ones in Portmore and done beholden and Montego Bay having just two tough ones in done beholden and and Tivoli Gardens and That is not to say that other teams can't be tough but we're just looking at the Position of the teams in the league and based on their form and what they've produced so far this season It does appear that done beholden has the toughest running of them all But I guess you could say that they're at the moment best place to get in because they're already there Yeah, it's a good thing that they do have the buffer of the extra three points ahead of these teams because as I mentioned It's some really tough games Tivoli this weekend. I think if you look at it Tivoli are going to play both done beholden and Montego Bay United But when they're playing them, I think is extremely important as well because they'll be playing the stevely team now as Tivoli are trying to Have a little outside shot to get into the top two But then when they play when Tivoli were to play or if when when they're going to play Montego Bay United It would be the last game of the season Maybe Tivoli won't have everything to play for at that moment in time So it could be an easier game for Montego Bay United at that point in time So I think the fixtures definitely favor Montego Bay United. There are five points away, but Especially considering the fact that don't bolding will have to play both waterhouse and Montego Bay United I think that five points can be cloud back extremely easily. Yeah We have to point out though that the current form of don beholden is pretty impressive They've gone three wins on the truck which they haven't been able to do for a long period this season So it does appear as if don beholden are peeking at at the right time And they're scoring goals as well most importantly and I think just judging off of the quality of the goals that they scored against Harba View in their last game it showed that they're finally Understanding I think what Lenny Hyde wants him to do in terms of the sleek interplay in and around the box How they play in the midfield as well progress in the ball through the third's pretty well Also, so I do think that they're coming into form Especially on a goal score in front at the right time But they're going to be coming up against some really tough teams teams that are very stout defensively Gains waterhouse and I do think that Montego Bay United Although they haven't gotten the wins over the past two game weeks They played Mount Pleasant and Portmore two of the best teams in the competition and they took the lead in both of those games and relinquish them In the Portmore game they relinquished it in the 87th minute I believe so pretty unlucky on there and not to get a win Out of one of those two games and I do think that Montego Bay United are in some good form as well Waterhouse they have some attacking issues But I think they'll be much better this week than last week because they'll get back Andre Fletcher who was on national duty So it's three teams that I think all of them can go into the top six is going to be a really close race going down And what do you think it will come down to? Yeah, I still think that will be when they play against each other, especially because all of them have to play against each other at some point and Especially when it comes down to Dumbo hold in having to play both of them and having to play two teams in the top five as well I think they could falter there because Dumbo hold in having necessarily been the best team when playing against teams in above them So that could be an issue as well So I think in terms of the fixtures Montego Bay United as the most favorable fixtures But Waterhouse if they were to catch form as well in the middle seeing that they're only three points off and Montego Bay United are five points off that could be the deciding factor as well I'm intrigued by this Montego Bay United roster Lege because we know the history of Montego Bay United from they were Siba in the 80s and 90s and so on a real powerhouse in Western football in Jamaica and I look at their roster now And I get the feeling that if they had started the season with this roster They probably would have been in a better position because there were some January transfer introductions That significantly boost the quality of their game and their results. They haven't lost the game since late January Montego Bay United and It just seems that they have a roster now that could challenge but the roster was assembled mid-season Yeah, I agree with you but you know coincidentally a lot of people like to say the phrase attack is the best form of defense and in the case of Montego Bay United I have to agree with them because With Montego Bay United a lot of the players that they brought in in January are attackers As you mentioned Owen Gordon, Brian Brown for example JJ as he's affectionately known down there as well. So a lot of quality players That in the attacking sense, but I think their midfield and their defense has really been stepping up Down as down the stretch when they haven't been conceding goals as many goals as they were before at least And they have been grinding on some results So I do think that having the attack and having the leadership of some of these players who have been there They have Owen Gordon as I said who has been the Jamaica Premier League top scorer Brian Brown as well So I do think that the leadership in accordance with what they've been producing on the field. That's led to them being more Strong defensively as well producer Ramon is reminding me that a while I suggest that they haven't lost the game since late January They did lose one on the field to umbilan, but they got it in the Stewards room you might say because there was an ineligible player for home They didn't have that defeat but it's three points. Yeah, those things can can boy a team on as well because they're saying okay We didn't play this well. Yeah, we got the last or maybe that game was that televised one Maybe Montego be knighted played the better football and that day and home ball and got a bit lucky So I think getting that result could have even said all right We're going to do this now and then immediately after those two that result they played against Monty at Mount Pleasant And Port Maria knighted and got two good draws. So I think it hasn't tilted their confidence whatsoever I'm going to go be a knighted and really good form as well Yeah, can you talk to us Lige about water houses in consistency this season because I said at the start of the segment that It would look really weird to see the playoffs without water house. They are perennial playoff Competitors water house, but their their season has been so fluctuating, you know Bad bad weeks good weeks, and they just have no steadiness Yeah, it was a similar thing last season as well when they were struggling to get into the playoffs didn't get there in the end So I think when it comes down to water house It's a tactical issue. I love Marcel Gale. I think he's a fantastic coach But tactically I do think that they have their issues, you know, they don't have a lot of width Especially when Andre Fletcher isn't in the team and even when he is in the team Then either Thomas on the other side doesn't keep the width effectively because he likes to drift in so does Andre Fletcher So I think they have a with issue and that clogs the middle and that makes it them easier to defend Especially when they're not zipping the ball around as well as they usually do So tactically, I think that they need to do one of two things Which is either to get with or maintain with or they need to start playing on the transition a bit quicker and try and get more Balls into Javane brand because he's a league's top scorer joint top scorer and even in that game against Mount Pleasant last Week and all of the shots that he have were really snapshot So I think they need to get him more service They need to get the ball in between the lines quicker need to get on the transition quicker And I need to hold with better and I think that could be their formula for success Yeah, and with the fixtures that they have coming up. Do you think it will be? Easy route for them. I don't think so. I think that they have although don't beholding have the toughest fixtures I think they're in the best form especially with scoring goals and winning games And that's going to continue And Montego Bay has the easiest fixtures. I think waterhouse are somewhere in the middle I wouldn't be surprised if If they were the team that were at the bottom of the pile of these three teams going into the players Yeah, I just wanted to emphasize Waterhouse is Unsteadiness by the fact by mentioning the fact that they have only Recorded back-to-back wins once so far this season rounds two and three and they Haven't been able to do that and for a team with waterhouse's quality To be able to not be able to score more than two wins Back-to-back weeks should be very worrying for coach Marcel Gale Yeah, but I still do think that he's doing a lot with the squad that he has at his disposal They've lost a lot of plays you think about someone like Shaquille Bradford who has gone on to score 10 league goals this Season for Harbourview and Mount Pleasant where he is right now. He Isn't there anymore. Yes, they replaced him well with Javain Bryan But I think if you look across the squad the last Ramon Howell as well to Mount Pleasant So that's a leadership that's leadership in addition to being one of the best midfielders in the league So they've lost a lot of players and their older players, you know Maybe like a Keithy Simpson Maybe isn't doing the job that he used to couldn't do but you know He still has to be in there for his leadership and he probably still has more quality than the other players So I think it's a tough spot for them to be and I don't think that they have the best squad And I think that they're performing pretty well with the squad that they have but as I mentioned There are still some tactical issues that they could fix that they're getting wrong at this current moment Yeah, every time you talk to Lenny Hyde the Dunbar Holden coach post-match He keeps making references to training and and needing the players to put more out in training and There is even a hint that maybe some of them aren't turning up for training as regular regularly as as they should Do you get that sense that that the Dunbar Holden roster? isn't Isn't being as disciplined as coach Lenny Hyde wants them to be You know Sir Lance is actually really good that you said that to ask a question because when you do a Dunbar Holden match live you're working on a Dunbar Holden match live and you're in the commentary booth You know Lenny Hyde if anyone knows Lenny Hyde seeing him when he's coaching.  I remember in the game that they played a couple weeks ago at Jackson They won't end up winning the game comfortably. Yes against my lines But when it came down to it especially when they were training at half-time weren't they? Not at this occasion. Okay, they weren't doing the game. He was he's saying I told you the same training last week Left move the ball left move the ball left and that's not something that Lenny Hyde usually does So I think you asking that question just goes to show that it's it's being seen that maybe they don't look the best Prepared coming into games because even when you look at it a lot of their goals come in the second half of games So I think that's when Lenny Hyde and his coaching staff would make those adjustments Point out the weaknesses of the opposing team and that's when his team would begin to flow So if they're going to come into games Being a bit underprepared that's going to harm them when they're facing the better teams And maybe that's what has been happening because they have struggled against a better team so far this season And they're going to have to fix that issue starting this weekend before the game. Yeah Yeah, that's a very good question. Yes to be more pointed in the Point that I was making didn't he not start with Nelson in a recent game? Yeah, he didn't start with him He was his he's their best Goal scoring Yeah, and and and he came on and scored a lot of goals and that that yeah a hat trick and an assist Yeah, and I think that was a moment when I think Lenny wanted to make Nelson realize that he needs more out of him But if he isn't giving what he wants in training then he'd probably not start Yeah, that was I think of an illustration of the point that we were making Yeah, Lenny Hades are disciplinary and after all, you know, he he's a very easy-going guy to the eye But we know that when he comes on to his football he takes it very seriously So that's not a surprise and I'm sure he has full confidence in his squad that even someone of Nicholas Nelson's prowess If he's not playing he can get much more out of other players as well Maybe even a Marlon Allen who has come in and gotten gotten on the scorching it as well playing well So yeah, don't ball in our quality squad But it's a good point he made maybe about them not being as prepared as they need to be going into games Yeah, and just a correction not three assists, but he he had three assists and not he didn't have a hat trick of goals Yeah, I had to come assists. Yeah, and he got he got a hat trick the following week So he's very good and their goalkeeper looks fitter than I've seen him in about six or seven years They mean higher. He's playing pretty well springing around. He wasn't tested too much against higher above you Yes, but I know in the in the games as I still do see some defensive frailties in Especially in that maligns game where they had to come from behind and win 4-2 I believe so He hasn't been working too much and usually when he has to work It's him picking the ball out of his neck because his defense are allowing some really easy chances to come to him But yeah, yeah, he does look pretty good this season Yeah, I on another show we'll talk about how both of you's woes because that would take up the I'm having a little sympathy here for Ludlow Bernard who is having you know Well, he doesn't have much here at the moment because I was about to say he's losing here trying to deal with the hub of you is Treacherous form. Is that what happens here Lance? He used to coach a team. No, no, no, no, I didn't Isn't my jeans to not have here. Oh, okay, it's hereditary Okay That's our primarily segmented red nephew Jamaica primarily getting really really hot as we get to the closing weeks of the Regular season and look toward the playoffs. We go to break We have a lot more football to talk on the Sportsmax zone and a lot else as well back on the other side of the break


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Yeah, I would say open source is definitely from a central bank perspective a journey and I think we are just at the halfway house But if you look at it from the BS perspective BS is the bank of central banks and central banks are the banks of banks and But the trend that we are clearly seeing is that the banks are really using Open source and are embracing it and that's kind of like traveling upwards now So central banks are using it even BIS is using it So I think think that's the journey that we are seeing and I think just from the perspective of being in an innovation hub You know, we we actually built most of our things at the moment in the cloud and there's a lot of open source things Available and there's no way that we could do the things that we're doing Without having access to all these great open source tools. So so far far perspective. It's great I do hear the concerns about security and longevity and we need to figure those out And there's also been an open tech initiative at BIS. Yes, very briefly So that's the halfway house. I was talking about so we we will be sharing Our code that comes out of the innovation hub with a at least initially with a limited number of participants So everything is it's a github. It has governance. It has licenses But but to begin with it's a it's a little bit of an invitation only but I think basically the trajectory is that we want to go all the way and to an open source a platform in terms of sharing our outputs Yeah, of course because earlier Morton we were talking about also open source is a path to realizing our mission of Financial infrastructure really serving the public good. Yeah, and I think this is really important to call out because It's what Morton just said is huge talking about central banks being comfortable with open source ethos in general really represents this huge cultural shift in a traditionally conservative financial sector, right? And so I think again starting to understand that what we build collaboratively and transparently helps us serve our citizenry more directly Is really important. So again that that underpinning of Open source providing a path for social good. I think is part of what has Brought about and we've started to realize this cultural shift Not to take words out of your mouth. No, I agree Yeah, but but I think one has to remember the central banks are conservative So is this journey that I spoke about I think we're really about trying to move what I call the production possibility frontiers Of central banks and by technology and I think open sources is the best way to do that It's interesting when you say it's sort of leveling up sort of floating up from the the banks the central banks because of course I mean our experience has been with banks that is really Originally about talent and cost reduction really the way they started looking at doing open source Very much like you've seen other industries do, you know, five to ten years ago So not surprising that you know a regulated industry will take a little longer. So to adopt technology trends but more and more you're seeing them really trying to drive faster innovation or really Solving long-standing challenges and that's what we're seeing the move from You know, I'm open sourcing a project to really attract talent to really I'm embarking into an openly governed Shared initiatives which oftentimes involves regulators. That's one of our big goals at Phoenix as well So it's interesting to see that this is actually being perceived and sort of floating up as well at central banks There's a there's a pragmatism to it as well I mean Yet the BIS report right of the number of central banks that are actively on the on the journey of evaluating Central bank digital currency and how to get there, right? It would be Incredibly dystopian if if that was solved, you know, you know 178 different ways in different in terms of thinking about the modernization of our global infrastructure that ability to have Interoperability and have it all hang together, you know that that ability to go through that journey together around some core foundational principles and You know and and governance, you know to you know to make sure that it's done in a way that meets the requirements of systemically important infrastructure at scale and security and the like, you know, there's a pragmatic element of if you know Even if even if this if the community of global central banks were split into four or five different factions that rallied around four or five different You know different vendor solutions, right?