The Astros eliminated the Yankees on a walk-off win and the World Series begins tonight Let's do it What's going on everybody welcome back to talking baseball It was a brief hiatus with no games But the World Series is starting to night So we thought today was the best day to get the recap of the ALCS in and the preview of the World Series We're back in Adam as you know Jake and I are Yankees fans. So we got our hearts broken. We got a little sadness We got to figure it out, but we're back. Thank you for hanging around with us. We appreciate it My name's John Boy obviously and I got Jake sitting next to me And we got a bunch of patrons that are bringing you this show Jake. How are you doing today? Great Jim couldn't be better here to talk some basketball and some football You know, it's the those seasons are taking off. I'm ready to go. They are under way football seasons like halfway through man. It's crazy Yeah week week seven just happened It's the quickest season ever This isn't a football podcast No, it's not. It's a baseball podcast and it's uh, I'm good I think you know not to spoil too much might might lose some nationals friends But I'm uh, I'm excited. We got good talent good teams baseball. Hashtag Abram. How are you baseball? I'm good. I'm doing well Needed I took like Saturday and just did straight date day with Katie, which was really fun and then yesterday Or no, that was Sunday yesterday got into a little But got back to the work grind these hockey breakdowns are kind of fun Hopefully we get some breakdowns for baseball from the World Series I'm fine, man. Like I'm and we'll get into Our emotions as like Yankees fans a little bit because we have to talk about that game six But first let's do the patrons. We have Six seven new patrons sponsoring this show. They are Tom Shortridge Sounds like an English name to me, but I like it a lot Nicholas R. 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This is awesome Yeah, I had a lot of people Saying you were such a professional like I had people in the you did you see these in the YouTube comments like Jake's a professional. He'll burn it like cuz I didn't want I didn't do a real breakdown That was funny props to you. You're a professional Art My that old to they break down. I did is probably one of the funnier ones.  It was Do don't do what was option was don't make a breakdown about to vase home run and just Have comments come in non-stop of people telling me like I'm biased which obviously Option two was to do a breakdown with the an ad with no talking and option three was to do a breakdown as a As a brand new Astros fan, which was a little rude Yeah, we landed in the right place, but I there's still like people that don't get it and they're just like think like They're calling me a sore loser Yeah, which like what's that quote show me show me a happy loot a happy loser It's like show me a happy loser, and I'll show you a loser There a quote like that like you know what I mean. Yeah, I don't know. I've never seen that tattoo on my back All right well before we go into Jake's magnificent burn, which should be wild let's throw it to an ad or two All right, fantastic. Here we go Jake on your mark get set and We're going going back back to Houston as it's game six Bullpen day chat swag green versus the Astros and Brad as they try to peacock their way into the world series Bottom one. It's not easy being green.  Are you the one they call Sanchez RBI single for Gary? It's three to one top four Geo or Shella Ella Ella Hey, he goes solo Dolo three to Houston after four Alex Pregman shows the fortitude to make the score Fortitude after an RBI ground out. It stayed that way into the ninth Osuna in for the save But he is just a man against a machine DJ La may you la machina goes to run Homer.  I mean it all series neither of these teams could hit I mean, that's that's kind of the dirty secret that's getting swept on the rug a little bit but DJ LaMahew finally gets that big swing that the Yankees had been looking for all series and There were so many I've mentioned on here that I'm a big storyline guy and You know, I think Houston was undefeated this year when they were up two runs or more and they went up three runs in this game You know the the Yankees were down three games to one It felt like that LaMahew swing was gonna be the like oh shoot Houston might have their back against the wall game seven. Yeah, they got cold But they're gonna have all the pressure on the world on them And then just like that about ten minutes later. It was gone So, yeah, I don't know. It was a good game. It was I mean the bullpen day game six And a lot of the arms that went out there and fought the good fight. I mean for the Yankees my word Jay hap out there fighting the good fight after Yankee fans that kicked him to the curb in what August Yeah, it was it was a great game. It was a good series. I think it was the best two teams Q the Nats fans started to get mad Houston Houston rolled they The Astros we're gonna win, you know Because even when DJ hit that home run I was so excited and then I was live on Periscope But I told you this already like once the Yankees didn't score again, and it was a tied game.   This is I mean, it's one of those feelings Those guys would have been there for tomorrow because you have to be yeah at the end of the season But that wasn't an issue either way Chapman hangs one to Al Tuve Al Tuve just absolutely smokes it And uh, yeah, I mean he's Al Tuve's special special little booger I wish I could like him even more because he's like my exact same dimensions if I drop 15 pounds It's uh, I mean it's great for them that the Houston all the videos from around the stadium how nuts that place was going That's really cool To be at that game and if you're Yankee fans, I think you know the pitch count was up But Marinsic was on deck. He got put in as a defensive replacement for Brantley The catch 22 there is you'd you'd put Springer on second that a single falls Yeah, you know I went I went through some of the analytic stuff and they were saying basically Al Tuve being up with Springer on first is almost it's a coin flip between having a runner on second with Marinsic up Like that Al Tuve was the same amount of dangerous and I don't know it hurts going down to that guy when you've got another guy on deck like yeah, I would have pitched Al Tuve because um, I wouldn't have wanted to lose to like a bloop single by Marinsic Like I'm happier and it's just a bad pitch I mean he couldn't locate his fastball Chapman and then Al Tuve was swinging through his shoes and you put a slider in the zone. I mean I was calling for slider in the dirt Live so they didn't go with my call which is Yeah, that's ignorant by that. Yeah, just listen to me next time, please Don't put a slider in the zone. He's clearly swinging. They didn't listen to me either. I said go get Marinsic, but it's uh I don't know. It's tough.  They had the upstart 2017 They come back last year and the red sox are just magical And it it felt like this was the Yankees year You know they were doing everything despite all the injuries They rolled the twins and they were this was going to be the redemption series against Houston And uh, no, they uh, you know, I think game two and game six are going to haunt the Yankees for uh, for a good amount of time Yeah, I think, you know astros fans are saying that it felt like our year to us Right, um, but I mean they like they've I mean they won Still yeah still can be their year Do you see the stats that the Yankees out hit them and out pitch them in every statistical category? But that's like why stats don't always matter like the Yankees had a higher batting average They had a higher on base percentage. They had a higher slugging percentage. They had a higher ops They had a higher batting average with runners in scoring position. They had a better starters era and a better relievers era Yeah, I mean all that gets you you just have to take game one out of the equations for that because the Yankees won game one seven nothing And then the rest were really tight games Yeah, but it it is still like when I saw that graphic. I was like, wait, what? It's crazy. Yeah, and it's it's just crazy and it's it's something I might dig into this off season But teams that do come close You know, there's a certain amount of luck that comes into the playoffs I'm not saying this was all luck by Houston. They're an incredible team But it's it's funny that you know people are going to question the Yankees starting pitching the hitting the bullpen When you know, they were in game two They were a walk in a bloop away from winning that game. That was the game that went into 11 innings Um, and then I mean in game six, you know, the the the whole series could be changed. So it's um It's it's great for houston. They're going on Yankees fans They're gonna have a lot of questions already the the francisco lindore rumors are flying for yankee fans.  Oh, you didn't think they trade bower, but that more of the issue is uh paying the king's ransom that would come with lindore the Yankees aren't Going to do that and might not even have that but that's going to be another story for the off season Well, the interesting tidbit before we move on is that zack britain came out and had some very very telling quotes Uh, basically like Starting pitching wins championships. I was gassed. I'm not a starter. I'm a reliever. I can't pitch that much And that's not how like you need starting pitching and this world series Includes the two highest paid top three pitchers in baseball Scherzer Strasburg Corbin Cole cranky verlander The they are the most paid pitchers and you have to pay for starting pitching and the Yankees I think and I was blind to this somewhat for a while like The Yankees have to kind of reevaluate because they like their big bullpens and The big bullpen is great during the course of 162. It's really really good But when you need to rely on them every day in the post season, it's You need to you need to have those big guns and and severino being hurt and not fully like Severino Stretched out hurts and all that but props to the astros for you know making the moves for verlander. Cole and cranky Do you have here's what's up in that? I might astros fans might find interesting jake Do you have a player on the astros you don't like because I I going into this series. I couldn't tell you a player. I liked or didn't like Oh, I I could tell you players. I liked like altube is so fun uh Braggman at third base They got a lot of likable players. I think do you have any coming away that you're like, uh, that doesn't do anything for me Yeah, I mean guerrilla and osuna, but that's kind of for off the field stuff I came away korea korea boo uh korea's got a little bit of uh like that that That geeky analytic thing that I kind of talked about like, you know, the apex predator thing Yeah, oh my god, that's the song you're you're in the high school cafeteria and someone comes back and says hey bro I'm the apex predator. You're like Cool. You know what you know what killer boosts. That's a great. I've and and I'd like and I'm people astros are gonna get upset because I like all your other players But korea is lame like every video I saw and quote.   Slush it out of the system and yeah, but circling back on the the yankees bullpen. Yeah I mean they uh, they clearly built their team that way Um Building by the bullpen so when someone like britain who they paid to come into town and had an incredible year and incredible post seasons Um, yeah, it makes you wonder and I mean you just can second guess everything that game one where tanaka was cruising And you know, we we kind of gave them claps for going to the bullpen and said that's the plan Um, you know, maybe deal at bull to knock a empty the tank and potentially save that bullpen and rest them for a It changes the whole mindset of the yankees Yeah, that for that game one though boon did come out and say tanaka like Was gassed and asked to come out. It was like I have nothing left Yeah, well, could any of the bullpen guys say that to boon No, they were used to death. Yeah, no, I'm with you and it's eye-opening All right, anything else astros win really cool moment for them Like walk off to go to the world series against chat Astros win the the only thing that I think is really important and People are going to think i'm saying this in a negative light is that the look at the pitch that yuli gurriel hit out of the park Off chat green chat green That's one of the better fastballs in baseball. Uh, just like spin rate wise. I mean miles per hour everything It was about six inches in off the plate Gurriel just turns on it a guy who was in a one for 20 slump and it's like, well, that's baseball for you right there Yeah, that that was crazy that he hit that pitch out I feel bad for chat because it was it was like it's the unhittable pitch really He turned puts it over the into the seats The other news coming out of this jake and I don't know how much we want to touch on this But I feel like we should mention it is that the astros Assistant to the gm Taubman or whatever his name is Yeah, uh supposedly Uh, well the reporters are saying that he looked at the female reporters and screamed I'm so fucking glad we got a suhna.   He's like a young like nerdy like mit grad it's like, uh Well, this is just passing judgment for no reason. So I'm just gonna stop but it sucks and then the astros response to it Kind of was really shitty Yeah, they uh, they kind of blindly defended him and then all the media was like no this happened and it was really bad Um, and yeah, it's just um Unless there's a missing part of the story that nobody knows about yet It's uh, it seems awful because he's yelling. Thank god. We got a suhna Faces of women and it's after the game osuna blew the game He was the worst player in the series for them. It it doesn't add up at all.  I mean people still would have been like, okay But it's better than straight up just denying it when more people have come out and said no, it happened Yeah, yeah, and it's uh Yeah, I don't know you'd like to think houston's gonna take care of it. I don't know Um, and yeah, I mean just this is an fyi to houston fans. I'm not saying this as a dig But as someone who received tweets about the 98 yankees teams taking steroids the other day Um people are going to run with this against your houston team.  It's like yuli guerrilla. I'm just saying there's a stack of things coming up Like the warriors turned heel in the mba If they if the astros win this world series you become the heel not the darling I think officially especially with all these I think they're already there Yeah, yeah Well, good. I mean as yankee fans. Who cares be the heel. That's that's the fun part of winning sometimes Uh, the other thing that someone just brought up in the in the chat.   Well, we just got beat by the most analytical team in the mlb Unapologetically the most analytical team in mlb and they beat us by using the home run So maybe one maybe one of the few like maybe the only more analytical team Yeah, and they and they beat us because they didn't hit better than us, but they hit home runs better than us so So that's kind of all the annoying storylines going on. Let's move on to the fun stuff And if you're a nationals fan, you've kind of been waiting for this and astros fans probably let's move on to The world series preview quick break and then we'll get there All right world series the main stage jake nationals versus astros if you thought about this match up when 2000 and like 10 would have been a big joke Five years ago. I've been like what? But that is kind of cool to powerhouse starting pitch starting pitching Lineups that got to set them exactly how they want for game one sherser versus coal Get some people on the main stage obviously the astros have been on the main stage before the world kind of knows Who hose al-tube is the world knows who just in verlander is I think the world's going to get introduced to garret coal on a different level and on the On the national side the world is going to get introduced to wan soda. Like you have The pitchers and you have some other players Wan soto is going to dominate The talk that's my not on field prediction just kind of like media coverage Like the first time he does that soto shuffle and he's staring pitchers down All the casual fans who are coming just to watch the world series for the first time We're gonna be like what is that guy doing?  It's the It's the most talented starting pitching that's ever been in a world series. It's the highest paid starting pitching in the league I mean, that's that's what it's all gonna loop around yeah it's uh It's starting pitching versus starting pitching. I mean the the nationals I'm interested to see how the nationals are going to handle their pen and how much Strasburg Cole and Corbin are going to throw out of the pen on their throw days Like these guys are starters and relievers. They don't I don't think they're going to have side bullpen sessions I think they're going to have their bullpen sessions in the world series Yeah, I I don't know. I I think shers are shers are and um Strasburg, I don't think they're gonna do that. I I think Corbin they are I think they've already said that for the first two games Corbin will be available I I think mid series like you just believe in those guys so much that you would you would do that for game seven Um, well if they're backs against the wall Early yeah In in like a game six or something. Yeah, but I I don't know man. I think those guys are They they believe in those guys and like I don't know think we're not going to say Houston wouldn't use verlander or coal Well, they didn't already. I mean they used shers are and Corbin out of the pen in the ds and the and the cs like that's Right and Corbin will be used and then in that in that game five um That they went to him, but yeah, I I I don't think mid series um Yeah, I I don't think they can I I don't think I I think they'd rather use bullpen and not run the risk of I mean burning those guys out earlier Yeah, I don't know. I mean I thought Didn't shers are already do it not in game five. He did it in Oh, it was game five of the nlds Yeah, they're they're not going to do that to the end with those guys Yeah, I don't know their bullpen sucks Yeah, and I think that's Well, we'll we'll talk about it a little bit. But yeah, I mean they're they're going to ask a ton out of shers or Strasburg and Corbin and Annabelle Sanchez Um, and right now they have three they believe in they they have do little they have Hudson And they they're going to try out rainy. Um, he's kind of the x factor to see if they can get an extra inning out of their Rainy he's been good since that first outing, but I have that first outing stuck in my head What about uh Rodney?  Does he not care? This is the world one of these things one of these things is not like the other Um, he's 42 Um, no, I mean you're gonna see some of these guys and big at bats Uh, think about all the pictures we saw in the Yankees and Houston series I mean we saw a bullpen day from houston um We we are going to see the depths of these bullpen and I don't think Washington's going to be able to hide it just by even if they do try to work in throw days and stuff which If I'm shers or an on Strasburg, I believe I I can win my man up starts that I don't have to do that You have the astros winning this handily right Yeah, I mean houston is the biggest favorite in vegas since the red sox in 07 versus the rockies Um, I I think a lot of the hype that we're seeing right now Is kind of being fabricated by baseball people Um, because I don't know I think I I did this with the gnats and the cardinals and again gnats fans You enjoyed me for the past week. I think you're gonna not enjoy me for the next week If you just go around these teams houston's better um And it's it's the people in vegas aren't doing it with opinions They they do it with money on the line and stats facts data and information And I don't know like if you just go, okay, what in field do you like better? What outfield do you like better? What bullpen do you like better the starting pitching? There's a conversation to be had there But I mean, I think I'd still lean the houston. It's just because really What about oh just because they've been there because I think you'd take corbin over cranky Uh, I personally would yeah, but I think I think I and this is now we're starting to split hairs with the pitching staff So I don't want these to be taken as like I'm I'm taking coal over scherzer all day Uh, because it's baseball and that's why it's a beautiful sport But I think for one game this year. Would you rather have garret coal or max shares? Right now garret coal Right and that's not a shot at max scherzer is one of the best pitches of this generation But coal has had one of the most incredible years We've ever seen ever in his worst start. He went six innings pitch zero and runs Yeah, I I mean he he's got a 15 strikeout performances playoff Um, you know scherzer got hit a little bit in a couple of his starts. He's bounced back to be better Um, and then like, okay, so what if I said one game you want verlander strassberg in the world series That's a toss up because strassberg verlander has had like a couple games now where He's vulnerable at times and if you attack him at that time you can beat him Yeah Yeah, I mean the the one run the yanks got off of him and in his first start was just the one mistake It was the judge Well, there's two to run homer But I mean he let someone on base before that and then there were some other mistakes in that game that the Yankees didn't I mean there there's a conversation there and I've been a strassberg defender from the start of this playoff So when we were calling him the asterisk mr. Four starts, um, his playoff numbers are incredible and he's he's another guy who I think he can become a story of this postseason in this world series because Strassberg was the big name He was on sports illustrated and stuff like that before he made it to the major leagues He kind of got forgotten in the like brice harper world and then overshadowed by scherzer He could have a serious bounce back and maybe that'll be part of washington's theme if they do it But I don't know gun to your head Would you rather go down with verlander or strassberg? Verlander because he's been there before but that's that's like like you said that's picking hairs Right again, it's it's pulling straws and then you know, hey, I'll I'll give you a Corbin over grinky Um, even though that's a discussion in and of itself They're really good the the line-ups favor of the astros but the astros haven't been hitting at all Yeah, I mean you wonder guerrilla. He wasn't hitting he gets that one swing And now he's you know, is he back on track? Does that get him going?  They'll just bench him because he's normally their dh So yeah, I don't know I I think I think it's gonna be closer I think I think it'd be a good series or I think the individual games will be good That's what i'm hoping like even if even if the astros went in four went in five I hope the individual games are close and there's not like, you know blowouts like And and that I did kind of think about the pattern of the cardinals scoring big in the First inning versus the braves of game five and then getting beat in the same manner In their elimination game and then the national sweeping and then getting swept And just the pattern there and that would suck. I hope this isn't a sweep I don't think it will be I think I think the gnats are gonna win one or two games I think it goes. Yeah, I think we're going five or six, but I I think I think it's used I mean the bullpens and that's that's what might be funny about this I mean, I think with all this talk about starting pitching I think the bullpen is Are going to decide this series because I think the starting pitchers are going to do their job Because that's all they know And I I just think Washington nationals in the regular season literally had the worst bullpen And these guys are gonna have to come in for bigot bats against big dudes against houston. I mean the nationals They have two impact bats and they're special sodo and rendon I mean Howie Kendrick's having an incredible postseason But he's still howie kendrick to a degree, you know, I I don't want that to be a slap in the face But I don't think how we can like anytime sodo or rendon comes up against Cole verlander grinky like those are must watch Like that's gonna be awesome and those hitters can win those at bats if they make a mistake And unless howie kendrick proved me wrong in the first two games I mean Cole and verlander those guys have the advantage on him I'm rooting for howie I'm rooting for baby shark.  So it's quieter And you just waving a towel and that's kind of lame Clap make noise.  I hate rally towels Yeah, clap because you want to clap like just It's like high school It really weirds me out that they use a meta professional game. Anyway, that's just me being cranky I am excited for the the nationals fan that old man nationals fan who has a sign room rooting for him Rooting for that guy really hard. Where's the glasses always has a sign looks like the old balls, dude from billy madison or big daddy Five-year plan guy. What is it not die? Um, all right, so game one is uh, Cole versus Scherzer Cole actually has a history versus the nationals because he was in that he was in the nl for a while whereas the Yeah, the the nationals don't really or the uh, astros don't really have a history versus scherzer. There's not a lot there but Rendon has 15 at bats um And that's really all but he's got really good numbers versus call 467 on base percentage 385 batting average. Obviously, this is pre Astros analytics pine tar call. So a little different but How do you see this game going out and playing out game one?  It should be a feast for baseball fans um If you are like a casual casual fan, it might be a bad time because I mean you could see You could see what the combined 30 strikeouts in this game easily. Yeah So that's up to the announcers to let let the viewers know like how cool that is right, um, but if you're in a bar or something I don't know. I I think um, if you are the gnats This is I'm not saying must win But you you'd like to get this one if you could get coal and scherzer and that's if nationals do do this It's I mean, there's some good story lines there. You know, I'm a storyline guy Uh, the district of champions the nationals don't have a world series I don't think that franchise does technically since like 1924 when they were the generals or something like that Um, max Scherzer.  He's had an incredible career three psi young seven times all star This is probably his best chance to win a world series. Um, so yeah I mean if if those guys can two turn in special performances I mean, that's what makes baseball great sport. Like they they could do this easily Um, you know, it maybe they're starting pitching is does take it a step up from houston's and and they take over um I don't know game one. Yeah, I mean, there's there's no reason to not expect these two dudes to be just special They do not have a world series in their history No The royals the Montreal royals were revived in 1928 and purchased by the brooklyn dodgers in 1939 to serve as their triple a affiliate Holy shit imagine being a professional club and you get purchased by another professional club to become a minor league club Ha ha ha Wait, wait, but we're professionals No, your minor league player is actually sorry about that You're now in our farm system That's a really tough break Good pay raise They won seven international league championships and three junior world series when they went to the minor leagues because they were a Professional team that got moved to the minor league. So they just dominated dude. That's really shitty Jackie robinson played for the Montreal royals and led the team to a junior world series title damn And then uh, yeah, but no no thing I didn't think about you think there's baseball fans in Montreal that are Like, you know, they stayed true to the nationals And are Like is there like if they did one of those espn graphic maps and it was like, yes Who who thinks the national who who do you think will win every state in america has the astros? but then washington dc the dmv area has the Everyone has the astros the washington dmv area has the nationals and then there's a little blip in montreal that also has the nationals That'd be cool. Yeah, I think because you have to think about it like this If you were a nationals fan and you're a big baseball fan and your team just moved to a different town You're still gonna root for them because it's 90 percent the same guys and that was your team Um, there's definitely a group up there that absolutely hates them Because they left their town So, yeah, it's a little bit of a catch 22 there Yeah, I I don't know if if they get the this the district of champions behind them and they're They're motivated to get their first one and a couple standout performances. Why not washington, but I think uh Just looking at it on paper. I mean if you if you A lot of ways you break it down. I mean houston's the better team I will say there's another fun thing to kind of equate during this series We talked about jordan alvarez who's supposed to be I think he technically had like the third highest ops if you if you make his games eligible is like trout someone else in him um Jordan alvarez struggled immensely so far this playoffs on the other side of the spectrum the guy who you might see dh Um, or maybe you'll see him at first base, but ryan zimmerman the old man for the gnats I mean he's he's i'm looking at their team page right now and he's technically like fifth all time in war for the national He's the best nationals player of all time And they have old old man zimmerman versus young jordan alvarez on the other side of the ball That that might be fun to see how those how those two dudes react to the world series That'd be cool. The old guys the oldest team. I wish the astros were the youngest team. That would be a fun storyline Yeah, dude, uh, I got lost on on wikipedia The nationals when they were in montreal played at jerry park stadium And the bullpen was on top of the dugout So like it was one pitcher standing on top of the dugout right in front of the crowd's faces They're basically pitching on a catwalk How bizarre is that there's a cool picture of it if you just search jerry park Whatever it was called It's called jerry park stadium Was park his last name because that's a confusing to have it be named after Jerry park, but then you have stadium so it's like park stadium park park Yeah, you know what I mean Interesting. All right. I think that ends this episode We will be back tomorrow.   Thank you guys for listening Thanks for sticking with us through our brief hiatus But uh, enjoy the world series if you like baseball tell someone to watch it with you grow grow the game. 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Hello guys. Hi. Good morning So my name is Vilenath Majof and I'm Jan, Vigara So today we'll be talking about immutable open-strike infrastructure and how we approach the ad party power bed fair So first off just a bit of background about us. So what makes us different we merge a party power in bed fair merged 2016 to form a 42100 company And we have offices around the globe. So we have offices in the UK, Romania, Portugal Ireland, Malta, Gibraltar, USA and Australia as well And if you're curious about the stuff we're doing we also have an engineering blog which you can have a look at betsandbets.com And in our company we have Over 1,000 engineers Some of our products are we run a betting exchange. We have a sports book and we also offer games in retail And just to give you some numbers of the number of transactions we do daily We have 135 million daily transactions going through our systems and we do 30 billion daily API calls as well In terms and all of this obviously as you can imagine generates quite a lot of logs so we do 2.5 terabytes of daily logs and We have 120,000 monitoring points every second generate from all those servers And our transaction times are within four milliseconds We are also building a hundred thousand core OpenStack cloud And we have two two two petabytes of storage So this is our OpenStack journey We had a four-week pilot And back in 2015 Then we had a six-month Sorry for we peel a proof of concept and we had a six-month pilot living out active active data centers Where we onboarded to customer-facing applications And this also allowed us to test our self-service workflows, which we are gonna see in a bit We close the pilot after those first two applications and so far we've upgraded over 100 applications so far We also upgraded to new ash 3.2 r10 and we're We also built our test lab. So what we're currently working on is doing our new agent OpenStack upgrade All right. So how many of you have already upgraded their OpenStack infrastructure? Yeah, how easy was it? Yeah, so we're using Red Hat for OpenStack and if we want to upgrade from Open OSPD 7 to OSPD 10 we have a couple of steps So we had two different solutions for that first one is to follow the the production so Them the documentation so the commutation says upgrade the director to a yum update then upgrade the over cloud image upload them to your glance and Then you can start upgrading your over clouds But first step is you need to modify your heat templates for that and this is where things start going wrong Because we're using a spine and leaf architecture, which means we have very specific and very customized heat templates and which means that upgrading will mean a lot of testing a lot of refactoring and Things have evolved quite a lot between the two the two versions and that's probably as we Trying to move from OSP 7 to SP 10. There's a huge gap between the two so the other solution would be to deploy a brand new OpenStack and migrates all the VMs from the old one to the the new one so which is the solution we we choose and We're going to explain to you how we we are going to achieve that So first here is the reference architecture. We we're on so So sitting at the top, we have a global old balancer the diverting traffic to our two data centers After that, we have junior performance and citric next-get a little balancers And then we have the new wash gateways Directing driving to our clouds and then we have our red hat open stack implementation sitting on KVM hypervisors And we also have a risk of top-of-rack switches and some plainly bird hypervisor some plainly supervisors for our common infrastructure like LDAP DNS and NTP and This is replicated across the two data centers and we use net up and pure storage for storage And this is some of the tooling we're using for our continuous delivery to chain So we use thought works go for scheduling and visualization of the pipelines and we use Jenkins like most of our people We use good lab for our for our version control and we use chef and Ansible for configuration management and orchestration We use artifact tray For our artifacts and RPMs and we use qualists for security scanning Okay, so if you want to do in multiple infrastructure and in the case of open stack You probably need to start from really at the bottom. So how you provision your infrastructure? How you do all of this? So let's start with how we decided to provision the the network and just as a quick review Presentation how we use spine and leaf. So is anybody familiar with the spine and leaf architecture? Okay, a couple of you. It's perfect. I won't have to explain too much So basically the idea is you split the traffic on your You have the spines and then you have the leaves connected to the spines and each of them are in the different billi-p routing Which simplify and prevents all the usual truck traffic you can have in in between racks. So from this architecture we have this rack diagram and What we have is we have two spines in each racks One management switch for where we're connecting the ILO and one management switch for the rest of the for the provisioning of the servers so we started working on a Announceable playbook that is going to provision the switches and Making the connection between all the spine and leaves and reconfigure the BGP reconfigure everything So we started by defining the inventory file which represent what we have in the in the rack if you have a look and Based on this inventory file We know where the switch is located and from the switch the location of the switch were able to make some clever Connection between the the two and able to reconfigure the whole network each time So the process we use is pretty easy when we provision a new rack We spin up the switch They pick seaboot pick up the configuration through their TPS and they are they we push the minimal configuration Do some firmware upgrade and the switch is ready and then we run an answerable playbook that will reconfigure everything So as an example we have in that case Just a template that is reconfiguring the BGP between the spine and the leaves and making sure the connection is is done so for our SDN we use new hash networks and I'm gonna cover how we consume new hash for our SDN So we wanted to make the process for the developers as easy as possible and also sell service So we have designed a set of YAML config files, which they need to fill out and consume their network that way So those files look like this and they have a subnet YAML Which specifies the domain name where the application should be deployed to do and they also specify How many the maximum number of instances they might need for the application? Because developers don't really care about subnet sizes. They care about how many VMs they want to have and This just allow us to make it very easy for them saying okay I need X amount of VMs and I just put a number and I don't care about the rest Which makes a nice and simple and we also have another file with the security ACLs So in this example, we can see that we have an ingress ACL By the way, this is from the point of view of the VM because it's very We try to make the self-service workflow very developer focused So we're trying to hide the network complexity from them But just make it easy for them to reason about it. So ingress is going is flowing into the VM not leaving not into the network so here we have a fairly simple ACL which is incoming on port 8080 and Next to it we have an egress ACL which is to connect to external databases such as my SQL So how this maps into new ash up into the new ash object model? So we're using the same configuration we saw before we see that we've ended up with a zone for every application and Under the zone isn't is the red one? Another each zone. We have the subnet which we've allocated for this application in this case. It's a slash 26 and They are on the right side of that. We can see the virtual machine instances Some have one some have two. This is a queue environment. So the scare was fairly small and The way we do our ACLs is we have the security policies attached to at the zone level So all the VMs on the rest and as a result share the ACLs and you can see how they look like in new ash Okay, so now we have the network setup next step will be to provision the physical infrastructure. So how we do this? Again, if you have a look at our rack design. So as I was mentioning Each rack has its own set of network and IP addresses. So in our case, we are just going to Provision the servers and you have at the top the IP addresses. We're using for the ILO Of the server. So we translate this still in the same inventory file. We are adding the servers we want to provision and We start adding a couple of informations like the ILO address We're going to use the unit number where the server is located and based from that The process we are going through is we try to reconfigure will reconfigure the network so again based on some convention and some templates were able to Create the configuration push the configuration to the switch to reconfigure the port channel reconfigure The network provisioning the all the information we need Then the next step is to create the DNS entry change some ILO parameters power of the server at the server to the HP one view to manage it and to apply the configuration we want to apply on the server and Then the server is ready. So here is some example of how we configure the port channel. So based on some Information so the inventory file are sure is really simplified. There's more data than that. But based on that we are extracting some informations and from this inventory file and the rack where the server is located and the Switch is connected. We are able to push the configuration to the correct switches And we're able to create the port channel push the VLANs. We want to use and things like this so then here is some of the sample of our playbook that is Provisioning the server so on the left side you have some of the thing we wrote specifically for ILO and for changing the ILO parameters wedding resetting the host and then Creating the recording in for blocks and then after that it's powering off the server and adding it to HP one view so after a couple of minutes when the playbook is running or after a couple of hours when the firmware has been updated on the servers we can see that it's Finally in HP one view And now that we have the hypervisors. Let's see how we actually use them So we have created a self-service workflow for VM creation and The way the developers consume this is by filling out a fairly simple ansible inventory file So how many of you are familiar with Ansible? Okay, quite a few good, so it should be fairly familiar with this so um we First of all we have a naming standard for our instances Which is data center replication the host the number and then the environment it is in We also define the number of vCPUs RAM disk and image we want to use for each instance We also and in the placement prefix and the host we define what hypervisors we want those instances to land on The reason we allocate hypervisors rather than have a shared pool is because we wanted to avoid the noise neighbor problem and We are and we also specify what application want to deploy on each instance in this case. It's our app So how how do we actually deploy all of this? So we have a go folks go pipeline and the first stage of it is just to pull down all of those config files Ansible playbooks onto the go agent We then set up the prerequisites an open stack this includes creating the flavor and the host aggregates We then check the capacity on the hypervisor just to make sure we have enough capacity on the hypervisor for the deployment We're about to do and if we don't have enough will obviously break the pipeline We then create the layer 3 network So this will create the new ash subnet and also the corresponding entity and open stack and create a sales So we do a B subnet so this will be the a summit in this case because we have nothing in our cloud in this instance The next step would be launching the VMs. This is consuming the static inventory file. We saw earlier Our next step in the pipeline is run ansible So this will apply our ansible role on top of those VMs and Get the application ready to be put in production The next step is create web. So this will configure our net scalers and the services on them Rolling update is where it gets interesting. So this will prepare the application in my great any state you've needed and Then it will put in service At which point we also Test the application just to make sure it's so good and we promote it in Jenkins ready to be pushed onto the next environment And then we obviously clean up the previous version which we don't have one because it's a fresh deployment So we use the same process from QA To integration to perf and then to production. We used exactly the same process just on a different scale at each environment Okay, so we thought that could be a good idea to use the same pipeline and to Find a way to deploy the open stack director And so that's what we started doing. So Instead of using open stack to deploy the application We deploy with speedy directly on a little bit server, but it's going through exactly the same the same process So a couple of things for the one you want to provision An open stack infrastructure. So you need a couple of land and VLAN to be created So the first one is the one at the top, which is the VLAN for the provisioning Where this is where the server is going to pixie boots and then connect to the Ironic sitting on top of on in OSPD will pixie boots get the configuration and be deployed and then you have the two other Network one for the internal API and one for the external API where we can query everything. So and we have then two different networks for each Hypervisor one which is connected to the data network and the other one which is connected to the new hash network where we will provision the the Network the subnet at the top we have also the VLANs for the The ILO and if you have a look each rack again has its own sets of IP addresses for the ILO So all those IP address all this network We try to convert them so we wrote a playbook that deployed the OSPD and We just converted all the informations you could find on the previous slide into Actual data. So here is the YAML file we're using and we're filling it to our Ansible playbook and from This data so where we have the VLANs we want to provision for the data storage all the internal APIs With the VLANs where it sits on the interface and all those those information Plus for each rack. What is the network? We are going to use so each rack again in the spine and leaf architecture has its own set of IPs to prevent Problem So from those information we create some templates which are going to provision first the The over cloud configuration. So this is the configuration that is used by RDO that will create all the the other other things. So we try to use convention as much as possible and As part of the convention if you have a look we use the site a cider IP range and from that we just extrapolate and extract some information So we get the first IP address available. We get ranges based from the those information So that's the first step that is creating and provisioning the the director Then we have our very specific custom Triple-O template. So this is the one that generates from the rack We go back from the rack we define here so we can specify how many racks we want to deploy open stack on top and From this we extrapolate and we generate the number. So if you have a look at the thing at the top and at the bottom we have We generate each rack and each configuration for each rack. So That's how we do this and then we have the last step Which is creating the custom file where we have all the the custom racks and how many server we put in each rack Once we have everything we put this through the pipeline and Everything is green go through exactly the same pipeline and we have same thing through different environments We are able to test and make sure that before reaching the product environment. We tested everything Okay, so at the end of this process We should have an open stack director ready and we are able to start scanning out So for us getting out will mean adding new servers. So Again, we have automated the process using ansible and we still using the same inventory file so where we describe the entire infrastructure and This is where we start adding a bit more intelligence into the Inventory file. So if you have a look on the left of our inventory file, we have the cloud we are going to use and We use that inside our ansible playbook to match what you have on the right-hand side Which is the cloud configuration? So this is the OS client config which is then used by shade and by ansible to targets Which cloud we are going to to put things so then the process is pretty simple Pretty simple. We reconfigure the switches to push the villain. So that's exactly the same step We went through at the beginning We get the note from ironic to make sure that the node is not already there and then gather some I lofax for Memory CPUs this kind of information then we add the note to ironics. So the OS PD of ironic Set the node in maintenance mode introspect the node to get some information from the node itself and then exit the maintenance and we update the template to say We have X amounts of servers So the this is the playbook we were using so again, we gather facts from the I lof And we know we try to figure out if the server is a new one or an existing one And then based on that we add the node to ironic So we modified tiny bit the OS ironic module to add a couple of more informations like we are pushing the rack and the unit and some other informations like the profile This type of things because later on we're going to use this and I will explain how and in the result you have Inside your OS PD you have if you do a node ironic node list. This is the result from ironic and You can see that some of the information we pass at the big in the inventory file or pushed directly to the ironic node Okay, so we have the first one we know how to enroll servers We know how to do a scallops doing scallops is pretty easy using hits and scanning out to the infrastructure Next step is how do we create a second instance? So that's pretty easy We if you remember our network We just duplicate it so copy and paste we change a couple of IP addresses a couple of villains So instead of using as we had a previously villain, which were one hundred two hundred four hundreds we changed that to use one hundred the one one hundred or two one four hundred one and And we change also a couple of IP addresses to completely isolate everything Same thing for the racks we want to isolate the racks and make sure they are not on the same same one and then We reprovision the new OS PD. So at the same time We will have two OS open stack director running one for the OS P 10 7 and the other one for the OS P 10 then How do we move servers from one Open stack director to the other one. So from one instance to the other one If you have a look at the diagram So we've we are decided to go down the path of one rack is dedicated for one cloud or at the beginning we have all the racks in the same cloud and Over the time we're going to provision new racks and migrate the VMs to the new racks and we'll explain how we do do this so in our example This is if you remember the inventory file, we have all the clouds on the left, which is I to lab OS P 7 and if we want to create more Entries or specify which node or which rack is going to be in which cloud This is how we do this. So we specify the clouds We are going to use and this is going to match again the cloud configuration and we target the two defense OSP directors So the process is exactly the same we enroll the server in the new cloud and Then how do we migrate up before enrolling? We need to delete them from the old cloud. So we it's still working progress We're still working on that. But the idea is to as you remember in the Ironic nodes, we know which rack is there So we are able to do some dynamic query or dynamic inventory to gather all the informations filter that by rack And then destroy all the machines inside this rock add them to the new one and Then scale out the the exit the new run So this is how we This is the reference architecture we have at the end. So we have at the same time two different open stack running and now this is the trick and So now that we have our new cloud Radiant waiting, but somewhat empty. How do we actually consume it? So To do that we wrote a custom ansible dynamic inventory for open stack which allows us to query multiple clouds So again using OS client config we have our clouds in a in a fairly simple demo file So in this case, we have our OSP 7 and OSP 10 named clouds and This all the same config also allows us to have many other clouds. For example, if you want to do the other data center So they cannot be within the same config file So we to how do you actually specify which one is the old cloud and which one is the new cloud? So it's fairly simple. We just pass OS clouds Sorry environment variables to specify that the old cloud is OSP 7 and then the new cloud is OSP 10 So we run the normal dynamic inventory to get to gather a list of hosts and then we combine them into a single unified Inventory list, but each instance is also tagged with the cloud it lives in if we need to use that later and this is the playbook to actually Allow us to reason over the clouds we have Because we can name the clouds whatever we want, but we wanted to use the same playbooks for All the clouds we have going forward. We didn't want to hard-code the values of those clouds. So we Format we rewrite the name of the cloud dynamically to old cloud and new cloud allowing us to easily reason over them So this is an example of how we would create an instance into our new cloud. I Won't go over the ansible, but it's fairly simple and Again to delete from the old cloud, which we no longer need we would do pretty much the same process But with state absent targeting the old cloud and the old parameter for OS server So and this is the theory so far. So how do we actually do it? So if we go back to this now that we have our OSP 10 cloud adjacent to our OSP 7 Again, we go through set of prerequisites. This pulls down the config We create our flavors and host aggregates into the new cloud We check capacity should be empty. So should be fine, right? We create our B network as an entity under the new cloud, but also linked into new ash Which is a shared resource for both of them We launch our VMs into the new cloud Again, we apply our ansible row on top We create the Vip. Well, the Vip already exists. So Ansible will say okay moving on And rolling update So we put our new application service and take the old ones of the low balancer And then we make sure everything is okay And then we clean down the old instances from the old cloud So when we do this for all of our applications, we know that this hypervisor is ready to be recycled and put into the new cloud and Yep, we reclaim the hypervisor Okay, so we've done our upgrades and we can go grab a coffee but the trick is we As everything is automated that's pretty easy to do but How we make sure that VMs are going to be migrated from one cloud to another We have a strict policy Paddy power bit fair where we say a VM cannot last longer than 30 days for security reason So the idea is Developer will be will have to redeploy the application in the new in the new environment But they don't know that that's the new or the old one They don't see that we just allocate them a new hypervisor run the pipeline and it's deployed on the new on the new environment So theoretically within the next 30 60 days we should be able to migrate the things seamlessly without any downtime and We have fixed our problem Do you have any questions for us? We have a bit of time Yeah, yeah, I think so There's a mic for your place. What size is your clouds? I mean how many nodes is director able to handle? The moment, you know, yeah, we have around 650 nodes in two data centers So 650 hypervisors and we are on regular basis provisioning new new nodes Yeah, so it's six fifty divided by two. Yeah, so it's three three twenty five per data center at the moment But so our end state is one thousand three hundred. So we're gonna have six hundred fifty for each data center You didn't anything about storage Propagation, could you could you tell us what kind of storage you use and how do you automate it? Yeah, so we we're using pure storage and net app and we're using so Cinder for the that and we have a presentation later today On how we do this exactly But the process is exactly the same we create the Cinder volume attach it to the VM And once we provision the new one We re-import the volume into the new cloud and reattach the volume to the new to the new VM That's really a short explanation Because there are a shared resource within the cloud it allows us to do that the same with low balancers storage and SDN Organizationally what was your approach top-down or bottom-up when application to infrastructure infrastructure application to encourage this CICD mentality is true to start with from an application perspective. It was told down Any other questions? Okay Thank you very much for your time


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This is going to be your 100% shiny steel Pokemon locations in the Teal Mask DLC. If you're looking for any specific Pokemon in the Teal Mask, go ahead and check out the timestamps down below in the description, as well as checking out a playlist we have over here for any other typings you may need, as well as our older playlist in Paudea if you missed any of the shinies. It almost has a million views. A lot of people have watched that playlist, so check that out if you need shiny Pokemon. All right, for the steel sandwich, what you're going to be needing is going to be one hamburger and then you're going to be grabbing a salty and a sweet herbomistica. Again, feel free to comment down below any alternate recipes that you think are going to be good for this sandwich and also feel free to use level 2 sandwiches with encounter power, because they do just as good as a job as the salty herbas. Honestly, I've seen people get it all the time in the comments and people tweeting at me, so if you don't have herbomisticas, don't worry about it too much. If you did it right, you should have a sparkling power steel level 3 and an encounter power steel level 3 as well. Sometimes you might need to use zoom in at the Pokemon a little far away, so in order to do that, go ahead to your home, go to system settings, and from system settings, go all the way down to system, then go down, turn on zoom, and when you enter your game, you should be able to go ahead and just hit the double home, zoom in with X and Y to see the Pokemon the distance. You might not need it too much in the steel video, but just wanted you to have that just in case. Now let's get hunting. Now, Orthworm has been seen in the base game in Paudeia, and what you're going to want to do is head over to the Paradise Barons. This is going to be a solo hunting spot for Orthworm. It's literally everywhere in this entire area, which is going to be pretty fun to make the hunt a fun thing to do, because all you have to do is look out for a blue shiny. That's it. So explore the area, find a good spot where a lot of them happen to spawn in your visual sites. You can do picnic resets when you have a good amount in a certain area, or you can just keep running around de-spawning and respawning them out until they show up. Just be careful of the ones with the heads that are showing out of the ground. Make sure to identify if that's a shiny or not, because they're not as visible because they're not all the way out. But yeah, this seems like a really good spot exactly where I am. There's a bunch of Orthworms that have spawned around me. So in scenarios like this, this is when you probably want to make yourself a nice picnic, just like this. Get out your picnic and then hang around for a second, and we should get new spawns happening around us. There we go. There's about 1, 2, I got 3, 4, 5, 6. Look at that. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. So yeah, you do get a decent amount of spawns. Let me show you my exact spot. I'm right over here, dead center. But I'm sure a lot of you will figure out much better spawns, probably on hills. Some people figure out if you peek out on this hill, you'll spot some down below you. So there's just so many ways of going about it. Let me know exactly the strategy you've come up with for hunting Orthworm. I'm very curious because everyone just has better spots.  So yeah, I want to know.  I don't know. I'm just curious. Let me know. The next location that we're going to be going to is going to be for Bronzor and Bronzong. And this is going to be located in the Crystal Pool area. Now, if you just want Bronzor, the first evolution, well, then you can just circle around this entire Crystal Lake area very slowly as they spawn in until you happen to bump into a green one. Remember, these spawns are taking their time, you know, so you want to just make sure that you wait a little bit for them to come in and not rush past them as you saw up there. Make sure to zoom in. Sometimes the light reflection could be a bit off, so you want to make sure you do that. I accidentally bumped into one over here before the secret cave entrance, but this is where I found mine. If you want shiny luck just like this, make sure to hit that subscribe button. Now, if you want to get a nice AFK spot for hunting these, I suggest we head over to the secret cave over here. And what you want to do once you arrive at the secret cave entrance below Crystal Lake is head all the way down. Literally just go down until you head towards the water area. Once you arrive at the water area, you're going to come up and you're going to see this entire Bronzor is just hanging around here, killing, having a great time. And you want to make your way down to the end of this tunnel right here, but don't fall down.  And if you turn around, you'll see that a bunch of Bronzor and a Bronzong is actually spawned in. So what you want to do is kind of set out your Pokemon here just to go and auto battle them. And you can kind of just hang back while they all spawn in. And your Pokemon will get to work on it. And pretty much you just sit here until a green one happens to spawn in because they will just constantly keep spawning in over and over again. Just make sure to keep track of your Pokemon. It might just run back to you if it gets tired or worked out. I don't know. It's weird. Or the spawns act a little funky. So yeah, you could eat a sandwich or something while it goes to work taking on all these Pokemon here. There we go. There's a Bronzong that's spawned in. Oh, it's really fighting them all the way out there. Yep. And then it got too far and came back. So there you go. Good luck hunting your Bronzor and Bronzongs down in the crystal pool area. If you want to hunt yourselves a Lucario, which is a steal type, you can head over to the Kitakami Wilds, which is going to be north of the Felhorn Gord. And as you can see, you do get Lucario's, but you also get a lot of Ponyard spawning here. There's tons of them. And for Lucario, you'll be looking for a yellow shiny. And in case you go into a Ponyard out here, it's going to be a blue shiny.  But again, this is also in Paudea, so it's not as exciting. But I just have to put the spot out here for those who want to hunt in Kitakami. So besides shiny hunting Ponyard in the Kitakami Wilds, along with the Lucario, there's also better spots where we can solo this Pokemon out. For example, let's head over right to the spot below us, which is going to be located all the way here in the Timeless Woods. So if you open up our map, we should be right over here sitting in the Timeless Woods. Now, the cool part about the Timeless Woods is that this place is just filled with Ponyards. And sometimes you'll get families of Bisharp and Ponyards as well spawning here. So it's pretty cool for both of the Pokebots. The only thing you're going to have to be looking out for when you're here is the color blue, which is going to make your life a lot easier when hunting. I also want to point out, if we are going for the King Gambit line, then you can actually date skip for a mass outbreak or just time skip or just hit the OK button. That can apparently get you a mass outbreak of the final evolution, which is pretty cool. I don't think you could do that in the base game. Anyway, so pretty much the strategy here is just to roam around the forest not too fast until you find the blue one of your choice. Here's a blue one I found in another video. So it's cool to see it work with the Dark Sandwich, but with the Steel Sandwich, you're pretty much solo here with these Pokemon. Now, if you want a cool Bisharp spot within the Timeless Woods itself, head over to this cave right over here at the bottom left, I would say, of the woods. So enter this cave. This is the one where Snorlax sleeps. And look at that. It's a whole cave just filled with these Bisharps. So you can go ahead and just farm them over here. So you could take this one out, take that one out. Let me clear off this wall here. And the strategy basically is to come in the cave and place yourself all the way on the right side, facing that wall with the rock over there. And I think if you angle yourself at the right angle, just like this, back left corner, there we go. You should get a bunch to spawn in here. So you can pretty much align yourself in the back and, oh, look at that, a King Gambit. Wait, a King Gambit showed up. Okay, I guess King Gambits also show up in here with the Bisharps. So pretty much Ponyards, Bisharps, they all spawn in here. And you can just angle yourself in a corner of this cave and you should get ones that spawn out. So it's also an auto battle spot if you properly get spawned. So let me know exactly the position you put yourself in this cave in order to get these spawns to happen. That might be the sweet spot right there. I got two spawns in that corner. All right, good luck with your hunt. Now that you got all your steel Pokemon, you should check out this video right over here.