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All right, what's up guys? This is Alex from Xtrades back to you with another weekly trade ideas list. Hope everybody had a wonderful week and also had a great trading week. If you thought that the weekend was over, you are in luck because we do have a day off on Tuesday before the July and then Monday is actually just a half day. So markets are going to close at 1pm Eastern, I believe.  You don't really have to do anything.  We'll go over that and then go over a couple of setups. But for the most part, I mean, Monday and Tuesday, it's kind of might be a nothing burger just because the volume is going to be really low. People might already be on holiday. Wall Street might be on holiday institutions, etc. So we do have to be careful with that on Monday because the volume might be down and overall activity may be slow. And then we just pretty much go into Tuesday, not having to wake up, not having to do anything, just get to celebrate 4th of July. America is great. And then Wednesday is pretty much back to back to work. So Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, all four days and great data coming out those days as well. So we'll go ahead and get into the economic calendar here. So Monday, July the 3rd, we do have S&P Flash, US Manufacturing PMI. So this can definitely move the market. And then at 10am, ISM Manufacturing comes out, construction spending, and then markets close early. So there's a little bit of data Monday that could move the market. But like I said, activity could be down and volume could be down. And it could make the market seem a little bit slow. Or it'll make the market seem a little bit thinly traded. And it'll feel a little whipsaw-y just because there's low bids and offers. And it doesn't take much to move the market. Then Tuesday, 4th of July, markets are closed. Don't have to do anything that day. Wednesday, July 5th, we have the ADP Employment Report. We have factory orders. And then we do have the FOMC Minutes coming out that day as well. So this can definitely move the market, especially the FOMC Minutes. Because if the algorithms or really anybody picks up on anything they might have missed in the press conference from the last FOMC meeting, it can move the market. But pretty much the consensus was that they could, quote unquote, raise two more times for interest rates. But who knows? It's all data dependent. And that's why we go over the economic calendar. Because as long as the Fed is data dependent, we are data dependent. So it's going to be data dependency until we're out of this mess. And then Thursday, July the 6th, we do have initial jobless claims as usual. We have the US trade deficit job openings. I believe this is the jolt's job openings. This can definitely move the market. S&P flash US services PMI and then ISM services as well. So the jolt's job openings arguably is probably going to be the most important. And then the PMIs and the ISM services as well, those can definitely move the market. So we'll see how that goes. And then Friday, the big day. So this is the big data set. It's the non-farm payrolls. So it's the US Employment Report, the US unemployment rate. US hourly wages, hourly wages year over year. This is the big labor market data. And it's important. So this is definitely going to cause volatility. And it's likely going to make people try to price in whether the Fed is going to hike or if they're going to pause or if they're going to start cutting rates soon, etc. It could do anything. So that's for the economic calendar. Pretty stacked week for data, despite having a half day Monday and then being off on Tuesday. So really your weekend's not over yet. I would consider Wednesday, Thursday, Friday back to work as usual. Feel free to, you know, rest a little bit Monday and Tuesday because it's really not going to be anything going on Monday. I don't think, but we'll see. And now we'll go ahead and get into the setups. So I do have three this week. If you don't know, I go over 228 tickers. So I go over a lot of tickers every week. Pretty much the same tickers every single week. And I just pretty much narrow them down to maybe three to five, three to five setups or so. And you'd think I would find more than, you know, three to five. And sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. I have 200 something names. You only get so many that are, you know, confirmed patterns that look good. That aren't choppy. And with volatility super low in the markets, it can be a little bit hard to find opportunities right now because you don't want to just chase the tops. You want to be, you know, buying dips. You want to be taking patterns. Stuff that looks good has good risk to reward. So you do have to find those and it can be tough even though I have so many tickers that I go through. It doesn't really matter. I still only come out with, you know, anywhere from three to five. So this week, I just have three, these are probably the best ones I could find to be honest. So this first one here, this is FSLR, so this is first solar. This is a solar play. You could see pretty much speaks for itself. It's just a bullish falling wedge. You can see we have previous support right here. We have a little rejection area right there and then one right above that. So if this wedge doesn't de-play out, your first target's looking at $196.48, which is that previous support. And then right after that, we do have $202.22 at this little peak right here and then $212.35 above that, but obviously you'll have to get through these two first to even think about $212. So for solar, looking at calls, maybe even, you know, maybe look at shares or something if you don't want to play the options, but, you know, this is $190 per share. So, you know, the options could be worth looking into because you're getting leveraged with 100 shares on the options. Only thing I don't like about this name is that, you know, there's only like, it didn't even clear $2 million of volume on Friday. So it is a little bit lower volume, but when it does get volume, it does move pretty great. You can see this volume spike here is a really big green day. And overall on the volume spikes, it does have good range. Even, you know, it's a good mover. You just have to be careful. Make sure you're looking at the bid and ask on the options. Make sure it's not too wide because with stuff like this, when the volume is lower on the underlying, the bid and ask can be a little bit messed up on the options chain. So just make sure you're paying attention to that. Try to stick to the ones that have a tight spread. So FSLR, looking at calls. All right, next, we're going into Baidu. So this is a Chinese play. Pretty sure it was a Chinese AI play at one point as well. I didn't really read too much into the PR on the AI for Baidu. But the setup looks pretty good. Pretty much there's a rally based rally demand zone waiting for the drawing to come up. There we go. So we have a rally based rally demand zone here. If they can hold up here pretty well, I feel like as long as it can get outside of this inside bar, it could be pretty good to the upside. And there's a little gap right there. If we go down to the one hour, you can see we have a gap right here. So this is our gap right here. You can see it's from 138 up to about 140, 141 or so. So that could be pretty decent if they can fill. We could even set an alert here. So let us add a regular support slash resistance line, just a regular horizontal line. And then we'll go ahead and right click it. I'll just hit add alert and then we can name a gap and have a preset right here. And just hit create. So we'll wait for that. That could be a good signal. And that would also confirm of it getting outside of the inside bar that I closed with on the daily timeframe. One thing that I haven't liked about China lately is that their index, their Hong Kong index has been kind of trending a little bit lower and I had a false breakout and that also brought Baba lower. So we did have Baba on watch and I also took a call on Baba and it's just been getting slammed. So there was a fake breakout, which I don't like. And you know, that can happen with these foreign names. I mean, you're pretty much banking on gap ups and gap downs. So because they're trading in different time zones, you have to be careful with that. But we'll use this 137.96 alert that we set into the gap. If that triggers that, you know, we can go ahead and look at calls. And even if it doesn't, I mean, it's still a still a pretty good zone and your risk offer just be under the demand zone low. It's going to be about 132.46. And if you're going off a one day demand zone, obviously, you know, you want to keep this as your stop loss as long as you're like going to swing trade or have time on expiration because this low for a day trade is too low and, you know, that could bring big drawdown to short term contracts if you're day trading them.   Next, we're going into CCL here. So this thing has been squeezing. I'm guessing there was a lot of short interest because the cruises weren't doing so well, you know, after covid, a lot of them really struggled financially and they weren't getting a lot of bookings, you know, the world shut down for a little bit. And it took them a long time to recover. So now you can see, I mean, it's starting to kind of squeeze up here, get a little violent. I think it looks a little bit overbought. You can see the RSI here. I mean, before he pulled back the last time, the RSI got all the way up to 85 and I had to get up to 85 for it to even, you know, make people realize that it was a little bit overbought. And then it instantly got bought up right after their earnings report. So RSI is getting back up to that same spot. Another thing I see here is that you see the price is all the way down here. You got the RSI right here. You got the RSI making a lower high and you got price making a higher high. So that could be a bearish divergence for RSI. I'm not a big divergence trader. It's just something I did see. So it could be something worth looking into.  But I think it looks a little bit overbought. So I'm going to be looking for, like, put scalps and stuff on this. I think it looks, you know, pretty good to start looking for a top soon. Obviously, with a big bullish bar like this, you don't want to just instantly get in the next day, look for puts. You'd want at least, you know, 15 minutes of confirmation of selling at the open, something showing you that sellers are starting to pick back up, supplies getting offloaded and it's overbought. So CCL here, I'm looking at puts. I'm just keeping in mind this high RSI. Obviously, I would never chase calls when it's looking like this. It's just too much and it's good for day trades and stuff. But I mean, these hype plays and these squeezes don't always last very long. So what goes up must come down.  So make sure the open session is, you know, giving you some confirmation of selling. Make sure you're paying attention to the hourly and 15 minute looking for, you know, reversal candles, looking for top sellers, wicks, all types of stuff. So CCL, I just need to see a little bit more evidence on the one day before maybe looking at a put swing trade. But this could make good put scalps on the shorter time frames, because I mean, I feel like this is just a little bit overbought.  And that's, you know, going to be around 17 flat or so. And that's as low as I could put it, because if it pulls back, it could just hold up right there. And obviously it had to break under demand and maybe back test the low and then, you know, flush this little buy and balance right here. And then there's another demand zone right here. That's like a almost like a drop based rally zone. So that's as low as I could put it for right there. I feel like, you know, if it can get under this demand zone, it could get to this, but, you know, you do need that evidence first of it breaking this one. And then we also need evidence of some type of daily candle showing a clear reversal, a nice, you know, reversal candle, nice red candle before, you know, trying to grab a put swing on this. Otherwise, it's just going to be looking at scalps. So CCL here looking at puts. All right, next, we're going into the indexes. So we're looking at the spy here. So when I added back this MACD, just because it could be given a little bit of signs that momentum is slowing, but starting to curl back up here as well. One thing we were focused on last week was this inside bar on the one week. And if you were able to mark that and wait for the alert to the upside, Friday gave a pretty good signal, you know, trade calls, because it gapped over the inside bar high. So this is our inside bar right here. We set an inside bar high and inside bar low and we set alerts. And we just waited for, you know, waited for it to trigger. You can see once we gapped over the inside bar high, we had a very bullish day on Friday. We had that PCE inflation data that was looking pretty good. People are really grasping on to that soft landing narrative now. And as we keep getting more data, people are starting to see more evidence of that because our economy is very resilient. So and it seems like inflation is going down, maybe not at our target yet of 2% or anything. But, you know, there is some evidence that's coming down. According to their data, I personally don't really see too much inflation falling, you know, at the grocery store or really anywhere else, you know, you do see the gas prices changing a lot. So interesting. But, you know, who knows if, you know, that data is legit or not. Can't really argue with it though. It was showing a trend lower for inflation. And that's why we gapped up so heavy and had a big bullish day. But now you can see we're pulling into this four, what's that 44390. This is big resistance. We rejected off of it towards the close. You can see a little bit of a struggle there. So that's pretty much the level of focus this week that 44390. It absolutely has to get over that in order to break out and go higher. And before you take puts or anything and be like, you know, this could be a double top, you do want to see some confirmation and you want to see some type of, you know, reversal candle, some type of red candle, maybe some fall through in the VIX, maybe some fall through on the dollar. Maybe more evidence of volatility coming back because just because it's pulling into resistance doesn't mean you should instantly pull the trigger and take puts to make sure you're paying attention to candles. Candles are really important to pay attention to.  And they'll give you like a little chart and they'll show you each type of candle. There's like shooting star, which is a bearish reversal candle. There's a, you know, the bullish hammer, which is like a lower shadow wick type of type of candle that pushes up to the upside. There's a bunch of different ones. So I recommend you go read them and study them. Try to find some resources on that because it's pretty important and candles can tell you a lot. So what this candle is telling us is not much. It just, you know, reacted a little bit to the resistance. That's why there's this little top wick. Nothing, nothing major though. I mean, we got a big gap. So that's something to keep in mind for this week. This could eventually fail. We just need a little bit more evidence of volatility coming back and maybe some type of candle on the one day showing that it's going to, you know, reverse back down in order to do that, it would likely have to get into the gap area. And if that Friday low breaks and we go into the gap, that's a good reversal signal that could take its lower. So make sure you watch that mark this gap, especially and then keep an eye on this four, four, three, ninety. It will have to get over that to go higher. So this is an inflection point. You will need to see a little bit of confirmation. So you need to see a break over where we want to see it start entering the gap. And those are your two triggers. So gap or break over this gap or break over this. We break over this. You could look at upside. If we break into this gap, you can start looking for downside, simple as that. So that's for the spy. Just keep those levels in focus. All right. And next we're going into the QQQ. So this one is actually a little bit more interesting because we're actually at a level from twenty twenty two. You can see this March twenty twenty two level right here. So that's a twenty twenty two level. Big resistance from when we were just starting to raise interest rates at a big drawdown fell at least twenty to thirty percent. And now we've recovered, you know, so much of that. It's crazy, but never underestimate, you know, optimism. And that's what we've seen here. So this twenty twenty two resistance is pretty big. I am a little bit sketched out at it. I wouldn't want to just start aimlessly buying calls right here because we're still slightly below the resistance. So you can see that it's kind of rejected a couple weeks prior, but it wasn't anything major. All you do is make that inside bar that we covered last week and broke out of that. And even it even broke down the inside bar as well and gave a nice little put scalp if you're able to catch that. But the close under right here, this is a close under the one week inside bar. It was a total fake out because it got bought right back up. So just made another higher low and now trying to come up and test those recent highs. So unlike spy, which actually tested that level, QQQ is not there yet, which is interesting because maybe this could have a little bit more room up before it taps resistance and then try to reject about there. Or I mean, it could fall a little bit short, but it all depends on Monday. Honestly, with the VIX closing as low as it was, I feel like the market may not, you know, go down too much on Monday if we do. And you have to factor in, you know, low volume. It's a half day. People are out on holiday as well. So there may not be much of anything. But if I were to, you know, feel good about anything, I would probably think that QQQ is a little bit more room to top this. But I mean, like I said, it's kind of close. So I mean, you don't have much risk to reward. You know, if we opened right around where we closed on Friday and opened right here, I mean, you got maybe two dollars to the upside before it hits resistance. And that's about it. So it's kind of tough. It's a tough one.  And then also you don't want to take puts or anything until, you know, it's starting to enter this gap and that gap can provide a trade to the downside. So it's very similar to spy. You're either just waiting for the breakout of recent resistance or you're waiting for it to enter that gap. And that will give you a potential trade. So that's really all I got for that. There's really not too much here. One thing I do like about QQQ is that it broke out of the inside bar and closed over it. So that could be a bullish signal as well. But like I said, we're going straight into that resistance. So I do need to see that resistance get taken out and I feel way better about upside. So just be careful of that recent resistance on spy and QQQ and then also be mindful of the gap below. Just watch those two areas very closely. All right. Next for IWM. So last week we had this rally based rally zone we were focused on. I said IWM had a potential to bounce from this area and the 200 SMA. It did exactly that. So IWM has been going with our projections and predictions pretty well. Surprisingly, it's been doing a little bit better than spy QQQ in terms of giving opportunities. This demand zone was just great. Great rally based rally zone. Just by the book. Great bounce and overall great upside. I mean a rally 1.4 here, rally another half percent here, rally another 1 percent here and then closed up half a percent here. So it's easily like 3-4 percent to the upside on options. This would have paid great. So this week right at resistance again. So you do have to be mindful of that right at the 38.2 percent fib that we covered a couple of weeks ago. So the 38.2 just comes from this measurement from covid loads up to recent highs. We got the 50 percent that active support and this is the 38.2 which is active as resistance a couple of times and was our most recent resistance up here and then fell back into the demand. So obviously no calls on this. We're not looking at calls on this this week. Just it's too close to resistance. We have supply right here. We're the 38.2 here. Yeah. MacD down a little bit. Maybe if the MacD crosses back up to the upside, you could look at calls, but then you're just going straight into supply. So you have to be mindful of that. I feel like I would need to see it breaking over 190 with confidence. If it gets if they can get over 190 flat with confidence and then, you know, get up to the 192s and break out of the supply zone. I feel good about upside. But otherwise, I feel like this could pull back a little bit just from what I'm seeing right here. This isn't the most bearish candle or anything. It could just be a base candle. You know, could hold up, try to make a base here. But it is that resistance. So you do have to be mindful of that. You can maybe look at put scalps here since it's right at resistance. Obviously that'll just take you down to maximum 184.45, which is this little shoulder right here. Previous support. So that's about as low as I could put it if it pulled back. And then upside, I feel like it's limited because it's just going into your supply. But like I said, if you can get over 190 flat, that's pretty good. So make sure you watch that. Otherwise, you know, we're at resistance here. So you do want to be very careful. All right. Next, we're going into the VIX.  We closed right back over it.  One thing you do have here, we have the MACD on the VIX starting to curl back up, which is really interesting because it hasn't curled since back here. And then it spiked a little bit, kind of found a chop range and then spiked again right here in late May. So the MACD is back up after a couple of weeks of selling. This could be a little bit of an early signal.  You don't trade it. You don't trade shares on it. You can trade options on it, but it is just an indicator. So and usually volatility is designed to go lower just because, you know, the market is naturally bullish, right?  It's designed for people to retire. It's designed for people to collect dividends and, you know, eventually get out of work and, you know, be able to live on it, cash out their gains. So it's designed to go up and that's why volatility naturally is just going to trend lower. But like I said, this 1350, it did close back over that. So that's an interesting signal. That was our low that we covered, I think last week. And then we made this new 1273. So this is just a little base out range, but I got the same outlook as last week. I need to see that 2021 low at 1410 get over. Need to see that 2021 low at 1473 need to get over that. And then most importantly, what I have highlighted in green here, 1553. We absolutely have to get it over 1553. That's all free space. So this 1553 would take you up to 1831. And that's this resistance right here. I have all the arrows so you could see why 1831 is important. And then above that, obviously, you know, is 20 flat. See all the arrows over here, 20 flat, crazy resistance. You got a rejection here at 20 flat, 20 flat and just a little bit high at 2133. So the close over 20 is obviously the most important. If you want to see volatility come back, but short term, 1553 absolutely need to reclaim over that. If we can do that, I would feel good about the VIX coming back up. Otherwise, focus on this 2021 low is make sure it gets over 15 flat first, then you can look at 1553 and all that free space. So I mean, it's looking pretty good. Like I said, MacD starting to curl back up, starting to see maybe a little bit of sign of it starting to bottom out, but you need a little bit more data. So that's for the VIX. Just make sure you focus on 1553. It's the most important to get back over. All right. Next, we're going into the DXY. So last week, I was pretty confident it would get over 103 just because of this breakout. Simple as that. I saw the breakout and I figured it would reclaim the COVID peak. It did very briefly, but it did nothing for the market. So it didn't bring the market lower, even though this broke out. And I've pretty much been covering that the last couple of weeks. The DXY by itself has just not been a good indicator. So you do want to pair it like with the VIX. You want to see VIX going up and dollar going up. That gives you a good sign for volatility. Otherwise, you know, not so much. I mean, it does a respects when the dollar goes down, the market will go up. But when the dollar goes up, market doesn't really care too much lately. And obviously, it's not going to stay like that forever. But right now, equities are in law land. So you have to be mindful of that for the dollar this week. I mean, it's basically unchanged. We look at that. We looked at this Friday, the 23rd. And then we opened up here Monday. And we're basically at the same spot. So we were at 102 80s. And we were looking at it last time. We're only at 102 96 now. So slightly under 103. Like I said, if we can get back over 103, I consider this level over 103 pretty elevated. And the reason for that is because that's where the dollar peaked out in 2020 during covid. I say that every week. One thing you do have here as well. MACD is starting to cross back up. So that's interesting. That could be a sign that the dollar is trying to curl back up here. But it would need to get back over 103 and stay over 103. If they could do that. Obviously, you do have this resistance here at 104 70. 104 699. You could just round it up. There is a recent little peak right here. They don't go down to the one hour. There's a resistance right here at 103 54. So it would need to get over that as well. But otherwise, I mean, it's kind of choppy, right?  So be mindful of that. But like I said, make sure you're using the VIX in conjunction with it or not just using it by itself because the dollar by itself just hasn't been working that great lately. So you just want to see us staying over 103. If it starts falling back under 103 with confidence, that's probably going to take you down to 102 again, which is this little base right here. So that's the levels of focus, just 103, 103 54, which is this recent peak and then 102. And then you could kind of think of 103 is like, you know, the medium point and needs to either get over that or stay under that in order to get to either here or get to here. But make sure, you know, you're seeing the VIX kind of moving with it as well. If you want to see Volatoty come back up, you know, look for both of them to move up. But I mean, if you're using this is like a gauge, you know, if you see the dollar red and you take that as a bullish signal for equities, you could do that because the market's been respecting that pretty well. You know, when the dollar has a red day and markets been going up, so you could definitely pay attention to that. But in terms of if you want to see the dollar going up and Volatoty going up, make sure you're looking at the VIX as well. That's all I mean by that. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Hope you guys enjoyed your weekend. Like I said, we do have a half day Monday, so you don't have to do anything on Monday. Vime is going to be low. I mean, a lot of people are going to be out. I'm guessing a lot of Wall Street is probably on vacation or spending time with their families. So activity is going to be low. So you don't have to do anything Monday or Tuesday if you don't want to. But if you do, you know, just focus on all the stuff we went over. And then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, all full days, all regular business as usual. So look at this chopped up edited and sent out. I love you guys. Make sure you like, comment and subscribe to our X-rays YouTube channel and I'm out.


Hi, I'm back just for a quick a quick little video. I wanted to talk about something that I think will help everyone Understand the or sort of get the most a canada from the videos I've already put online and Hopefully it'll set everyone up for the next set of videos that are coming up. It's specifically related to a question I got Sent to me a few months ago that I haven't had a chance to answer yet because well I had a lot of things on my plate and I had never been asked this question before So I really have to think about it to come up with an appropriate answer Now I've done a little write-up on my site and I'm gonna have that available On Chicho TV probably in the miscellaneous section or something like this or questions, maybe So there is a writer up there and this video is gonna be embedded in that write-up So hopefully the double dose of written explanation in the video Will clear things up. Okay, the email that I got was It basically the main the main question was why is a negative and a negative equal a positive Now there was a few other questions in the email as well But all of them were dependent on this one question being answered or this one One problem that this person was having now I did a little bit of research online And I found out that there's a lot of a Lot of people have asked this question and I found some answers, but a lot of the answers were Based on proving that a negative and negative equal the positive in math What I want to talk about is why this property exists why this is true now the best way the simplest way to think about this is Just like the English language where a double negative is a positive Mathematics were the same way and negative and a negative makes a positive So it's both languages are consistent with each other now in the email the person Wanted me to give an example where you know two negatives make a positive one of the problems that that One of the issues with this question was that it was assumed that a negative number had a negative connotation that that that was You know, it was a bad thing So, you know in the email the and online a lot of people were asking that you know They don't know any examples in nature where two negatives make a positive now You can't think that way when it comes to mathematics math is is a non It doesn't have any emotions attached to it. It's just a language. So when we say We have a negative number It doesn't mean it's a bad number or if a positive number is a good number and negative number It just means it's a negative number the negative part is is a property of that number It's like having black hair or white hair or yellow hair or blue eyes or you know two arms one arm It doesn't make a difference. It's just a property. It's a trait of a number. Okay, so a negative number Doesn't have any emotions attached to it where two wrongs make a right. It doesn't work that way You know in in life It really doesn't work that way two wrongs do not make a make a right but in math when two properties of One kind Merge they might come up with a different property which could be two negatives and when they merge They come up with a positive now the best example that I could come up with and I thought about a Lot of them But this is the best way that I could explain it as an example goes is let's assume a single person is Is Given the property of a negative number and let's call it a negative one So a single person is negative one, okay? Let's call a couple a Married couple or just a couple doesn't you don't have to marry to be a couple. So let's just call a couple positive one, okay, so Given this Let statement and in mathematics you do a lot of let statements where you say let x equal something So you're defining what x is Right now. We're doing the same thing We're doing a let statement and saying a single person is negative one and a couple is a positive one They're one couple. Okay, so if we take two single people negative one and Merge them negative one times negative one you get positive one which is consistent with our Let statement which is consistent with the language of mathematics and it's also consistent with English now keep in mind that in math words have meaning so and In mathematics means multiplication with In mathematics in general means Edition, okay, I'm not sure if you can see this actually with maybe I should make them bigger Let's say and Equals multiplication and width is equal to addition. So right now We sort of prove to ourselves that two single people merging and Negative and a negative is equal to a positive if we use the width statement. This also is You know consistent it's true. So we could say let's say two single people go to a party. So One single person Comes with another single person to a party. Then you have two single people. Oops. They should be a plus, sorry so For both operations and multiplication and addition. They're operations. Okay, this dot really means multiplication So with both operations the and statement and the with statement a single and a single makes a couple a Single with a single makes two singles. Okay and That's basically that's basically what a language is we create symbols to Explain certain properties that we observe and We take those properties merge them together. We do operations such as and with division whatever you want to come up with Something new and then with that something new we can take it and Merge it with something else and create something else. Okay, so it just continuously grows so once we understand how to use a language it allows us to You know just learn more and more because everything we everything that we learn everything that we come up with new things that we come Up with we can take them and expand on them and combine it with something else and see what happens Okay, so keep that in mind and negative number Doesn't have negative connotation. It doesn't mean it's bad or it's good It's just a property of that number. It's just a language. Okay these are just symbols that we use to Convey information to talk about things that we think we know now sometimes we're wrong, but This is what we this is the best we're able to do right now math is The best language that we have been able to come up with to be able to explain the world around us now in the future a New language may come along which makes math You know a subset of that other language where that other language encompasses a lot more concepts Than what math can do right now and that is something that you know scientists are looking at You know that there's different branches of mathematics where they're trying to go into new areas and try to come up with You know a certain way to solve problems which can't be solved with mathematics or there is no proofs for a mathematics So there's got to be new Sort of a new thought pattern coming along But before we can actually come up with a new language or one of the best ways to come up with a new language is You know learning the languages we already know that way We're we can avoid any pitfalls that we've had with the other other languages So keep that in mind math is not the ultimate language. However, it's the best language that we have so the best thing we can do is understand all those properties and That's the only way we can come up with a new language or a new thought pattern where we can explain more and you know Try to understand more about the world. We live it I hope this helps the write-up is on chicho and You know this video explains Exactly the same thing that I talked about in the write-up. So if you feel like I read that or just watch the video It should be fine. I hope that helps and I'll see you guys. I guess Towards the end of August I'll try to refrain from making any more videos because I really want to do it in one shot and get rid of all the other Projects I'm already involved in okay. I guess we'll talk later. Okay. Have fun


it is time to debut another player on the channel yo what's going on leafrations sleeper back again and welcome back to the channel today we're back with some more mlb the show 21 i know it's on pack opening this time i know i've been loading out contents um on pack opening but today we're trying out a pretty sick card looking at the squad here a couple pack openings ago i pulled the cj abrams and i thought you know what let's try him out i i did have um tatis jr there for the time being but maybe cj abrams will fit into the infield so i i thought let's head into a ranked seasons game and try him out for the first time forgot to also say we are also debuting this kenny lofton we just got him from the first any program as well so it's interesting to try him out trying out abrams um and pitching wise i think we're going with garakol since he garakol or martinez either or all right so i think we're gonna go with pager martinez first time trying him in online we're gonna throw up abrams into pulsada spot and yeah i think we're good to go let's see what his team is looking like and he doesn't have the greatest teams he's got willy maize zack gallin uh charlie blackman uh luke voight matt chapman so he's got a decent gold team all around um we do have a better team so i hope we come out on top but let's see what abrams can do let's see what lofton could do this game and let's see what pager martinez can do um in his first online game as well oh bo was that gone i don't think so very close to being gone man if the pc i was placed a little bit more to the right it might have gone deep nice try though bo nice try all right joey gallo the man who just hits bombs for us men let's see what he can do here oh that is perfect perfect that is a bomb joey gallo continues to rake in the home runs for this team he is so good i highly recommend his card guys i'm not even joking so good that's another bomb for him let's go boys we got a kunya jr up here for us up to a 95 uh because we have him to that first parallel right now oh that's oh unlucky but hey we take the one run from joey gallo and now it's time to pitch i'm swinging at that bo's gonna get there he's got 99 speed oh my god yeah that's just unfortunate that he is that speed let's try to get him to ground out into a double play maybe here that's a beautiful pitch from Pedro hopefully he makes contact and grounds out here all right we take the strike out now we can try and get the double play in the ending so let's see what happens here hit him with the change and we probably should have won something with speed this time around but that's okay he swung at that too good to see that's two strikeouts for Pedro after giving up an infield single and we're gonna get it Pedro Martinez just painting it into the strike zone let's go what an inning all right hey cj abrams up for his first at bat let's see what he can do here for us ah that's one in the dirt i shouldn't be swinging at unfortunate not a great first at bat but that's on me it's not on abrams hey Kenny Lofton now in his debut at bat as well see what he can do back to back debut at bats for our boys here oh that's gonna get through good for Lofton and a he's got 98 speed we're gonna steal with him that's for sure i don't think he's gonna be able to get him here yeah 98 speed 99 steal there should be a pretty easy stolen base we're gonna go with the first pitch too yeah look at that look how easy that was man he could have probably got in there standing up if you wanted to all right we got a runner in scoring position right now we hit it deep it should be deep enough to get him the third here oh it didn't let me advance him okay cool um interesting that's okay that's fine if we hit it deep enough we can get him home no problem and Jorge Posada's a man to do it no he isn't i was just choking to be honest unfortunate runner in scoring position we should be getting guys home easily with runners in scoring position unfortunate by me back to pitching and let's see what we can do here oh that is a dude Martinez just paints the corners man that is awesome what a pitch now we hit him with a low curve ball see if he swings it he does oh no Posada you gotta block that brother that should have been a strike out he just couldn't handle it that's unfortunate so unfortunate again Martinez just painting that corner he's loving that corner there we go that's yo what the hell that guy was taking his time to throw with the second we get the double play that's what we wanted beautiful pitching then he swung at that one there we go pick up the bat let's go boys ah we just got under that we literally just got under that oh that's unfortunate it's okay it's our pitcher like i don't expect to do much with him offensively but it is what it is dude my pc i placement not there but it's a pitch that i don't mind swinging out if i got the pc i placement great there i could have hit a bomb i think oh we just we were just early on that man oh good pitch dude that's a single joey gallo continues to hit perfect for us video wise anyways good hit by gallo let's see what we can do here with a cunha i think it is no it's mookie okay i think a cunha is after mookie and that's gonna be the inning all right that's okay it is what it is back to the great defense Pedro Martinez has been giving us with his pitching and that's the inning Pedro is just continuing to rake in the strikeouts he's going off man we love seeing that ah we just got over that man just got over that oh that is well not just got over that we got over that but like man i was expecting that to stay up that's unfortunate all right cj abrams can he do something at this at bat let's see he might actually get a hit from this that's safe we take those that's the great thing about a guy like abrams you hit something soft like that he can outrun all the ball like that so beautiful all right yeah he he he had a feeling i was gonna steal we're gonna steal next pitch though we're stealing this pitch let's see what abrams can do oh he pitched out again uh it's frozen here all right good stuff i i don't know what's happening here it's just frozen well this is sick this is just sick good stuff i just don't know what to do here it's been like this for five minutes now i what what what does one do in this situation like this well this is this is fun for my third online game this season we're just frozen i'm assuming i'm gonna take the out for this i don't know what's going on here all right it's literally been 10 minutes we're just gonna dashboard to see what happens i guess that that is so annoying yeah we got the loss for that so that's that's that is dope sandiego studios we love that thank you for that honestly and home run for gallo did not count as well so that is great but you know what i'm gonna call it there i cba to get into another game and that happens um but from what we've seen uh lofton and abrams are super super fast they get on base any way walk single any hit any chance they can get on base um there's a good chance they can steal with felkin it picked off easily i mean looking at abram stats man um he's literally got 96p 95 steel good luck throwing him out and looking at loft in here um he's literally got 98 speed 99 steel it's impossible to pick these guys off they're great um they're decent hitters uh from what i've seen um they had two at bats each and both got on each they were both going to have stolen bases as well so uh i love that they're super fast and i probably keep them on my team as in terms of paedra martinez this guy was absolutely insane for me he was painting the corners getting those strikeouts only allowed one hit in those four or five innings that we did play he was amazing um he also has that parallel for me now which is great so um yeah i definitely do recommend um if you don't have a catcher um i'd go piazza in the first inning program if not i'd go kenny lofton and then if you can i'd pick up the cj abrams i think he's definitely worth it i think he's around 30 40 thousand stubs um and his speed is steal is amazing you get him on base he's stealing a base even if you want to throw him on as a pinch runner late in the game and he could steal you a base to get you out of that double play situation um it's worth it for sure but guys that is going to be it for today's video i know i got cut off short because san diego studios kind of cupped me gameplay wise here today but it is what it is um i think i would have like to think we would have won that game it was only a one nothing game though but joy gallo continues to rake in the runs a rooms is worth every stub and lofton is definitely worth taking out of the first inning program if you don't have a catcher but guys like i said that is it for today's video if you guys didn't enjoy be sure to drop a like on it if you guys are new around here make sure to subscribe button down below we are on the road to four thousand subscribers but guys again that is it for today um thank you guys very much for watching and i'll talk to you later peace


Okay, good morning. Thanks for joining us We're going to go without slides at least for a while when we get the AV fixed So please bear with us stay with us We're going to talk about that CNV plaque tests and opna v plaque fest co-location. My name is Sylvia. Maggia. I work for Etsy in the center for testing and interoperability. I am a technical expert there. I am in charge of the nv practice program Hey there, my name is Pierre Lynch. I work for Ixia which is part of keysight now more importantly for this though, I'm the Etsy in a v TST the test working group chair, which is responsible for testing Experimentation meaning proofs a concept and also open source collaboration So the big deal that happened what we're going to go through is that the fact that we co-located a plug test at CNV plug test with a plug fest from opna v We'll go Through as much as we can without visuals give you an overview and the results opna v activities during their plug fest and also more importantly the joint activities that happened because there was co-located and Then we'll explore what's coming up next So the big deal This is the third Etsy in a v plug test and it was like a fourth or the fifth opna v plug fest It was their Frazier release plug fest. It happened in in early June of this year Opna v has been a participant and a supporting organization for the Etsy in a v plug test since the beginning But this was the first time that we actually brought both communities together at the same spot Which was a beautiful spot by the way in southern France Etsy headquarters jealous of that So that was a very cool part But it allowed the communities to get together get to know each other and then also collaborate on a bunch of things that we'll go through Apart from opna v though There's a bunch of open source communities that already were supporting this plug test open stack being one of them as well as OSM or open source manual open area interface sonata open baton So we've got a collection and a pretty wide collaboration with open source going on with Etsy in a v Okay, so a bit of background on the energy practice program these started we started putting these together with With Etsy in a v in 2016 This was the main goal here is to validate and make sure that the standards this group is developing our feet for purpose And also to validate their implementations of these standards So we started putting this together in in 2016 that we had our first black test in Madrid in January 2017 And there was a kind of experimental practice was the very beginning the release to I think was still under development And we started testing Interoperability of different components when it comes to To single bnf network services, okay after this event in January 2018 to one year after We had the second in a v-plug test We were also hosting an open source manual hackfest at the same time same location And in this case we expanded the interoperability testing to start covering multi bnf and multi vendor network services Orchestrated by different manual solutions on different platforms, and we also started working with experimental API Testing so during this year the HCNV group started developing API's mainly for the Manos tax and And developing open API's definitions for these API's so we started playing with that And right after that in May June End of May beginning of June last year we had this third black test co-located with the opinion of you blackfest There we started playing with automating the test sessions Many focus was multi bnf network services. There was a lot more of API testing So the the number of API's that we were able to test was was bigger and we started seeing a nice Bunch of cross-community activities that will be explained later with this presentation So actually for the NFE practice program is not just we meet once a year twice a year And we get together and we plug things together and test them is that we have a Worldwide network let's say HC access a VPN hub where interconnecting all the participants labs so that any point in time From anywhere participants can access to other participants implementations and test together They can use these to build a proof of concept They can use these to prepare for black test or they can do these to do some more testing after a black test event Okay, so this is up and running in a continuous way. We have right now Over 45 remote sites connected over 60 organizations some of them are sharing data centers and sharing deployment points And we have around 250 people involved in these remote activities And then they send a delegation to the practice events for the face-to-face testing For the test plan development. This is an activity that started with the preparation of the first Black test is an open or continuous process is never completed Let's say what we do is we look at what HC NFV is defining in terms of specs But we also look at what black test participants are implementing and we work very closely as well with different open source communities What they are doing how they are interpreting these specs and how they are solving some of the problems with all this input We try to set up some System under test configurations combining different components in order to enable for the testing and Then we write a test plan, which is discussed is open and discuss Continuously its implementation agnostic. It's meant to be run and be meaningful to whatever Implementation of man or whatever implementation of platform whatever VNF independently or the functionality that this VNF is providing It's and the testing is run At the functional level. So this is continuously discussed and continuously fed back to HC NFV Which are taking into account feedback on the basis specifications and they are also publishing These test plans as as group specifications. Okay, so this is a continuous process when it comes to the third black test that we had in in End of May June the main focus as I was saying was the multi vendor network services The idea there is to have all the participants busy. We had around I think 80 or 100 people present 40-something organizations So the idea is to have them all busy all the time we schedule Test sessions one session at a time for each mano solution. So we have 10 mano solutions We had 10 parallel trucks and on each of them each of the mano solutions was testing with one platform Providing nvi and beam capabilities and with at least two different VNFs from different providers trying to build a network service out of these different VNFs The scope for these kind of sessions Which were the the most tested was in network service onboarding instantiation and terminations Those are the things that usually work and then on top of that we tested a network service updates to stop and restart VNFs in the network service Network service scaling on request of the operator We tested as well some auto scaling taking into account different triggers for this auto scaling this could come from metrics From the beam and infrastructure this could come from metrics From the VNF or this could be on request of the VNF or element manager and finally we tested a lot Fault and performance management of the this overall system. So the goal during this Testing is to test the maximum of combinations of platforms manos and and VNFs Then in addition to this we had some optional additional testing The the idea here is for those that completed the test sessions quickly or for those that wanted to test before or after the the black test additional capabilities we put together some Test plans to test well single VNF network services. This was for pre testing mainly But also on top of the multi VNF network services. They could test EPA enhanced platform awareness Aspects they could test multi site deploying these network services across different Sites they we had some testing defined to test Specific VNF management. This is when the VNF comes with its own VNF manager and this needs to interact with the man solution We also had some new test cases covering scale to level That are very late a little bit late in the preparation of the practice, but we're included as well We had some descriptions for the VNF rewarding graph and the NSH Service function chaining if I will talk about it a bit later And also as I said before we were automating some of these testing including more and more test cases in the automation So I said as well in parallel with the interoperability testing we are running API testing as HNV is developing these soul specifications or two soul three soul five Specifications and API's we're trying to see how we are going to test them This is aside from the interop testing for the time being in here We put an implementation in front of test system and we are The implementation is offering the API server The system is acting as a client and testing not only the requests and responses But also that the intended behavior after these requests are is is met Okay, so for the time being this was just a subset of the available API's we tried to be very pragmatic here and we check what's implemented and we will only develop Test cases for what's implemented that will be present at the practice But this base of testing is is growing. We'll talk about it as well In terms of Participation we have nine platforms providing NfV infrastructure and and we're telling first record infrastructure management capabilities I think most of them is not always were open-stack based or a PNV based Somehow many of them through commercial distributions In terms of Mano stocks, we have ten different manos providing NfV orchestration and generic VNFM management capabilities Most of them were commercial products Some of them were based in open source Solutions we had Sonata which is coming from some European research projects and it's now a standalone Open source project and we had two distributions of open source Mano participating So you will get the full list in the slides that hopefully will be available for download In terms of virtual network functions, we have different 19 different VNFs coming from different providers and here because the goal was to test More complex network services with different VNFs inside We tried to combine them and we came up with 27 different network services combining these VNFs There was a lot of test VNFs and simulators involved in this in this network service building There's a lot to either simulate parts of the network or to generate traffic to test the behavior of the network services Among the 19 we only had one Open source VNF this was coming from the opener interface Software Alliance, which are currently working in 5G network services, but for the practice they brought an EPC negative functionality results So imagine if you can a series of Beautiful graphs behind me pie charts lines green and red Showing a lot of results. I'll try to describe it the main takeaways were We had less set test sessions But the test session individual test sessions were long longer than previous plug test And we still managed to run more test cases than in previous previous plug tests The success rate of the interop tests did go up slightly We had an increase in automated testing of a hundred and seventy five percent So that's really taken off. There was a couple of companies that came in that could automate things like that So that that got really popular really quick So that's something that we're going to try to keep keep the momentum with going forward as well The API testing which is not interop. So it's a little bit of side That went up by a hundred and twenty five percent. So people are starting to participate more and more into the API testing Relative to the second plug test, which is natural since the the API's weren't totally defined For the last plug test in the first place The I'm gonna skip quickly through this but basically of the test cases that were tried especially focusing Yeah, focusing on the entire Test plan The success rate was 89 percent of the attempted test cases Having said that 43 percent were not attempted and if they're not attempted typically as if they ran out of time or one Of the participants We have a Windows desktop One of the participants didn't support the necessary functionality to be able to try the test case, but it's still Markedly better the things The takeaways things are improving things are ramping up at the API level same thing 28 the whole night half of the test cases What is it 25% of the test cases were not attempted however Of the ones that were attempted there's a 70% success rate again a market improvement since the first one. I want to give it a shot on this guy now Anyway, we keep going Yeah Then there was another pretty table showing per subgroup especially for network service testing and all I wanted to highlight there is Things like onboarding instantiation all the basics is almost at a hundred percent success rate or almost there So we've got the basics. They're working We've improved over on scaling so in the previous plug test from what I remember manual scaling was working Okay, now manual scaling is a hundred percent Successory where I like the fact that it's improving is some of the auto scaling Possibilities are now starting to improve as well So for instance on a VNF indicator if a VNF sends an indication to the Mano stack to say please scale That went up to 72% success rate of those who attempted it Good stuff having said that scaling based on the KPI coming in from the Vim meaning open stack That's at zero percent. So nobody supports it right now but improvement still Where other areas where? That need improvement are things like performance management and false management for both network services and VNFs where the success rate Very between 57 to 72 percent for those types of tests So again improvement on the past one not quite there yet. So we still have a little bit of ways to go the API track Same thing a little bit. There's a focus on the on the reference point between the orchestrator and and the VNF manager. It's called solutions three specification There's a lot more test cases that were run and attempted there versus other API's around the Mano and that's For a few reasons. There's a lot more to test on that reference point and secondly It was the first spec from Etsy that was ready So a lot of implementation had a head start there So but there's other sole three parts like package management and granting not yet So it's an incremental process there is where we expect to see a lot of progress for the next plug test Okay, so aside from these detailed results that we are compiling during these kind of events We are also trying to gather a lot of feedback While implementers get together and talk together and sometimes they realize they are seeing things in a different way This is probably not because they are done, but because the spec is not very clear So we try to capture as much as possible of all that For this practice we did get a lot of feedback mostly on the sole specifications I think it's because we've been running on top of the other specifications for a longer time and Things that need to be solved or clarify have have been solved But it was the first time we were putting that much focus on the sole specifications We got a lot of general feedback recommendations and identified gaps And inconsistencies and there were a number of Request for clarification what was also nice during this event is that we had many of the officials from From Etsy and a VP present there in the room So a number of items could be solved on the fly and they were also getting this feeling Or where are the points where they need to start clarifying or adding details to these specifications for the Open API definitions. There was also a number of bugs I don't remember exactly the name but the number of bugs that were Identified some of them fixed on the stop some of the spot some of them fed back to etsy and a V and some recommendations on how to improve the reliability and the Drafting of these open API definitions. So this is Probably the main reason why etsy is running these these kind of events and these kind of continuous testing is to gather all This feedback and make sure that the quality of the standards improves and they are fit for purpose Concerning the test plans. There was a lot also a lot of feedback. So from the interoperability test plan. This is something We're continuously feeding back to etsy and a V testing working group these there are now three new Or updated test descriptions that have been sent back to to NVT ST These cover additional testing in performance and for management these covers NSH base service function chaining and And the famous scale to level I mentioned before For the API testing all the learnings all the experience that we gather by testing with all these different implementations Is been compiled as well and this has been input to a new work item. That's called TST 10 this is the NV conformance testing specification and it's under development But the fact that we've been playing with those API's and testing those API's beforehand is going to help to focus and and and to develop a better Spec on the open of his side. So open a V had their own plug fest. So they had their own activities going on as well so having It being an open a V plug fest the focus was entirely on testing me So they did a little lot one of the one of the big attention points that they're getting there Focusing on these days is long duration testing and performance testing and a lot of the activities surrounded that so First thing is there's two Open a V has a series of different testing projects bottlenecks and yardsticks are two of the standards They were focusing on doing two-day tests. They'd let they'd let things roll for two days just to see what the results are and This leads to some another project that I'll talk about later on but one of the issues that comes out of this is repeatability of performance tests and and No errors and long duration tests which led to a project that came to Etsy and I'll talk about it later another tool called NFB bench NFB benches is a Performance test tool from an opian a visa looks at the system as a black box and it uses t-rex open source Traffic generator to do that. So it was testing against one opian a v scenario and a commercial platform from Wind River And they were trying to compare acceleration or different networking technologies and it's specifically vert IO versus AVP from titanium cloud which And then they were also comparing different test tools to VS perf is one major test tool at opian a V that's the virtual switch performance testing It's been dedicated to do that since the very beginning of opian a V It uses four different traffic generators, and they're comparing OV as dpdk layer 2 forwarding capability between if there are any differences in performance between VS perf and NFB bench which has a more black box kind of look at it and what they came out is Packet format number flows packet path does impact results. So the configuration obviously will configure it will will impact the results But when those configurations were matched between the two test tools the results were pretty similar Here is a great picture of all hundred fifty participants that were there and they're all waving at you so Next so some of the collaboration items now that the happen between Etsy And opian a V and being the guy trying to make that happen. This got me really excited So one of the the way we work at Etsy and a V is we call them work items and basically you can look at them as project it has a ptl we call it a report tab and the work each work item has a Name three letter acronym which working group it comes from and a number so tst 009 If you're interested in benchmarking, this is this is the new standard in my mind It's for NFEI network benchmarks and measurement methods. So if you're familiar with RFC 25 44 This is basically an update to 25 44 for virtualized platforms taking into account that this is not a standalone box It has a benchmark definitions test setups even requirements over test tools that you're trying to do this and Methods of measurement and what they did is they came up with new search algorithms to help Mitigate the the the problem with repeatable results that I was mentioning earlier This became the highlight of all Collaboration items between Etsy and a V and open a V because it literally was an agile iterative Development process between us at Etsy handing it over to open a V They would review and come back to us with comments But more importantly they would prototype the algorithms and try things out, which is what open source communities are so great So and then they come back said hmm try this or tweak that and the results didn't so let's try this And it was a 15 iteration type of thing And it finally came out as as a full test spec that was published in January if benchmarkings are a thing I'm talking exclusively about that at 2 30 later on this afternoon The in test 10 which is another work item, and that's the one that's going to be pretty Linked to the API testing is we're coming up with an automated complete conformance test package for The Mano stack so it's three different reference points a ton of APIs These are all REST based interfaces And we're we're going to use robot as a test framework to automate a full sweep of conformance tests for that The collaboration part is that opiate of these so far it's all initiated But it's in the initial stages. Let's say will help us automate it as well So if you run it against by using an opn avi platform to lay your Mano stack on it then you'll be able to automate it fully using using opn avi the func test test tool and then Further a future potential thing, which is really cool is help us automate Instrument the platform in order to help the automation for things like fault management It's kind of hard to automate a CPU going down While as opn avi if they instrument their platform to say to communicate with the test system and say okay bring this one Down and then you check the results that makes it a full package. So that's pierce pie in the sky But hopefully that'll go forward as well It gave the opportunity Opn avi has what they call the ovp opn avi verification program Which is basically conformance test package to verify an opn avi base system Against test criteria the tool that executes that is called dovetail, which is also the name of the project Dovetail is an umbrella tool Kind of thing that uses existing opn avi test framework like Mainly func test and yardstick, but there's a few others as well And then it selects and runs test cases that those tools support against a hardware and virtually virtualized platform It gave dovetail the opportunity to run for the first time. I think against commercial Hardware platforms from Nokia and white stack a red hat platform and a wind river platform all of them by the way open stack A very exciting and new thing that happened the opn avi has a project called xci Cross-community integration Which brings in from master branch multiple open source projects for them right and well it was for them It brings an open stack open daylight Fido fd.io fast datapath and also own app and brings it into a large CI pipe to immediately test master branches from all those four communities and it's been very valuable and apparently really valuable to open stack as well because the The results are fed straight back into open stack and there's been a few bugs here and there which is Exactly what we're all about right fail fast What what what xci because they the project team lead for xci was present at the plug fest and OSM was also part of the plug test plug fest as well. Well, they got together and say hey Why don't you get on board to this and they finally integrated OSM open source manual into the opn avi xci So now there's five communities five packages being integrated into that that led to The opn avi sfc project going hmm They sfc service function chaining is a project upstream well opn avi project that upstreams its Development into odl to be able to support the nsh network service header Based service function chaining nsh is an ietf protocol from their sfc group That project's been in existence for two three years But now they saw they took a look and said hey wait. There's a pretty good OSM A manno stack there open source that supports sfc. Why don't we use that? So they started working together as well and now the sfc project uses osm to orchestrate the service function chain Test and then once that's and they have a certain amount of tests present right now And now that that's in place they gave them a little bit more flexibility and they're going to Extend the test base for that as well Okay, and yet another nice cross-community activity that that happened during this event typically Companies and participants come to practice to check what's failing in their implementation to check what they are not doing as the others They learn a lot, but this time we wanted to give them a chance as well to learn and show what they were doing Well, so we had a challenge that was to build during the the week of practice Some multi-vendor multi-project demonstrations of real use cases of real network services So we had like four or five that were set up on the spot like that and demonstrated on stage With with the full functionality one of the nicest one was one grouping together I think was for open source projects seven vendors and they were actually orchestrating a 4g mobile network. Okay, so we had In terms of open source we had of course Open stack and opnv on the platform level. There were a couple of sites there on the orchestration There was open source manual on one of the vnf's that was part of this multi vnf network service was the the 4g ePC from from the opera opener in interface over alliance, so this was Really nice case of additional collaboration You must remember that all these activities all these cross community things happen on top of all the testing That's running and it's been Compiled so it's it was quite a nice thing to see So all these all these activities the testing that results the feedback the cross community activities All this has been compiled in a couple of reports You have the link on the screen, but you can also Google them. One is the plaque test report. This is all the plaque test Activities all the testing results and feedback Related to the HC specs. The other one was a joint report between HC plaque test and opnv plaque fest And this is an overview is a shorter document is here to read and it's an overview of all these Highlights and the main cross community activities that started there. So really nice read And then what's next the ones we've done this what are we planning for the future? so in from the Etsy side, we're really going to put the focus on API testing in the next months Most of the specs are being finalized and the open API definitions are being finalized and stable and We feel now comfortable to run an exhaustive testing of those APIs. We're planning for a fully remote event We don't need Participants to come to Etsy to do that testing. We're going to to leverage this hive this hub for interoperability and validation and what we will do is to have individual test sessions which is each Interested party implementing one of those API servers and we'll have this Implementer working with someone from the plaque testing that will be guiding through the through through the through the testing Running the test system and guiding also when things fail on what needs to be fixed on on which side So this is interesting for both parties for the for the Etsy team is good because we will make sure that the The switch that we are developing will be Will be functional and have been validated with several implementations for the implementers for the participants It's interesting because they are going to get a very early check on their implementation of the API They are going to get guidance on how to use it and then later on they can always go Download these test suites and run them on on their own or incorporate them to their CICD So this is going to run between February and March 2019 Remotely as I said those participants that already joined the practice program in the past can simply Express their interest of testing and and they build schedule for the testing those that haven't joined yet They can join now and they can go through the registration and we are still on time to to onboard them and have them participate into this testing And then after that we are planning for a new face-to-face event Same place and dates will be first week of June 2019 and this will happen in Etsy premises in Sofia and T-police. We have a very big Room where we can fit 250 people. We have a nice lab nearby and we're very close to this hive A core which give us access to all the remote sites You don't need to send your hardware that if you don't want you can just connect to a remote lab Keep the connection you have actually and use that for the for the testing So here again, we will be focusing again in multi-party interoperability sessions. The actual testing scope is going to be expanded. We'll have to see and discuss with With Etsy and Evie whether this is going to be to incorporate release 3 functionality where it is going to be to expand the scope of the interop to make some API checks during the interop sessions or whether it will be both of them so we'll see for the Detail scope of the API plaque test here as we were saying we are going to be exhaustive in terms of APIs and reference points So the participation will be will be open actually to anyone providing a VNF or element manager offering sold to capabilities any VNF M offering sold to or sold 3 and any orchestrator also offering sold 3 or sold 5 Okay, everything is underscore of course in addition of all these pieces of VNFs and VNF managers and orchestrators. We will need as well some platforms where we run This testing so participation is also open to hardware providers and Veeam providers Opium Evie has their future plans as well So I'll just quickly go that go through that the opium Evie just released their Gambia release The G release so their sixth release this week just went out. I think Tuesday So that's a big deal and now they're working on the next one, which is called Hunter of River in Australia I just found out this morning They have a joint plug fest opium Evie and own app will have a joint plug fest in January First full week of January just outside of Paris hosted by Nokia And it's the first time those two communities get together for a plug fest Now the potential hopefully anyways, we're trying to work out if it's possible to have opium Evie and own app Join us at the plug test that Sylvia just described in the first week of June So two things have opium Evie co-locate their their their plug fest and own app as well with us and Hopefully get on that to participate in a plug test as one of the Mano stacks It would be half of what it does, but one of the Mano stacks In the plug test, which I think would be really super valuable And that's it. Those are the that's a potential. I'm crossing my fingers. Hopefully we'll get there And some key takeaways a bit of resume of the presentation. So the interrupt results They are improving some areas are still not thoroughly tested and we need to look at those and see why this is happening Whether we need to make the specs better that this plans better all the implementations have things still to to develop We've seen a great progress on automated interrupt testing and a great progress as well as well in NV API adoption and testing And we're going to keep Working on that we are seeing an increase in cross-community collaborations and we're very very pleased with that we have already starting to connect into this Hive network and and and making their implementation available for future testing And we will be happy to have all the communities as people say in joining as well as as many as possible And finally just save the dates for the plug test and plug fest activities for 2019. You will be most welcome So thanks a lot for staying with us. It's been tough. I guess for you as well without the slides But thanks a lot for staying the slides will be available Wait a run of applause for the poor AV guy in the back who heroically tried to fix