Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Google Cloud Next 2018. Brought to you by Google Cloud and it's ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're live here in San Francisco. This is theCUBE's exclusive coverage of Google Cloud's event Next 18. Google Next 18 is the hashtag. We've got two great guests talking about services, Kubernetes, Istio and the future of cloud. A partner seen as the group product manager of Kubernetes and we have Henn Goldberg, director of engineering of Google Cloud, two amazing CUBE alumni, really awesome guests here to break down why Kubernetes, why is Google Cloud really doubling down on that? Istio, of right, who are the great multi-cloud and on-premise activities. Guys, welcome to theCUBE. Great to see you guys again. Thank you for having us.  We thought service meshes are amazing. You guys had a great open source presence with CUBE Flow and a variety of other great things. The open source contributions recognized by Diane Green and the whole industry as number one. Congratulations. Why is Istio so important? We're seeing the big news, at least for me, this kind of nuance is one dot is available, you got general availability. We're supposed to be kind of after Kubernetes made it. But now Istio is now happening faster, why? So what we've seen in the industry is that it only become too easy to create microservices or services overall, but we still want to move fast. So with the industry today, how can you make sure that you have the right security policies? How do you manage those services at scale? And what Istio does really in one sense is to expand it. It decouples the service development from the service operations. So developers are free, they don't need to take care of monitoring, audit, logging, network traffic, for example. But instead, the operation team has really sophisticated tool to manage all of that on behalf of the developers in a consistent way. You know, Hen and I did a session yesterday, a spotlight session, and it covered cloud services platform, including Istio. We had a guest from eBay, and eBay has been with Google Kubernetes Engine for a long time, and they're also a contributor to the Kubernetes open source project. They talked about how they have hundreds of microservices, and they're written in different languages. So they're using Go, Python, Ruby, everything under the sun. And as an operator, how do you figure out how the services are communicating with each other? How do you know which ones are healthy? So they, I asked him, you know, so how did you solve that complexity problem? And he said, boom, I used Istio, and I deployed Istio. It deploys as just kind of like a sidecar proxy, and it's auto-injected.  And then it's available in every service, and it gives you so much out of the box.  And that's really, you know, something that operators haven't had before. Describe SLOs for a second. What is, why is that important? So you have network-level objectives. So you can see, so you can have an availability objective that this service should always be available, you know, 99.9% of the time. That's an SLO. Or, you know, the response rate needs to be, have a certain type of latency, so you can have a latency SLO. But the key here with Istio is that, as an operator, previously, Jeff was working, Jeff from eBay. He was working at the VM or container or network port level. Now he's working at the service level. So he understands intelligence about the parts of the application that weren't there before. And that has two things. It makes him powerful, right? And more intelligent. And secondly, the developer doesn't need to worry about those things. That's the power of Istio. And I think one of the things for network guys out there is that, it's like policy, it brings policy to the equation. Now I want to ask you a question on the auto injections. What's the role of the, how much coding is involved in doing this? Zero coding? How much developer time is involved in injecting the sidecar proxies? Zero. Zero. Zero. From a developer perspective, that's not something that you need to worry about. You can focus on the chatbot you're writing or the webpage you're writing or whatever logic you're developing that's critical for your business. That's going to make you more competitive. That's why you were hired as a developer, right? So you don't have to worry about the auto injection of Istio. And what we announced was really managed Istio on GKE. So that's something that Google will manage for you in the future. I want to add one last thing about Istio. I think it also represented changing the transformation because before we were all about Kubernetes and containers but definitely when we see the adoption, the complexity is much broader. So in GCP we're actually introducing new solutions that are appropriate for that. So Istio for example, works on both containerized applications and VM-based applications. Cloud build that we announced, right? It also works across applications of all types. It doesn't have to be only containers. We introduced some tools for multi-cluster management because we know all customers have multi-cluster, the large ones, so really thinking about it, how in a holistic way we are solving those problems. We've seen Google evolve its position in the enterprise clearly. When John and I first started talking to Google about cloud, it was like everything's going to cloud. Now we're seeing a lot of recognition of some of the challenges that enterprises face. We heard a lot of announcements today that are resonating or going to resonate with the enterprise. Can you talk about the cloud services platform? Is that essentially your hybrid strategy? Is it encompassed that? Maybe you could talk about that a little bit. Cloud services platform is a big part of our hybrid cloud strategy. I mean, as a Google platform, we also have networking and compute and we bridge private and public and that's a foundation. But cloud services platform, it comes from our heritage with open source. It comes from our engagement with many large enterprises, banks, healthcare institutions, retailers, you saw many of them here. We had HSBC speaking, we had Target speaking. We know that there are large portions of enterprise IT that are going to remain on premise that have to remain on premise because they're in a branch office or they have some sort of regulatory compliance requirements, or that's just where their developers are and they want to have a local environment. So we're very, very sensitive and knowledgeable about that. And that's why we introduced cloud services platform as Google's technology in your environment on-prem so you can modernize where you are at your own pace. So some of the things we heard today in the keynote, we heard support for Oracle Rack and Exadata and SAP, that's obviously traditional enterprises, partnership with NetApp, Cloud Armor, Shielded VMs, these are all traditional enterprise things. What enterprise grade features should we be looking for from cloud services platform? So the first one which I actually love the most is the GKE policy management. One of the things we've heard from our customers, they say, okay, portability is great, consistency great, but we want security portability. Right, they now have all of those environment. How can they ensure that they are compliant with the GDPR in all of their environments? How they manage tenants in all of their environments in the same way? And GKE policy management is exactly that. Okay, we're allowing customers to apply the same policy while not locking them in. Okay, we are fully compatible with the Kubernetes approach and the primitives of RBAC and roles, but it is also aligned with GCPIM. So you can actually manage it once and apply it to all your environments, including clusters, Kubernetes cluster everywhere you have. So I expect we'll have more and more effort in this area and making sure that everything is secured and consistent. What about auto scaling? Is that enterprise grade? Auto scaling. Yes. Yes, I mean, auto scaling is a inherent part of Kubernetes. So Kubernetes scales your pods automatically. That's a very mature, I mean, it's been stable for more than a year or probably two years and it's used everywhere. So auto, pod auto scaling is something that's used everywhere. The thing about GKE is that we also do cluster auto scaling. Cluster auto scaling is actually harder and we not only do it for CPUs, we do it for GPUs, which is innovative, you know? So we can scale and auto scale and auto implement, auto provision your GPUs, if you're running machine learning. We're going to bring that on-prem too. It's not in the first version, but that's something that with the approach that we've taken to GKE on-prem, we're going to be adding those kinds of capabilities. How hard is that going to be to go on-prem? Is it just an extension? You just got to get the job done? Or what timeframe are we looking at that? So the API that we've built, it's a downward API that works with some sort of hardware clustering technology. Right now it's working with vSphere, right? And so basically if your underlying technology has that capability, we will auto scale the cluster in the future. You know, I got to say, you guys are like the dynamic duo of Kubernetes, senior in the shows, you have the Internet Linux Foundation events. Talk about the relationship between you guys, you have in engineering, you have product management. How will you guys organize? You're moving fast, I mean just the progress since we've been interviewing you to CNCFs ago has been significant. Since we've started talking on theCUBE, you're seeing Kubernetes, obviously you guys have some inside knowledge of that, but it's really moving fast. How is the team organized? What's the magic internal formula that you guys are engineering here? You see in Google you mean? And you guys are working as a team, I've seen you guys open, is it just open source, is it the internal? Talk about some of the dynamics. So first of all we're working as one team. One thing I love mostly about the Google culture is about doing the right thing for the user. Like the announcement you've seen yesterday on the keynote, there are many, many teams that have been working together to get that done. But you cannot see that, right? You don't see that there are so many different teams and different product managers and different engineering managers all working together. But what I think where we are right now, I know is that really Google is backing up Kubernetes and you can see it everywhere, right? You can see with our announcement about Knative. For example, so the idea of portability, the idea of no locking is really important for us. The idea of open cloud, freedom of choice. So because we are all aligned to that direction and we all agree about the principles, it's actually super easy to move forward. So she is very modest, you know, this type of thing doesn't just happen by itself, right? I mean, of course Google has a wonderful culture and we have a great team. But I really enjoy working with Hen and she's an amazing leader. She's the leader of the engineering team. She also brings together these other teams. You know, every large company has many teams and the announcement at the scale that we made it and the vision that you see, the cohesiveness of it, right? It comes from collaboration. It comes from thinking as a team and you know, the management and leadership that Hen has brought to the Kubernetes project and to Kubernetes and GKE and cloud services platform is phenomenal. It's an inspiration. I really enjoy working with her. And the progress has been great progress. So I hear a lot of customers talk about things like, hey, you know, they evaluate vendors. You know, those guys have done the work and it's kind of a categorical way of saying, it's complete, they're working hard, they're doing the right things. As you guys continue this mission, what's some of the work that you're continuing to do? What's the work that you guys are doing the work? We see some of that evidence. If you have to describe this, someone says, hey, have you done the work to earn the credit in the cloud? What would it be? How would you describe the work that you've done and the work that you're doing continuing to do? What is that work? What would you say to that? I mean, I hope that we have done the work to, you know, to earn the credit. I think we're very, very conscientious. You know, in the Kubernetes open source project, I can say we have 300 plus contributors. We are working not just on the feature functionality, but we work on the testing and we work on the QA. We work on all the documentation stuff. We work on all the nitty gritty details. So I think that's where we earn the credit on the open source side. I think in cloud and in enterprise, well, you're seeing a lot of it here today. You know, the announcements that you mentioned, we're very, very cognizant. And I think the thing I like about, one of the things that Diane said I like very much is I think the industry underestimates us. Well, when you talk about, well, we look at the Kubernetes, if I can call it a playbook, it took the world by storm. You obviously solve some of your own problems, you open source it, develop the community. Should we think about, it's the same way? Are you going to use that sort of similar approach? It seems to be working. Yes. Doing open source is not easy, okay? Managing and investing and building something like Kubernetes requires all of effort by way of no just from Google. We have a lot of people that work in full time just on Kubernetes. The way we look at it, we look about the thing that we value the most, like portability, for example. If there's anything that we would like to make a standard, like with Knative, those are the kind of things that we really want to bring to the industry as open source technologies, because we want to make sure that they will work for customers everywhere. We need to be genuine and really stand behind what we are saying to our customers. So this is the way we look at things. Again, another example you can see about Kubeflow. So we actually have a lot of examples of where we want to make sure that we give those options. So that's one, it's one is for the customer. The second thing I want to actually emphasize is the ecosystem and partners. We know that innovation, not all of innovation will come from Google. And we want to make sure that we empower our partners and the ecosystem to build new solutions. And this is, again, another way to do it. Yes. I mean, we were talking before we came on camera about the importance of ecosystems. Dave and I have covered many industries within enterprise and now cloud and big data. Now you see blockchain on the horizon, another part of our coverage area. Ecosystems are super important when you have openness. And you have an inclusionary culture around building together and co-creation. This is the ethos of open source. But people need to make money, right? So at the end of the day, you guys are not a not profit. You guys make profit. Instead of the partners. So as the world turns to cloud, there's going to be new value opportunities. How do you guys view that ecosystem? Because is it more educational? Is it more just keep up? A lot of people want to be on the right side of history with cloud. And a lot of things are changing. How do you guys view that ecosystem in terms of nurturing it, identifying it, working with it, building it, sharing? What's your thoughts? Sure. You know, I believe that new technology comes with lots of opportunity. We've seen this with Kubernetes and I think going forward, we see it. It's not a zero sum game.  And now we see actually around Istio a huge ecosystem as well. The types of opportunities in the value chain, I think it changes. It's not what it used to be, right? It's not so much, I think, taking care of hardware, racking and stacking hardware. It's higher level. When we talked about Istio and how that raises the level of management, I think there's a huge role for operators. It's a transformative role. You know, and we've seen it at Google. We have this thing called site reliability engineering, SRE, it's a big thing. Like those people are God, you know, when it comes to your services. I think that's going to happen in the enterprise. That's going to be a real role. That's an operations role. And then of course developers, their life changes. And I think even like for regular people, you know, for kids, for you and I, and normal people, they can become developers and start writing applications. So I think there's a huge shift. That's a huge thing. You're touching on a lot of areas of IT transformation. You know, talking about the operations piece, we've touched upon some of the application development. How do you guys look at IT transformation and what are some of your customers doing? IT transformation is enabled by, you know, this raising of the level of abstraction by having a multi cluster, multi cloud environment. What I see in the customer base is that they don't want to be limited to one type of cloud. They don't want to be limited to just what's on-prem or just what's in one, you know, in any one cloud. They want to be able to consume best of breed. They want to be able to take what they have and modernize it even if it's, even if they can't completely rewrite or even if they can't completely transform it, they want to be able, they want it to be able to participate. So they even, they want their mainframes to be able to participate. Keep up. Yeah. I had one customer say, you know, I don't want to have two platforms, a slow platform and a fast platform. I want just the fast platform. Exactly. So how about the future now? As we end the segment here, I want to get your thoughts. We're going to see CNCFs coming up to Seattle in a couple of months. And also, Istio's got great traction with, obviously with the support and general availability. But what's the impact to the customers? Because GKE, Google Kubernetes Engine, is evolving to be the single interface that's almost as ease of use. Because that's a real part of what you guys are trying to do is make it easy. So the traction layer is going to create new business models. Obviously, we see that with the transformation piece you were just mentioning. But at the end of the day, I got to operate something. I'm a network guy. I'm now going to be operating the entire environment. I'm going to enable my developers to be modern, fast, or whatever they want to be. At the end of the day, you've got to run things. You've got to manage it. So what does GKE turn into? What's the vision? Can you share your thoughts on how this transforms? And what's the trajectory look like? So our goal is actually to help automate that for our customers. So they can focus elsewhere. As we said from the operation perspective, making things more reliable, defining the SLO, understanding what kind of service they want to provide their customers. And our hope, again, you can see it in other things that we are building, like AutoML. Okay, actually giving more tools to provide those capabilities to the application. I think that's what we'll see more and more. So the operators will manage services and they will do it across clusters and across environments. This is a new skill set. You know, it's the SRE skill set, but even bigger because it's not just in one cloud. It's across clouds. It's not easy. They're going to do it with centralized policies, centralized control, security, compliance, all of that. So you see SRE, which is site reliability engineer, it's a Google term, but you see that being a role in enterprises. Yeah, that's what STO enables. And it's also knowing what services to use when, what's going to be the most cost effective, the right service for the right job, if you will. That's really an important point. I agree. I think security, I think cost perspective was something definitely that we'll see enterprises investing more in and understanding and how they can leverage debt, right, for their own benefit. The admin, the operator is going to say, okay, I've got this on-prem. I've got these three different regions. I have to be that traffic coordinator to figure out who can talk to who, where should this traffic go? Who should have how much quota? All of that, right? That's the operator role. That's the new role. So it's an opportunity for operations people who might have spent their lives managing loans to really transform their careers. That's right. There's no better time to be an operator.  And you know, like.  Thinking about our services in different ways, I think that actually is super important for any engineering team to have that balance. Okay, final question, just put you on the spot. Real quick answer. Great stuff. Congratulations on the work you guys are doing. Great to follow the progress. But I'm a customer. My customer hat on. Power in the hand. I can get that on Amazon. Microsoft's got Kubernetes. Why Google Cloud? What makes Google Cloud different? If Kubernetes is open, why should I use Google Cloud? So you're right. And the wonderful thing is that Google is actually all in Kubernetes. And we are the first public cloud that actually providing a managed Kubernetes on-prem. We are the first cloud provider to have a GCP marketplace with a Kubernetes application production ready with our partners. So if you're all in Kubernetes, I would say that it's obvious. Yeah, I see most of the customers wanting to be multi-cloud and to have choice. And that is something that is very aligned with what we're... Let the best cloud win. Open source is winning. Great to have you on a part of hand. Thanks for coming on. Dynamic Duo and Kubernetes, Istio. A lot of new services are happening. We're bringing you all those services here on theCUBE. It's our content here from Google Cloud. Google Next, I'm John from Davi Lonely. We'll be right back. For more day two coverage after this short break. Thank you.


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and welcome to Connecting Hawaii Business on ThinkTag Hawaii. My name is Kathleen Lee, and I am your host for this program. On today's show, I am excited to introduce my friend, Jerome Adarda, founder of Visionary Views, to talk about real estate technology as well as his other endeavors. Jerome, welcome to the show. Hi, Katherine. Thank you for having me. Of course. I'm excited to be here and to think that. Me too. I'm excited for you to be on as well. So tell our viewers about yourself. So my name is Jerome Adarda, Jr., and I'm the founder of a real estate media company called Visionary Views, LLC. And I'm also an international marketing partner with SMDC, which is SM Development Corporation based in the Philippines. And I'm also in the middle launching a new startup called Virtual Staging Studio. So I'm really excited about that new startup. Very cool. So we have one, two, and three things. Let's start with the first one, Visionary Views. Tell us what that is all about. So Visionary Views, it's a real estate media company where we offer five main services, which include photography, videography. We offer drone services. And we also do virtual tours and virtual staging. So and we help local real estate professionals market their properties online. We also service Maui and also Las Vegas, so three locations right now. And yeah. So any way that we can help a real estate professional market their property is that's what we do. Okay. And how did you identify the need for you to create you and the people that you worked with to create Visionary Views? Where did that come from? Well, I got the idea about, I think, six years ago in 2017 when I saw my first virtual tour. So probably everyone on the show Think Tech has seen a virtual tour before. And so I first seen one in 2017 and I was like, wow, that's so cool. Because I grew up in a real estate family and growing up in the 90s watching my parents in the real estate business, it was just photos. And then all of a sudden there's this virtual tour, I was like, wow, I want to do that. And then it wasn't till 2020 in the middle of the pandemic when I kind of saw an opportunity because the real estate market was, I guess, going through a transition. And a lot of people wanted to purchase properties, but they weren't able to physically look at them or view them. And so I was like, okay, I think this is a time to get into doing virtual tours. And so I just dove right in. And yeah, just because of how COVID was, it was a great time to get into that. And things just start to pick up from there. Awesome. You mentioned that you come from a real estate family. Jerome, could you expand more on that? How far back does your history go when it comes to the real estate sector? Okay, so I guess three or four generations. So my great grandparents actually, when they immigrated here, they ended up in Lahaina, Maui, and I guess our first piece of getting into real estate was that we actually owned property in Lahaina right on Front Street. And so yeah, my grandma owned the, actually a grocery store and I used car lot right on Front Street, Maui. That was our first piece of real estate that we owned here. So it was really, really devastating when the fires happened, you know, all that history is now gone. My dad went to Lahaina Luna High School. But yeah, that was our first investment in real estate. And then my parents actually, we have a foreclosure business. So that's our family business. My dad has been doing real estate since the 70s. And so if you're familiar with the foreclosure business, basically that is purchasing, rehabbing and then reselling real estate.  So I'd be there throughout the whole process from the time I'd go with him as a little kid to be auctioned. So watching him purchase a property, bidding for the property, and then fixing it up. I remember helping him rehab or demo a kitchen. So he'd give me a sledgehammer. He'd be like, don't hurt yourself. Take apart this kitchen. And so, yeah, so I did all that. And then watching my mom stage the property and then both of them taking photos to based online. So yeah, it all played a part into what I'm doing today. It's a huge influence. I knew I wanted to get into real estate. I didn't really want to become an agent for a save, but I knew I wanted to get into it. And I followed the way to get into the real estate industry more on the creative side. So yeah, I just have a lot of fun creating virtual tours. I still think the technology is still very brand new. Not every, not all agents have picked it up yet. But I see more that they are doing it more and more today. That is wonderful. And I'm glad you talked about that. Could you tell me more about the team over at Visionary Views? Yes. So it's myself. And then I have a partner, Chris. So Chris Batoon. And then there's Tristan Mulal, Carson Chang. And then my team member is Justin Potaghi. And then in Vegas, Alicia Bakke heads that operation. But a little bit about them. We've all kind of been into photography, videography, all that. Actually, Carson, I actually started a company with Carson called Follow Me Media several years back where we were doing social media management and doing photography for people's products and businesses. And yeah, so Carson and I kind of worked on those things together. Tristan, he is our like our PR person. He is, if anyone is familiar with B&I, it's a business networking international. But Tristan does a lot of our marketing and building relationships with other business owners and realtors. And then Chris, Chris lived in Japan for a long time helping businesses to do their marketing. And so when he moved back to Hawaii, he was the first person I pitched it to. And then we all kind of just ended up partnering up and working together. That's awesome. Our is your clientele, Lucy, in Hawaii, are they from all over? What give us a gist of the people that you are helping or the clients that you are helping out? Sure. So yeah, most most of our business are local realtors located here in Hawaii or Maui and then also realtors in Vegas. So we just really focus on our local clientele here. But we want to aim to have a global clientele base. And so that's what our new project will I'll talk about that later on. But yeah, that's what our new my new venture virtual staging studio will be able to do is to help real estate professionals not just locally, but nationwide and globally as well. There are lessons launched into that since you already mentioned it. And sure, virtual staging studio, what is that about? So like I mentioned earlier, visionary views offer five main services, which include photography, videography, three virtual tours, we do drone, video and photos. And then we also do what's called virtual staging. And if you guys are unfamiliar with staging a property, it it costs a lot of money, like a realtor can spend upwards of three, four or five thousand dollars to stage a property. And so virtual staging is an alternative option for them to maybe do it faster and also not spend as much money. So I'd say more affordable alternative to staging. And in some cases, you can you're unable to stage a property, say if a property is being occupied, say there's someone living still living in it, maybe the owner or the the renter. You know, it's not a viable option to go in and stage it physically. But with virtual staging, we can go in there, take the photo. We can remove, like say the whole living room was cluttered. We could remove all the items in there and then virtually stage a property. So I still think I still believe that physically, physically staging a property is the best way to stage a property.  But being able to have a second option like virtual staging, it serves its purpose as well, definite needs. And so virtual staging studio is is a platform. It's it's it's actually a set. So it's a software as a service and a platform where real estate professionals can log on and or go to our website and then upload their photos. And then the main service is virtually virtual staging. So we can virtually stage a residential, any part of a residential home, single family home, condo, apartment unit. We can even virtually stage commercial properties as well. And we can pretty much do stage it however they want. If someone wants to make like a workshop in their garage, we can stage it as a workshop, stage a master bedroom or if they want to stage an office, basically whatever they're looking for, we can do it. And so there currently are other virtually staging virtual staging companies out there for sure that they've been around for quite a while. But we're kind of bringing in a new take on it. We're we're offering a little bit more options than what what's out there right now. And then so virtual staging is the main service. But aside from virtual staging, then we have, you know, add ons where they can replace the sky, right? So say they took a picture and then one of the windows is like really cloudy. We could, you know, add like clear blue sky in the windows of sky replacement. We can also declutter the property or the space in an image enhancement. And then we even have an option to create a social media reel with all the photos at the stage. So yeah, I'm really excited about virtual staging studio. That's cool, as long as what you're saying is accurate, right? Like you're not taking out a building in the back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we won't be changing the geography. Yeah, we won't be changing the geography of of the photos. I think that's wonderful. But does that is what you're doing? Does it tie in with AI at all? Um, so not quite yet. Um, so I've done a lot of research on virtual staging AI. And, um, it, it's really, yeah, AI is so incredible. It's, it's so smart. Um, but as far as the AI software that I've seen out there right now, where people can virtually stage, um, with AI, um, the software that I still is not as good as, as a human virtually staging it, where, for example, um, it can identify like, oh, it's a living room space. But some of the objects I noticed are not to scale. So maybe like the dresser might be a little too big or the plant might be floating in the air still, but, um, it's, it's, it's almost there. And so as far as the AI goes, I don't see it as a, as a threat to what we're doing, like, oh, wow, you know, yeah, I'm like people where I'm doing. Um, you know, if, if I'm able to adopt the AI and use it as a service as well, um, yeah. And real estate has always been more of a in-person type of, uh, industry. So, or as close as it can be. So I, I think, you know, having a human still see like, Hey, what, what do you want, look, how can we design it for you? Or still having a bit of a human touch, uh, I think still matters. You know, in, in the real estate. So yeah, yeah. So you're saying humans are still important. Thanks. Yes, definitely. Yeah. As far as challenges go when it comes to starting or launching your business, what are some that you have identified that you can talk about? Okay. Um, so with visionary views, the, you said marketing, right? Marketing challenges. Just any challenges, even, yeah, marketing or even just starting the business or growing it. Okay. So with visionary views, um, our whole marketing plan, I, I call it old school and new school marketing. So for lack of a better term, but that's what I, you know, when we're putting our heads together, me and the team and like how we're going to market, that's what we called it old school and new school marketing. So, um, I'll first talk about the old school approach. So with, with visionary views, um, being a local business, uh, we did, we got in, in, in front of people as much as we could. So we went to like open house every Sunday, knocked on doors and just introduce ourselves. We had booths up at, um, you know, um, realtor conventions. Uh, we still, we still do these things. Um, but yeah, we got in, in, in front of people and talked to them and introduced ourselves. Um, we did cold calling and then more of the new school marketing. We, we, um, hopped on social media, sent emails. Um, yeah, direct messaging, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook. So, so we did everything. And so the, the challenge moving forward with purely online business, um, like virtual staging studio, it's kind of, kind of new territory, not really. So we can't like get in front of people's faces as much, um, because we'll be marketing nationwide, but, um, over the course of learning how to market for, uh, visionary views will be applying the same things, um, for virtual staging studio. Okay. But you seem very knowledgeable and passionate about what you do. So what, what keeps you in the industry? Um, what keeps me in the industry? Um, I think the tech does, yeah, the tech is, it's always fun adopting and using new technology. So, uh, it always keeps me on my toes and that is, is really fun. Like, like we, whenever we buy a new camera, right? For example, our, our, um, our Matterport virtual tour camera, like it's like, whenever you buy a new tool, it's like you have a new toy, right? And then as soon as we learn how to use, you know, all of the features of white camera, they're launching the new thing. And then like your new camera can, can do like LiDAR and all that. And then, okay, we have to learn about LiDAR and, and that's fun for me. Like learning new technology and adopting it and finding ways to, service clients with it. All that stuff is, um, I think for me and the whole team, um, where we like to do that. So, uh, that, that keeps us in the industry and also servicing our client. Um, I've been in other industries before where it was kind of, you do the work and then, um, you know, maybe your clients don't appreciate it as much, but definitely in, in the work that we do now, we see that we're getting results. Um, houses are houses sell or houses that we help market, you know, we see them. Um, you know, because having say someone do photos with just their phone versus being able to, um, help market by showing drone footage or virtual tours. Yeah. We see that it helps our clients. And so that always feels good when we're getting results for our clients. That is wonderful. But one thing that we have yet to tackle is your role as an international marketing partner for SMVC. What is that about drone? Okay. So, um, I've been going back and forth to the Philippines from ever since I can remember, um, and my, my, my family or my parents, um, we've invested in the Philippines a lot, uh, as far as real estate, uh, we used to have a farm in the Philippines, like chicken farm. So we actually used to supply Jollibee with or RFM, uh, which is, uh, yeah, we used to supply Jollibee with, with their chickens and we used to have a chicken farm. So I've been going back and forth to the Philippines and, you know, just the investments that my parents have made, like in the nineties and then the Philippines is like constantly growing and seeing the return of their investments there. Um, you know, I said to myself, like, why don't I invest in the Philippines? And so I did and then along the way, you know, just all the projects in the Philippines having is really intriguing. Like they're constantly, every time I go there, it's like, Hey, this bridge wasn't here before or this tree wasn't here before. This building wasn't here before. And so, um, I actually am an international marketing partner with a seven development corporation. Um, if anyone's familiar with like, or have been to the Philippines, they own like a lot of malls, um, and they do a lot of development, like SM all of Asia. It's the biggest mall in Asia, owned by SM, um, SM, SM DC is owned by the sea siblings. I think they're the first or second, uh, most wealthiest billionaire in the Philippines and so on. Um, yeah, I do their, their marketing. So what I do here is I, I basically market their strategically placed or located, uh, real estate. So for example, they're building a new airport. It's called the new Manila International Airport, uh, located in Bluicon in the Philippines. Then also in Bluicon, they're building a, the new Manila International Airport, yeah, in Bluicon. And then SMDC is building, uh, development also in Bluicon. So it's like, uh, wherever the Philippines is building infrastructure, SMDC also builds nearby, like say a new subways being built in Makati, SM will build like, uh, new development near, uh, transit station. And so, um, yeah, I just help it, help market, uh, their strategically, uh, located projects. And you can ask them, I love how you talked about all this wonderful infrastructure and the thing that clicked in my head was he, he had a direct line to the jaw of each chicken. Yeah, I wish we were still doing the chicken farming. What? So how do you, how do you tie all of this in together? Um, so everything that I do is, uh, real estate related or related to real estate. So, um, I think that's what, that's what makes it easy is it's all one industry. So, um, whether it's in the Philippines or here. And also, I have team members in, in the Philippines for visionary views and, uh, virtual staging studio. So I have about four virtual assistants in the Philippines. I also have some team members in India and Vietnam. Um, but definitely I, um, I've actually got to meet some of my team members last, this past August when I went there for a family reunion. So yeah, um, it just made my, um, yeah, I just really love the Philippines and any, any way I can, uh, help, help out or provide jobs there. So, um, yeah, it's awesome. And yeah, I think that's wonderful. With a few minutes that we have left, what are some lessons that you learned, especially when it comes to your endeavors that you would like to share with our viewers and perhaps people who want to go into the sector that you're currently in? Um, what can I leave with our user? Yeah, if, um, if you're, if you're, if you have a passion about something and, um, I'd say you need to have the, the right team, right? Um, yeah, I'm on here like doing the interview, but you know, it's my, really my team that, um, helps, helps us to do what we do. Yeah. So like without Tristan, Chris, Carson, um, yeah, I couldn't do this on my own. So I think what's really important is having the right team to help you chase after what you're passionate about. Wonderful. Is there anything else that you'd like to add? Um, yeah, um, stay tuned for virtual staging studio. We haven't officially launched it just yet, but, um, it's coming soon. So I'll, I'll try to keep the, everyone, uh, updated with when we're officially going to be launching. Awesome. And if people want to learn more about visionary views or the virtual staging studio, how do they get a hold of you? Um, so you can follow us, uh, on Instagram. It's at visionaryviewsloc.com or if you want to reach me directly, my email is Jerome at visionaryviewsloc.com. Okay. We've given your contact info to everyone in perpetuity. So thanks Jerome again for being on the show and sharing your knowledge with us today. Uh, really appreciate it. We have been talking with Jerome, Jake and Darna, founder of visionary views as well as the upcoming virtual staging studio. So thank you again for being on the show. Thank you, Stephanie. Of course. And thanks for, thanks for ThinkTech. Yes. Thanks for ThinkTech Hawaii for making shows like this possible. Mahalo to Jay Fidel, as well as the people who help out. We had Haley and Mike who have helped us out on this episode. So until next time, aloha.


Welcome to ToffyTV, the Everton News Daily. Fire and Machiri apparently wants to keep 10% off his EFC shares if he sells the club. Obviously a lot of talk about a potential takeover. That's really cum... I don't know of it, but it also seems to be growing really fast. This was an article with Athletics today and they also said that apparently he values the club at 500 million. I don't know if that's like excluding his shares so he wants to keep the 10% so he values them at 550, I don't know. But obviously Everton also needs 500 million for the stadium.  Obviously we still need money for the stadium. It's already started being built. Yeah, obviously Peter Kenyon's consortium seems to be in pole position at the moment. There was, we said before, there's other people interested but it seems to be this group that seems to be ahead of everyone else. Details of a possible selling clause for a Charleston have come out today. After Scott Duxbury, what for chairman, has admitted that they have a 10% selling clause. If Everton receive over 40 million for him, we'll be looking for... If he does go on this one we'll be looking for a lot of money anyway. And that's how inclusion means that we have to get as much money as possible because we need to obviously reinvest that money into the team and we're going to lose 10% of it. This summer Everton heading over to the United States on a pre-season tour and are playing Agent Heats, Minnesota, United. If you're going to attend that game, head on over to mnufc.com to purchase your tickets, use the promotion code C-O-Y-B-22 and we'll see you there. The link today continue with Brazilian. Eugenia is a centre-back, Rodrigo Bacau. We reported this last week and he's been linked again. 26-year-old centre-back, Brazilian. Valued about 17 million. He's OK. We've been linked to Mbemba from Porto, his contracts up as well. This summer, he's 27 years old, he's playing for Newcastle so a couple of centre-backs they've been linked with. It seems like Tarkowski is pretty much almost done now so hopefully we can get him across the line. I'll look at other centre-backs. I'm not so sure how true these links are. For me, I'd be looking at other positions first. If you want to spend money, it looks like we're going to get one centre-back in Tarkowski. I'd be looking at the positions personally. We'll see. Reminder that the PL fixtures are out tomorrow at 9am. Follow us on social media. We'll have them out in the morning. You can find them on Everton websites and Premier League websites and all that stuff. Make sure you give us a follow. Make sure you subscribe to the channel. Hit the little notification bell to be notified when we go live and when we upload. If you want more videos including live daily videos, join us on Patreon. Thanks for watching. See you later.


So the new update came out a week ago so I figured now would be a good time to play. I played in a while so I don't use the most optimal strats then you know don't crucify me for that. So we're just gonna get started here. I'm just getting some wood so I can make some tools. As you can see I'm playing on the new caves and flips update. You can see the update very nicely and you know maybe later in the series I'll take you down to the caves. But for now I think I'm just gonna get set up for the first night. I think that's enough. I'm gonna go ahead and make some pickaxes here. I know that I've got some tools to work with. I'm gonna go ahead and look for some coal. Hopefully there's a cave around here somewhere. Good. That's not good. I think it's coal to make some torches and I'm gonna set myself up in a nice house. So yeah this is gonna be a long series. I don't really have any definitive end goals for this series so if you guys have any ideas make sure to leave a comment below and you can tell me what to do. I think for now I'm just gonna build my house though. Maybe later on I'll think of something. That should be enough of coal. That should be enough coal.  That wasn't good. I ate food so I can get more health back but I don't know if horses drop food. I think they attack you so I better not. There's some food over there. I can't pick three ax wings to kill a cat. Oh geez. I think one would do it. I'm gonna grab some more wood and that one's kind of annoying. It's one of the big ones. I've dropped down one of the smaller ones for now. One of them had this. I didn't know they had bees to this game and I just picked this up. Oh that's not good. How far away do I have to get from them? Really not in any condition to fight right now.  Okay I think they're backing off for now. Getting pretty late in the day. Should start working on the house. I don't want to get caught out at night. Man steak really just doesn't work. Did they nerf everything since I last played? I don't know. Will we get mad if I get close again? Seems to have forgotten. I ate pumpkins. All right I think I have enough wood to make the house now. It's going down. Well I'll just have to fix that later. Let's just take the bottom of this tree. I need some wool to make a bed. I don't want to stay out here for too long. I actually really isn't doing much for me. Oh god don't see me. I'm just going to my little house here. Where's my workbench? Crap. I think I must have left it somewhere. Okay that's good. Let's make a bed. Excuse me. I cook this now. All right stone. Why isn't that working? Do they need to be the same color? Oh god. What can I do here? I don't want to go out there. Need more sheep. Okay excuse me. Big brain play right here. Go ahead and make some dies.  No.  Well I thought I was smart for a second. Don't really want to fix the roof right now. Let's go ahead and go to the floor first. I don't even have enough of that. Well at least I dug it up. Let's keep the oscillator. I'm just stuck in here until daytime. I don't want to go out there. I really have a lot of options. And now some protection. What the heck? Make a yellow wool. Any more sheep out here? Force over there? Not seeing any more sheep? Oh here's my workbench.  Does it only work unless you get iron? Almost daytime. I don't want to go outside and check. I think I can do in here. All right good. It's almost daytime. Oh god. Why does this stay so many hits? Oh my god.  Why didn't any sheep spawn? Okay well I think that's going to be it for the first episode. So uh yeah when I start the next one hopefully I'll have a little more done. I'll have finished the house and um yeah I gotta run my stuff back. But anyways thank you guys for watching. Make sure to like comment and subscribe. It really helps with the algorithm. Yeah thank you for watching.


What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Today I am back with another Destiny 2 video and today we have another BS leak. Now I say BS because until it's confirmed, as legit as it sounds, I ain't gonna get my hopes up. I mean I got my hopes up once again for Destiny 2 and look at it now. So basically a few days back I covered a leak which supposedly showed screenshots taken from Amazon which showcased a new name and release date for the May expansion 2 DLC for Destiny 2. Now although the name hasn't been dropped yet, many think it's going to be called the Gods of Mars. This leak suggested otherwise. It states it's going to be called, according to this leak, the Fallen Warmind and the release date for this expansion will be the 8th of May. There was also a screenshot taken from the game stuck website which basically showed the exact same thing. The Fallen Warmind, Destiny 2 expansion 2 will be released on May 8th. Now these do look legit. Problem is, I could make this up. They are literally that easy to fake. I could do one within a couple of minutes.  I mean I'm kind of expecting leaks about now. And that's what I bring you today. Thanks to my power and vital life crisis for the image. Now this image was leaked yesterday. Now what it shows is the exact same name and release date but also gives us a few more details on the DLC itself. So let's check it out. This was supposedly taken from Game Stop 2 but has since been removed. It states, Destiny 2 expansion 2, the Fallen Warmind continues your Guardians journey with all new story missions and adventures set in a new destination, Mars. I love the way to say new here. This is old people. Rasputin has mysteriously vanished and Anabria has returned to the last city, warning of a dark uprising on Mars, discover the conspiracy behind his disappearance, prevent the rise of a corrupted warmind and uncover the truth behind the collapse, explore Mars and a deep stone cut beneath its surface, new story missions and adventures, new themed weapons, armor and gear to earn, new cooperative activities, new cooperative multiplayer arena and more. So this is what you expect to see from a leak. Now as much as I'd like to say this is legit, it just hasn't been confirmed by any official source. The thing is to me though, this looks like the previous leak has been seen by some sad version and has just taken it a step further and added details to it. Yes it could be real but to be honest we had so many leaks for DLCs beyond this one you just can't be certain what's real and what isn't. It could be real don't get me wrong but again it might just be the bogus ideas of someone trying to get the hype train running for this game. To me the Destiny 2 DLC hype train is in reverse that she ain't moving anywhere forward, she's going backwards and as much as I'd love this not to be the case, at the moment it is, anyone who denies it doesn't really realise the kind of game Destiny 2 should be. This should be a game we are all balls deep into but that couldn't be further from what's actually happening here. Now with this DLC leak I am seeing many of the content creators taking this as a legit news, not gonna lie there was a time where I would have done so too. I would have brought you a video promising this, that and the other like what we're seeing but to me that's doing nothing but building false relationships with you guys.  Again this is something I used to do but I've learned I need to put you guys first even if it sacrifices my relationship with Bungie. I can't go online about a game even if it changed my life for the better in that respect it kind of did but it's the support of you guys which truly changed my life so being honest with you guys in my opinion definitely comes first. This DLC this game Destiny 2 I want more than anything for it to eventually become the game we all originally hoped it would be. I don't want to see it fall any further I honestly don't but I do have a feeling it might just be too late but let's hope I'm wrong. So we're going to move on to some legit info. Ok so we all know of the Borealis the PS exclusive sniper which Xbox users probably won't see until around 2050. This weapon has the ability to change its burn type on the fly basically if you hold square its burn type changes. Most Xbox users wouldn't know this because it's a weapon that ain't on the dark side yet but recently confirmed by Cosmo on Reddit the same kind of system will be set in stone under hard light the exotic auto rifle which is on both platforms this at the moment you can switch its burn type but you have to go into its inventory to do so. Cosmo replied to this Reddit post give hard light the ability to switch energy archetypes like the Borealis. Cosmo replied with give hard light the ability to switch energy archetypes like the Borealis sure let's do it this change is actually a part of the exotic weapon changes we have planned in 1.2.0. We've had it in a build and already been play testing it we'll be showing more details on exotic weapon changes sometime after 1.1.4 launches so that basically confirms it now this exotic change in my opinion is a step in the right direction of making other exotics actually exotic because exotics and exotic at the moment they are just weapons no one really cares about with the right changes exotic could become what they once were what we used to see in destiny one we used to look forward to getting certain exotics there's none of that indeed to now I have every exotic my platform offers I did so in the first few weeks and this is another issue in my opinion exotics are far too easy to get it's great they are making big changes to exotics but when you already have every one of them it isn't quite the same we still won't have anything to chase and it's with this statement I hope that with this made DLC we see the inclusion of many new exotics even if they are ones brought back from D1 I don't really care at this stage D2 is heading backwards anyway back towards destiny one in terms of gameplay so he may as well just allow us to obtain all those old exotics too but hey people that is just my opinion and on that note I am worn out I hope you guys did enjoy the video if you didn't even like really does help me out thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


Hello, my name is Kevin Sadovic and I'm the Director of the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center located near Streeter, North Dakota. I want to welcome you today to the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center 2020 virtual tour. Today we're going to showcase some of our projects we've been conducting at the center the last few years. The center's primary mission is to conduct research and extension programming related to grassland management, forage production, and livestock performance. Our goal is to assess grazing management strategies that enhance our range of resources and add value to those lands for our livestock producers. Our research also focuses on the impacts of these grassland management strategies on pollinator, bird, and mammal habitat to look at the ecological and environmental effects of our other species that use our grasslands. Today we're also going to get a chance to look at our new forage trials that are focusing on our cereal forages, as well as our cover crop trials, especially one that was funded today by the North Dakota, North Central Region, SARA project. Since all of our research and extension programming revolves around livestock producers and livestock production, we're also going to get a chance to see some of our new trials on livestock performance and livestock production, as well as field programming and assessing your cows for beef quality assurance. Welcome to our tour. Hope you enjoyed. If you have any questions at all, please log on to our Central Grasslands Research Extension Center website and drop us a note if you have any questions. Thank you and enjoy the tour.


Our first talk of the day for GitLab Commit at KubeCon comes from Melissa Ushikov. Melissa is a group manager of product management for GitLab's plan and ecosystem groups. Prior to GitLab, she served as a senior product manager at AgileCraft, which was acquired by Atlassian, and led teams building software to help organizations plan and execute work. Melissa is passionate about using software to create environments where everyone can contribute. In keeping with our theme of innovating together on the DevOps platform, Melissa will give us a product update to share where GitLab has come over the past year and celebrate some of our community contributions and major features. Then, Melissa will give us a deep dive into the plan stage at GitLab, along with some of the roadmap for some of the exciting features to come. As a product leader for this stage, she'll share how she approaches building a software planning tool that is a core component of the DevOps platform and some of the unique experiences and workflows that arise when everything is in a single application. Hi, good day, everyone. My name's Melissa Ushikov. I'm the product manager, I'm a group manager and product for the plan and ecosystem stages. Before we get started, I have a required slide to share. We plan ambitiously and our roadmaps are subject to change without notice. Information presented in this session should not be used for the purpose of any material purchase decisions, nor is it a promise of any sort. All right, now that that's out of the way, let's get started. Welcome, I'm excited that you're here and I'm humbled that you took time to attend my session. We have a lot of stuff to cover. I'm gonna start off by sharing some of the recent enhancements that we made to GitLab. I'm then gonna walk through the themes for the upcoming year. And finally, I'm gonna do a deep dive on plan in GitLab and talk about our roadmap. I even have some small segments where you can participate via chat and you can influence our roadmap. All right, let's get started. I wanna start by highlighting our amazing community. Over the first eight months of this year, you've contributed 2,200 improvements. That's 464 more than the same amount of time last year. And actually, April of this year, shattered the record for most contributions in a single month, so great job. Each month we announced an MVP that has contributed in an outstanding way to help make GitLab better for everyone. And I'm gonna highlight the last six MVPs. Five store made numerous improvements to GitLab pages over the last four months. Cornelius added the original GitPod integration and expanded it by adding an option to open code changes in GitPod from a merge request. If you haven't tried out GitPod, I encourage you to do it. It's great. Andrew helped improve the usability of epic initial boards by adding more data to them and even sorting options. Matthew contributed significantly to the package stage with his work on the Davian and Helm package registries. Lee added a time tracking report feature and it allows you to see who has spent time on an issue and you can even add notes. Yogi made multiple contributions to GitLab status page and improved its performance and polished the UI. Let's give our MVPs a virtual round of applause. I also wanna thank the entire community for believing in the vision and innovating together. I think it's incredible to have a group of people around the world that's helping shape the future of DevOps. It's really hard to summarize all of our recent releases in a single slide, but I tried anyway. I wanna take a few minutes to highlight some of the significant improvements that we've introduced in the last six months. This crowd may be particularly excited about the GitLab Kubernetes agent and it's now available on gitlab.com. The deployment frequency chart helps you understand the efficiency of your deployments over time. This way you can find bottlenecks and focus on improving your practices across your projects and teams. This feature is a part of our effort to natively support Dora4 metrics in GitLab. Now remember how I said I work on the plant stage? I'm biased, but I think Epic Boards are game changers for visualizing and tracking higher level planning and we're gonna talk a lot more about that later on. We have another Kubernetes feature that I thought this crowd might like. CICD tunnels for Kubernetes clusters enable versatile GitOps workflows where deployment logic can be coded in the pipeline. This next one I'm really excited about as well. I'm not a markdown expert. So for me, being able to see a live preview of my markdown while I'm editing is huge. Project level DASP and Secret Detection Execution policies allow security teams to be able to manage scan requirements and not developers. So they can't change them. And this has been something that's been long requested from our security-minded organizations. I'm gonna put links in chat to the release post for these features so you can take a look and decide if you wanna try them out. All right, we're gonna switch gears and talk about the future, but first we have to talk a little bit about the past. Over the last decade, product development has changed and now there's a lot of different specialized roles involved in making great software. At GitLab, our vision is that everyone involved can share the same context in the same environment. This will lead to increased collaboration, innovation, and efficiency. It's our big, hairy, audacious goal to make GitLab the most popular collaboration tool for software development in any industry. That's really exciting for me. In order to serve a diversity of personas and users in GitLab, we wanna reduce the time that you spend on activities that don't directly contribute to your organization's goal. Therefore, we're focused on improving our SaaS offering so that you don't have to take care of upgrades and updates and can enjoy a managed, secure, reliable, highly available GitLab environment. We also found that in order to bring everyone from designers, marketeers, program managers, ML engineers, to developers onto the same platform, the experience has to be frictionless and intuitive. So we're spending significant effort on improving usability. And finally, we believe that finding and triaging and fixing security issues as early as possible is the only way to avoid an existential security crisis. So we're focused on providing you with world-class application security testing capabilities. Those are the themes that are guiding our next year of innovation in all of GitLab. But now, I wanna do a deep dive into the big problems that we're tackling within the GitLab plan stage. The plan stage aspires to build robust planning capabilities that tied directly into the website cycle. Our goal is to empower teams to continuously deliver customer and business value with the shortest possible cycle times. In our roadmap, we are leaning into the adoption through usability theme, and we're making really significant improvements to our existing functionality. Our hope is to address the concern that I'm sure has crossed a lot of your minds. How can we spend less time planning the work and more time doing the work? Like I mentioned earlier, delivering software is a team effort and it involves a lot of different people in an organization coming together. Effectively planning and tracking work is critical to deliver value in a timely manner. A lot of times, teams struggle to collaborate because of silos created by tools. This space is really exciting for me and I'm gonna take a small walk down memory lane, y'all can come with me to explain why I'm so passionate about this. Before I was a product manager, I was a program manager in a really large organization and a big part of my job was making sure that our leaders had status information about our key project. This resulted in me spending a lot of time parsing through different planning tools and tapping people on the shoulders just to get the details that I needed to make status reports. I personally really hated interrupting people's work just to get a status update. And the worst part was that the minute the ink had dried on those reports, they were out of date. And this is because when your coordinated activities are crossed the company with hundreds of people, things happen every day. At the same time, I know that our executives needed this information because they needed to make decisions like staffing, funding, they could help us remove blockers and it was even important for them to reset expectations with customers if needed. I really hated that this process was so ineffective for everyone involved. Now my husband, he's an engineer. So I hear the other side of this too. He is frustrated by having to step away from his work to provide status to management. The silos created by separate tools, they're a huge contributing factor to this problem. And as a result, I've spent the latter part of my career devoted to building tools to make planning and executing work as painless as possible. As a DevOps platform, GitLab has a unique opportunity to help teams make better decisions, have more visibility and deliver more value. GitLab is the place where all of the team's information comes together and you can create a shared understanding of work. Building and maintaining software at scale requires cross-functional collaboration. A lot of organizations use point solutions integrated into a do-it-yourself tool chain. As organizations grow and progress in their agile transformation journeys, this approach is challenging. Tools get out of sync. There's lack of visibility for various roles at different levels and overall, collaboration and communication is inefficient. One customer recently shared with us that they had unintentionally reverted back to talking about software requirements using tools like email and PowerPoint. And this is because they were tracking their work with three different planning tools. In the past, I've worked with organizations that have dedicated teams to maintain and triage integrations between their planning tools. They spent significant time investigating data sinkers and eventually they lost trust in the data. I'm wondering if this sounds familiar to any of you. We believe that planning end-to-end in a single tool will lead to better results. We wanna eliminate silos between people and tools and that means that we have to consider the modern product team. For us, collaboration between engineers, design and product is essential to a great outcome but that's just the start. Up to this point, GitHub had spilled planning capabilities around three distinct objects with different behaviors on each. We offer requirements, ethics and issues and this has unlocked a lot of value. However, we've learned from working closely with our customers that having separate objects with separate behaviors on each has resulted in some usability challenges. For example, epics are only available in groups. Issues are only available in projects. We have assignments on issues and some customers need studies on epics. These are examples but there are a lot of subtle differences between our objects. At GitHub, we dog food our platform so we feel this pain. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to create an issue but then I find I can't because I'm working within a group. In some cases, we ended up duplicating features so that we can achieve parity and ease customer pain but this is not really an efficient approach. So we took a step back and realized that we need to make some changes to simplify the planning system within GitHub. We're working toward consolidating the objects into a more flexible approach using work items. Instead of maintaining distinct objects with special properties, we're merging the objects into a single core work item. Work items will give you all the great functionality that we have in separate objects in a single place. You'll be able to create work item types with distinct properties and work item hierarchies to represent different levels of work. We're also planning to introduce custom fields. This will allow you to capture and define information that your organization needs to plan your work. Status is gonna be a first-class experience so we can better support progress reporting and automation and we're gonna talk a lot more about automation in the next few slides. One of our product principles at GitLab is that things should work by default. So that's our plan within plan. We're gonna launch with some default work items like requirements, issues, features, epics. The difference will be that they'll be powered by the same underlying model. Down the road, you'll be able to create your own work items so your team can use the framework of your choice. We know that organizational change is hard, especially when it's about team processes. Using a flexible model with nested work items and time bounds, our goal is that you can onboard quickly and painlessly. We have strong signals from our customers that they want a planning tool that supports their processes but is not overbearing. Some recent conversations include an enterprise company that wants to consolidate multiple planning tools into GitLab. Their current setup has complicated enforcement or close and data integrations that make their tools really difficult to use. We also talk to a bank that's going through the process of migrating most of their teams to GitLab. They're leaving behind their highly customized planning tool. Our planning capabilities are lighter weight and increase developer productivity and collaboration. Now let's talk about how with some of the features that we're implementing, your team will be even more efficient if you use GitLab. If we set planning frameworks aside, planning DevOps work where DevOps works happens will lead to more transparency, traceability, and collaboration. You can track work end to end. So no more tapping people on the shoulders, jumping between tools, setting up integrations, just to understand the status of work. Today in GitLab, you can already associate a merge request to an issue without any special configuration. Remember how I said we dog food our tool? This is one of the features that I really enjoy. In my time at GitLab, I've found so much value in this. I'm able to follow work along in our issues without talking to an engineer. Since we're globally distributed, there's not a lot of times in a day when the whole team overlaps. So having this information and being able to self-serve is so valuable and it helps me honor our value of working async first. My dev team also benefits from the setup because they're able to mention me on merge requests when, you know, if there's ever code changes and functionality changes proposed, shared context makes collaboration a lot easier. Another feature that helps with traceability and is really helpful is design management. UX designers can attach a design to an issue and we can collaborate directly in the context of an issue. The great part about this is that the whole team can see what's happening and jump into the discussion if they have an opinion. It also keeps the context of why decisions were made all wrapped in an issue. The best part is this all takes place natively within GitLab without setting up any integrations. We want to take the spirit of these features and expand to foster even more collaboration. We want to make it easier for non-technical users to understand the status of work based on downstream DevOps activity. This data will be easy to understand for users that are not developers. We also want to leverage automation to keep work items up to date with the latest and greatest. Okay, so I have a small confession to make. At GitLab, like I said, we dogfoot our issue tracker and we have implemented a lot of automation to help with work and maintenance. Automation helps us label issues, leaves comments and mention team members based on an array of rules. Unfortunately, this currently lives outside the product in the separate of open source repository. We will work toward making this functionality available as a first-class experience in GitLab and reduce the manual setup required to enable it. Now, remember how I was going to need your participation?  First, let's walk through an example of what this could look like. We already have some automations natively available in GitLab with our emerge request and issue linking capabilities. But we're going to lean into this concept much more in the future. Here, I show how we can automate the status updates and work item assignments on an issue based on MR approvals and pipeline statuses. A work item can be updated based on a linked and marketing approved and if a pipeline associated to a work item fails, we can also assign a team member so they can take a closer look. This is one example of what we can do with automation, but now I want to hear from you. I would love it if you could take one minute and type an idea in chat for how you think work item automation could reduce your team's workload. In case you need some inspiration to get started, remember how I mentioned labels? Think about how labels on a work item could be updated based on downstream DevOps activity. Alright, thanks in advance for your ideas. I'm excited to review them. Teams, planned work and actual work should not exist in isolation. A plan reflects a point in time potential outcome based on the information you have at that moment. However, we all know that things happen. The key is whether a team can change plans and pivot quickly enough. Using downstream DevOps data, we have an opportunity to highlight risk and potential disruption to your plans. It's time for your participation again, so pay attention. We're going to walk through an example of what this could look like. Here I show how we could potentially set thresholds on monitoring alerts and these could be used to inform engineering managers and product managers that they may need to reconsider their plans. If too many monitoring alerts are received, the team is at risk for missing their planned deliverables. So this would be a great time to reevaluate the work prioritized for a milestone and remove some scope. A high number of alerts can also be a signal that there may be some technical debt that needs to be prioritized. So we could surface this information in a team retrospective, which gives teams the ability to consider creating new work to resolve the root cause. Incorporating DevOps data into planning and prioritization processes allows teams to evaluate and prioritize technical improvements objectively. All right, same four minutes last time. I would love if you could take one minute to type into chat an idea for how downstream DevOps data could help your team make better plans. In case you need some inspiration, think about measuring the number of the plans during the number of deployments over time and if changes to that would necessitate prioritizing some things. Thank you all again. With accurate data that's more accurate with the help of downstream automation and as informed by DevOps data, there's less guesswork in your plans. Our existing epic boards and roadmaps give you higher level visibility into your organization's work and they will benefit from work item data that's more accurate. We have planned improvements, like I mentioned, to work item hierarchies so you'll be able to represent even more levels of your organization. You'll be able to drill down from an epic all the way to an MR on an individual work item. We also plan to introduce saved views so you can create and save slices of planning data. This is incredibly helpful when you're sharing a specific item with your organization. For example, the Q3 technical roadmap. Some of you in the crowd may love what you hear, but you're using JIRA, but don't worry, I will share some updates of what we've released and also what we're doing in the future. At GitLab we believe that our customers should have the freedom of choice to choose their tools. We want you to use what makes the most sense for your business and we will support you by playing well with others. Over the last year, we've improved our JIRA integration out of plans for a deeper integration. We have brought JIRA data to GitLab. In case you missed it, you can now view our JIRA issues list in GitLab. We also introduced the ability to create a JIRA issue directly from a GitLab security vulnerability. For developers whose teams leverage JIRA for project management, being able to view and create JIRA issues inside of GitLab reduces context switching and helps you stay in flow. We've gotten really positive feedback about this direction and you've shared that you want to see JIRA issue data in even more places. We plan to surface JIRA issues in key reports like value stream analytics and release reports. Fun fact, seeing JIRA issue data in value stream reports has actually become one of the top highly requested features for that report. And I'm actually not surprised because being able to see end-to-end idea to production is key in a report like value stream. We also now have more GitLab data in JIRA. We've improved our GitLab JIRA development panel integration and now you can see GitLab branches, commits and merger requests directly in your JIRA issues. We also recently introduced the ability to create a GitLab branch from a JIRA issue. We want to make it as easy and streamlined as possible to use both tools together. All right. It's time to put on your PM hat one last time. Same format as last time. What functionality could we add to make using JIRA and GitLab together easier for you and your team? That's the end of my presentation. Thank you for attending and I hope that you are excited to sign him about the future of planning in GitLab. I hope that you can see how planning your work using the DevOps platform will lead to better outcomes. You're looking at the entire picture. If you're interested in learning more or have some ideas after the session, you can always reach out to me with my handle at M-Ushacov. Thank you so much for your time. Have a great rest of your day and enjoy the conference.


We are repeatedly and frequently asked by the general public that anxiety is a normal human emotion, then why do we need to treat it?  When we are in a situation which frightens us, which makes us tense, it is normal. But when if the symptoms last beyond a reasonable amount of time and depth and it interferes with our functioning in all spheres of our life, then it becomes a disorder and that is where the medical help or medical intervention is required. I am Dr. B. Kapoor. I am a consultant in psychiatry and I am with the Manipal Hospital, Hebal. And today we are going to talk about anxiety and drosses. Anxiety disorder is an unnecessary, undue, excessive worries about a situation or a person or an idea or environment. And when it goes beyond a reasonably normal time and it interferes with our day-to-day life, our occupational life, in our family and social spheres, that's where it is called anxiety and drosses and it needs medical intervention. The classical symptoms of anxiety disorders are restlessness, unable to relax, tenseness in the whole body, tenseness in the muscles and feeling discomfort sometime in the head, sometime in the chest and sleep disturbances and it may be accompanied by sweating in the hand or tremors in the hand and loss of appetite. These are generally the main symptoms of anxiety and drosses. Causative factors in anxiety and drosses are multifactorial and one of them is if there is a family history, that means the environment in which the person grows or it may be sometime partly genetic and then it could be the environmental stresses which are constantly bombarding all of us in various spheres of our life. There could be substance abuse and then there could be health issues like physical health, different type of disorders, illnesses which may cause anxiety to us. There could be medical causes of anxiety also, for example serious medical disorders, certain medications may cause like steroids and certain type of heavy antibiotics and these kind of the medical therapies can also sometime produce anxiety and medical illnesses itself can also generate anxiety in a normal person. See the diagnosis primarily is on the history taking, examination and evaluation of the patient. So, on the history they will tell us whatever has been happening in past of the family pressure, work pressure, others where and we evaluate their content of the speech, their body language, other physical symptoms like tremors, sweating in the hand and trombolism of the body, loss of sleep, loss of appetite. So, these are the ways diagnosis of anxiety and drosses can be come to. The treatment again are of different varieties, one is the medical treatment, other is the behaviour therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and self-help. So, mostly in the mild anxiety where the symptoms are not very severe and the functionality is not disturbed that much and we try to tell patient to do self-help in the sense of use relaxation techniques, physical exercises, yoga, pranayama, meditation and if these do not work then we add on to the medical therapy in which you will use the anti-anxiety medication and SSRIs, serotonin raising medication and also the next step into both into psychotherapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour modification. These are the some of the techniques in which we manage anxiety and drosses.


Shade Bear 1000 here Our orb friend is back so Take a look at this clip, and I want to explain some stuff to you guys. So as you saw the orb came back and It always starts get hair on my neck was standing up for some reason as You can see This orb This is the third time it has shown up as you can see it Shows up dead center of the screen every time Now I had someone mention that in a comment on one of the last the last videos Why didn't we see the whole video clip that's because that is the whole video clip my ring doorbell does not record 24-7 I've got it set up on motion detection I Also have it set up for humans only okay people only that means it's not going to detect a car It's not going to detect a motorcycle or truck. It's not going to detect an animal Bruno can walk around all day long out there We're going to do a couple experiments here It will not pick him up.  Okay, so if I'm sitting on that tractor or someone's on a bicycle It's not really picking up a human shape because it doesn't know the human is on something It just kind of like I said essentially an outline Which is not the shape of a human once you're on a motorcycle bicycle garden tractor. It will not pick up cars Once I get off of that lawn mower or someone gets off of a bicycle or a motorcycle and steps away from it Then it can distinguish that is a figure of a person. That's how those work Also, I have it set To where it records so many seconds before it actually gives me the alert So sometimes if you listen real close If you put your headphones on and listen You'll hear What's her name over here giving me an alert? After so many seconds after The camera started recording. Okay Like I said, we're going to do a couple Experiments here. We're going to check we're going to pull the cover off of that camera And see if there's anything there now I've I had to cover off The last time after the last time I took it off and look There was no signs of any bugs or anything like that And remember a bug is not in the shape of humans. So it's not going to pick up a spider. It's not going to pick up a moth it's you know That's why this is so intriguing to me It's intriguing because if you guys follow me long enough, you know, I don't hold a lot of stock in orbs It has to be really interesting In order for me to say now this could be something Okay, this interests me because if not, you're just looking at a whole bunch Of dust or something like that. That's another thing. It does not pick up dust It will not set the ring off on dust. Like I said, yeah, could it be it could be but why would just that That one orb those three times set it off. Why not? Why not the moths that are flying around? I'm going to show you the difference in it and It does not pick that up My other cameras I can watch them You know, you can see bugs around flying around So they're there and this The ring doorbell if I if I'm watching on my app when I go to live view I can see the bugs flying around But it's not giving me motion alerts. It doesn't say person detected. It doesn't say that So it's not going to pick up a spider. It's not going to pick up a dust orb or a bug Okay, so the first experiment I'm going to show you On my phone the app and I'll show you the difference between on what it picks up and what it doesn't pick up Okay, and right now the only thing I've got it set on is monkey's messaging me is uh People for people only because if not It would be picking up everything. It would be picking up bugs and birds and Raccoons and possums It's not set up that way. Let me show you. Okay, so I've got you propped up here now I'm going to show you that All right, let's look at this Let's hit or or a little um This is for This is for my um Settings. Okay device settings. Okay video settings for this device Let's go to this color night vision tap camera preview for live view Okay, but I have the video also Uh the video I have it set on 120 seconds Okay, see and that's That's the longest you can have Okay, it's 120 seconds. All right, that's two minutes Now after that two minutes It will stop recording and start recording if there is motion Detect it again. Okay, so now let's go back here I got on a snapshot. I got my notifications And all this is privacy settings and all that Also, let's go to all right Where's that one? That's partners. All right um motion settings All right smart alerts Get the motion alerts And recording you want and ignore the rest. Okay, so This is where I have my zoom set. I can set more than one zone Okay Had it setting up there because I didn't want to be moving this around But I got it set covers the whole front of the house clear down clear down here's the neighbors And as you can see up up in here, there's jerry's house. You can zoom in on that stuff um See record and send alerts a person. I've got it set on person only Other motion. No, I do not You see what I'm saying? I don't record other motion. All right So there's that and say advanced settings Uh avoid getting motion alerts during certain times of day. What that does is I can set like say You know two to four every day or whatever it won't pick up anything All right So There's that I also have smart responses from when somebody rings the doorbell You know like that Okay, you got your content help you you can share this stuff so Mode settings Okay, I have it on disarm. That means it will pick up any motion That is human Not A dog or a cat or anything like that. Okay, so that's what I have that set on Um, there's my motion snooze I can snooze at if I hit start snooze That means it won't it won't pick up anything Okay, it snoozed like for I can go up to four hours If I start that nothing will set it off. You can walk around in front of it. Nothing will set it off All right, so it's turned on Uh, let me see notification settings It's just got my sounds. So I'm just kind of showing you This this works, you know what I mean name it and all that stuff. All right different chimes and different alert sounds and Things like that Like I said, this is color night vision video length, you know And again motion sensitivity See I can slide it and as you can see I have it on minimum All right Right there it's on minimum So it's not, you know, just going to pick up willy nilly Smart alerts on like I said, here we go. This is uh The person only see I can have it Excuse me I can have it let me know or I can have it, you know and just record or I can have it not record and just let me know Like I said This if I hit that Now it's going to it's going to detect everything and more than all that. So I have that turned off. Okay So that's what that's for All right now Also, let's go This is my event history. All right Now last night, let's go see when you see these live views. That's when I physically Turn it on to look at it Okay, that means nothing detected it. I just want to look out Like last night. Here's monkey coming home See it picked her up But it did not pick her up pulling in Okay, so It's okay, Bruno. Uh, here's the live view All right See there's a bug Flying around there's another bug a moth or whatever It's not picking that up. This is when I turned it on and I'll show you what I mean That's what these red means. That's not that means It you see this it tells you a person detected It was monkey. This is just me kicking on the live stream And I will show you that And I'll prove it to you. All right if I want to go to live stream What I usually do also have another app on here It's called rapid green see front door. I'm online. Let's click that And there it is. I can turn the sound on Okay, so sounds on And that's what's going on right now. It didn't pick anything up. I turned it on. Okay Now let's get out of that now. Let's go to our event history event history And there it is. This is what we just watched So it does not pick up bugs or anything else like that Okay, so now What I'm gonna do Get rid of that send the monkey stuff. All right. Now we're gonna do another experiment. Okay First let's see if it picks up a dog. Okay. Here's the front yard Bruno got a peek. Come on Here comes Bruno. Let's see if it picks him up. We'll know if Says anything if she does then we know picking him up. Come on nothing Right, there's nothing now watch what happens Let me move you out of the way here now.  It says motion detected at the front door now Right there it is See that's me That's what it just picked up. But if you noticed it did not pick up Bruno It only picked up me And like I said, it'll record like 10 seconds or whatever before the alarm Or before the notification comes so now let's go to Let's uh, oops, let's go to my history Event history Right here 227 seem that's now 228 it says person And there I am See how it recorded a couple seconds Before It gave me now listen Yeah, there it is See right there said motion detected at the front door so This thing about it being a bug. I don't agree with I don't agree with it at all Okay, let's throw something out here and see if it picks it up. Okay first I have an old cane Just a walking cane Nothing have a pillow nothing And as you can see I am still on here Okay, so like I said, that's I know what you're thinking it's this arm, but that's not it doesn't mean That it's not going to pick anything up. Okay working. I find that out here Um Okay event history here we go see nothing that's us. That's when we walked outside here See it did not pick up those other things It just didn't pick it up Okay, so now that's if I'm home Motion enabled Motion enabled what that does is that picks up pretty much everything disarmed See That means it's only going to pick up people It gives me notifications every time I change something That means it's only going to pick up people And so if I can bring this up for you and right here see it says disarmed Set doorbell and cam behavior for disarm mode So Motion detection enabled live view enabled Okay So that means it's going to pick up people only All right If I set this motion detection enabled live view enabled All right, so what that means is going to start picking up everything if I'm home or away It wants to let me know that something's out here I don't need that. I just need enough a person out here. I don't care If a cat walks by or a bunny rabbit walks by. Okay, so there that that should explain A lot about debunking That this is not a spider or a bug. It will not pick up a spider bug moth Nat anything like that. Let's look at the camera itself. Now. Here's the ring camera itself All right, it just picked me up now. Let's pull the cover off Look how clean that is in there It is very water resistant. You can't dunk it under water, but it can rain on it It won't hurt it. Now. Let's get you up here closer That is the camera right there. I see nothing In there At all that can be walking around See that? That's just us The reflection of us So like I said I don't and that film has already been removed. You can see there's no film on this thing So I I can't see a bug Getting inside this glass and walking in front of that camera and it thinking it's a human That's why I think it's so strange and when I say strange I mean it is an orb If it was on a normal camera this camera or my other security cams I can say okay, maybe You know But this picks up I've got it You hear that it's picking me up now. I can snooze that Okay, I can snooze that right here See I'll pull that down see snooze I'm going to snooze it for 15 minutes Now we're snoozed okay That means it will absolutely not pick me or anything else up for 15 minutes so Monkeys got it on her phone too. So she She's probably going nuts. What are you doing because I get out here and doing stuff. She might have snoozed it too But what I'm getting at is it It's only picking up what it perceives to be as a person a person type shape or thing. All right so If a bear would walk on his hind legs through this yard It would probably pick it up as a person because it would look kind of like a person But if he's on all fours, it's not going to let me know that it was out here Um as you've seen I look all the time like I'll just be sitting there. I'll just look out You know, I'll just kick it on and watch around see what's going on out here just in case So it can't be a spider. It can't be a bug. It can't be a moth What is it? Whatever it is even though it's round in the camera This camera thinks it's human. That's what's so strange It doesn't pick up a flying bug and go motion detected at the front door. It doesn't do that Only them three orb like things Anomalies let's call them anomalies um Did it perceive it as a person it thought there was somebody here So am I thinking it's paranormal?  I'll know who watched the whole video and who didn't they'll just start immediately Like like that one guy that comment argued with him for a couple minutes and then I was it I think I even removed his comments.   You know what I mean? I said, have you ever seen a million dollars? You know Maybe it don't exist because you've never seen it. Oh, no, they've they've proved You know that that's been proven. I said, how have you proved? Have you seen it? No, but I've seen it on tv Well, I've seen ghosts on tv. That don't mean nothing Just because you haven't saw anything or experienced it doesn't mean it didn't happen You follow what I'm saying You know, I mean, I didn't see the blizzard of 1847 or whatever. Okay I didn't see it, but I know it happened. That's just I don't know Whatever year a big blizzard happened before I was born Because it's documented Just like spirits, you know, not all of them yet I agree that 90% of that stuff's out there out there that's fake 90% of these people doing these videos are fake But I can tell you make no mistake. I am not fake What I capture what I upload is what I either captured with my camera or Audio whatever the case may be And I'll tell you what I think it is if I think it's paranormal. I I'll tell you I think it's paranormal I think this may be paranormal um But just to come out and say something don't exist just because you don't believe in it, you know ask him Do you believe in Jesus? Well, of course Jesus of spirit I mean You know, well, I'm not getting into all that. Well, no, no, you're not because I'm proving a point Just because you've never seen something or something's never happened to you You don't believe it and because you don't believe it because you don't believe it There's always going to be an explanation just like this. It was a miniature spider It was a dust orb Look, I know the difference between a dust orb and I can tell you right now This camera will not pick up dust. It did it don't pick up butterflies It doesn't it picks up people only because that's what I have it set on now If I had it set To where and pick up anything then I could say well. Yeah, it's probably dust. It could be a bug But I don't it has to be in the shape of a person I proved it to you It doesn't pick up my dog. It doesn't pick up that pillow It didn't pick up that cane and it only picked up me. It doesn't pick up any cars Come on now get real Let's let's look at everything with an open mind.  You're looking for that deer That's my buck. That's my buck coming down and then it turns out to be a squirrel I'm an investigator I want to know what this stuff is and like I said, I do my homework. I've took this thing apart There's nothing as you can see it doesn't even need cleaned dirt and dust don't get in there spiders don't get in there You know, I do my homework If I if I uploaded every orb video footage I have I would have to open up another channel and it would be called wasting your time But when I find it interesting like this It's the same orb every time and I proved it will not pick up anything but a person So why is this thing round in shape? But my camera thinks it's a person I think that's paranormal in nature. That's just me So thanks for watching guys. I appreciate it. I hope this helped shed some light on on What's going on with this ring and I and and every time I catch at I'm going to upload it Um, because I find that very very interesting Shea bear the mythomanal legend I'm going for now That's another episode of shea bear paranormal We'll see you guys in the next one. Stay safe and everyone take care. Bye. Bye now