Hi everybody, welcome back to my channel. Happy Tuesday, or actually it is Thursday for you. So happy Thursday, but I hope you had a great Tuesday as well. Today we are jumping into some Amazon favorites, which I love doing these videos. I only get around to doing them like three times a year though because I have to take time to accumulate products. You know, like I don't go and buy everything at once and share with you guys all of these products. I kind of buy them gradually over the course of a couple of months.  So that is what we're doing today.  These are things ranging from kitchen goods to home decor, to organization, DIY tools. And if you are curious about anything I do share in this video, definitely check the description box below because I'm going to have absolutely everything linked. I also, you guys put on a self tan yesterday, which is very unlike me. Do I look glowy? I don't know. Tell me in the comments. I'm like nervous about it. I don't know why, but I put on a self tan. It just seems like fun. I haven't done it in years. And I am just so pale and I can't tan because I have red hair. I'm a ginger. I cannot tan. I just turn red. So let me know what you guys thought of my little self tan. So the first thing I want to share with you are these vintage kind of brass inspired frames that I found on Amazon. Now I personally love these frames. I love finding them authentic at a thrift store or at an antique shop. I found a couple actually out in a state sale a while back, but they were still pretty pricey. I think they charged me about $30 a frame. And so I went on Amazon because I needed specific frame sizes for my entryway makeover. And I actually featured these in that makeover video, but I didn't really touch on them. And I wanted to touch on them today. So I pulled them off the wall, brought them upstairs. They're really, really cute, you guys. Look how stunning this brass frame is. I just love it. Now, of course it's not real brass. It's definitely like a plastic, but it gives you that look for less, of course. So we have this one, which this one is my personal favorite here. Then we have this smaller one, which was also on my gallery wall. I love this one as well. Like how it's very kind of shapely. And then last but not least, we have this one, which I actually didn't end up using in the wall, but I did order it and I'm gonna keep it in my stash because it's super cute. Like I could so imagine this above a toilet with like a little landscape artwork in it or like above a bed or just something mixed into a gallery wall. I just love these frames. And I had no idea you could buy like similar looking frames as the antique ones that everyone uses in interior design because sometimes it's hard to find them. It's very hit or miss. So if you do need one for a project, check out Amazon and I'll link all three of these below for you guys. Next up, we have a set of coasters. And yes, I do not need any more coasters. I literally share a set of coasters every time I film these videos, but something about purchasing coasters to me makes me so happy. Like I feel like it's such an easy price point to sometimes be like, oh, I don't need another coaster set, but you know, it's only $10. So I might as well just pick it up. This set was so cute. And I've been seeing like cottage core vibes trending a lot lately. And look how adorable this little rattan kind of cane coaster is with a little scalloped edge on it. They're actually crafted so nicely. Like they're very, very sturdy and strong and they're perfectly shaped as well. And on top of that, there's a little plastic piece on the bottom which allows your drink to not, of course, get on the surface, which is great because it could easily totally soak through that cane there. And you get a set of four. Let's just dive on into a couple of DIY supplies. Very randomly, I have two of them here to share with you guys. The first one is a new contact paper. And I am someone that when I come across a contact paper that I think is cute, I just order it because I know I'm gonna use it in a future project. And this one did not disappoint. I loved the way this contact paper was dark. First of all, I have zero dark contact papers. They're all very like white based with pink or brown or black, whatever it might be inside of them. And I loved how this one was dark. I also loved how it was navy. And I love how chunky and like luxurious this marble pattern looks. I feel like chunky marble is really trending right now in home decor. So I figured I'd pick up this roll of contact paper. So I can use it in future DIY projects. I did a project where I took just some wood blocks and turned them into a marble book-in set. So this would be a great option if you wanna create your very own marble book-ins. Like this would be such a pretty marble book-in. And then this right here, you might be asking, Drew, what is this? And I've only used it once so far, but it works amazing. And I know I only have used it once before but I have a different one that I've used for 10 years. It is a heat tool. I share it with you guys on my channel all the time when I'm doing DIY projects. And a lot of you guys are always like, that's not a heat tool, that's a blow dryer. But it actually is a heat tool. It is a Tim Holtz Ranger heat tool from back when I used to do scrapbooking. However, I feel like it's just outdated. It is legit 10 years old, I'm not joking you. So I wanted to upgrade to something a little bit stronger. And if you've never used a heat tool before and you are a DIYer, I highly suggest splurging on one. This is only like $35, but it speeds up the drawing time of any project. So if you're painting and you need multiple coats, you can heat gun it up. That's what we call it, heat gunning it. I'm like, let's heat gun up this vase. It's fully dry in a couple of minutes. You can apply a new coat, heat it up again and it is dry and ready to go. So I use this all the time when it comes to drawing projects for videos or drawing projects in general. Okay, here's a cute little decor. Now this decor actually came totally different than how I expected it to come. I purchased this thinking it was going to be a tabletop vase. And I wanted to originally put this on my media console out in the living room. I thought it would be really cute with like a little plant coming out of the top. That was the whole vibe. So imagine this just like on a little wooden media console. But then it got here and it's wall mounted. But the thing that I love is that I've never ever seen a wall mounted version of this before. I have seen hundreds of these like Grecian goddess heads that are like planter bases. And I know I could get them anywhere. So I purchased one on Amazon because it was the cheapest option. And then I realized that it was a wall mounted one. But I think it's really cute. I'm gonna keep it in my stash for sure because I could totally find a use for this in the future. And I love the color of this one as well. It's kind of like a grayish sage but it has the slightest bit of distressing on it as well, which I quite like. And then the nail hole in the back allows you to hang it on the wall and use it as just really cute wall planter. Okay, I finally broke down and bought a new kitchen set. It looks like this. It's so heavy. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna drop it. I've had the same exact kitchen set for I think since 2014. It is a dwell magazine times target collab. It's like a silvery one. I wasn't even into interior design when I bought it. I just thought it was cool in itself. And I've had the same one forever. I never had purchased new plates or bowls ever. So I decided to go ahead and splurge. Well, not really splurge because you get four full settings with four pieces in each setting for 40 bucks, which I thought was such a great deal. And look how cute these are, you guys. They're like ceramic. They have a little matte finish on the bottom here. And then like the top of it has a speckled glaze, which I love. And the bowl is just such a cute shape. I love it. And then we have of course the little salad plate and the dinner plate as well at the bottom there. And I just thought that these looked so nice and they were super simple so I can add whatever I want whenever I'm doing place settings or anything like that. This is just like a very simple base that you could add to. But it still has some interest to it. I like the little map glaze section at the bottom here. Very random, quick little item I wanna share with you guys. This spray paint here, this is the Rust-Oleum American Accent's stone textured finish. Now I personally am not a fan of this colorway. If you could see that up there. It's like a taupe with black and white speckles in it. Not cute for me. I don't like it. But I do like the texture that it gives off. So you can spray this on any vase or any project at all. And it gives a chunky texture. Let it dry. Then spray a new coat of paint over the top of it and you get that texture underneath but you get your new color over top. So I like using this as a sprayed base. I have yet to film a project. I've used it of course in the past and I've used it on personal projects and things but I have yet to actually film a project with it. So it's gonna be on my channel very shortly. I'm excited to use this. I hadn't used it in a while and I ordered a new can of it so I can definitely share projects with you guys but it's a great can of spray paint. I am a coffee table book addict. I love having a ton of different coffee table books around and yes, I actually do look at them. I look at them quite often but the thing is, is that for my Instagram and my YouTube you guys, I am constantly restyling spaces to share with you guys new ways to do things and having the same books in the same spaces over and over again just kind of gets boring to me. So I love having options on hand. It just comes in handy, you know when I wanna style something. So this one was cute. I love the color of it. It's like a yellowy kind of unsaturated tone. Something about this book just mixes eclectic with like on trend very, very well. Sometimes I feel like coffee table books can be really outdated. It's not something that is constantly being updated. It's like one book that was made six years ago and you know some of those styles aren't around anymore, trends have changed. However, this book I feel like really, really encapsulates like a lot of things I've been loving lately. There's lots of arches in here, neutral tones like very eclectic textures and just all around there's really fun stuff in this book. So I highly suggest this if you're looking for a coffee table book. It's also a substantial size and it looks really cute on the edge too. So you can style this on a shelf or wherever you wanna use it. And again, the content inside is amazing. So all around a great coffee table book. This is a set of mixing bowls. I personally have had the same exact one mixing bowl. I've had one mixing bowl since I've lived in Los Angeles for seven years. It is that big round IKEA stainless steel bowl. And I just realized I need more. Like I'm constantly using little small bowls just like this to like mix things in randomly here and there. So I decided to purchase a mixing bowl set. And this is a nesting one. But the thing I love about this nesting set is that each bowl has its very own lid. So as you go deeper down, you could take the lids off and you get different colors. They're all so cute to like look at the little last one. They kind of ombre from cream to green. Thing I love is that you get like six different sizes. Each of them have a lid. So if you're mixing something or you're serving something, whatever it might be, you can pop the lid on, store it back in the fridge and you are good to go. You don't have to transfer it to a Tupperware or anything. A throw blanket that is just sitting right next to me, which I love. This is probably my favorite throw blanket I've ever, ever purchased online before because most times I just buy them in store so I can kind of see what I'm getting. But I saw this one and the pattern was really intriguing to me. I just thought it was a perfect mix of kind of like interesting, but neutral, but woven, full of texture, has tassels on the end. And I just like this blanket a lot. It looks so much more expensive than it actually costs. And if you guys can see the actual texture in the weave, it's really nice, but it's still soft. A lot of times with these woven blankets, they're not soft, they're kind of more itchy and decorative, but this one is nice. And I love how one side kind of features more white and then the backside kind of features more black. So depending on what colorway you want to go for, you have two different options there and it's just a substantial blanket. So this next thing might look a little strange. You guys are like, what is that? Now this is a really cute little plant stand or just like a little pedestal that you can really use anywhere. So I wanted to go ahead and use this actually in the shelf in my dining room and put like a plant on top of it so that I can then elevate the plant a little bit and give it a little bit more interesting detail. But something else I thought that would be really cute for this is to put it by the stove and put your olive oil and salt and pepper on there or most use like essential items or you can even put it in a bathroom, put soap and then lotion on here. I just think it's really universal and it's also affordable. And the other thing I love is that it's raw wood. So you can totally stain this or change it up however you would like to do so. Okay, something else that I swear no one talks about is vase fillers. Like vase fillers are so hard to come by and I see all of my favorite interior designers and people on Instagram posting these insane arrangements inside of vases and I'm like, how did you even do that? Like where did you get those? So I went online and I found two different vase fillers. Now one of them is like overly expected like one that I've really, really liked and then one of them is just not as expected but I still like it. It's cute and I'm gonna share both of them with you because I have them here. So the first one which I like the most is this one. I think this is so pretty. Imagine if you got a couple of these as well and you kind of put them in a vase and filled it up. However, one is so full. I actually put one of them in the jug that you're gonna see in the overlay clip and it just looks incredible. I find it so hard to find really full vase filler because if you have to go to Jo-Ann's and you know, buy individual pieces they're like $10 a piece. And the other one is actually just sticks. They look like this. They came in this box here. I actually have, it came with like triple the amount here but the other ones are in the vase out in the living room. And I just kind of adjusted them a little bit to where there was like a bit of height. You can kind of shove them into each other like this and just flare out some of the branches so you get a bit of interest. But these are just simple sticks and I believe these were pretty affordable. Again, you could probably go outside and just break these off of a tree if you wanted to but I thought I'd share them with you because I did end up putting them in a vase and they do look exactly how I wanted them to but it did take a little bit of finessing. I thought they were gonna be a little longer than they were, but they weren't. But you know, I'm gonna make it work, do not worry. And then the last thing that I wanna share with you guys are actually these little glass containers here. And they have little lids on them with a airtight seal. Now my friend Erica from P&E and Honey actually posted on Instagram that she had bought these specifically for her supplements and vitamins and pills and things and I just love that. I immediately went on Amazon, bought the same pack and I did just exactly what she did. So as you can see here, I have my ashwagandha which is great for anyone who's anxious. It's like a natural mood booster and then I have my daily vitamins from Ritual here. I'm gonna put my Advils in one and just put all of my supplements in these little jars. They're airtight so it's perfect for them. I mean, all around I think it's just a cuter way to display them as opposed to having a lot of different pill bottles in your cabinet or things like that, you know. So I just like this and you get 12 of them in the pack as well so you get a generous amount. But you can also totally use these for craft supplies whether it be, you know, little paper clips or safety pins or just little small things you can use to store them in these as well. And I just like the idea of making a label for the front so you know what's in there. And yeah, I think that is everything I wanted to talk about, I'm looking around to make sure. Think we covered it all and I wanna thank you guys so much for watching today's video and if there was something that you did like, definitely check the description box below for all of the links for everything. And I will just catch you guys in my next one. If you also have anything that you have been purchasing lately, whether it be from absolutely anywhere, totally let me know in the comments below. I love seeing what you guys are buying, different things you find online. Online shopping is a habit of mine so there's that. But I will catch you guys all in my next one. Have an amazing rest of your day and I'll see you next time. Bye guys.


The EU has recently passed a new regulation that smartphone manufacturers will have to abide by if they want to continue selling in the European market. All new smartphones are going to need to have user replaceable batteries in them by 2027. Now this was actually a pretty common feature on phones back in the day, at least on every phone but iPhones because they never had removable batteries. But on the Android platform, user removable batteries were pretty much a standard thing and this actually used to be one of the big selling points of having an Android phone over an iPhone because none of the phones back then really had what you would consider to be an all day battery life. I mean maybe if your phone was remaining idle for most of the time you could get through the whole day without it dying but the idea of using your phone the whole day on a long international flight or letting it idle for several days was out of the picture. Also the phones back then didn't charge nearly as fast so once you plugged it in you had to sit by the outlet for a while if you wanted to keep using your iPhone. But the Android chads of 10 plus years ago could just take another fully charged battery out of their pocket or out of their backpacks, pop the back off their phones, swap it with the dead one and then boot their phone back up all in about one minute. And if you think about it, this still blows away the charging capacity of the fast charging phones of today because none of them can give you an additional 2,000 or so milliamp hours of battery life in 60 seconds like you can get with a battery swap on a Galaxy S3. These Android phones have hardware that's almost indistinguishable from the iPhone especially now that the next gen iPhone 15s are supposed to also have USB-C charging ports although that specific change came from another earlier E regulation that requires all the phones to use the same charging ports by 2024. But this new regulation to require removable batteries could be a real game changer for the smartphone industry. People could start packing multiple internal batteries to use in their phones for long trips and this would be really handy when people are driving especially if you have multiple people that are in a car and it's an older car where you can't all charge your phones at once. We could see things like people just pulling over to get gas periodically and then swapping their batteries at that point and you know one side effect that this is probably going to have is external power banks becoming less popular. Like I'm sure that the larger ones that have high enough wattage to run PCs and power tools off of them will probably still be around because they have a whole lot more utility but those smaller power banks that just have USB outlets they're just going to look like a bulkier less efficient alternative to battery swapping especially if you have something that can charge multiple smartphone batteries at once that's something that I would really like to have as someone that occasionally uses multiple phones to film things and another major change that we'll probably see is people actually keeping their phones for longer periods of time. For several years now smartphones have had specifications that are really similar to mid-range laptops 8 gigabytes of RAM multi-core processors and high-definition cameras are standard even on cheap phones and these specifications are perfectly fine for most people that just use their phones for social media messaging calling ride sharing really about 95% of everything that people do on their phones and the only real reason that modern smartphones start getting slow besides software bloat of course is because their operating systems will start to undervolt the processors in order to prolong the phones on time when it has a degrading battery and this is why you might have felt like your phone all of a sudden got a lot faster after you took it to a repair center or you mailed it in to have the battery replaced I think for a lot of people instead of just buying a new phone every three to five years people are going to start buying new phones only when they become damaged beyond repair or some major smartphone innovation is made that really makes you want to go out and get a new one but let's be real what innovations have even been made to smartphones in the last 10 years or so the biggest improvements that I've seen have been to the cameras and of course them adding multiple cameras onto the phones but smartphone image quality is never going to be able to compete with proper mirrorless cameras because they just have much larger sensors and being able to change the lens on your camera gives you a whole new domain of functionality that these fidget spinner camera arrays that have become standard on smartphones are just an overpriced imitation of I think we could see a really large erosion to the sales volume of smartphones worldwide because of this because I also doubt that smartphones with removable batteries are just going to be localized to Europe so Samsung Apple the dozen or so Chinese phone manufacturers they're going to start making these phones with removable batteries for all markets and so if the smartphone can become something that people can actually keep for six years or more one of the changes I think we might see is a transition to people buying flagship devices more often instead of mid-range phones because you might as well pay twice as much for the phone if you're able to keep it for twice as long the buy it for life mentality can finally be somewhat applied to smartphones because of this and of course in our society a lot of people see the smartphone as a status symbol so maybe more people are going to buy into that if they can actually keep the thing for more than five years but there's likely going to be some downsides to this removable battery transition as well I believe that greed was the primary motivator for batteries being embedded in our devices in the first place because it lets the manufacturer charge you for a repair service in three years but of course this isn't the reason that we were given for the new smartphone paradigm the two excuses that I usually hear for embedded batteries is that sealing the phone up gives it better water resistance and embedded batteries ultimately allow you to put a larger capacity battery in a smaller phone chassis so if we assume that there is some truth to these claims made by manufacturers we could start seeing a regression in battery life for one battery and the whole idea of water resistant devices just starting to fade out but honestly I feel like that's a bit of a fair trade-off I mean I could always use a three-part case to make my phone actually waterproof because the phones aren't actually waterproof they're just water resistant right it's not something you're supposed to be able to drop in a pool and let it survive and even if the battery capacity shrinks by like 20% I wouldn't care if I could just swap it out for a fresh one in the middle of the day so I don't know is that a trade-off that you guys be willing to make like I said I think it sounds pretty good to me and another change that I just thought of is we might see a reduction in people keeping their phones naked meaning not using a case because depending on how these removable batteries are implemented like I've had a couple of smartphones that had removable backs and removable batteries and the first one I didn't have a case for I think it was my s3 or my s4 because it was very durable I mean this was before wireless charging so nobody was making glass and ceramic phones they were usually made out of plastic and aluminum so it's not like they shattered when you drop them but oftentimes the back case would pop off if you dropped your phone and so if you dropped your phone on a sidewalk while it's raining or something like that then your phone would probably be toast you're gonna get water right on the battery or right on the logic board so that might be a bit of an issue we might see you know it's really gonna be interesting seeing the engineering challenge to build a phone that you could take apart without any special tools that's able to maintain a large degree of water resistance and to be able to put a large battery inside of there whatever breakthrough is achieved that makes all this possible I think we're gonna end up paying a premium for it I just can't picture Samsung or Apple keeping the price tag of flagship phones around a thousand dollars and just taking the L and letting us use them for twice as long maybe they won't just raise the MSRP by a significant amount because that's too obvious maybe we'll see them getting their money back in some other way like getting people to pay for more cloud storage by cutting the onboard storage in half and say it was necessary in order to make the batteries removable but I still have some hope that we are living in the best timeline where the EU is going to continue to pass manufacturing requirements for smartphones that finally make them based again I really just hope that the next bill that the EU passes simply reads you will include the headphone jack you will include the expandable storage you will not lock down the boot loader to prevent the customization and you will not keep on adding these city cameras to the smartphone you will be allowed to have only two cameras one on the front and one on the back and you will comply with these regulations and you will be happy


So let's get started. Good afternoon, KubeCon. You know, I'm Sonic Beharra here. I'm the head of products at a company called Cloud Analytics. Spent last 20 years in the armpit of infrastructure. As we know it, and in the open source space, starting with being an early engineer in virtualization at VMware to creating software-defined networking at a company called NYSERIA. I created an open source project called Neutron, which was a subsystem of networking for OpenStack, and then created the data center operating system as a commercial product based on the Apache Mesos project. But today I'm not here to talk about technology, but something rather more dear to my heart based on my experience on these years working in, you know, technology as well as more recently in the cloud native space. And that is how do you make the business case for the technology? How do you make it cross the chasm? How do you actually push it forward in your organizations? Right? So, you know, how can we help justify the value that we bring to the table, not just implement? And finally, how do we measure the value we are providing after we implement and close the feedback loop? We did what we were saying we were going to do and we showed that we did it and then finally close that loop, right? How do you do that? And I believe as cloud native crosses the chasm it becomes imperative on the community on all of us that we enable the t-shirts to speak to the suits, right? The DevOps folks to be able to speak to the finance and the line of business executives to actually make people understand why we do this. And I hope today I can give you one of the tools in your toolkit that will help you do just that. So, you can start with kind of the agenda why, then the how part of it and then what we'll do a demo of what this toolkit is and how you can use it and how we can actually participate and all make it better together. So let me start with something, why FinQ, right? Because there's a code that struck a car with me that says no one will pay you what you're worth. No one will ever pay you what you're worth. They will only pay you what they think you're worth or your project is worth. And the good news here in that code is you or we can control that thinking. If you set it up the context correctly, you have that control. If you don't, then it's a lost opportunity, right? So who wants to get paid more over here? Me? There you go. Lots of us, we can take a lot of these lessons and apply it to our regular lives. I'm going to focus really on Cloud Native and what it means to control the thinking on actually moving on a Cloud Native project if you have a non-Cloud Native, non-communityized infrastructure, how do you make the case for that? But some of the primitives or some of the concepts we talk about applies everywhere. So there is something in it for everyone. If you're a technologist, you're an engineer or not. So the way you control that thinking is by clearly defining and communicating the value. If you define the rules of the game, this is why it is important, how it's important, a priori, and then communicate it properly so that we are aligned on what are we doing and how we're driving that value. And if we don't do that, right, we're going to see more of this. Two articles that showed up in last week are just looking. It's like, yeah, we've done all this work. It's not useful, effectively. And that's where the objective is misguided because some projects, some companies clearly didn't define their objectives and didn't communicate the value. People say it's not worthwhile or worse yet.  So that's the high-level objective. You want to clearly define and communicate value. Taking the next step, so how do we do that for things we care about in this community is to help Kubernetes and Cloud Native in general, Kubernetes in specific, cross the chasm and become kind of standardized infrastructure layer. And I'll start that with the journey I hope our users take. We have a set of tools in the community. A lot of folks here have heard of the Landscape project or landscape.cnsfio. It's great. It's good for discovery. You go and discover the specific tools you need in your toolkit to implement a specific use case initiative or a project.  And then, of course, once you have implemented it, all the challenges which most of the folks in this, the solutions exchange and the sessions here talk about is how do you operate and optimize and keep the lights running, right? We keep jumping the loop, but what we miss is that opportunity in between discovering and implementing, which is justifying and defining why we're doing how we will measure success so that when we actually operate and optimize, you get the credit that you deserve for what you did. And that's what I hope FinCube fills the gap. And to better understand the toolkit I'll talk about, we need to talk about a little bit basics of pricing and how people think of value and how they communicate, right? This is a rough hierarchy. I framed it in the order of Maslow's hierarchy of pricing, if you will, right? The base layer starts with cost. You add up all the cost for your Kubernetes project, people, hardware, cloud, time. You add that cost and that's the easiest way to say, this is how it costs. That's how people communicate value, which is not the right way necessarily, but it is the easiest way because you can do math. A lot of us are engineers. It's easy and this is what it costs. And if somebody is a business selling that, they will say that, okay, we allowed a margin on top of that cost and that's our business. Unfortunately, internal companies, internal teams, tech ops teams, DevOps teams, IT ops teams, just out of the cost. And then people view as not a value creator, but as a cost center that needs to be reduced and optimized and not as a value creator because of the model, how we define and communicate our value again, right? So the easiest way to take the next step would be think of a value-based pricing or value of the Kubernetes project that you're bringing on, bringing it to your company, the different kind of objectives. And I'll talk about that in the toolkit. Specifically, if you look at the value-based pricing, it talks about not the cost, but what it's doing for the company is how it's making it efficient, how it's making developers more productive. So if you can release more software faster, what does it mean to your business's top line? How is it making the infrastructure more available? So typically, you know, a single outage cost about $300,000 an hour on an average company, maybe different for your company. So if you shave off 10% of that, that's $30,000 an hour, multiply with number of outages you have. There you have another vector, the kind of availability vector and that's monetized, right? That would be a way to communicate the value that you're driving versus the cost you're optimizing. And really, my hope is, as folks start using that terminology and go from just being a cost center to a value creator, we can move to the next step, which I call true price, meaning not only the value you're creating for your company, but also the value you're having based on that, how you're having the sustainability impact, because things are more efficient, what is the environmental impact and what is really a true price of that initiative? Not only price in terms of dollars, not only for a price in terms of value, but in price in terms of the whole of the environment and everybody else that participates in the ecosystem, right? So that's where we would like to go, but where we are is very much a cost center, cost focused area, crawl, walk, run approach would be what if we can just move to the next step and talk in terms of the value you provide in terms of the amount we cost. So with that, let me introduce to you the toolkit. You can go to finncube.io and get a lot of the resources, the GitHub repositories, everything else today. It consists of three things, and I'll demo that to you. Once today it's just a plain, kind of an ROI calculator. It's an Excel sheet with like eight different sheets, very MVP-ish, so we can get started and expose people to the idea and see how folks use and what the feedback is. Once you do that, you get your ROI for one use case, which is moving for a non-cabinetized non-cloud-native infrastructure to a cubinitized cloud-native application architecture, and based on that it'll say what is the potential perceived impact for certain size clusters, for infrastructure efficiency, for developer productivity, and for infrastructure application availability. And you'll have the hypothesis or assumptions I have made, but because it's open source you can customize that model, which may better fit your company if you don't agree or doesn't work. The standard model doesn't work for you. Out pops like the graphs and charts you can show to make that business case based on that three objectives I mentioned efficiency, developer productivity, infrastructure availability, and then you have a very poor man's toolkit or poor man's way of very quick and dirty making the business case of why you want to move forward with this project. So that's the first two legs. The third leg will be a set of test cases or things you want to accomplish to prove out. So the first two are hypothesis. This is how much infrastructure efficiency will increase. This is how much the developer will be more productive. This is how much my attributes will go down. It'll be like, great. Now I'm doing the project. Maybe I'm doing a pilot or a POC or a small scale. What are the things we are measuring? What are the metrics we're measuring? That's how we put in our test plan or POC plan and see before Kubernetes and after Kubernetes. What is the meantime to resolution? Or what is the number of builds or release a shipped per quarter per day? And then you can close that loop in a very quantitative, in a very logical way, because once you have the numbers it's very clear what was before and what was after and what actually got delivered. Sometimes mistakes happen, you'll make a hypothesis and it'll probably may not be 100% right. But at least you have the framework to now continuously improve that model. So without further ado, let's head over to give me a second to finncube.io and the mirror of my displays and I can give you a live demo of the toolkit. Okay. So you can go to the finncube.io the first thing you can subscribe for updates to the toolkit. You can join the Slack channel to give feedback or go to GitHub if you want to kind of make changes or file issues, but I'll just go to the resources tab which will open up a kind of a shared Google Drive. I have the license files in there as kind of a patch to you guys can use it as you wish. Modify it. The first piece is the ROI calculator that I mentioned. It's got instructions make a copy for yourself. The first tab of this is pretty simple. The columns that are highlighted are all you need to fill out. Now all the other knobs you can, it's like the advanced user mode and hopefully over time I make more kind of a blog post on how to use that. You can talk about your project name, use case. Today we have only one use case which is Kubernetes from a non-cubinatized infrastructure. Future, we can talk about automation, application delivery, you know, more cloud native application services, other use cases as well. Talk about how large of your project you're talking, tiny 10 node cluster, you know small 100 node, medium node, etc. Let's 1000 node cluster and you can talk about what size of VMs or nodes you're using and without Kubernetes. And our assumption is that because it's intelligent cluster manager, we should be able and not only assumption, we have seen it in the industry is that you can use larger nodes and impact more services in less number of nodes. So you can talk about, you know what are your ideal size of Kubernetes nodes you will go to from your non-cubinatized node and expected, currently expected utilization. You can look up your actual number, so you know, whatever it is and 9% what I have while it looks low, it's very much with an industry standard if you go into any environment you see, maybe 15, 20% on some companies but really it's in that and you can make the assumption it increases by 2x or 3x and this is based on real life experience what I've seen in some of the studies folks have done is about 2-3x, net utilization increase you see. Forget requests and limits but really the raw utilization number if you look at the operating system level and you're making, it goes from 9% to 27% right. Everything else you can see how it computes on how many DevOps salaries, developer salaries, et cetera customisable and that's it and the next step is you go to the cover sheet and it gives you the graphs to have your first point of view, your strawman on a business case on operational efficiency, developer productivity and kind of application availability how much you're going to save before Kubernetes and after Kubernetes. So once you have this, if you want to customize it of course you can go to all these tabs which have details for each one of this value drivers if you will. So you can customize all the assumptions I made around before Kubernetes and after Kubernetes but that's kind of the advanced mode, player mode if you will. So for most folks this should be sufficient. You have the initial use case we'll take questions at the end and then you go back to the FinQ project the business case and it's got a template kind of a presentation where based on the numbers you and to your environment you've calculated, you've put in for each one of the objectives what do you expect the return or the impact will be. And again, based in the graphs and make why you think those will, sometimes these points of why you'll make that impact will be custom to your company or your application or how much how critical downtime is or what is the real true cost of your downtime etc. And once you have that you can show the summary of your total Kubernetes project your operational efficiency impact, develop productivity impact and your reliability or application availability, outage reduction impact and that should give you if not everything a very good strong foundational strongman to make that business case in current OE. Of why you'll take on that Kubernetes use case. So with that and I promise we'll have, I think we'll have plenty of time for Q&A or a little time at least once you and with that, you know, that is kind of the foundation of to pin Q as you can go ahead try it pretty low bar to entry you know, if you want you can create macros and other things but for most folks they can just get started, it's like Excel and PowerPoint and the reason I started with an MVP of an Excel and PowerPoint is because the roadmap or the thinking is that what is coming to tank and how people use and which pieces are confusing and which is valuable imagine it being a V1 beta spent six to nine months get that feedback and you know, see which things should be kind of prepopulated or which should be like the easy player mode and which should be in advanced player mode you get that feedback and then make it you know, call it GA and expand to more use cases like what is a, can I do a similar turnkey easy business case for application delivery or for some other kind of use cases which is additional value beyond moving to Kubernetes that it can do and once we have that kind of bootstrap we can of course make it like a web app that's the way landscape.cnc.io is based on community interest, how many people want to do it who wants to work on it, etc it's probably easier once we have this working in just a non-code or Excel code working we can move it to like a web app code so people can self-serve and becomes a easier use business casing toolkit not only for Kubernetes, a lot of these principles are beyond Kubernetes so if you're starting an open source project or starting a company or product you can use these same principles and should be able to build up a pricing plan of how you want to show why your thing is worth something or what is the impact it's having, right? So that's the thinking on the roadmap so to quickly summarize what we went through you know you have clearly defined and communicate value to make your project successful you need to intercept the journey early and do that, build that definition as early in the journey as possible to ensure that you're set up the company, set up the project for success second, join the FinQ community try it out, give feedback use it and that's how you will provide value to your company and to the community and we can upstream this back to the masses that everybody else can leverage that selective experiences of each one of us so that we can actually make technology the cloud native movement a lot more mainstream as we cross the chasm as we go into larger companies and bigger initiatives and finally that's how you become a hero and you know, get promoted right so that's how I had a top level I think we have plenty of time to take questions so I'll go ahead and open up the floor for questions and for once the questions we don't cover, I will be at boot SU-84 on the show floor cloud native to answer from there hi, thank you I really like the way that you quantify some of the advantages with Kubernetes on a numbers based level I think that's really important I was wondering if you could speak to the calculation of the value for improved developer velocity I saw you had on one slide and then a minor point of suggestion I leave the graphs for costs with and without Kubernetes the legends are reversed on the first two graphs which makes it seem like Kubernetes costs the colors were right but the placement of the bar was reversed I was wondering if you could speak to the developer productivity it's hard to quantify at least as I understand it when I quickly go back so I went really quick so there's a lot more to it so if you go to second tab it talks about developer productivity with and without Kubernetes and every stage of the application development journey when you can do more with less because you have a programmatic infrastructure this assumes you're non-cubinatized infrastructure probably not even containerized on microservices so if you're doing application definition or builds it just takes more work once you have a cubinatized infrastructure the line items will talk about the number of hours saved and the overall high level message without going to weeds here is that you can ship more builds more releases in less time and that equals to making more progress for the business therefore more features out in the market and therefore for every expensive developer we all the companies pay for work in charge supply you're actually making them more efficient and that's how the value is coming you know if I make if I pay a developer $100,000 make them 10% efficient that's $10,000 in value and here make them three times as efficient that's like $300,000 so that's the basic premise of the calculation good question thank you any other questions? I have a question up here I was wondering what the basis of just by taking an application and dropping it into a cubinatized cluster increases efficiency what's the basis of that? so the basis of efficiency is you know traditionally cuts commercial off the shelf for traditional virtual machine based applications which were non-containerized non-cloud native or which are applications where black boxes so it was hard to multiplex multiple applications on the same set of pool of cluster nodes same set of pool of hardware so the core premise is that once you go to a clustered system beat anything before it was mesos, docker swarm and I'm talking about cubinatized because it has become the de facto standard and it's like dial tone but once you go to a clustered cloud native system because you can multiplex multiple apps therefore you can basically bend back a little better okay so the basis is from cuts applications that expect to own the entire VM to containerized that could be a problem because most commercial applications are not delivered or don't support running in containers yet correct and that's why you'll have a business case this is why you should probably need to do at least that much work if I do the work is it worthwhile and that's a question we have seen a lot of users and customers like yeah I know it will be useful but I'm going to have to spend a month containerizing and this is a way you can kind of preempt that question like this is clear value and that there's a clear cost now let's decide should we do it or maybe for some of them it doesn't make sense to make that decision thanks any other questions I think we have a couple of more minutes oh there's two more questions over there hi my name is Lili I'm with kubecost I had a question just regarding ongoing validation for kubernetes so this seems like a really great tool for at least making the first initial business case to executive stakeholders but what happens once you have kubernetes in production is how would you view finkube as a tool to then further continue to validate ongoing projects over time thanks so the question was that you know from this lady from kubecost how do we validate an ongoing basis the value delivered so what I showed finkube as a toolkit early was a journey of moving to a cloud native architecture from discovery to justification to implementation but once you do that you have to operate and optimize there's an ecosystem of finops tooling and finops and cloud and capacity and availability optimization tooling which all of us observability tooling which you have to deal with and that was not the focus it's not the focus of finkube it's the commercial and open source tooling there what the folks should and can leverage to continuously operate continuously optimize and keep their infrastructure optimized and be able to report back close the loop there finkube is really focusing on early in the life cycle how do you set the rules of the game another question for the lady over there if there is no other question please take a moment to leave us any feedback appreciated join the finkube community and if you have more questions if you have more feedback come find me at the SU-84 booth happy to talk about finkube finops and what should we do next thank you


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Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us for the latest edition of Conversation with the Shipmate. I'm Lieutenant Caroline Hutchison, and we're here today with the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jonathan Greenert. Good morning, Admiral. Thank you so much for being here with us. It's great to be here, Caroline. Let's get this out right now. It is Monday morning, 0800 on the 10th of March. So this is no bankers hours midday thing, right? We're hitting it early. That's right. Starting early, sir. And we're going to talk about one of our favorite topics, the budget. So I'd really like to get your views, Admiral, on how this budget impacts our Navy and the Navy family. First and foremost, one of the topics on a lot of folks' minds is the subject of compensation reform or sailor's compensation. Can you tell us a little bit about what the changes are and why we can't sustain the growth rate that we're on right now? Why do we need to make changes? Well, let's set the baseline maybe a little bit. Two years ago, the Department of Defense received effectively a $500 billion reduction. And then just about a year and a half later, another $500 billion reduction. So as we look at, okay, how do we endure these, you know, the sequestration and what took place before that, what are our options to balance our force structure we have today, our future shipbuilding, operations today, and of course, the personnel accounts? As we look over the last, say, decade or so, actually two decades, our compensation, that is, the military's compensation, has grown at a pretty good rate. And we've in fact made up for what was a deficit. And folks have been, well, frankly, compensated pretty well. But that was the right thing to do. People have earned that compensation. So today, compensation for the military, and that's civilians and uniform, is about one-half of our budget. You know, some argue plus or minus, but it's fairly close. And that's about right, we figure. So we said, isn't it time to take a look at a comprehensive package, looking at pay, looking at housing, looking at tri-care, looking at all of our benefits, and put together, if you will, a comprehensive package. And the term comprehensive means there's a lot of parts to it. And limit that growth, hold it to about one-half. And that's the essence of what's put together. And when you get right down to it, that means about a 1% pay raise for a few years for our military and for civilians. So that's uniform and civilian. And we froze pay for generals and flag officers. So when you say slow the rate of growth, does that mean there's not an actual cut? I mean, what's the bottom line for sailors' pay and for money in their pocket? It means what it said, slow the growth. So for example, instead of 1.8% or 2.2% growth pay raise, I should say, we limited to 1% pay raise. So it is a pay raise. When you look at allowance for housing, instead of 5% or 6%, 4% or 5% or 6%, which is what it has been, we limit that growth to, say, 2%, 3% or 4%, and that varies by region. The idea is to limit the growth, not reduce or not take out. And how about, you know, Sailor's Future? What about retirement changes? Are we going to see any changes there? Oh, goodness. We keep seeing articles on that. No. Let me answer straight. No. There is no plan today to change retirement. This will take some time. There are folks studying it. There's a commission studying it. There will be articles on it as different, oh man, and they'll continue. But if I could make one thing clear, anybody who is wearing a uniform today, that retirement system will be grandfathered, which means that is the, today's retirement system is their retirement system. The only thing that might change is they may have the option, and I underline option, to transition to a new system if they want to. That is one that would come in for people who come into the military after it would be implemented. But I'll tell you, Carolyn, it's going to be a few years before we get one put together, studied, voted on, and actually implemented. If you wear the uniform today, today's your retirement, today's the retirement system is your retirement system. That is definitely good to hear. I'm sure that a lot of folks will be reassured to hear that directly from you, sir. I've also seen some articles on some proposed changes to tuition assistance, and maybe Sailor's paying a little more out of pocket. What's going on with that? What are your thoughts? The Chief Enable Personnel, Admiral Moran and I have talked at length about what's the appropriate distribution for tuition assistance, and what I mean is, should we make it all, it's not really free, but how do we make sure that our folks get the right education? That's very important to me to have an educated force, but they get the right education and we aren't taking, first of all, they're not getting ripped off by these Johnny Come Lately or whatever institutions out there that actually target that. They get something that is useful, so that while they're in the military and when they leave the military, the Navy, it enhances their life, it accelerates their life, as we like to say. But anyway, we looked at and toyed with, and right now in the budget is a 75% Navy pays, 25% Sailor pays. That's what's in the 15 budget right now. However, throughout the rest of this year, tuition is 100% Navy pay. But I'll tell you what, I'm rethinking. And before we get to the fiscal year 15, I may want to change and go back to what we have today where Navy pays all of it. More on that later, I'm still thinking about it. To me, though, the bottom line is I want our kids to have the best education they can get. Absolutely. Admiral, before you discussed some changes to the basic allowance for housing or BH, and we've seen a 5% cut and then something about renters insurance, can you elaborate on that a little bit and your thoughts on taking away the BAH for Sailors? Well, again, I guess I wouldn't characterize it as taking away, but I know what you mean, all right? Because it depends on how you look at it. But here's what we would propose to do. This would be done incrementally. You don't do it right away. You don't have one year where you say, well, it's .95 of what it was last year. That's not the intent. It BAH has gone up consistently at a percentage that varies from three to five to six, and I think it might have been a tad higher than that. I'm not sure exactly, but it's somewhere in that area. We were proposed to limit that, that growth, and it would be inserted incrementally. So we would stop, if you will, that incremental limitation when we reached a point. It would be no less than, or kids would receive no less than 5% out of pocket. Now the other thing that today BAH provides is renters insurance. And when you do the average on that, how much is renters insurance? Does everybody get it? No, but it's free right now. BAH pays it. We'd say we would propose not to pay renters insurance. That is an estimate of about 1%. So therefore you got the 5%, which would be out of pocket for rent and mortgage, and the 1% for renters making it a total of six. Does that make sense? That's where the 6% comes from. So bottom line, you're not going to see a change in your next paycheck, and this could all depend on where you live and where you're stationed. That's an important point. Thanks for bringing that up. Today if I have a lease, I'm in San Diego, I'm in Norfolk, Mayport, you know, the packed Northwest. I have a lease, I'm at a duty station. You won't see any change until UPCS. After UPCS and go to a new location, or in some cases you can PCS and stay in the same location, then you would look at and see, okay, you're under new rates for that area. That's when the transition would take place.  So it isn't going to happen where somebody is playing their mortgage, going about their business, and all of a sudden it's different. No, it'll happen with a duty station change. Okay, that definitely makes sense. I guess the bottom line here is that all of this is working towards cost savings. I mean, that's what we here propose cuts, and we need to save money. But where is all of this money going, the savings from the compensation reform and reductions? That's a good question. And I'm glad you asked it, by the way. Let's go back to the beginning. Remember, we had these difficult choices to make. So Mick Pond and I have been spending a lot of time asking around the Navy, you know, what's important to you all. And our sailors are very clear, paying compensation is very important to us. But they've also made this clear. You know what's almost as important. What's about as important is where I work, that I have a proper man division, that I get my schools, so that's personal training, I get my professional training, that our unit trains right, so I can do my job. I want spare parts, so I can do PMS. I want tools. I want a decent place to live in if I'm a single sailor. I call that the quality of their work, their environment, you know. So the quality of their entire service, you know, their quality of life and their quality of work is kind of out of balance a little bit. So every penny that the Navy gets out of compensation reform will go into areas to improve quality of service and work. So let me give you an example, if I may say, what are you talking about?  In fact, all spare parts. We would increase retention bonuses, improve base services at barracks. We would put 70 million dollars per year for renovation of single sailor barracks, military construction for five barracks and reserve training center, improve birthing barges in your coast to Japan. I think you get my point. Those sorts of things, they would continue to help support the changes in career see pay, but we're going to do that anyway. So career see pay is in and it will stay in, the change that we put in. And there's one other thing I wanted to mention, Carolyn. We would like to revisit what we call high deployment allowance. And high deployment was, by definition, is greater than 190 days.  We're on a waiver from that as a result of 9-11. So this has obviously been an old law and it's been in the books quite some time. We would propose, and we're still evaluating this with the Secretary of the Navy, but he's looking at it reasonably favorably, that we lift that waiver, that we implement the payment of a high deployment allowance and that folks who are on longer deployments greater than 190 days receive that allowance. So more on that later, but that's another initiative that these sorts of compensation reforms would help support. You're looking at money in a sailor's pocket, but also improving where you go every day, especially if you're deployed on a ship and it's where you are for months at a time. Where folks work. I want them to be enabled where they work and to be prouder of the area that they work, in addition to feel that they're compensated reasonably. Admiral, how do you see all of this impacting the recruiting and retention for our shipmates? Well, Caroline, that's hard to say. I'm not concerned, but we'll be vigilant. We'll look closely at this. What I'd like to do, we need to keep talking about this. We need to talk at the division officer level. We need to talk in the wardroom about what these mean. We at headquarters have to continue to put this out in what I call in English, so folks can understand it. We need to work with the newspapers and the sites and the social media that our kids read. And so, when they understand that, then we'll see how they feel about that. How does that balance, make sense to them? Today, our recruiting is good, very good. We have no different issues than we've had for a long time. Medical folks are hard to recruit. Reserves are hard to recruit. But in general, we're meeting all of our goals and retention is very good as well. But we'll be vigilant. Absolutely. Emeril focused on sailor impacts, but back to the budget, big picture. You mentioned some hard choices. What was your decision-making process, your thought process through all of this? Well, I looked at what does the Navy require to do, all right? What is their primary mission and the number one mission for us, the defense of the homeland and the ultimate defense of the homeland is our strategic nuclear deterrence. So for the Navy, it's called the sea-based strategic deterrence, and that's our Trident submarines and their follow-on, the Ohio replacement program. So it's the submarine, it's the missiles, it's the systems that support it. So that was number one. We had to make sure that we funded that properly. Number two, we need to be where it matters in the world when it matters. So our forward presence has to be the best it can be, and we have to look for innovative and proper ways to be out there around the world, supporting the Asia-Pacific rebalance and making sure we're in the mideast at levels that make sense. So we can, again, we can respond to crises and do that. Those forces have to be ready. So it was presence with ready forces that are capable to respond as necessary. We have certain capabilities that we bring that are unique in the joint arena, the undersea domain. That's all ours. We own it today. So we had to continue to bring those capabilities in, air-to-air capabilities, electronic warfare capabilities. I call them asymmetric because they're different and they're better than just about any other, well, certainly than any other Navy in the world. We had to continue to bring those along. We also have readiness. Now we have the way we provide ready units to be where it matters, when it matters. We call it the fleet response plan, and it's almost like a conveyor belt. You go into maintenance and then basic training, then integrated training, then you get kind of a capstone event called a COM 2X, a comprehensive exercise, and then you go into deployment and maybe a response to a contingency if necessary after that deployment. It's called sustainment phase. It's almost two years long. So that phase, I'm sorry, that plan, that process, we tuned it up a little bit to make sure there's enough time to do maintenance. People get the right training, get the people to their units so that when it's time to get underway and train up to get ready to deploy, you've got your crew on board. They're not arriving later. You're not cross-decking so much. So that element of readiness, we put a great bit of attention in. So again, those ships that are forward deployed out and around are as ready as they can be. And then lastly, we have to have an industrial base, aircraft building and ship building especially, an industrial base in the future so we can continue to build the future. If we were to not build enough ships or not build enough airplanes and folks closed and I'd say, well, what am I going to do now? I don't have enough shipbuilders if we wanted to respond. And you can't just snap your fingers and say, hey, anybody want to build military ships? Those are special welders, special shipfitters at special locations. And there's unique suppliers for U.S. shipbuilding that we have to watch, keep our eye on. It sounds like quite the balancing act of you've got a lot of different priorities and you hear a lot of talk about balancing readiness with force structure. I think of as readiness as our ability to do the things we need to do and force structure is the stuff that we need to do the things that we need to do and be where it matters. How did you balance those two priorities in this budget? Well, what we looked at is what is the need of our combat commanders globally and how are we best suited to support the Asia Pacific rebalance and make sure we protect, if you will, the Mideast and our interests in the Middle East. So we looked at, therefore, what kind, how many ships do we need forward? Well, today we have about 100 forward. That's about right with the right capabilities, the right ships in the right regions. We look to the future and say, can we sustain that and grow appropriately? Want to try to do that, but at the same time build enough ships because if you hold on to all your ships today and say, I'll pay my bills or the reductions with shipbuilding, I won't build this ship. I won't build that submarine. And as you know, perhaps in the future won't overhaul a carrier because that's in the budget. And we have to balance that and say, we're going to have to maybe lay up or retire some ships and keep that money in building destroyers, building submarines, building aircraft carrier airplanes and all that's needed. So some folks think you walk through it once and say, OK, looks pretty good. It's an iterative cycle that we loop back through. And underpinning it all, we talked about earlier, our people. We're manned about right as far as the number of people per unit on average today. We don't have all the people in the right place and they don't have all the right skill sets. So that's what we need to concentrate on. But, Caroline, what we can't do is just say, OK, let's just take five thousand more people out of the Navy. You know, we buy equipment stuff, as you said earlier, and we man it. And we have to man that equipment properly. If I just reduce the manning, then I've reduced the number of people per unit. I can't do that. Well, Emily, you touched on what I was going to bring up next, which are lots of news reports and conversations about the aircraft carrier. Can you tell me a little bit about what's in the budget and then and the idea of decommissioning an aircraft carrier and how that impacts deployment cycles and manning? Well, aircraft carrier overhauls require a lot of long range planning. I mean, that sounds obvious, but this is mostly long range, what we're dealing with. So here's what I mean by that. The aircraft carrier in question is the George Washington. And the plan right now is for her to come back from Japan when it's due for her reactor fuel to be replaced. And so that's a long overhaul of roughly four years. That overhaul is scheduled to start in September of 16, which is almost fiscal year 17, if you think about it. So let's just use that for us. So during the fiscal year of 17, she will need to be start her refueling. So when we looked at the budget, we said, hmm, I don't we don't know if we're going to have that kind of money in the future. So let's for now put the the program in a situation where we can either retire her in that fiscal year in that 17 year, fiscal year 17 or refuel her. So we'll put the money in to bring her in, take the fuel out. And then next year, we will address whether we're going to retire her or whether we're going to refuel her and keep her. Now, given that it's a four year, she's offline for four years until 2020, at least in probably 2022. It really has no impact on the fleet. That that carrier was going to come back and go into overhaul. So she was going to be out of service. So whether she's permanently out of service or she's being refueled, she's still not available to the fleet. So the impact on the fleet and a carrier rotation won't be felt till 2021 or 2022. And then the situation will be we will have one less carrier to provide a presence. So it will be that much more difficult to maintain one carrier in the Gulf, one carrier in the Western Pacific. And that turnaround, you know, as I talked to you before for the fleet response plan will be more difficult to maintain. So my point too is we've set it up for an option to retire it or to overhaul it. And the monies for that will have to be put in the 16 budget. So that's a decisional point when we build that budget and take it up to the Congress. It won't affect deployments for the near term because she was going to be, if you will, out of the fleet rotation for the next goodness, well, starting in 16, really late 16 when she leaves Japan for at least the next five years. So sailors are safe in that plan. And it's a decision that will will make down the road. Yes, it is down the road would be actually in the next say five or six months in the Navy, we will work our budget and see what is the proposal. And as the Secretary of Defense indicated, we'll look at what the sense of the Congress is in retaining the amount of money we've requested, you know, through the future year defense plan. If that's the sense of the Congress or the intent, then we'll look hard at saying, okay, we think we can retain this carrier. So the Department of Defense will go into those deliberations. On another topic of ships staying in our fleet and the cost to maintain and modernize them, what's happening with the cruisers? Can you tell us a little bit about this phase modernization plan and what happens to the sailors on those ships now? Sure. Well, again, we had some difficult decision to make. We look and say we don't have enough money. There are 22 cruisers in the fleet today. We could keep, and I want to if I had the money, keep all 22 of them and operate them and modernize them so that they reach they're in the most modern fashion and most capable to the end of their life, their planned life. The problem is we don't have that kind of money. So we said, do we have to retire these ships and put them away forever? Or as we look at the sequencing of when they need to be modernized, 11 of these carriers, actually, excuse me, cruisers, and they're the earliest one, which is counterintuitive, but the first 11 have been modernized. So if we keep those operating and we take the other 11, 20, and we put them, we lay them up in preparation for their modernization and then pull them out and get into that modernization in a sequence. As you go through the 20s, then maybe we can retain that class of ship. Always have 11, because one of the original 11 retires. One of the later 11 will come back in. So it's a way to take 22 cruisers, maintain all of them on the books, because they'll just be laid up. We could bring them in as necessary or in a crisis. And then sequentially bring them in, modernize them and bring them out into operation, the fleet holding 11 across the board. When we bring one in for this long term phase modernization, you set it into the shipyard for a while, we will demand it down to a level that we haven't determined yet, but there'll be a minimal crew. Those folks and those billets don't go away. They go into the fleet where we currently have gap billets, a float and a shore. And we'll continue to do that so that we continue to bring those skills and when it's time to man them, when we bring them back in, we'll have the right skill set and the right manpower. So this wouldn't be a reduction in force for the sailors. They'll just go to other billets across the fleet? Yes, that's correct. I'm what we've talked about, about sailors, about compensation reform, potential changes in force structure. Is there anything else that you'd like to add? Yeah, I'd like to ask our folks, first of all, thank you for your service. All right, our sailors, these are very, very difficult decisions and people say, geez, I'm worried about, we're not keeping faith in that. And I take that very deeply because they're doing an amazing job. Ask them to look and make sure that their opinions are well founded and ask us questions, get on those sites and ask, okay, what's the story on this? How does that work? And ask us questions about the budget. They, when I go out and the McPon and I have all hands called, I'm astounded at the strategic vision that our kids have in there and I think it's amazing. So we're very fortunate and it is a foundation of, we'll get through all of this with the right force and we have the right force today. Admiral, thank you again for your time and for giving us your thoughts on the FY15 defense budget. We really appreciate your time. You're welcome. And we want to thank you for joining us for another segment of Conversation with a Shipmate. Be sure to stay on top of the entire series on the CNO's leadership page on Navy.mil and the Navy's official YouTube channel. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Lieutenant Caroline Hutchison. We'll see you next time for Conversation with a Shipmate.


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1. Large-scale surveys in mammalian tissue culture cells suggest that the protein expressed at the median abundance is present at 8,000 to 16,000 molecules per cell and that differences in mRNA expression between genes explain only 10 to 40% of the differences in protein levels. 2. However, we find that these surveys have significantly underestimated protein abundances and the relative importance of transcription. Using individual measurements for 61 housekeeping proteins to rescale whole proteome data from Schwanhauser et al. 2011, we find that the median protein detected is expressed at 170,000 molecules per cell and that our corrected protein abundance estimates show a higher correlation with mRNA abundances than do the uncorrected protein data. 3. In addition, we estimated the impact of further errors in mRNA and protein abundances using direct experimental measurements of these errors. The resulting analysis suggests that mRNA levels explain at least 56% of the differences in protein abundance for the 4,212 genes detected by Schwanhauser et al. 2011, though because one major source of error could not be estimated the true percent contribution should be higher. 4. We also employed a second, independent strategy to determine the contribution of mRNA levels to protein expression. We show that the variance in translation rates directly measured by ribosome profiling is only 9% of that inferred by Schwanhauser et al. 2011 and that the measured and inferred translation rates correlate poorly are 2 equals 0.14. Based on this, our second strategy suggests that mRNA levels explain till the operator 8.4% of the variance in protein levels. 5. We also determined the percent contributions of transcription, RNA degradation, translation and protein degradation to the variance in protein abundances using both of our strategies. While the magnitudes of the two estimates vary, they both suggest that transcription plays a more. This article was authored by Ginny Jessakali, Peter J. Bickel and Mark D. Bighan. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Okay, welcome back to siliconangle.com's exclusive coverage of Hadoop world strata plus Hadoop world here in New York City We are all over the coverage here. We're blogging. We're bringing video in. This is our wrap-up segment of day one We were at IOD information on demand by IBM earlier in the week This is big day the week in New York City and for the wrap-up We're gonna have Dave Vellante from wikibond.org and Jeff Kelly big data analysts from wikibond.org Breakdown and summarize what happened in day one obviously had a lot of great interviews We extracted a lot of signal from the noise and shared that with you on siliconangle.com and those videos are available on youtube.com Slash silicon angle a lot of great signal guys a lot of great signal from the noise on the cube this is first day First we'll go down the line. We'll start with Dave your analysis so far of one of the interviews and your vibe here and your view of the show On day one I think the first thing I would note about the event itself John is Jeff and I were at the Strata conference in New York last year and it was much more subdued than this Or of course we were at Hadoop world and it was a lot of good action So I think putting Hadoop world and strata together O'Reilly has brought a lot of their professionalism and certainly Cloutiers brought a lot of the customers and so that's been a good combination One of the themes that we talked about early on at the top of the show was this notion of unification bringing You know real-time capabilities to Hadoop Unifying sequel and no sequel and we've seen that in spades. We saw hadapt who won the startup award last night. They were on Getting a lot of buzz at the show. We saw impala from cloud era. We had Jeff hammerbacher on talking about that Horton works is is working on similar things. We had map are on who is basically taking Essentially open source components like H base and improving on them And so we're seeing dramatically different models of people attacking the marketplace and I think it's good. I think it's healthy. We're also seeing You know a lot of little food fights going on, you know, should you shard the data should do not shard the data Where should you do etl should it be inside the data warehouse platform versus provider platform versus exactly? And so that says to me We're starting to make money at this. There's real deals going on because people are starting to three, you know throw punches The clouds are coming out money grabbers out the money's on the table. No, no, we're interested in the money No, no, it's about the community So now they got to fight for the money competition new entrants. It's economics. That's great and that drives innovation And it drives great great ratings for the cube. Of course the action is great for the cube because we get to we get to follow it all Jeff your assessment. Well, you know following what Dave said On both topics kind of some a little bit of the food fight and the and bringing the real time And we had rain soar on today They said we've been doing this for five years breaking kind of the sequel like capabilities and on top of hadoop You can run sequel queries or map reduce and do it in one platform Data stacks, you know, they take a different approach where it's the same same end result real time with kistandra and Big deep analytics with hadoop. So, uh, you know, we're starting to see some You know, this whole this whole co-operative thing is starting to get a little bit a little bit more serious on the Competition well and to that point you saw claudera put forth its new platform Impala does a lot of the things that its partners were doing with claudera So it's it's not a shot across the bow, but it's definitely a hey heads up. We're coming in that direction. Yeah, I think what's your take on exactly as as the hadoop platform providers distribution advice Providers add some of these more real-time type capabilities and you know wait till they start doing some more of the streaming capabilities and you know that that's A question one that will happen if or if it will happen, but as the platform matures You know the interactions or I should say the partnerships They have with the you know the mpp data warehouse players and some of the relational data data warehouse players Are going to be there's going to be a lot of stress on those relationships because if you can do those same capabilities within within a hadoop cluster Why do you need to why do you need a connector over to? A relational database. So, you know, we're not I agree with you It's not a shot across the bow because this is a much longer story. I mean, this is a five to ten year journey But that's the direction we're going. I mean we hear it from everybody. It's going to be one platform We're not going to nobody wants to have two clusters to do your real time and another one to do your your batch analytics So that's the direction we're going and you know, it's going to take a while to get there But you're going to see these relationships start to evolve to say the least John you were on on the big data trend back when cloud error was raising seed money You were early To this to this world, you know drag me in and thank you for that by the way years ago And so What's your take? You've seen it evolve now for the past over years. What do you see going on?  So, you know get that, you know pat on the back Seriously, we would not be allowed to bring this most excellent coverage of silicon angle wiki bond to you without sponsorships And underwriters and I want to just put a shout out to cloud era Who's our headline sponsor for this event? Thanks to cloud era cloud era is the big data platform and oh riley they work on stuff that matters They're the ones holding the event map bar map bar is really stepped up to be a commercial grade platform They're doing things a little bit different at first. They looked at like a little quirky solution But they're proving they have less skeptical early on about map bar because we're saying oh close source There was this open source love and you know, we heard their ceo today saying how I'm an impatient person I wanted to solve a problem. So well, they're impressive You know when you see them in action you say hey these guys have chops And they just have a different approach but turns out the markets grow and they made a good bet And they're doing extremely well data stacks casandra. They're shifting back to get back into solid state They're doing some good work customers. We had one of their customers on today And these are all companies that have financially supports endorsed us through contributions And we're maintaining our independent coverage horton works adapt opera squirrel tableau rain store and many many more Want to thank them all for supporting the queue over the over the years and for this show But to answer your question about big data. Yeah, we've been there for a while and Washington crow has been great cloud era No one really kind of understood cloud era. In fact cloud era Was the name of the company and people like oh, it's a cloud era and then had dupe really sprung into action But they learned what we heard from google and that is the web scale companies like yahoo and and google Solved this big data problem. They had to just like the nsa did but they couldn't tell anybody right so They saw the vision umar awadallah Coined on the cube one of our first cubes. He saw the future and created it now. It's a completely big industry So i'm excited to be part of it. I was there at the beginning president creation We built our businesses around big data. So i'm excited. I think it's at the beginning I personally think that we're going to see deals come out of these conferences Dave that we're going to look back and saying hey remember when the industry is only a few thousand people And that the core kind of entrepreneurial community was like a couple dozen And that's where our relationships are formed people are doing deals on handshakes They have relationships and I believe that the competition question is going to get figured out because here's my opinion If you have sharp elbows in this market and try to grab money too fast You're going to fail. I'll tell you why because it's a huge opportunity I think that if i'm a startup and i'm a company out there is playing in this space Don't be greedy. You can just plenty of beach head for everybody I mean literally there's so much growth that I think it's more of a Collaboration people going to try to find their spots and as Dave we've called it the NASCAR race All the cars are kind of drafting off each other someone's in the lead And I think someone's going to slingshot eventually be the leader. There'll be a one two three in the in the different categories There'll be many categories, and I think that's why The capital markets are on fire right now over big data. It's an exciting time I mean, you know in the early days in the late 80s early 90s You wouldn't have been able to pick oracle as the leader in database I mean it was a it was a crowded field side base and formix certainly db2 was still really really You know a dominant player at the time oracle and and and others and it's like that today in this space I mean, it's really hard to to pick who's going to win and the other thing the other dynamic here is This market and jeff you did the first market sizing report This market is so much larger than anything we've we've seen before and I think the third dynamic here is that The big whales in this business that they they've been disrupted before You know the the pc guys killed the mini computer guys and you know the client server changed things the internet guys You know really, you know to disrupted industries The large companies that are out there Certainly guys like oracle ibm emc. They've seen this play before they want a piece of that action And they have a lot of cash and they're poised to participate in this and they're tugging You know at the innovation they're trying to take control of this Meanwhile the industry innovation is is is bubbling but certain certain plays are going to be made certain moves Are going to be made in the chess board that could really shake things up I want to ask jeff kelly question as we wrap up day one This hadoop world strata plus hadoop world You've been covering the space like a blanket you the first one put the first Market research report out you've been covering all the vendors. You know all the horses on the track Did this meet up with your expectations? And and what's here what surprised you and what didn't surprise you? I think the sheer level of Energy the the the stream of announcements coming out of the show. I mean it's just kind of boggles the mind What's going on here today? I mean keeping track of all the news is it's just Incredible, but what I think you know what it tells you some of the individual announcements may not be You know you can't kind of keep all of them straight But if you look take a step back and do a big picture look I think it's definitely some of the things around real time We're talking about big data applications. Those are two areas. We're really interested. You know what surprised me You know, I think you know we're seeing I think you kind of touched on it We're starting to see some more deals here. This is going to be there's business being done here This is not just a bunch of hackers talking about You know, hey look at the cool data visualizations that we can do now They're still doing that but there are there are real real real business being done here and you know, Dave we were at IBM and you know We we kind of it's an interesting contrast between the two but one of the things that's Similar there's there's business being done in both both both environments and To your point, you know IBM lots of acquisitions in the analytics space They're starting to get their big data messaging together You know some of these some of these companies we're seeing today And you know going to be acquired there's going to be a an acquisition spree at some point I think we're probably a little ways from that right now But it's really exciting times. I mean there's just so much so much action You know, there's so many big problems to solve and people coming at it from different angles And it's just a really exciting time. So tomorrow we will have a stacked lineup like we did today There are some folks that we did not get in I want to put a shout out to sap We're going to try to get you in tomorrow and a handful of other what the folks we were going to try to get in Microsoft we might bring them in for a demo. We had a killer demo today. That was very impressive with excel Horton works talked about that. So big day tomorrow here on silicon angle.com is the cube flagship telecast We've signal from the noise with wikibon.org. We'll see you tomorrow here at strata plus hadoop world And thanks to cloud era and map are for helping us do this in a slew of other partners including o'reilly media Thank you very much, and we'll see you tomorrow