A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust to the heart of Ohio Silver, the Lone Ranger. Years of the western United States, government troops were sent to the new territory to preserve order and protect the settlers from hostile Indians. The officers and their men were unaccustomed to Indian methods of warfare and they might never have accomplished their task if it had not been for the Lone Ranger. It was the mass champion of justice who made possible their final victory and the winning of the west. Return with us now those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. The Indians are on the war path! Dismounted and kneeling behind such cover as they could find, a small body of blue-clad men, fired methodically at the swiftly moving circle of painted savages, but hemmed them in. Lieutenant Wade issued a terse command to the troopers. Fire at will, but conserve your ammunition, make every shot count. I think they're getting ready to charge you, sir. Let them come! I can roll up my score to a dozen. That'll be enough. Seize fire. Do you think he'll be back, sir? No, they've shot their bolt. We've seen the last of them. Back to the post, now, sir. In a moment. Sergeant, come with me. Yes, sir. Where are we going, sir? Some of those Redskins lost their rifles. I want to look at them. I was thinking the same as you, sir. Let's have that one there. A sharps! Regular army issue. And no, you think? That Major Clemson was right. The skunks! The sneak and money-grabbing renegades! Indians don't get guns like these unless white men sell them, Sergeant.  Tell the men to mount. We return to the fort. Fort Worcester, Lieutenant Wade reported to his commanding officer, Major Clemson. Sharps rifles, sir. New ones. And every Redskinden that band was armed. Six months ago these Indians couldn't have mustered a dozen guns between them. Those they had were flintlocks at that time. But where are they getting them, sir? That's what better men than we are would like to know, Lieutenant. Well, this is going to cause trouble. We can't protect every scattered settlement in the district. We haven't the men. But the rifles to play with, the Redskins will go on a howling rampage. Yes, sir. Better detail messengers. Have them war on the settlers. They can come to the fort until the danger's over. They won't like it, sir. They won't, eh? Well, they won't like losing their tough air, either. What are we supposed to do? Send a troop to guard every ranch house between here and the brazos? We have men enough to hold the fort, and that's all. They'll have to like it. They won't come to the fort. We can't be responsible for them. I'll send men out at once, sir. Oh, wait. Yes, sir. Captain McKay at Fort Desmond and Captain Jurvis at Lathrop. Wired asking why we hadn't sent them the arms they requisitioned. Reply that Hogan and his freighters haven't arrived here yet. The moment they do, they'll get their supplies. But, Major, I understood the wagons had left Carson three days ago. I thought they were... You thought they'd got here? Well, they haven't. I don't know why any more than you do. I expected them either yesterday or early this morning. There's been nothing heard of them since they set out. Sir, do you think they may... I don't know what to think, and I won't guess. If they ran into Indians, well, we won't think about it. It'll be all over. Tell your messengers first. Yes, sir. It's Hogan. They did get through, plain Kevin's. Hogan! They weren't going to get here, Major. Howdy, Wade. Hello, Hogan. Hogan, take a look at them wagons and you'll soon see. Engines! It's on us up for fare. Take a look at the bullet holes. Where did you meet them? Well, ours, out of Carson. Jumped us when we was four in the river. We had a run and fight with them for close to 15 miles. And were they? The Indians as they was. And if they weren't before, they sure are now. Hogan, what do you mean? Look, we had to leave three wagons behind in order to get clear. Well, they couldn't help it. Didn't have no choice. You let three loads of guns and ammunition fall into their hands? I said we didn't have no choice. Just how much of a fight did you put up? Easy, Lieutenant. But Major, abandoning guns... Now just a second, Wade. You soldiers ain't the only fellas who know how to fight. My skinners there don't wear no fancy uniform, but they can handle rifles. And if you think we just turn tail and run foot, take a look under the tarp on that lead wagon. What is it, Hogan? Three of my best men, Major, done for. I don't like to see fellas drawn my pay get killed. And neither do I like to hear anybody hitting my men or cowards. If I wasn't signed to a contract to freight your supplies, I'd tell you to haul them yourself. Lieutenant Wade was hasty. He didn't mean that, Hogan. I didn't know. I'm sorry. Well, forget it then. Want us to unload right away, Major? Find a subtler. What the... Who did that? It's an arrow, sir. There on the floor. An arrow? That means engines. There's a paper around the shaft, Major. Give me that. Yes, sir. Is that writing on it? It is. What is it, sir? What does it say? I... No. No, it's nothing. Nothing. But, Major... I believe I gave you certain orders to carry out, Lieutenant. I... Yes, sir. But they're writing, Major. There's none of your business, I'm afraid. I think you'd better see about getting those supplies unloaded. Yeah. Yeah, I'll get the boys at it. See you later. The Lone Ranger. Two horsemen approach the fort. We're just on time. Ah. There's the Westgate. There's the Grove. Major Clamson obeyed the instructions I gave him. He should be there. Hmm, not seen horse. That doesn't prove anything. He most likely left the fort on foot. A horse would have drawn attention. That's right. Great. I believe I see him. See? They're by that farthest tree. That fella all right. Major Clamson? Who are you? Oh, Silver. Oh, oh, scout. And the man who wrote the message you received today. This is Tato. He shot the arrow. Dismount. Remember, this is a trick I have you covered. Yep, it isn't. The message I received was signed the Lone Ranger. Right. How do I know you're him? Silver. You're hopeful, fella. Yep. That's it, old boy. What does that mean? What kind of shoe he wears? Silver. That's all, boy. These are my guns. Open them. Examine the shells. The bullets. Silver bullets. Yes. And this Indium. What was it you called him? Tato. Good enough. It checks. Now, why did you want me to meet you? No one knows you came here. No one. Good. Major, some time ago, three months ago, General Wheeler appointed three young officers to make a secret investigation. What does that mean? One moment. You must have had reports that the Indians are securing modern arms. What soldier in the territory doesn't know it? Exactly. Well, those three officers were detailed to discover their source. They were told to carry out the investigation in whatever way seemed to them best. Not in uniform, of course. This is the first I've heard of any such action? No one was to know of it. Other than the three officers involved and General Wheeler himself. That was for their own safety. You wouldn't be told of it now if everything had gone as planned. You mean that... One of the three reported secretly to General Wheeler each week. Until a month ago. Since then, nothing has been heard of them. You're telling me the truth? I am. And it's clear enough. They learned where the guns came from. Yes. And died for it. It's possible. Almost certain, in fact. On the other hand, they may have discovered the source, but at the same time, discovered themselves in a position where they could not report to General Wheeler without arousing suspicion. We'll hope it's nothing worse than that. I'm glad you've told me this. I assume it's confidential. Of course. You must have had a reason for it. What? There are more guns in the hands of Indians in this district than in any other. I've had proof of that more than once. Which would seem to indicate that the gun smugglers are making this district their headquarters. Yes, perhaps that's right. And if they are, and the three officers are still alive, this is the logical district in which to look for them. As I said, it may be they can't report to the general. Instead, they might try to get in touch with you. I see. Naturally, they have nothing on them with which to identify themselves. Unless you were told of the situation, you'd no doubt question their story. And how did you learn of this? General Wheeler got in touch with me only recently. I gave him my word that when you'd been told of this, Tonto and I would search for the missing officers. And if possible, the men responsible for the sale of arms to the Indians. Very well. I'll look for that. You heard something? What was it, Tonto? You listened. Nothing. Stick break. If we were over... Silence. Where, Tonto? There. That brush? Huh. Whoever you are, come out of there. Step out before I fire. Don't fire. Don't attract the sentries. It may not be necessary. Follow me. There's anyone there. We'll rouse him out. We know you there. Show yourself. Maybe Tonto imagined it. Tonto's an Indian. He doesn't make mistakes like that. This is your last chance. Show yourself or... There, feller. He's running for the wall. Oh, stand where you are. He'll not stop. If he gets over the wall, we'll never be able to tell which one of the men from the fort it was. Come on. To blazes for the sentries. Bring that fellow down.  Oh, sir, I shoot the kill. If he's safe away for the present, I told you to bring him down. And in spite of what I said, I never shoot the kill. You'd better clear our rights. Here's over here, Scout. But I won't be away far, Major. But you'll hear from me again. There's the Major. Back to the fort, you fools. Back to the fort, you fools. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. The Lone Ranger and Tonto making camp just out of sight of the fort rose before dawn the following morning. The Lone Ranger saddled Scout, instead of Silver, and directed Tonto while the Faithful Indian applied a disguise. When Tonto had finished, could I pass for a settler, Kimusabi? Ah, I am not find you out. There shouldn't be much chance of discovery. Now leave Silver with you and take Scout. Yesterday, the settlers were born to gather at the fort for security. They'll be coming in by the dozens. In a crowd like that, I won't be noticed. And why you go? Whoever spied on us last night, Tonto had a reason. It may have been connected with the sale of arms to the Indians, or it may not. I hope it wasn't. But we can't take risks. That's right. That man's inside the fort. I want a chance to look around. He might possibly do something to give himself away. The odds are against it, but if he does, I'll be on hand. You take care. Right. Here's Scout. Remain here until I return. If for any reason you have to move camp, leave sign that I can follow. Tonto do that. I'll be back when I can. Come on, Scout. Come on. At the fort, others were up early. Among them, Major Clemson and Lieutenant Wade. Febbly, huh? There's work to be done. Some of us have to give up our sleep. Now then, Lieutenant, do you understand your instruction? Yes, sir. Scouting parties are to be sent out in each direction. They'll look for signs of Indian war parties, but on no account are they to proceed so far as to risk being cut off from the fort. Right, sir? Yes, I will. Who's there? It's me, Major. Hogan. Can I speak to you for a second? Come in. That'll be all, Lieutenant. Yes, sir. Well, Hogan, what is it? Make it short, while you're busy. Sure, Major. Aye, sir. You see, sir, it's about them fellas working for me that was killed. Oh. Well, I thought a heap of them boys and seen a sound away. I'm kind of responsible for their dying. Yes. Well, I'd like to give them a real proper burying. Doggone, I suppose it sounds funny to you. Of course it doesn't. I respect you for the way you feel. What can I do for you? Well, they can't be took back to Carson. They'll have to be buried here. I know. If you could spare us an escort, then maybe if afterwards something could be played on the bugle firm, you know, something kind of sad like. Of course. Glad to. Come with me. I'll speak to the officer the day. I'll give him instructions to follow whatever suggestions you make. Well, thank you, Major. Thank you. Got it. Oh, got it. You wanted me, sir? Yes. This is Lieutenant Carter Hogan. Lieutenant, Mr. Hogan's ask a favor, which I'm glad to oblige. He'll explain to you. Give him all the cooperation possible. Yes, sir. Major, I wish I could tell you how... Don't mention it.  Right. What is it, sir? That man, that fellow there, it couldn't have been him. But that horse, I've seen it before. I know I have. A day and a night passed. The scouting party sent out by Major Clemson returned with a word that no red men had been sighted. Hogan's three employees who had been killed were buried. And during the interval the Lone Ranger disguised, roamed the fort at will, suspected by no one, but the Major, who could not reduce his suspicions to a certain date. Tando had remained in camp. And on the morning of the second day, he saw his friend approaching. It's his white friend. Tani! Tani! Kemosabe! Tani! Go, scout! Go, go, go! Tando, I know who's selling guns to the Indians. And I know what happened to General Wheeler's officers. He must have been the games in our hands. You find colors fine? No. And how do you find out? I listened to talk and attended a funeral, Tando. Me, no savvy. I... Look there. To the west. Indians. And there, Tando. More Indians to the south. And they're pouring out of those hills to the north. Tando, there's hundreds of them. Sweeping down on the fort. And what you do? I've got to warn the garrison. Steady, scout. You not take Silver? You need him more than I will, Tando. You're riding the fort later. Not go with you? Fort Worcester's crowded with settlers. Major Clemson hasn't had enough men to hold out for long against numbers like those. He'll have to have reinforcements. It's up to you to bring them here just as fast as you can. How to do it? Here's Silver. I can still get word to the garrison before the sentry sought the attack. Every moment gained now counts. We're depending on you, Tando. Bring more troops. Get him up, Silver!  Come on, scout! Hurry, scout! Hurry! In the meantime, Fort Worcester already had had his first indication that something was wrong. In the telegraph room, a tense group of men watched Sergeant Bates as he worked without success at the key. Line's dead, sir. I can't rout him. Fly Fort Desmond. Yes, sir. If the line's been cut. Quiet. Well? Nothing doing. I'm going to fly Fort Desmond and lay for both. Major, that proves something's wrong. Just one of them and it might have been an accident. A breakdown. But both is... Sergeant, see if Carson answers. I'll try them, sir. But I got money, sirs. They won't. The scouts found those signs of war parties. They didn't range far, sir. You remember your orders. They weren't to risk being cut off from the post. I know. I know. Nothing doing, eh? I've done my best, sir. Well, that leaves it square up to us. Lieutenant Carter, double the guard. Yes, sir. Wade, I want you to... What's that? Something's wrong. Major, the Redskins are on the way here in force. They're coming from the west south and north. They'll be in sight in five minutes and they'll attack in ten. Where'd you get your information? I saw them. I came here to warn you. Who are you? Your voice. I know I've heard it before.  There's no time to waste. Get the settlers inside the fort. Assemble your men. Close and bar the gates. Do it now or you'll never get the chance. You're right. Orderly. Find the troubler. Sold to arms. Wade, go on the settlers. Yes, sir. Carter, break out extra guns and ammunition. Yes, sir. Tell Hogan these men to get out of the fort. Well, the troopers, summoned by the call to arms, tumbled out of their barracks. The panic-stricken settlers abandoned their belongings to crowd within the walls of the fort. A few short minutes and then a seemingly irresistible band. The Redskins' savages burst into view, howling their fury and charging upon the fort as though they meant to overwhelm the defenders at the first attack. Fire! Fire! The first attack was beaten off and a second and a third. But night fell. Fort Wister was still in the hands of the whites and the Red men had withdrawn to a position of safety. Any orders, sir? I think we're safe for the night. Tell the sentries to be on the alert and tell the men to get what rest they can.  Right, sir. A lieutenant. Yes, Major. You'd better pray. Pray that we get reinforcements. Major. Me? Oh, it's you. I think you guessed who I am. I've known since you told me you'd sent Tato for reinforcement. You suspected this disguise the first day I came here. Yes. The reinforcements haven't arrived. I expected them before nightfall. I've judged the situation correctly. Reinforcements are our only hope. Sooner or later, the Indians are bound to take over. Am I right? You are. Once inside the fort, every man, woman, and child will be wiped out if they're still here. Of course. I said, if they're still here. If? What do you mean? There is a way to get everyone safely through the Indian lines. See those wagons? Hogan's freighters? There's enough of them to carry soldiers and settle as both. The hope for reinforcements did not arrive. Before dawn, a strange activity took place within the fort. The settlers, after them the soldiers, were loaded into the freighters, and then concealed from sight by tarplands gone over their heads. Behind each driver, not a trooper, gun in hand. With a lone ranger himself watching Hogan, whose wagon was in the lead, at daybreak, the fort's gates were suddenly thrown open and...  Keep still and get going. The others will follow. I'll get you for this yet. Get up there!  Get up there! They've already seen us, Hogan. It's up to you when we're to warn them means you're finished. I hope to live to see the day when your scout decorates some engine's belt. Maybe that won't be so long from now, either. Perhaps. But if so, you won't be alive to enjoy it. They're coming. You better rain up. I'll be under the canvas. But don't think I won't be able to do that. Hold that. Hold that. Hold that. Now, wait! You know me and my men? Well, you're friends. Just hold on a second. You, Hogan? Yeah, that's me. Where do you go? Yeah, just down the trail. Why you go? They found out about me back there at the Fort, Lame Wolf. They kicked us out so they wouldn't have to waste grub on us. Let us, too, won't you? We've got to clear out. You ain't going to do nothing to us, are you? You friend, red man, Shell gun. Red man, not hurt you. That's fine. Sure, I'm your friend. Can we go now? You wait. Why pay a face, leave gate open? Well, it's a trap for you. That's what it is. Yeah, yeah, a trap. They're hoping you'll try rushing them.  Now can we go? Let's hope we do. What did the chief say, huh? You go. Gosh, thanks. Thanks, Ahippe. Get up there!  Get along with ya! Get up there! Come on, boy!  Get up there, boy! Come on! So far, so good, Hogan. But we're not out of danger yet. They discover the fort's empty. They find they were tricked. You drive like you've never driven before. Amy, don't forget, you trick them, Hogan. If you do, your red-skinned friends won't. You're in this as deep as the rest of us. I can't. What is this? There's Tata. Hogan, right up. We finish this right now. I think this day's finished. Indian troubles around here for some time to come. Thanks to you, stranger. Tata brought the man from Fort Laeter. Thank him. But it was you who found out Hogan had been selling the red-skins' guns. But you could have guessed for yourself if you'd known that Hogan was lying about having been forced to abandon those wagons outside Carson. I knew it as soon as I saw the many claim were killed in the fight. They were the three officers appointed by General Wheeler. Yes, but I still... Hogan said they'd been in his employ several years. That proved he was lying, because they couldn't have been. And if they were with him, it was because they suspected him. They got jobs with his outfit to prove their suspicions. When Hogan learned it, he killed them and faked his story of a battle to explain the disappearance of those guns. At least you realized that we could use Hogan's freighters to escape from the fort. And naturally, the Indians wouldn't attack them, and they'd bought their guns from them. I see you're bound to avoid taking credit. But I warn you, Lone Ranger. I'll see to it personally that every army post in the West hears a story. Come on, son of... Get him up, Scout! Hello, Silver! How are you? And that you can tie to! Yes, sir. Take a good look at that fella. I have, sir. Then don't forget him. I've sold you thirty years, Lieutenant, and never met his equal. 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Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2019 battle series My name is Lee Osiris and we are going to continue on today with this team that you can see on your screen right in front of you As always the team is down in the description below There is a raw paste and a poker paste Check out the details and try the team out if you would like to we had a couple of really good games to kick us off And yesterday's episode if you'd like to check that out and you can click up here I'll link a little card the little I icon click on that and it will take you over to yesterday's episode You can see how we started off the week and very good episode We've got to feature the majority of the team yesterday all terrier had a really good game in the second game yesterday So hopefully we can continue that on today some shenanigans with chaninja We're joyful to end up with yesterday, of course and but just to recap the team for you guys We've got the old terrier it is the mega of the team the right you lander is theory And it's got the Z move there the misty seed on the Valtul the ultra necrosis Matt and a taboo Finney So without further ado music is on Let's click in hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent of the day and Like I mentioned in our last episode what we're doing this week It's just a little trial with myself to see how well I can manage Content of this quantity on the channel at the minute. So we're doing a roulette series, which is a Running in the morning every morning now at the moment 7 a.m. And we're doing this at 7 p.m. Every day Monday to Friday So I hope it's a nice mix for you You got the fun in the morning and serious in the the evening So and we're mixing up with different teams and stuff like that But like I said, it's just a trial to see how I can manage things we might not keep this up But it's nice just to touch base now and again with some competitive content that we have now done the channel for a while But we've got a first opponent Marcos are and we'll hop into team preview Okay, so first opponent today is running a team of Kyogre Kingdra herself trrrr toga tomorrow ho and the Stoutland man this guy is is playing the roulette game. I feel okay. What are we gonna do? We've got the rain. It's gonna be an issue. I'll tear are gonna be really good here I think it felt so gonna be good as well With the right you of course for that fast fake out Do we want alternate cross man? Maybe not? I think I'll go with the four that we went with yesterday all terrier the tapu finny Evelton right you and I think we've gotten out with tapu finny against hot or now with this gold there So it makes it a bit easier to deal with Evelton gonna be the main main piece of the puzzle in this one So I think if we can support that well enough, it's gonna be it's gonna do a decent and really decent job So let's click in and get this one underway Yeah interesting team from my opponent and I've been seeing and I don't know if it's just law a lot of stuff I've been seeing quite a bit of hot or recently and Paired with with different combinations and hot or still can do a lot of work in the Oxford series I think it's one of those Pokemon. It's maybe a little bit underexplored and one of those Pokemon That maybe a lot of players have looked past a little bit too much and because Obviously the the mega requires a primal cargo and primal ground on coming into play, but Yeah, I still think it can do a really good job. So we're seeing the Kingdra and the Kyogre come out from my opponent We've got the fake out we can go for here I think one thing we could potentially do is just switch into type of finny make sure that we get that misty seed boost with our Evelton Go tailwind and then we can we can heal pulse the next turn And start snarling it's just about getting this speed control early on that makes a big difference I don't want to keep right you in here. We can fake at one toggle, but the other one's going to damage us heavily anyway And Evelton will take a lot of damage in the process whereas if you get the misty seed activated I think we can comfortably take a water spout and Another water attack from the Kingdra unless it is The Ward of Zemo which may be a bit of an issue to take but We'll see how this plays out. I don't know what my opponent's going for here We do get the misty seed boost as we switch in our type of finny and get that misty terrain onto the field The Kingdra just going to protect this first turn to get around potentially that fake out as we see the Kyogre Just double protect so we get a free tailwind up here, which is perfect And that's one of the things I think when you're playing against certain Teams and this fake out pressure there don't give them the opportunity to to set up and have a free turn like that That's a big important lesson. I think we'll just go for a snarl and Yeah I see wind I guess we've not really got too much else we can do. I mean we can scald Could we get the uh, just yeah, well, I see wind. Well, I see wind just in case something comes in just to keep the pressure on But it's a shame that we haven't got nature's madness. It's maybe something that I would definitely consider on tap with finny over his but It's just we don't really have a good way to hit um other pokemon That are uh, they're war types. There's the z move It's gonna be I don't understand why you switch the rain out when you want to use the z move I think you need to keep the kyogre on the field if you want to utilize that Obviously, you've got the rain boost as well So you're faster than everything still you want to maximize this damage It's your big centerpiece attack that you can utilize You need to be taking advantage of that and keeping the rain up to boost that it's just it makes it so much stronger Whereas just not having the rain up really really hinders your ability to do A lot of damage, which is just a little bit of a shame We do pop that air balloon that's on the toga tomorrow and get a nice wind off Of course, unless a lot of things down just a little bit more So when that if these pokemon are out when the tailwind ends then it means we've still got the speed advantage I need to worry about the toga tomorrow. Of course going into this next turn. I'm gonna just protect the bell Um, actually, I'm not We could get faked out if you get faked out. That's fine. Um, and I'm gonna bring in raichu for Tapa finny it means that we've got fake out pressure the next turn And it also takes away any risk from that toga tomorrow thrown out an electric type attack onto evelto Which it's likely wanting to do Um, potentially after a fake out, of course, so there's the fake out into evelto We could have protected there of course muddy water coming out from kingdra Uh, the snarl will be helping with this, of course Uh, raichu not really able to do very much going into this next turn because Um, the lightning rod on the opposing toga tomorrow Uh, we'll go for another snarl and we will just fake out the kingdra Not too worried about the toga tomorrow at this point. Uh, the evelto Need to be a little bit careful. I think going forward. We are gonna see the whole actually hit the field Okay um But we've got foul play that we can utilize spiky shield just coming out from the toga tomorrow Uh, we can lock we can lock toga tomorrow into that this next turn if we'd like to with them With on the core Course it avoids It doesn't really matter too much. Uh, we'll go for that foul play into the whole I mean, we could go for another tailwind, but I do Expect my opponent to maybe sit the tailwind As well We need to be a little bit careful at this point as well. Um, Because the the whole all counts up there on tailwind, which could put them in a Better position going into the next turn But I don't think we're gonna be okay. That's a nice damage. There's a tailwind. Yeah from the whole I don't know if we go down to a brave bird this next turn or whether or not the whole all wants to potentially Um Recover a rooster or whatever. Uh, we'll try and match the tailwind, of course Um, and I I do expect the toga tomorrow to switch out here So I'm gonna go for a vault switch into the whole all now And make a bit of a prediction saying that the toga tomorrow wants to switch. Oh, no, it's just staying in Okay, that's fine If we can match there's a sacred fire. Where's it going? It's into the right she It will take us down, but we're going to match the tailwind now and the toga tomorrow is not too much of an issue um, especially with um It locked into spiky shield It's all about getting the the altering now, maybe All right, we can flamethrower. Yeah, we can flamethrower the toga tomorrow file play the whole I think the kyogre again is going to be a difficult pokemon for us to deal with in the late game Um, we'll file play ho-ho and we'll go for mega valve and the flamethrower But I mean if it were safe, we're able to get rid of both of these pokemon right now Um, we've got parasong that we can we can totally nuke the the last two pokemon with Um, if we've got the the number advantage, that's the big thing having that that number's advantage going into the the next turn So do the spiky shield fear feels Of course he gets it. Of course he gets it. It's so frustrating And we'll get the file play into the ho-ho I don't know if it's gonna be enough Oh, so close Um We take it take it Hopefully the uncor doesn't end now that'll be Yeah, the uncor doesn't end. It's likely gonna be the fastest thing on the field now Um Let's protect evelto Let's go for a hyper voice. The hyper voice should be enough to get the ho-ho from this range I'm kind of hoping it is It's just we need to stall out their tailwind and then wait with we've still got then our tailwind up um Wouldn't be good if we missed the kill on ho-ho our ho-ho protects Okay, so we could have actually went for the flint right into the toga tomorrow there The toga tomorrow doing nuzzle. Okay, that's fine Okay, that tailwind pinners out um The problem is like we'll get the I don't think we're gonna be able to get the toga tomorrow here because I think it just protects Oh, it doesn't okay.  Um, the kyogre is going to be awkward to deal with Uh, we need to get rid of The kingdra, but I mean the same time what we can do is go for that perish song Um, and we could switch into tapu fini here just taking a water spout, which is the big thing Um, can ulterior take Do we switch into tapu fini? I mean with full health with tapu fini So it's probably not a bad idea to do that in perish song. Yeah, we'll do that And I think this will win us the game so hopefully ulterior can take a combination of Water spout and muddy water if that's the probably all ice being muddy water And kingdra protecting that's even better for us because that gives us the win I think now Uh, kyogre icy wind nice nice, okay. Um, yeah, but that's the game now. I think like we'll be able to stall out It's perish song switching around protecting it's gonna be easy enough to do from from this point out So perish song and it is a fairy type Parish song as well, which is very nice. Um, so yeah Count to three for each one some perish action in today's episode to kick us off, which is very exciting We'll go for An icy wind ourselves And we'll just we'll just protect ulterior. We might see a forfeit might not my opponent might try to play it out They might believe that they can they can get around What we're doing and they might possibly be able to Find some muddy water From the kingdra I wonder what set this kyogre's running. It's got thunder. It could be a bit of an issue, but I mean Yeah, I think goes for it Hopefully this doesn't take us down. It shouldn't and just poke a berry man Man o man. Um, yeah, so this next turn. I think we just switch into valto But Excellent excellent stuff. Isn't it so good? Um, yeah, we'll switch Into we'll go for the icy wind again. We'll switch into you valto And then I'll take it down to one count. We'll bring ulterior back in protect and that's game for us And we'll get rid of that perish on ulterior and this is the like this is yeah We're able to do this so it doesn't really matter if if the muddy water and the thunder hits here Ulterior comes back in and the protect wins us the game And maybe without the perish song, I don't know if we would have been able to do it I mean we probably would have to be honest because a hyper voice would get the king And then we're gonna have you valto Ulterior Tapping finny with with heal pulse still sitting on the field able to heal pulse ulterior. So Either way we might have been able to do it. This is just Makes it a bit more Easier to do doesn't it so we'll bring in ulterior Get back on the field and we'll press that lovely protect button and lock this one up from here on out So there we go, and that is going to be game one nice win for us today Very good. Uh, but again ulterior doing some nice work. Um against a bit of an unconventional team Um, but nice to see the variation as well really nice team built from my opponent My opponent's still going all out fair play to them trying to get rid of this This ulterior before the perish song takes both their pokemon down So if the perish song count go down to zero and the king go down first and this full health kayaka go down It's the easiest way to take down a full health kayaka. There you go pro tip Heavy rain lifting and ulterior again Second game in a row sitting sitting strong on the field ready to go. So Excellent excellent victory for the team and we will move on to our next Match and hopefully it doesn't take too long to find the next opponent But um, I hope you're enjoying the team. Uh, everyone out there watching. Um, it it is fun I don't know if it's as polished as it could be But this is why we do the testing process. Obviously, uh games will be getting harder as we move further up the ladder um, but that's that's part and parcel of Of pokemon, uh, you want things to be getting harder as you're going along So you can test it against the more difficult teams in the format and uh, hopefully we do Continue to bump into them and uh, put the team through its paces And then we can identify areas where improvement is need to be made. Um, because that's a big thing Obviously identifying where your team is weak against so you don't run into issues when you're in a tournament You do all your issue resolving when you're when you're practicing on battle spot And it's good to just be able to identify Exactly where a team may be going wrong, you know where things aren't working quite well is where you thought they might be working Um, now ulterior we're not going to get carried away with it It's done really well in the last two games, but i'm still not massively convinced by it I still think uh hyper voices are maybe a little bit underwhelming Maybe we want to look at that ev spread see if we can get a bit more damage out of it Because there's been times where things are hanging on by a sliver and if we've been able to knock those out Then that would have made the difference. So if we can we can Move that ev spread a little bit that could be the thing that changes it for us But we've got our next opponent. So let's get into it. I believe we've played this opponent I don't know with this team or if we played them on the roulette series, but we've definitely played them This week, but let's get into it. Anyway So our next opponent is running eval to groudon Gengar, persian, nai ligo and tapu finny. Yeah, I think we've played these guys on the roulette series I don't know if the battle has happened yet this week or not, but um, I'm pretty sure we have or might have been with this team I'm just so confused played so much pokemon today recording. So Who knows what it is doing? And we've got the eval to the groudon Uh, potentially eval to has got the z move there Setting a tailwind for the rest of the team the persian obviously going to be the the fake out pokemon nai ligo Are going to be something we need to be very careful of um I think it might have been I'm not too sure, but what i'm going to do is bring Hmm Bring eval to We need something to deal with the tapu finny for sure I'm going to bring raichu to this match. Um, I'm going to bring ultron across my and I think Do we want to bring groudon as well? Relying them to bring tapu finny to activate our misty seed Hmm Um, it's all about getting our tail wind up. That's the big thing for us. I think in this in this match Um Is landeris going to be the one to bring in because landeris would be pretty good against the majority of this team to be honest Um, so sacrifice and finny isn't the worst thing in the world So let's get into it and uh, good luck to my opponent And hopefully we can uh, we can continue this this this winning streak we're on We're on three and zero at the minute, so four and zero would be amazing if we can finish off the week flawless I'll be a happy man, and I'm sure you'll be happy happy viewers as well. So we'll lead off with eval to and raichu Um, I'll see my opponent eat off nigh lego tapu finny. So yeah, there's the misty terrain boost that we we were all looking for excellent Yeah, we do we do like this appreciate it Um, yeah, we tail wind fake out nigh lego turn worn. I think What the tapu finny does probably I see wind potentially um Yeah tail wind needs be control um And if the nigh lego does decide to go for a protect here then we can lock it in with on call the next turn It's not going to do that of course. Uh, the misty terrain is actually protecting everything at the minute and Oh here's Don't mind that too much. I mean it does get rid of our um special defensive boost and could protect eval toe and just fault switch into The finny and I think we'll try and get duskman across more onto the field. Um Well that special defensive boost gone does make it a bit more difficult We'll get some nice damage onto the finny though. That's the big thing Really nice damage critical hit huge huge damage for us So right you pulling in the work there and yeah get duskman in Uh, we've got the tail wind up. So even if a nice wind comes out now, it's not the worst thing in the world See what this nigh lego does. Oh, it's going for the z move. So good job. We protected here. Um I mean we'll be able to take it a little bit more comfortably going into this next turn We know it's not sashed as well, which is a a nice big plus for us here Um, and then I think the next turn we concentrate down more on the type of finny Because the nigh lego is so pressured with duskman coming in and it's more likely to protect rather than attacking into eval toe So, um, that was a crit as well. Man, velto is a big beast. Uh, okay, your pulse You know, but it's not really going to protect it from a sunstill strike And so yeah, we'll get rid of this finny um It's a sunstill strike gonna be enough to get it from here. I would imagine so. Yeah, uh, we'll go for a I probably want to keep you velto around to be honest. I'm bringing landeris We've got a nice Cover for that there and I'll go for the sunstill strike into the tap of finny With ultra necrosma. We will ultra burst Uh get landeris onto the field And once we get rid of the finny things get a bit easier for us for sure Um, I wonder if the nigh lego does protect. I'd imagine it does It's got to feel so pressured here and you probably want to try and get a nice wind off with the tap of finny We're not going to see it protect, but as long as you get rid of the finny, that's the big thing. That's the main thing here Yeah, so you get rid of that issue Substitute oh tasty Then you velto. Okay, that makes sense It's a lot of sense Um, I'm gonna earthquake And I'm gonna protect I think Oh, do we do that? I don't know. I feel like you might see the nigh lego protect here. I'm gonna protect the landeris and We're switching you velto The problem is I see my opponent maybe go and protect nigh lego till wind with You velto that could be a big issue for us And the substitute causes us all sorts of problems Just that they don't protect here then yeah, they do protect If we do see the tailwind I just file play it's into you velto though. So that's not too bad All right I mean I can take that our tailwind put us out so um It could go from the tailwind here. I'm gonna earthquake And I'm gonna tailwind Power gem. Yeah Oh into landeris.  I mean that's better for us overall to be honest um Makes it difficult for us to deal with the evalto though. I think that's the one thing that Is a bit awkward to deal with right now Uh, but we get the right chewing Um, I think we'll file Yeah, we'll The evalto is just file play the nigh lego is just power gem Let's fake out the evalto and go for file play into the nigh lego If it goes for a protect then we can lock it in the next turn and don't think it's gonna It's gonna try and get the knockout onto our evalto, but doing this gets rid of that sub It probably takes evalto down. That's the problem. Yeah And the job for our ultran across now is getting Lord, I've got as time goes on Um I think the turn we tail winded we might have been better off actually just file playing into the nigh lego Um, like honestly that would probably be a better play We could double into the evalto now Vault switch and go Sunsteal strike and hope that's enough to take it down I'm not sure it is Yeah, the nigh lego's gonna protect so there's the There's that Sunsteal strike. Let's see what this damage is like. Come on. Surprise me ultran across math We needed the wild charge here. I think Tail wind Please. Oh, it's a berry. Oh, man. This is the air. I think this might be This might be our first loss this week file play coming out into. Oh, we'll take this No We'll take it now. Yeah, we're done for now. We can lock We can lock the nigh lego into protect with encore But I mean, there's not really much point at this at this stage. We're kind of done So I'll go for the vault switch. We'll probably see the the mines of raichu here The berry on the evalto proving really really good for my opponent and a really nice team composition They played it well the substitute on the nigh lego support and everything super super well As we see a sludge bomb into the raichu and a file play here So again, like what I was saying of the testing process. This is a team that really one of those ones where um, you need to Like really dig down deep and and have a look and and see why it went wrong and what went wrong with it say Could we have brought maybe something else that would have helped us out a bit more in that match and what was awkward about finding our bold position and Was it something that was just where we're lacking completely or was it something to do with how we play that match? And I think that's the first bit that you identify and if it's Once you identify that first bit, then you can address it and say, right Well, if we play this archetype to get in the future, well, we'll need to leave this We need to have this board position at all times We need to have these switching options at all times and keep that in mind and that makes it easier Whereas when you if it's a pokemon deficit or support option or an attacking option deficit That's when you need to look at the team and think right what can we change up here to make it A bit different where we're not sacrificing too much of what the team's made up of so far And that I feel that's the more difficult side of it But the two sides of things that you need to always take into consideration. So those losses are really valuable I'm going to look back at the loss myself Have a look where we could have went differently and make sure that we improve on that going forward in the Week and if we make changes next week coming into this series Pending if we continue this next week, then that's obviously going to be something that we'll take into consideration But we're going to end it there guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. We're three and one at the minute It's not so bad. We've had some really great games this week. Congratulations all my pwners Good game to every single one of them. Thank you all for tuning in. I hope you've enjoyed it Do leave your comments down below and I'll see you for the next one. So until then take care and bye


Wikipedia is weird. It's bonkers, really. A whole bunch of people from random backgrounds, all holding contradictory beliefs, most of whom have never even met each other, and we've been given free reign to write or delete pretty much anything we want on a website funded by the masses that even one of its co-founders hate with almost everything made on a completely volunteer basis. And yet this is what comes of it? It's completely insane. Off the rails. Incredible. Wikipedia is weird. It's weird, and yet here we are. One of the most trafficked websites in the world, used by scientists, researchers, and students of every type, and almost completely controlled by us. The mob. Okay, so Wikipedia is kind of weird. But what about weirdness on Wikipedia? For a website with such a strange and unlikely background, it can sometimes seem like our treatment of weird and humorous topics is somewhat lacking. Take, for example, the so-called Secret Cabinet of Naples. It's a famous museum containing a vast array of weird and somewhat erotic art excavated from the ruins of Pompeii, and it played a massive role in shaping our current understanding of ancient Greek conceptions of sexuality. Additionally, the museum's history of being censored by various governments, as well as secret viewings of its contents becoming a rite of passage of sorts for many Victorian men, have opened subjects of extensive coverage by historians and sociologists. We do have a solid article in sexuality in ancient Greece. The article for the Secret Cabinet is little more than a stub, and there's not a single article covering any of its contents, despite the extensive and detailed coverage by historians of many of the deeply unusual sculptures and frescoes inside. As a more recent historical example of our version towards the weird, before I added a short paragraph a few days ago, we were completely missing coverage for the phenomenon of so-called surreal means, which, thanks in part to celebrities like Elon Musk using the means to promote the subreddit, Our Wall Street Bats, precipitated what became known as a 2021 GameStop short squeeze, the effects of which are not yet completely understood, but which has certainly resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars gained at last, not to mention absolutely massive political bulk. This is a topic which requires an understanding of what many would consider the weirder parts of the internet. But despite a wealth of outside coverage, from sources ranging from anthropological journals to a full-length article from Forbes Magazine examining the history of the Stonks meme, who had somehow completely missed an absolutely essential element of this massive economic event. As far as I can tell, this was due in large part to a sense of apathy or aversion towards coverage of the weird and seemingly fringe on Wikipedia. Due to time limitations, I won't continue to give all that many more concrete examples, but if you want to see some further instances of these issues I'm discussing, I highly recommend looking through some of the roughly 20,000 articles nominated for deletion on Wikipedia that have the keywords, trivial conduct. Even controlling for the number of citations from authoritative sources, the proportion of topics, which editors deem weird, sexual, humorous, it's vastly more likely to be tagged as trivial, seemingly regardless of that topic's coverage in outside sources. So I hope I've made it clear by now that there are often obvious biases and gaps in our coverage of topics that involve the weird or the funny, which sometimes can have reverberating effects on our coverage of the deadly serious. In short, when things get weird, Wikipedia tends to look away. Why is this? Well, Wikipedia editors tend to have certain specific biases, as we're probably all aware. We're mostly composed of Western, English-speaking, Christian, or atheist white men, and the scope, coverage, and quality of articles and topics that this demographic cares about very much reflects that. Some particularly egregious biases like gender and balancing Wikipedia biographies have thankfully been receiving significant attention lately, but there are many other common biases that are both clearly evident and deeply understudied. One bearing that I'm focusing on for now is that, as mentioned before, we tend to give you topics that appear to us as weird or humorous as being less important than they actually are, leading to reduced coverage and lesser quality work on these subjects than what they actually deserve. Weirdness as a descriptor is, of course, incredibly subjective. What seems completely bizarre to one person might be accepted as totally normal by the next, but one person finds hilarious, could be interpreted completely seriously by another. This is actually emblematic of a central feature of the weird. It is the opposite of the familiar. The weird is the other. And the other, of course, can be scary or even repulsive to some. We see the sphere of the other in its most horrifying and dangerous forms when trying to fight racism, sexism, queerphobia, and other terrible forms of discrimination. But negative reactions to the other and the seemingly weird can also take more subtle, more benign, but still very harmful forms. The fact of the matter is we treat the familiar, or the normal, to different more lack standards than we treat the weird. We take humor from the unexpected. And according to at least some theorists, all humor can ultimately be viewed as subversions of the expected or the normal. As a consequence, things which appear weird or abnormal to us can sometimes also seem quite silly. And in western culture, or at least in western academia, humor is seen as being of lesser importance in history than perhaps it truly is. I personally come from an Orthodox Jewish background, which, well, I won't focus deeply on this today, does have a somewhat different view on the intersection between humor, weirdness, and culture than what most people are familiar with. To give a very brief example, Rabbi Moshe Waldoch, who's a noted historian of Jewish humor, has argued that Jewish humorists play a critical role in self-criticism within the community. As he puts it, the humorist, like the prophet, would basically take people to task for their failings. This sensibility in which humorous means, trends, and events are treated well seriously as being a vital aspect of the human condition is not often found among us Wikipedia editors. On the contrary, a sort of taboo against the weird has developed, which can lead to minimization of trash against important humor-related articles. Okay, so what can we do about this? To some degree, bias will always exist in Wikipedia. There's no such thing as a truly impartial editor, and the quest towards perfection is never ending. Of course, that doesn't mean the quest isn't worth it. We need to do our utmost to create the best encyclopedia we can, and that includes, among many other measures, taking concrete steps to be more representative of and respectful towards the unfamiliar, the humorous, and the weird. One relatively easy place to start this quest is to look for existing holes in our coverage of different topics. We tend to stick close to what we know best, but if you can use even a small percentage of your time in Wikipedia to go actively searching for the unfamiliar, you can make a massive difference in underrepresented places, topics, and communities. Ask yourself what sort of things are unlikely to naturally get picked up on by our editor base, and take some time to go hunting for the out of the way. One excellent way to do this is to talk to groups outside of your cultural comfort zone, both on the internet and in real life. Find communities of people with different interests than you, and ask what they wish they could find more accurate information on online. Perhaps more importantly, find out what they're reading. There are countless reliable sources of information out there that are almost non-existent as citations in Wikipedia, simply because there aren't many editors around who happen to be aware of those sources. You can also ask fellow Wikipedians what they find to be missing, but you might be less likely to hear of topics which have completely escaped our collective notice so far. It's easy to think of us editors as coming from a fairly randomized cross-section of the internet, but we really aren't as diverse as one might expect. So relying solely on peers to find gaps in information can leave us completely unaware of gaping holes in our knowledge base. Another useful exercise to help tamp down personal biases is to be careful about keeping consistent internal standards with regard to notability and criteria for deletion. Pay particular attention when you write something off as niche, irrelevant, or unworthy of coverage. Is it truly irrelevant, or only irrelevant?


Good morning, everyone, and welcome to day three of KubeCon Cloud NativeCon Europe 2022 and the last set of keynotes. I want to personally thank you all for waking up super early after that amazing party last night and showing up today to listen to us all continue this fabulous conference. But before we kick it off with our first set of keynotes, I wanted to personally thank myself, my fellow co-chairs. We all would like to thank the Linux Foundation Event staff, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Event staff for putting on this amazing event. We would also like to thank Tantalus Productions, who's the audio visual engineering team behind coordinating all of these slide decks, all of our speaker notes, making sure that we can do these transitions smoothly. So let's thank them. And most importantly, if you're a speaker at this conference, you've probably gotten an email from him. We would like to thank Cody Lisk, who is the content manager for this conference. He's been doing this for a long time, and he has been incredibly helpful for making us look especially amazing. Yes. Thank you. All right. With that said, let's kick things off with our first keynote for today. Our first presenters of the day are Josh Berkus and Catherine Paganini. Josh is a community architect with a red hat, and Catherine is the head of marketing and community at Point. Today, they will discuss all the extra things that an open source project needs to be successful. So please welcome Josh and Catherine.


Hey Sebastian, you know thanks so much for joining us in the car ride, you know You've already been in the car a bit yourself But yeah, we But we'll do our little tour and it'll be it'll be fun You can you know do the ride along but do you want to introduce yourself tell us a little bit about Who you are and and what you do? Yeah, sure. I'm Sebastian. I lead the Kubernetes competence center we renamed it actually to contain a competent center and platforms and I'm also today in the city of summit with the other end user enterprises and I do Transformation evangelism you could say so I have many many ideas and publications and I do like 20 to 25 keynotes a year about enterprise transformation Basically on people first processes and on how to create a lasting transformational force rather than doing some adjustments in your mailbox science Yeah, just here's the note that tells you how you need to change your life Yeah, you haven't found that to be effective. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, we've been pretty effective actually We've created the competence center four years ago. We started out just three of us two engineers and me They already built proprietary kubernetes control plane okay for two years at Audi and You remember the 2019 market. It was like a super control plane heavy startups doing their own control Kubernetes itself so Or doing an abstraction layer Above cloud provider Yeah, that is it so anyway this You've seen it back then The focus is a completely different now control planes are commodity Allocating compute is commodity. It's not a business case anymore. It's a value at right, right, it's just like it was like 2019 or before and Yeah, and we we started out like this creating our own platform and enabling project teams to Securely deploy their workloads to and run them on a kubernetes. Let me ask you a background question like like why? Like what what was the driver to create this team in the first place? Like what was the you know, what was the goal? Did somebody just wake up one day and be like we need to modernize somehow or or was there like some business goal? Or like what was the driver that started that transformational event? The transformation definitely is a completely different thing De-coupled from the team itself and it's technical capabilities that are rated there It's I have a like a 10 year background in startups being in startups in in the Munich area for 10 years and For example before Audi we created an IP TV solution that is markedly to know and I Was responsible for the apps from the first customer to 1.25 million customers. Yeah, that's that's a few yeah, yeah, and and then when I'm going To to Audi we wanted to bring some startup culture into the enterprise. Okay, and obviously we had to wait until we were able to deliver and prove That our methodologies that are ways of working that our culture Is paying off and that it can survive in an enterprise surrounding an enterprise environment, right and Like I said, it's decoupled from the technical capabilities and what we're focusing on because the team Was focusing on the Kubernetes control plane to assist one project team. Oh, okay that's basically how it started and Taking it from one project team to many project teams with an inner source way of handling the things That paid off and we are 14 people now. Mm-hmm and we're a competent center. We are Consulting other platforms in there How they want to build things how they want to create things what focus they're on if they're an infrastructure platform or rather Abstraction layer above it a business integration layer Serving a couple of managed services to a Homogeneous group of workloads for example, okay, and just so does your team provide Software or does it provide more like guidance and architecture and design all those things like so, you know How do you you know kind of what is the competency center kind of you know? What does it give to the your customers in a sense? Yeah The first and foremost thing of them all is a platform to deploy workloads. Okay, so there's a focus on two things It's secure runtime. Mm-hmm.  Mm-hmm and they can all deploy very easily to that platform and Run your workloads to see ICD and it just makes sense for the biggest Amount of applications in the organization and Then you have some applications obviously that have a very special use case like machine learning AI use case of Tremendous amount of workload peaks. Mm-hmm, and you want a different consumption model in Scalability obviously and Maybe they need a couple of managed services, right? Then we create something like a business integration layer business domain services and we consult these people that I want to own The business integration layer on how to do that and how to consume the infrastructure layer Gotcha. Okay. So let me and I'm not sure like I'm not sure if you can entirely get into this But so when you are talking about these, you know, kind of software teams and development teams Are they mostly like the stuff that kind of runs outy or is it the stuff that actually like runs in the cars? Or both or you know, or is there how's that how's that division done? Is it different kinds of engineering? You know, yeah, it's completely different from each other. So We don't run things in the car that would be Completely differently regulated. Okay, because it's regulated like a bringing hardware to the streets, right? IoT or any steering software. It's Basically from a legal point of view if you do a software update on On a IoT device in your car, right? It needs to run through the same processes as as if you've built the entire piece from from scratch, right? Yeah, yeah, I'm not unhappy about that to be honest It makes sense doesn't it so they can't patch your car dangerously, right, right? Yeah, I've seen I've seen a lot of software people safe to processes in this case just makes sense You don't want to sing in transportation Transportation trains It really makes sense, right? So so mostly what you're working with is the kind of all the software that runs out itself, right? Yeah, yeah, we have Audi. He has six thousand six hundred applications. It's quite a number. Yeah And obviously there is On-prem there is public cloud There is all the flavors that you can think of right and all the needs all the requirements That you can think of in any organization. We have them we find them Yeah, yeah, which doesn't make our job easier to be honest Right, it's like that's where you were saying kind of the beginning about transformation It is it is nice in theory to be able to send out an email that says you will all be out in Kubernetes It's on AWS and yeah, just that never works enablement is everything right you need to you need to Be sexy enough that the people Want to work with you and I'm never forced to work with you right right So if you have a like a traction of force that really attracts the people to work with you because they know if if you work with these guys with Sebastian and the team and They force you kind of to have success right right We don't let loose of the hand of our project teams until they have success Right, they're running productively in the cluster or we consult them very very early on where to go elsewhere like Where they can get the help to be successful exactly exactly because we know all the platforms in the VW group and Sometimes we just say well, this is a classic on-prem case. Maybe you just Move on to our colleague over there. His name is this and that and Or RVS for example mainframe. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so we're not like super keen on lifting and shifting monoliths and We're it's not Kubernetes is not always the answer nor is Public cloud always did the right answer. So We are very very early in the in the consulting process for a project and then we can advise them on pursuing the right path on being successful and they're actually in the well yet I want to create because the compute for them usually is like They're not very motivated in this topic because it's just Annoying for them. They want to create business value in their own. Yeah. Yeah, but not really border about the infrastructure Right, right often it happens that they create something. Yeah, they're like super proud of it And then they they're like, okay, we're to run it right, right Yeah, no, I totally understand so so You know, you said there's what six thousand something plus projects, right? Yeah So how do you how do you do that transformation? Like, how do you scale your team of would you say less 15? Something like that like to get to support that many different teams. Yeah, actually with me. It's 15. Okay. Yeah, so The the way to do it is like not investing too much energy in fighting the silo as they put it. It's a Mind-boggling and useless fight that you can invest 80% of your energy your political energy, but also your and entire day of work into talking to people and Fighting the silo so to say it's It makes more sense to respect the seller because it's the way to organize big Organizations like enterprises. We have 87,000 people at Audi 140,000 people at the W group. So it just makes real sense to not Invest too much energy into that rather than asking why you would even fight the silo What's the business value you want to take out of this and you can Define that quite easily if you ask a couple of times why you're doing that. Anyway, why is deaf Ops a thing? Why is deaf sec Ops a thing this end-to-end responsibility? Obviously make sense in a wider sense and You can create that through the silos. For example transformation usually happens that people define a process They get the tech for it They decide upon the tools and then they tell the people what to do or they define roles Yeah, that fill out this organizational structure and then they hire for the roles and That is so not people centric and what happens then is that the people satisfy the process rather than solve the problem Because they don't even know what the problem was in the first place. They're so far away from what the people who made the process Had intended or whatever.  Actually, they are really like maybe passionate about and their field of work in there. So what we do is we look at the people first and I Ask my team always. What are you're passionate about? We have this stuff on the plate Pick one Be good at it. I know if you're passionate about it, you will be just nailing it. You will be really good at it If you if you have the motivation to deep dive into that so we put people first and then Let them choose the best tech to solve the problem mm-hmm usually bleeding edge is the thing in our competent center, okay, and And then automate it, right because we're not too many people, right? Right, we need to automate stuff to make it work in scalable Mm-hmm, but what happened if you automated the tech through passionate people is you you receive a process It's a natural. Yeah process that evolved through the automation of what he did before. Yeah, and then you can process the process and Make it a thing in your organization like a rule, right, right to say a rule to follow but you haven't created it by Thinking about how it could work you have created it by actually solving a problem, right, right? Yeah, you're kind of I mean it's you saw the bottom up versus top-down kind of thing You can say so you solve the problem first and then you scale the solution, right, right That's actually you know at a much smaller scale You know, it's kind of what we're doing like even within our like this spark program that we do all these software projects for third parties is We you know, we want all the teams use github Okay, so the first thing we do is we start establishing repos for the students and when they're doing the student teams or whatever And then the next thing we do is okay Now let's build a little tool that we can now modify the contributors file and it will put the right people on it Right and so to the process kind of you know Creates itself while we automate it It's it's adaption adaption is the magic finger. Yeah. Yeah, so It's what happens often is that people decide upon a tool and It has zero adaption because nobody's motivated to use it But if you let the passionate people like this 10 to 20 percent in every company That's really a super passionate and and hard-working about Solving the issues if you let them like work with everybody else on The right tools to solve the problem you will have adaption While choosing it, right? Even the PUC becomes very quickly adopted adopted. Yeah, right, right? So just kind of to delve into the silo comment I I'm not sure so when you say silo though, what what do you mean by that like what? What what is in one of the silos or what causes those silos to? appear that you think are a good the good type of silo for example my team is definitely a Silo as well because we are just responsible for our infrastructure. Mm-hmm. There is No end-to-end responsibility towards the developer and has problems. Mm-hmm. So the developer Sometimes even is an external company and then you have internally a service owner So it's responsible guy product owner platform or whatever. Yeah, so you have a Limited number of people that own the thing and a completely different department or even company that creates the thing and We have users as well. So let's not forget about the users. So there's a user Department and there's a development department and there's a service owner or business partner manager Oh, whatever that that might be something like a process guy. Yeah, and and there's the infrastructure There's the the people that run stuff infrastructure or that run applications and These are completely different responsibilities and the you can cut responsibilities through creating Set of contracts like terms and conditions service level agreements and stuff That is necessary from a legal point of view. We also do that. We have a clear Responsibility border where we say this is nothing. We are like this is our legally responsible for okay But what we do is we have a culture beyond terms and conditions and so we go To the other end to the very other end of a non-existing and to end responsibility We talked to the developers we bypass sometimes the process guide because he trusts us. He's like Why would I? Cause like you're here with this conversation guys. Yeah. Yeah, just I trust you I trust you make the best out of it And why should I cause friction here? Yeah by by listening to the other guy Understanding something wrong and giving it completely wrong to the next guy You've you've just described why the entire role of developer advocacy exists. Exactly. Yeah, and If you have these friction walls that between user and developer between The orchestrator, which is the process guy the product owner And the infrastructure department you have a couple of friction walls that you can automate through mm-hmm Just automate through it. I mean requirement engineering between users and product owner that makes sense That's a different different path but from developer to process owner or finance Guy mm-hmm and infrastructure. That's two very very strong friction walls in a in a unilateral way Often and then it arrives at infrastructure and we have to send it all the way back And say no, we can't accept this because of this you didn't meet the requirements of running something in a Kubernetes cluster Your container has root is not allowed in our infrastructure and stuff like this, you know and and If we if we just enable the people the development teams in the first place If it is really take their hand and show them everything they need to know to work with our platform with Kubernetes itself with cloud native With a vertical of cloud provider native services Like here's your AWS account for example, or here's your Azure account You can connect that your own account and that service like an RDS with your container Mm-hmm. I don't need to provide that I Won't as a platform team. I won't provide it better than Amazon doesn't itself, right? Why should I resell that service like internally? So just get it directly from there connect your database? Yeah, that's a red light. Yeah, this guy didn't agree with me. That's why I was kind of like Yeah, um, hello so The having having these these verticals of cloud native services That you can connect to your container and having the infrastructure Really just focusing on Something that everybody needs. Mm-hmm the common denominator in infrastructure security in runtime. That's it period Mm-hmm. Everything else kind of qualifies a special needs that not everybody has like the hundred percent, right? you have many 80 20 use cases there, but it's not a hundred percent hundred percent security in runtime and and The set you have a set of Projects and That if you enable them enough in using the cloud native technologies They can help themselves first of all which reduces support Tremendously like they to support. Yeah, and they don't write ten tickets each day because they have a question They know how to run the stuff in the food. So right first enablement or the enablement in general to Be on the platform the educational layers our utmost Focus when onboarding people need to learn Using these technologies very well to work with us to be on our platform and then We have them automate that stuff, right? Once once it's automated. They just automate through the silos, right? Okay, all the DevSecOps benefits. Yeah, all the business value out of it and You respect the silos. Mm-hmm interesting So, but you your you or your team, right? You know goes kind of out and directly works with the you know kind of individual development team Yeah for like their first project kind of is that exactly? Yeah. Yeah, and their second project They're already semi-professional on it. Yeah. Yeah, so this is way less Yeah, sometimes. Yeah, sometimes it's just an hour and they're done Right they deploy pre-life and then the same week they have deployed abroad and so the the applications though that are You're talking about are they mostly the net new ones or are they? You know migrations are like rebuilds or rewrites or or is it because you said you don't do a lot of lift-and-shift Yeah Lift-and-shift where it makes sense we can talk about it, but it's not possible without a rewrite So just lifting and shifting is This is a myth actually. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, it's a very small kind of Set of projects I think that lift-and-shift is probably a good idea if you're going to cloud native because he really should it's really if you If you're the only way you can really take advantage of that new Architectural environment is by re-architecting it and it's not just like you know, you're not just kind of rewriting code You're actually improving the capability of the system, which you know, that's often not something that is Necessarily obvious with that kind of lift-and-shift scenario Asking why why would you lift-and-shift something? Yeah, if you're not improving it, right? Well, that would need auto-scaling for example, right, right, but the the one kind of scenario where it's kind of like, you know I like the the lift-and-shift model, which is really like We're just taking this this old golden image VM and now we're managing it in Kubernetes through like Kupferd or whatever And it's like that kind of level of lift-and-shift I think makes a lot of sense because you can kind of get to that single pane of glass stuff, you know and all that jazz But you're not actually Changing much about the application itself, right? You know, and then you wait for the next like Logical round for when you would do the you know rearchitecture or whatever You know if you ever need to maybe you just end of life that particular piece of software Who knows that might happen as well? Yeah, but yeah to answer the question like precisely it's It's new stuff. It's like always I would even say a hundred percent. I haven't seen any lift-and-shift scenario Yeah, there's one. Okay. Let's say 90 95 percent Right, right. Well, and but I think that also gives you an advantage in your How you're working with those teams, right? Because those teams are expecting to be building new and therefore learning new And they're probably really excited about building new And so I think that also helps your kind of adoption connection. Yes. Yes, exactly. Yeah, exactly When it comes to the different business domains of an enterprise like an OEM You have shop for systems obviously and you have a lot of legacy systems There's some modernization going on in all the places So it's not only about software creating software creating digital services. Sometimes it's also about Migrating an entire factory to a new system and Managing IOT devices So the use cases are very very diverse and in this kind of field we're more in a consulting role We don't do these kind of platforms ourselves. We don't manage them ourselves We focus really on the multi cloud multi-ten public cloud multi-tenancy use case With our own platform, but as a competent center we consult other platforms and their Emerging state or in their planning phase. We are supporting enterprise architecture management. We're supporting portfolio management like everything an enterprise needs in terms of know-how about Infrastructure and Kubernetes and cloud native technologies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was gonna kind of ask you I wanted to do a quick shout-out for the car though Like I am so impressed the sight lines on this car because you know It's like when I'm trying to take a there's one of these turns that I take where there's basically a bike lane right next to me And like I can actually see in the mirror. Yeah, clearly where their bikes are and I you know, I just the design is Amazing, isn't it? Yeah, it's really it's really nice. So sorry, but I was gonna ask you the and so do you You know, what is the magic for how do you know when? They belong in which of those environments Is it is it a lot of talking is there a fact you have somewhere that tells you the answer? Because I'm sure there's a lot of people who would like that We've been trying to like make a matrix out of where you can go through and see where you might belong to But we found out this is This is not very good because people then Tell other people they know what they want and we can't ask them the free wise Okay, because often People really tell you Very precisely what they want, right, but they're completely on the wrong path Right by their order. So like ordering a peanut butter and they're allergic to it, right? Yeah, so and that happens actually quite often because they're not very deep into these technologies so what we're doing here is We talked to each and every project and Or platform initiative on their business goals. We really consult them in product management That's that's what I do. I pre-qualify them in their requirements before they even talk to engineers. Okay. Yeah this is super important actually because We need to find out why they're doing stuff in the first place and then What happens most of the time and I'm really honest here is that I tell you we already got that talk to him Yeah, yeah They've many initiatives access because the company's so big and we didn't know we already have it, right? Yeah, and there needs to be that Couple of guys that just know the people and just pinpoint you to it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I totally got I said the The you know the the client that already or the person who already knows the requirements and you know knows exactly the answer And then he's completely on the wrong path, you know, like I've mentioned many times before I spent a long time in consulting Yeah, and getting you know giving the customer or whoever to stop giving you the solution and instead tell you the problem Yeah, you know a huge part of the the conversation in the office very difficult That's that's a nice turn around to the transformation people first. Yeah. Yeah It's interesting All right, well, thank you so much Sebastian and for the car obviously We really you know really appreciate and I think it's been a lot of fun So yeah, like your nice little tour of Amsterdam nowhere near as exciting as when you when you drove over here But from a driving experience It's just nice being in the car with the massage I haven't even attempted to figure out the console All right, well totally thanks again really appreciate it and yeah so much


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