Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers' road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. This time reigns slashing a glass roof, an old man's curiosity, and an imaginary imp out of place. They all became important when two people died violently so a third could make a killing. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most famous character in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Fatted Calf. The first film of the season came as a surprise. It always does in LA where somehow or other people are never ready for it. It's funny in a town where people are ready for anything. Where every year the opening slash of lightning stands nerves on edge and cracks composure like it was so much dreaded in China. And by five o'clock in an afternoon of driving rain in thick gray sky, I was no exception. There wasn't help any by the arrival of a special delivery letter. A hundred dollar bill in clothes which dragged me out of my suddenly cozy office, into my car and over to Studio City in the San Fernando Valley. Where, according to the letter, Junia's Poppy, the veteran cartoonist and creator of the impish Peter Pageant comic strip, wanted to see me at once. But as I wound up the spiral of McCatham Cole's Sun Sweat Drive toward number 3840, I forgot about the storm around me and wondered instead about the man I was going to meet. Wondered just how many parts pixie the originator of a half leprechaun, half very funny human being who tickled the nations that direct funny bomb daily from coast to coast was going to be.  Junia's Poppy had to be small, slight, delicate and maybe self-effacing but certainly pleasant. Mr. Marlar? How wrong can I be? Can you? Oh, Mr. Poppy. Yes, of course. Come in. Come in. You're getting wet. Follow me. Don't touch anything. You're soaked. Junia's Poppy was tall, heavy-set, gruff and a crab. I dripped little puddles of water behind him through a long hall into a studio which was a half a dozen easels under twice as many fluorescent lights and a litter of Peter Pageant drawings everywhere. Then while Mr. Poppy did not often drink cigarette or even chair, I became resourceful. I took off my own coat, dropped it in a corner where it sloshed into a disgruntled heap and I defiantly lit a cigarette and started to... Please, I despise tobacco. Oh, excuse me. Now first, Mr. Marlar, a few facts. I have been drawing Peter Pageant for 27 years but unlike most of the syndicated cartoonists, I employ no staff. We use no material, allow nothing to be published that I haven't created personally down to the last stroke of the pen. However, I do have an assistant who serves two purposes. One, he inks in the balloon. What? The circle is where the words go. Oh. And two, and more important, he watches me work daily so that when I'm gone... Oh, yes, even cartoonists die now. Peter Pageant will continue uninterrupted. My assistant is named Sid Cagan. And he, to be more exact, his wife, Louise, is the reason I'm hiring you. Twice I open my mouth to ask a question but twice he waved the question aside. So, liking him less by the minute, I listened to him tell me what for the past week Cagan had been. First preoccupied, then upset and finally rebellious. Poppy, a bachelor who didn't want to lose a good man because of anything as trivial as a marital problem, had investigated and learned that Louise Cagan had spent a week in San Francisco recently. But he hadn't learned any more because an appointment he had made with her to talk it all over since the sleuthing was not subtle, hadn't quite come off. It was the day before yesterday, Marla. We were to meet at a cocktail lounge. I was early and so I saw her come in and sit down. She's the type of tall brunette you don't miss. I was about to start toward her when she suddenly leaped from her table and hurried out of the place. For no reason. Please don't interrupt me, Marla. Of course you had a reason. Hmm. She was frightened at the sight of a man approaching her. Oh, he was very ugly. Pat and leather hair, solid complexion, eyes that belonged on a hawk. He followed her out, but she got away from him. And then he disappeared too. And Louise hasn't called you since to explain? Until late last night, no. And then she apologized and lied about why she didn't show up. Forgot she said. Casual-like. Overly casual-like, Mr. Manor. Please don't touch those things. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, no. We made another appointment for 6.30 tonight at a different place. An artist hang out called the Talisman and likeish him. This time, Marla, I want you to go in my place. Perhaps my approach is too mechanical. There's just a chance. Now, Mr. Poppy, a few questions. First, the Kagan's home address. 717, Magnolia Balovac. 717. And Kagan himself. He's still working for you regularly? Yes. Although he called this morning, said he was sick. Now, please ask your questions quickly. I must return to my work. Peter Pageant's schedule, four frames a day, hasn't been interrupted in 27 years. Oh, here. This might interest you. Here. Take a look at this. The last frame has a lot of detail. Yeah, it has. Peter addressing the U.S. Senate then. It's cute. You always work in pencil and ink in later? Yes, yes, yes. Now, anything else? Yeah, there is, Mr. Poppy. The whole business. Kagan's problem. I mean, if it's only a case of a gal not being true to a guy, I quit and you get your dough back. I graduated from the over-the-transom class. There is Kagan is not the kind of girl who plays around. I know. What makes you so sure? Yeah, for one thing, an example. Maynard Roper? Who? Maynard Roper. He's an agent for Empire Features, a syndicate that handles my work. And though I extremely handsome, and what the ladies would call smooth, he got no place being, um, shall I say, attentive to Louise. I could tell I observed. Now, satisfied? For the moment, I can still play that Roper just wasn't her type. I'll call you later, Mr. Poppy. Goodbye. And don't bother showing me out. I can find the way myself. Impulse number one said nuts to the funny on paper only, Mr. Poppy. But impulse number two said quiet, Marlowe. It's the storm that's making you jump in. There's a hundred dollar bill in your pocket. So I got into my car and drove the mile and a half to 717 Magnolia Boulevard, where I figured I'd look over the Kagan home grounds before it was time for me to show you the talisman. As I drove past the place, I saw there was a light in the living room, and a woman, roulette and attractive, who was no doubt the lady of the house, paging through a magazine. And things stayed like that each time I came around the block. 20 minutes later, when I parked in front of a nearby corner drug store to get cigarettes, I forgot the lady of the house because getting out of a parked car in front of me was a man with shallow complexion and eyes borrowed from a hawk, easily seen by the rain splash light from the display windows. And when he hurried inside into a phone booth, I saw the patent leather hair Mr. Poppy had already described. And he got his call through and turned his back to the street. I moved quickly to his car, opened the front door, and read the name and address on the owner's car strapped around the steering wheel. It was Bert Slack, 200 Central Avenue, San Francisco, California. The city in which Louise Kagan had recently chosen to spend a week. A clock on the dashboard reminded me it was 6.15 in time to head to my rendezvous with the talisman. But a little voice deep inside said Mr. Bert Slack shouldn't. So, for what it was worth, I reached under the dashboard and yanked the ignition wire. And I got back into my car, hoping to gain 10 minutes to head it to out the club on Lancashire Boulevard. Soda, sir, keep the rain from soaking all the way through, you know. Hey, yeah, all right. Another scotch and soda. Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute. That lady there, the one in the blue cape just came in. Oh, yeah. Ask her to come over to Mr. Poppy's table. Will you? We'll order then. All right, sir. Keep the rain from soaking all the way through. Isn't that awful? Here, I'm awfully sorry. I'm late. Junies, I... Oh, excuse me. Waiter, you've made a mistake. No, no, Mrs. Kagan, the mistake was mine on purpose. You wouldn't have known me by name. Which is what? Phillip Marlowe. I'm a friend of Junius's. He was tied up with his work tonight and asked me to keep his date for him. Like a drink? No, thanks. I haven't got the time. But why didn't Junius call me or leave a message here? I don't know. Perhaps he forgot her.  Perhaps he called my place after I left and called here. Waiter. Yes, ma'am? Will you please check with the captain and see if anyone left a message for Mrs. Kagan, please? Yes, ma'am. And on your way back, two scotch and sodas, huh? Yes, ma'am. Now, just a minute, Mr. Marlowe, I've already said no.  Why? Because Junius told me that my meeting with him would be personal. And since he's gone far enough out of his way to even call me on the telephone about it, it must also be important to him. It is. As important to him as, say, San Francisco is for you. So you're not really a friend of Junius's, Poppy? Not buddy, buddy, no. But I am a friend of Bert Slacks. You know Slacks? Yeah.  Our drinks are coming. Two scotch and sodas. Just a thing to keep the rate. I already said that once, didn't I? Yes, you did. Yeah, well, two scotch and sodas just like you ordered. Oh, and no message for you, Mrs. Kagan. Thank you. Mr. Marlowe, you know about San Francisco. You know about Bert Slacks. And somehow or other, you know I was supposed to meet Junius's Poppy here, and he couldn't make it. So why don't you just sit here and think it out all by yourself, huh? I'm going. Come back here. Let's go of my arm. When I'm ready, gentle lady, which might be right now, don't you think? Maynard, thank heaven you're here. I usually am, Louise. Well, my good man, have you reached a decision? About the young lady's arm, I mean. Let go. Maynard, please see that he doesn't follow me. It'll be a pleasure, Louise. What are we drinking, Mr. ... Marlowe, Marlowe. Scotch and soda. I wonder what keeps that from soaking through. Maynard Roper, the handsome syndicate agent, Junius Poppy, a tag very smooth, was also very snide. When he slid into the booth next to me and we each had a fresh drink while Louise Kagan put distance between us. I knew that the urge I had to punch him in his finely chiseled, grishing nose could not be blamed on the stormy weather. It would be just as much fun on a sunny day. A couple of minutes later, when he got up flashed, glistening up as in lows at me and started to leave with a worst in snide, bye-bye, boy. I had to hold on tight. Somewhere along the line, I slipped. Hey, Roper, you forgot something. What is it? This. There you go. Also, you didn't thank me for your drink. It was rude of you. Bye-bye, boy. Outside, I felt better. As I walked around to the alley behind the club where I parked my car, I noticed that the rain tightened up to a drizzle. It was about ready to call it quits. At a corner of the sky, I already showed dark blue with a single star front and center. I didn't notice until I was in line with my front fenders was company on hand. I've been waiting for you. It was so. With wide-open eyes that flashed something close to a stereo, the length of a long, thin arm that was pointed at me and trembled while I hand-awkwardly held a gun for what had to be his first time. I am Sid Kagan. I want to know why you're following my wife, what you have to do with her. I do know that you are private detective and that your name is Phillip Marlowe. That juniors' copy hired you. That much I found out. And you ought to be able to put the rest together yourself.  Juniors is worried about you, Kagan, because you won't turn a word about your wife. Look, he wants to help you all the way around. I don't believe you. I only believe that people are bothering you.  I want to protect her. All right. Take a look at this picture and see if you can tell me whether or not this is one of those you say you're molesting her. Picture, let me see. I can't. It's only a calling card, Kagan. Don't give me that scum. Sure. With a clip out. Here. I'll also give you some advice.  The most you can do to help.  Go on. All right. I'll go. But remember, Marlowe, I am still going to protect my wife. Yeah, I'll remember, Kagan.   Stand still, Marlowe. I'm no amateur. Oh, fine. I wouldn't bother looking under the hood, either. We're now even. One torn ignition wire deserves another, hmm? Well, Mr. Slack. Isn't that 38 been waiting long? Long enough.  Now that's interesting. I'm a private eye, too. Really? You find crumbs in every profession. Where do we go from here? No place. It's a team, anyhow. I'm finished. I've done my little job. I'm leaving town. The personal business that brought me here is over and done with. All's well. You'd be smart to look at it that way yourself, Jack. Yeah, brilliant, brilliant. We'd go over big with my client, wouldn't we? What's the difference how it goes over with your client now? Why don't you read the papers? Meaning what? The latest edition here, catch. And read. Don't use poppy. Out loud, Marlowe, please. Bound dead in the studio city home. Creator of Peter Pageant shot the death. Mm-hmm. Surprised, huh? Yeah. Plenty. No, that's too bad. But I guess you'll get over it. Why do you walk all the way down this alley without turning around? Go on. Move, Mr. Marlowe, as directed. Goodbye. In a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first, you'll say, where is the time gone when you listen to Club 15, the great quarter-hour show of Melody Song and Pat are starring Dick Hames with the Andrew Sisters, Evelyn Knight and the Modernaires. You'll like singing host Dick Hames. You'll like song stars Evelyn Knight and the Andrew Sisters. In fact, you'll like everything about Club 15. Listen every weekday evening over most of these same CBS stations. Do the show that you love best of all. Listen carefully, here's the address. It's CBS, CBS, CBS. Now with our star Gerald Moore, we return to the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story, The Fatted Calf. When the man named Slack with a coat of ethics to match said walk, I walked. By the time I'd taken ten steps, I knew that he was already gone, so I went back to my car, cursed my way through a fast repair job on the wiring and headed to my late client's studio again. When I got there, the usual messy routine of cameras, tape measures and notebooks was still in progress and I was about to go inside. I changed my mind when I saw Louise Kagan step blithely out the door and walk almost jointly over the flagstones that led from the house to the parking area. Hey, Louise, wait! Oh, you again? Well, what do you want? Just one good morbid reason why you're not making with tears over what's inside. I never lost any love in there. If I pretended I had, it wouldn't fool anybody for five minutes. Nobody liked Junius Poppy and I was no exception. I'd go real easy with that kind of talk from now on if I were you. What's that crack supposed to mean? That not later than tomorrow morning your husband Sid will take over Peter Pageant completely. So? So you struck gold, Jury, and you got it made. Are you implying that I had something to do with Junius's death? Oh, I doubt that you pulled the trigger, baby, personally. There's a good solid connection and I'm going to find it. Is your husband inside with the police? No. I came here looking for him. He must be at home. How much of the cops know so far? Nothing except that Junius died between two and three hours ago. Look, why don't you trot in and ask them yourself, Quiz Master? I don't think they can help me. You see, I'm still interested in a big ugly question mark all wrapped up in San Francisco. And before I turn loose of it, I'll understand it, believe me. I'm going over to your place now to talk to Sid. Can I give you a lift? No, thank you. Suit yourself. I'll get there ahead of you and I might find something you wouldn't want me to know about. All right. I'll ride with you. Let's go. Let's do that. Get in. You know, I wouldn't have enjoyed it. It's a bit more than a hurt. You can drop the acid routine, Louise. I got a thick skin. Let's go inside. Now look, Marlo. Sid isn't home. I can see from here the lights are out. I only proved somebody turned a switch. Come on, open up. Come on. That's better. And since you're making yourself so at home, you might as well make yourself a drink. Hey, it's a good idea. Nice little bar you got here, honey. Always easy to talk with a drink in your... Hey, Louise, these papers on the table. Ever seen them before? What are they? Contracts, I'd say. Yeah. All filled out. Just waiting for Kagan's signature. So your husband is now a full-fledged big-time cartoonist. What do you know? Pretty fast work, huh? Just what do you... Creator of Peter Pageant's been dead not more than three hours and already a success as contracts are drawn up. No wonder Junius was bitter. Maynard Roper had those drawn up beforehand. Just in case. Yeah, just in case somebody's patience ran out. Could be your husband's. I want to talk to him. You're out of your mind. He's been here, baby, and not long ago, either. Here's his trench coat on the chair. What? Maybe he left again and maybe he didn't. Now, you take a look for the rest of the house and if you find him, tell him to come on out. There's still time to talk. Well, go on!  As I held the trench coat, I saw an interesting smudge on the elbow of the right sleeve. It was an imprint of the little cartoon character Peter Pageant in the exact pose I'd seen earlier. Peter Pageant addressing the United States Senate. It can only mean one thing. The right sleeve of the coat I was holding had been jammed down into a wedding on Junior's Papi's drawing board. Shortly after, I'd left his studio at night. I was still looking at the coat when the weeds came back. She started to say something, but the doorbell interrupted and kept on interrupting, and finally she walked over and answered it. It was Bert Slike, the man from San Francisco. His face green and waxy would have worn the same look if he'd been falling out of a 10-story window and knew he couldn't hold on. He gripped the door casing with both hands like a slow-motion fireman sliding down a pole. Suddenly, he jerked up one hand and pointed at Louise. He turned his eyes at me and tried to speak. Then he took five sliding stumbling steps into the room and pitched headlong to the floor. The handle of a knife ringed by a patch of drying blood stuck out of his back between his shoulder blades. Oh, since you couldn't live there. You think he did it? Why, Louise? What's the reason? No, no, I didn't mean that. I'll get away. Get out of here. Not yet. Slike was a chief private eye from San Francisco, and you just got back from there. What happened at there, Louise?  No, not yet. I'll get away. All right, all right. Get hold of yourself. You're hysterical. Now, listen to me. Where does Roper live? Come on. Main at Roper. His address. 94 Addison Avenue. Your husband might be there, and I want to talk to him now more than ever. You're on your own, baby. Get good in hysterical if you want to. I'll see you. This avenue was a shell-like pine under ivy bungalow hiding behind 10 feet of manicured hedge and flanked by a small swimming pool that involved more chromium than water. The door opened in response to a deep-toned gown. I saw several thousand dollars worth of Chinese modern doodads behind the quilted silk-smoking jacket wrapped around Main at Roper. We're first glad they're helping have hated me, and then changed his mind and smiled. Well, hello, Mono. You seen our hot tempered Louise lately? Yeah, I just left her. She had the temper scared out of her when a guy died on a living room floor. How horrible. Yeah. This one had a knife in his back. He'd been carrying it for some time. Made it as far as Kagan's because he had something important to say, but he couldn't get it out. The name was Slack from San Francisco. I've heard of him. Slack? Why not? They tell me you've seen Sid Kagan recently. I mean, within the last hour? Yes, twice. Once when I took his new contracts to his place, and again when he came here to talk to him over, he left a few minutes ago. Say where he was going? No. Wait. He did say he intended to stop at a drug store. Which drug store? The one down the street, about a block. Oh, but look, Marlo, surely you don't really believe that Sid killed this man? I had a motive. Do you realize what you're saying? What have you got to go on, actually? As Slipper's wife made, and a Peter Pageant that turned up out of place. Well, he was no doubt hysterical. Under those circumstances, I'd be too. And that's what Peter Pageant. Don't forget that Sid's been practicing him for six years. He probably combs Peter Pageants out of his hair at night. Not this one. It was on a trench coat sleeve. I found it in Sid Kagan's living room. It was picked up from a wedding on Junior's Poppy's drawing board tonight. In fact, it was the last Peter Pageant Junior's drew before he was killed. That's what I've got to go on, Mr. Roper, so thanks and good night. I got in my car and drove fast till I found the drug store and then pulled up across the street from the place and watched. A cab was waiting out in front. When the door opened in the store, I started to get out, but stopped again as Sid Kagan, the collar of his trench coat, turned up high. And both hands thrust deep in its pocket, shouldered his way out, got in a cab and drove away. I sat there for a few minutes until the crazy logic of the crazy pattern finally sank in. And I turned and drove back toward 94 Addison. A few houses down the street, I parked out and after dropping my gun in my pocket, I left my hand curled around it and walked in past the chromium swimming pool up to the Pine and Ivy House and looked in. We deserted. I kind of started for a gait again, that was as far as I got. I'm not inside, Marlowe. I'm here behind you. Don't move. Automatic and all, huh? Didn't forget nerve enough to stick here and wait for me, Roper? I had no choice. Raise them up slowly and don't turn around. I'll take your gun first. Okay. Now get inside. So it was your trench coat I found at Kagan's, huh? You forgot and left it there when you took the contracts over. Yes. And when you told me about it, I followed you. I saw you spot Kagan still wearing his coat of the drugstore, and I knew then that you'd come back here after me. It's time still. Sure, sure. You know, you might have gotten away with old Junius Poppy's murder because you were the only one with no motive, apparently.   He'd double-cross me or let the cat out of the bag the first time he got drunk. Blackmailers have to keep their secrets or they go out of business fast. With you, it's obvious that I have no choice. It's you or me. Yeah.  How'd you manage to cut in on what Slack knew? He tried to find out from me whether Sid loved his wife enough to pay to keep her out of jail and how much he could demand and expect to get.  Believe me, Chum, the idea of getting rid of Junius or Sid could get enough money to make Blackmailing him worthwhile was quite a switch. But one a good agent might think of. Stand still. Don't try for anything on that table. Why not? What are you saving me for? A more conversation? No. I just wanted to get my breath. I've had quite a day, remember? All right. Let's go now. Where? Out back to the garage. Go on. Yes, Marlowe. Baby, who are you? Marlowe. Is he dead? I don't know. I don't think so. You sure picked a sweet time to show up, baby. How'd you manage it? I was out there a long time listening. When I realized what was happening, I came in.  Well, once I killed a man unintentionally, I didn't want to do it again, even him. But tonight when I thought Sid had stabbed Bert Slack because of it, I couldn't stand it any longer. I came over to find you and turned myself in. A big question mark on San Francisco? Oh, there was a brawl. I got mixed up in it. A man had a gun and in the struggle, it went off and killed him. I was scared silly. I ran away, but Slack had seen the whole thing. He even got the gun with my fingerprints all over it. Well, that's that. Let's go, Marlo. Yeah. Okay, baby. Let's go. Two refills, please. Okay. That afternoon I said it's going to be a long night. Yes.  I can't realize it. Slack saw that Titan San Francisco got the gun with Louise's fingerprints on it and came here to Blackmail. That's right. He went to Ropa for information on you and Ropa was smart enough to pick it and cut in. Killed Junior so you'd get more money by taking over the strip and then... And then he and Slack began to fight between themselves and may not kill him, too. How can there be people like that? Same way there can be rattlesnakes, Black Widow spiders and cancers. Marlo, what is going to happen to Louise? I don't know, Sid, but she's got something now she didn't have before. What is that? You. You loved her all the time, but she didn't know what that meant. She does now. Folks, you might be finished with the police.  Yes, I guess I'd better. Good night, Bill. So long, Sid. As he crossed the street and went into police headquarters, I turned back to my coffee and thought about Peter Pageant, the impish, whimsical little character with a sly, annoying smile, half sad, half amused at the foibles of the world. Yeah, the world seems more and more to be made of haves, like that old song. How's it go? Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm blue, sudden storms and sudden calm. Maybe most of us are only half alive, huh? Take me, for instance.  And the other half? Yeah. There's always that other half. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, bringing you Raymond Chandler's most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy, star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by Norman McDonnell. 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I had the idea to do a very German thing at the beginning, so I wanted to start on time. Didn't work out, but it wasn't about me, it was about you. You weren't here then. All right, so we are running three minutes late, I think that's fine. I'd like to start with a question. Why do you program and review? Oh, actually, this is more an historic question. I want you to think about it, and not to answer it to me. I hope that one of your answers is because it's optimized for developer happiness. And if that is right, why is your tooling so shitty? I came up with a question on my own, because I found myself in this situation, and this is basically the story of this talk. So it's about chat robots and legs of a tooling. You can find me at coasters on Twitter. So if you got any feedback, especially the positive one, please just tweet me. Negative one, I'd rather likely to be a receiving person. As developers, we are hanging around in chat rooms since ever, but why do we do it? I think, no, let me phrase it this way. I'd like to start, or I'd like to answer this question with a quote. This one is from Chris Wandsprout, CEO of GetUp, and he said, if you have a sick day, you're not going to miss everything if your communication is set up to be distributed. I think this is one very good reason to hang around in chat rooms. I don't know if you have ever experienced that as well, but if you're not in the office one day and the more you're relying on mediums, which are replayable, the less likely you're going to miss something important. Like most of the companies in the world, my company is not GetUp. So we are not completely distributed. We have a branch office in San Francisco, our headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, and we have one office in Tokyo. So we are distributed as well, but we are not like all over the world. We are just a little bit distributed in three different locations. But still, if I'm sick, I don't want to miss something which is going on in the office. When I joined Jim Nu, I found a repository which is named admin server scripts. This one should rather be a human scripts collection, but all of a sudden it was a big collection of batch files. It does all different things regarding servers, adding new ones, deleting ones, all kinds admin related. Chat rooms are awesome. And chat rooms are awesome for three main reasons. And my first reason is their asynchronity. So chat rooms are asynchronous. What does it mean? I think for us developers, it's pretty clear what asynchronous communication means, right? If you want to know something from me and I'm focused working, I do not want you to interrupt me. Very unlikely, other people, especially product manager, knows that. So they're very likely to just disturb you while you're in the tunnel, right? You're very focused working. And then, you know the situation?  And they think they are so friendly, not tapping on your shoulder, but they are annoying as hell, just waiting there, tipping with a feed. Oh my god. So this is synchronous communication, and this is so annoying. So chat rooms take that part away from us. You can ask me something, and I can come back to you if I'm ready answering. Second reason, chat rooms are persistent. So whatever you write, I can read whenever I want to. If you're using the more hip toolings, like Slack or HipChat, you can even search whatever was up later or was up before. On other solutions, your client might implement that as well. So and actually, the third reason is chat rooms make you collaborate better. And this is the most important thing for this talk. So you can collaborate with your coworkers.  On the other hand, we are putting more and more services into the web, right? We are all, I think, most of us are web developers. So this kind of clashes, right? So we are so used to chat, but then we are moving everything into web. And I think this is OK because not everything fits into the chat pattern. Some things might require a slider, radio buttons, checkboxes, or this stuff you do not have in chat, like deployments. There are so many good deployment tools out there, but most of them are somehow bound to a web interface. Deployment error from Etsy is bound to a web interface. Or even worse, tools like Capistrano, they utilize the shell or bash. This is not collaborative at all. I like to talk about incidents. So beside the fact that I'm a programmer at my company, I did ops and on-call for about a year at Gymnu. So I want to share my experience. I'm about alerting and monitoring. So what happens if there is an incident? Usually people SSH into a machine and then based on their experience and their knowledge, querying log files, and making assumptions based on what they know and based on their experience. Then they come back to the chat and report their assumptions. So you have no idea how they made those assumptions, how they could conclude to that. So they still come back to the chat, but you're missing an important part. And then we have tools like Nages. Do you know Nages? I think it's even written in something really crude. I don't know, it's nothing hip. And it considers itself as a web app, but it's still using frames. So I don't know, this is just a crazy thing, but it's still in the web. So I can use it with more or less good in a browser. You can't copy URLs. So if you ever use that, you cannot copy URLs because it has a frame set. Oh my god, that's so shitty. Anyway, so we are talking about, on the one hand, we have this chat stuff. And on the other hand, we have this web. So both is cool. So we need something to bridge the technologies together, the web and the chat. Here, Hubert kicks in. Who of you have ever heard about Hubert? That's almost half of the audience. It's cool. So Hubert is written in JavaScript and I'm running a node on the V8 engine. And for this talk, I like to take Hubert just as an example. There are similar chat robots, like Lita or Twig, written in Ruby, so RubyConf, so Lita and Twig on Ruby based on Ruby. But for this talk, I like more to talk about the basics concept of a chat bot. So it's not about the language they're written in. Hubert is a bridge between everything which happens outside of the chat and tries to bring it back to the chat. Imagine all your deployments can be triggered from the chat, your alerts suddenly arrive at a central place, also your chat. When these things lands in your chat rooms, that brings several advantages. First, sharing is caring. Everything is directly shared with your coworkers. Let me tell you a little story of Jim Ngu. So when we have a big farm or service, likely 300 of them, and when one is down and has an outage, our support staff is dropping in and asking what is going on with that server. If our tool would report into the chat room, they could just hang around there and they would know if the server is up or down. I have a demo on that later on as well. Also, it's preserved history, right? Everything is recorded. Everyone can search for recent outages or posting or imagine your tooling or your chat bot could posting links directly to your Yammer or whatever you use for your communication. Directly linking to the corresponding chat line. And my favorite feature, collaborating. You have a direct place to collaborate. So let's think about the example of a server outage I mentioned before. The server is down. What we had before, everyone was like SSH'ing into the machines and then pulling stuff out of there. But now if you have the tooling in the chat room, you could ask your chat bot for the corresponding log lines and then you can make assumptions right in the chat with your colleagues together. So they would know what kind of files you were asking for. I think this is a super powerful tool and you could easily pull log lines with Hubot and then you can make this assumptions together. Teaching by doing. This is a quote from Jesse Newland. He gave a talk and Ruby Fuza last year. It's called ChatOps by GitHub. You will find a link to this video at the end of my deck if I upload it later. And I think this pattern of doing it collaboratively in the chat is a really cool thing to onboard people. This is a war room. This is another war room. This is the old war room of GitHub HQ2, as far as I know. And I want to symbolize a certain chat pattern which is again related to all this op stuff because I did this for quite a while. So when there's an incident and you can judge by the incident or by the error message, what is that the problem is kind of a bigger one. You're going to open up a new chat room, gather everything who can contribute something in this chat room and then you can fix it together so people who are interested in this pattern or in this incident can just join and silently watch whatever is going on and check whatever is up. And even later people could have the possibility to follow up and to check what was going on. And you can use this transcript of the chat for a later post-mortem analysis. But enough about failures. I think one of the biggest reasons why Hubert is around is for fun.  This is pretty cool. So imagine everything Node can do. TCP, HTTP, network, email, it's up to you. Everything you can do with Node, you can do with your chatbot. You can give it a chat interface and work on that together with your colleagues. In my old company we did a pretty cool hack. This is what it looked like. So what you see here is an Adreno, a breadboard and our door buzzer.  I don't know, we were programmed to be lazy. So what we did is we connected this Adreno to the door buzzer and then we wrote or a co-worker of mine back then wrote a script which you could consider as an HTTP server. Whenever after the TCP handshake the next line was HTTP something get slash we would consider this as a valid request and then open the door with a bot. So what we did was we were putting an HTTP interface to our door and with that we could write all kind of apps. So we had an Android app, an iPhone app, a bookmark led and Mac status bar bookmark led, app led, whatever and I wrote a script for our bot. So our bot could basically open the office door. This was pretty cool. If you're interested in this particular kind of stuff it's still open source and get up and you can find this also at the end of this stack. It turned out that my old CDO really loved this setup. So when he joined this next company he created an improved version of that but it's basically it's still running the same code and it's just a better case and without the breadboard. All that is done with the power of CoffeeScript and with that everyone can easily extend it. That is the basic part of Hubot. There are tons of scripts already available, pre-built but due to the fact that it is all CoffeeScript or JavaScript everyone can contribute pretty easily. So customizing your bot is easy. You don't need to be a CS computer engineer. If you know how to get a few lines of JavaScript working you can make it work and you can write your own scripts. You don't need the most freaked out software architectures for this. It's just 10 lines of JavaScript and you can make something work. I wanted to show you how a basic Hubot script looks like. So as good engineers we start with the documentation. This part is pretty, it's necessary because Hubot uses that to generate the documentation. So you need the description, dependencies, configuration, commands, nodes and the order whatever who does documentation anyway. But then this line is pretty important. You have to fetch the instance of a Hubot. You do it with a module exports and then you get the instance of the bot. Here we're going to start. Here we can do this very first interaction with the bot. I'll use some sex read through code. I mean it's pretty easy, right? At the first line you see robot.here. So whenever someone is writing something badger he would actually just send out line two. And the next, the robot.respond is for direct commands to the bot. So you have to write Hubot open the damn doors for example and then he would actually reply almost a second line. Over the first. Hubot also has an HTTP interface which is pretty cool for all kind webhooks. So imagine Travis CI or GitHub, everything which basically has a webhook can communicate to your bot and then in your chat room. Think your application can also do this. Your application could report with this webhooks to the bot and make some kind of magic happen. This is pretty cool as well. And it also has an event system inbuilt. This is to decouple components. I wrote this event system because there was one little thing which annoys me. So there's a command called ship it which actually just posting motivational squirrel. I want this command to actually ship my code. So what I did was just emitting the event and then everyone could just implement that deploy logic on their own in a different module. The only limit is your imagination. Think of how you could improve your team's workflow with automating things. You could run configuration management from chat, mitigating DDoS attacks from chat, querying logs or databases from the chat or display graphs. Whatever comes into your mind and whatever could improve your team's workflow could be done from the chat and you can get rid of all the shitty tooling you have somewhere else which is not collaborative in most of the times. So I also wanted to show something. Can we get this a little bit less noisy? Does it work? Okay, I think this works. So let's see. I hope the live demo gods are with me. My company last week while I was in San Francisco already switched to Slack. So I was talking to our admins to keep our old hip chat open because I didn't have the time to move our chat bot over. So here's the gym bot, which is our keyword. Let's start with some very basic commands. So I want the bot to image me RubyConf. What's that? Sorry, good point. All right. Okay, so I asked the bot up here to image me RubyConf and then he's replying with an image link. So I have to write this at gym bot, which is his actual name and then I could write the command. So let's try it again. Sometimes it's a different image, sometimes not. So here you see it's a different image. I hope I have some stuff set up here. Okay, so you could also, and this is one of my favorite features. You might guess what's happening now, right? So you could ask the bot to mustachify one of your coworkers or anyone else. This was funny though. The first time I tried this, this was working all the time and now it works sometimes. Another feature and now we're getting to the parts we wrote on our own. When I having a discussion in a channel, I could ask my coworkers on what is going on with this ticket and then posting the link and Hubert will check that this is a link to our issue tracker and then hopefully he will reply with the issue title.  So he's just replying on what the issue is about even if there's just a link. This also works the other way around but I think we have disabled it. So if he found an issue number, he might look it up and then reply back. But again, I think we have disabled it because it happened in a different channel. So we have this bots channel here and it happened that these bots started to talking to each other. Because the Jenkins bot was reporting that there was something wrong and then Hubert replied and oh my God, that's why we disabled that. It's similar, another thing we did and that's one of the things I mentioned before.  So you could basically ask the bot what is the status of any given server. So in our web platform, everything has a default in a route which is slash common slash status which just reports HTTP status is back and based on that you can judge whether a server's health is good or not. So we can ask Jimbaud for this web server or we can also ask for this W server or we need an object there. So at least these two servers are up. I could bet there is something down at the moment but I don't know. Okay, the last thing I want to show is one of my favorite features. At Jimdu we are 180 people at the moment. We grew pretty fast and it happened that there were people hired, I have no idea who they were. So it happened that people walked into our office and told me oh, you actually have to talk to Ila about that and I'm like who's that? So I can ask our bot who's Ila and he will actually post me an image, hopefully. Yay, so there's Ila, she's one of the Spanish team. So this works not only for Ila so I want to prove that it's actually not a fake thing. Also for our founders for example or also for me but for me I have to use my last name because this, oops, this script isn't like too intelligent because if I just search for my first name it would actually find Johanna Zulike sometimes and because my name is, my first name is part of her name whatsoever, this is complicated but actually this was pretty useful for most of us and this is also one of the most features we have at our bot. Presentation view, I don't see anything, what about that? Good, okay this was just to give you an idea on what you actually can do with your bot. Again, it's just programming, it's just node so whatever you can do with node you can actually implement in your bot and give it a chat interface. Developers love tooling, so we tend to spend a good amount of work time with this and I think this is not necessarily bad and I think this is also what is awesome about Node.js because Node.js is JavaScript and with JavaScript it unites different backend and front end programming languages so in the JavaScript community there are people out of the Ruby community but also of the Python community, the PHP community and whatever you can think of, whoever does web and now even more people who are not related to web they are all uniting in this community and everyone is bringing in his or her best tools which I think is pretty neat and this is pretty unique to this language. I have another quote. This one is from Garin Means and she wrote a blog post about tooling. We need more engineers and more productive engineers. We don't need to send people on quests through the dark woods of our issue tracker. When I started at a company my first two questions are what is your issue tracker and what is your chat program? At Gemnu these answer were our issue tracker is track and the chat program was jubber. Somehow I still joined out of other reasons obviously but for me this are very important questions. These are the tools I work the most with and even if we don't want to admit that but as developers we are spending not the amount of time we want to and our editors, right? We spend a lot of our times with communicating people. So our issue tracker and the chat software are pretty important pieces in the whole workflow. So I wanted to share also the challenges we had in implementing this company-wide chat workflow with everyone. And I think the hardest challenge was and still is to get everyone on board also the non-technical people. Because for technical or people with a technical background it's pretty obvious that chat programs are cool and asynchronous communication is cool and the fact that I do not have to reply instantly is a cool thing but for other people they might prefer the way that they have direct replies when they just step up to you and asking you questions. So this is also a thing we are still fighting with and sending people away would be so stupid, right? Imagine I'm working on something and they interrupt me and then it would send them away and say, no, no, no, you have to write me on chat and this would be so stupid and we obviously don't do that, right? So it's kind of hard to educate them. But we really want to do that or I really want this to happen. So my idea is to make this chat as attractive as possible with all this little neat things the chatbot can do so that the people actually want to do this as well.  You can document your deployments, coordinate your work and have a ton of fun with these chatbots. So that's a pretty cool thing. My name is Ole Michieles. I'm a web nerd from Hamburg working with Jim Doe and you can find me at COSAS. That's all I got. Thank you very much.


from theCUBE studios in Palo Alto and Boston. It's theCUBE, covering IBM Think. Brought to you by IBM. Hi everybody, welcome back to theCUBE's continuous coverage of IBM Think 2020, the digital version of IBM Think. Wendy Whitmore is here, she's the vice president of IBM X-Force, threat intelligence. Wendy, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me, I'm excited to be here. Yeah, you're welcome, with a name like X-Force, I mean that is killer name. Tell us about X-Force, how are you protecting us? Yeah, we get a lot of interesting questions. So my team is responsible for a pretty wide range of things, they range from incident response. So when you think of data breaches, typically organizations will call an outside firm and we'll jump on a plane and respond to threats on site. Obviously right now we're jumping on a bit fewer planes but we still are helping our customers investigate data breaches and we are on site when needed. We also have a team of threat intelligence analysts and researchers who are experts in a wide range of fields from geopolitical issues to cyber related issues to industry specific. And then we've also got a team that does data breach simulations in a very immersive environment. We've got facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts as well as within Europe. And now of course we're bringing all of those virtual as well. So really anything that helps our clients respond more effectively to a data breach is something that we do. So X-Force is traveling right now on empty planes I presume. We are as needed. So many clients have certainly shifted to where their whole environments are offsite and working remote as well. But we still have clients who are asking us to work on site and in those cases we have added in new protective gear to our go bags which are usually equipped with hard drives and disk imaging software and passports and now we have some additional equipment to bring as well. And that breach simulation that you talked about. So that's what like a penetration test or then similar type of activities? Yeah, great question. No, it's actually an immersive environment where we go in and actually simulate an entire breach for our clients. So everything from the initial attack, how they would do the data analytics to things like how do they respond to the press and inquiries from the press about the breach? How do they do media training? How do they work with their legal counsel? So it's really a comprehensive, immersive environment that simulates kind of the heart pounding that occurs when you actually respond to a data breach. Well, that's awesome. I mean, best practices in communications as well, maybe PR, I mean that is obviously maybe something that's often overlooked but something that you guys are applying best practice to. It's such a huge piece of it now, right? Our organizations are not always graded just on the breach itself, but more so on how they respond and how they communicate. The good news is in that scenario that you can communicate effectively about a breach and you can have something pretty negative that happens to your organization. But if you respond well and you communicate really effectively to your clients and to the public, we've seen time and again that those brands actually have no reputational damage. And if anything, their clients trust them even more moving forward. We were early on in reporting the, just trying to measure the budget impact of COVID-19 but we were early in reporting the work from home shift about 20% of the CIO organizations that we surveyed actually spending more or explaining to spend more. But many weren't prepared for this work from home. They had to really beef up and not just adding licenses of video collaboration software but the security for sure, VPN infrastructure, et cetera. So can you talk a little bit about how clients have responded, how you've helped them respond to that shift? How has the threat matrix changed? Well, so in terms of the attack surface, you mentioned there's a lot more people working from home, right? So what we've got is over 220 million people in the United States, over one billion people in India alone that are now working from home. So as you can imagine, that attack surface has really increased from an attacker perspective, right? And coupled with that is that since March 1st, we've already seen a 6,000% increase in coronavirus related spam. So you've now got this larger attack surface that organizations need to protect against and you've got an increase in threats and threat activity that is attacking them. So from that perspective, you know, pretty difficult for CIOs who are used to defending an environment that may be more on site and now have this really wide range of attack surface, certainly more difficult for them to respond to. The other thing that we've seen, so one of the things that's super critical in these types of situations is to have an incident response plan and to make sure that you're testing it. So in our work that we've done both with our incident response teams as well as with the teams that train clients and how to respond to breaches more effectively, we've seen that 76% of organizations don't actually have a consistently tested or applied incident response plan and one in four have no plan at all. So I will say that in terms of how we're working with clients, the first thing that any organization can do right now is actually have a plan and test it. So if you're starting from scratch, it's really as simple as putting words on paper, understanding how you're gonna get ahold of your critical team members, having a backup plan in place for communication strategies if your primary infrastructure goes offline. So making sure you know how to get ahold of your personnel. If you're more mature, then what we're really encouraging our clients to do is have a variety of scenarios that they're testing against and make sure that they're running through those. So a great one to practice right now would be a ransomware attack. In particular, how does your organization respond effectively to it? What do you do when you get the initial notification? Do you have critical and sensitive data that's backed up offline and not always connected to the network? If so, you're gonna be in a much better spot to effectively defend against those attacks and limit any of the negative impact to them. So a couple of things I want to follow up and so what I heard was you got more fragile work from home infrastructure and you've got somewhat well, significantly more vulnerable users. I've often said bad user behavior is going to trump good security infrastructure every time. So you've got many more opportunities for the bad guys to get in. And so I'm hearing that RET response is now more critical than ever. It's always been critical. I mean, the communication to the board has been, hey, chances are we're going to get infiltrated. We got to find it fast and it's really about response, incident response. We can build modes, we can build layers but we have to plan for that response. And so it sounds like that's something that maybe is heightened as a result of this COVID-19 crisis. Oh, it absolutely is. I think it's now more critical than ever. I think there's two approaches, right? So one of them would be improvising through chaos which we don't necessarily encourage, right? There's a difference between that and really managing through disruption. And that's what we're encouraging our clients to do is look at how we can create sustainable processes and procedures. You may have a very well-established team that does response but perhaps they haven't worked remotely before, right? So that means testing those procedures now taking them to a scenario where everyone is remote. What does that mean? It may mean that you need to capture less data over the network because perhaps you just don't have the bandwidth or the capacity to do it. We've certainly looked at how we do that. How do we answer questions that are critically needed from an investigative perspective, for example, but without maybe all the resources that we would prefer to have. So what we're really looking at is kind of shifting in the way that we've managed through these. And then you mentioned that users who maybe sometimes make bad decisions, right? We're all guilty of that because especially with that increase in spam there's also been an increase in nation-state actors who are now sending out new lures and new attempts to get access to environments that are related to coronavirus. So we've got cyber criminals, nation-state actors, everyone, and we're now at home looking to effectively defend. So some things that organizations can do with that would be ensuring that they have multi-factor authentication on all remotely accessible systems. So devices, applications, anything that can be accessed remotely should have multi-factor authentication. That will help limit some of the impact. As it relates to spam, organizations should really be making sure they've got good email spam filtering systems in place. And if they have the capability to send out some test emails to their employees they should do that, right? We are getting them, I will say, RCIO in their office does it at least once a week where I know I'm getting a very well-crafted email and I have to really think twice. And it's really made me think differently about opening my email and making sure that I'm doing some due diligence, right? To make sure I know where the email's coming from. One of the things we do is also any external email is labeled external. So that way if it's a lure that, you know, it appears to be it's coming from another employee but it's actually coming from an external email address. That's another way to help users make some good decisions and really limit your attack surface and reduce the threat. I think the points you're making here are very important because if you think about the work from home cadence it's a lot different. You know, it's not, you're not nine to five. I mean, no work's nine to five anyway. But your hours are different. You got, oftentimes you got children at home. You got dogs barking, kids are, you know crawling all over us on the video. And so oftentimes there's, of course we're frenzied at work but there's a different kind of frenzy. So you might not be as in tune.  Right. Well, if you think about this from the viewpoint of an attacker all those scenarios you mentioned, right? Where you have a global pandemic. So we're not just talking about a regional threat like a hurricane or a tornado. In a case of a pandemic or any of these type of situations people are more likely to be reading the news be probably checking social media more often so that they can get an understanding of the latest news and information that may impact them. Right. So if you're an attacker you've got now this kind of environment of global chaos that's been created and you can use it to your advantage because the reality is as long as there's money to be made attackers are going to want to take advantage of that scenario. So what we're really talking about is as you're reading your work email as you're checking your personal email taking a step back slowing things down amidst all the distractions, right? The barking dogs and coworkers now that may be at your house also known as children, right? So we need to really take a step back and make sure that we are slowing things down reading and doing due diligence in opening emails that will help all of the CIO and CISO type organizations more effectively protect their organizations and their clients as well. When you talked about ransomware earlier and I inferred from your comments that, you know, best practice create an air gap but I'm wondering also can analytics play a role there just in terms of identifying anomalous behavior? What else can I do to protect myself from ransomware? Yeah, great question. So on the visibility side which I think is what you're talking about, right? How do we detect these types of attacks? There's lots of great software out there typically what we would want our visibility at the endpoints. So usually some sort of EDR tool which is an endpoint detection response tool that's going to allow us to, you know capture things like in the old days we would talk about antivirus software, right? And now you really have kind of next generation of antivirus software which also gives you behavioral analytics and actions on the keyboard. We want to be able to detect that in any size environment. So the more visibility we have into that the better but aside from just adopting new technology potentially there are best practices steps that we can take. And I mentioned earlier about making sure that you understand what is your most critical and sensitive data and that you've got it backed up. And a lot of times we go into environments and they say, well, yeah, we have backups this is great but what they're not realizing is that oftentimes those backups are connected to the network at all times. And in the case of a ransomware breach you typically then will see those backups corrupted as well and organizations will find themselves in a position where they say, well, we don't have any valid backups now that we can restore from in order to make sure that we have a safe environment. And so it's important that organizations understand and do a survey of what is their most critical and sensitive data and then make sure that's backed up offline. And I say that because it's not usually viable for organizations to have all of their data backed up offline, right? That costs a lot of money, that requires a lot of storage but to really look at prioritizing their environment their data within it and making sure that they can have access to that which is needed. And then ultimately that's going to prevent you even needing to have the conversation about ransomware because you still have access to that data. Okay, Wendy, I think you're making some really important points there that the tech obviously is critical. People are shifting to SD-WAN, securing endpoints, securing gateways, but really the processes are very, very important. And I'll just throw out an example. If I'm making a snapshot to the cloud, I'm not backed up. You better make sure that you understand how to recover from that backup because just that copy is not a backup. You need the proper type of recovery software and you need to test that, your thoughts on that. Yeah, that's absolutely true. So what we want to make sure is that during the course of a potential ransomware attack, right? That the most critical sensitive data is available offline. So I mentioned earlier that testing is one of the best things that we're recommending, right? One of the most effective preparations is having an incident response plan, testing it for particular scenarios. And so in this case, one of the other things that we talk about a lot is limiting the impact of a breach, right? Every organization is going to get attacked, especially in today's day and age where you've got a larger attack surface. The win is really limiting the impact of that attack and limiting the cost. And having an incident response plan and having a team of people, whether they're internal or external that are responsible for responding to attacks is the number one cost management, right? The number one decrease in cost is having access to that team. Typically it will save an organization over a million dollars when the average cost of a data breach is about $4 million. So that's pretty significant. And ultimately if we can test, as you mentioned, those backups that they are available in an offline scenario for the course of one of those IR program plans or tests, that's great. It's a win for the organization. They can ensure that that data is going to be available and it really helps them exercise that muscle memory in advance of an actual attack. Yeah, that's all. I mean, the backup corpus actually becomes a really even more important component now. This has been great information. Where can people go specifically as it relates to COVID-19? I mean, I want to go look up a checklist to make sure I've been scrambling to get my home workers up and running, get them productive. But boy, I really want to focus now on the things that I should be doing to button up my organization. Where can I go to learn more about this? Yeah, so there's so much great information out there, right? From everyone in the industry, but IBM is clearly no different. So what we've done is actually repurposed the IBM.com homepage where we've got a tremendous amount of information on COVID-19 and then IBMsecurity.com as well. Our team that focuses on breach response has in particular a site called X-Force Exchange where we're sharing indicators and we have a particular component that's related to COVID-19 specifically. And then lastly, we've got a free service which is a threat intelligence enclave that we are hosting with our partner TrueStar that is specific to COVID-19 where industry organizations can sign up and then share in real time threat indicators related to this and have really that intelligence that's been also qualified by their peers and many large organizations are using that to defend their environment. So a lot of great resources out there. Wendy, you're an amazing source of knowledge. Thanks so much for coming on theCUBE but thanks to the X-Force team, doing some travel when necessary and helping people really get a handle on this and this crazy crisis time. So thank you very much, I really appreciate it. You're welcome and certainly stay safe and thanks for having me on. Back at you. And thank you everybody. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE. You're watching our continuous coverage of IBM Think 2020 Digital Think. Right back, right after this short break.


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