Hello everyone welcome to the live stream. I am Robin. I am back from my Vacation was a vacation. I don't know it was You know my vacations are very difficult and stressful Let's see who's in the chat Layla's here. Hello Layla La Vanya. Hello La Vanya. How are you doing maize here Hendricks here? Eunice Hello Robin finally we got a new live stream here has been a while since the last live stream It's been a long time since the last live stream over a month I'm excited to see you too Layla did as cow. Do you feel these days? I feel fine sleep walker unexpectedly yeah, I Just a couple hours ago. Layla convinced me to do it raid hello, and yeah, I was a minute late because It's a little difficult Using the live stream is live stream equipment. So I had to remind myself how to use it So I am talking about my travel today. So If you have any questions about my travel now now and only now well not only now But now is the best time to ask about my travels Because I went to Saudi Arabia Oman Kuwait UA Baran Qatar and Philippines And I did meet some students around the world in those different countries Where did you take your photo of the thumbnail I don't remember at all I don't know I Don't know where I took that photo And sadly maze here. Hello Adam welcome Sammy. Hello. I like the lights on your silver play button. Well, that is not That's a light That's not the silver play button. That's the silver play button when I push it Nothing happens But when I push the gold button really nothing happens which Layla comes in which one of the Gulf States. Did you like the most I like United? Arab Arab Emirates UAE. I like that place the most because It's a very interesting place I enjoyed being there It's very easy for tourists very welcoming Easy to get around so I liked being there. That was the best place my second favorite place Would probably Be Oman. I wish I could do a little more hiking in Oman visiting in Oman But I didn't have enough time to stay in Oman. I really enjoyed that place like That so Dubai That's the best place in the Gulf States Dubai and I you know It's world famous and when I went to Dubai. I'm like, okay. I understand why Why Dubai is a world famous? It's a great place very interesting place to see greetings from Ethiopia. Well greetings. Welcome to the channel Which country people did you like? Well, you know every country Has the good people and the bad people and Every country had every one of those every country I've been to had friendly people People are nice around the world so all of those countries I have examples of friendly people But I also have examples of people that are not friendly Probably the country where I had to be very very very careful about strangers would be Saudi Arabia So I Had to be very careful there with the strangers, but I did meet a lot of nice people there including Layla What is the most different between all of countries the difference? Well, I I'm not Arab I'm not Muslim so I can't really See the smaller differences with languages or accents or things like that For differences How you know, I can only go by how they treat tourists or how they deal with the foreigner and Of course UAE They were perfect in how to deal with tourists and foreigner and I felt very comfortable there and Like that Again people are nice everywhere so, you know, they were humans and they treated me as a human Even though I'm very different so How they dress I can certainly see differences and how they dress How they work You know, I it's hard to answer these questions because they're just people people Trying to survive and feed their family and that's every country, right? But if I think of any more differences, I will certainly say something right Did Korea meet you at the cold weather? What do you mean? Yeah, Korea is pretty cold Lake really cold Trying to figure out why I'm getting WhatsApp notifications. What's up has turned off Korea's cold Korea is freezing the temperature now minus 100 degrees Celsius no minus what's the temperature now? Actually zero it's actually only zero degrees now the other day it was minus like 10 But the problem is we got pollution The air is very bad in Korea these days and we got wind and cold wind Wind is cold Rubicon. Hello Did you learn any Arabic words? No, I didn't learn Arabic words You know, I was very impressed that all of these countries Use English all of these countries use English better better than Korea So everywhere I went English was you know, every sign had English instructions English people whoever I talked to spoke English It was very easy and comfortable for me to move around Leila which country did you dislike of Gulf Gulf States the most? I Don't want to be negative because people live in these countries. So I did like all the countries. That's why I visit them They're all interesting for their own reasons I was disappointed in Specific not countries but specific areas of countries. I was disappointed And sorry Leila, but some parts of Saudi Arabia I Was in damn, ma'am. I loved it. I'll whoo-foo was okay Riyadh was okay, but when I got a little west to Medina and Jeddah there is You know, there's some stories. I don't want to I don't want to talk about on the live stream, but those places Didn't like so much there For reasons I can't really talk about on a live stream. What is the obstacle? Obstacle in your tribe. Well, I have no obstacle. There's a wall. I go through the wall Rain snow desert, whatever I I can handle. There's no obstacles for me Nothing blocked me. I went No problem. Hello Leila with an eye Ali hello, we need such an admirer. Thank you Ali Rum the sunny man. Hello.  Hello, I'm doing well. We got a few new people here. Welcome. Welcome. I just got back from travels visiting students Maybe I'll come visit you in the future And Leila says thanks Robin meeting you was one of my best moments. Yes Very special moment when I met Leila from our live stream here I Have you units is asking have you crossed any embarrassments funny moments or weird weird people doing your last trip? No Yeah, this is my trip sounds boring, but I did not Have too much trouble Except in Medina and Jeddah, but I I There's stories there, but I maybe I'll tell those stories of the WhatsApp group, but not on a live stream For the most part I Met normal people There was little miscommunication I didn't fight with anyone Yeah, it was a pretty I don't it was very interesting to me But to tell the stories of these trips. Yeah, nothing really Interesting happened like no there was no event other than meeting Leila or the other students. Those were big events So I guess the weird people would be Leila. She was a little weird Did you face any difficulties while dealing with people because of the language? No, there was no Language problem. Yeah, I did meet people who did not speak English but you know They were not scared to try and communicate with body language or in their language or you know You know, they can use an app and translate So, no, I would say no there was no problems Why is my what's my whatsapp has given me notices and I don't want any notices So I think what's that must have had some update I'm just gonna end no difficulties Here is about the same temperature. Yeah, cool. My house is cold I have the heater on below me and of course I have to dress. I'm very cheap I don't turn on the heat. So I got a heater here and when I go to bed I have an electric blanket Welcome Teacher, could you visit Iraq? Yeah, I will try to visit there. I would like to see Iraq Iran those countries, of course BB come to Saudi Come to Saudi Arabic word by the way BB is an Arabic word, which means dear. What do you mean come to Saudi Arabic word? Dear Okay, hello. Thank you You look so good. I shaved. I didn't shave today, but I shaved yesterday Vacations are really invigorating. There's a good word bringing back the energy No, I was pretty tired from I was very tired one month of Continuous travel. I was really really tired. I Was really tired Beacon I'm a Canadian. This is this is broadcasting live on daily English homework Which I prefer you to watch it out learn English live. Hello, learn English live and Facebook. I Met three students So I met two in Saudi Arabia and one in Philippines, of course the highlights I Tried to meet raid, but you know, it was raining a lot in Saudi Arabia is a wet country is it raining and raining and raining. So I was very difficult to Go everywhere. I wanted to go in Saudi Arabia's Because of so much rain Could you please tell us why did you like Daman? Because it's near the ocean You know, the other cities are just desert Laila. There's no rivers. There's no water. It's just desert. So Daman near the ocean so you can walk near the ocean and enjoy the ocean but when you go to your city Al-Hufuf and Riyadh These are just cities with no parks No Rivers to walk next to no lakes So Daman was good Murs was a was a Robin why you look so handsome without beard and mustache Hendrik I do like women. So I'm sorry You have no chance with me Other than friend Nothing else Hendrik. I'm sorry Remdesi, which country did you find more strict on tourists between the airport? I didn't feel any of those countries were strict Of course Saudi Arabia had an expensive tourist visa and Oman Had expensive tourist visa But when I got when I getting into these countries was easy moving around was easy You know the police didn't care about me these were safe countries Strict and they were not strict We think it's warm for winter. Yeah, you know, the world is getting warmer. I remember as a kid in Northern Canada the cold cold winters But Not so cold anymore in the world. Is it I mean, how does an electric blanket look like or what does it look like? It's just a blanket like a thin blanket. Maybe one centimeter thick and It has a plug you plug it in and you turn a dial to the heat you want and then it just warms up Maraz, why am I here? I don't know Mars Mars Hey, I said Con a Welcome going well here Did you lose in somewhere? Well, did you get lost? No, I didn't get lost No problems, no, I didn't have any significant problems Everything went I made a schedule And I followed that schedule the only problems I guess was the rain Too much rain Did I had to change some of my schedule? But other than that? I'm a professional traveler, you know, I I planned my trip. I Don't have a copy of my schedule, but you know, it's very detailed the hotels for 30 days flights hotels buses trains. I Kept to the schedule very well with Little little problem. Oh Yeah, I'll tell you about Qatar Here's Qatar was disappointing because Qatar just had the World Cup And I arrived after the World Cup So, you know Qatar invested billions and billions of dollars To get the World Cup Why did they do that while they want to say to the world? Hey, we're open. We're a country But when I went to Qatar You know Qatar was nice nobody nobody treated me bad in Qatar and They have a great Metro subway system But I was disappointed because there were no tourists there That all the tourists had left so I I walked around and visit places and there was nobody there so I felt wow they spent a lot of money But all the tourists left and And When I was there everyone is pushing me, you know You got to go visit the soccer stadiums because you know, they spent billions of dollars building these soccer stadiums So they're pushing me you have to go visit them And I'm like no, I don't want to visit the soccer stadiums. That's not interesting to me So they're all disappointed But you know, they have all these soccer stadiums, but nobody cares about So, you know, they have to tear them down. No one's gonna use them. It's like so I was disappointed like wow With the amount of money they spent on the World Cup They could have spent that money on building a better country a better society and helping the people I think the World Cup and I'm sorry if I make you angry With this but certainly from what I saw in Qatar they Wasted a lot of money for that World Cup That money could have been spent on the people on the on their cities better That's my feeling but again, I'm not a soccer fan But we I guess we'll see in the upcoming years how well Qatar develops or if that money actually brings in a lot of tourists, but I Don't think it will I don't think it will Alex a Robin longtime. No see. Hey, happy new year.  I'm in Desert and jungle and snow scapes I got sick.  I'd love to visit Oman again And rent a car and travel through there. So that's That's the place where I felt I didn't have enough time Kuwait, I don't I don't think I'll go back to Kuwait Kuwait was fine nobody treated me bad, but there wasn't much happening there by rain. I Don't want to go back to Bahrain UAE Dubai. I'll go back there. That was great and Saudi Arabia. I'll probably go back one day again probably Hopefully it's not raining the next time I go back Yeah, we lost a lot of energy The nature which country do you like the most? probably Oman I Got to explore the nature in Oman Saudi Arabia I think we'll have some good nature places, but I didn't get to explore so in a future trip I'll explore that Kuwait Just desert Bahrain is too small Qatar is too small those places too small UAE so Oman probably Saudi Arabia Those those places would probably have the best nature. I'm not in Saudi Arabia right now I'm in Korea right now, and it is 1055 PM How much money did you spend? I don't know I'll take a guess the hotels and airline tickets cost me about $3,000 And I would say I spent Maybe another $3,000 for food and buses and everything Maybe the trip the six countries Seven countries including Philippines cost me about six six thousand dollars So I have no money now. I was a huge surprise for me when I saw you shaved. Well, of course Leila Thank you from the Sun. I Suppose you enjoy seeing places with water well, May when you're out in the desert, it's just sand and Like a place like Riyadh and alhoof oof just There's very little Mountains or there's no water lakes rivers, so it's just sand everywhere and You know, it's it's interesting for about five minutes, but then you're hoping for something special or a place to go but Just being in sand Is not fun Unless you're at the beach But then you're next to the ocean How many countries have you traveled this trip seven in in my life? It's a good question. I'm just take it a quick look here How many countries have I traveled? It'll be around. I don't know exactly Yeah, I think about 45 maybe 50 countries now maybe 50. I'll have to check that another time that but that's Good question. Did you try traditional dish in every country? No No, I'm not gonna try I'm not a foodie. I didn't try every traditional dish country Would you like to return to one of those countries? Yeah, maybe Oman Saudi Arabia and Dubai I'm in South Korea right now. You have to visit my country next time. Well, I Do want to go to Morocco next and then Places in Europe. So in the summer start planning March Unis, I remember two funny moments you shared with us in the group The first one is when you came across a dog and you look scared of him and the second was when you play hide-and-seek with the Yeah, oh, well, I saw a dog today and I was scared of the dog That's that's a common occurrence You know, I went to a shopping mall in Korea today and this shopping mall is special because everyone Everyone brings their dog into the mall So I walked in the mall. I didn't know I walked in the mall And I saw everyone with their dog a lot of people not everyone But a lot of people brought their dog into the shopping mall and they were shopping with their dog. I Didn't like that because I don't like dogs Have you filled your little boxes with money from new countries? Well, I Ran out of boxes. So I just made a box called Gulf States all the money from the Gulf States that I still have Just one box Gulf States Jonathan well, we got a VIP right here. Hey, nice to hear from you Jonathan How's it hanging? was Your first in-country Robin Honestly, I was surprised of how much fast food There is in Saudi Arabia, so immediately I was like wow There's a lot of fast food here like more than America or Canada like everywhere. There's a lot a lot of fast food So that was probably the most surprising thing and of course The women are covered up so Everywhere you go women are covered up So I've never been in a country where most of the women are covered up I've seen the burkas before whatever you call the full suits I've seen them before but to be in a country where that's normal That's a little strange to me So that can yeah, I went to the UAE I went to Dubai and Abu Dhabi Great places Yeah, I cannot trust dogs while tripping the outskirt of Oman's Airport was impressive Yeah, the Oman Airport really nice What's your thought about chat GPT that is the trend right now chat GPT is has good marketing, but I I'm not impressed with chat GPT yet Like it is it is Doings that I've seen before with other programs, but it's not at the level that I'm impressed It's not at that level yet It's just it's not really practical yet people use it the right stories or poems, but who cares Write an essay and that you know those essays don't are not professional enough so Chat GPT has a lot of hype right now. It has great marketing right now But in a few months, how many people are actually still using it? Next time you visit Saudi Arabia check out the weather. Well, do you regret spending so little time in each of these countries?  Well, no Yeah, I want to see I want to see desert, but I don't want to be You know, you know, there's interesting desert and there's boring desert Of course Morocco, are you gonna take me to the interesting desert places I Probably you're not taking me to look there's sand, but there's nothing but sand What is your evaluation rate for Saudi Arabia out of ten evaluation out of what the food the people I Wouldn't give it an evaluate. It's just a country How many steps I walked probably about 40,000 30 to 40,000 a day Every day until I got to the Philippines Philippines you can't walk or what was at least one point that you liked about my city Hendrick sending me what's that messages? Your city there's nothing I liked about your city Leila Your city is terrible Leila No public transportation no Infrastructure other than just roads Leila I like you but other than that Leila you're not in a very good city. I suggest you move to Dhamam right away Johnny Phillip been to China. Yeah, I've been to China many many times. Oh, I've been to China maybe Maybe ten times if you include Hong Kong certainly over ten times all through China Beijing Shanghai Kunming Chengdu Chongqing I can't remember our places Nanjing Many places in China Did you go I go alone if I can if I can travel alone I go alone What was the phenomenon that you shocked About most in Saudi Arabia, you know fast food fast food fast The other Gulf States also like fast food like Oman and Kuwait, but Saudi Arabia really a lot of fast food How many vacations well with COVID I couldn't go on vacation. So this was the first time I went in vacation since COVID And I try to go twice a year boxes are interesting. That's my money So you can find my house and steal Total is maybe a hundred dollars two hundred dollars Sad year Raymond. Hello Long time. Yes. Welcome. Welcome back You need right Robin. I've done zooming good We'll talk about zooming in a future live stream Is it only me have some problems with the sounds it is disappearing for several reasons all the time I Don't know if anyone else have problems with sound. Let me see if I can just push in things tighter Thanks for thanks for notifying me Use air and be no air and air B&B is the worst. I try to stay away from air B&B. I Do use hotels. They're better They're a lot better than air B&B and But one one time I was tricked I was tricked into using an air B&B. It pretended it was a hotel and I was tricked I had to use the or The like an air B&B and I was angry and disappointed when I found out but I was there two nights Enough of interacting with the robot. I need humans talk You look more younger than when you're five years ago. Wow someone someone wants a Prize Yeah, I want to go to Pakistan I I plan to go to Pakistan in 2020 before I went to Saudi Arabia. I was planning to go to Pakistan with my friend Steven But because of COVID I had to cancel the Pakistan plan But certainly I'll be in Pakistan. It's just a matter of the right time so right now is not the right time for Pakistan because you You had the floods recently And I thought maybe it's not the right time to go there But certainly in the future In maybe next year, I'll be in Pakistan But traveling quick you don't get to visit the city at all just passed by. Yeah. Well, certainly You know if you got to decide Do you want to focus on understanding one country or do you want to visit 10 countries? So there's pros and cons to both. I decided because my students are from all of the world I I want to see their countries and I do travel a lot and sometimes I spend, you know, if I go to a good place I will go back and spend more time there Chat GPT is based on an old database of 2020 Hmm Will it be the future? Yeah, one day there will be something powerful, but I don't think it's chat GPT yet Oh, no, you didn't like anything about my city. What do you like your city? Layla? What do you like about your city? Welcome to Kunming again. Oh, I've been to your city Kunming I like that's probably one of my favorite Chinese cities. I liked it there. I Enjoyed it being there. I was there twice actually I visited there twice in Kunming. I liked it so much. I went back What is blinking behind me? There is a YouTube light Pull it over. Is it annoying? It's trying to make my Livestream more interesting May says I can hear you clearly. Okay Sound lagging sometime. Well, that could just be a YouTube issue out of my control Could be your Wi-Fi issue out of my control, but I think everything set up, right? Let me just check recheck I can't do anything on my end Could be my could possibly be my internet connection is slow Unlikely there was some problem with your pictures. Sometimes just cut off. I think it's just YouTube problem Which one do you prefer hotel or hostel? I I prefer hotel But I have stayed in hostels, but in the Gulf States There is no hostels. I didn't see any hostels. So I do check For hostels, but I didn't see any So If I sometimes I do but your hotel hotel some hotels are really cheap When you have been to the Philippines before yeah, I've been to the Philippines many times Philippines is like a home for me countries in Asia East Asia, I've been to so many times so Japan China Philippines Malaysia Thailand So many times to these countries so many times Thai type Taiwan. I've been there At least twice Twice to Taiwan These are like home to me, I'm so comfortable in these countries There is light reflecting on your YouTube sign behind you. Well, there's a lot of light here Great about something while traveling in Gulf States Yes But I can't talk about it here and everyone why can't you talk about it here? Well, you know YouTube's a public place so I can't go on the record with some negative stuff Have you bought brought at least one souvenir from these countries with you? Oh, this is no and This is gets gets to Laila's Laila's Laila gave me some gifts. Laila was very nice Laila gave me a shirt hat and a picture and other souvenir But I cannot I cannot take souvenirs because of the airport I Because I just carry a backpack Airports will usually have a seven kilo. Most of them have a seven kilogram maximum Some of them have a five kilogram maximum. So I have to travel ultra ultra light So when I travel and I usually have a rule No gifts No gifts Yeah, I don't like my city, but I grew up there and it's really kind of huge challenge to get out of it Yeah, I understand Mo says why I don't why what Mo? I think you have an Asian. What do you mean that I am Asian? I'm not Asian Was there this flickering? Okay, let me fix the light this light. Why is it flickering there? It's not flickering in that light Oh, I think you have an Asian soul What is Asian? Asia is a big place isn't Saudi Arabia in Asia We some of your old stuff like your clothes when you're in the Philippines. Yeah Yeah, everything's damaged wet sometimes gets moldy. I gotta throw throw away It's one month. It's adventure.  I take old stuff only so everything I take is disposable So I throw I have to throw it away I really soup walk the video is sometimes breaking up and some comments are disappearing What is going on? I don't know Everything from my end looks okay, I will do just a quick check See what YouTube YouTube's talking trying to tell me here To studio okay, I'm just gonna check the live stream Any issues with the live stream now, it's telling me Excellent connection YouTube is telling me there's an excellent connection. So There's nothing I can fix Which where the cities you have been to in the Philippines I went to Davao and Iligan and so many so many Filipino city Philippines Cebu Manila General Santos Kagan de Oro Let's see if I can share the map And Share screen So this is Philippines Manila and so many islands right then Down here is where Alyssa lives Iligan, so that's really hard to get to that's probably from Davao City It's probably nine hours by bus to Iligan to see Alyssa Let's get rid of the task. Cebu is here. This is the second time I've been to Cebu And I've been to General Santos City down here And this island this this island had the their famous because this is where the terror terrorist attacks are So there's a city here Marawi and there's a lot of Muslim groups that want to separate from the Philippines. So they bomb these set-off bombs There's various places. So a lot of security on this island They're always checking for bombs But there was no problems while I was there. It seemed pretty safe. I should have this Saudi Arabia time ma'am To al-Hufuf. I know I don't lay this place very well now al-Hufuf A long time ago. She told me where she lived and I you know, I didn't really know what that means But now I know Leila al-Hufuf I'm probably the only foreigner to ever go to that city Al-Hufuf, Bahrain, Qatar, and then Oman over here in Kuwait. I really wish I could go to Iran. Oh Well One day, did you like all the Philippine cities the same they visit? Philippines is very very poor Out of all the places I've won And Philippines is the poorest There their cities are not developed Leila. So There's no tall buildings, there's no most people do not have a car And there's a lot of beggars on the street children. I'm hungry. I'm hungry. So Philippines is a very different place Robin it was enough Saudi Arabia. Yeah, I'll be back so Sleepwalker, so are you excited to get back to your work on YouTube not not at all Not at all Not at all. I before this live stream I did I had a one-hour zoom call with my partner James So we talked about the IELTS insiders, so I'll start working on that first IELTS insider because we got a lot of video to put out for that The daily English homework I'll check there There's probably a lot of messages there and homework. So I'll check that I might put up a video this week I might do a live stream there tomorrow. We'll see how it goes shy English No, I am not I'm not eager to do YouTube because sleepwalker. I gotta listen to your whining every day Check right over. I'm joking. Of course. I'm happy to help but It is going to be difficult to get back into YouTube because YouTube is a different kind of life, right? Because I gotta I gotta devote all my time to the students when I do YouTube It's it's a all-day job, right? So I've been away and I you know I didn't have to interact with students every day and I can just relax But when I get back in the YouTube tomorrow, well, I guess starting now Yeah, then I have to focus on the students And That's not always easy Yeah, I want to visit you Sally may I really want to visit you but as we know the visa The they they don't they only want me on a group tour. I hate group tours And if I'm on a group tour, I won't be allowed to visit your area. So Sally me Have you seen? tourists in your city May can we expect new homework soon? Yes Yes, may never I believe you are more expert about my city than me and visited most places that I have never been there yet Yeah, I'm sure Leila. I have been around your city more than you because I walked a lot. I've seen all parts of Alhufuf So if you have any questions ask me Leila about Your city or Saudi Arabia? Yeah, tomorrow. I will focus on IELTS insider first So and I will go back to the WhatsApp group. I'll talk to the students more I Do have to work on the daily English homework I'm scared to check and see the problem is I got a sleepwalker and May anyone else daily English homework. I gotta go check the comments and The comments are gonna be 1,000 people Doing homework asking questions. So that's gonna take me a day like 12 hours of answering comments Then I gotta Do a video It's gonna take some time and then I got to do I got a shy English and that's gonna take a day to fix all that check that and I'll do my best. I'll get there I'll get there. I've seen tourists in my city. They were for sure I'll get there Robert, I hope you still have intention to visit my city again. I'm not visiting your city. I'm visiting you There is no reason To visit Sorry, I'm not People inside a rabbi gonna hate me. There's no reason to visit al-hufuf as a tourist So the only reason I go to al-hufuf is not as a tourist. It's only to see you Which is fine, but I'm not going there to enjoy al-hufuf because there's nothing in al-hufuf That was it. Yeah, that was Yeah, Leila don't get angry but That was probably in Saudi Arabia. That was the least interesting city Because You did take me to the cave, which I appreciate but other than that We didn't go everywhere. I didn't go everywhere. So there might be more interesting parts, but the main city itself Because there's no public transportation And now the shopping mall is not as developed as other places Anyway There's no reason to go to al-hufuf other than to meet Leila, which is a good reason to go to al-hufuf Expecting to see in a group tour to Indonesia. Yeah Been to Indonesia and of course So many Indonesian students I have to go back. I have no choice But the problem is it's like Philippines is just islands you got to jump around Well, the Sunday live class continue weekly. I would do my best. I haven't made a schedule yet. A Good question Yay What is the most play places pictures and you like to visit again in all of countries Oman and Probably Western Western Saudi Arabia. I could see interesting places from the train Did not visit those places, but there looks like there's a lot of interesting places Between You know Medina and Jeddah, there's some mountain ranges those look interesting Oman So in the future, I would rent a car and actually going back to a previous question I don't think I don't remember who asked that say bugger. He asked about regrets the biggest regret About my trip I Didn't bring my driver's license So the other day I went to the driver's Place in Korea. I updated my driver's license and I also got my international license so in the future travel I'm ready to rent a car because I Should have rented a car Oman I should have rented a car Kuwait Bahrain Qatar UAE don't need a car, but Oman in Saudi Arabia. I should have rented a car and Philippines I should have rented a car. So that was my regret so I can go visit these picturesque places. I Really appreciate a kind. Well, I'm not kind about Al-Hufuf But not Al-Hufuf Next time you should try to visit Hegra. Yeah, of course. I'll visit there certainly next time That era area in Al Yula Al Yula, I'm not sure there seems to be a lot of interesting places there Hey, Shereen All right, I think I'm gonna end the live stream Goodbye everyone. I will Be thinking about YouTube tomorrow making plans Figuring out how to make you happy and Improve your English. Oh Nasser here. There's someone I visited in Saudi Arabia So we got two of my Saudi Arabian students are here. Good. So Saudi Arabia gets plus points Okay, so I'll see you. I might do a daily English homework Livestream tomorrow or the day after So I'll see some of you there. All right, so take care everyone and see you in the future


How we remember historical events is complicated. That's because history is complicated. Think for a moment about the Vietnam War. To understand and learn lessons from the complexity of that war, we need to understand the duplicity and the ineptitude of the US government and military leadership, the corruption of the South Vietnamese government, the backdrop of the Cold War, the dynamics of first French and then American colonialism, and the anti-war movement in the United States. Most importantly, we need to grapple with the reality that more than 58,000 American soldiers died there and the many hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese combatants and civilians who also lost their lives. The wall on the Washington Mall is a poignant memorial to the American dead. Now imagine a much, much, much, much larger wall containing all the names of those in Vietnam who died. The Vietnam War cannot be reduced to a single or a few dimensions. Of course, history is often misremembered to advance contemporary causes. The Lost Cause movement that took off in the early 1900s and persists to this day is an excellent example. The movement intentionally misremembers the Civil War to cover and promote segregation and persecution of black Americans. The Lost Cause continues to portray the Civil War as a brave struggle by the outman states that succeeded to preserve states' rights, liberty, and their way of life. Slavery is depicted as something that was incidental to the war, an innocuous institution that actually was good for the enslaved people.  The Lost Cause is not really about the past.  And every day now we are witnessing Lost Cause 2.0, intentionally misremembering the January 6th insurrection. This is part of a coordinated effort to shred our democracy and return Donald Trump to power through illegitimate means. And it is related to the original Lost Cause.  This misremembering is not really about January 6th. It's about, in many ways, the election coming up in 2022 and especially 2024. This is why the vast majority of Republicans and Congress have worked so diligently to thwart independent investigations of the insurrection. Conversely, remembering history more accurately can be a positive and a sobering force in the here and now. I'm really struck by how World War I is remembered in the UK and forgotten here. I was surprised when I lived in the UK for four months how deep and palpable World War I is in the collective consciousness. This makes sense when you think about the horrendous human cost of the war. One out of 50 people at the start of the war in the UK were killed in the war. In the United States we lost one out of a thousand. So most everyone in the UK knew several soldiers who died in the war. In the United States most people did not personally know anyone who was killed. Its impact on families and towns here faded relatively quickly, especially when compared with the earlier carnage of the Civil War in the United States or the casualty rate that was much higher in World War II. The impact of World War I on UK families hit me really hard when I visited the Rosalind Hill Unitarian Chapel in London. The minister showed me a plaque on the altar listing church members who were killed in World War I. This was not a huge church, but 21 names appear on that plaque. 21. Can you imagine having 21 people at FUS lose their life in a war? So many families in that congregation experience such deep grief. Pointing to the plaque, the minister said, and here's the thing. Eight of these people died on the same day in the same battle. This was because regiments were then geographically organized, so when a regiment was decimated in a battle, the loss was concentrated on a particular locale. Our nation's tribute to military veterans, Veterans Day, takes place on November 11, the same as Remembrance Day in the UK. This day commemorates the armistice that ended World War I. If you ask, I suspect many Americans would probably have no idea why Veterans Day is observed on November 11. In the UK, the searing collective memory of World War I is always viscerally right under the surface, everybody knows what that day means. The grief and the angst come above the surface in a grand scale on Remembrance Day. For the month preceding, poppies, evoking the poppy fields of Flanders where so many died, are everywhere. So more than 100 years after the war, everyone in the UK stops whatever they're doing and holds silence for two minutes at 11 a.m. on November 11, the 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month. That's when the armistice was signed. I was leading a church service at the moment when I was a sabbatical minister in London when that 11 o'clock hour came up. We stopped almost in mid-sentence and all stood in silence. My nephew was at a Tottenham Spurs football game that day. The stadium was full of people getting ready for a Premier League match. The crowd had been rocking at 10.59 and at 11 o'clock went completely silent. Everybody stood silently. My nephew said that you could have heard a pin drop and he had never experienced anything like that. Remembrance Day is such a perfect name for that day in the UK. Remembrance is what it's all about, remembering in a full, complex way. So why does all of this matter? Because the lived national nightmare of World War I is present today in the UK as it makes decisions about war.  And this feels less and less true in the United States where so much glorifies war and where the privileged elite have essentially outsourced war in the casualties of war to the lower classes. I don't think I know anyone who knew anyone who died in Afghanistan or Iraq. I'm in the privileged elite. President Bush targeted me with his message during the Afghan war that be patriotic, go to Disney World, go buy stuff at the mall. My remembrance of the Afghan and Iraq wars will always be distant and muted. All of this compels me to wonder if a fair draft that spreads the burden of war on all, regardless of income, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc., if that would be a deterrent to war. I believe it probably would be. Well, how we remember is also important to denominations and to congregations. This is why I've talked several times this year with you about the complicated history of Unitarian Universalism in relationship to slavery, to racism, and imperialism. It's easy for us to celebrate Theodore Parker's brave and relentless commitment to abolitionism. We named congregations after the Reverend James Reeve who was killed when he answered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to come to Selma. We remember Unitarians and Universalists who spoke against U.S. imperialism in the Pacific around the turn of the 20th century. But we don't tend to remember all the New England Unitarians who stayed silent about slavery as they got rich off the slave trade. We don't remember Unitarian and Universalist ministers who said no to going to Selma or the congregants who went after their ministers who said yes and heeded Dr. King's call. We don't remember that some Unitarians and Universalists opposed imperialism in the Pacific because they did not want white Americans mixing with brown Hawaiians or Filipinos. We don't remember that many Unitarians and Universalists supported eugenics. We don't remember that numerous Unitarian and Universalist ministers entered and some won American eugenics society sermon contests. We have to remember the fullness and the complexity of our Unitarian Universalist history. We have not historically been completely or arguably mostly on the right side of a lot of stuff in history. Knowing this, owning this is essential to our anti-racism anti-oppression work today. Knowing the fullness of our history enables us to bring some humility to this work and that is a starting place. I want to go a step further and say that we also need to explore seriously the concept of reparations. Our UU faith has harmed black people, indigenous people, and people of color by this shadow side of our history that we have so often ignored. Making reparations includes but is not limited to financial restitution. Making reparations is about reckoning with our collective past, claiming what happened in wrestling with its implications for us today. It's about stopping practices which continue to marginalize and cause harm, practices which continue the legacy of oppression. It's about supporting black, indigenous, and people of color within and beyond Unitarian Universalism who are leading toward a more consistently beloved community. It's about making amends. Ta-Nehisi Coates says it well. What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling of old ghosts. What is needed is healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt. What I'm talking about is more than recompense for past injustices, more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I'm talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Such wise words about the deeper meaning of reparations from Coates. To me, this is what Unitarian Universalism as a whole needs to do in the United States. This is what First Unitarian Society in Madison needs to do too. Reckoning with this congregation's past will lead it to spiritual renewal as well as a deeper, fuller, wider commitment to racial justice. So, I encourage you to explore more deeply FUS Minister's Kenneth L. Patton's symbolic resignation from the white race and the response of congregants to this. I expect there was a lot of flack that he received. Explore the enormous impact of FUS member Frederick Jackson Turner's paper, The Significance of the Frontier in American History. He read that paper at a meeting of the American Historical Society during the 1893 Chicago's World Fair. The paper was used or misused by supporters of American imperialism in Hawaii and the Philippines and elsewhere in the Pacific. It was an intellectual underpinning of that imperialist enterprise. The paper celebrated American exceptionalism, which was a foundation of imperialism. The paper also influenced the myth of the rugged, individualistic, western American white man that continues to be a cultural icon. I think FUS could learn and grow a lot if it deeply engaged with the impact of Turner's work on American subjugation of the Philippines. What if you did this work and then entered into a relationship with Philippines, Unitarian Universalists, people who, like all people in the Philippines, continue to be impacted by the legacy of American imperialism? What would reparations as Coates describes reparations look like? How would it impact what FUS becomes? I am intrigued by this. And alas, I have about run out of time here, and so I am just planning some seeds, seeds of reflection. Interim Ministry really is all about planting seeds anyway. I hope these seeds may come to fruition here. As I end the spoken reflection today, I want to return to those poppy-filled fields of Flanders, the final resting place of those souls from Rosalind Chapel in London, and so many more people from so many countries, including our own. How we remember them, all the people who died for war, how we remember matters, how we remember all of our history matters. It shapes who we are today. It shapes who we will become.


Yeah, wasn't too bad. So morning and thank you for joining us today. My name is Simit Kumar. I work at the TME for NetApp. We also have with us today Andrew Sullivan, who works at the TME as well. And Jim Hall, who works as a principal engineer for NetApp. So we're going to try and keep things a little interesting today. So Andrew is actually going to play the part of a developer and Jim is going to pretend he's from IT. To be clear, I have no business developing anything. And Jim fits this role very well because he's very serious. Yes, absolutely. So we're going to talk about how we use OpenStack and Docker, how we're starting to use OpenStack and Docker to accelerate development and deployment, some of the key areas of impact we see for Docker, and then some solutions, potential solutions to problems that IT and dev teams usually run into. All right, so talking of problems, Andrew, you're not very happy yesterday. Tell me about it. Tell us what happened. You know, my guys are working really, really hard. They really are. They're writing all kinds of things. The problem is when we go to build, when we go to actually test these things, we're waiting for weeks on the IT guys. Hey, don't blame us. All right, it's like we're sitting around waiting for you to ask us to spin up a VM or a database or something. We have actual work to do. I'm pretty sure that's what we pay you for. OK, guys, calm down. So NetApp.IT faced a similar challenge as well, and we found a solution that works for us. So the approach that we took, we took a hybrid cloud architecture and focused on cell service and automation. So let me try to explain that visually. Now, at the top, we have the cell service portal that serves as a gateway for our devs to go in and request, let's say, compute, storage, and networking resources. So think of it in very simple words as a graphical user interface where you can go and set your requirements and request, let's say, a specific flavor of a virtual machine. Now, next, we have the cloud management platform, which takes over in the next phase. And based on the type of workload that's been requested by the developer, it decides which cloud offering is best suited for that kind of workload. So for example, for a disaster recovery kind of scenario, right, it's a scenario that it's a use case that you're probably going to use once in never, very rarely. So it may not make too much sense to spend on, let's say, space, storage, power, maintenance of hardware for these kinds of use cases. And if you're using once in a while, and these are the times when you need a lot of compute resources, it might make more sense from both an efficiency and a performance point of view to just burst onto the public cloud, right? So next, we have the enterprise, private, and public cloud, all augmented by NetApp storage. An open stack plays a key role in it to keep our costs low. And it also gives us the control and flexibility that we need. And at the bottom, we have the NetApp data fabric that gives us the control over our data that we need. So it allows us to be flexible. It allows us to move our data around and not have to worry about paying huge sums of money to public cloud providers. OK, so let's just re-create and summarize the solution. So we had to change how we did things. We had to change from being a traditional, from a traditional IT model to a hybrid IT model. And that included how IT delivers its services. So we moved from being a broker of services to being, sorry, from a builder and operator of services to being a broker of services. And like I said, we also did not want to be tied down to a single solution. We wanted to leverage all the different platforms and the best things that they had to offer. So we went with a hybrid cloud approach. And again, the approach that we took that I showed you in the previous slide, it allowed us to stay in control of our data. Now, this philosophy also allowed us to embrace new technologies and move with pace. Another thing we did to kind of keep things consistent and easy for our developers is that we have utility-styled chargeback even for our private cloud. So for example, if someone's already used to how, let's say, AWS or Azure charges you, it's per on depending on how much time you're using a specific resource. So for example, if I use Compute for five hours, I only got to pay for five hours. And that makes sense. So we have that kind of chargeback even with our private cloud. Now, automation played a very key role because it allowed us to move from a ticket-based system to a self-service system. And that really helps because think about it, right? If there is a developer, if, let's say, Andrew wants to go in and request a database, a specific environment, he no longer needs to submit a ticket, wait for, let's say, hours, even days for someone else to go set it up for him. He can request it, and that gets provisioned for him. And that's a big win. So, Jim, I know you love automation. Oh, I like automation, right? Let's make all this stuff take care of itself so I can relax and get my real work done. Okay, and? You know, that sounds really great, Jim, but VMs are easy, right? VMs are a PCK. If we've been automating the stand-up of VMs for years, what about my storage? I got a lot of stuff that we got to move around. Can we automate that? Absolutely, we've got to automate it the same way we do our virtual machines. Yeah, we'll talk about that. So, before we jump into that, let's talk about VMs and VDI a little more. So, you can have instant workspaces with OpenStack and NetApp. That's no surprise. Now, if you want to set up, let's say, a virtual desktop infrastructure, totally end-to-end, automated and secured, you can do that as well. Now, we won't jump into the details here, but there's a company called LeoStream, and they're just one of the providers. If you use their services, for example, then you have a cost-efficient and flexible VDI service on your OpenStack cloud, and that's great. Now, if you tie that in with, let's say, Manila snapshots or enhanced instance creation from NetApp, you can literally provide instance workspaces for your teams, and that cuts quite a lot of time from your entire development cycle. So, basically, your teams can get started instantly on actual work and not have to worry about, hey, now I got to go request, let's say, a specific environment from IT, wait for it, and so on and so forth. All right, so, again, we talked about hybrid cloud, and what do you feel about it, Jim? How do you think, you know, is it going to affect your migration or let's it work there from one cloud to another? Am I going to be on call, so whenever a developer wants to migrate something, I have to immediately be able to respond with a tight SLA, and if I am, how am I supposed to maintain standardization across different clouds? Right, so, well, one very simple solution, well, I shouldn't call it simple because there are complexities involved, but one potential solution would be Docker. Now, how many of you have heard of Docker? I'm going to assume most of you have. Perfect, have you run the Docker run command? Okay, okay, perfect. So, for those of you who are not aware of it, think of it as a lightweight alternative to traditional virtual machines that focuses on abstracting away the underlying architecture and the associated complexity. So you basically take an application, you put it into a Docker container, and now it's portable, right? You can run it anywhere, and you don't have to worry about setting up different environments or even compatibility between different clouds. And to be honest, I think that Docker and OpenStack work better together. Now, I might be biased again, because when I joined, when I started working for NetApp, I was part of the OpenStack team, but I was working in Docker. That was my initial area of focus. But like I said, I've always seen these two technologies working together, and I think they work better together. And the reason I say that is because it's very common to find OpenStack being used in conjunction with another cloud. It can be a private cloud or it can be a public cloud. Now, Docker comes into the picture and it provides us with a way to really make these applications portable and run them anywhere, right? So think about it for a second. I mentioned about mobility and how do you move things around in a hybrid cloud. Now, if you use Docker to kind of make these applications portable, you don't have to worry about, you know, one, let's say maintaining different environments and two, compatibility between these different clouds. So for example, you can use purely OpenStack in let's say your development environment when you want to keep your costs low. And then in production, when you need additional compute resources, you can burst onto the public cloud, right? And you can do that with ease. So we have a quick demo now that will show you how you can, you know, containerize a Java application. Now, this is a Java application, but the process more or less is the same for any other application stack as well. All right, so we start off by starting our Docker machine which serves as a host for our containers and it will get assigned an IP address. Now, note that this might not be the same depending on the host operating system that you're using, but this is a Mac, so this is how it works. Now we're gonna run the Docker PS and Docker images command to check what images and containers we have right now. And as you can see, we had none. So we'll pull an image, a Docker image that has Java already configured on it. And we can use tags to pull a specific flavor so I can have let's say the latest version of Java or a specific version of Java or a container with just JRE or JDK. So you have that flexibility. So we can see that we indeed have the latest version of Java, the container with the latest version of Java pulled. So we go ahead and run the container now. So you can do that using Docker run command providing the container with a name if you want to and then giving it the image that you wanna use and followed by the command that you wanna run. So in this case, we're just running Java-version. Now very similarly, like you can also bring up the bash. So in this case, for example, you just add bash to the end and then you can do whatever you want from within the bash of the container, obviously. So all that's good. Now this is one obnoxious issue you can keep running into especially if you use like a lot of tabs in terminal. I do that all the time. And it'll basically tell you, hey, I can't find a Docker Damian. What's going on?  So once we're done with that, we're gonna try and see if we can mount a volume and do some cool stuff. All right, so mounting a volume is pretty straightforward. You just use the dash-v command line argument and then you provide it with the directory that you wanna mount and also where you want to mount it within the container. Now in this case, what we're doing is we're mounting the project directory within the container so that it's accessible and then we can package it and let's say run the application from within the container. Okay, so it was mounted. We're gonna make sure that it mounted correctly. So what we're gonna do to check that is we're gonna create a test HTML file within our project directory and then we're gonna go inside the container to make sure we can see it. So there we see that we created the test HTML file. And then once we're inside the container here, we can see that, we can see it over there as well. So our volume mounted correctly. Now let's try to run the container application. Now there are two ways to do that. One, obviously, is you can do it from within the container itself. But the interesting way to do it is once you have everything set up, you can create an image and now you can run it externally. And this is really useful, especially if you want to, let's say, automate the entire process. And we have another demo where we show you what you can do with it. So this again, running your application from outside, it's just sitting in the container. This is really useful. So it's very simple again, as you can see, we're providing it with very simple parameters. And once it's done, once we have finished running the application, we're gonna try and access it. So here we are using the IP address that was assigned to us in the first step when we started Docker Machine. So again, like I said, that was a very simple demo, but this is like the starting point. This is how you make things do better, right? Okay, so persistent storage with Docker. So the volume that we mounted, right, it's not gonna stay persistent.  So tell us why persistent, yeah. A lot of it has been an understatement. Okay, so submit surmised really, really succinctly, right? That Docker is a tool for decoupling the application from the underlying operating system, right? It's a new method of deploying our applications. We take the binaries, we take whatever is associated with our application, its dependencies, and we put it into a package, the Docker image. And we can deploy it wherever we need to. And this probably kind of sounds a lot familiar, right? This is the premise behind OpenStack, behind Nova, right? Automated deployments of the application into that environment. But you'll remember that one of the original projects inside of OpenStack was Cinder, right? Back before it was even Cinder. So applications need persistence. Doesn't matter what you're doing, you're processing data. All businesses have data. All businesses need data. We thrive on data. Data is money. So how do I persist my storage when it comes to containers? Because if I take my application and move it from a Nova instance into a container, that doesn't go away. But it changes a little bit. So the first thing that changes when we look at these is that, well, now we have to attach our storage directly to the container. Now there's a number of different ways that we can do this. And one of the first ones that NetApp worked with was a company called Cluster HQ. They have a product known as Flocker. And particularly when we're talking about OpenStack, they have Cinder integration. So if you are running a Docker cluster, Swarm, Kubernetes, MISOS, whatever it happens to be, and you want to leverage Flocker, you can leverage that to automatically provision and attach Cinder volumes. It manages those volumes regardless of where the container instance gets created. So if I instantiate it on host A or virtual machine A, and I move that container to B, Flocker manages that movement as well for us. So from a direct Cinder integration process or perspective, Flocker is a really, really great tool. But it's not the only tool that we have at our disposal. So very, very recently, my real engineering team released the NetApp Docker volume plugin. And these guys worked really, really hard in order to create a native integration for cluster data on tap with the Docker volume paradigm. So the Docker volume paradigm decouples persistent data management from the container, much like containers decouple the application from the operating system. So now I can independently create a Docker volume, Docker volume create, and it exists outside of the construct of our container. With the NetApp plugin, I can now use that to create LUNs and NFS shares coming from cluster data on tap. And in the very, very near future, like it's checked into our build tree, we're waiting for the last few approvals, we'll have E-Series as well. And as soon as I can break John Griffith away from OpenStack Summit, we'll have SolidFire built in as well. So all of this is moving very, very quickly. And the greatest part of it, it's open source. It means anybody can go use it, see it, improve it. We love to get feedback. It's really easy to find, github.com slash NetApp. So please, if anybody's interested, go and check it out. So a couple of additional details about that, as I already touched on, is multiple different plugins. It's a plugin system itself that allows us to have a bunch of different storage back ends. So we're able to include all of NetApp's portfolio products. But not only that, we can do things like customize that storage based on what the user is wanting to do. So for example, if I want to maybe provision against an all flash fast aggregate, when I instantiate, when I configure that Docker volume plugin, I can specify an all flash aggregate. If I want to specify or customize my snap schedule, I can do that on a per volume basis. And if I have the snapshot directory turned on, which it is by default, that means that the user can now self serve their own recoveries. They don't have to go to anybody else. They can go into that snapshot directory directly from inside of their containerized application, recover the data if they want to. And those are things that we can change at any point in time. If you want to add a volume option, you can. Again, it's open source. It's the great part about open source. So I have a very brief demo. It's about 40 seconds of what this actually looks like. And it should be pretty self explanatory. What we're going to see on the top side of the screen is instantiating a container, leveraging a NetApp Docker, I'm sorry, a Docker volume created from NetApp. The bottom side is simply a watch command that shows us what volumes exist on the NetApp that match our naming pattern. So as we look at this, I broke it. There you go. Thank you. Sure. So as we watch this, pretty easy, Docker volume create. As Summit showed earlier, Docker is a pretty self explanatory, pretty easy to use binary. If you haven't used it before, it's a really, really easy to pick up. Don't be intimidated by the massive documentation that they have. So all I'm showing here is that I have created a volume and now I'm going to attach it to a container. I show that there's nothing inside of that container, or I'm sorry, in that volume, and then I create something inside of there, the touch command. We then exit the container, destroying that container, and then instantiate a new container with the same volume, and effectively prove that, hey, our data persisted. And if you look down below, which I spoke too slow, the volume already was destroyed, but if we look below, we can see that that is actually a volume over on the NetApp. That is being mounted through NFS. This demo is configured with NFS, but you can also use iSCSI if you choose to. Right, so we talked about Docker. We said all of those good things, but you have to understand that Docker might not be the best solution for you. But there's so many things to consider, right? So you want to make sure that you're making the right decision. Now, there are lots of good resources online that can help you understand whether something works for you, if not, why not. We at NetApp are active participants in Docker space as well, and we constantly try to create content that we think is going to be beneficial for you. So for example, we recently published a blog post that walks you through whether or not Docker makes sense from an enterprise use case. So go check it out and let us know if you find it useful. And if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us. So we are happy to answer those at any point in time. Really, really easy to get a hold of us too. Open source at netapp.com. So please, by all means, don't hesitate to ask questions after the session or reach out the email. Okay, so we talked about Docker and we talked about higher infrastructure utilization through Docker. So Jim, how do you feel about- Hold on, yeah. So the utilization is great for the bead encounters. But if the utilization gets too high, it gets really hard to manage. I mean, I'm gonna be missing SLAs all over the place if you crank the utilization all the way up to 100%, right? Yeah, I mean, that is one challenge. Now, if you think about it, if we do decide to, let's say, go with Docker, right? It kind of puts us in an interesting dilemma. So on the one hand, you have higher infrastructure utilization, you have more applications running on the same hardware. But at the same time, your compute resources, the capacity, your compute capacity remains the same. So you now have more applications demanding compute resources, right?  So how do you deal with that? Now, one, again, potential solution. If you don't wanna spend money and, you know, upgrade, buy more compute, another potential solution is you burst onto the public cloud. So, you know, imagine I have my private cloud, runs on the open stack and I have my compute nodes and I've run out of compute now. So there is a new driver from a company called ThoughtWorks which adds Amazon EC2 as a compute node and then you can always, you know, put it in a different availability zone if it makes sense to you. So it's just AWS for now, but you can also extend it to, let's say it's your or some other platform. And the driver is open source and it provides you with automation and control tools. So for example, you can automate it to, you know, automatically burst onto the public cloud, let's say AWS when you have reached 90% of your private cloud's compute capacity, right?  So, you know, that's always good to have. So it's available on GitHub again and it's open source so you can go add, you can, you know, it's really useful to have. I've played with it and it's really cool. So we got a demo now that actually shows you how it works, well, it's a very quick demo that will show you how you can, you know, burst onto the public cloud. Now, in this case, we're gonna imagine, okay, I have a LAMP stack-based application. In this case, it's gonna be WordPress and I have run out of compute resources.  But like I said, all of this can be automated so you don't even have to worry about it. You don't even have to know that it's working under the hood. Okay, so we log into Horizon on our open stack side and as you can see, we added, you know, we chose the public cloud availability zone and everything else remains the same. Now, we're gonna go into the post creation step, add some scripts just to make sure that our, you know, environment is set up properly on the public side as well. Now, if I go into my AWS dashboard and this is after I clicked create instance, then I can see that my instance, my VM, is being created here. And once that's done initializing, we're gonna go ahead and copy the public IP so that we can access our application. So we're gonna copy that public IP. But before we check our application, let's check their system logs to make sure, you know, our environment was set up properly. And like I said, you can automate all of this.  So there we go, our application was, you know, our environment was set up properly. So now once we go to that IP address, I can see my posture server running and then I can access my WordPress application. So again, here, my application was utilizing compute from AWS while being managed and run on, let's say my private cloud on OpenStack. You know, this is all well and good, although honestly, I'm a little disappointed because we would always have internal competitions to see which builds could generate the most phone calls for Jim. So I'm a little disappointed in that respect. But you know, it's all good and well, but what about the data? You know, I can't reliably build these applications. I can't reliably push to production if I'm not using production data during the test process. So how can we address that? Sure, yeah, we can do that as well. Now again, another demo, right? Let's me start that. So that's a, you know, regular scenario, the developer purchase code to get GitLab and then that triggers Jenkins and you build and deploy and so on and so forth. We're gonna bring in NetApp Snap Creator in the picture and create a clone of a production database and it's gonna be efficient and fast. And then again, we can run tests against that cloned database. So if you're familiar with Jenkins, this is a pretty basic step.  So we provided with the URL. I've already got it configured. And then for the goal, we're gonna try to deploy our application in a container. So it will get deployed in a container and it'll get hosted on our internal Docker registry. So let's run that and see if we can do all of that. Okay, so it finished successfully. So we'll now jump into our internal Docker registry and make sure that we can see the container with our application that we just deployed. All right, so there we see it. So you can find a lot of information about NetApp Snap Creator online, but in essence, it's a tool that allows you to have NetApp's functionality with third-party operating systems, applications and databases. So in this case, you're gonna use it to create a clone of our production database and do it quickly and efficiently. That's my project directory. I have build deployment and test. I have my NetApp SDK folder in my test folder and that's where I downloaded it from and made sure everything was in the right place. So again, it's very simple to do. We are using a very simple script and I have my configuration, my usernames and passwords, but that's the main script. And like I said, it's very simple. All we are doing is creating a clone of our database and most of it is being handled by the NetApp SDK. So that's easy. And we make sure we are also able to mount that volume on our host. And next, we're gonna make sure that our containerized applications is able to access that volume. So we can again, automate that using the Docker compose file. So I added the other two phases, the deployment and test to my Jenkins build. And the first one is green because obviously we ran it previously. So we're gonna run through the entire build cycle together. So it tested and deployed it successfully so I can very easily check the log for a specific step. So just to reiterate what we did was we used Snap Creator to create a clone of our production database and we ran tests against it. And we were able to do that quickly and with efficiency. Now, if you combine that with let's say, Manila, Sahara for big data, Magnum for containers, then you really have so many possibilities. And we have a demo later on in the presentation where when I say efficiency, I'll show you what exactly we can do and how much more you can do with it. So if you're interested in this topic or this domain, Andrew's actually doing a presentation tomorrow. It's called Big Data Rapid Prototyping by using Magnum with Cinder and Manila. So go check it out if you find this domain interesting. So by using this combination of tools, processes and philosophies, we were able to make our build pipeline reliable, faster and without overhead. What about making it smarter?  Yeah, well, I mean, making the CI super fast, that's great for Andrew, okay? But the really important work is the root cause analysis when he inevitably breaks everything. I don't know what you're talking about. We don't create bugs, we create features. Well, you know, I mean, you can do it, right? You can make it smarter as well. So one again, potential solution is you configure your snap creator to automatically, let's say, take a snapshot of your entire environment, every time a dev checks in code and everything wants as expected. And if, let's say, Andrew or his team, no offense, if you check in bad code, you can revert back to the previous snapshot and that way you prevent anyone from breaking your build at all. So that's really cool. Okay, so that makes it easier for my guys to find out which individual check-in caused the problem and revert it. But you'll be better than that if it didn't even have to do it all. Can we automate that? Yes, of course. Like, you know, same process, right? You just, since you're using NetApp's snap creator, you can use scripts through the SDK so it can all be automated. That's got potential. So yes, it can be made smarter. So again, we can use the same, you know, ideas in the deployment phase as well. We have automation with cell servers, that serves as a key. And you can use NetApp's cloning technologies to create multiple copies of your, let's say staging or deployment environment. And we always have Docker to make it easy to move our applications from one environment to another. Well, what next, right? What should we start thinking about once we have already deployed our application? So what do you think, Jim? What should we, you know, talk about next? Well, you gotta solve the backup problem, right? I know the devs don't care, but I have to make sure that all of our data is protected and we can get it back. Yeah, I've suffered because of not having good backups too. So I can agree with you there. What about you, Andrew? I mean, I know you were all about doing things bigger and better. We created MySpace 2.0. We expect it to be globally ridiculously popular. 30 trillion users. So scaling is huge for us, right? We need to be able to accommodate all those, you know, selfies, quite frankly. Okay, so let's talk about backups. Now I'm not gonna jump into details here because we have other sessions that focus on backups.  So we now have a demo. So I've been bragging about NetApp's efficiency for a while now. So let me show you what it looks like. Okay, so we start off by going to our on-command system manager. And that is actually the volume I've been using to underpin my Manila deployment. And as you can see, we have been using about 1.81 terabytes of space. So we're now gonna go and create a clone for Manila share. But first, we're gonna create a snapshot. And we're gonna use the snapshot as a data source for our clone. So we just select our data source as a snapshot that we created. Now this snapshot, this clone is using about 0.88 terabytes of data. So when you add that to the previously used 1.81 terabytes, the total should be around 2.69 terabytes, right? A simple math. But when we hit refresh, we'll see what the actual number is. All right, so it went up by just 0.01 terabytes. So imagine what all you can do with the savings you make, right? There's just so many possibilities. Okay, so let's talk about scaling. Now there are lots of good resources, official resources online that talk about how you can scale your open stack deployment. But I'm gonna talk about how you should scale your storage and from how I see it, there are two aspects to it. First, you wanna keep it cost efficient. And one potential way how you can do it is through the storage service catalog. Now the concept with storage service catalog is very simple. You are basically creating a tier of services. So let's say you create a bronze, a gold silver bronze type hierarchy with gold as all flash, and then bronze or silver as flash or hybrid solution with compression and de-duplication turn on. So it makes sense to use, let's say my all flash solution, my gold standard for my latency sensitive applications, and then use my bronze or silver for use the home directories where I wanna make sure that I'm not spending a lot of money and there's gonna be lots of duplicate files in my data. So you can really slice and dice your storage and make sure that you won. It's cost efficient, you're not spending money where you don't want to. And two, you're getting performance where you need it most. So talking about performance, you want to go with the storage solution that can keep up with your cloud and that can provide you with the efficiency and it's basically built for scaling and performance. So again, quick demo that shows you how NetApp Storage performs under pressure. Okay, so this is basically my performance analytics dashboard at the top. I have stats from my application layer and at the bottom I have stats from my NetApp layer. So we're gonna try and push the workload until we start to see some latency. So we saw about 12 milliseconds of latency. Now the cluster, the storage cluster I've been using so far relied on a hybrid storage solution. So we're gonna go ahead and add to all flash fast nodes to my cluster. And once we've done, it dropped back to a millisecond of latency and the great thing about it is that there was no downtime, right? So like on my application layer, my customers don't even know what's going on. They don't have to suffer. Now keep an eye on total number of IOPS and total number of snapshots because we're pushing it through the roof right now. Now let's say I have reached my cluster's limit and I want to scale, I want to go bigger, right? So how do you do that? Very simple, the same things like the same process that we followed previously, we do it again, right? We add more nodes and that's very simple to do and it's non disruptive. So any workload, any new workload that we add automatically gets distributed in my cluster. So I don't have to worry about, let's say, hey, I bought this new storage and now it's not being utilized. Also the average latency dropped, it's still maintaining at 0.9 millisecond and total number of IOPS is way above a million and total number of snapshots and clones has reached a big number as well. All right, so let's talk about results. What have we achieved by following these processes, tools, and ideas? And then you can decide for yourself whether it makes sense. Now again, this is part of our results of the survey that we did. Now for our corporate hybrid cloud which powers our corporate business applications, we were able to see that, okay, we got things about 98% faster and we also saved a lot of money because we're not spending money on, let's say, maintaining hardware that we didn't really need. Now the global engineering cloud, as the name suggests, is what is used by our engineering and dev teams to request their test beds and whatnot. And since it has, it's built on a bigger scale, the numbers are even better, especially for the cost savings. All right, so key takeaways. It is possible to do better. I mean, regardless of what phase, off your build cycle or deployment development cycle we were talking about, from fetching your work space to deployment, to build and test, there's always room for improvement. So go out and find how you can do things better. Make sure you embrace OpenStack, Docker, and other new technologies as soon as you can because that helps you keep up with the rest of the world and attain that edge. Also make sure you leverage smart solutions in partners because they increase your potential and they can help you reach success. So I also wanna jump in and say that all of this really is real. We have done all of this inside of NetApp. We have, for example, our internal private cloud, we have the experts here with us, the people who are implementing and maintaining this. We can talk about how CodeEasy internally used at NetApp to reduce workspace cloning time for developers by something like 95%, I think it went from 80 minutes down to two minutes. So we have, let's see, who else do we have here? Oh, the internal continuous integration process which Summit alluded to, right, where every 20 or so commits to our main product code lines, it does a build. And if it finds a bug, it figures out which commit was it created the bug, automatically kicks it out and sends a message to that developer but moves the other 19 or however many it was forward seamlessly. All of this is real. We're happy to talk about it. Right, and we also did some sessions around this, right? So for example, the two above are still, they're gonna happen tomorrow, well, to once today and the other ones tomorrow. But the other three ones about backups, the other ones about how we use OpenStack internally at NetApp and then, you know, how you can make Docker and Cinder work better together. So these three, I guess they're already done but you can still go and watch them on YouTube since they're publicly available. The other two are once today and the other ones tomorrow. So another interesting thing is if you wanna see what NetApp brings to the table or if you wanna get started with OpenStack, you can take a test drive. It's free and it's available on our website. It's netapp.github.io. So it's really cool if you wanna get started. So thank you for listening. We, if you want more information about some of the sessions and our presence, then we have some flyers with us. You can also go meet us at our booth. We got some giveaways. Thank you for listening and have a great week. And if you have any questions, you know, think we're out of time but we're gonna hang around here or outside if you can always come talk to us. Thank you. Thank you. Great.


Well hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. Today we're working on a plan with me Monday, June 26th through Sunday, July 2 as always. Let's look back at last week. Nothing, I don't know, nothing really new is in here. Um, oh, this is in here. But I got the wrong day on it. Um, yeah, I guess, mm, it's all pretty much the same. Uh, Lowe's had to deliver more flooring and then it was all wrong again. Um, today's actually Sunday. I'm going out to the townhouse probably in about an hour or so. But yesterday I put a little closet icon in here because I really just worked on my closets and also doing stuff in the bedrooms. There were some blinds that needed to be hung and draperies and things. So that's really what I did all day on Saturday. Um, I will leave my Vlun playlist series down below if you guys want to catch up. Today is kind of a jam-packed day and you see this right here. It says moving day. I don't know if that's happening yet or not, but we're, we're just going to keep our fingers and toes crossed that it does. So right now I'm really at the mercy of the flooring company, which by the way has nothing to do with Lowe's. So I'm just letting you know that. So let's start. I wanted to do a rainbow themed week this week because this is the last week of Pride. I feel like that is important. Um, I was looking back at, um, my weeks this month and I'm like, why haven't I done a rainbow theme? What's wrong with you, Emily? So anyway, I thought this would be kind of a cute rainbow to do. And right now I am just blocking off my work. I know a lot of people ask what I'm doing here and that is what I am doing. So I work from 7am to 3pm Monday through Friday. I'm actually not sure about next week of what we're doing. Um, I believe we're going to have the fourth off, but I don't know about Monday, um, the third. So I don't know. It hasn't really been decided yet. So I guess, I guess I'll find out this week what's happening for next week, which fine by me, you know? Okay. And now I have to like move all of these because they're kind of in my way. No more in my way. Oh, and I'm going to use this little washi sample too. It's just like a little yellow one and I'm just trying to use up my washi samples, which will never ever actually happen, but you know, I can try, right? And every time I'm on Instagram and I see people with new washi, I just want to go buy it. But then I'm like, no, you can't go buy it because you don't need any more washi in your life. I will take a sample. And I think all of this washi, yeah, all of this I actually got at the last planner meetup that I went to and I actually vlogged that. If you guys want to go see it, it'll be on that vlog playlist that I was talking about before. So yeah, people just give away their washi there. So I am more than excited to take it. I've actually given away a lot of washi there too. All right. So I got all my rainbows in, which looks super, super cute. All right. And actually at the last meetup, this was there too. It's like a woodgrain washi sample and brown, which I thought was like really random, but also like completely fit what I was doing. The flooring company is supposed to be starting on Wednesday and working into Friday. So I'm going to mark that here. So they start at nine o'clock on Monday or not Monday. Wow. I'm trying. I'm trying to get them to come earlier obviously in my mind. So yeah, they start at 9 a.m. on Wednesday and then they will be there until Friday. They may need a couple of extra days, but they're going to be able to assess on Wednesday if they actually need these extra days or not. But they will fingers crossed be done on Friday. So that is what I am hoping for because I can't actually move until the floors are done. So we'll see. We'll see. Oh, the washi. All right. Flooring start 9 a.m. Let's put that in. I busted out some functional things. So I'm just going to put 9 a.m. flooring. My mom is going to go meet them over there. Oh, there's so many post-its you guys. So many post-its.  So I contacted the company that does the Wi-Fi in our area and they're going to be there at 10 o'clock, which is just fine and dandy. However, and they said they might need two hours just because no one has actually used this Wi-Fi service that's ever lived in the home. So that's not the issue. The issue is Lowe's messed up the flooring again.  And there was three of them that were incorrect. There was issues with them. I'm not going to go into the issues because I've said it like a bajillion times. If you want to know about it, watch the vlogs. I guess they delivered. They did another delivery last Friday and all the boards that they picked were the completely wrong skew. So they didn't match up. They weren't even the right like height. It was just it was it was wrong. So anyways, they are supposed to be coming out now again between 10 and 2 on Monday to deliver. Hopefully the correct boards. So I don't know because we have to paint the boards to so I just I don't know. I just don't know. Oh, I shouldn't have done this here. I should have done something else. Okay. Let's do this instead. Actually, I'm going to peel this up and then do this. I'm going to do it on this side maybe. So the delivery for Lowe's is happening anytime between 10 and 2, which actually ends up being okay. My mom is going to be over there anyways to deal with the Wi-Fi people. So I don't know. I just I'm hoping they just get it right because this is getting a little red deck. I lost an auto sign so that can just go right there. And then I don't know who knows what the heck is going on with Lowe's because yikes. All right. And Lowe's is between 10 and 2. So I don't know. I'll just put that one down a little bit lower to complete the Monday extravaganza. My brother is going to be here. So actually, I've got to do something else before I do that. I'm trying to move on with things, but I can't move on with things unless I figure this out first. All right. So I'm still doing balloon and I like to mark that up at the top here if I can get my washi to cooperate. Here it goes. All right. So let's see here. I need to mark in a balloon right here. Little camera reminds me what I'm supposed to be doing or not be doing. I guess that we will take a trash con. Now we can get to the business down here. All right. So my brother is actually staying at my parents house, which is where I'm currently staying. We're going to have a full house here. He will be here Monday, Tuesday, possibly Wednesday night, I think. So I'm going to put that in as well. So I wrote down Philly right here with a little sleeping bag because you know, why not? All right. And then we are going to the dragon house the night before, but we are meeting around 4 p.m. for that. These are these cute little custom stickers I got from a shop that is no longer in business. Unfortunately it's all the dragon have and then I've got another dragon house date with a friend of mine on what is it Thursday? Yeah, Thursday. So I'll put that in at the same time. So if you guys haven't been watching the vlogs or maybe I said this in the last plan with me, I can't remember. Um, my favorite place dragon house is unfortunately closing after what 35 years or something. No, they've been open longer than I've been alive. So what 45 years I think it is. So anyway, it's sad, but you know, it's a family run business. No one wants the business in the family and yeah, it's just they are going to be open until next, not this Sunday or not, not this Saturday, but the next Saturday. So I have a few more times to go and get my beloved dragon house. So I'm meeting up with my friend Amanda at 3 30 and I think her daughter's coming with two. I'm not a hundred percent sure. So I don't know. I'll just put in put in Mandy because I know she's coming off and it's so satisfying to get rid of stickers. You guys like, oh my gosh, mainly because I just went through all my sticker storage stuff that I did in a previous video, but gosh, it feels feels good to get rid of stuff, especially since I'm hopefully moving on Saturday, hopefully. All right, so I can get rid of this. Let's put in my Daytona because that's easy enough to put in that's at 6 30. This is the race that I used to go to all the time, but I haven't been there in a few years. I need to need to go back with my favorite race. It's July 4th weekend and it's a night race. All right, Doyle meds need to put that in. So this is Doyle's just meds, you know, at the start of the month, like his hard guard and frontline and stuff, but he gets medication every day for his seizures, which I'm sure I've talked about before, but he's doing good. I can hear his little twinkle toes getting all twinkly over there. Let's do the laundry, which I want to do on Friday and I am going to be putting in moving day because I'm just going to try to make it happen. You guys, I'm just going to try to make it happen. We're going to put it in also to clarify moving day doesn't mean I'm moving in that day. Okay, I know that's confusing, but I'm not actually moving that day, even though I'm moving that day weird. Yeah. So it's going to take just the day to get all my stuff over because it's all just sitting in storage right now. So I just need to get that moved over and after that, then I need to like, you know, put everything together, put the beds together and that should happen all in the same day.  Plus I have a place to stay in the meantime. So I'll probably still be at my parents house over this weekend and I want the dog to be there over at least a few days before I actually stay there because he's super neurotic and has like problems. So, you know, we're just going to try to not freak him out as much as possible. I know I'm going to get questions about this sticker and where it's from. This is from Adriana Piper. I will link her Etsy shop below. She's got the cutest like moving stickers. These houses, unfortunately, are from a shop that is no longer in business, but I'm sure you can find house outline stickers somewhere on the Etsy internet. So all right. And then a little one that says unpack because that's really the next day of what's going to happen. I'll use one of these little moving day stickers from Adriana Piper and that'll be my Sunday. I mean, it'll probably be my Monday and my Tuesday and my Wednesday and you know, it takes a while. It takes a while and at some point in the weekend, I have to do my plan with me and you know, get ready for my get ready for my YouTube life as well. So we'll see how that goes. You never know. It could be a late Monday plan with me and never know. I think I am almost done, but this is running out of battery. So I'll see you in a second. So the last thing I have to do is just put in my videos, which I will do right now target haul that's going up on Wednesday, which I've already filmed and I've actually shown some of the stuff in one of my balloon videos. So there's like a little bit of a teaser situation happening. All right. And then I'm going to do my July budget as well. And I think that's it. I don't think I have anything else going on that I need to like tell you guys about. I don't know. I don't really have, I mean, this is a lot, but a lot of it's happening like while I'm at work or after work ish. I don't know. But anyway, that is going to be it for me today. Thank you guys so much for watching. I really appreciate it. If you guys have any questions, feel free to post them down below and I will get back to as many of you as I can. As always, I will link all of the sticker shop sources that I used down below. If I have a coupon code for them, I will leave that below as well. I also use an Aaron Condren life planner. There will be a link to that below as well. There's links to everything below, even like the marker. There are links to the markers and pens that I use most frequently in my videos. Even my camera is linked down below. But anyway, I use an Aaron Condren life planner in the neutral hourly. That's always linked down below. If you want to try something out from Aaron Condren, especially if it's your first time, I can't talk today. You, if you sign up under the link down below, Aaron Condren will end up sending you a $10 off coupon code for your first order.  So it's a nice little like referral program and you don't have to buy a planner. You can buy anything that you want to buy. You can buy, you know, they've got like markers and pens. Do they have pens? I think they just have markers now and they've got pencils. They've got, you know, just plain old sticker sheets and stuff too. And you can kind of try something out from them if you are so inclined. But anyway, that is going to be it for me today. I appreciate the view and hopefully you like it. If you do make sure to give it a thumbs up. Leave a comment below and I will talk to you all in my next video. Bye guys.


Welcome to All Hands Update. I'm Petty Officer Andrew Johnson. Construction of the Navy's ZoomWalt class destroyers is moving forward and making progress. DDG-1000, the future USS ZoomWalt, is currently 92% complete and undergoing its final stages of construction. ZoomWalt is successfully activating fuel systems and advanced engineering systems. While ZoomWalt is nearing completion, DDG-1001, the future Michael Monsour and DDG-1002, the future Lyndon B. Johnson, are still in the beginning stages of construction. DDG-1000 is named in honor of the Navy's 19th and youngest CNO, Admiral Elmo ZoomWalt. ZoomWalt class destroyers will be multi-mission surface combatants designed to fulfill volume firepower and precision strike requirements. They're expected to join the fleet in 2016. For more information on DDG-1000, log on to All Hands Magazine online or the Navy live blog.