What's good George Boar Ross back again with another video. So I'm gonna check out 10 best WWE matches ever according to the internet This should be an interesting one. This should be a very interesting one to see what the general consensus of some of the greatest matches ever of all time According to the wrestling community on the internet. So we're gonna check this out. Appreciate all love and support you guys Starting on channel. This is on what culture wrestling? See what they talking about man. What is the greatest match in WWE? Objectively, there's no real answer. Everybody has different tastes and different ideas of what makes a match great. To you the fiend versus Goldberg might be an abomination But to me it should be held with the same level of reverence as the Shawshank redemption. The closest thing We have to true consensus on the matter is cagematch.net. The ultra detailed wrestling database offers all kinds of facts and stats on the Almost every match ever while also encouraging users to rate what they've watched It's the closest thing we have to a democratic opinion kind of like the wrestling version of IMDB Even if things are definitely a little bit skewed in effort to find the true greatest matches in WWE history We trawled the archives the results of this great collaborative process are Interesting, let's say that cagematch users might be online, but are they on the money? I'm Andy from what culture? We're here to find out here. Are the 10 best wwe matches ever according to the internet number 10 Chris Benoit versus Shawn Michaels versus Triple H from WrestleMania 20 at 9.58 out of 10 Roses at this match for obvious reasons the brutal and devastating reality of it all completely overshadows the Physicality of this highly rated WrestleMania This is the only time Benoit or Triple H actually feature on this list We'll talk about Shawn Michaels a little bit later on but Hunter's omission in particular might come as a surprise given his reputation today Particularly amongst younger fans. Is this the best WWE match that Triple H has ever participated in? Internet I think we disagree Number nine Tyler Bates versus Walter NXT UK takeover Cardiff 9.58 out of 10 here We have the third WWE match ever to break Dave Meltzer's five-star scale following on from Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano's two bangers earlier in 2019 neither of those however are actually on the list Walter versus Bates here is perhaps one of the glossiest No BS matches in WWE history as Walter and Tyler Bates knocked the piss out of each other the UK Championship had never felt more important So it's kind of appropriate that around Gunfors waste here in 2023 the intercontinental title is currently riding a 25 year high guy No, bro, they got the right person. I know I was one of those people I wasn't really big on the name change. I thought they were gonna thought Vince was gonna ruin them But ultimately before Vince left he put the Intercontinental Championship on him after the dude lost a lot of weight He you know Vince wanted him to lose weight He lost a lot of weight. He bought into the name change the dude He has made the intercontinental championship prestigious once again and He probably will and he should bring the longest reigning intercontinental champion He should be he should have that that title that that that alcoly because the dude is fantastic I make titles great number eight the Dudley boys versus edging Christian Definitely Now you're talking my Yes Greatest WWE show of all-time question mark. I rate it highly and so Because TLC two was these stipulations peak and the combatants deserve credit not only for assembling something This was a spot fest, but it was a spot fest that you will always and forever remember and damn near Molded the future of tag team wrestling One of the greatest spots of all time fucking edge Spearing I believe it was Jeff Hardy while he was hanging on to the championships all the way down to the ring below As special as they did but for doing so under the sort of pressure that would have ground others into dust One of the greatest and most over-the-top chaos matches in WWE history Hardy's Dudley's and edging Christian artfully escalated the danger with such lightness of touch that almost nothing felt Constructive great level of care needed to assemble every terrifying scene number seven the revival versus DIY NXT takeover Toronto But not the highest rated Tag team match on the list It is one of the crown jewels of NXT black and gold and an absolute triumph in every single level Expertly crafted by DIY and the revival whose dizzying complex exchanges married perfectly with the classic timeless tropes Genuine innovation a crowd frothing at the gills to get the finale They crazed so this time at the time NXT was pivoting away from being the little brand that could to Established super into under WWE's umbrella It was a pivotal step in doing so and there's a reason FTR still repeat that Handholding submission spot to this date One of the greatest images in modern WWE history number six Ilya Draganov versus Walter NXT takeover 36 9.64 y'all see how the NXT matches are on this list This is when Triple H was The creative in NXT just gonna put that there just gonna leave that there Out of ten a phenomenal WXW rivalry spilled over into WWE Walter versus Draganov was as compelling on big American stages as it was on smaller German stages building on the stories told Elsewhere to craft something beautiful that didn't compromise on brutality at all despite the shiny new setting Good champion for 870 days at the time WWE's biggest big bad Draganov knew it more than most and after waiting 10 months for a second shot at the belt He put his body through hell Fartic victory imaginable after 22 absorbing minutes his emotional breakdown was as arresting as his physical breakdown when you're back Is as messed up as your chest. Yeah facing Walter in his chops. You know, you've had a hard shift Number five Shawn Michaels versus the Undertaker WrestleMania That's all that. That's all I cared about as long as this match was on the list. It's all I cared about And once again it happened in Houston WrestleMania 25 best match of the night one of the best matches of all time simple as that simple as there's there's Simple as that goose bump inducing at 25 9.64 out of 10 This one is probably gonna raise the most eyebrows on this list a lot of WWE fans at the very least would have this Slotted in at I don't know the top three maybe yeah matching mates do not and to be fair There are only marginal gaps between Michaels versus Undertaker and the matches above it nonetheless This is the WrestleMania match when it comes to Shawn Michaels's brand of drama It was a big bombastic big theater popcorn match of the highest order So the equivalent of a Jai Gronka's Hollywood blockbuster This is the highest rated match that either man has on the list So number four CM Punk versus John Cena. I gotta give another clamp. This is this is this CM Punk John Cena money in the bank 2011 right around the time I came back to wrestling and boy Was it a great time to come back? I am so glad See him punk drop that pipe bomb that brought me back to wrestling because when I saw this This is one out of all I'm back now. I'm all my God. This is great 9.64 out of 10 so good questionably a match elevated by circumstances and maybe the hottest wrestling crowd ever But she's not still hits like a quadruple shot of caffeine right to the veins Chicago was a blaze for their home CM Punk as he marched into war against the physical embodiment of the WWE machine He so angrily raged against and yes, the wheels did come off the summer of punk eventually Kevin Nash texting himself But on a night when the wrestling world genuinely thought that CM Punk was gonna walk out of WWE as a free agent world Champion felt like the biggest thing in the universe number eight. They definitely dropped a ball with that only because He did they should have they really should have bought into that bro. They should have really let him go to different companies Not legitimately obviously have him under contract, but they could have really broke some like some like ground here I always he's over here defending here granted WWE only wanted to keep everything in house They definitely could have did that and that's my food y'all Yes, I ordered me some food Comment down below. Let me know what foods y'all think I ordered man But I really think they should have really played that up a little bit more and then he come back all that would have been great free Brett Hart versus Steve Austin 13 9.65 Wrestling fan and our oldest hell like me you might make the case that this is objectively the best match in WWE history now I don't necessarily think that the objective best in a subjective art form actually exists But either way the famous double-turn match should be done in an art gallery alongside other pieces of phenomenal craftsmanship like the Mona Lisa and chocolate starfish and hot dog flavored water Let's do that off bonafide classics that just speak loudly enough for themselves in this era of extreme This thankfully is one of them. It's a masterpiece. Yeah number two Ilya Dragunov versus Walter NXT UK 9.66 out of ten Absolute peak of the empty arena era is right here as Walter and Ilya Dragunov lit up each other and an empty BT sports studio in an incredible flesh peeling battle the likes of which we may never see again Thanks to the environment. Okay Luke wrestling without fans was mostly pitch It sucked the life out of our great sport here Walter and Ilya actually used that to their advantage devoid of noise from fans and gathered masses the building was instead filled with the Disgusting sounds of flesh hitting flesh.  Maybe a little bit pissed off and to be honest while I absolutely adore this match myself Yeah, I'm not sure I agree that it's the greatest match in WWE history, but the internet or at least cage match has spoken Gargano versus Andrade to be fair is an absolute ripper well worth five of Anyone's stars putting a sympathetic never say die baby face against a hard-hitting bastard of a boy who had finally found his feet after a pretty awkward start to life in WWE Gargano gained more here in defeat than he ever could have in victory Faithfully clear how his rivalry with Tomas O'Champ and needed to be settled before he stood another chance Anyway guys, that's what the internet hey I'm gonna have to disagree in my opinion personally I probably would have put That WrestleMania match that WrestleMania 25 match it probably would have been one and two And the John Cena versus senior pump probably you could have kind of traded those between one and two in my personal Being that's what one of the greatest matches of all time You could have you could have you know I'm saying I wouldn't have put Johnny there Johnny versus Pundrade that was a fantastic match though. Don't get it twisted Really really really really good match. I Wouldn't have put it there in my personal being as number one, but on this particular website. They voted that so amen Very interesting choice, but understandable some people, you know, that's their opinion on so comment down below Let me know what match. Do you feel like it's the greatest match of all time in WWE? Put your top 10 matches. I want to see your top 10 matches. And honestly, I may make a video I'm being dead serious. Y'all may be featured in a video I want to see y'all top 10 matches in WWE history of all time Your top 10 doesn't have to be anybody else's what matches you feel like or the top 10 matches In your personal opinion, put them down below. There's no wrong or right answer here I think I'm gonna make a video I'm gonna go through you guys comments and reach all lists and you know We have that discussion and compare y'all lists to everyone else's I think that would be pretty cool when I had that interaction with you guys So if you want to be featured in my next video, all you got to do is make the list Make the list down below in the comment section and there's a good chance you will be featured in my next video So I I'm looking forward to seeing y'all top 10 list of best matches in WWE history But I appreciate all love and support you guys shown on channel Road to 150 K now I'm still in the speedy YouTube wrestling champion world. Appreciate y'all kicking me see our next one. Peace


Thanks, Handis. Hey, everyone. I'm glad that you're spending some part of your Wednesday with us and, you know, we're really excited to share, you know, our vision for enterprise communities done right.  What we intend to doing over the course of the next few minutes is just taking you on a journey and just trying to understand, you know, what some of the common challenges with adopting communities are some of the common deployment patterns that we've seen challenges that customers run into as far as adopting complex, you know, deployment patterns that meet the business requirements, and also really, you know, focus on the importance of an open source in a communities in a strategy right and how that's going to help you achieve that multi cloud strategy and help your organization be successful with cloud native adoption. So, hopefully, the takeaways from this webinar are going to include what it takes to transition platform built on communities that is what we call enterprise grade and production ready. And also how you can be an active participant or someone who is an advocate for the adoption of smart cloud native in our applications within your organization. Right. With that, let's dive straight in. So, one of the key topics that we wanted to kick off with is a fact that communities has become the de facto standard for building modern cloud native applications that are out of the box, you know, scalable and are resilient to failure, right. So communities has seen massive adoption over the course of the last few years, and has become the de facto standard for building modern cloud native applications. An interesting trend that we're also seeing is the fact that communities is almost kind of being likened to what, you know, Linux was, you know, many, many years ago, which is just the abstraction layer for your underlying infrastructure so communities is being positioned as almost a cloud operating system that allows you to build applications in a very decorative way and allow you to deploy those applications in a wherever, whether it's on-prem in your data center or in, you know, a public cloud provider. Should we talk, Shafiq, a little bit about why Kubernetes is the one, why it's, as you, I like your reference here, why it is the way, as they would say in the Mandalorian. Yeah. What made Kubernetes win? Yeah, let's, we could definitely talk a little bit about that.  Well, I think, I think you hit on some of it. I think that it was built to mimic some of the patterns that we saw at the hyperscalers that allowed them to build very scalable and very resilient applications.  And so they had to come up with ways that were very resilient, that prevented human error, that prevented hardware error from taking down the site. And so this move to containers really started there as they realized that if we, if we say, hey, forget the server, no one ever deploys anything to a server. We're using containers, those containers can be scaled effectively. They could be up and Kubernetes really takes those patterns and makes them accessible to everybody. So I think that's one of the big reasons you want to hit on another one or two. Yeah, absolutely. Right.  So what I mean by that is you really don't need to have any human intervention when you're, you know, deploying your applications. So you simply define the resources that your application needs. Resiliency is factored in through maybe the use of like replicas where you're able to deploy applications in a highly available fashion. So what do Kubernetes as the orchestration platform to ensure that your application stays online right so there really isn't any room for, you know, human error or you know there really isn't any intervention needed as far as you know the application is concerned right or maintenance of the application is concerned and then fast deployment when it comes down to operations and when it comes down to like maintaining your applications, it's much more simpler to lifecycle manage, you know, applications leveraging in a way, you know, through Kubernetes APIs, you know, through automation right.  It really challenge your developers to think about, you know, application deployment or modern software development lifecycle in a different way right and you're really getting all the goodness of, you know, just like you mentioned the hyperscaler culture, it's something that could be adopted within your own enterprise. And I want to hit on one other thing before we get on the next slide and that is that. So we talked about why people adopt the technology and of course it is portable because you can run kubernetes anywhere you're usually move to the cloud you can run it on premises you can run it on any cloud. But I want to point out one thing which is really encapsulated in both of those those bottom bullets which is the innovation in app deployment the innovation operations the innovation in in developer experience is all around kubernetes today. If you choose another platform, then you would be missing out on that innovation and even if you look at what the major networking vendors look what, what, say at five Cisco is doing what what Palo Alto networks is doing, they are all innovating on top of kubernetes now. And so if you want to be able to take advantage of what's happening in technology, you have to be in this space. So kubernetes is the way I think I think I think we can agree. No, completely right and it just the ecosystem is just so rich and there's just a vibrant from the perspective of all the innovation that's going on in there right and you hit on networking. Just think of any other capability that you would use to like you know build out a platform right whether it's something that's you know security related or you're talking about integration with your existing storage fabrics or integration with your existing in a network solutions that allow for, you know, in a layer seven capabilities right, all of these ISVs were like working in this ecosystem and unlocking all of these capabilities for customers are definitely ensuring that they do have a solution for kubernetes and kubernetes is almost becoming that substrate to like you know build, you know your platform on and you know deploy your applications on just purely because there's a lot of community engagement and a lot of where the innovation is happening right. So, so if I'm a CIO and I'm attending this webinar and I say okay great I should be convinced we're going to kubernetes we're done. Should they sign off now. Yeah, yeah, or should you get to the next slide. Okay, alright so yeah that's that's a great that's a great lead and right and thanks for that and like. I was I was joking when I said yes right so kubernetes by itself again kubernetes by itself is just giving you the container orchestration capability right so we're seeing a lot of. adoption of a mindset of building teams that are you know engineering platforms right so what constitutes a platform. You know, coming going back to my you know solution architect days and consulting days it's it's always about like you know building something that makes sense to the business that's going to accelerate. The business outcomes for you know a specific organization and almost just kind of being very laser focused about adopting innovation to really move the needle when it comes down to solving challenges for your organization right. So that being said if I'm looking to build a platform and I'm looking specifically to build a kubernetes based platform. kubernetes just gives me this one capability which is what we just talked about a discuss in the previous slide which is robust. In a container orchestration a resilient way to deploy your applications in order to build a feature complete platform that allows you to really meet those requirements that you know your business might have you need to like start figuring out what some of the other capabilities you're going to also build alongside kubernetes right so it could be something along the lines of. Figuring out how you integrate with storage how you do secrets management what your application deployment. The formats are going to look like how do I you know provide my developers, you know a service mesh technology how do I handle networking whether it's load balancing or trying to like you know figure out how I'm going to secure. applications using you know certificates or trying to like ensure that all of the applications that I deploy, have, you know, HTTPS, you know encryption for their mode of communication, or if my platform is going to be serving or providing multiple teams do I have robust you know multi tendency included right so it's not just about communities it's much more complicated than that because you really need to like figure out how I'm going to unlock all of those additional capabilities and those were just some examples and they're by means a complete list, but the idea is, you really need to look at what's out there in the ecosystem and which vendors you're going to work with whether it's you know commercial vendor or the graphic out here is the CNC of landscape right to which projects you're actually going to like, you know cherry pick and choose, because you have multiple options for each of these capabilities I call them like technologies that underpin a capability right. The concept here is you need to do a lot more work in building out that feature complete platform or quote unquote a batteries included platform when it comes to the communities. Yeah, I think that I think that's really important to note because you, as you said, Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform right that's what it does. And the reason that the cloud native landscape is so complex is that there are many things you need to do for security for all of those things you notice on top of it. So if again like let me put myself in the shoes or that that's CIO. I'm thinking, Okay, so I have to settle on Kubernetes and yes I do need to secure everything I might need to figure out do I need mtls what do I need do I need smart you know l seven load balancing. What am I going to do about secrets. Does that mean that. Well, it seems like the decision to adopt Kubernetes was an easy one, but there's a lot more research in front of me because I'm going to have to learn what each of these icons means what's behind the project what what purpose is it is it filling. How does that fit with my requirements, and then choose each one is that what you're telling me I've got another six or nine months of work ahead of me to try and figure out how to turn this container orchestration platform into a real, you know enterprise ready cloud smart cloud platform is that right. Yeah, it's going to cost me an extra nine months. Yeah, that's that's exactly what it looks like right that's typically the journey that you go on once you've decided to you know go down the path of like you know Kubernetes right so it's a significant amount of research and yeah it takes it takes a significant amount of investment from you know a people time perspective to figure out you know what your you know end state technical stack looks like. Okay, but let's say I do that right so it's so I put in that nine months then then then am I ready, then can I just turn my application developers loose where my operations people were set. Yeah, that was that was going to be my next question or my lead in was going to be great we figured out now, hopefully you're long for the journey right you know the story that we're trying to paint here so we figured out the technical stack. We made our choices. We decided that the business needs a platform with all of these capabilities we picked all of these different in our technologies to underpin those specific capabilities. Does it end there that's just your that's just your day one. What happens after right is the question right significant operational challenges ahead right and what do we mean by that right. Installation. Great, you've got one stack ready to go. What if you get massive success and you know everybody wants in on the platform and you decide to roll out this technical stack. Multiple geographies for example right you know we deal, you know, largely distributed world nowadays and you know you really want to provide the same experience or a consistent experience across your organization across multiple geos. So, there is still a challenge associated with have you figured out the automation or like just generally the installation aspect of how you can manage this technical stack. And I think it's important to note that that you've got not just one thing you know as you just said we've got Kubernetes and many of those things run on top of Kubernetes some of those things are running underneath Kubernetes right you're now in each of those projects has its own release cycle. So this this process itself is is going to be significant right as you say it's going to be significant every time you turn something up every time you turn up a new. Yeah, new data center new region even a new cluster, but now you've got all these different components with dependencies between them, possibly reliance on each other, and they each have their own life cycle, right, upgrade, etc. Yeah, exactly and upgrades that's that's another key part of it right so if day one signifies you know just getting a technical stack up and running based on the design that you put together. What does you know subsequent days look like or what does post day one look like. Let's say you know quarter down the road you decide. I really need a specific capability that one of these projects is getting me what is your upgrade strategy going to look like and then it's not just for a single cluster because you were so successful and you saw massive or you've seen massive adoption with your platform that you've just built. You need to like figure out how you're going to roll out or what your upgrade strategy is going to look like you know globally for all of the clusters that you have running in production right so upgrade is a key aspect Dan alluded to the whole interoperability bit right so now we have all we all know the benefits of you know leveraging you know open source, but then just like Dan mentioned each of these projects you know they really isn't any synchronization when it comes down to. You know the release cycles or you know whether someone's a unit really need to be meticulous about you know going through documentation and figuring out whether you know a specific you know project or a specific. A technical capability is compatible with maybe the underlying version of communities that you're running on you know breaking changes happen right you know that's that's something that we've seen often as operators or someone who's been an ID for a while, you know that breaking changes happen and just reading the fine print and just ensuring that you're managing all those moving pieces from an interoperability perspective is another key challenge from an operational perspective. And that's what not least security right we are dealing with complex you know distributed systems Kubernetes by itself is a distributed system with multiple moving parts. Then we're not even we haven't even started talking about the workloads right so it depends on the workloads to deploy in the platform. What is your strategy to secure, you know the workloads as a platform itself and then the workloads that run on the platform. So I think I think one important thing is you said the workloads are your business and you're going to have to you know you got to figure that out but the platform, I think that's a really important thing right we just showed that open source landscape. And, and you know, you're going to need a dozen two dozen of those of those projects at least right, you're going to become very acquainted with the letters CVE common vulnerability exposure right. And, and each of those will have to be something that you are paying attention to, because when some of these CVEs come out, they will affect you and they will affect the you think you might think you're in control of your upgrade and your interop interoperability. And then all of a sudden you've got a patch a component that you didn't know you were going to have to patch right again. So, aside your from your own code, you're reliant on open source project and open source project so security becomes a very important operational challenge that you have to solve right. Yep. This is this is what leaders and you know architects and everyone you know working in this ecosystem are constantly thinking about right how do I, you know the term that's being flow that's being floated nowadays is reducing the cognitive load associated with operations right just making it simple. It's about figuring out how I can minimize the amount of time that I'm spending on operations. Right. So, I've solved that then right or I have a strategy or I work with somebody to figure out how I reduce my cycles on my team cycles spent on operations. What's next what's next in the journey. So I think that the thing that we have to bear in mind as we're as we're doing this is we're thinking about adopting Kubernetes we're adopting this new technology. One thing to understand is that you have to solve this in a way that you've solved it in more than one place. I think there was. I spent a lot of time working at Google cloud and when we spent a lot of time and the other vendors as well trying to get people to move to the cloud thinking, eventually it's all going to run up there right eventually people are going to choose a cloud they're going to move everything up there. But what we're seeing increasingly and and what every every attendee of this of this call is seeing is that it's never going to be 100% in the cloud and in fact, CIOs are saying and CTOs are saying no no no no hybrid cloud isn't a way point along the destination hybrid cloud is where we're going to end up. So as you're choosing your kubernetes solution, unless you want to double your work, double your operation staff increase there I love that that term they're they're cognitive load, you are going to have to solve it in a way that it's solved both for what you run in a cloud and on prem and chances are, it's not just one cloud right. It's, you know, a lot of organizations, even if they do not start off directly with a multi cloud strategy, they definitely want a hybrid cloud strategy which is a combination of their own private data centers with a primary in a cloud provider right and that's a you know, that tends to be, you know, significant, you know, investment that they're, you know, they're definitely exploring outside outside. So what are what do you think are some of the common use cases for you know multi cloud management this is this is a conversation I love having. And maybe I'll throw in a couple of those use cases so outside of you, you mentioned that everyone's looking at a multi cloud strategy or a hybrid cloud strategy because the data is not going to move right so the data gravity or governance requirements might dictate, you know, a multi cloud strategy or a hybrid cloud strategy what else what else are we thinking here. Well, if you're if your company is big enough, if you're if you're, you know, working at a fortune 2000 company, one of the reasons is that one of the ways you got to be a fortune 2000 companies was through you're acquiring companies and they're already deployed somewhere and it might be deployed somewhere in such a way that it is very difficult or expensive for them to move they might be dependent on services. They're absolutely there. Other companies refuse to be dependent on single vendors, absolutely and financial services I would hear about the four cloud strategy, and the four cloud strategy is the three major players plus our own. They are all very very clear that they for sometimes for bargaining reasons sometimes for resilience reasons and just not wanting to be dependent on a single company, they wanted to ensure that they could always choose. So there are a bunch of reasons sometimes you're running a workload that someone really does have a proprietary technology technology running in their cloud, and it makes sense for you to run a workload near that near that technology. A couple of other common use cases that I've come across is just as it could be as simple as just business continuity or DR right we've definitely seen a disaster recovery right so it's just all about leveraging multiple cloud providers just to ensure that your business is not impacted in the event of an outage right so that's that's one common strategy. The other one is with the rise of just being a distributed world that we live in today is just all about you know what I call the pop architecture right which is a point of presence right it's just about having you know your services running as close to your user as possible right or your end users as possible. So the idea of just having that point of presence, you know, in a global world, in a world that's you know increasingly getting digitized you know that makes a lot of sense right so you definitely want to have, you know multiple cloud providers in a certain cloud providers might not have the regions that you know in a market that you're potentially looking to tap into so that's that's another in a great in a use case as well. So, to the headline. Are we both are going to both transition here. You go ahead you transition. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so we discussed a little bit about you know multi cloud, and we talked about why multi cloud is a challenge a little bit we touched on that the reason we are kind of like transitioning to this slide is we want to talk about what some of what it really looks like at the deployment level right when you decided that okay multi cloud or hybrid cloud is something that you really want to do. What are some of the challenges associated with actually getting that working right so that's Kubernetes is open source right doesn't didn't we already choose open when we chose Kubernetes. I don't understand. Yeah, we did we did you know that's that's the aspect right you know that's the aspect that we wanted like you know really talk about here Kubernetes is supposed to be open source. So, you know, are we connecting the dots, yes we are right so you know we really want to be able to use a Kubernetes based solution in order to like you know help, help with some of those challenges that really, you know are tied to, let's say a multi cloud strategy right so the first pillar being here. Let's talk about portability.  The idea here, I'm, we're trying, trying to tie a couple of concepts here where if the objective is to have a hybrid cloud strategy, and then as a CIO, I want to reduce the time spent on operations. I really don't want to have multiple, you know modes of operation when it comes down to maintaining. My platform in a private data center or in one of the cloud providers and you know have a different experience all over the place right. The idea about, you know, leveraging Kubernetes to do this is a fact that you have the portability of just having a unified experience across any infrastructure that you might be leveraging in order to build out this multi cloud strategy or hybrid cloud strategy that you're looking for. I think it does and I think there's more too because I think that Kubernetes is absolutely open source and there are lots of vendors who will package a Kubernetes into a essentially a platform for you. But they don't all really allow plugability at every layer right there are some say oh you can use Kubernetes but you have to use it on our operating system for example. Or we've got we've got a monitoring system built in and we don't allow you to plug that in and one of the beauties of Kubernetes and one of the reasons that Kubernetes one is that not just that it was open source, but that it had plugability everywhere. Right. If you want look at service mesh I used to work on the SEO project right there's probably for service meshes in in in the cloud native landscape. So when you're choosing Kubernetes done right when you're building not just Kubernetes but that platform and you're and you're choosing a platform to build on you want to ensure that your platform allows you to plug in what you want to plug in. Right. And I think that that's really important because you are cutting yourself off from some of the innovation in this cloud native landscape. If you're building a platform that when something innovative happens you can't plug it in your vendor says oh no no we don't we don't allow you to do that. I think that's that's really important. Yeah, exactly right it's it's not it's not so that's the key difference here right it's it's not a pass right a pass is a very opinionated way of doing things the philosophy the ethos behind building a platform leveraging Kubernetes is the whole plugability aspect right you know we have conversations. All the time with folks who have like certain opinions on you know how a capabilities delivered like let me give you an example when we're talking about logging for example right so they're a bunch of solutions out there or there might be an enterprise standard that says this is how you have to do logging right you know and therefore very good reasons you know it could be for audit purposes or you know it could be for just ensuring that you're able to go you know figure out you know forensic information based on access to your applications or data. So there are very good reasons why enterprise standards exist for a specific you know capability. And you really want to like be able to, you know have a platform that can readily plug into those standards or plug into those specific requirements or meet those requirements right and you know we're, you know that's that's a pretty exciting thing about you know communities and building out a platform that is based on communities you just have the plugability aspect, and then talks on this a little bit you know the innovative aspect or the innovation aspect right there's always something innovative going on as far as you know the communities ecosystem is concerned you know everyone likes talking about the service mesh and then touched on that a little bit but it's very exciting you know for developers you know because a service mesh allows you to you know not really impose the limitations on your developers right so it's a polyglot way world where you know developers have their preference for you know what they're developing in and you really want to like decouple some of the non-functional capabilities from your application code right so if you're looking at you know building a capability that's you know then referred to mutual TLS you know just ensuring that the applications communicate in a secure way or you really want to like implement a circuit breaker pattern just to ensure that you're able to like you know meet certain SLOs or you know cut off traffic when you know there's an incident you know those are capabilities that a service mesh brings to the table and that's just one example of like some of the innovation that's going on in the ecosystem right. Okay so I'm going to devil's advocate again. All the cloud providers now have managed Kubernetes. Again if I'm that CIO CTO, can I just take that manage Kubernetes and assume that that's okay right it's all managed for me doesn't that solve this problem. Not really. And we'll talk about why right. So the question here is, you know, all the cloud providers or is managed Kubernetes a solution. Everyone's, you know, got a, you know, managed Kubernetes solution now, it only solves part of the problem right so you know going back a few years typically if you when you were getting started in this cloud native journey that hopefully we've been doing, you know, a current job of just kind of taking you on. You start off with like figuring out what makes sense to me from a technology perspective you land on communities you understand that this is the future this is how I want to develop my applications I want to really get away from the business of managing servers I want to abstract my underlying infrastructure and provide my developers a great experience alright fantastic. But then, you know, there was a period of struggle where you know customers typically or you know folks working with communities they go through a bunch of challenges when it comes down to like you know figuring out how to run this in production right that cloud managed in a community services right they really abstract away some of the really hard parts of operating communities in production right like for example the common in a punchline of the tagline Dan like a few years ago was like and I'm just so worried because I have to operate at CD in production right or you know I'm troubleshooting you know problems with the you know raft protocol or just trying to like you know figure out you know what's going on here. You know, why did I, you know lose my cluster right so that's a challenge. The manage community services definitely solve for right they make that aspect of operating communities or that component of communities which is the central of the system almost a black box right so the idea is you focus on figuring out what your business outcomes are figuring out the other aspects of the design that you need that you need to be spending your time on as far as a platform is concerned right you know choosing the appropriate, you know instances of which machine types that you need in order to like you know support your workloads and figuring out the other things that we just spent the last few minutes talking about which was you know building out rest of the stack. Then was right so yeah yeah I think I think I think that's exactly right your manage Kubernetes are fantastic offerings I think the best advertisement they ever got was Kubernetes the hard way by Kelsey high tower right because it showed installing running Kubernetes is tough, you can get Kubernetes out of the box from any of the cloud vendors and never have to worry about any of that aspect again, but those limitations that we talked about Kubernetes at its heart really is container orchestration. You still need to layer and all those pieces and and while different cloud vendors have done different things to make that a little bit easier. For the most part, it is not a platform out of a box and you still need to put a lot of pieces in place on top of it to take that manage Kubernetes into a you know complete integrated automated platform and now is when you get to talk about why D to IQ and and something like AWS EKS are better together. Yeah, so we're going to, you know, use our, you know, friends and our partners at AWS as an example here and EKS is, you know, a great distribution as far as great, you know, cloud managed, you know, Kubernetes some in a service that you know you can run in production. And just like Dan mentioned at the end of the day is still Kubernetes and you still need to spend a significant amount of time trying to like figure out how you're going to build out this feature complete platform right so there there are a couple of, you know, patterns that we've seen, you know how customers or you know folks working in this domain, try to like solve for this problem right one is a pure do it yourself approach so great. So the scenario that I described right, I really want to like make the operations related to Kubernetes simple so I'm going to go with the case. But then I decide to curate the rest of my, you know, technical stack using open source competence perhaps in a word from the CNC of landscape right. So then we're back to the same problem right what are we doing for figuring out a strategy that's going to allow you to consistently install these on multiple clusters. Then it becomes challenges related to you know upgrades, it goes back to interoperability challenges it goes back to security challenges right so it's that circle that we had like earlier in the presentation. So that's the first approach you're, you know, using a case plus just completely doing it yourself, as far as you know the rest of the capabilities are concerned. The second approach we've seen is obviously the crowd vendors have managed services that unlock, you know, some of these capabilities right so for example, in a thing within the AWS ecosystem. You might have in a cloud watch for your in a logging and metrics, there is, you know, a solution available for maybe in a continuous deployment on Kubernetes.  It's going to be on point in terms of just understanding what costs all of these represent, and just be able to like you know build out the appropriate, you know, in a cost model, just to ensure that you know it meets your, you know, business requirements or if you have specific TCO ROI targets you know you really need to be in a cognizant of the fact that each of these services costs their own, you know, money right. And you need to be aware of costs, I mean you need to be aware of portability right because if you're dependent on a cloud service, and you need to run your, you know, you're in that hybrid cloud world or that multi cloud world. That means now you're using different services, right. And, and one thing we haven't talked about very much is that there are many use cases, including on-prem in the cloud and on-prem especially where you need to run an air gap cluster. You can't use a cloud based solution for any of these in those cases. So, so I think yeah, the point here is a great one that that the managed Kubernetes services are fantastic. And when you're in the cloud, they're a really good way to get Kubernetes. Be aware that everything else that you need to do in terms of security in terms of networking in terms of backup in terms of, by the way incomplete list here is still something that needs to be done on top of those. And you need to solve those problems. And you want to solve those consistently organization-wide so you don't have individual teams solving them in individual ways, especially differently in individual clouds and on-prem locations. Exactly. A unified operational experience, right. We touched upon that a little bit earlier in the presentation, right. You really want to have a consistent experience, especially if you're trying to tackle a hybrid cloud deployment or a multi-cloud strategy. You really want to strive for having a unified experience irrespective of what your underlying infrastructure looks like, right, whether it's on-prem or bare metal. Dan mentioned air gap, right. If you have workloads that are running in your private data center, are you going to, something to think about is are you going to have a different operating model when it comes down to like, you know, versus what you have in the cloud. And then the third approach that I was going to touch on a little bit is the fact that the cloud vendors obviously being very customer-first, you know, they are working towards like enabling some of these capabilities, you know, with EKS, right. So we definitely want to acknowledge that and, you know, that is something that's, you know, gathering ahead of steam. Again, it more or less aligns with what the challenges are as far as, you know, the second scenario was concerned, which is you end up using, you lose a little bit of portability there, just purely because you're using opinionated tooling which will, you know, just work in a specific cloud vendors ecosystem.  So the loss of portability is, you know, pretty key there as well. So the graphic on the right, what it just meant to articulate is with DTOIQ's, you know, Kubernetes platform with EKS, it's a complete integrated in-outernity solution using open source technology that allows you to like, you know, standardize your experience across any infrastructure. That's the key takeaway here. All right. Should we kind of wrap up the technology portion? Yeah. Yeah. So, sum it up for me. How do you do Kubernetes, Ray? Yeah. Let's put it all together. Let's put it all together, right. So this is the key takeaway here, right. Committing to open source. We really, again, we heart on the open source aspect of, you know, the benefits of open source and why, you know, portability matters. We really want to get to a point where there is a standardization of operations, right. And you really want to start looking at clusters themselves as cattle, right.  And now it's gone to a point where you can significantly automate your operations where you can start looking at your Kubernetes clusters themselves as cattle, right.  Adopt a mindset that just allows you to declare the state of a Kubernetes cluster and get up and running, you know, really quick without any human intervention.  I can't emphasize that enough. I was at a company that was looking at opening a new region, and they were budgeting a quarter to open up their new region. And the reason is that that bottom, it's all run by humans. Yes, yes, they're scripted stuff they bought me some things, but they are literally yeah it's going to take months to ensure everything is installed in that region the clusters are created properly they were running some Kubernetes and some VMs, but that's not the way you want to be when it's time to turn up another cluster somewhere that should be as simple as it change in a config file, and everything else happens. Everything, every bit in that stack from the deployment of Kubernetes whether it's a managed Kubernetes or not to every everything else that happens should be declarative and opening up that that new region, or, you know, falling over to it it might just be a new it might just be a new availability zone right it doesn't have to be you're opening a new region should be should be done in that way. Yeah, exactly. And the power and then yeah, go ahead and say and make sure that you're ready for your deployment patterns right, you might have some things that needs to run in a particular place you might have some things that need to run on Prem. Understand those those going in so as you're choosing your solutions, they will work there. If you have a reason to run air gap clusters whether on Prem, or, or in the cloud or you know moving vehicle for example, make sure that you're choosing a solution that's going to work in those those different deployment patterns. Yeah, exactly working way backwards from you know what your business needs right you know that's that's I that's that's kind of like my line you know just working. Don't do not make you know decisions that are really not going to serve your organizations in a purpose right so figure out like if it's an on Prem strategy that you need or if they're for specific reasons you need to have an air gap deployment or you're deploying a platform to the edge you know we've seen some pretty cool in a use cases where you want to move the computer towards the edge you know where the data is right and you can definitely enable or you can use Kubernetes to build a platform that enables that deployment pattern right so I think we find that like pretty exciting it definitely lends itself to enabling really cool use cases in a going going forward right you know I made this comment earlier the world is you know increasingly apps centric and getting digitized and you know people want to build applications that you know unlock new streams of revenue or whether it's just engaging new customers or like you know figuring out ways to you know optimize on how experiences for your end users might look like right and all these lend themselves to like different deployment patterns and we think you know a Kubernetes based platform obviously done right is you know a way of definitely tackling those in a business challenges right and then I'll okay be Hold on being cognizant of time I think we should say okay so this is how you do it right from a technology perspective yeah but I know that there's one last point you want to hit and that is is it just technology it's not just technology right so this is you know for folks who have worked with me in the past is like they always say for me success is a function of you know people process and technology right so while we spent the lion share of this presentation you know just talking about you know the technology challenges or how we we solve for some of these technical problems. You know be cognizant of the fact that we really need to involve people and build the appropriate processes in order to be successful as well.  So some of this includes you know just making some of these cultural changes right in order to have a DevOps mindset or start building a you know practice around you know get ups. You need to have transparency and collaboration right so highly siloed organizations you know where think of it as you know development teams not talking to the operational teams or vice versa. You know that really doesn't you know really lend itself or like putting in a position where you're going to be successful with this initiative that you're taking on. Right, so I think that that's the most interesting thing here is that when you ask users what their challenges is number one is culture. Yeah, number one isn't isn't a technology and this is what you ask the people the issues and if we go look at the organizational challenges on the next slide. I think you see something else very interesting, which is when you ask organizations. What's the biggest problem for you adopting adopting Kubernetes. Look over there monitoring health and performance of Kubernetes cluster seems like that be important it's relatively small. More important is the thing we all hear about is how do I refactor my monolith to actually run in Kubernetes. And even that more important than that is the thing that should be we've talked a lot about today, which is how do you manage Kubernetes itself and that ecosystem all the components. But the most important thing is the people right the number one challenge people are having. And what I find that's interesting in this two thirds people say their biggest problem with cloud native is finding attracting and retaining qualified Kubernetes talent. My opinion Chavik is there they're looking at this the wrong way that you can't look at how do we hire all new people who understand Kubernetes. I think that the lesson that I'm hoping that CIO CTOs are CEOs are learning here is that we've got to bring our people along. We've got to give our people the practices the tools the training what they need to adopt to this new world because if if you're going to be trying to replace all of your developers all of your operators. You're going to fall farther behind. Yeah, exactly. Investing new people. There's great training available from an operator in a persona perspective. There's great training that you know allows developers to adopt a cloud native mindset and leverage you know communities effectively right so that's definitely in a part of the solution right. Which will say you perfectly into hey look at that. Yeah that's that's what it is it's it's all about you know people process and technology right it's about organizing for success you know you know the making the cultural changes are probably the hardest right but that's something that you definitely have to take a look at you know if you really want to become you know a devops or get ups you know process based organization, you know, changing your organization to reflect that is something that needs to happen right training and enable me to ski.  You know, engage with an expert or you know just figure out if there's a vendor out there that can you know help you with your journey right and you know they can come to the table give you the best practices, known practices and you know that way Excel radio journey for cloud native maturity right. Yeah. That's it so this is going to be the real final slide here right which is just tying all of this together. So what do we mean by doing communities right.  There's a lot more that you need to think about. You know, leverage open source it gives you the benefits of all the innovation that's going on in the ecosystem gives you the portability associated with like using open source technology, but there is a significant amount of automation in the automation space as well which just allows you to like really treat the platforms or your clusters as cattle right you know declare everything. Allow you know the automation to do its work right and hybrid and multi cloud is the destination you know a lot of you know common deployment patterns nowadays are hybrid and multi cloud and nature. It all comes down to what your business needs and it's just not about the technology so think people process and technology right. There are some questions that we've got in Domenico Vigiani asked, does get ups add too much complexity, which is, which is his first impression. Having seen get ups really done in practice, I, because I did spend seven years at Google and again a lot of these principles come from what was already working at Google. I will say, no, get ups removes complexity and I know that's counterintuitive because we're not working that way. But when you when you get to the point that everything the deployment of your application the deployment of your infrastructure is declarative. It becomes much, much easier to to operate things and that's, you know, that's the real lesson to learn is that there is a learning curve with get ups and that's why we have you have to bring your people along and understand them. But when you have that declarative nature of your application. It makes running an application much easier right you tell the system hey, this needs to run it always needs six pods up. Right. That's it. You no longer have to have someone who's operating an operator who knows if something's going wrong in the middle of the night, they've got to figure out okay who pressed what button to do the wrong thing so that this isn't working anymore. The system has a checked in state that says no we need six parts, how's running the system will handle that. And the example I gave of turning up a new, a new region is is very is is really really you know how to do it today. So we can enumerate say yeah we know how to do that it's going to it's going to take us three months but we can we can get the clusters turned up the right servers turned up the right things installed, or you move to a complete get ups way and and and the deployment is all automatic from the clusters themselves, every component on top of the clusters including your application so there's a learning curve, but it's when you when you know you you learn this new way of doing things and you realize no it's not more complicated it's just different. Yeah. Yeah.  I was going to say do you want to take the next one out this this is not an advertisement. This is a real real question. What other advantages are and tool sets are available with the D2 IQ Kubernetes platform other than the ones that were shown on that slide. We had that that slide with all those votes what else. What else does D2 IQ bring thank you for the question. What else is D2 IQ bring so D2 IQ, the D2 IQ Kubernetes platform to be specific. Again, under the covers the technology that we use in order to like help out our customers with this decorative way of approaching both operations and application deployments is, you know, through the use of you know cluster API and in a flux CD right so if it's getting into the one level lower the way we orchestrate or obfuscate the underlying infrastructure is through the use of in a cluster API right so if it's EKS or it's another managed in a community service. It works consistently and you have that similar experience you know either through the CLI or through the UI to be able to orchestrate any of the underlying in a cloud infrastructure is right. So how we deploy what we call those you know applications or you know what we the applications that you need in order to be platform ready is through you know the use of get ups right through the use of flux CD where you know we are able to give you an opinionated stack and I think this will answer the other question. You know that just came in as well right which is a list of technologies that work with DKP and you know, and whatnot right. So, we have DKP has gotten an opinionated set of like applications that make you production ready. But then, again, it goes back to the value proposition that we just discussed with communities which is the whole plugability aspect right you can choose to like you know turn off like you know one of those applications and you know just deploy your own right and we do have a list of you know vendors that we've worked with to like you know, get those applications supported and you know certified. But we have a pretty rich in a partner ecosystem as well that we work with you know to ensure that you know their solutions in a work on, you know the communities platform that D2IQ bills right and again at the end of the day it's open source communities. So if there are instructions, perhaps on how do you deploy let's say Lumio here for network segmentation on communities you know there's a very high probability is just going to work out of the box right. So, we can definitely discuss a little bit more. Yeah. So thank you very much for the questions. I really appreciate it. Oh, question last one last one came in from Luis Felipe. What what option is better open stack on top of Kubernetes or Kubernetes on top of open stack. That is that is interesting I don't know if I have an opinion on that right when I've worked with open stack in the past you know I've always looked at open stack as an infrastructure is a service solution, right. And the container orchestration piece that sits on top of the infrastructure is a service solution I know that they're there are a couple of solutions that look at it a little bit inversely as well. But I don't know if I have an opinion on that that is something that we have to you know look into my immediate reaction is I'm just aware of open stack as just being an infrastructure as a service provider that you know Kubernetes could potentially you know sit on top of and you know orchestrate you know containers for right but you know there needs to be some research that we need to do to figure out the pros and cons of the other topology. I'm certainly hearing customers again talking about Kubernetes running on top of open stack because they look for what goes between Kubernetes and the bare metal are you going to install something there or not. And if you're in open stack certainly is a possibility. So thank you for the question. And with that, I'd like to thank everyone for their time today should fake thank you very much for walking me through this and help me out, help me learn a little bit. And with that, why don't we turn this back over to can this at the Linux Foundation. Thank you so much if you can Dan for your time today and thank you everyone for joining us. As a reminder, this recording will be on the Linux Foundation's YouTube page later today. We hope you join us for future webinars have a wonderful day.


John 4.24 says, Day that worship will worship in spirit and in truth. That's the word in the Spirit. The Spirit brings revelation from the Word. All true worship is a response to revelation. You can be forced to sing and to dance and to clap. But you can't be forced to worship. Why? Because worship is a response to what the Holy Spirit reveals about God through the Word. And if there's no Word in your life, it's not worship.


And I believe that in the New Testament as we see that spirited disillusioned, discouraged, dejected, defeated group become emboldened in the light of the resurrection. Their lives are transformed. Their faith is transformed through the reality of Jesus Christ raised and living. And Jesus Christ is raised from the dead in power as the first fruits of all those who would be raised from the dead in Him. That's you, that's me if we're in Christ. If you turn from your sin, if you put your faith and trust in Him, that's you!


Hello everybody! From this video, you'll learn how to extend disk C if the extend volume button is inactive and how to increase your disk size without losing data. Most of the time, it will concern local disk C as it is usually the system partition that runs out of space first. Many users face this problem. The extend volume button appears to be grayed out when they try to increase the size of a partition. The most common reason is that the unallocated space is situated on another physical disk, and this is when extension operations are not possible. The unallocated disk space and the disk you want to extend should be located on the same physical disk so that they may interact with each other. What is more, the unallocated disk space should be located to the right of the partition that you would like to extend. Well, the first method of extending disk C is without using third-party software tools, that is, with integrated Windows features only. The built-in disk management tool has rather limited functionality in comparison with other utilities, but it will suffice if all you need is to change the volume size. The biggest disadvantage of this method is that you'll have to remove all the information from disk D. The only way you can increase the size of a partition with Windows tools is by making use of unallocated disk space. So let's start. Right-click on the Start menu and choose Disk Management from the list. We can see the partition structure. There are two volumes, C and D. If you want to extend disk C, you'll have to delete disk D completely. Yes, I mean delete, not shrink. If you choose shrinking, the free space that appears will be located to the right of the shrunk partition, and so it will not be adjacent to partition C. This little but important fact prevents us from extending volume C at the expense of volume D by way of shrinking. So right-click on it and choose Delete Volume from the menu. Click OK. When the partition is deleted, you can see that the unallocated space appeared to the right of the partition which you would like to extend, and it is situated on the same physical disk. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. You can also remove partitions with the help of the command prompt using the Disk Part Utility. The most important thing is to be careful and make sure that you don't confuse partition numbers, otherwise, important data can be lost. Here is what you do. Search the command prompt as administrator. Type the command Disk Part and press Enter. After that, type the command ListDisk. Now you can see the list of all disks available on this computer. It is important to remember that the numbers start from 0 instead of 1, so your first disk is marked as Disk0. Now type the command SelectDisk and add the number of the disks you want to remove. Be careful and select the proper disk number. Follow it by typing List Partition command. Now you see all the partitions available on this computer. To understand which partition you need, open Disk Management. You can check the disk by looking at its volume. And it appears that we should find DiskD, which has this particular size. Let's get back to Disk Part. Now we can see that the partition we need has this particular number and this particular size. Run the command SelectPartition. After you selected the partition, type the following command DeletePartition. Now that partition is gone. Have a look in the Disk Management window and you will see there is some new unallocated space there. Then right-click on Disk C and choose Extend Volume. The Extend Volume Wizard opens. Click Next. Here we add some disk space from that unallocated space. For example, let us set about 7GB. Click Next and Finish. As you can see, now Disk C has increased in size. To create Disk D again, right-click on the remaining unallocated space and select New Simple Volume. Assign the driver letter D, click Next, Format it in NTFS, click Finish. As a result, Disk C has increased and Disk D has become smaller. And here is the second method. It is good for situations when you have important data on Disk D, but you need to use some of its free space to extend Disk C. Unfortunately, integrated Windows tools cannot help you, so you will need some additional software. For illustration, I'll be using LMA Partition Assistance Standard. Go to the program's official website and download it. As you might guess, I have already done it in advance. There shouldn't be any problems for you to download it as well before you actually begin the extension process. Open the program. Here, we can also see two partitions. But unlike Windows Disk Management, this software lets us increase the size of Disk C at the expense of Disk D without losing data stored on Disk D. Here is what you do. Right-click on Disk D and choose to resize partition. Specify the required number of gigabytes that you would like to add to Disk C later. Click OK. Now, some unallocated space appears. Right-click on it and select Merge Partitions. In the window that opens, select the Disk Partition to Merge to. In our case, that is Disk C. Click OK. Apply. In the window that opens, click Go. And then OK. This process takes some time, and then the computer will restart. Now, everything is ready and the operations were successful. When you check it, you will see that Disk C has become bigger, while Disk D is now smaller, and you haven't lost any data there. But even if some information was removed accidentally, while you were extending a volume, resizing partitions, creating new partitions or formatting them, you can still have it back with the help of Hetman Partition Recovery. There is a special video tutorial covering every step of the recovery process in its smallest details, so you are welcome to check the link below. And that is all for now. Hit the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching and good luck.


Jose Alvaro Balvin, or as he's more well-known, J Balvin, is a Colombian-born reggaeton superstar sometimes called the Prince of Reggaeton. Balvin is one of the best-selling Latin music artists of all time, with sales that boggle the mind at more than 35 million records sold across the world. At the age of 17, Balvin moved to the US to learn English while living in Oklahoma and then New York City. He later returned home to Colombia, where he gained popularity while performing at clubs across the city of Medellin. This five-time Billboard Latin Music Award winner and four-time Latin Grammy Award winner has made a big name for himself in the world of fashion and style as he has a musician. Balvin has even gone so far as to call fashion his life's passion on the same level as music. And he's appeared as an ambassador during the 2017 New York Fashion Week. But J Balvin knows full well that drip doesn't stop at the clothes you wear. As someone always looking to put his best foot forward, he likes to show off every time he steps out the door and that includes making sure he's always seen cruising around town in some of the nicest and fastest rides in the world, like a Ferrari 812 Superfast. As nice as that Ferrari is, it's not the only speedster that Balvin has in his garage. In fact, he's an absolutely massive fan of Superbikes and probably has more of those than he does any other type of vehicle.  That's right, J Balvin has his very own private jet and if his Instagram is anything to go by, he uses that baby more than any other mode of transportation.  And that's just a taste. When you take into consideration that Balvin's family went bankrupt when he was still young, losing both their home and car, it makes sense that when given the opportunity, Balvin is making up for lost time. What's going on guys? It's your boy Marla Palmer here for you with a brand new car tour, this one taking a look at the whips, bikes and one gigantically awesome plane of J Balvin. This amazingly talented singer has got himself a net worth in the $16 million range and besides having a jaw dropping home, I got nothing too high. Balvin spends a lot of his hard earned cash on cars that reflect his personality. Today I'm going to show you a handful of his nicest vehicles and cap it all off with a look at his amazing private jet, which he uses to travel to concerts all over the world. If you enjoyed this video, please be sure to check out our other recent car tours we've done on the likes of Travis Scott, Drake, we got one on Lil Uzi, follow me on Instagram and that do McFly. Let me know what you guys think. Let's get into this video. Let's start things off by taking a look at Balvin's stunning Mercedes-Benz AMG G63. This is Mercedes exclusive SUV model that's equipped with a 5.5 liter twin turbo V8 displacement engine built by their Artissian engineers across the oceans in Germany. If you've ever wanted an SUV that can do it all, this is the one. But expect a steep price for this baby. It starts at $150,000 and that's for the bare bones model. While it's unclear how many additional features Balvin had added to this whip, he did get some super nice Forgiato wheels installed, which no doubt jacked that price up a considerable sum. Take a look at Balvin's car in action and see for yourself how nice it looks moving around on those snazzy wheels. Despite the G63 being one of the heaviest SUVs on the market, it can still hit 60 miles per hour in less than four seconds. So that should give you an idea just how powerful it is. But speaking about power, how about we take a look at Balvin's next car, the Ferrari 812 Superfast. No musician's car collection would be complete without a Ferrari or two. And in Balvin's case, he's got both a classic model, as well as one of the nicest and most recent iterations of this world famous speedster. Here's look is 812 Superfast. Balvin got this gorgeous vehicle painted and detailed to match his Mercedes G63 and situated next to one another like that, they really pop. But as nice and powerful as the Mercedes is, the 812 Superfast is so much more. This beast retails for around $350,000 and features a 6.5 liter V12 engine capable of producing 800 horsepower and reaching a top speed of 211 miles per hour. It's definitely the fastest car that Balvin owns. And if this clip is anything to go by, he loves driving it around. Next up is Balvin's Ferrari Testerosa, one of his most prized vehicles. This classic is from back in the day and was produced between the years of 1984 and 1996. So it doesn't have all the features or power of Balvin's other Ferrari, but that doesn't mean he loves it any less. In fact, he always keeps it close by, parked at home in his garage. Right next to two of the most important things in his life, his dogs. The classic Testerosa, which is one of the most emblematic from Ferrari and my two babies are the most important ones. Look, my dogs. Balvin loves his car so much that he's even used it in some of his music videos, standing on top of the roof and performing his heart out. Let's just hope he didn't scratch anything up. Not that he couldn't afford the repairs. Another vehicle that Balvin has been photographed in is the Rolls Royce Coulinette and really what better personifies the luxurious lifestyle of the rich and famous than a car that looks like this. The base price for this car is around $330,000 and features options like rear seat massage functions and a central cooling bin with two Champlain flutes and a whiskey decanter. This thing is basically a rolling wet bar. No wonder Balvin likes to call on this vehicle whenever he's got a party or event to go to. From the lap of luxury, let's jump to Balvin's most rugged and perhaps often used vehicle. The Land Rover Defender. Along with his Testerosa, Balvin keeps the beauty close to him at all times. In fact, he recently got this whip, a brand new white paint job to match his Ferrari and Mercedes and his car is recognizable enough in Medellin that his fans often spot him driving around town and dropping for a quick hello. The base price for one of these is somewhere around the $50,000 mark. But depending on the model, it can climb as high as $80,000. The design of this vehicle might come off a little bit retro, but few SUVs on the market are more powerful or more in demand. In terms of landlocked vehicles, Superbikes are by far Balvin's transportation of choice. I mean, just take a look at his Instagram. It's damn near a shrine to a ton of motorcycles. For instance, here's Balvin standing in front of his brand new Ducati Superleggera, which features 234 horsepower and full racing exhaust. Here's another series of images of Balvin sitting on top of a stunning Diavel, which has over 157 horsepower, 95 pounds per feet or torque, and a starting price of around $15,000. And honestly, guys, that's just a taste of Balvin's bike collection. He's got a ton more where that came from. For Enduro, for ride, Superbikes. Finally, before we head out here, we're going to take a look at the Crown Jewel in J Balvin's collection, his Private Jet, reportedly a Dessault Falcon 2000.   Or getting into an actual crash while taking off from the runway. Balvin has had some close calls while flying, but he's never afraid to hop back into the skies. And if this next video is anything to go by, he's either already upgraded his plane to a brand new model or is deeply considering it. That might be one of the craziest sites I've ever seen. It's like sailing on the sky. If he can afford it, Balvin should definitely throw down for that model next. All right, guys, I think we'll bring this video to an end here. What did you guys think about his car collection?  As much as I'd love to get my hands on an 812 Superfast, I can't get the views from that last plane out of my mind. Flying around in one of those is definitely going to be on my bucket list and I'm super jealous that J Balvin can already cross it off his own. But when he's as talented as he is, life is your oyster. Let me know what you guys think of this video in the comments down below. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram at DadDoBitFly, and I'll see you guys next video. Peace.


officer Heather Austin to sing the Black National Anthem and the National Anthem. Please welcome the Commissioner for the Department of Cultural Affairs, Laurie Cumbull. For Juneteenth differently because I usually start out with a big energy because I'm a big energy person. But as I walk around here today, accomplished doers, people doing things, going to speak, everyone to close their eyes for a second. I want to have, I'm gonna take a page, I want to have a meditative moment for a second. I just want everybody to think about 100 years and visualize what this place on this day would look like 100 years ago. I want you to think about what you would be doing if you were here. I want you to think about who would be on the stage if you were here. I want you to think about who would be in power if you were here. I want you to fast forward 50 years from now and think about that same image and how similar it would look to 100 years ago. And I want you to open your eyes now and look at the visual of our excellence, of Black excellence here at Gracie Mansion. We are at Gracie Mansion. Do you understand where we are? Do you understand how far we have come? Do you understand the sacrifice that our ancestors had to make for us to be here, to be sipping on champagne glasses and past hors d'oeuvres and hug kissing and taking selfies and exchanging business cards? Do not take this moment for granted. Do not take the place that you're at at this moment for granted. This is a very special, incredible, momentous time in history never before have we blazed the pan we are standing in in this moment right now. I just want you to think about where we are. I want you to think about the positions that we hold. And I had to write some of them down because there's so many. When we think about Letitia James, our New York State Attorney General. When think about Jomani Williams, first Black man to be public advocate. When we think of Carl Hasty, Speaker of the New York State Assembly. When we think of Andrea Stewart Cousins, Majority Leader for the New York State Senate. When we think of Adrienne Adams, first Black woman Speaker of the New York City Council. We think of Vanessa Gibson and Donovan Richards holding positions as Borough President of the Bronx and Queens. When we think of Hakeem Jeffries on the Congressional floor. First Minority Leader in the halls of Congress, the most powerful position in Congress. When we think of Event Clark, only Black woman in Congress from New York State representing our interests. When we think of Ken Thompson, first District Attorney that sends a tidal wave throughout the nation that we could hold that position. Opened up the doors for Darcelle Clark and Eric Gonzalez and Alvin Braggs. When we think of Rani Bishat, first Haitian woman to be the county leader of the largest borough in this county of Brooklyn. When we think of Chancellor David Banks and what he is going to do with our educational system to turn this city around. When we think of Sheena Wright, first Deputy Mayor, African American woman of New York City and it doesn't end there. It's positioned our entire lives and it's not only here in New York City. We are also celebrating nationwide and right here the 50th anniversary of hip-hop culture and for so many of us our own what has transformed us into so many of the positions that we have held. When we think of Serena Williams, seven Wimbledon championships, we think of Beyonce, 20 of Meghan Markle, whoever thought we would see a Black woman getting married at Buckingham Palace. When we think of LeBron James, hot positions like Dick Parsons, like Ken Chennault making a change for our communities and I could go on and on. Now I'm Commissioner of Cultural Affairs so in my position appointed by Mayor Eric Adams, I'm allowed to oversee a budget where we are funding the new Africa Center in Harlem. 651 Arts and Mocata will have a new building, Studio Museum will have an 80 million dollar new building, National Black Theater, the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance, CCC AD Open. We're going to have a Bronx Children's Museum with a new African-American Latina director, Alex, the incredible work also of our commissioner positioned. We have positioned what we have to do now. We can't let this moment pass us. We have to make sure that we support each other, that we work together, that we make sure that Mayor Eric, the greatest Mayor of all time, knows what's saying this. When you are all, bless you all, support one another, support our Mayor and let's continue to trail a new pathway for the next generation. Thank you. I really want to thank Laurie. I want to thank all of you and this is Juneteenth and as we reflect on this moment we need to just really pause for a moment. This is not a moment being under this tent where we came here to just drink champagne and just eat all derbs. That's not what this moment is about. This is a moment of, as Laurie pointed out, a real reflection of what Juneteenth means to us and what it represents. I just want to bring up a few of my commissioners to join the stage with me starting with Dwayne Sampson, the chair of the Board of Corrections, a John G. Hart, who's our budget director and who has really put forward real contracts for working class people, NYPD, First Deputy Commissioner Combined, Dina Logan from Mac Jay, Chief of Staff Camille Joseph Vala. You could give it up. Deputy Commissioner Mark Stewart, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright. Then there's one more. You know, those who know me know how close I am to my family. I had an older sister who I love so much. Right now she's going through some physical challenges. She taught me everything. She taught me how to dance. She taught me how to tie a tie. She taught me how to cup. She was so poised, so disciplined, so beautiful. Everything about her. She raised all five of us while mommy went and wrote. She surrendered her childhood because she could only be there for her siblings. And when I came into office, I saw someone that fit that description. I saw her poisonous. I saw how calm she was. I saw her spirit and I saw her and I thought automatically about Sandra, my sister.  And as difficult as it was for you to raise our family, she's going to have a difficult job. She's going to be attacked and criticized and beat down and call names and say it's not good enough. The same thing you went through, Sandra. She's going to go through. And I was troubled about it. I remember praying over and over again. But God touched my heart. And he said it was the right person at the right time. And I want to say at the last Juneteenth she would be at. I want you to show our police commissioner, Keshon Sue, some love.  I'll be brief, but I just want to say look where we are. It takes a man of history, of tradition, of values to believe that he can put me in this position after 176 years of people not looking like me in this position. I absolutely cannot thank the mayor enough for giving me this extraordinary opportunity to come to this community, to come to the NYPD, to meet all of you and to be your police commissioner. This has been the honor of my lifetime to work with all of these amazing people.  I will miss you all. Have a good night. The young child of a friend hated going, hated going to the doctor. He broke his leg and he said he'll just work it out. He never fully healed and he walked. Thank you, Sheena. He walked with a limp his entire life because he never got the real treatment that he deserved. And my people, that's where we are. Slavery did something to us. We may act like we are right. We may go through the motion. Matter of fact, we dress well, we drive nice cars, we live in big houses. But the reality is, from Juneteenth, two years after slavery was actually dismantled, the reality is that time does not automatically heal brokenness. And this Juneteenth, we need to go backwards and really deal with the pain of slavery and what it did to us as a people. Because you cannot see all that our ancestors went through. All the marching, all the praying, all of the dying, all the dogs, all the water hoses, all the picking cotton and then delivering babies in the cotton field only to go pick it again.  Watching the hanging and forcing those black men across all parts of this country, even to the point that you had to create a song called Strange Fruit of so many black men and women hanging from trees, burnings, all of that. Just to get to resiliency as Commissioner Combo stated. The resiliency, the magnificence of who we are to where we are right now. What does that look like? Four of the major cities in this country are headed by black folks. She did the roll call. She talked about Hakeem Jeffery. She talked about Latisha Jane. She talked about the district attorneys and three of the boroughs. She talked about the borough presidents. She talked about the leader of assembly, the leader of the Senate. She talked about the leader of the city council. She talked about all of the various heads of the colleges are being led by people of color and then digging to each one of those chambers. The major committees that determine who and what we're going to become are headed by people of color. All that we have, public advocate of color, mayor of color. All that we have, we cannot use this moment as backbiting and tearing each other down and attacking each other and destroying each other and coming out of this time with nothing to show for the power that our ancestors created for us. When I stood on the shores of Senegal and looked out from the door of no return, I realized that we left Africa in slavery and I returned with the mayoralty. That's how powerful we are. You don't use this strength to implode as a people. This is the moment we're in right now and why we petty squabble and attack each other.  Homelessness is on the rise. While we attack each other, we cannot pass legislation to build more housing. While we attack each other, we're seeing unemployment increase in the black community at a rate higher than others. While we attack each other, 200,000 black folks are leaving the city because they cannot afford to live in the city. While we attack each other, we're not seeing the productivity that we can produce. That's what Juneteenth is about. It's not a ceremony of time that takes place on the calendar of the year. It's a moment of reflection. Who are we going to become? Who are we going to become? And so I'm forever energized and you need to really have a close look at what's happening right now. They say that being the mayor of the city of New York is the second most difficult job that you could have in politics. And I say, when does the hard part start? Let me tell you, let me tell you what being hard is. Hard is picking cotton from sun up to sun down. Hard is watching someone beat you with a whip. Hard is watching yourself in Tulsa, Oklahoma building wealth just to have it burned down. Hard is going down a block and seeing your ancestors hanging from a tree.  I know what hard is. There was a scene in the movie Glory when Dizelle Washington went off to see his lady friend and when they came back, they brought out a whip to beat him and they pulled up his shirt and they saw the scars on his back and he held on to the will as to say, bring it on. So I know every day I read the articles. I know you think you can whip me and make me go from saying kute kente to toby but dammit kute kente is all I know. I know, I know you think that you can write what you want. I know you think you can talk about what you want but watch how I'm turning around the most important city in the most important country. You're watching the city come back at a level that no one expected. Those who monitor how you invest in cities gave us a double A bond rating. You're watching tourism come back jobs are returning our cities become safer and safer because of police commissioner that was laser focused. People are back on the subway system again walking on streets that prosperity is returning. They didn't think that I can do it.  I can run this city because our families ran households with nothing. We know what crisis is. We know what hard times are. Listen. Only God can take you from being dyslexic arrested rejected and now I'm elected to be the mayor of the city of New York. That's who I am. Well, well, well, well, we don't we don't like him. You know, we don't like him. We don't like him. We don't know what it is. You can say whatever you want but just make sure you end it with mayor Adams. Don't get it mixed up. Don't get it mixed up. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I know it frustrates you. You know, I know I walk around like I got diamonds in my thighs. I know that. I know it gets you upset. I know it. But right now, in this city, the 110th mayor is Eric Adams.  Just go down the list and see what's happening all around us. People who sat on the sideline for years and only could be number two are moving to positions of number one and they run in the city. Do you know what happened across America when Keshon Sewell became the police commissioner? You know what happened? So they want to tear all of us apart. We've been there before. We know the script. We're not going to fall for a victim again. And so I want to say to you, my people, I want to say that no matter what you're feeling, no matter what spares around us, we did not come this far to fail. We did not come this far to fail. This Juneteenth, let us remember that people gave their lives for us to sit on this grass today. We are in Gracie mansion because our presence graced this country and we deserve to be here. God be with you. Let's continue to move forward together. Back with never.