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Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to the new Zor education. I will continue talking about certain problems and theorems actually related to similarity and those which are using similarity maybe to get some interesting facts. Now, this particular set of problems is something which I like a little bit more, maybe, than the simple stuff which I was talking before. This is also simple, but it has this creative spirit, if you wish, which I am kind of insisting that Unisor.com, if you really go through all these theorems and problems, whatever is offered, and try to do everything yourself before, after the lectures, etc., it will develop your very creative thinking. Okay, so this lecture is a little bit with more of this creative spirit in it, if you wish. Alright, so let's prove a few theorems. Given the triangle ABC, besides A, B, B, C, and place A, C, so it goes something like this, A, B, C. B, P is an angle bisector of angle ABC. This is angle bisector, okay. Prove the segments A, P, and P, C are the base cut by an angle bisector B, P are proportional to sides A, B, and B, C. So what we have to do is we have to prove that A, P over P, C is equal to A, B over B, C, where this is an angle bisector. Well, as you see, this is an interesting property of the triangle. I mean, there are certain things which are intuitively obvious. This is not. It's not obvious that the bisector divides the opposite side proportionally to sides of the triangle. So this is one of those theorems which are not obvious, and to prove it requires certain, well, creativity, I should say. Now, what kind of creativity? We can't just look at this picture, prove it. I mean, there is something missing here. It's certain additional constructions, maybe, which would be kind of helpful in proving whatever we want to prove. And to do this type of thing, to do this type of thing, I will have to just, you know, come up with this new, interesting construction, whatever can be. Now, you know what it's too big for my additional construction. So let me just write it slightly differently. I'll do it this way. A, B, C, and this is P. So what's my additional construction which I'm talking about? I will, these are equal ones. Okay. So I will draw a line from C parallel to BP, and it will cross somewhere at point D. So BP and CD are parallel to each other, from which we can conclude that this is also the same angle because these are too parallel, transversal, and these are interior, alternate interior angles, right? At the same time, this angle, ABP, is equal to this one, as these two parallel, this is transversal, and these are corresponding angles. But since these two angles are equal between themselves, then these two will be equal between themselves, because this is equal to this, this is equal to that. These are equal, so these are equal. So B, G, C is equilateral triangle with these two sides equal to each other. Now, let's consider something which we have already learned from the previous lecture. Angle, G, A, C, two parallel lines, this is parallel to this by construction, and they are cutting proportional segments. So the AB to AP would be the same as BG to PC. What can we do from here? Well, actually it's already basically proven. From the BG, we go to another BC, which is, as I was saying, equal in lengths. So it's AB to AP equals to BC to PC. Now this and this, if you compare them, they are exactly the same thing, because this means that AP times BC equals to PC times AB, and this means AB times PC equals to BC times AP. PC, AP, BC, AP, they just commute and PC, AB and PC, AB. Same thing. So this is the same as this. So that's how we can prove in it. Now what's important lesson to learn from this particular problem? Sometimes it's not obvious how to solve the problem, how to construct something or prove the theorem. You need some additional construction, additional drawing, additional element to be introduced into the system. Now this parallel line, it's not trivial, actually, to just come up with this idea. Okay, I need this parallel line and consider this triangle and it will be equilateral. I know it's not trivial, but again, the more problems like this you will solve, the more trivial this will be actually for you. Let's put it this way. So you just do the quantity in this particular case, quantity after quantity of different problems like this, and you will develop this field. Okay, what do I need to help me to prove this theorem? Okay, I need this additional line or this additional circle. That's basically the whole purpose of all these problems, the problem solving. Let me just give you an analogy again, another digression. You would like to build a space shuttle or something like this. Now, if you remember when you were watching this space shuttle launch, you have the whole construction around it, which holds it in place and helps to fill it up with some kind of whatever they are using for energy source, service it, enter it after all when the astronauts are entering this. So all these constructions around the spaceship are necessary to build it and to launch it. This is exactly the same case. You have to build something around your problem to basically address it, to solve it, if you wish. Without these constructions around it, without the anal cranes, for instance, which are helping to hoist certain items when you're building the building, without all those extra equipment around it, you will not be able to build the contemporary building. Well, that's the purpose of these problems. So you have to understand what additional do I need to solve the problem, what kind of environment I have to build. Okay, next. Given triangle ABC with size rk, more or less the same thing, ABC equals 10, BC equals 15, and AC equals 20. BP is an angle bisector, the same thing as before. What are the lengths of segments AP and PC? If this is x, this is 20 minus x, correct? So we will use basically algebraic approach to solve this problem. Now, we know from the previous theorem that AP to PC is related as AD to BC, if this is an angle bisector. So let's just write this particular equation. This is an algebraic problem right now. So we have 10 over x is equal to 15 over 20 minus x. Forget about our drawing, we don't need it anymore. And just solve the algebraic equation like this. Now, we know that none of these is equal to zero, so I'm not going to go into the details what if this is equal to zero, etc. So we'll just multiply it. 10 times 20 minus x is equal to 15x. 200, open the parenthesis, minus 10x equals 15x. 200 equals to add 10x to both sides of the equation. This disappears, this will be 25x. From this, x is equal to 8. That's the answer. 20 minus x is equal to 12. So these two segments are 8 and 12. Now, again, lesson from this particular problem. Well, you can use algebra in geometry. Using certain properties of geometry, you can put together some kind of an equation. And using the algebra, you can solve the equation. And that's how you solve geometric problems in this case. Okay, next. Given the right triangle ABC, it was right angle ABC. Okay, ABC. And this is the right angle. BH is altitude, perpendicular. Okay. Prove that AH divided by BH, is the same as BH divided by HC. How can we prove that? Now, I'm talking about lengths of these segments, obviously. We can divide segments, we can divide their lengths. None of them is equal to zero, again. By the way, it's almost automatic for me to, whenever I see the fraction, think about what if the denominator is equal to zero. And that's why I mentioned this. It should be automatic for you as well. But since we're talking about geometry, we definitely know these are segment lengths which are not equal to zero. So it's okay. So this side is to this as this to this. Now, this thing is called mean proportional. Or this is also a geometrical mean, if you wish. You know the geometrical mean of two numbers is square root of their product. Geometrical mean of three numbers is cubic root of their product, et cetera. If you have N, it will be N multiplied by N. And different components multiplied by each other and the root will be of N's degree. That's a geometrical mean. In this case, it's a geometrical mean of the second degree between, because BH times BH is BH squared. It's equal to AH times HC from which BH is equal to square root of AH times HC. So that's the geometrical mean. Or in this form, it's called mean proportional, proportional mean to the other. All right, so how can we prove that? Well, I could spend so much talking about what to do and what this means, but the proof itself is trivial. Think about this. We have three different triangles, small, medium and large. They are all similar to each other. Why? Because the angles are the same.  And since they're both right triangles, obviously the second angle is 90 degrees. Same thing with this guy, the medium one. It's also similar to the big triangle because they have common acute angle. And another angle is 90 degrees. So basically they're all similar to each other because they have the same angles. And let me now do it this way. Now it's quite obvious. This angle is equal to this. This is equal to this. Why? Well, obviously because this one is 90 degree minus this one if you consider this triangle. This triangle is 90 degree minus this one if you consider this right triangle. So they are equal to each other. Same thing with these guys. And these are two right angles. So these are similar triangles. And if you will take a look at this, this is nothing but proportionality of sides between small and medium. Small catatoules of the small triangle to a large catatoules of a small triangle which is BH is the same as small catatoules in medium triangle which is BH relative to the bigger catatoules of this medium triangle. Now I'm using small catatoules and bigger catatoules.  So what's the catatoules which is lying corresponding to this angle in a small triangle? It's this one. And what's the catatoules which is lying against the same angle in the medium triangle? This one, BH. Now, what's the catatoules which is lying against this angle in the small triangle? This one, BH. And what's the catatoules which is lying against the same angle in the medium triangle? It's this one, which is HC. So, this is just the proportionality of the similar triangles. Nothing to it. Next, given the right triangle, I'll use the same picture, actually, with the right A, B, C, and hypotenuse A, C. Denote the lengths of the calculus. Okay. We'll use letters. Let's call this side opposite to the vertex C. We will use C as its lengths. And the calculus, which is opposite to the vertex A, I will use A. And the hypotenuse, which is opposite to vertex B, would be B. And I will put this as a B1 and this as a B2. So B is divided into B1 and B2. Alright, so what I have to do is I have to prove the Pythagorean theorem, which I think everybody knows about. Now, what's the theorem in this case? A squared plus C squared is equal to B squared. So, square of one calculus plus square of another calculus is equal to square of hypotenuse. You know what? I think people are more used to this. It's kind of, it looks better, right? So, let's just change the letters. This would be C. This would be C1 and C2. This would be A, oops, lowercase A. And this would be B, which means this would be A, this would be B, and this would be C. By the way, it is traditional in mathematics to use names of the sides in a triangle. The same lowercase letter as the name of the vertex opposite to the side. That's why I used against vertex B, I have a lowercase B side and against vertex A, I have lowercase A side. So, we have to prove the Pythagorean theorem, which again everybody heard about. Many people know how to prove it, but I'm going to suggest a very, very easy proof. And the proof is based on whatever we were actually talking just a second ago, that if you draw a perpendicular and altitude from the vertex of the right angle to hypotenuse, then all three triangles, this small one medium and the big one, are proportional to each other. So, well, let's do it. For instance, triangle ACH is proportional to the big one, ABC, right? So, how can I express the proportionality of the sides? Well, again, very easily. Let's consider the small triangle opposite to this angle. It's C1. What's in the big triangle opposite to the same angle? It's B. Okay. Now, let's consider this angle in the small one and the... Well, let's take hypotenuse then. Hypotenuse is B on the small one and hypotenuse of the big one is C. By the way, instead of C, I can put C1 plus C2. That would be easier. Now, let's consider the medium triangle and do exactly the same thing. First, we will consider this angle and the side opposite to this angle in the medium triangle, which is C2. Opposite to the same angle in the bigger triangle, opposite to this angle is A. So, these are two casualties and now two hypotenuses. In the medium triangle, hypotenuse is A and the big one is a C. A, C, which I will write as C1 plus C2. Okay. Yeah. Now, I have these two equations, right? So, let's forget about geometry and think about algebra. So, multiply this cross by 1 is equal to B square and this cross multiplication C2 times C1 plus C2 is equal to A square. I will add them together. What do I have? C1 plus C2 is the same here and here. I will put it outside of the parenthesis and inside would be C1 plus C2. A square plus B square. Well, C1 plus C2 is C. C and C, C square is equal to A square plus B square. As you see, it's a very, very easy proof of the Pythagorean theorem using similarity. Now, there are dozens of different proofs of the Pythagorean theorem. This is just one of them, one of the easy ones. Probably there are some even easier, but this is easy enough. Let's put it this way. And if you want, you can actually search the web for many other proofs of the same theorem. It's a famous theorem. It has a name. And well, actually, I think everybody knows the Pythagorean theorem. But if they are asked how to prove it, well, they might actually think of it before presenting some kind of a proof. Okay, this is an easy proof, so you can just take it under consideration. One more interesting thing, actually, which is related to whatever I said before. If I will ask somebody, okay, this is a triangle. It's a right triangle. This is right angle. Prove that A square plus B square is equal to C square. Let's say the person doesn't know anything about just proof, which I could just offer. Just think about how can it be proved. It's not easy. Well, it's easy if you know what kind of additional construction you have to do and what to use. This is additional construction. The altitude and considering this triangle as similar to Big One and this triangle as similar to Big One. After that, everything is really easy. What's most important and most difficult in this particular problem is to come up with idea that the altitude is actually needed. So it's not just, you know, once you know what kind of a tool you need and you know how to use this tool, everything is easy. Try to build a chair if you don't have proper tools. You won't be able to. So that's why it's very important to understand what kind of tools and in this case that's the tool. Similarity and altitude and similarity of the triangles is the tool. Okay, let's move on. Given a circle with a diameter AB, point P anywhere on the circle. Okay, so we have a circle, we have a diameter AB and point anywhere P on the circle. pH is perpendicular. Okay, prove that. AH to pH is equal to pH to HB. It looks very much like the previous problem. Now, what should you do to basically completely reduce this problem to the previous ones? Well, very simple. Connect these guys. Now, this is the right angle. Why is the right angle? This is the diameter. So this is 180 degree. This is inscribed angle, which means it's measured half of the arc supporting this angle. So 180 divided by 2 is 90. This is 90 degree. And now, all of a sudden, the picture becomes familiar. This is exactly the problem which we have just solved. Right triangle and altitude towards the hypotenuse. And these are two segments. The hypotenuse is divided by an altitude. And this is exactly the proportionality we have just proven. That's it. End of story. All you have to do again is to realize that forget about the circle, forget about the core, the diameter. These are all language related to the circles. Now, if you will transfer it into the language related to the right triangle, which is very easy to do by just connecting the dots, you will have the problem which you have just solved. Again, just a little push in the right direction will give you the solution. Okay. And the last problem is given two segments. Construct a new segment with the length equal to geometric means of the lengths of two given segments. So, there is a segment A and a segment B. And you need to build X in such a way that it's geometrical mean. Or, which is the same thing. Or, which is the same thing. Right? That's obvious. From this follows this, from this follows this. X square equals A times A. This is the same thing. So, you have to find X, which would satisfy this particular equation. Again, let's just remember what we have just learned. If you have a circle, and these are, let's say, A and B, then this would be X. Right? Because A over X would be X over D. So, how to build this? Well, very simply. Just attach one segment to another. One segment to another. Well, in this case, A is longer. A would be approximately like this. And B is a shorter one. In my picture, it's B. You attach one into another. Then, using the center of the combined segment, draw a circle. And at this particular point, where A ends and B begins, you just draw a perpendicular. And that would be the segment which you're looking for. Okay. I promised that this lecture would be a little bit more creative. And I hope it was. At least it was for me. I would like to encourage you more in solving the problems, whatever is presented on Unisor.com and maybe some other things.  Some of them are maybe a little bit more difficult than the others. Now, I will try to present as much problems myself. But in any case, the more problems you solve, the richer your toolbox is, and more developed your mind will be to solve any practical problems. Like, for instance, how to build the space shuttle. Right? All right. So, I do not pretend I'm building the space shuttle, but what I'm doing is hopefully it would help you to do this. Thanks very much. That's it for today.


Hey everyone, I'm Lachey Hall and I'll be giving you a live tour of Holcombe Hall today. Behind the camera we have Hi guys, I'm Emily. I'm a marketing intern for housing and Please go ahead and tell us where you're where you're tuning in from You want to show us the different places around? Okay, so I think that Holcombe is in one of the greatest spots on campus across the street We have the Pot Walker health center where you guys can go ahead and get any health checkups Any like diet advice things like that We also are pretty close to the Walmart on campus Which is where you can go ahead and Make any small approaches that you don't want to have to drive all the way to like the neighborhood market or Walmart on MLK Walmart on campus has a lot of variety and a lot of options that people don't necessarily think A campus Walmart would have but you can basically find anything you need in there We're also pretty close to the bookstore. It's right across the street for you know buying textbooks School supplies things like that and we're pretty close to the Union which has you know, the best food court Apart from you know our dining halls, which we are also close to We're across the street from Fulbright dining hall, which is my favorite place to eat But I may just be biased So do you guys want to come on in? Yes Holcombe Hall like many of the dorms are very secure During day hours office hours when the desk is stopped the front doors are open But right now because there is no official university representative at the front door It's locked and only students or employees with access can enter Good, how are you pretty good? My name is Natalia. I am the CRE for Holcombe and Future Halls So if you're gonna be living in Holcombe next year and you didn't know we do a lot of stuff with the two buildings together So you'll hear two halls one community pretty frequently That's something that we really look pride ourselves on and having y'all comfortable in both spaces So we'll talk more about what that looks like a little bit later But this is my office. So if you ever see the door open and I'm in here, please feel free to stop by Don't what you don't be scared of me I'm not scary a promise like if you ever have any questions or you need anything Definitely feel free to stop by your aries are here too For you to ask them any questions as well. And then this is Shamsa. Hi. Oh, my name is Shamsa I'm the G for Holcombe international student experience. If you're an international student feel free to come to me Have a lot of experience in that and my office is right there if it's open I'm always there come to me. Oh your concerns Beautiful. So we are just gonna walk through the building. We don't have your keys because I don't have mine So we're gonna head over this way Something that's pretty nice is on the entire first floor polka. There are actually no residents that live on this floor And so there's just a lot of common areas and spaces for you to hang out do whatever you want to do It's pretty nice. That was an exaggeration. Don't do whatever. There are some limitations Right for example here, this is a study area. So during the year we like to keep this kind of as a 24-hour quiet space For residents to use as you can see there are two rooms within here that you can close off So let's say maybe you have an interview coming up Or you have like a group project that you need to work on feel free to go in to one of those rooms and shut the door If the door shut people know not to go inside because there's somebody in there, which is nice But there's a bunch of different Seating areas and things like that in here that you can use to do any setting that you've got Shade you ever spending time in here? I have actually My greatest memory in here I think there was a student that was doing that had an international class and they were doing like surveys for the International students and you know whole come is normally like 40 to 60 percent international students So I remember they had us all like they had access if we wanted to be a part of this survey And they have us all like come into the room and they would have us full out and ask questions It was a really cool experience So I like to study rooms personally. I like to study alone So I like the individual rooms where I could just shut the world out and try to like focus But I also like like the group dynamic We also use this for a lot of like game nights and just like hanging out and eating junk food stuff like that Yeah, it's nice because I don't know I feel like in some halls spaces like this aren't used very frequently But you're always gonna find people in this space, which is super nice and that goes to say for just about every common area There's always someone. Yeah, I think you got a shout out Lashay. Yeah Geisha Miller And then earlier someone said that's my niece Oh So we're gonna head back towards the lobby over here Something to know is that the front door polkum and sorry if this was already said the front door polkum is unlocked every Day during the week eight to five because we have the ISS office here and we'll talk more about them in a little bit Which is why these areas off of the lobby you need to key into So definitely make sure that you don't forget your keys or at the very least don't forget your fob Because if you get out here, you're not getting anywhere else But moving on so this is a small little kitchenette That is here for y'all to use if you need it as you can see it doesn't have a stove or anything But there is a microwave and a fridge for you to use Keep in mind. We also share this space with the ISS office. So sometimes you might See that the fridge is pretty full. Usually it only be full for like a day or two. Yeah, because they're gonna be using it soon But this is a nice convenient space as well for you Yeah, and Holcomb has like it's I think Holcomb homes about a hundred and forty students So it may seem like there's not enough space But the way that I remember us like packaging and labeling this was mine like this is mine You can store your food if you want to like have something in the fridge like milk for your cereal I know I surely always had milk in one of these fridges because cereal is my life So just don't be afraid I know some people are afraid to like store their stuff where like anybody in Holcomb could have access to it But I never really had an issue with like people eating my food or anything like that So it's pretty safe. Yeah, and this is my third year in this community and same thing I mean, we've never had an issue of people stealing food or anything like that So wouldn't be too worried, but also if you don't want your stuff around other people stuff keep in your yep Totally get it keep it in your room. You can get a micro fridge to keep in your room, which is nice, too Someone asked about when we were going to do the Maple Hill tour and guess what Maple Hill jumped on in their Instagram account and answered the question Thank you. They also said Talia you're doing amazing sweetie. I Not sure who said that but I appreciate you So this is honestly one of my favorite spaces, I'm probably gonna say that for every space We go into this building But this is one of my favorite spaces in Holcomb because we have a beautiful piano that residents use honestly all the time and For reference my office is just right across the hallway over there where you met me so I get to hear it Well, I feel like if somebody's playing the piano here, it's a very public space. So usually they're quite talented Because if somebody isn't they get a little nervous, which honestly full-send use it no matter what your school Moving over here though. This is what we call the Holcomb living room Um something in both Holcomb and Futural that we try to really embody as Housing staff members is that this is your home. I mean, you know, you might only be living here for a year You might recontract and come back again later But regardless of how long you're here for the time that you're living here This is your home away from home and we really want it to feel like that So calling this a living room makes a little bit more personable makes a little bit more welcoming and with this being More like 40 to 60 percent international students This is also the room that we hold the global series Which is like we do events on certain nights Where specific country and like the students here that represent that country get to like give a presentation about their country they talk about foods Dancing like the culture and we normally like move the furniture and we set chairs out You just get to come watch enjoy and learn about the cultures that are around here and you're an international student too Is that right? I am from the Bahamas shout out to the 242 Did you ever do any presentation on the Bahamas? Yes, the Bahamas did have a presentation that I was a part of we made them some good food We talked about like the fly colors and things like that I think I also went to two other series There was a series for Grenada and my roommate was Panamanian So I helped her with her series when they did one on Panama A lot of good food in here. Yeah. Oh, yeah Especially when we get to showing y'all the kitchen downstairs, there's always people cooking nine times out of ten They'll ask you if you want to try it But it's great, I think the only thing that I would add about global series We met Shemsa earlier and she's gonna be the one that is in charge of all of the global series events and so she will be your go-to person for that and Also, if you are a domestic student that has studied abroad, you're welcome to present for global series as well Really anybody who has that international experience. We want to get more involved in in our community with which is really nice Yeah, this entire space will look completely different whenever we have global series themed events here Mm-hmm. I know whole come and future old the RAs normally plan events Based on any themes that they picked. I might want to one about self care Well, they just had us like Because the floors are gendered So I know the girls floors from whole come and future came together here We just talked about like what made us feel like, you know Beautiful and then we did like spa treatments. We did each other's like fingernails toenails. That's cute Yeah, yeah, we do a wide variety of things. We've done stuff like that We've had mini golf in the hallways that we set up with various like stations and stuff I'm going to bed. There's some people in housing that are crunching at that. They're tiny kids golf clubs. Not real They're all all plastic So over here, we are moving Towards our front desk if you look over this way, that is where the front door is just to keep you all oriented You can see my office at the end Our front desk is not staffed 24-7 and so we have something called a zoned desk Which means that during business hours. So 8 to 4 30 is If you need mail, so let's say packages or if you walk yourself out and you need to get a loner key You're actually going to go across the street to Northwest quad over in Morgan Hall That's where you're going to pick up your mail. That's where you're going to get your keys and all of that stuff There will be somebody at this desk starting at 4 p.m. On Hours vary depending on what day of the week it is. We'll have a sign up so you can see that But we'll have areas here. So if you have any questions or you know, just want to start by and chat like please do so But you'll see during the day like right now. No, there's nobody here. I will also say Personally for me I was someone who always have a hot a habit of locking myself out My room when it was time to like go to the community bathroom So you can also just call your floor RA each floor has two RAs I think except for the basement, which is where I lived and we only had one So I normally would just call my RA and be like, hey, can you help me? Can you let me in? So I would like to say don't panic if you're like, well, what if I get locked out in the bathroom? Do I have to cross the street in broad daylight to get Let back in there are like other ways but mostly For lockouts and things like that in the event that you aren't like, you know in the bathroom You can go across the court and miss Christie is there. She's always she's amazing. She's willing to help Yeah, and it's nice because you know your RA for your specific floor isn't always gonna be around They're not always gonna be there to help you. I mean, they're not full-time, you know living professionals exactly So we have an RA on duty and so if you end up locking yourself out can't get a hold of your RA or whatever Honestly, your best bet is gonna be just calling the RA on duty number Because they'll have it and they'll be able to let you in So we're gonna move over this way And like I mentioned before this is still a part of the space where Anybody can walk into you during business hours. You don't need to fall into this area if you look over here There are some honestly very pretty mailboxes They're just for show. Don't try and open them when you're getting your mail There are nowhere near enough mailboxes for the male residents that are in this building I think this would also be a good time to mention that your mailing address is different than your Leaving address because we get mail picked up at the court. And so the mailing address for whole com residence is 11 06 West Maple Street. Yep, that is my memory. Yeah, I'm so impressed You'll also be able to see that on your housing portal as well same place where you can check like your mail plan and all that good stuff This right here is Shemsa's office as she mentioned before So when RA's come you will see it full of door decks with her name on it and all that good stuff We do have an elevator in Holcomb, which is super convenient, especially for moving And we moving in in August. It's gonna be hot This will make us so you don't have to climb so many points upstairs. Sorry to our future folks because there's not an elevator in there It is also full So yes, even though everybody has access to the elevator you cannot get to residence floors without like access Which is beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, so again, make sure you always have your fob on you otherwise you'll get locked out Um, but yeah, so the elevator is right here to my left Pretty close to the front desk. We have a staircase right here that takes us up to The second third floor is also down to the basement and then right behind me is where you can see the ISS office they It's it's dark right now But for those who don't know the ISS office is our office of international students and scholars And so they have a ton of events that they do they do orientations for our international students I mean, honestly, the list just goes on and on for everything that they do We can have a whole you art life just for their office, but everyone is super nice So even if you're not an international student, don't be scared to go in and they just be like, yeah And they're like, what's up? Like what what are you doing? They'll also have events in the living room, which is super fun Um, it's one of the great yeah with food It's one of the great things about our community because we just have a lot of different people with lived experiences That participate in stuff here, which is nice And I will also point out that the university has a food pantry where you can fill out a form online If you're ever in need of groceries that you just can't afford to get for yourself at the moment And holcomb just happens to be one of the express stops So what you do you just fill out a form online giving them like a general idea of the things that you need And on whichever day comes first Tuesday or Friday You will find a bag of food here with your name on it. If you're ever in need Yeah, it's my service down. Yeah, it's cool. So the vac does that and we also have a smart my say small small like a small Uh food pantry behind the building as well It's outside and that's just kind of a grab-and-go type of thing And so if you ever are looking they're usually all um, what's the word non-perishables? Yeah, I can type things so you can stop by there and see what they've got Um, or I was just gonna say that yeah, if you ever like, you know, I bought Six boxes of pasta. Why? Why do I have six you're welcome to put one in there too, which is nice We want you to be able to focus on your academics That grumbles in your stomach Actually, we're going downstairs first. Yes.  It's not a skill that I have We can also point out that the doors there are doors that give you access from behind All come that are also fault So if you if you are coming from the back entrance or the front the front door is not the only place that you are allowed So we'll go over this way first and show y'all where the laundry room is um Something that's nice about all of the residence halls On campus is that laundry is free for you to use We also have an ice machine down here. You can find recycling down here as well We try to maintain a sustainable living area So recycling is super important to us. The vending machine is usually filled Yes, right now the vending machines are empty because there's been nobody here But the one on the left will have snacks and one on the right will have drinks And that's available for you as well to pay with cash Also the laundry so I feel like a lot of students don't understand how this is used But I typically love the laundry app. So basically You look at the number on the washer or dryer that you're using And the app will tell you how much time is left on it And so I know a big thing in college is if you leave your laundry in the dryer or wash it too long Somebody will come and take it out because they need to use it So that way I could have always like alert let it alert me when my dryer was done Or I could just look and see oh my dryer has like three more minutes So I should probably head down there. It just helped me keep better track of like what was going on with my laundry Yeah, and something I will say too is that It's it happens every year somebody just completely forgets that they are doing laundry And so they leave it here for like days Um, we have our ISAs who are our custodial staff collect that they bag it say when they collected it And it actually comes to me and so I hold on to it for a week So if your laundry goes missing talk to your RA talk to me. Yeah, don't panic Um, because likely you forgot it. We collected it But if you don't come and pick it up for two weeks, then we end up donating it because the thought is that if you're If you're not missing it after two weeks you're not going to and we're not just going to store it forever in the hall But we will go over this way so The basement is unique compared to the second and third floors because there are only resident rooms in a portion of the basement Um a large area of the basement is actually reserved for another common area It's also where we have the kitchen that you will see Something I'm going to point out is that right here that dark room Um, that is the trash room and so for the other floors, which we'll point out when we get up there There's a trash shoot. So you can just send your trash down that for residents living in the basement. Just walk it over there Um, that'll be a little bit easier to worry about. Yeah, I don't know how you do walking backwards You know, I knew that the stairs were coming up. So I was a little nervous now for my favorite room Yeah, all the whole room. So we have this Pretty large communal area, which is nice. It has a pool table ping pong A bunch of seating and then we have a tv over here That y'all are welcome to use you can also connect your laptop to it with an hdmi So if you have something on your laptop that you want to watch totally up to you But you will always find people here. Yes of all hours of all days I have about 75% of my memories are like smash tournaments at like 3 a.m. In this basement We love what's a smash tournament? Um the switch game. Um, nintendo games smash smash bros We would all like just have tournaments like once you lost you were out And the next person came and then who was the winner at the end just was like The basement king. Do you do you choose a specific? Smash bro. Yeah.  I will also tell y'all. I remember like it was it's a group of like 16 of us We were always together and always in the basement and we called this the king chair And it was whoever got to the basement first in the evenings got to like claim the king chair But then you would be scared to move because the minute that you moved someone else take it We'll claim the king chair. Isn't isn't king chair also known as a throne The king chair seems fancier to me to call it I like it. I like it But it's great because everybody you know makes your own memories in the basement has different reasons of why they really like it I mentioned this earlier, but we have our kitchen down here And this is one of my favorite parts of the basement is the kitchen so in here We have a full refrigerator. We have a stove oven microwave all of that good stuff Actually, something that I forgot to mention when we were upstairs Is that if you ever need to reserve like cooking utensils Or supplies you can go to the front desk and ask for those so we have and let me specify We have a lot of the basics right like mixing bowls cooking sheets pots and pans that kind of thing But it's on first come first serve basis. So if somebody's already checked it out Or you're just gonna have to wait until they're done So if you're somebody who likes to cook a lot, you know, you like to cook your own meals I recommend, you know consider bringing some of your own stuff Exactly and also if you have like specific things that you like to use We're not gonna have those so consider bringing your own But it's nice too because it has this little pass through right here And so there will be people in here cooking and their friends waiting Waiting for the food to be done. Yeah, that was the part.  So I would I could be like up in one of the steriles We're like, okay someone's cooking. I'm gonna go figure out what it is It's super fun. Um, oftentimes when we have our global series events too, like before the event because they Whoever the presenter is shares a traditional dish from their home. Um, they'll cook some of the food down here too, which is really nice So we will head back upstairs Um, there are water bottle filler stations. Gosh, that was hard for me to say on every floor. Um Some of them have like the Like the standy upy kind I that was the least technical term in the world The where you can just uh, yeah, yep, that's it the bottle filler Standy upy standy upy kind, you know, I stand by that. I think that's what it should be called Others are just draining fountains. It just kind of depends on where you're at But they're located all throughout the building, which is nice So something that I wanted to say Is as we're going up this staircase You will see a parking lot right here. Don't park there Do not if you this is a staff lot and if you park in this lot They might be nice and give you a morning the first time or you can get booty Yep, or they'll ticket you especially if it's a game day. This turns into tailgating spaces That's a hefty ticket. Sometimes I'll tell you just avoid this lot. Just don't don't do it There's a resident reserve lot on the other side of the building. This is the east side of the building. Yes That's the north side of the building And we're also next door to a parking garage. So just just save yourself That handy I had a friend who bought booty and It's a bummer. It was unfortunate for her. It was hilarious for me Yeah, you have a lot of parking options. It's not that We're getting through Yeah What are you, uh, what are you studying? I am studying chemical engineering. Oh, okay My unbiased opinion the best kind of engineering Now we're on the second floor In Holcomb the second floor is our male floor The third floor is female and the basement is female as well Um, we have a community style building Which means that you share a bathroom with the other residents on your floor So we have showers over here. Emily's going to show you what these showers typically look like They have separate changing area and showering area There are shelves where you can put your stuff on Do you like me to turn it on? No Full scent fully clothed all of it Then we have all of these things over here and there's a lot of counter space The mirror space is beautiful. Very nice So this is what all of the bathrooms look like on the floors. Um There's one on this side and there's going to be one on the other side as well for the second third floors Like I mentioned earlier, the basement is different. There are not as many residents on there So there's just one bathroom for everybody down there But the basement also does have two individual bathrooms on the other side instead of a community bathroom I think there's one male and one female. Yep, and it's also handicap accessible on that side And something to note as well is Since this is the male floor if any of the guys have female guests that come to hang out They're welcome to do so but they can't use these bathrooms because they are community styles So we have those two separate bathrooms down the basement and then also on the first floor in that lobby area There are three All gender restrooms as well that guests can use So Yeah, here's a here's a here's a water fountain that doesn't have the standy up each day Right now we're going to show you what a typical double room room. Are we at 209 So whoever's into a 90 person is living here and they're like, this is my dream. I know How did you be surprised off that happens? That's too funny. So What's nice is that every piece of furniture in this room is movable So you can customize it make it what you want the things that are not are the closets Um So in the closets you can hang stuff up something to know Is that there's a mirror? Yes every single closet in the resident rooms has a full-length mirror So if you're going to be living in Holcomb Don't bring a full-length mirror because there's going to be two if you you know are in a double You have a roommate if you're in a single well, there's just going to be the one for yours Um, but yeah, it has a mirror. So don't throw up on me. So you won't need it now if you want multiple that's fine That's your thing. Um, they're also over here on this side. There's some shelving as well That you can use I typically use the shelving for my shoes Yeah, and kept like the hiding space so i'm just like Shoes like shirts and then I put my pants on top to kind of like Yeah, okay with the aesthetic that my life is together And I'm ready for college like my closet is probably the most organized thing So I get it. Yeah, I totally get it. Um, but you also will each have your own dresser as well The beds are twin XL's which means that the mattress is 80 inches long um We also each resident in the rooms has a small night stand That has a drawer that locks So if you have some things Um that you don't want your roommate to have access to you can put them in here I would have yeah, I definitely had one. Um, I would advise getting a cold lock versus a key lock Because there was a point in time. Um in the semester where I lost like the key to my lock and that was the whole thing. But then I got like a Pin one where I just had to remember the pin and I just wrote it down someplace safe Um, because I know a lot of people they're like, oh, well, I already have a pot lock So they just bring one But then if you lose the key then your drawer is closed forever So I they're like three or four dollars at walmart They do sell them at the walmart on campus as well. So it's pretty easy to get one Yeah, and um one other thing that I wanted to mention. Sorry. I keep bringing you on circles Um, you can use this storage up here As you can tell I'm I'm five six and a half And there's no way I can reach that Yeah, it's just nothing Oftentimes residents will use that to just like put suitcases up there and things up to you You can also hang your outfit for the next day off of it, which is what I often did Act like you have your life together. Yeah, you act like it's true One last thing the map of all the doors have towel wraps on them as well. So you can Have that available Yeah, do we have any questions about the room? No, but guys feel free to ask any questions you guys have about Dimensions or anything in the room? No, this is usually the part of the tour Most questions so I've been like psyching myself up for it Why don't we do an interior on the drawers because that's often the questions that gets asked People who watch the show even after Yes The interior of our drawers are 26 inches And then you mind getting both dimensions With I guess and The questions are coming in now. Okay. Yes. So 20 By 26. There we go. Rayna asks, can we get the measurements of the window? You're welcome to bring curtains to hang up. Just know that you can't put any holes You can't put any holes in the walls So make sure that you're using command hooks and things like that to hang things up 47 inches And then what about the one up and down? Yeah, up and down. Yeah, from a little bit probably For attention ride You go, let me see if I can hold this away slightly I think that should be fine. 78 inches Okay, not to the ceiling now, but to the inside I think they want to put attention right up there 65 inches There's not a lot of room there to put attention right Yeah Janine asks, what's the highest loftable height of the bed? Offhand we don't have that number unless you just happen to know it But if you go to movein.uark.edu the move in website then go to the page. It's ready to arrive You'll see lofting information and in that area you will find the maximum and the minimum And then you can know that it goes three inches You can go every three inches with that Yeah, and something just for a visual Sorry we don't have that specific number for you But you can, if you want to loft your bed higher than this that's totally an option You'll want to put in a work order for that and they bring another set of these and stabilize them And so it can go up to here so you can fit You can reasonably fit your desk underneath You know, I'll some people will bring futons Yeah, yeah, I mean it goes up pretty high as long as you're comfortable climbing the rails And then work order process is going to the website housing forward slash fix it fix it fix it And there our maintenance guy Jeff is just oh my gosh a gem of a human being If you ever see him he you'll hear him before you see him Men have so many keys on his belt loop. You hear him a mile away But if you ever run into him, definitely definitely say hi I mean he is so kind and he is always excited to make sure that y'all are comfortable in your room So that everything's working the way that it should be He does a great job with it. And so if you place that work order Um at housing.urf.edu slash fix it. He will be the one coming in to help out with it. Um, just know At the beginning of the year everybody Yes, everybody is putting in work orders. So it will probably take him a little bit to get to yours Um during the normal portions of the year Yeah, the turnaround is much quicker But since you know, we have hundreds of students moving in at the same time because he's the maintenance man for Holcomb and Futural Um, he's got a lot going on. So just just have some patience have some grace with him, but It's definitely an option for you to waft it I would also say like a trick for me as a student because I know a lot of times we give like Oh go to urf.edu forward slash back would slash this this that I normally just put like you arc and then whatever i'm looking for 10 out of 10 times the first link will give you what you need So like anytime I can't remember how to get to the maintenance request I just put you arc maintenance request and like it's literally most of time the first link So that's the trick. I just put you arc before a word and that's how I find your google powers are strong Honestly, google is your best friend like I said before this is gonna be my third year in this community And I still google things because there are just so many websites where you can find info Um, Emily is there another question? Yeah, someone asked does the closet lock? Yes So you can see um, it's actually a deadbolt that it walks with that's right here. Um, but the key You have a specific key for it. So you can lock your things in there as well How big are the locked drawers? Yes, this is a joke for me You got the measuring skills. I do Okay, so we got 20 long and 14 across And someone asked what are the size of the shelves in the closet? Oh, why don't we find that? So it's nine deep 27 across There are also a lot of slant Which is why I normally use them for shoes. So just be aware of that Because if something's too heavy and you put it at the top it may just like slide off Uh, Janine asked what's the height of the dresser? Will it fit the dresser underneath? Have you put the bed to the highest loft currently or maybe even the second one? Yes, yeah dressers can fit a little bit Can confirm. Yeah, do you want to measure what the actual height is? Yes Yeah, like she said If you locked it all the way to the top on this Like bed frame It'll fit underneath. You don't need to request that second one up above that is 30 inches So 30 inches tall and with what's nice about these bed frames is that it's easy for you to move them Like move the height yourself The only time you really need to put in that work order is if you want it to go higher than this Then pretty much just it's just a hook So if it's not if it's hard to just pull it off What I normally do is flip it upside down and kick it down Because that way gravity helps you Some people put it in so like they're like, I don't want this to move for the next six years Well, something that I recommend too is have your roommate help you or have a friend help you Um, that makes it far easier. So hopefully you won't have to get in We also have like rubber mallets and stuff that you can check out from the front desk That'll make it easier for you But you literally just have to lift this up and it will unhook it and then you can just adjust it from there Someone asked what's the rule on using pins and tacks to hang things? So if you have a cork board, you can use pins and tacks, whatever you want, but Every don't make holes in the walls. Yeah, that is kind of the baseline rule Painter's tape is your best for it. Yes, like blue tape painter's tape is great command hooks command strips fantastic What we do before everybody shows up is we do an evaluation of the room What state is it in are the holes in the walls already? So we take note of all that for every single room in the halls and then when the student moves out They go back through and say, okay. Is there anything that's different? So if you put, you know holes in the walls with nails or pushpins or thumb tacks That's going to be noted and you can be charged for it. So just avoid avoid the hassle avoid the bummer of needing To pay the maintenance fee and just use command hooks And someone asked are the r.a rooms identical? No r.a's um They have single rooms and so it's big enough for one set of furniture to fit into it Their closet is a little bit larger and they actually get their own bathrooms And so if it is an r.a. That is asking this question You have my phone number text me and I can walk through it with you at a different time And one more question til we're caught up. Would you recommend a mattress topper for these types of beds? Yes Now I will say honestly It's not like death defined to your back But I would say like in college you're going to be up some hours just like studying If you work while you're at school things like that like I do You want to come home and lay upon a cloud of comfort and like a hug And a full mattress topper is like talk to you I Will say though hack I just bought like two comforters and put one under me and one on top of me and that was perfect Yeah, and I will say like the beds. They're not uncomfortable. They're dark. They're pretty cushy Yeah, they're just not going to be as comfortable as probably the bed that you have at home You know so having the the foam topper is nice and a lot of residents get found them So and if you buy because like I said before these are twin excel beds If you buy twin excel sheets, it'll still fit with a mattress topper on it as well And if you're anything like me and you prefer soft beds, I invested in a two and a half inch um mattress topper and It was like I was sleeping on a cloud so Yep, I think usually the go-to for residents is anywhere from one to two inch mattress toppers Emily's a little a little more delicate and needed that extra half an inch But yeah, but those are all the questions we have Okay, I wish I could you have any Thoughts for our incoming First-year students and you've been here a while you Got any hacks for us? I would say well first of all I would say congrats for being accepted because this was definitely like I was telling them Early like this was one of the greatest choices I feel When I decided to come here as a university it Was it I didn't have much expectations But like it was I got so much more out of the u of a like I got community I got friends literally The friends that I've met at holcomb. We just went for lunch like before this So like I made friends for life living in this dorm And like like you guys can see when I go into the basement like those memories still like Hug me and like remind me of like my freshman year of college I would just say a hot don't stay in your room Um, I like wasted the first month of university Um in my room. I'm a sleeper So I use every opportunity to take a nap And now I'm the person that like does live tours and I'm like, oh, I have an owl free. What can I do? How can I go outside? How can I like be a part of something? So don't be afraid to just jump into something find out if you like it find out if you don't It's okay to not like something, but it's not okay not to try That's that's what I was wow. That was beautiful That's inspiring. We've got a couple more questions now. Um, how many electrical outlets are in the room? Oh gosh I would say good questions. There's one more on each side. There's one here There's typically eight to ten, but I'm not sure about this room. There's one here Let's see. I think there's two on each side so full In my if I remember correctly So on these walls, there's two and then on these there's going to be three and then there's one on the other side Yeah, so three five six seven eight No, two three three five seven Good one Math was not my degree. I was not a chemical engineering major And someone else asked do the rooms in the basement look just like these? Yes, I actually lived in the basement I'm going to tell you our rooms are better Just because it's the basement now we have a really big room to hang out with So live in the basement kind of really big room. She means that community area The actual rooms that residents stay in are going to be the exact same. They all look the same here The only other thing that I wanted to mention too is I know coming to college can be really stressful Especially if you've never moved away from home before We do a ton of events in our community So that way you can meet other people in the residence hall that you live in But also like I said before we are a community with Futural and so that way you can meet residents from the other building too Um, we have global series here. We have, you know, you're there's going to be floor programs that your aria puts on for your floor Specifically, but we also have all hall events and all hall events are events where anybody in that community Is welcome and can go to it and those are typically actually in Futural hall That way you all can become comfortable going between the two buildings and getting to know everybody And so if you're curious about where those are what future looks like definitely check out The uark live that we did for Futural we did that last week. So it should already be up on the website Yep Up on the website. So you can see it there and see, you know, lots of food lots of prizes Those are the things that got me to go anywhere my freshman year of free food and prizes The university is like top tier and like a man prizes You guys are really good at it. Honestly, I'm a full-time professional and I'm so motivated by food and prizes So I don't think that have changes Um, but we also, you know, it's easy to do things in your community It can be harder to get out of the building and off campus Um, but your arias are here to help with that And so especially, you know, you're moving in about 10 days ish before classes actually start There's gonna be a ton of events going on your arias are constantly be like, hey, there's this thing that's happening Across campus. I'm going come with me. You know, like Like I said, like take advantage My hulk of arias honestly just graduated last semester and Literally after I moved off campus me still went hang out and like I missed her so much She like made the difference of like my first She was the one that realized I was always in my room taking knobs and was like You're coming with me to this event And look at me now just in all of you, but so it's so fun. And I will say I think too Before you come to college The only real experience you have is what you see on tv And the arias and the series or hall directors are portrayed as being scary As being mean as like they're out to get you We're not like that. I promise like we want you to feel comfortable We want you to feel like you belong here because I mean you do, right? Um, and so they're here to be your friends Like yes, we have policies that we need to uphold for housing and we're going to because that's our job It's to keep you safe We aren't wardens. No, exactly. We're not we're not wardens.   Is it is it much different than this? It's not much different. Basically the difference is it's going to cut off about right here Yep, so it's a little bit smaller than these rooms just has one set of furniture just has one closet in it Um, other than that though, it's the exact same and lache your mom said If there are moms on as a mom, I felt extremely comfortable leaving lache at hokum hall You can be assured that your young adult is in a great environment. Yes She did my mom came with me Um, and I remember when um, my housing portal opened and said well, you're living in hokum and I went to pick up my keys And actually she was so excited. She was like, I'm gonna help her decorate But then my ocd kicked in and I was like, I've got to get out It's like I've got this But yeah, um She loved it. I loved it Clearly, I'm still here. So we still she's here online. So we still love it Well, do you want to tell us about the initiative that the student affairs is doing? Yes So we actually have something I see we I mean the division of student affairs has something called pick one Um, I definitely recommend taking advantage of this the idea behind it is that a bunch of offices and departments across campus have um Either an event or organization that you can be a part of and so the goal is before you come to campus You've picked one thing that you want to learn more about that you want to get involved in that way You can start kind of your university of Arkansas story before you even step foot on campus. Um It'll honestly it'll help you feel more comfortable because you're like, all right Here's at least one thing that I know what this is. I know that there are other people who are doing it too Um, which can make the entire process a little bit easier Yeah, and I think that's about it. So if there are no other questions I mean, thanks so much for tuning in y'all really appreciate it And if you have any questions, I mean feel free to call the housing office and they'll they'll put you in touch with the right people Yeah, but and if you want to see more dorms and more told us just check us on live tomorrow Bye y'all


Good morning. Today we'll be talking about IDP tips and tricks for platform engineers. In this case, the P stands for portal and not platform because this is BackstageCon. I hope you're all caffeinated, even though after this opening that kind of revved everything up, I'm pretty sure that we're all awake. We'll be talking about the pains that IDP solves. Why use Backstage, which is a question that I was talking about with somebody earlier on, and give you a few tips and tricks that we think will help you move along with Backstage. But let's start with introductions. My name is Oshrat Nir. I am a storyteller, a lifelong learner, a self-professed yogi who is more flexible in mind than body. And I'm also the developer advocate for Armo and Cubescape. I am at Oshrat N on all the socials where I exist, so feel free to catch up with me. With me is? Hi, everyone. I am Guy Menachem. I am a solution architect at Commodore, CNCF ambassador, and I'm leading the platformers community. We are doing a lot of content around Backstage, and I'm really excited to be here. For the last year, I've been working a lot on Backstage, so I'm very excited. OK, let's get started. We all feel pain. Backstage solves some of that pain. What it does at kind of a very high business level that all of our bosses will like is that it increases software quality. Well, that helps us, too, because DevOps people don't have to wake up at night. And it speeds up deployment velocity, which is, again, another great business KPI. But if we are to think about our own personal pain, it reduces cognitive load, and it improves our productivity, which is a good thing. And don't just trust me. Expedia implemented Backstage, and they were very, very careful with their KPIs. And this is the stuff that they found after about a year of working with it. They were able to ship stuff successfully on day one. They found that there was less context switching. Yay, right? Nobody wants to do that. And there's increased reach and usage of docs, which is important because it promotes independence of developers. And again, it helps with the speed. So why Backstage?   They're pretty successful. We all know them. But just in case it's not about the love of the logos, let's start with the fact that it's open source, right? It's open source. It's got a vibrant community. We all love open source. That's why we're here. Apart from that, it can be customized to your exact needs. Everybody in this room is a snowflake, right? You agree with me, right? And you can use themes. You can use extensions. And you can use plugins to make it yours. The last thing is that it's scalable and extendable. So one of the tips that we'll be talking about and returning to, so I feel free to put it here, is start small and scale up. It will grow with you. And you will scale the learning curve together with the portal. Lastly, and I guess this is something that I found online when there was a question of why backstage. Somebody, people said that it's really hard to implement. And it's a big deal. And why not build our own? And not built to your syndrome. We've all suffered from it at one point. The idea is this. Backstage is a framework. It's a canvas. You can make it your own. Implementing it initially for the first time may be a little hard. The thing is that with the new plugin system, what happens is you do the heavy lifting at the very, very beginning. And then it starts to speed up. And that is the important point. And Guy will take it away from me now. Thank you, Osh. Thank you, Osh, Rod. So plugins, right? Everybody using plugins. But now they're becoming much, much easier to work with. So as you mentioned in the previous call, the new plugin system. And what's the current state? Like everyone using today backstage knows that plugins require kinds of heavy lifting. You need to take the code. You need to install the package. Sometimes the repo is not the repo of Backstage. So you need to bring the code for some other repo. And this is why they're running the community repo for plugins. And then you need to integrate that. In most of the tutorials, you need to add code to it. And that's kind of heavy lifting, especially that we know that people that are running Backstage in most organizations are coming from non-Java speak background. And what's really amazing about the new plugin system is that it allows you to really plug plugins. You can take the image of Backstage. You can add your own plugins to it without changing the base image you're working on. Not the base image of the container, but the base image that's actually running and being deployed. And that's amazing, because now instead of creating something that we thought to be extension, it's going to be a real extension, extension point within the code. And that's going to change the approach with plugins. And what we're going to do today is that we're going to show you tips of how you can use plugin and how you can do a lot of things in Platform Engineering in order to elevate the new plugin system for that. So one of the main things that we want to talk about is continuous optimization. And we want to start with success. Like, everyone here using Backstage want Backstage to be successful. We want people to use it. We want our management to love the project and to invest more resources in it. And for that, we need usage, because if no one is actually using the portal, so we will not be able to actually show any success. And after we do that, we provide some value in it. So we add value to the portal. We hope that we are going to have usage. But the fact is that even if we invested a lot of time and resources to make it valuable, it doesn't really mean people are going to use it. And that's really interesting, because one thing is actually missing in this diagram, and it's the data. If we have enough data, we are able to actually understand how people are using the portal, and then we can actually prove our success. And adding data to Backstage is easy. We are going to talk about three steps. Now we are going to build our analytics and data in Backstage, and now we are going to do that. So we are going to start with the most straightforward way, and we are going to extend it as step by step. So the first thing is that we can integrate Analytics tool. It's kind of baked into Backstage. You may need to install one of the packages, for example, the Google Analytics one. And pretty out of the box, you can get Google Analytics dashboard of your usage of Backstage. And you don't need to work a lot in order to get it instrumented. And that's super valuable, because we can get Google Analytics. They are perfect in optimizing website, and make sure you are using them more and more, and get it into our deployment. So that's the easiest way. It's kind of pretty out of the box. And this is the first step. And for the first step, we are going to use that one. But we can extend it a little bit more. We got also the Insights plugin. And what the Insights plugin allow us to do is basically to bring usage insights into the Backstage portal. So let me show you a little bit how it looks. It's a plugin made by Spotify. And it's allowed you to understand much much easier how much people are actually using. So you know, like, where are the peak days, what happened during the weekends. And based on that, understand what is the usage pattern, and how much users you have on a daily basis. So if you are deploying a portal, you can go into someone and say, oh, we have 100 daily active users in our portal. So we're becoming a product management metrics and a successful metrics that we can use. And by the way, because it's in the portal and it's not some in a hacky way, and like, go to that good analytics, we will have your credentials for that, they actually get it on their own without you involved. And it's not only usage. You can also understand which plugins are the most useful ones. And maybe you launch a project to invest on there. Suncheck plugin, which we are going to talk about later, people are not really using it. Maybe we need to refine it. Maybe we need to invest more time. And that's allow us to actually take decision to make it much, much better. Obviously, if you're using the tech docs capabilities, adding docs into Backstage, if people are not really able to search them, they are kind of unuseful. So you're able to understand how much search you have and how much people are actually using that. But it's not the last step for analytics, right? Sometimes we do have events that actually triggered in the portal, but we want to add some attributes to it and we want to create some correlation that are not intuitive. And this is the most advanced level because then you need to go to the code and actually change the attributes of the events fired within the system. So we start from the basic, we are going to add an analytics tool. We are going to make sure that we have analytics somewhere and get out of the bot dashboard. We can add the analytics plugin to make it much more advanced. And then we can also change if we need more data and then to refine our data. And that's how we can continuously optimize toward what's going to be a successful portal and how we can prove our value using the portal. And the next thing we are going to talk about is quality. And the power that Backstage brings is that allow us to define quality standards within the organization. So, and I truly believe that quality is something that every engineer like. Like we do like to provide and deliver high quality products. But the problem is that it requires resources. In order to deliver that, we need a lot of resources and we need to invest time. But if we can bring quality into the organization and make it out of the box, we can actually leverage and elevate the standards and the quality standards within the organization. And that's super powerful. And now we are going to do that. And we are going to do that by three simple things. It's going to be load slowly, but it's going to be loaded. So, in Backstage, we got the templates ability which allow us to define templates. And basically, get them, I don't know what it will be loaded eventually. And what's interesting about them is that if we are able to define high quality templates toward the organization, people can create high quality service out of the box. They can maybe get tests in them. Maybe they can get, I know, SREBAS practices embedded into our templates, into our services, into our repos. And here we can find an example developed by AWS. So, they launch a plugin called OPA. And what they added to it is the ability to create and generate generative AI applications. And most of us, pretty early in the stage of creating high quality AI applications. And, but how can we make it high quality? Maybe we can take the AWS templates, we can use them, and then deliver our own high quality AI application within the organization. So, anyone who wants to embed AI can use those templates and create high quality standard application. So, it can be to AI, it can be to microservices, it can be to a new thing developed. Whatever you like, you can use them templates and leverage that quality. The next thing is SCARCORDS. So, what we want to do is to reflect quality. We cannot control it all the time. We can create the templates, people use them, and then it's kind of maybe removed, maybe they change the checks. But SCARCORDS allow us to reflect and show users what quality their services at. It can be multiple options. So, for example, we can show them the test coverage of their services or microservices. We can show them the security, how much secure their services. Also the incident, the reliability score, everything regarding about the scoring of the services will be reflected to them. And we can do that in multiple levels. We can do that in a team level. How good is my team? Obviously, no one would like to be on the lower score of the team scoring cards. We can also reflect that by services or applications, and then understand where we are standing at. And that's a good thing because people really looking for that, first of all, if you are using your APIs, they want to know that you can provide high-quality APIs to be used. But on the other side, they do want to know they can trust on you. And this is the trust certificate for that. And the last level of quality is SoundCheck. And SoundCheck is a plugin that allow you to basically embed checks into your portal and make sure people understand what is tested and then get a certificate on that. So this is a different plugin that can be used. And what we can see on the screen is, first of all, what is the bronze level tier looks like and which tests are going to be tested. And what is really useful about it is, first of all, we reflect the quality by score. And then we allow users to understand what have we tested in order to define the score and what they need to do in order to make it much, much better. And in here, we can see, for example, how a bronze tier looks like and also our silver tier looks like and what they need to do. For example, they need tests to be passed on the CI. And from that, we can leverage, teach them, let them understand how they can get into high-quality standards of engineering. We see that use case many, many times, especially with SREs trying to enforce high-quality standards into the organization. We can see that from security teams trying to bring security into the microservices, but they don't know exactly how to do that. And that is a key capability. So let's start from the first point. We want to integrate some scoring mechanism. We can leverage scorecards, or we can leverage sound check, allow us to go deeper into the check. Or we can configure sound check. So it can be configured by code-based. So we can define the check and make them run. Or we can actually create them from the UI. It really depends. Obviously, we don't want people to remove the quality checks of their own. And that can be a real problem. But it's really easy to define. For example, a service without a readme or without a catalog file, it's going to be failed. And that's really, really important. And the third tip of the day. So one thing that really draws the attention of people into backstage is the ability to create this single pane of glass, a platform or a portal that people will be able to go into it and actually see everything. And that's really important because sometimes during the implementation, they tend to not actually complete that. They tend to overload the data into the portal and make people not get enough value out of it. So what we want is basically to add all the relevant data sources for the services into the portal and make sure that they get an overview based on all the data we can get. And that's super valuable because we know that in every engineer organization, there are more than 10 or 15 systems that developers need to go through on a daily basis. And we want to integrate them into a single place so they can get overview of all of them at once. Cool. And what is that? So what is interesting about those plugins is that vendors and companies and open source projects actually allow developing the plugins for you and you just pick them, grab them, add them, configure them. Kind of an easy job using the new plugin system. And based on that, you can get the plugins into your system. And we can see the research by Robdy. And you can see how many plugins are used by how many companies. And we can see the on-page, per-gd, tech radar. All those plugins are very popular. So and now we can see a trend very recently that all the vendors in the industry kind of running after creating more and more plugins into their own system. And that's kind of amazing because that's allowed us to create a single pane of glass. And how can we do that? So we have the backstage plugin website. We can see all the website. And we can integrate everything from CD systems to observability systems to funny dev quotes that we can add in order to get some funny dev time when we get into the portal. Also, if you want to add even check into the portal and adding genai powered chat, everything can be done. And there are really a lot of plugins. So you can use them. And that's super powerful. And based on that, you can build your own portal, creating everything you like on this canvas. And see that, for example, we can run the CubeSpec plugin to get security or to get reliability score from Commodore, Datadog, ArgoCD, the relations and about created, intentionally like originally by backstage, everything in a single pane of glass. And any one of you can basically build what they want on their own. Now it's a good time to summarize just what we saw. So we talk about the single pane of glass. And now we can want and embed more and more plugins. And we have a few minutes for questions. So are there any questions from the audience? Oh, over there. There is a mic pretty close to you. So there are stands with mics. Oh, OK. Thank you very much. Good morning. I have a question regarding the plugins, because I'm a newbie to backstage. And I have the feeling it's always you need to build the complete image every time you need to configure a new plugin. Do you plan on the roadmap to make it more dynamic maybe? Thank you. Yeah. So this is what the new plugin system is all about, is to take the static configuration or the static way that you had to add the plugins, build the image, and then deploy it, and move it to a way when you can deploy one image and then add the plugins after. And that will make it more similar to our plugins used in other system that you know. Any other questions? Oh, over there. Maybe this is just a point of clarification. But some of these cards on the screen here, are those all part of open source backstage, or does this also include maybe some of the paid plugins? So some of them, for example, the Cubescape is open source of all. It will be open source. It's still very much an alpha stage, but we'll get there. OK. And I was specifically looking at the Cubescape, Argo CD, Gattadog, Cards. So Argo CD is fully open source. If it's an open source project, so the plugin is always open source. In most of the cases, the plugins are open source, but sometimes you need to add it to a paid product. So you need to pay for the product, and the plugin is for free. And I said that, and it's really critical, like almost all of the companies in the market investing in those plugins. So if there is no plugin available, we see a big trend of people trying to add it. Sometimes it's the company itself, and sometimes it's the open source initiatives just for the plugin. Yeah. And I just want to reinforce what Guy said about that. I mean, Cubescape and Argo, and many of these are open source projects. So if you need a plugin, we can build it within the community. You don't have to wait for it to come out. I think I got confused about when Scorecard was brought up, as well as transitioning into these other plugins things. So you can use scoring and quality in different ways. So Scorecard is one of them. And those plugins, which are more in the overview page as for different ways of doing that, you can decide whatever you like. So this is the nice thing about it. You can integrate one plugin, take one component from it, and then integrate another plugin because you want capabilities from the other one. And what's really cool about backstage is this mix and match. So you can mix and match whatever you like in order to get into your desired state at the end. This? Nice. I actually have two questions. The one that I wake up my curiosity was those gen AI environments. Can you maybe elaborate a little bit more about them? Because I honestly didn't get what actually template is capable of building in the end. And the second thing is the usage of these cards and sound checks, can we already use some kind of metrics besides it, especially besides these Scorecards? Any kind of metrics already provide the users this and that? So basically those are two questions that I have. So we'll start with the gen AI example. So the gen AI is just an example of how we can deliver high quality application templates into the organization, even if some people in the organization are not a subject expert of that matter. So for example, creating gen AI application is something that we all want to do, but it's very hard. So what AWS did, they just created a template, something that you can plug into your backstage and use the plugins and then spin up gen AI application. So what it essentially does, it will create the AWS resources. This isn't that example, but it can be whatever cloud provider or whatever Kubernetes provider you want, it's just an example of creating all the resources you need in AWS to spin up open AI or AI application connected to a database. Is it clear? So wait, if I understood correctly, does that also allow me in some kind of ways to even build on top of it my, let's say, clusters or something to this AI? So you can take the template and do whatever you like. This is just one example, but there are other examples out there, and you can always create your own templates based on what you want to get, obviously, on your cluster or whatever cluster you like. OK, OK, OK. OK, yeah, we're at time, so thank you for the really insightful questions. You can talk to Guy and myself after and throughout the conference. We will be hanging around Commodore Booth, the Armo Booth, the Cubescape kiosk, so come find us and talk to us. But let's just kind of close this landless plane. Wrong metaphor for backstage. OK, sorry. Think of backstage as a canvas, and you can build it and enrich it with plug-ins that suit your needs. And follow the example of these top performing companies that are using backstage to reduce the cognitive load, to increase quality, and to speed up deployments. Thank you so much for coming this morning.