In poetry, things are said in a certain way that you should not just read the line. You must read both the gaps before and after the line, because most of the meaning is in the gaps always in a poetry. It's not just in the words. It's not prose to tell you this is it. The idea of writing poetry is to fixize your mind and your heart to feel the meaning, not just to understand the meaning from the words that are said. Namaskaram to everyone. Wherever you are, the unstructured nature of my mind naturally found sugar in the ways of poetry because the nature of what was happening in my mind as a child, as a youth could never find a logical proper prose kind of expression because my mind was so unstructured and completely untrained or refused to be trained whichever way you want to see it. Because of this poetry became so much a part of my life, probably most of the poems that I ever wrote have never been seen by anyone or read by anyone because I wrote it in a whole bunch of small sheets of paper all over the place. And I think once in a small fire accident that happened where my car got burnt, I think over four hundred poems got burnt with that. So probably only… not probably only what I have written in the last maybe… since we moved to the Yoga Center in the last twenty years, probably that's all the poems that we have. Maybe a few of them, the past ones I could recollect if I could but generally it's all that's written. Here we are at eleven degrees north in southern India. This is an ideal weather for coffee and there are areas of South India which are mountains of coffee. I mean they grow coffee here. During my youth I spent a lot of time in Kurg and these mountains are covered with coffee. This is coffee country. In other couple of months, sometime in February, January and February, the coffee goes into blossom. When the coffee plants go into full blossom, the whole mountain will turn partially white because the white flowers just mean like flowers. And though the beans are invigorating, the fragrance of the coffee blossom is absolutely intoxicating and enthralling. It's very difficult to explain or articulate this experience. Many times I felt it in a few years ago, I took a few people who I wanted to know this and experience this. And being there in a coffee mountain or a coffee estate as they are known, it was inevitable I had to pen something about coffee. Tamil Nadu now, though not much coffee is grown here in Tamil Nadu, except in Air Card which is close to Salem. But Tamil people are coffee drinkers. They wake up to the day not because of the sun, mostly because of the coffee. And they kind of mastered the concoction. Probably the Tamil Nadu's filtered coffee stands out compared to anything in the world. They evolved the system of getting the best out of the coffee beans. Even if you give them very low grade coffee, they will produce great coffee. Here is an ode to coffee. As the seed does not reveal the shape of the tree, the innocence of the infant face does not reveal the sage or the sorcerer to come. The white beauty of a blossom with the fragrance to rival the majestic jasmine does not reveal the enslaving insane concoction of your beans. Half the world has surrendered to you.  Of all of man's ingenuity, in extracting pleasure and nourishment from the mother earth's breast, you stand out to be the one to inspire a fierce faith of unquenchable sort. You have overshadowed the Lord of Light. You have overshadowed the Lord of Light. As for the faithful, daybreak means you, not the sun. If the fragrance of coffee has opened you up, then here we are to read a few of the poems that I've penned in the last few years. And the idea and the reason behind this is, in our effort to make the presentation of spiritual process into an absolutely scientific and a logical process, that spiritual process should not defy logic but should be rooted in logic, which is a difficult feat because the very nature of the experience does not fit into the framework of logic. But I think very successfully we have managed to find a logical expression to a completely magical experience of life. Poetry is an in-between land between logic and magic. A terrain which allows you to explore, make meaning of the magical but still being able to have some kind of footing in the logic. Here's another one. This is called a firefly. I remember I was around nine years of age when I… with my family I traveled to a place called Subramanya in Karnataka, a fabulous place which I visited many more times later with finding much more meaning in this place. This is a place where Lord Subramanya or Kartikeya or Armuga as he's known here in Tamil Nadu or Muruga.  This is a place where he meditated and bathed in the river and walked up the mountain to shed his body. When I was there, we were staying in a small place and it was not as it is today, it was a very remote place, a little difficult to get there in those days.  The whole tree was lit up with fireflies. I had never seen anything like that. The scene of this big tree with fireflies is so deeply etched in my mind. It keeps coming back to me many, many times. And when we first moved into the ashram here around twenty years ago and those times evenings usually we didn't have light because the power would go off. Then when we were here we started noticing fireflies and suddenly these magical beings flying all over. So writing something about fireflies became very natural. Earlier probably my poetry found a big spurt when I decided to move into a remote place. My farm was very remote from the city and I lived there alone for days and sometimes weeks on end without any contact with outside human beings. At this time I started writing poetry about pebbles, grasshoppers, blades of grass, just about anything and I found each one of them was substantial subject to write about. Unfortunately none of those things are with us today. So here's a little poem on fireflies. In the moonless night the firefly emboldens itself to flight. In the moonless night the firefly emboldens itself to flight. The brooding darkness mocks the spirited flight of the fly delight. The brooding darkness mocks the spirited flight of fly delight. The limitless darkness could swallow this miniscule attempt of light. The skeptics, Ketankar's laughter swept the inner spaces within me to ask. The skeptics, Ketankar's laughter swept the inner spaces within me to ask, Can a firefly light the world? Yes, firefly am I?   During the Anadhi program in United States at Tripoli, Tennessee, ninety days, a gusty lot of people gathered. A whole lot of people did a wonderful effort to raise their sadhana to a different pitch and we explode dimensions which are not just unusual, much more than that and we happened to be at a time when there was a Guru Purnima. The most dominant factor of my life has been my Guru and nothing else. Even today in my mind, more than in my mind, literally in every crevice in my body, every pulsation in my system and my very energy has… it's just his presence which is the most dominant within me. To keep it this way has been easy for me because I don't have a mind of my own because… probably because of this, just about everything reverberates which is not me but way beyond me, way bigger than me. I did not see my Guru as a man who touched me, though his touch brought me to the highest level of experience and a revelation of life and beyond. The… the old structure within me somewhere would not accept it in the sense unless it came from Adiyogi, unless it came from Shiva himself, it's not real. So the compassion of my master made himself, turned himself into that form. I don't know if this was his act that he turned himself this way or that's how he really was at that time. But today and ever since, this has left me in a place where I don't have to make any attempt to know anything. Whatever I need to know, he and he are there, so it's just there all the time. So on this Guru Purnima, about these five little poems, tumbled out of me within a matter of five to ten minutes. I'm not a great crafter of words. It is just that without any kind of mastery or any particular language, through the grace, I managed to find some expression to what's happening or near to that. Here are five small poems which were part of the Guru Purnima day. All of them are titled as my master, brooding, squinting, staring, I could not hit the mark. Brooding, squinting, staring, I could not hit the mark.  The second one again titled as my master, lost, lost to life and death, both I did but moved me not. Lost, lost to life and death, both I did but moved me not. A man who walks with a stick comes to me, the able-bodied one. A man who walks with a stick comes to me, the able-bodied one.   Here comes the man with a stick to have me struck with his lightning stick. Here comes a man with a stick to have me struck with his lightning stick. Here's the third one, I let the whole world go by of spiritual and material, of land and sky. I let the whole world go by of spiritual and material, of land and sky. I searched in the mother's womb and in the lover's bosom. I searched in the mother's womb and in the lover's bosom. But such a one I did not find till I crawled to him like a worm. But such a one I did not find. But such a one I did not find till I crawled to him like a worm. There's the next one for, what can the poor guru do? All I have done is do and do. What can a poor guru do? As all, all I have done, what can a poor guru do? All I have done is do and do. After seeing all that is there to see, after seeing all that is there to see, he comes to teach me how to be. After seeing all that is there to see, he comes to teach me how to be. This is the last of those five. The breath, the breath that passes out will not come back. The breath that passes out will not come back. The guru who touched and left me, left me not and need not come back. The guru who touched and left me, left me not and need not come back. As one's awareness gains the needed sharpness or keenness, when this begins to happen, one of the first things that naturally comes into play is the breath. It's amazing how most human beings live without being aware of the breath, which is a certain level of mechanical action in the body, which is constant and continuous. It's truly amazing how so many people can live without being conscious of it. But once awareness begins to gain a certain sharpness or keenness, this is the first thing that becomes an amazing process and no wonder, breath watching as it's known today is probably the most practiced form of meditation. It is so basic and simple, but it comes so easy and naturally to people that it does not need any preparation. If one becomes a little conscious, naturally breath will be in the awareness. Probably this happened to me when I was six, seven years of age, when I started just enjoying the breath, the moment of my little chest and belly in those days, how the stomach and this chest moved in rhythm constantly. I must have spent hours and hours just noticing that. It kept me interested and engaged. It's much later that I even… even the idea of meditation entered my life, but just the simple rhythm that's going on endlessly and you cannot ignore if you're a bit conscious. So he is a poem for the breath, the beauty of the breath and the possibility of the breath. This is titled as Divine Hand. As I see the seemingly perpetual play of breath, as I see the seemingly perpetual play of breath, the breath, the maker of my body and the taker of my being when the timely moment comes, the breath, the maker of my body and the taker of my being when the timely moment comes. This ceaseless play of the unseen hand of the divine, this ceaseless play of the unseen hand of the divine, me firmly held the hand and the maker could not escape. Me firmly held the hand and the maker could not escape. There is, I'm sure most of you've heard this chant which the bhajagovindam chant where we're talking about how nishchala tattvam jivan muktihi. What this means is if there is an unwavering attention towards something, it doesn't matter what the thing is. If there is an unwavering attention towards something, then the liberation, the possibility of freedom cannot be denied to that one. Or in other words, the essential problem of human situation is a certain lack of attention. If the necessary attention is there, if the keenness of the attention and the intensity of the attention is substantial, you can open just about any door in this universe. How keen is your attention? Or how intense, how much energy behind your attention? This is all that determines this. In this context, breath is a beautiful device because it is constantly on as long as we're alive, as long as we're embodied. Breath is on and it's inevitable that you have to notice it. Probably most people notice it only when their body goes into a spasm of excessive breath. Normal breath, most people are missing it. This is not because they are not breathing. This is because they have a serious attention issue. These days people are even carrying their attention deficiencies like some kind of a qualification. Just bringing this attention back into your lives and particularly into the life of our children is most important because ultimately whether it's spiritual or material, the world yields to you only to the extent you're willing to pay attention to it. So that was about the breath. One poem from America titled as America. This was in the year 2000. This particular day is so vivid to me like it's happening right now. About three of us, we were kind of camped out in a small place on the Central Hill Lake in Tennessee. Central Hill Lake is a reservoir. The lake has a shoreline of over 700 miles. If you take a boat out you can just get lost for days and not find your way back. So there was a beautiful place which one of our meditators owned at that time and very graciously they offered it to us and we were working on something so we went and stayed there for a few days. Around this fabulous home there was some real tall trees wild untouched forest area and alone I ventured off into these steep slopes and I was just struck by what I saw there and this poem is a consequence of that. It's titled as America. The brooding darkness of this woods fit upon the native blood in the twisted tangle of the fallen wood. The spirit of the fallen Indian stood. The brooding darkness of this woods fed upon the native blood in the twisted tangle of the fallen wood. The spirit of the fallen Indian stood. Oh brothers, your identity a mistake. Those who oceans crossed did make. The greed for gold and land laid waste the spirit of wisdom and grace. Oh brothers, your identity a mistake. Those who oceans crossed did make. The greed for gold and land laid waste the spirit of wisdom and grace. The children of those who by murder did take are taintless of their forefathers mistake. But those who lived fed upon the milk of courage and pride stand as spirits of defeat and shame. The children of those who by murder did take are taintless of their forefathers mistake. But those who lived fed upon the milk of courage and pride stand as spirits of defeat and shame. Oh the murdered and the murderous. Embrace me. Let me set your spirits to rest. Oh the murdered and the murderous. Embrace me. Let me set your spirits to rest. This poem is a consequence of a man who stood still probably for over three hundred or four hundred years. Someone who was trusted by one who has a certain position of being a chief or whatever. Someone whose duty and bond to keep another who was of some significance safe and well. And when that which was interested to you, you could not fulfill and failed in keeping what was most precious to you alive. He just stood there in shame and remorse which cannot be expressed in words. He just stood there forever. The man died, the body fell and became a part of the earth around him. But a frozen spirit just stood there for centuries. When I walked down these mountains, when I walked down this steep slope and here he was still standing and probably, probably it's one of the most painful moments I've experienced in my life. I have learned to always transform pain into a possibility. Since then I did many things in the region and of course one of the things is to set up the triple eye of the Isha Institute of Inner Sciences on the Trail of Tears. Historically, this is a region which has seen tremendous amount of pain. It is known as the Trail of Tears. A whole tribe was made to walk from east of Mississippi River to what is presently Oklahoma. The adults along with their children and elderly had to walk and when they walked the old people died. The Native Americans are so particular about preserving their dead and the spaces for the dead so they could not leave them. They carried their bodies and walked. The bodies rotted but they carried rotting bodies and walked and walked. So this is known as the Trail of Tears which is where we set up our Isha Center and those who have been there for the last seven, eight years since we stepped on that land, they can clearly, clearly feel what we have done to that space in terms of its energy. How brooding and painful it used to be just to enter that space and today how it is. Well, still many more things to be done. I'm in a little bit of a hurry to set up the Adiyogi temple because once we have a powerful consecrated space, it will take on a charge of its own. So that's about a Mac. Here's a poem which is titled as The Untouchable. Probably this is one of the few poems which is a kind of a hybrid of a poem that I wrote when I was probably eighteen or nineteen years of age. None of the others have remained. As I said earlier, they all got burnt in an accident. This is not exactly what I had written at that time but I think yes, I think at least sixty percent or seventy percent of this is the original poem, rest I've added. So I think this was one of the first poems written here after we moved in here in 1994. There is a land that is beyond right and wrong. When you get to that land and lie there, humans who live for bread and toil to be what they are not will strive to hide their jealousy with mocking talk and the gods will descend to be in the company they wish to be. Once you have reached that land beyond right and wrong, you never have to worry about making a mistake or going wrong. Once you have reached that land beyond right and wrong, you never have to worry about making a mistake or going wrong. The ethos of eastern cultures, the fundamental ethos of eastern cultures is a watered down version of individual enlightenment. This culture which we refer to as the Bharat Varsh essentially is a complex chaotic concoction of multiple influences of enlightened beings. When these beings came, they did not teach morality. They did not teach values or ethics but they thought them away a possibility because one's way was never the same as the others. Someone asked me, Satguru Jay Krishnamurthy was a master of his intellect. Rajneesh was a master of controversy. What are you? I said I'm a master of chaos. I know how to harness chaos. I can make a chaotic situation culminate into something fantastic. So every master had his own way and all of this melted pretty well into the culture.  If you go to let's say Kumbh Mela, a classic event on the planet, one like no other. Every kind of path, the weird and the wise all perfectly fitting into each other, nothing contradicts anything. Everything is absolutely different from the other but nothing contradicts anything. Everything fits in perfectly well. This is not something that a thinking mind, a logically correct mind, particularly a western mind could understand. How do all these people fit together? This is because there is no right and wrong. The question is only about has it worked for you or not? If it has worked to evolve you into a higher state of being, it doesn't matter whether it's right for me or not, whether it agrees with me or not. If it doesn't agree with me, there is always another way for me. So this is a fantastic outcome of generations and generations of enlightened beings. Each one of them, unhindered by what the previous one had said, explored his own way, expounded his own path, never in conflict with the one before him or the ones before him. So this is the nature of exploration, that it's not about right and wrong, it's about just making it happen. Is the white flower the most beautiful one or the red flower the most beautiful one? Such questions don't arise out here. Such questions have come from cultures which are steeped in morality as to something has to be good and something has to be bad. In this state of making something right and making something wrong, there is no way a spiritual process can happen because essentially spiritual process means all inclusiveness. If you cannot embrace everything the way it is, if you have to accept some and reject some, then there will be no spiritual process. You will only have morality, no spirituality. This reminds me of a fantastic story, a situation rather, which happened in Bahubali's life. Myself and Bahubali for a few years had a great affair. There is a place called Gomata Giri which is a little over twenty-five kilometers from Mysore city. There is a eighteen-foot tall statue of Gomata standing naked on top of a rock, I think it's eleven-hundred-year-old statue, which was lost with overgrowth of forest and only about probably somewhere in late sixties it was rediscovered.  I met this old man. He was in his seventies still cutting stone and doing physical work and when I spoke to him a completely unschooled illiterate person, he was such an amazing guy. Just having found this Gomateshwara, his whole life was transformed. He became a great devotee, a simple stone cutter, turn into a fantastic devotee and I met him probably eighty-three or eighty-four when I was there and I conducted a few programs and spent a certain amount of time in Gomategiri. There are any number of things I can say about this place because so many things happened there. This was a time after 1982, my own experiences had blossomed and but I was trying to find articulation to what was happening within me. It was a very crucial time where Gomateshwara came into my life and as I said we had a great affair. So there is a wonderful situation in Gomata's life. He and his brother fought many battles together initially, later on they fought against each other. After having a bloodbath, after having slaughtered thousands of people, one day Bahubali or Gomata realized what is the point of all this bloodshed and he went and stood in penance naked just there. You'll always see the statues of Gomata standing naked with wines going up his legs or his body to show that he stood there for a very long time and he stood there for over fourteen years. Everything that he could do with himself in terms of purifying himself, he had done but still he could not attain. When a yogi came by, a sage of great attainment came by, Gomata looked at him and just one teardrop slipped out of his eyes. This one teardrop was a question mark. What is it? I've done everything that I can do. What is holding me back? That's a question, an unuttered question. Just a teardrop to ask this question to the yogi, what is holding me back? I've done everything that I know. Then the yogi said, you have brought a false sense of humility into you.   You're willing to bow down to an inanimate rock. You have made yourself like this. It's wonderful but I see you're incapable of bowing down to your brother with whom you have a fight. It is this falseness of humility which is holding you back. This was the moment of attainment for Bahubali. Within himself he did bow down to his brother and he attained. This is a very beautiful story because this is how human beings are held back. It's not some great things. One little thing that you can't clear from your karmic space just holds you back. Is this not unfair? How many things I did, one thing holds me back.  Can I go somewhere? I cannot go somewhere. That's how it is. So some of the poems that I penned in Goma degree are not with us anymore. They're gone. So this untouchable poem which we just read, I think I have three versions of this. The first one and the second one are not with us anymore. This is the third one, the third version. Right now the whole country is abuzz with women's issues. I think longer would you? But a land, a culture that celebrates the feminine as the divine unfortunately has not fixed quite a bit of itself as to how they should be or how they should conduct the feminine in the human form. This poem is titled as the woman. These... Okay, I must tell you the background. Probably this was the last ladies BSP I handled. This was in the Spandha hall and there were over three hundred and seventy or three and eighty ladies and it was a moment when I saw them all melting and merging into each other. The fabulous energy that they created there, Bhavas Pandana was in full swing. When the process was on, I just scribbled this poem on a small pad which was next to me. Woman, these creatures of the moon in such delicious swoon, the sun and me not the only boon to these creatures of the moon. These creatures of the moon in such delicious swoon, the sun and me not the only boon to these creatures of the moon. Daily death a must for the sun to be kept unnourished in the pregnancy of the moon. It is her gracious reflection that sees him through the night. Daily death a must for the sun to be kept unnourished in the pregnancy of the moon. It is her gracious reflection that sees him through the night. Sun, the source of all known creation is but born in the coolness of the moon. The creator placed such trust in this unreasonable madness of the moon, bestowed the womb to bear and the feeding breast. Sun, the source of all known creation is but born in the coolness of the moon. The creator placed such trust in this unreasonable madness of the moon, bestowed the womb to bear and the feeding breast. Mashi flower and bloom too soon. Only then there can be worthwhile harvest when the world knows the nourishment of this womb. In celebration will exist these creatures of the moon. Mashi flower and bloom too soon. Only then can there be worthwhile harvest when the world knows the nourishment of this womb. In celebration will exist these creatures of the moon. I think we'll leave the poems there. If you have questions, this is the time to look at it. You talked about moments when we as humans have moments of clarity and moments of confusion. Since I started my sadhana and as I go through my spiritual path, I've had moments of very intense experience. Sometimes I feel that everything is very clear but at the same time I have moments of utter confusion where I'm not able to understand what's going on around me. In a way the things I see, I'm not able to articulate it very in a very logical way. What is happening to me and what do I do about it? You're having a very human experience on this planet. The problem with a human being is human beings are given an intellect to foray and explore so many things which are not in their domain. Our fish just remains in its water, space, a tiger in its forest, everybody remains within their terrain. It's only the human being who wants to explore and foray into everything that that we can see or we cannot see actually. We're not only foray into things that we can see, we also foray and try to foray into things that we cannot see. We want to go into the space, we want to look at the microscopic stuff. We want to not just enjoy the outward, we want to know the inner dimension of who we are. So these are adventures of the human mind. When you make these adventures, when you try any adventure, that means you do not know the result or the consequence of your action. That's what an adventure is. If you successfully finish an adventure, you will be known as an adventurer or you will be known as a hero in the world. If you are not successful in your adventure, you would be dismissed off as a fool who did not have the sense to stay away from what you should stay away from. So the essence of our adventure or how adventure will be perceived simply depends on the success rate that you have. So naturally when you foray into dimensions, either physically, psychologically, emotionally, whichever way, a certain amount of confoundedness is there. But this confoundedness is coming because you are constantly falling back on your intellect to give you a logical interpretation of everything. Confusion essentially comes because you already have conclusions about something. If you have no conclusion about anything, there will be no confusion either. The fundamental process of any spiritual path, particularly what I have been transmitting to all of you or all spiritual paths, why is that you don't make conclusions. Because if you make conclusions in one space, when you move to another space, the same conclusion which gave you comfort and confidence will cause enormous amount of confusion. So the idea is to just perceive, to live, to experience, not to conclude. Because conclusions or accumulations, they are of no relevance to experience that which is alive and now. So one needs to understand confusion is a product of conclusions. This is something that you have to train yourself with, that you do not make any conclusions about anything. How do I live without making conclusions? There is a difference between making a momentary judgment as to how to act in a particular moment and making a conclusion about it. This moment, when you are in a certain mode of activity, you may deal with somebody or something in a particular way according to your judgment of that moment. That moment's judgment need not carry with you as a conclusion or as an accumulated knowledge that you carry to the next moment or to the next day or wherever. Or in other words, you do not carry your past into the future. The moment you do this, confusion is a natural product of these type of conclusions that you're continuously drawing. So particularly on the spiritual path, if you're beginning to experience things, there should be no conclusions. No conclusions at all. If there are no conclusions, there will be no confusion.


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gonna be our last hits of the break okay so you got the there's that there's that there's the dual trout book there's that book the Mel Allen so I think we have 6 randoms in total yeah the oh yeah this one you're good let me get these randoms set up really quick um gonna do again so we'll have 6 separate randoms I think 2 are random to all so we'll do the we'll start with the Marsh the Ran the Angels Angels Red Sox Red Sox got the Griffey McGuire the Mariners Artimals Dodgers Raves Alright so we'll do all these randoms before the uh before we do the recap video as well and the Mel Allen Alright guys gonna bring it over here here's how it's gonna go I'm gonna start with the Marsh and the Ran roll the dice we're just gonna roll the dice separate for each you can go 9 times in the Marsh to Ran booklet 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9 Angels getting that one Angels picking up that uh Griffey McGuire roll the dice on that one uh 7 times between the Mariners and the Cardinals 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 go into the Mariners Mariners on 7 uh the Trout and Bats booklet do $50 bad beat whoever doesn't get this one 7 or 6 times 1 2 3 4 5 6 go into the Dodgers Vladio Cunha to 5 from definitive 75 bad beat whoever doesn't get this 3 times 1 2 and 3 Braves Braves get the Vladio Cunha then we've got the Mule Suttles and Cool Pop Bell from Flawless again that's a game used that one of 3 neither played in the MLB it's gonna be 7 times 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 go into the Braves on that one as well and then the Mel Allen cut auto again did announce for the Yankees does not have the Yankees attached to his card it just as an announcer does not say Yankees on it gonna random 7 times on that 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 go into the Phillies alright guys gonna do gonna stop this video here and then we'll do a separate recap video so thanks again do you want the randoms in the video? yeah sure you just throw them in okay nothing is organized by the way that's fine there's just too much no you're good is this everything that's all okay so left is relics and then behind it is autos and the rest is autos autos max beautiful what's going on everyone Sam here with late sports cards we're doing the recap video for Tuesday night MLB baseball is back season opener 50 box mixer madness random teams have a good one Chris thanks again man thank you Tony we've got Cool Pop Bell meal subtles thank you Bets Mike Trout Mark McGuire Ken Griffey Brandon Marsh Jaren Duran keep that off to the side for a second relics we've got Dustin Bedroya Matt Olson Noah Cindergaard Louise Brinson Jordan Walker that is Joe Sewell Albert Puhlholz Orlando Sepeda Catfish Hunter Dede Gregorius David Bode Brendan Rogers Paul Goldschmidt Carlos Correa Aaron Judge to 50 Kyle Muller John Gray Harry Brasheen Carlton Fisk Max Muncie Kiebert Ruiz Bryson Stock Jake Areada Gladdy Sr we've got CJ Abrams Lance Berkman Jake Berger Ryan Sandberg Lou Bob Mark McGuire Seth Beer John Smoltz Brandon Crawford we've got Christian Yelich Buster Posey Mark McGuire Joe Maurer Gladdy Sr Rafi Devers Christian Arroyo Michael Conforto Craig Kimbrell Larry Walker Eloy Whit Merrifield Bobby Bradley Quinn Cotten Jordan Yamamoto Cody House or hosts Logan Wyatt Carlos Rincone Joey Luchessi Riley Adams Lolo Sanchez William Contreras Broussard Gratterall Jonathan Loisica Jonathan Loisica two Johnny Lozanias we've got Matt Brash Mike Bowman Andrew Vaughn Rhys Nair Elliot Ramos Trey Harris Austin Hansen Tyler Dyson Curtis Terry Hector Yan Ryan Cusick Drew Gray Austin Love Mason Barnett Nate Furman Sal Stewart those already don't remind thanks Chavez we've got okay James Beard Ruben Cardenas Connor Cannon Tony Debrell Micabello Eric Rivera Robert Poisson John Diaz Connor Cannon Nick Prado Connor Siebold Brenne Davis Hogan Harris Hogan Harris Ford Proctor John Diaz Gerard Incarnacion Micabeo Everson Pereira Ford Proctor Douglas Hoto Alex DeJesus Dorel Hernandez Tyler Whitaker Jack Sawinsky Denzar Guzman Norhei Vera Jiro Palmeres Simon Juan Cameron Colley Tyler Black Alex Pinellis Eson Morebell Brandon Crawford Nicola Dolo Joey Wentz James Outman Reaver San Martin Bobby Witt Colton Welker that's Jesus Galiz Matthew Nelson Adrian Pinto Connor Stain Noah Deen Kade Horton Sasazuki Shortbrank Guy Lipscomb Zane Mills Matthew Nelson Emmanuel Rodriguez Padel Montero Douglas Hodo Brooks Lee Shane Bosz Angel Zerpa Louis Heels Zach Lothar We've got Landon Sims Henry Williams Tanner Schoble Kade Dowdy Brenner Cox Kumar Rocker J.R. Richie Tyler Locklear now we got our freaking mags dude this is nuts Ken Griffey Jr. to 10 patch auto to start us off insane Trevor Hoffman to 5 for the Padres Bobby Witt Jr. to 1.99 for the Royals Derek Jeter 1 of 15 for the Inks Maddox Bruns 1 of 1 for the Dodgers 1 of 1 John Heasley RPA for the Cardinals or no for the Royals I mean Elijah Green Refractor to 4.99 Red Jason Churriot to 5 Kristen Becaro Bowman Chrome Prospect Autograph Redemption for the Nets Bowman UFO Autograph Mike Shrout for the Angels Green Jackson Holiday to 99 We've got a Vladdy Jr. and Ron Lacunia Jr. on the Dual Snast the Alec Thomas 1 of 7 Jason Dominguez base auto Anthony Volpe to 4.99 CJ Abrams Refractor to 4.99 1 of 1 Hector Yon for the Angels Elijah Green Purple to 2.50 We've got a Matt Chapman and a Cal Raleigh and Cased Autos from Perstein Premium Inc is going to be a Ripken Jr. 1 of 1 Aaron Judge from Time & Icons We've got 3 Shohei Otanis 3 Otanis Rookies Elijah Green Invicta Autograph Gold Atomic Parallel to 50 Mel Allen 1 of 4 Cut Auto and the biggest hit Well Hebert Hernandez 1 of 1 from 1st Edition 2.50 Jason Dominguez Gold Shimmer Auto for the Yanks Thank you again so much for the fill on this It was an absolute blast Next up we've got nothing I was going to say We're just going to have to Well do you have to differentiate between FedEx and SIGNOW?  I mean between Pry and FedEx You just make a pile of prophetic What needs to be SIG right? And then you said Keep this to the side? Yeah I just want to type in who's got that I'm just going to do it tomorrow Alright so we'll SIG that The Mariners The Yanks That's SIG Those all need SIG These are all fine Like everything else Maybe I would SIG the National spot Yeah I think everything else is fine I think the Trout is probably not As a redemption coming out of 1000 Everything else is good Cool cool You mean FedEx first? Yeah yeah FedEx fit That's fine Alright let me go get that started to upload It's unreal dude That was a 3 hour video It is They just had a lot more than just 3 They had 3 greens in a Baccaro They're in there somewhere They're in the Magpile somewhere But we'll get to the SIG Nationals I would say SIG the Nationals I think just the 2 live greens alone Probably put them up for that Probably SIG Angels Oh yeah I forgot about that Yeah SIG the Angels Smart man smart man Sometimes Once in a while Alright let me get the recap Uploaded now God guys thank you so much For Hanging out tonight with me This is a absolute fun Thank you everybody for getting that break filled up too That was so much freaking fun dude Got triple release day tomorrow Again Forrest and Matt in the morning Matt will be doing stadium club chrome Forrest will be doing contenders basketball And then me at night I'll be doing all three So it's gonna be a good time everybody Kyle on drip tomorrow too Better give me a nice hug Tomorrow is all I know 100 bucks break next time dude Probably Honestly thank you guys again Let me just chop you the link really quick to the break schedule tomorrow My voice is like shot dude So there's that Thank you guys again I will see you tomorrow Have a great rest of your night


Tell us what's the most important shift that pushed you to the next level given the last crazy things going on? First of all, I think anxiety is normal that I was anxious for so long that starting from the process of the interview prep, but then I realized recession is not something with my control, like no matter how hard I try it, it's still there. So what I can do is just do whatever within my control, such as I get my resume ready. I got my portfolio reviewed by NSD by other PMA mentors and then with all of that, I get my interview skills polished and that pushes me to a more positive mindset when doing all of this prep work. It's not as anxious as before, it's more structured and it's more in control.


It was very interesting. It was actually exciting. The potential for our two countries is huge. Your economy was around $1 trillion GDP, $2 trillion at seven years, and the start of that was under Prime Minister Modi. In the last less than five years under Modi, your economy has grown to the $3.5 trillion. And the plans are, if you're getting put in place now, for in the next 25 years to grow to $32 trillion. So the growth recently has been huge. You just need to look at the investment that has flowed to India from I think it's about 60 different countries under Prime Minister. As you know, your wonderful Prime Minister came to office on a terribly important mantra, which was from red tape to red carpet. In other words, cut approvals, cut regulations, so you can welcome investment, and that's what he's done.


I'm switching over to my operational brief. Can you return fire, battle buddy? Can you apply self-aid? No. I'm under sporadic small arms fire. If you witness a teammate in the open, receive a gunshot wound to their left leg. Your teammate is struggling to reach his or her combat. Yep. Contact. Contact. Contact. Contact. Wait for the enemy to charge the meters. So it's a chest. Get a serial or something like that for 15 seconds. Three, two, one, go. Around the neck. Plus the groin area. Plus we turn it across the tourniquet. You don't have to over tighten the tourniquet. Secure it with a tab. Checking. Can you tell me what happened? I'm Sergeant Jake Phillips. I'm representing 3rd Ranger Battalion. And the United States Army Special Operations Command. And I'm with Team 9. I represent USISOC, the United States Army Special Operations Command. Personally, I think that the CPR lane is the hardest just because it's extremely procedurally driven. And all the steps have to be performed in sequence or else you're in no go. Medical is a huge part of what we do as soldiers, especially as infantrymen and as rangers. Being able to do first aid and then take care of each other while we're on the battlefield shows that something happened is a huge part of maintaining the force and being combat effective. Absolutely. I think Team 9 has everything and its potential to win this competition and best represent the Army as the United States Army's best squad. My name is Private First Class David Doucette. I'm in 2CR and I'm on Team 7. So far out of all the lanes, you might want to say CPR because there's just a lot of steps to it. But as long as you take the time and you just pay attention to the lane, then you shouldn't have any issues going through it. Overcoming is just reps, repetition. Don't go up there if you're not ready. You need to take the time. You need to watch people doing it. You need to watch how they're... Like every little step, you can't skip anything otherwise you'll end up failing. Medical, in my opinion, is the number one tactic, I guess, that you need to know as any soldier because one day you might be put in that situation where you have to save somebody's life and you have to be prepared to do so. Of course, absolutely. We train for this nonstop. We do nothing but train for this and we've been ready for this competition for months now.


Nakalout ka na ba ng YouTube video at napisip ka na panong nga ba talaga nagsimula yung mga tech YouTubers na to? Can they make a living based on what they earn? May kita ba sila? Paano sila ng kakarun ng mga products na rin ay review nila? Do they get to keep those items? If you've ever wondered those things, lakat tayo, usap tayo. Hi, my name is CJ and my question is can you really earn or like make a living solely from the YouTube channel? Mahirap pabuhay kung nakasalalay ka lang sa YouTube ad earnings. Sa YouTube, the one primary way of making money is through the ad revenue so dumagawa ka ng video, YouTube put sa adson dot video and may cut ka dun, either per click, so it's cost per click or cost per impression. So after 1000 impressions, you get something, a very small amount. Inyong problema dito sa atin, maliit lang yung cost per click, maliit lang yung cost per impression. For a channel of our size, mahirap mabuhay. Iposibli, actually mabuhay kung nakasalalay ka lang sa Google AdSense Revenue. Pero, there are so many other ways to monetize. Mahari kang magkaroon ng sponsorship, so that's why actually super important yung sponsor namin. Hindi niligan ng DC. Pusainin ka lang na windows. Pero saan ko hupuwan ng legit windows? Daming options, daming prices. Ah, ka dito. Gudi nalang, may CD key or first dot ko. Wadalilo ko ng order. Search for the software you need. Add to cart. Dahan ka sa payment options nila. Wala pag 5 minutes. Finished. Maligit, working CD key ka na para sa windows mo. Gamitan ng aming code para makakuhapan ng discounts. Kaya kung nagahalap ka ng legit, mura at original software. Check out CDKEOVERS.com Sa di ka. Hello, hardware sugar. This is Katima Gaming, a big fan all the way from Thailand. So you guys get a lot of items to review and test out sent by some of the biggest companies in the world. So my question is, do you get to keep the items sent to you? Thank you so much in advance for answering my question and looking forward to more awesome content from you guys. Sa di ka. Kung galing abroad 100% of the time, usually, yes, we do get to keep it. A lot of different brands have contacted us from abroad kasi wala silang local representative dito. Pinapadala yung sa aming dito and yes, we do get to keep those items. Parang understood na. Kasi hasel din para sa brand na. Pano rin namin mababalik yun kung pinadala dito sa Pinas and then how do we send it back to them? It's different if it's a brand with a local present dito let's say may representative sila dito sa Pinas or may distributor talaga sila dito. In that case, sometimes you get to keep it, sometimes, dito. So, for example, Deep Cool does have a local representative here. Yung karamihan ng items na pinapadala ni Deep Cool sa aming we do get to keep. Actually, wala ko maisip na basically all of the items sa Deep Cool has sent us we've been allowed to keep. Yung ASUS iba, paminsan we get to keep pero paminsan sobrang mahal yun. We have to return that. So, kung may local present yung brand dito depended talaga, paminsan we get to keep paminsan we have to give it back. How do you get in touch with brands? A lot of the brands are proactive actually tapas it's not even yung mga malaking brands na sobrang sikat. There are also a lot of smaller brands na very proactive. Basically sila yung nang kontak sa aming we very rarely contact a brand directly. Kasi, to be honest, di rin kami papansinin like yung mga sobrang big time. Kung nag-email kami sa kanila, di kami papansinin but a lot of the brands do contact us directly and I'd say 95% either of the sponsorships or of the reviewed items na pinapadala sa aming yung brand yung nag-reach out. Grabe talaga yung social media ngayon. Paglumampas ka na sa certain subscriber count or something. For us it started around 20,000 subs, 30,000 subs. May mga brands talaga na nalapit na and usually the process is a cold email. Mag-email sila na hey, I saw your YouTube channel I really enjoy your content et cetera yung how you review and how you make it blah blah blah presentation-wise. So it's very rare na kami yung damalapit although we have tried that yung mga camera reviews namin like Canon and Fuji yun kami damapit sa brand but most of the time it's the brand they have agencies yung trabaho lang nila is to look at social media either the agency reaches out or the brand reaches out. Is being a YouTube celebrity all it's cracked up to be? 30k pa lang or 20k may mga instances na na na-fefeel mo na oh ano, may nanunod pa lang nung videos lahat kasi abstract e like you make a video you see like oh 1000 people watched 5000 people watched you have 50,000 subscribers I mean that's all abstract very early on dun sa YouTube channel may nag-comment dun sa isang video namin na ok kaw pala yung guy na naglalakad nung white na dog and he's a real pain in the butt to walk it does get a little weird when your neighbors start calling you hardware sugar which has happened to me like I'm on the street parking my car tapos the guy two doors down says oh ay hardware sugar and you know it's weird hardware sugar is not my name but nakakatawa na medyo weird you do get recognized dahil sa channel one time nang palit ako nung batteries sa tumago sa motolight tumating yung guy he changed my battery and you know I was just being my usual self kasi mga tanong talaga ako I'm very curious about all kinds of tech so I was asking him about car batteries I don't have a lot of experience with cars and their hardware and he was very polite very knowledgeable and then at the end nung napalitan na nga yung battery sabi niya na asor oh I'm a fan of the channel I watch you guys et cetera completely random stranger the motolight guy turns out to be a subscriber to the channel I find it fun to meet people who have seen our videos may impact ba lang yung videos may nanunod pa lang ito other than my parents strange lang pa minsan like we're in public and my wife will say na oh that guy is looking at you weird and you look and oh yeah that's probably hardware sugar customer kasi nakakablak hoodie and everything so very conscious na yung matawong ngayong tungkol sa mental health and you do hear of a lot of creators na sobrang nababurn out kasi sabi hanes grave din talaga yung it looks simple you just record yourself do a little editing kasi tapos may video ka na but there's a lot of work behind the scenes like itong video na ito pangalawang basis ko na ito is shoot kasi nagkamali or may problema sa audio dun sa isang version what's up internet so usually kumainan usually kumainakarenig na oh tech youtuber maraming tanong yun and so everything was completely unusable this is the second time I'm doing this yung bibili ka series namin which will drop soon it's been three four months in the making tapos kising kita, kita, tulog ka grave grave din yun para lang sa intro kasi basak din yung audio or the video quality was not good there's a lot of work really that goes on behind the scenes and I'm thankful na hindi lang ako so we do have a team in place who also does their own videos who helps me with editing who helps me with thumbnails we do have a schedule to keep we have an X number of videos na kailangan ma-release in one month when brands contact us for reviews kailangan ma-labas din yun in a timely manner so mahirap there's a lot of work behind the scenes just keeping everything in motion just keeping all of the balls in the air so yeah, burnout is real the grind is real it's a lot of hard work but I'm thankful and fortunate to have a good team behind me hey I'm Rafael from Harbor Sugar I'm Rafayin Ismael I'm JJ Reyes I'm Warren Maverneve di ko alam pano na mamuhay yung ibang creators na mag-isa lang talaga sila yes, the grind is real but the upshot is I'm having a good time and there are a lot of things about the process na hassle but there are a lot of things also that are rewarding kasi parang who doesn't like it na may may early access ka to items you get to try out items that I could never afford on my own so masaya din main one surprising aspect with your production you stress over magsasletabaong ganito or like this if you didn't notice the change it's in the language that I'm using kung magtatagalog ba ako or mag-english and that's something that not a lot of people probably consider we used to have a YouTube consultant tapos sa stats nila Philippine channels in general yung karamihan na nanunood from the Philippines so let's say 95% of all their traffic is from the Philippines medyo kakaiba yung hardware sugar na we have around 30% na foreign so around 70% views from the Philippines 30% from elsewhere it's very uncommon for a Pinoy channel to have that large of foreign viewership mas malaki yung kita kung yung cost per click or your CPM kagay na pinagusapan natin dati mas mataas sa ibang bansa so if we have viewers from let's say the states or Japan yun malaki yung CPC or yung CPM dun we believe na may mabibigay naman tayo I mean we're a tech YouTube channel based in the Philippines pero there is some news or there are some tips or there are some approaches na tingin namin hindi pa naman na co-cover nung ibang mga channels na abroad so why can't we contribute something new especially kasi malapit tayo dun sa sites of manufacturing yung sa China sa Taiwan sobrang lapit natin so actually logistically we should be able to get those items before anyone else so every video inisit namin may appeal ba to not just for a local audience and for a but also for a foreign audience and then yun we try to we try to match the language kasi kung foreign damihan namin yung English used in the video kung there are some videos na purely local lang siguro yung appeal like say for example tutorial how to build your computer and dami na ganun na tutorial sa online pero na ka English better kung nakalokalize yun for the Filipino audience so we'll use all Tagalog for that the jokes or whatever stuff we put there would be more targeted to a local audience yun nga hindi siya concern for a lot of creators but because of our audience it has become a concern kasi nagagalitin yung mga Pinoy kabag maraming English sa video kasi you know there are maraming comments na ay Filipino ka naman ba di ka nagtatagalog nosebleed alam naman just a short Q&A on maybe some questions na inisip mo tungkol sa being a tech YouTuber or trying to run the shop parang incidental lang tong YouTube but if you have any other questions feel free to leave them in the comments and maybe we'll do another video just basically walking around answering questions so thanks for watching and thank you to our top fans na afford na namin to gupua na to and edo club thank you to Leah Magnaya Ian Meru ITX Addict Jan Ruben Ocha Christian Espinosa and Raphael James thank you for supporting the channel


I see red, white, and blue, but I guess it's not the American flag, and you've got a special livery here for Cardiff this year. Inspiration, can he tell us about it? Just spoke with Joe and Slim and, you know, with Monster, and just, you know, we're getting a practice helmet done and just kind of said do whatever you want, you know, go wild and, you know, can't be more stoked on it. That's super rad. Any other ideas going ahead? I mean, you see what they do in MotoGP, and we kind of joked about a couple of ideas. So what can you tell us anything else we want to do? You know, we're talking about it before. Maybe if you give me some access to your coffee machine in the winter, you know, if I come over to the States, if I'm making some good starts, we can get your head on here. That could be the, that could be crying, I reckon. I like this guy.


APS, what, why, and how. For this session, we have with us speaker Devi, ma'am. And she is a freelancer programmer, consultant, and a trainer. She has done her M. Tech in computational science from Indian Institute of Science. She is currently working as an architect, lead developer for Power to Fly. I request ma'am to start the session. Thanks for the introduction, Padmish. Good morning, one and all. I hope you had a wonderful keynote session. And the house is full here, and I hope I'll satisfy all of you at least a bit. Yeah, let's start the session. So we're going to talk about REST APIs and why they're useful, what are they, and how do you go about designing a one, and what are the choices one should make while choosing a library to make a one, right? So I work for Power to Fly, which connects women to remote or part-time jobs. Our platform is such that it's a website, like LinkedIn for women, wherein we had to develop in-house APIs for ourselves, for our size. That's where all this understanding for diving into REST APIs has come into picture. Let me share that with you. So what is an API? So APIs are basically a programmable interface. All the context of this talk, I'm going to be only with web services, right? And REST APIs are possible in other contexts, but we are going to stick only for web services. What is an API? It's a programmable interface. As we are being humans, we interact with computers or websites manually, right? But if we want to make those web services, we interact it through the programs. How do we do that? It is via APIs. So for computer programs to communicate with each other, that's via APIs. So what does it mean by designing an API or having an API? It's designing a format for the client to communicate with the server. So a server is offering an API, a service as an API, and it has to have a format on how to request for something to be done. And in return, what to expect as a response? How does it respond? Like our languages or the programming languages, they have certain rules of specification, every language, right? Whether we use it in communication manually or through programs. So similarly, APIs have a set of rules and specifications. So why are they useful? Why are APIs useful? You might have seen that if you are a developer and if you are doing a core of, let's say we are developing a product. Not everything we can build from the scratch, right? We use third-party services like Amazon Web Services or Stripe Payments or Elasticsearch or so on or anything. We have lots of software which has already been written in different technology stacks. So they are offered as services through APIs for us to use. So that we don't need to reinvent the wheel from the scratch or the best part of the APIs is that we don't need to bother of what the technology stack is for AWS. If you are using AWS as storage for storage, you don't need to bother about what is the technology stack they are using or which programming languages it has written. You don't bother about it. You just think of what is the API and how should you request? I just want to dump all my images onto AWS and I'll just look at the API, nothing else. I'm not bothered about the technology stack or anything else. So a public APIs, it lets you glue in different technology stacks or languages of choices, right? And not all APIs need to be public. One can have a company inside. They can have private APIs. They're not exposed to the public. It's not for the outside world to use them, but it is just for them. You might have used Slack for communication or almost all of you use Facebook. You've got mobile app on your mobiles and a website, right? But both of them are separate in their UI, not the whole technical stack. There wouldn't be the application. The application totally wouldn't be separately written for mobile app and separately written for the website, right? There is a lot of common thing, the code, on which there is a layer, the UI layer is separate. So they expose, the core Facebook is exposed as an API on which the UI talks to them, right? We'll see what, how APIs look like. And so now that we know a bit of what API means, we'll see what is a REST API? What is REST there? So REST there as an acronym, it's a representational state transfer. It's all about a style of architecture of how do you model the entities that you have? In object-oriented world or oops world, we talk about entities as objects, right? We call the entities that you play with or deal with as objects, whether it is customers or orders or jobs or talents or whatever you are dealing with. They're all called as objects. But here in REST world, they're called as resources. So the primary focus of the design is on resources in designing REST APIs. So when you think of your application, you should think of the resources. What are the resources that I have while designing a REST API? And then the URLs. So REST APIs, in REST APIs, the resources are identified by URLs. Each resource is uniquely identified by URLs. I will come to there. And the best part of REST APIs is that it takes the full advantage of HTTP. HTTP as a protocol, it's so sophisticated that it has got its own methods. Get, post, put, delete, you might have heard. We'll get into them. And the response codes, along with the status, right? REST takes full advantage of them. We'll see how, right? When I say each resource is identified by a unique URL, I'm in this. So let's take as an example, let's take a e-commerce site or something like that, wherein we have customers and orders, orders placed by them. So what are my resources in my e-commerce site? I've got products. I've got customers. I've got orders. And I've got maybe items, right, in the order. So they are my primary resources, primary resources. And what are the actions? One customer can place a new order or edit an order or delete an order or things like that. They're all actions, right? In a non-REST world, you would say slash customer slash add slash order or slash customer slash order slash add. That add comes into the URL in non-REST world. We'll see how REST world takes care of it. So what are the URLs here? Slash customers. It represents the collection of all the customers that you have in your web service. When I say customer slash five, this is going to identify a particular customer with ID five, okay?  We are designed in API for our e-commerce site. Let's say that. So customer slash five is going to represent a customer with ID five and all his orders are going to sit at customer slash five slash orders and a particular order can be fetched via its ID and so on. We'll come into the details a bit later. But the main point here is you don't have the actions in the URIs. So you don't have order slash edit, order slash delete or something like that, order slash create in the URLs because it's a REST world and we'll rely on HTTP verbs rather than putting the actions in the URLs. So what are the HTTP verbs that I've been talking about? So HTTP as a protocol, it has got many, many work, many methods. Get the most important things and most popular ones are get, post and put and delete. So which one of them is used where? Get is used for retrieving a resource. So you just want to get the information. You don't want to change the state of anything in the server but you just want to get the information. Let's say you want to see the orders of a customer who has placed few. So you're not changing anything on the server and you're just retrieving. Then you would use get. Post is for creating resources. So let's say when an order is placed, a new order resource is going to be created at the server, right? Then HTTP post is being used and let's say if you want to update an order, let's say you want to change the quantity of something or you want to modify an order, then the HTTP verb that you will be using is put and for delete it's delete. Here you can see that there's a slight overlap between post and put. Both can be used for creating a resource but the choice comes from this. So get, put and delete are idempotent. What do you mean by idempotency? So how many ever times you do that action, getting or putting or deleting? It's the same. It doesn't change the server state but if you post the same thing to a server, the state will change. We'll see that as an example. Okay, this is slightly blurred, sorry for that. So this is what is our example. We have got customers, we have got orders and items and products. So this is the documentation that I'm going to give to my API users. What is it? The customer's endpoint, meaning the customer's URL is going to support, get and post. What does it expect? What does it expect? It expects a name, which is a string as an input in the request and it replies back with a name and the self URL and orders. Orders URL in the response. Let's see how it behaves. Before going into the example, I want to just say that how should I arrest APIB? It should be simple. It should be simple for us as humans to read and understand or comprehend what it means. So JSON is a kind of default standard or XML and HTML can also be used as the language between client and server. But JSON is the most predominant one so that the developers also can read it. The API should be consistent across. What does it mean? So when I say the URLs here, here I don't say slash customer at one place and customers at another place. So the API should be consistent across. The URL should be guessable. Whenever I say customer slash five, I should be able to guess that the orders URL would be slash orders slash something with ID there. So once you work with a arrest API, the working with any other arrest API should be easy and guessable. And backward compatible. What does it mean? Let's say AWS, you are using AWS for your project and you have gone live. Things are fantastic and your website is getting lots of fits. You're storing all your assets and images or videos in Amazon web services. And suddenly, let's say Amazon changes its API. What happens? Your product will be, I mean your website will be down because they have changed their API. The next time you won't rely on AWS anymore. You won't use them, right? Why? Because it'll cause you as a user the downtime. So APIs, whenever one designs an API, a public API especially, it should the designers or creators of API should think of backward compatibility in mind. So if I'm going to add a new feature to my API, how should it be in the future? How can it support few other things in future? And if something is going to change at the core, how am I going to take care of it in future? So that four sides should be there in designing, while designing the API. And actually maintaining a version also makes it easy for maintaining the backward compatibility. We'll see how versions are there. And HATUs, we'll get into HATUs also a bit later. So we'll see example of orders API. So in the starting, my database is empty and I don't have any customers, right? I'm assuming curl, most of you might have used. Curl is a HTTP client, which you can use on Unix. And it takes an argument, the method, HTTP method with minus X option. And I'm assuming that my API server is sitting here. API.x.com is my API server, right? And slash customers, slash v1 is to maintain the backward compatibility, the version has come into picture. Now let's say if I want to change the API later, then I'll put v2 there so that the users that are reliant on me wouldn't drop their, I mean their websites will not be down because my API has changed. So when I request for it for this URL, what am I getting? I'm getting HTTP 1.1, these are all HTTP headers with a status 200, status code, okay. What does it mean? A status code 200 means everything went well and here is the response that you have asked for. Because I don't have anything in my database yet. What is the response that I've got? It is an empty list. I don't have any customers. The server has replied that I don't have any customers. What is the content type here? It's JSON. So the client is asking the server through this URL slash customers and the server has responded with a status code and a content type and this is the response. This dictionary that you can see is the response. Now let's create a customer to see, right? What do we, which HTTP verb would we use for creating a resource? It's post, right? So in the documentation, in the documentation, we have seen that it expects a name to create a customer. What is the name type? It's a string of length 64, of max length 64. So let's use post. My endpoint is still slash customers because I am trying to create a customer, right? Customer resource, so with the name Alice. So the client is just, the client is knowledgeable only about the API URLs, nothing else. How the server is adding the customers where the server is adding the data, whether it is maintaining in the RDBMS or no SQL database or in a flat file system, I don't care. The client doesn't care. It just knows the URL, nothing else. So what did it respond with? The server has responded with, I mean, I have omitted a few headers here, which are redundant in this context. The server has responded with 201 as a status code and created as a status. So the server says that, okay, I have created the resource that you have asked for and where did I create, how you can access it? It is a location header. So I have created a customer with ID one with the data that you have given. That is the server response. So if I want to see the customer one, I can go and see now. How do I see? I have to ask for the server, ask the server again. What will the HTTP verb be? It is again get, right? Sorry. Here, get is always used for retrieving a resource. So I want to get and see how the customers slash one is. How is the first resource? So what do I get? I get back from the server, name Alice and few links. We'll see what those links mean in a bit. So we started with an empty database where we didn't have any customers and we have created a customer with a particular name. And we could see the details. We could get back the resource. Now let's say I want to change the name of the customer. How do I change something? Once I have created a resource, many a times it's not just the same, right? We want to change it or update it. How do we do it in the APIs? It's through put method. Put method of HTTP. So it was name Alice before and I'm changing the name as Bob. So server again responds with 200, okay? Meaning what you have requested for is done. That the name has changed. Now if we request for slash customer slash one, it would give back the response as name Bob, all right? How do we delete? Sorry, I should have kept here curl minus six. It was a typo. So curl minus six delete. I can delete it like this. So any resource you can create it, you can update it. You can delete it. What else you can do? I mean, any resource or any object, the actions that you can do is adding, editing, deleting, nothing else, right? So rest is based upon HTTP to take these actions. So let's go back and see what these links mean here. So in browser build web, when we open our browser and open a website, we don't need to be taught where to go on, how to go on. We just see a link which is interesting to us and we see all the available links where we can go and just click the link, right? And it'll take us further. That's the way we navigate as human beings. In APIs, how does the program know what is available as a next step? Or how does the program know what it can do at this particular state? It is through Hatios. So let's say you open the Facebook site. You can see sign in button or sign in link. Or if you have signed in already, you'd say post message, something like that, right? So if it is through REST APIs and the state is that, and if I'm requesting for the home page through REST, then I should have the links of what all can I do? How do I post a message through API? How do I add a friend through API, et cetera, et cetera. So that is called, that is what is meant by Hatios. It is how you navigate through the API programmatically. So here, when we ask for customers, when we requested for customers with an ID one, we have got the orders link also. See, you have asked for customer right now, and you could be interested in the orders that he has placed already. So you have the orders information, you can get the orders information here by requesting that URL. That's what is meant by Hatios. We'll see examples of Hatios as the orders link. So from the customers, from the first customer, we have got all the orders. Let's see, let's request for this URL. What do I get? What do I get? I'm requesting for a particular order. I want to see all the details. Then I've got a self URL, which means that it has just the same, sorry, here there is a typo, self is wrong here. Sorry. The customer, the customer for this order is customer slash one. And what is the order actually? It has got some date and items. What are the products that were in the order? So Hatios actually adds so much of richness through REST, through REST because it lets the program intelligently handle on how to navigate or what are all the possible actions as a next step rather than asking the server every time, what is the possible action right now? Yes. Now that we know a bit of REST APIs, how they should be. Let's see how to choose a library. So let's say you are using Django or Flask to build your websites. How do you choose a library? You won't start with scratch, right? Start from scratch. When a data comes in here, here how did we add a customer by posting this data, right? Name is equal to Alice. The library should make sure that the name is a string type and below length 64 as the API documentations is. Here we have documented that the name is a string type and it should not be more than 64. Who takes care of that? So there should be a data validation layer before the API in the implementation of the API and authentication authorization. It's a most important thing that you don't want everybody to create customers in your website, right? Not anybody can post any data to your API and create customers in your database. It's not what you intend to do. So there has to be an authorization and authentication layer for your API so that not everybody can do whatever they want, whether the user is your service user or not. And so there are n number of libraries, even for Django or Flask or anything, actually, any framework that you can choose. But almost all of them are very tightly coupled with the ORMs of the databases. So what's wrong with that? Once you have designed your database, the libraries which are tightly coupled with the ORMs will generate the APIs on the fly. You don't need to do anything as a developer. You just put in the library and maybe do a few meta stuff and it generates the whole API for you without you taking care of it. But what is the problem with that? Whenever you change your database structure or do a migration, you can do a migration inside. But what happens to the API and what happens to the clients which are relying on the API, they're all lost, right? They won't work anymore. So it's not a good idea to have a very tight coupling between your databases and the APIs. Because the databases are inner stuff. You can take care of them through migrations or anything else. But APIs are public facing. They should never be non-backward compatible. And the libraries should support pagination. Like you don't want to show all the customers on one single page, right? I just want 50 of them to show on my first page or et cetera, et cetera. So the API library should be able to support pagination. What do you mean by rate limits there? You might have seen with Twitter or Google APIs or any good APIs. They'll have rate limit that you as a user cannot request more than 300, request per, maybe R let's say. So that their servers are not too overloaded. They will decide that number. The API writer or the API creator or the designer will decide that number based on their architecture and the servers. What, how much load can they take? Based on that number, they'll give you a rate limit to use. So if it crosses that, they'll say, sorry, we can't handle the request because they need to have a resource estimation. So rate limits are also one thing to be taken care of and obviously filters. Yeah, so I'd like to talk about a bit more about authentication authorization here. So filters is here in the example. See, I want to see all the completed orders, right? I don't want, I'm not interested in all the orders. At the same time, I'm not in, I don't have the ID, specific ID. I'm not interested in just viewing a particular order. I just want to see all the completed orders. So the API library that you're relying on should have the support of filtering, right? Completed equal to true or all the orders of a particular user, something like that. So filters is an important thing to be taken care of. So authentication and authorization. Authentication and authorization, there are different levels of doing them. One thing, one simple thing is that do a global authentication. What do you mean by a global authentication? Let's say I have a service to offer as an API. I'll just give you a secret token. Whoever has that secret token in their request, I'll allow them to use my API, nothing else. I'm done with that. But how do you manage authorization or what are all the resources that the user has access to and what are all the resources that the user doesn't have access to with it, et cetera, have to be figured out? Most of you might have used Amazon's S3 or any APIs. What do they do?  They'll have a public token and a secret key, a public key and a private key through which the API talks. So I'll not go into the details of token based and HitchMack based, it's just to give you a glimpse of what are all the available options of authentication that you can do. Actually, each one of them is suitable in different contexts because of the time I'm not going to go into the details. That's it, I wanted to just share that information with you. If you have any questions, are you in time? Yeah, questions, yeah, I'll take questions. Yeah, if you have any questions. Yeah, hi, my name is Krasanjit. I was just wondering since you are, all these data validations and all these things, would you recommend having a service layer between your ORM and your controllers in this case? Yes, absolutely. So the libraries which are out there, which does the automatic job of handling things, they don't have a layer, I mean they'll handle the layer but it's not under totally under your control. So I suggest to have a layer in between, yeah. Just a follow up question, with a lot of products right now, there are a lot of them do dashboarding. So how would you handle that with APIs, would you? Dashboarding, yeah, would you again? The analytics type of, I mean use the dashboarding also. So for example, you have an e-commerce website. Yep. Or someone's coming using your e-commerce website. Now the thing is that users, typically even if you use a mobile app or a web app, the first phase that you usually show the user is a dashboard saying that okay, you place these many orders. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These are the products that we recommend to you. Yes. And all that information gets aggregated in one space. Yes. While although you have different models for them. Yes, yes, yes. So it's a way of jacks. So you can show different pieces of the same page via different requests, right? So you can show the aggregations of, I mean just the orders via one request, one URL and other to show the aggregations, other to show their recommendations. Actually it's one page, but sending n requests. It's not just one single request. So you would not recommend having one single end point for the reaction. One single end point should do one single thing. Ma'am, what will be preferable way for retrieving multiple customer specified ID with specific ID? For example, I want to go five customer with specific ID. Five customers. Yeah. So the ID is not a primary key there. It's not a unique ID. No, but I want a specific ID. For example, customer one, customer two, customer three, and customer four. Yeah, so that is bulk, bulk getting or bulk posting. I didn't go into that, but you should be able to handle that with, maybe you can say customers ID is equal to one, two, three, four, five. It depends on your usage. So the API designer should take a call on whether it should be a list or comma separated values or how it should be. What will be preferable way, easy to comma or any separator like? Yeah, it is up to the designer, API designer to be using.  Oh, yeah. Thanks. Mike. Hi. Yeah. Like, I'm a little bit confused, like get post and here I am. Where? Here, here, here. So I'm using get post and all these methods, like when I did a new REST API also. So when I'm designing an application, that means that REST was existing that time also, like everything that we do, like whenever we are creating a web app, get post and I have never used port. Yeah, that is HTTP, yes. So that is HTTP, get post, port and patch, they are all HTTP verbs that existed before you knew what is REST, right? But the point here is the URLs would have order slash edit, order slash add or something like that. So the action what you want to do is going through the URL rather than using the HTTP verb. HTTP is so rich that it offers the verbs to do different actions. So REST is the part of HTTP, it comes under that. No, no, no. HTTP has the verbs and the status codes, which are sophisticated enough to a web service to be offered as an API, meaning REST is sitting on top of the HTTP. So like the example you showed, like the filter you were using. Completed equal to. Anything we can use like page id equal to one. Yeah, yeah. To extract that. Yes. So that is a simple get request. Yes. Can also retrieve the same thing. So what is the difference between a get request and HTTP get request and REST API. So we are talking about web services, right? And exposing them as REST APIs. Finally, HTTP layer is there there. We are not, REST is not an alternative to HTTP. REST is built on top of HTTP. It uses the protocol. HTTP verbs, it uses the HTTP status codes. Nothing else. So we are using HTTP. The difference is the architecture. When you think of the API, you think of the resources first, the actions second, and model your application in terms of that. So it's not the actions which take over in the first place. The resources, what are all the resources you have in your application? That's the primary focus. And once you identify the resources, then you'll go on to actions. What can I do for each order? Or what can I do with the customer resource? What all he can do, et cetera, right? Yes? We have a question in the back. Suppose we are having two platforms. One is REST and another is non-REST. Now if, suppose we are working in a distributed environment or whatever, if the format is different, suppose one format is JSON and one is in XML, now the two applications should have something common. Suppose one wants to share a common API between REST and non-REST. Yeah. So there would be a layer sitting in between which can compare JSON and XML, maybe. What is that layer? One should develop that layer. Maybe if you are writing in Python, you would use JSON library and something to pass the XMLs and club together. If they are both REST, then even then, actually as a user, you'd have a layer, right? You won't directly consume the JSONs. You'd have a UI or something like that which will consume that. So there would be a layer finally. Then the OAM and everything should be same or it would be different. No, it could be different. It could be different. One may be MongoDB or one may be something else. Yes, that's the best part of having APIs. It'll let the client and server evolve independently of all the architectural decisions. This can be totally in CE or legacy or whatever it is and this could be in very, very new technology. This could be using new technology. Thanks a lot. So the links will let you navigate for the self. Self is identifying which resource that you have asked for. You have all the information. Let's say you're asking for orders, a particular order. You've got all the information, the data, which product that you have ordered and with which quantity and what date you have ordered. But in the UI, you might need the order ID also. Where would you get it from? It's better to have it, right? So the self is by default included in the links in Python. It depends on what framework that you are using. So Django has a set of libraries and Plask has its own set of libraries. There are libraries which are independent of the frameworks like Python Eve. There are many actually. But it depends primarily on your use case, whether it is a public API or a private API. Actually, when you are thinking of a public API, then the design is a bit different than a private or an in-house API. You would not care for authentication and et cetera, et cetera, but it's a private API, right? Hello, ma'am. Hello. Yeah. This is Django. Yes. Ma'am, recently, I was in the condition that where I have to use almost too much filter for getting the list. At that time, we have to use the post request for getting the list of the thing. So is it the... Because the URL is too long. Yes. So it is the rest friendly thing, or is there any solution for... Let it be. It's readable. Unless it's not readable. We're using the post request because we have to use post request. So is it... No, post is not meant for getting the resources. You should not use post unless you're modifying something at the server state. And is there any particular standard for the rest, or is it the common type of practice to follow? Sadly, sadly, there's no standard for rest. So there is something, a very good site that we have come across, jsonapi.org, which is trying to lay down a few set of standards, but it's not actually standardized. It's an ongoing process that suggests the URLs could be like this, the error handling could be like this, and stuff. It's better for you to just go through jsonapi.org. One last thing. Yep. For updating the record, you have suggested, but post is, I think, also can be used. Is it a good practice to use the post for updating the record? So it depends on how you're creating, actually. So you can see here, right? Here, we are not keeping slash one here. It is, the endpoint is slash customers. Yes. And if I do the same thing again, slash customers slash two will be created. So post. For a specific customized, the ID we provide. If you provide slash ID, it's going to be item potent. Yes. Then you should use put. Thank you. So if you don't, it should be post. Yep. A quick announcement. Then we'll take two last questions. So anyone who hasn't gotten the feedback form can take it from our volunteers. So, okay. Yeah, ma'am. One last question. I want to, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We'll do a lot of request and we'll get the response. So my question is like, are there any package we'll be able to advise? Because I'm basically looking for automation perspective. For example, if I do request for VM in place of cloud, 100 or 1000 VMs will be there. I'm interested for particular kind of VM. As you've shown customer name or whatever it is. For automation perspective, automation framework also, others have become big. Are there any package in case of Python? What do you suggest? The libraries. Exactly. That will help for automation perspective. That's what I mean to say. You're getting right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can we take this offline? Yeah, exactly. So that it can be described. I will attend that auditor in two sessions. Then I'll come. Sure. Yep. Others I'll mail you also. Thanks. Thank you. I would like to give ma'am a small gift from Python India for giving a wonderful talk.


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