Thanks for being here. Appreciate your taking time to be here at this session. I think by now you must have looked at tons of slides describing what VMware OpenStack, integrated OpenStack is, read about blogs, and this session we want to kind of keep the slide where to a minimum and show you the real deal what the product looks like, how you go about installing and operating the product. So a quick overview of what we'll be looking at in this session. We'll be looking at how to install. We'll start with a brief overview of what's inside the product to level set before we jump into the demos. We'll look at how to install the product, and once we have it installed, how do we go about doing data operations and maintenance. Finally, we'll look at what all this means to a developer consuming OpenStack. Most importantly, at the end of this session, we'll be giving out sweatshirts. So make sure you stay around for that one. Thanks, Trevor. So what is VMware integrated OpenStack? When you deploy the product, what comes with the product?   So we've taken that standard OpenStack code from upstream. This is the exact same OpenStack services and API that you would get if you get OpenStack from upstream. We've taken that, tested it, hardened it. We've done bug fixes. When we do bug fixes, we always push it upstream so we don't hold any code back. We have drivers for each of these components that talk to the underlying infrastructure to do actual provisioning. For example, for the compute component Nova, we have the vCenter driver that enables Nova to talk to the underlying vCenter and provision virtual machines, and we have similar drivers for Cinder, Glance, and Neutron. And we've added a management piece to the OpenStack which is going to enable administrators to take the OpenStack code and make it really simple to deploy it on top of an existing vSphere infrastructure and do data operations going forward. So VMware integrated OpenStack is nothing but all the vanilla OpenStack components that you get from upstream bundled with the management piece that makes it easy to operate and deploy OpenStack in your vSphere infrastructure. So how does it look like when you deploy it on an existing vSphere infrastructure? So you need a management cluster inside your vSphere where all your management components are going to live like, going to live. For example, your OpenStack control plane, your different OpenStack services, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, the scheduler, the compute services, your virtual center is going to live in this cluster and if you have NSX, you're going to deploy NSX on the management cluster. So typically all your management components are going to be deployed in this cluster.  And once you have your OpenStack control plane up and running on your management cluster, you can use that to deploy your tenant workload VMs on your compute clusters. So if you have OpenStack deployed on your vSphere infrastructure, this is how it's going to look like at a very high level. So with that, I'll stop and I'll hand it over to Trevor to show you the real product. Sure, thank you Sansosh. So the actual deployment process is fairly simple and should look fairly familiar to a VMware administrator. We're trying to leverage the same kind of experience and tools that they have for deploying virtual appliances for deploying VMs. So to start off with, we're going to go to our management cluster and we're going to deploy an OVF template. It'll actually be in the OVA format. And so we're going to actually have a URL that we'll paste here that has our OVA location. And this is a familiar screen for VMware administrators, what kind of resources consumption we can expect from the virtual appliance. Accept the end user license agreement, sign your children away. And then you're going to select what folder you're going to place your virtual appliance in and what you're going to call it. We'll just stick with the defaults, call it VMware integrated OpenStack. Then we'll choose the data store where it will live and then the network that it's going to communicate on. And finally, some particulars such as the IP address, gateway, DNS, hostname, all of the good stuff that we love when naming our VMs. And last but not least, a notification that we're going to add a new plugin to the vSphere web client so that you can manage your build environment from the same interface that you're normally accustomed to. So the deployment will continue, then we have to log out and log in to see this new plugin. So when we log back in, we'll see that there's a new plugin on the dashboard for vSphere web client and it's called VMware integrated OpenStack. So I click on that and then I click on deploy OpenStack. So for those of you who are familiar with deploying OpenStack in production, the first step deploys our build server and VM template that will be used to deploy the entire control plane. So what we're going to do is set all of the configuration options that will give us a production environment of OpenStack. And I can either do a new deployment or use an existing JSON template that I have from before, which I'll do right now. I'll provide my vCenter credentials for all of my management activities. I'll choose the cluster that it'll run on. Also I'll provide two network definitions here right off the bat. The first one up top are the virtual, sorry, the virtual machines that we'll be using for our control plane. These are where they will get their IP addresses from. This is a network that you will not expose to the users. The network on the bottom, that's your API access. So those are the IP addresses that the users will, or developers will use to access the environment because they are the IP addresses, the public IP addresses for your load balancers. Then we specify the hostname for our virtual IP and the actual virtual IP address, which is on the same network as your API access. Then we select which compute cluster will be used for NOVA, instance deployments. And the data stores in vSphere could be vSAN, anything that's regular VMFS, NFS. I have a small environment, so I had to stick with NFS storage. And then on the glance side of things, I also use a VMware data store. And again, this leverages the open source drivers available to anyone in the community. We're using the same things that we have open sourced so that they can use our storage for both their instances as well as their glance image files. And here you select which kind of networking technology you wanna work with. The virtual distributed switch is an option, but it's probably going to be more for smaller scale deployments, very dev and test. But if you want something that's production ready, can leverage the full gamut of neutron services, this is when we opt for NSX networking. And for authentication, you can either use the Keystone database or LDAP. Last but not least, you configure a syslog server and for us we would configure a VMware vRealize login site server, or you can use whatever you're currently using for syslog. So then we get our summary screen and we can scroll down and see the virtual machines that will be deployed. So you can see from this description here, right off the bat, we have high availability built into the infrastructure from the beginning. This is without any special configuration file changes from you. We actually take all of the capabilities, all the configuration options, and then store it on our build server. Does the translation into the appropriate open stack settings so that when the environment comes up, it's already in an HA configuration. So we have two of each components with the exception of the database. It's using a Galera cluster which at a minimum needs a three node deployment. So for your management cluster of your ESXi host, your vSphere host, we'll have at least three of those servers in that cluster to service the Galera cluster because these VMs will have anti-affinity rules created automatically. Okay, so then it goes ahead and deploys the virtual machines for you automatically and then we're using some Ansible playbooks to go ahead and do the configuration afterwards. And at the end of it, then we can see our instances running properly, our control plane is up and running and then continue using open stack just like normal. All right, I'll hand it back to Santos. So we have a production grade, highly available open stack deployed and ready to go that admins can now hand off to their developers, developers can start consuming them. But for an admin, this is where it all begins. It's just deployed and there is more to come. Typically what you would expect is developers start using the open stack cloud and then one of the first, the next thing that the admin has to worry about is data operations. How do I go about, as developers start consuming it, the admin is going to run out of capacity and he has to start worrying about how do I add more capacity to it? How do I add more compute capacity so more developers can start spinning up VMs and likewise that admin should also be able to add and remove storage capacity as developers start creating new volumes or bigger VMs. So how does the developer go about doing all this? And the next thing that the admin has to worry about is maintenance. So there are, like once you deploy open stack and start consuming it, there are going to be bugs that needs to be patched. How does the admin make sure that he rolls out the patch without bringing down the entire cloud or without disrupting the existing workloads? And what about host maintenance? Say for example, what happens if the admin has to patch a bug on the hypervisor? How does the admin do that without disrupting the workloads? These are some of the data operations that the admin has to worry about after deploying open stack and open stack is up and running. And once you have different kinds of workloads that are being deployed on open stack and the underlying infrastructure, the admin would also want to make sure that certain types of workload get certain SLAs from the underlying storage applications. The admin may want high IOB storage for database kind of workloads. The admin may want not so much IOBs for a web server or a different kind of workload. So how does an admin go about doing that? So in the next few demos, we'll dig a little deeper into each of these workflows and see how VMware Integrated OpenStack provides really simple workflows to do each of these operations. Dr. Trevor. Okay, so back to our demonstration environment and I'll jump down to our actual day two operations type activities. So once you have your control plane up and running, it's a simple matter of adding additional compute capacity, adding more storage capacity and so on. And the way we would do that is through a menu-driven interface, similar to what virtual machine administrators are used to. So let's say we want to add more compute capacity. We click on this Nova compute section over here and say we want to add more compute capacity. I have my compute cluster two that I'm going to use. And with the way that we leverage the vSphere drivers, we don't expose individual hypervisors, we expose clusters of compute capacity. That way you can leverage VMware technologies like DRS, HA, vMotion on the back end that's completely transparent to your cloud users. So what this compute driver VM is doing is accepting all of the compute requests and then translating it to vCenter for it to go ahead and provision the workloads. And then I choose which storage I'm going to work with. I can choose any amount of additional data stores that I want. And then I go ahead and click finish. And then there's a notification that my compute services will be temporarily disrupted as I restart my Nova services. And as you can see here, my additional compute driver VM is launched. It has the service ready status and then it's able to serve up compute requests. And the same thing happens when we're adding more Nova storage capabilities or glance image storage capabilities. So I'll step through that real quick. So I say I want to add an additional data store. I select which cluster I'm going to work with which is the new one that we just deployed. And then I'll go ahead and select my data stores and then click finish. Same warning about my Nova services having that temporary disruption as it's doing the configuration. So again, as we're making these changes, they're not being done in one-off fashion. They're actually being written back to the Ansible playbooks that we have on our build server. And then the same thing can be done for glance image storage expansion. But let's head on over to updates which is something that Santosh talked about before. One second. So I head back over to updates and then I can say I have this update package that VMware provided for me to patch whatever bug came up in Nova or Neutron, for example. So I click on this green plus sign. Okay, the demo doesn't appear to be working properly but we do have a video for it. So what I'm gonna do is actually jump over to that video right now. I'll expand that. So we can see here that we're gonna do some updates and we're gonna click that green plus sign that I showed you before. And I'll select my package that I want to present as an update and then once the file is uploaded then I can click that apply button and I'll get a confirmation that, hey, this might be disruptive, do you really wanna do this? So this is actually going to load the package to the build server and then the build server will go ahead and apply the patch to the relevant nodes. And this is all being done automatically for you on the backend. And once it's done, you can actually revert the patch if you need to. If there's some unexpected behavior based on what you're doing you have the revert link right there. Okay, and I can actually confirm on the command line that the patch is applied. I just wanted to show one more maintenance function before I hand it back over to Santosh. So one of the things that may be common for administrators is you sometimes have to evacuate your cloud instances from your hypervisors and if you're working with other platforms they may be a little bit tedious. So one of the things that we do pretty well at VMware is we have the capability to put our host into maintenance mode, which is pretty much an evacuation using the DRS vMotion capabilities. So we can see here we have four cloud instances. Two of them are on Hypervisor 97. Two of them are on Hypervisor 98. It's kind of hard to see maybe from the back of the room but trust me, the numbers really are true. So I'll go ahead and verify where my instances are actually running and on which hosts. And then I'll actually go to my compute cluster and say, hey, I need to put server 97 into maintenance mode. And again, transparent to the users that vMotion happens, it can happen in bulk, it doesn't have to happen one by one. And as you can see here, once the action is done all my instances are now on server 98. And I forget how many vMotions we can do simultaneously but whatever VMware supports as the number of simultaneous vMotions that's fully available to the VIO users or administrators. Okay, so I'll hand it back over to Santosh. Thanks Trevor. Yeah. So now the admin has the capability to do perform some basic day to operations like capacity management, ad remove capacity, patch open stack, patch stand-align, patch or upgrade the underlying infrastructure using host maintenance mode. Another powerful tool that, another powerful thing that admins can do with the host maintenance mode is that when they want to do things like upgrade the underlying hypervisors, say from one version to another, say for example, the admin is running vSphere 55 and they want to upgrade it to 60. They can use the... Sorry to interrupt you, but if you have your hypervisors and you want to patch Heartbleed, for example. Exactly. This is a kind of usage for the maintenance mode capabilities. So what the admin can do is use a tool called vSphere update manager, which is going to put the hypervisors into maintenance mode on a rolling basis so that the workloads that are deployed on top of those hypervisors are not disrupted at all. So it's going to make sure that the workloads are moved to a hypervisor that's up and running so that it can bring some of the other hypervisors down, upgrade them, move the workloads back so that the workloads see absolutely no disruption. So it's a really powerful tool for admins to do upgrade and patching process on the underlying infrastructure as well. So the admin has these workflows to be able to do the data operations and as developers start consuming it, the admin may want to tie a certain type of workload to a certain type of storage underneath. Say for example, the admin may have SSD-based storage and want to make sure that all database or high IOPS workloads are placed on the SSD-based storage. There can be other types of storage such as the traditional SAN or NAS or the NFS storage which the admin may want to tie to different workloads that do not demand such high IOPS. On a vSphere platform, this is made really simple using storage policies. So what the admin typically has to do is when the admin has different types of underlying storage, the admin has to go ahead and tag each storage with a unique tag that identifies that type of storage. Say for example, in this case, for a virtual SAN kind of storage that has SSD-based disks, for storage, the admin can tag it as gold and for the regular SAN, the admin can tag it as silver and NFS as bronze policies. So next, what the admin has to do is create storage policies on vCenter which basically says that when the admin creates a policy called gold, the admin can say that any data store that's tagged with the name gold will be pulled in by this policy and when I create a virtual machine with that policy, the policy will automatically make sure that the virtual machine is placed on the right data store that's tagged with the name gold. So how all this ties into OpenStack is that when developers start deploying workloads through OpenStack, they can use these policies through volume, Cinder volume types to be able to create volumes on specific underlying data stores of different IOPS capabilities or different characteristics. Say for example, on Cinder, the admin would create equivalent volume types and tie them to the underlying storage policies using extra specs. So the admin will create a volume type, they call it gold volume type and using an extra spec tie this gold volume type to the underlying gold storage policy. And after that, every time volume is created, the developer has to specify the volume type and the underlying platform is going to make sure that the volume is placed on the right underlying storage. So what this gives the admin is a really nice way to make sure that different workloads with different IOPS or different storage requirements are placed on the right type of storage underneath. And once the admin has the right tools to do data operations and then the next thing the admin has to worry about is troubleshooting and monitoring. What happens if, say, NOVA is not able to spin up a VM? What happens if NOVA spins up a VM but it's not able to get an IP address? The admin needs the right kind of tools to be able to troubleshoot and monitor what's going on inside that OpenStack deployment that the admin has. One of the tools we have is we realize operations which is a monitoring tool for the vSphere infrastructure. We've added a management pack that's specific to OpenStack that gives the admin complete visibility all the way from the OpenStack layer at the top down to the infrastructure layer and in some cases down to the hardware underneath. Say for example, there is a tenant-specific dashboard and we realize operations where the admin can go ahead and see which virtual machines the tenants has deployed, which hypervisor the tenants virtual machines are sitting on, which data store the tenants virtual machines disks are being placed on. So he can track the workloads, track the usage all the way from OpenStack down to the infrastructure layer. And it also gives the management pack also gives the admin the ability to set alarms and triggers, say for example, if one of the OpenStack services go down, the management pack is going to send an alert to the admin saying, hey, your NOVA service went down, you need to go and bring it back up. And it also gives some remediation procedures to bring services back up. So that's we realize operations management pack for OpenStack that lets admins monitor their OpenStack cloud all the way from the OpenStack services at the top down to the infrastructure layer at the bottom. And another thing with OpenStack is that it's really generous in terms of generating logs. So if something goes wrong, if NOVA is not able to spin up a VM, there are about 10, 15 log files that one has to go look at to be able to troubleshoot what's going on. At a minimum 10, 15. Or more depending on how many instances you've deployed for HA. So we have a product called Virilis Loginsite which is basically a syslog aggregator. So and we've added a content pack for Virilis Loginsite that's specific to OpenStack. So what this gives is it provides custom dashboards and loginsite that can pull out specific log messages from the OpenStack logs. So what happens is you can direct all the OpenStack logs to a syslog server in this case, loginsite. And the content pack will make sure that it'll pick log messages from the logs that's coming in from OpenStack and populate the dashboards with specific events. Say for example, if something went wrong, there is a trace back in your NOVA service. It's going to pick that up and show that in a nice dashboard so you know what's going on inside your NOVA service. There are also dashboards that show API response times over a period of time for your different services. How your API response time has been changing for each service for NOVA, Neutron, Cinder, so on and so forth. And besides that, it also provides a powerful search tool. So you can go in and search your logs and a lot of times you could search for logs that'll help you type between log messages from your OpenStack layer down to log messages from your underlying vSphere layer. So to correlate between the different events and find out what exactly is going on and what triggered the problem that you encountered. And another good feature is you can also create your own dashboards in addition to the dashboards that comes with the content pack and you can do that without writing a single line of code. You can use your mouse to select what properties you want to be or what search terms you want to be monitoring and you can create a dashboard out of that without writing a single line of code. So it's provides a lot of different tools to kind of search, sift through your logs and identify what's going wrong in your OpenStack control plane. And lastly, we have integration with a product called V-Relays. Business, what this does is helps you do things like charge back and show back. Say for example, you have tenants consuming your OpenStack cloud and you want to find out what cost can be associated with each tenant, how many VMs each tenant is consuming, what that's going to cost you in your cloud. And it also gives you tools that help you predict how depending on different usage models how your cost is going to change over a period of time. It gives you that ability to predictive analysis on your cost going forward. And another thing that you could do with this tool that we've provided along with integration with OpenStack is that you have your tenant virtual machines running on OpenStack and you know what it's costing on your OpenStack cloud. You can take that and you could compare that with how much it's going to cost if the same kind of workloads are going to be deployed on different workloads. Say for example, if I deployed this workload on AWS, how much is it going to cost me? If I deploy it on GCE or Azure, how much is it going to cost me? So it gives you a lot of nice tools to do cost analysis, charge back and show back on your tenant workloads. That back to Trevor to show some of these operational tools and how it can be used. Okay, so we're just going to step through those three tools that Santosh mentioned real quick. So stepping over to the VRealize operations, we can see that based on the OpenStack plugin or management pack that they have for the solution, we have some dashboards that are automatically populated. First, and for most tenants, what kind of workloads are they running? How many instances do they have? You have a heat map there just to show if there are any dangerous zones because of quota usage and so on. And then you can take a look at the underlying storage. So for a VMware installation, that would be your data stores that the instances reside on, how much capacity they're at, what's the health, if there's any statuses that we need to be aware of. The same thing can be seen for the network infrastructure. So all of your NSX components, your routers, your transport zones and things like that that make up the underlying network topology for OpenStack. And also your compute clusters. How healthy are they? How healthy is the compute driver that is providing those instructions to the vSphere compute clusters? So then we scroll over to the OpenStack controller view and we see that we have a little bit of an issue. We have our storage services appear to have some kind of red status and we can actually hover over the various components and see what is going on, why it's having such a low health score. And then we can go over to our supplemental tool which is Log Insight and we can look at our errors. We can scroll down and then click on our Cinder Errors because that's associated with the storage service. And then they expose that to see or expand on that to see there's something wrong with the database connection between the Cinder service and the database, the Maria database Glare Cluster. So then we can go back and then expand on our, sorry, our console for our build server. And we can use that to access our storage nodes. So we can see that the Cinder volume status for some reason had stopped. And then we can go ahead restart it and then go back to our views and after the next polling interval, then we'll see that the health should be remediated and it's back to green, just like we expect it to be. And then moving on to the V Realize Business solution, this is where we can do our cost comparisons as Santosh mentioned. We can see our overall cost per month and a breakdown based on whether there's licensing, maintenance, storage, network, compute and we get these scores or these price values based on best practices collected from our customers as well as analysts as to what is the cost of running a cloud. And we can break that down onto a per VM cost. And then we can go down further a little bit into consumption analysis. And this allows us to see, for example, what's happening on a per tenant basis. So in my small development environment, I just have the admin tenant but if I had multiple one-for-each-department engineering, finance, HR and so on, I could leverage that and have that on a per tenant basis. And then I can expand, see which are my instances. I can actually see what is the cost per component that is being utilized by an instance. And then if I do the cloud comparison, I can see what costs are associated with running my workload on-prem versus running on the public cloud's provider. Now this is all tuned by what are your resource usage requirements, what are your SLAs with your internal users as well as things like uptime. If you want the kind of uptime that you expect from a private cloud from your own internal usage, you're gonna have a much higher cost if you go outside and that's to be expected, right? Going to a public cloud, they expect more ephemeral type workloads but your users may not be ready for that kind of compute architecture yet. So based on the cost that you have for their SLAs, that's how you can do these comparisons. And I think that was it for the management and troubleshooting, yeah, okay. So we have all these tools for the admins that is gonna help the admin keep the lights on on an open stack cloud deployment. What does all this mean to a developer? So one of the questions that I typically get asked is this real open stack. Because they see all these tools that are not readily available to upstream and it kind of makes people think that this is a different fork of open stack or maybe this is just an API layer on top of vSphere or maybe this is a different kind of open stack or something. So to ease developers out there who just care about getting the same standard open stack APIs regardless of all the tools that the admins have to keep the open stack cloud up and running, the open stack APIs that you get out of VIO, VMware Integrated Open Stack, it's the exact same set of APIs that you would get from any other distro of open stack or if you were to get open stack from upstream and run it yourself, it's gonna be the exact same APIs that you're gonna get with VMware Integrated Open Stack. It's not just the APIs, even the services that we run as part of VMware Integrated Open Stack is the exact same open stack services that you would get from any other flavor of open stack. And Santos to underscore that our control plane is actually made of Ubuntu VMs using the same packages. The only difference is that we're using the vCenter driver, the VMDK driver for the storage, as well as the NSX driver, all of this being open sourced and it can be used by any of the deployment partners. And if you were at the keynote yesterday they were talking, talks about DEF course. So DEF course is an initiative that the foundation is taken to standardize different open stack clouds so that developers who consume open stack from different vendors and different public clouds have the same sort of experience, get the same APIs across different clouds. And DEF course is the process that tests and verifies and standardizes different open stack clouds and kind of gives the certification mark saying this open stack vendor, this particular distribution of open stack has been verified with DEF course and has the standard set of APIs that is put forth by the foundation. So one of the first distributions of open stack that went through this DEF course process and got verified was VMware integrated open stack. So if you go to the open stack marketplace website and if you click on VMware integrated open stack, you'll see that green check box there that says this our distribution of open stack has been verified with DEF course which means that all the APIs, all the recommended tests that DEF course has put forward have been verified and certified on top of VMware integrated open stack. So what all this means for developers is they don't really, regardless of what the underlying tools that the admins have, the developers get the same experience or the same set of APIs on top of VMware integrated open stack that they would expect from any standard open stack distribution. Just to show this, one of the things that developers can do is if they can get, say, a heat template that orchestrates a bunch of virtual machines that they downloaded from any source online, they could deploy it on top of VMware integrated open stack and they could see that the experience they get is the same as they would expect on any other open stack cloud. Trevor, if you could show that. Sure, so I'm not a Python developer yet or any language developer. I learned how to spell YAML last week. So I'm gonna actually show you two tools that I love dearly, the first one being vagrant and the second one being heat. Okay, these are my videos and I'll go ahead and open the one that shows consuming open stack. And I didn't have much post production here so I'll jump around a little bit on this. So just to underscore that standard APIs are in use, I took one of the open source open stack plugins that are available to the community. So that's leveraging just standard Python or probably Ruby because vagrant modules tend to be written in Ruby. But the standard open stack APIs that are available to any user. Okay, there's no black magic. You don't see anything that's VMware specific here but despite all that, I'm gonna bring up an instance in our cloud using the vagrant plugin that we have pictured here. So you can see here is a vagrant file. This should be familiar to some of you who have used it. All I'm going to do is provide my capabilities. I've loaded my open RC into memory. So all my environment variables, I'll pull down dynamically. All right, so I go back to the command line and I do my vagrant up. Provide or select that I'm gonna use the open stack provider reminding me that I have to source my open RC otherwise you get some interesting errors from vagrant. And I can see here that it's going through and provisioning the workloads. One second. So things such as the network ID, what flavor I'm gonna use, the image that I'm gonna be using. Again, our image formats are a little bit different. We use OVAs, VMDKs and ISOs but pretty much the standard experience. And then also the name of my network. So then I head back over to horizon and then I refresh the view and I can see my new instance has come up. No fuss, no muss. Using the same APIs that a developer would use directly. Again, I'm just learning about this thing called YAML. So then I head over to my heat template. So this is a little bit more complicated than what I just showed. The text is kind of small and I apologize for that. But pretty much I'm doing a three machine deployment trying to simulate I'm gonna do my multi-tier infrastructure deployment. So I have my web tier, my app tier, my database tier. And then just using standard heat conventions. There's nothing VMware specific in here again. So that's just showing you my YAML file to prove that I'm not making up some fairy tales. And then I actually jump through and you can see here on the web tier that I'm actually going to not just provision an instance I'm also gonna provision a floating IP and then associate that floating IP with my instance. And then my app tiers and my database tiers they're communicating on a private network so their deployment configuration is a little bit simpler. So then I go ahead over here and I'm gonna do my heat stack create. It's a little bit cut off so I'll go ahead here. I'll let it run for a bit so that title screen can go away. Or I could just properly full screen it, that would help. Here we go. So I do my heat stack create, use my YAML file and give it the name of the stack that I'm going to be creating in heat. So I can see here that my stack multi-tier the create is in progress and after I refresh the screen then I'll see my new heat stack has been begun building. I can see my various resources that have been deployed. And then I can see my instances that were deployed, my database tier instance, my application tier instance and then my web tier instance. So again, just providing that uniform experience for developers and we have to wrap up. So I know Santosh has some things he wants to promote and then we'll get to question and answer real quick. That's pretty much all the demos that we wanted to show you and quick note on, if you want to find out more about our product you can, it's available for free download on our website and if you want to look at some of the other features you can swing by our booth there in the marketplace and we will be able to give you one on one demo of pretty much all the features that we have. And some of the other resources that you can find or you have a hands-on labs where you can go and you can spin up your own instance of an OpenStack Cloud, Tiny Cloud and play around with it. We also have a training that's gonna be up running sometime next week. And if you have questions, we have an OpenStack community with where you can post questions, discuss issues that you're facing and we'll have folks from our company, OpenStack experts will be also looking at the forums and answering your questions. That's pretty much all I had. I think we have a couple minutes for questions. It is ready for production. In fact, we have a few customers in the process of putting it through production. If you were here in the previous session where we had some of our customers talking about their experiences, they are rolling out into production and it is ready for production. Sorry, Santosh. So there's two aspects to that, right? So you're talking about the underlying infrastructure and we're just using vSphere, right? There's nothing special about the VMware configuration that we're using. Just standard VMware best practices on how do you make your infrastructure highly available? We're being able to leverage that with VMware integrated OpenStack because it's just the control planes provisioning workloads to your existing highly available, fully functional vSphere environment. And as you can see, the control plane has multiple instances, everything is all balanced, HA configuration. So right off the bat, it's ready for production. Any other, oh, okay. I'll take one more question and then you can meet with us afterwards individually. Oh, he was next? Yeah. Okay, so I'll be able to answer part of it and part of its future. So my product manager might hit me over the head if I say something wrong. So just hit me. All right, Santosh, all right. So we're using Icehouse right now and we're going to, which release are we going to next? Kilo. We're going to Kilo. So it's a good thing that he actually said it first instead of me. And then, sorry, what was the second question? Oh, other hypervisors. So VMware integrated OpenStack, we know VMware very well. So when it comes to doing a multi-hybervisor strategy, then we partner with the various distribution vendors out there. All our drivers are open source again. So they're using the same goodness that we are. So we have a gentleman from Morantis in the room. We partner with Morantis. We partner with Red Hatch. We partner with Canonical, whoever has some VMware smarts, we can actually work together with them, even though there may be some co-optition with some of the people I just mentioned. So yeah, we work together with the distribution vendors based on what the customers want. We'll have to take it afterwards because they're kicking us out of the room. But now comes- So we're going to stick around. Yeah, we're going to stick around because we have to give you the hoodies, all right? So if we can have people who are large size on this side, people who are extra large on this side, we'll gladly give them out.


Russian nationalist Igor Gurkin fears being eliminated like Wagner's Prigodzin. Igor Gurkin, a pro-war Russian nationalist jailed for challenging President Vladimir Putin, is worried he will meet the same fate as Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigodzin, who died in a plane crash earlier this year after rebelling against the Russian leader according to Politico. My arrest happened a month after Prigodzin's rebellion. Gurkin told Russian media bazaar in an interview. The greatest fear is that instead of the usual criminal punishment, I will be amnestised. In the same way as the Cook, Gurkin added in a reference to Prigodzin, who was named Putin's chef after his proximity to the Russian leader allowed him to secure lucrative government catering contracts. Gurkin, former colonel from the Russian spy service who goes by the nom d'gur, Strelkov, is notorious for leading Russian paramilitary troops into Ukraine's Donbas region in 2014 and briefly becoming defence minister in the Donetsk People's Republic, a Russian puppet state. In 2022, he was convicted of murder in absentia for the downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014, which killed 298 people. After Donbas, Gurkin reinvented himself as an ultra-nationalist military commentator who repeatedly criticised Russia's tactics and strategy in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. His withering critiques eventually landed him in a Russian jail in July this year, shortly after Prigodzin's aborted mutiny against the Kremlin, where he is still awaiting trial on charges of inciting extremism. Gurkin later announced he would defy Putin in 2024, Russian presidential elections, but a Moscow court extended his pre-trial detention by six months, effectively preventing him from running.


if you look up the definition of doubt it says a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction and doubt is something that a lot of people have when it comes to Ravens center Matt Scurra returning and being ready for the season opener against the Browns because a lot of people looked at his injury like it was a major injury which it very much was but a lot of people felt like Matt Scurra just it wouldn't be time he wouldn't have enough time and he just would not be ready and it's something that could have easily crept into all of our minds when it came to his big return but it's something that should be cast out I remember I spoke to Team Keep It Clean about a month ago because I had talked to Matt Scurra's trainer and he told me he said hey Matt Scurra is doing good he is actually ahead of schedule so he will be there ready for the season opener he'll be ready for it and I was like okay that's good that's actually great because Matt Scurra is somebody who has quietly he's quietly been with the Ravens since what 2016 I believe because they signed him as an undrafted rookie free agent he was on a practice squad the first year and then he in 2017 Marsha Yanda went down and this is a lot of stuff I didn't even remember but Marsha Yanda went down and Matt Scurra had to step in that right goal for him and then 2018 he just had to hold it down because Ryan Jensen was the starting center and then 2019 Ryan Jensen he ended up leaving for Tampa Bay insert Matt Scurra and boom the rest was history and he did a phenomenal job as the Ravens starting center and I think like I've been telling you I think Matt Scurra is going to end up going the Ryan Jensen route where he has another phenomenal year as the Ravens starting center establishes himself again I mean he already did that last year but reestablishes himself as a good quality starting center and then ends up getting paid handsomely by somebody else though because that this is uh Matt Scurra's contract is one that a lot of us often forget about including myself because we get so caught up in Ronnie Stanley's contract coming up Marlon Humphrey's contract coming up Matt Judon's contract coming up even Titus Bowser's contract coming up Gus Edwards contract coming up so Ravens they they have a lot of guys that are due very very soon but Matt Scurra is also one of them but anyway um Matt Scurra uh and a lot of other Ravens Gus Edwards he talked about it Lamar Jackson he talked about it um and there been a few others they've been taking the condition the conditioning test and that famous conditioning test that oh we all know about we've all heard about it from plenty of Ravens in the present in the past and they say that that conditioning test is like no other they say it is no joke we've seen the details of it before but I forgot exactly what what it entailed but it is tough it is extremely tough but one sign another sign that we have that shows that Matt Scurra he should be ready is that he passed the conditioning test Matt Scurra who a lot of people have doubt on that he'll be ready for the season opener he passed the conditioning test he passed it so if he was still so injured if he was still in such bad shape then there's no way that he will pass the conditioning test there's no way so that's a very very good sign when it comes to a lot of us wondering what that Raven starting lineup will be because there's still some questions that are in position but I think that and I've been saying too all along that I believe that the Matt Scurra's job is Matt Scurra's job Patrick McCarrey came in and did a good job he did and especially for that being his first time starting at the center position in his football career like what that don't even make no sense how good he did he wasn't Matt Scurra's level but again because I remember for myself because oh boy I think it was the Rams gangle Matt Scurra got injured I was scared I was very scared because I was thinking oh no oh man when Matt Scurra went down and then they had to bring the cutout for him you just knew you just knew that the season was over you were hoping to be wrong but you just knew his season was over you knew it you could tell by everything going on you were just hoping just not a little bit but you were just hoping that there was just a little chance that oh come on man please don't just something let let it be a misdiagnosis let it be just them being safe rather than sorry since they brought the cutout please don't let anything no please not Matt Scurra please no but it was confirmed that he was done for the year but at that very moment when they escorted Matt Scurra out and they inserted Patrick McCarrey I was worried because I'm like hold up this dude's an undrafted rookie free agent not saying that undrafted rookie free agents can't come to play because they made that team for a reason but I was like oh this oh boy what's gonna happen to our running game what's gonna happen to our pass protection what's gonna happen to just the Ravens offense because offensive line is it's a skill that gets overlooked and underappreciated by so many people because if you have a good offensive line you can really just not appreciate them like that but if you have a bad offensive line oh trust me you will remember the good days when you had a good one but Patrick McCarrey came in and he did very well he did a phenomenal job and I was proud I was very proud of because I was like wow he he there was some games where I actually had forgotten that Matt Scurra was injured and that's not a diss to Matt Scurra at all y'all know that that's just more so praise for Patrick McCarrey and how well he did in Matt Scurra's absence but there were still some things where he wasn't as good as Matt Scurra with and that was really that blocking at the second level that was probably the biggest difference and that goes a long way because that can make a run go for just that much more that much more yards it can make a game that much bigger but again that was Patrick McCarrey that's his rookie season rookie season so for that being his rookie season he did a great job great job even if it wasn't his rookie season he still did a great job but again I think Matt Scurra he will be the starting center so I think the the positions that are locked for the offensive line are center left and right tackle so Ronnie Stanley on the left or little brown jr. on the right and Matt Scurra at center positions I think could be up for grabs now I do I do feel like Bradley Bozeman will be the left guard but I don't feel like it's 100 percent I'm like 85 percent sure but for right guard I think that's up for grabs right now and again I do believe DJ Fluckel he'll have the edge but still they got been power sitting there waiting and he could be like hey this is my chance and if he outshines DJ Fluckel in training camp either DJ Fluckel could end up being a backup or DJ Fluckel could end up being back on the street but it ain't like again Ravens don't have some crazy big financial commitment to DJ Fluckel because they signed up for vet minimum these dudes be making some moves man because I remember when DJ Fluckel first signed a lot of us were thinking okay maybe like a three four million dollar deal for one year something like that maybe a two year six million dollar deal something like okay but no they signed up for one year vet minimum deal geez man and the thing you wonder about that is um I wonder if DJ Fluckel if he had if he had any other office and if he possibly turned down other office to get a vet minimum to just be on the Ravens something that I just I never thought about until just now so that is something that could be a possibility I don't know but anyway with Matt Scurra I expect him to have a really really good season man I expect him to have another really really good season I mean he was already on pace to having a really good season I think he was um he was again one of the I think the entire offensive line had been voted to the pro bowl I believe but I think he was one of them that was on his way but of course again the entry happened um but Matt Scurra is gonna do well man he is gonna do well uh when he gets back and like I said him passing the conditioning test that's no easy feat because even there even guys that there even guys that are healthy who can't pass a conditioning test there guys that are completely healthy and they can't do it like we've seen it year in year out what guys will uh they'll take the conditioning test fail take it again fail then usually on that third time that's when they usually uh get it but remember if you I know practice hasn't started yet but when it does officially start whenever that'll be um you can't practice if you don't take the conditioning test John Harbaugh will send you home before you can watch from the sidelines but if you can't pass the conditioning test no practice for you you guys to go buddy so this is a very very good sign that Matt Scurra is well on his way man so anyway that was um uh just just very very good news um and I'm just it made me that much more excited for this upcoming football season so uh I love y'all um I appreciate y'all I think later today we we will be putting out another vlog um so shout out to y'all uh got a lot of uh footage that I need to edit for some vlogs um so y'all y'all just keep looking out for that um I think the the the vlog release days will be on Sundays because I think Sunday is a super chill day for everybody not everybody necessarily but it's a chill day and it'd be nice to just sprinkle in like I said sprinkle in some different if a team keep it clean man because it's nice to get a refresher it's nice to always take a break um just period man and whatever you do and whatever you do um because we can easily if you're doing something especially if you're doing something so much and because I know it happens with me there's there be sometimes where I don't even want to look at no football stuff like because we could we talk football literally every single day so there will be times when I I don't even want to look at no football stuff I don't hear about no football stuff I'm looking at no football stuff so I will I will take some nice breaks I will take nice breaks and it it is the best thing yet because you you refresh yourself and you get that that breathing it's like so if you still hear this part of the video just put in take some time for yourself and that's not for me that's for everybody take some time for yourself just to get that refresher or you can put in the comment section refresh yourself because we all need it for whatever you do whatever you do for work whatever you do just period we all just need that time where we could just take a breather take a step back and just just vibe man so whether your vibing is taking a break and playing a video game or going to the beach I know we can't do too much right now um we did stop by a beach yesterday it was very empty which I loved oh man I loved it um whatever you do if you go out to dinner with your family do whatever watch a movie whatever man whatever you can do to take a take a little break some of y'all even use the videos to take a break so I appreciate that um and I'm glad that they that they help because I know it's a lot of people everywhere just they're just going through a lot man like we talk about man people people are going through a lot and I just feel for people man I just I feel for people because everybody got their own things that they deal with but um like I said man just keep pushing man just keep pushing and um promise you you'll get through whatever it is it made some stuff may take a little longer than others some stuff may be a little more difficult than other things but you'll definitely get through it so team keep it clean I love y'all and I appreciate y'all a lot um thank you for watching and again uh look out for the vlog uh later on today I'm out


Controversial take. Meditation won't make you happy. You can't just look for single solutions to complex problems, you know?  And in the modern world, if you go deeper into the roots of why we're actually happy or unhappy, why depression is on the rise, anxiety, loneliness, one of my 67 steps was listen to the whisper of 10,000 generations. Your ancestors have the answers, not just your ancestors from the 1800s, but your ancestors from 15,000 years ago. And the reason they have the answers is because our actual DNA, the encoding, evolved and adapted over these long millennia, tens of thousands of generations. And so when you come in, we're basically the same person.  And so, you know, if you, for example, if you look at Homo sapiens, 95% of our existence, by the way, I'm on my farm here in the mountains. So, beautiful here. We'll talk about why that's so important if you can get out of the cities for happiness. 95% of Homo sapiens' existence on this planet, we were in small tribes, hunter-gatherers, you could call it. And Robin Dunbar, the sociologist anthropologist, called it Dunbar's number. We live with less than 150 people in our social group. We were close, some were family, some were close friends. They went to war with us, they hunted with us. You know, they acquired resources together. You went to bed probably two to four hours after the sun went down. You woke up, depending, you know, the new science out there. There's a few hunter-gatherer tribes left that you can look to. The Ache, in Brazil, you know, the Hodzas. There's all these. There's multiple groups still there, and then we have the anthropological record of groups like, you know, the Sioux Indians and so on and so forth. So there was a pattern to life, and the patterns are what make you happy. So a single solution, like meditation, doesn't break up a horrible habit or pattern. And the modern nuclear family, you know, two kids, two parents isolated, nine to five job, you know, school system or all the ages are stuck together versus one room, classroom, you know, far distances between kin, family and, you know, friends. All these things are like a gaping wound, and people look for simple solutions. Again, I have nothing against meditation, but those simple solutions, you can't put a little teeny, you know, I have this scar here on my wrist when artery got cut in my wrist. You know, blood was shooting out. I was 12 years old, 13, shot out, you know, six inches in the air. You couldn't stick a little flinstone band-aid on that thing, and that's what people are trying to do. The patterns of the modern world are aggressively militating against your happiness. And so, you know, what are the practical solutions to becoming happy? Well, I mean, Dr. David Buss, one of my mentors, formerly Harvard professor, and now he's University of Austin, you know, he always tells me, I've been fortunate enough to learn from him personally over the last eight, nine years. And one of the things that he always tells me is, like, look, Ty, we move too little. We all know that. People are getting overweight. We don't walk enough. The average hunter-gatherer walked. Males walked about eight miles, so just call it 16,000 steps. Women walked six miles gathering. That's 12,000-ish steps. Average Americans walk in two to four thousand, depending on the city you live in. We've built cities that necessitate driving versus walking. Only a few cities in the U.S. Part of why I like living in Europe part-time is I don't need it. You just walk everywhere. I'm getting in 18,000 steps. You know, if I live in Dallas or something like that, or even L.A., where I'm from originally, you're not getting anywhere on foot. I mean, not realistically. So we've built our cities incorrectly. That militates against our happiness. Meditation alone can't counteract that huge problem. You know, there's a book by this guy, Daniel Lieberman. He's a Harvard paleoanthropologist who studies kind of the skeletal systems. He studies the skeletal system of primates. So you've got chimpanzees and your various monkeys and homosapiens. Humans have, I forget which one it is exactly, but the story of the human body is a great book on this. The way our hips are turned, I think it's turned out we can walk a lot. And you see that the way we can jump and run and do endurance running, you can see we're kind of built like springs with our Achilles tendon. So the answers, that's what I mean. The answers to your physical and emotional happiness and well-being, they're all in your ancestors. Your ancestors left you a body. You inherited this basically the same body as your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother or 5,000 generations ago. And so as you look to that, you find a more powerful way to find peace and happiness and well-being, whatever that might be. So can you really, I read an interesting study years ago. It basically says, happiness increases when you see multiple age groups every day.  Well, we live in, as I said, an isolated world where people often don't see. Think of high school. What's the problem with high school besides bullying and all this and shootings? You stick a whole bunch of 16-year-olds in a room with one teacher and one teacher and 40 people the same age. That's the blind leading the blind. You need something that kind of mitigates against all the weird things 16-year-olds are going to do if they're isolated with their only age group. So once again, look to your ancestors. You had a small village and tribe where you had people, yellow kids running around every day, you saw them. This study that I try to look for, I'll put the show notes. TyLopez.com slash podcast 32323. I think that's, let me check to make sure I'm giving you the right URL. Yeah. TyLopez.com slash podcast 32323. Today's date. So anyway, why is this important? Well, because you obviously can't recreate the full savannah hunter-gatherer lifestyle, right? There's a few tribes left the Messiah in Africa.  But to the extent you bring back those elements into your life. So here's some practical things that have made me happier. I have my friends and family work for my companies, not all of them. Pick the best ones that you get along with the best. Then I'm, because you're going to spend the majority of your time at work in the modern world, right? So if you're recreating the tribe, you know, work with friends and family. It's insane that people say, don't work with family. Well, I mean, yeah, you can always point to extremes where families break up and they got what's that crazy TV show succession or something. And that's like, don't listen to Hollywood. In general, family is better to work with, but not perfect. And you got to pick and choose.  Don't pick the ones that are the most exploitative. But that's something that makes you happier. You know, my closest best friends, oh, there's some turkey there. Little flock of turkeys there. By the way, that brings up something. Seeing, I remember reading one of the Native Americans. I don't know who it was. Sitting Bull or something said, what is man without the beast? Meaning we're also meant to see other species. And you see that people love their pets. They love their living Manhattan and they love their dog and they love their cat. But the beasts, not just one species, one of the reasons, you know, I like having a farm is because I got chickens and cows and horses and all that. I'm not here all the time. I'm a businessman. I'm traveling. You know, you got to have a ratio. You can't always be out in the countryside. And when I was first starting out, I couldn't afford to own a farm. But you could go out to one, you could Airbnb, you could camp. You know, these are the things that create happiness. You have to recreate this Savannah effect. Savannah is the type of actual landscape that makes humans happy. So open spaces, some hills, trees, water. It's been proven with eye tracking and all this kind of fMRI machines. You're happy depending on your landscape. I lived in Manhattan for a year or two in one of the nicest apartments in Manhattan. It was beautiful, but all you looked at is a concrete jungle. And I looked back and I was like, I was way happier in my place in LA, where I had that kind of Savannah where he had some trees and you know. So pick well where you live. Pick well who you work with. Pick your social circle. Well, by the way, for those of you who want to, this is my free podcast. If you want to go deeper on this, I highly recommend you get in my new 67 steps. Okay, I'm full of commercial break in here. Not trying to push this on you. I don't charge much money, but in 2014, I built this 67 steps, the old version, which I think is almost the most purchased self-development online course in human history. Just an insane amount of people went through it. That was back with my hair, my garage. I've got a new version of this that was 2014. I've got a new version updated that's totally transformed new things I've learned. So if you go to Tylopis.com, slash podcast, 67 steps. Just P-O-D-C-A-S-T, the number 67 steps. It'll take you to the new 67 steps. I'm just launching that. It's a totally different course if you've been in the old one, and it has a lot on health, wealth, love, and happiness. It has more on very specific things, actionable items. So if this resonates with you, again, meditation isn't the enemy. It's just not the panacea. You know, what's the panacea is a systematic, a pattern of living. When you wake up, what you do when you wake up, how you move, what you do with, how you interact with nature, how you interact with family, how you interact with friends. Now, occupation is a huge thing. In pretty much every study of adults, it's like, what's your three top regrets? Regret obviously militates against happiness, right? There's a good book on this called The Power of Regret. But I think it's Daniel Pink. I forget who wrote it. Power of regret. So some regret, by the way, is good. But in general, if you're living an over-regretful life, it's militating against happiness and all the meditation in the world and all even walking or being on a farm, those simple things, as a pattern begin to boost your happiness. But still, if you have too much regret, it'll kind of override. It's like regret is like the grand overriding emotion of happiness. Here's the cool thing or the interesting thing. The three biggest regrets of the average human in the modern world. And it's really the modern world that makes us unhappy. It makes us live longer. We have sanitation and we have penicillin and all that. And militates, as Freud called it, civilization is discontent. But the three regrets we have are who we marry, our education and our career. Those are the three.  But the big things, you have to get right. I like that fourth one, which is where you live. I think it matters. 100 gatherers cared about where they lived, right? They migrated away from places that sucked and they moved to places that were better. We're a migratory species. So, you know, you have to, but going back to happiness, what's more powerful than meditation? Well, number one, your career. That's the dominant one and your education. A lot of people regret their education. You had 12 years and learned nothing. You know, that's why I kind of started an online education. Because I'm like, I felt that way. So I found my own mentors. That's what the 67 steps is about. So, but anyway, I'll put a link if you're watching the video. I don't know if you're listening. I'll put it in the one of the corners or somewhere here. Get in that new 67 steps is pretty powerful. I think going to be the best thing I've ever put out. But if you get the big four, I'll call them. You also have a hard time finding happiness. Now you might say, Hi, well, I already, you know, married the wrong person, already having the wrong career or my education's passed. Well, career is the most flexible of all of those. You can quit your job and move on. Not a stepdad that said, I'm going to quit my job. I hate my job, but you know, but I'm doing it for the family. I got this secure income.  So you can't use the excuse you got to provide for your family. Now it doesn't mean you have to quit your job after you watch this video, but you can quit your job and make the leaf of faith into something else. Give me a break.  That's not how world works. You can find other occupation or start your own business. That's the simplest, you know, the biggest thing. If you watch this video and go, what's the most practical thing? Well, we talked about, you know, getting out walking, not being in big cities all the time, but I think the most actionable and extremely powerful, like walking, let's say on a 1 to 100 scale. Let's say you're, what is your happiness? Put a comment below. What is it?  You're depressed a lot. And some of this is obviously genetic and, you know, a beat. I'm not saying you can just fix depression, but you can mitigate against it. Some people are naturally a 90 out of 100 in happiness. And this is what Dr. Bus, the famous scientist, told me. Everybody has a different bar of their natural state of happiness. Some people are, you know, and a lot of this is genetic.  So it is true. Some people have a very low baseline, a 20. And some people are naturally very happy. We know them jolly. They're an 80. But you can move this number around. Now a 20 baseline may never become an 80 baseline. Baselines are hard to move massively, but you can, I mean, going from a 20 to a 40 will feel like a lot. So it's a somewhat subjective thing too. If you've never experienced being an 80, you don't have to be an 80 because you don't even, that's not in your consciousness of what happiness could feel like. My point is move yourself up that baseline of happiness.  If you don't watch social media, watch something substantive. But the most powerful or change your career and change where you live. Now, and I would say the third one is somehow incorporate life with the best of your family and friends. Whether that be started business together or go to the gym every day with them. Arnold Schwarzenegger had Franco Colombo. Those dudes worked out every day and they started some kind of construction company together.  Not perfect. Ain't no perfect people out there. Perfect mentors can be looking in your grave. But the point being is he built that thing right, his career, you know, and you could do mundane things with a friend. I had Zach, we went to the gym, we went to movies. I was seeing him five times a week, you know. And kids you can obviously do that with. You have kids. But again, point being is those big three or four, you can't really change your educational past. If you're watching this as a teenager, you may need to change schools. If you're still in university, if you're going to go to university, do a foreign university or something. Community college in your local area. Yeah, people go, well, that's all I can afford. Well, you'd be surprised what you could do if you put together a plan. So if you're going to do university, like maximize it experientially, you know. You're not going to regret it if you did instead of doing your community college. I found a community college in Switzerland or something or India. And it's not that expensive. You get to India, it's cheap, you know. Go to school there. Yeah, it won't be an American degree, but blah, blah, blah. I don't care. Give me a break. So anyway, see, so change education is the hardest one, especially if you're older. But if you're young, you could tweak that. Who you're married to.  They divorced. I'm not saying it's ideal, but it's not like divorce is a modern thing. And I'm not advocating divorce, what I'm saying. You know, let's say you're dating someone. And you see red flag, just live on. Give me a break. Just separate, blah, blah, blah. Stop being tricked by Hollywood. You know, everything's Ryan Gosling. Titanic, you know. You got to be practical about it. The person ain't going to work out. You want to be happy, don't get that one wrong. Then career, as I said, slowly but surely. Save some money or current jobs, start a new business, or find something more entrepreneurial or exciting that you can do with some kin, either family or close friends. Do it together. Go work at the same company as one of your best friends. You know. And then happy, and then the other one is, you know, where you live, move if you live in a horrible place. You can't change the structure of certain locations. A lot of places in the world aren't great on a subjective level, comparative level to other places. Some people are going to disagree. Well, I mean, go live in North Korea then, if you don't think it's a, there is absolute, I'm not going to say the absolute truth, but there is on that subjective scale, slash objective scale, better places in the world to live. You know, Google it. Part of why I spend a lot of time in Scandinavia, I went to Google. It's like happiest place, best place in the world to live. It pops up on every single survey.  I'm going to spend more time there. If you can have kids, have them be born and give your kids the gift of being born in a cool place, you know. So again, all you people who love meditation, again, this isn't an attack on meditation, but this is real talk. You get those four areas wrong.  Nothing. Zippo. Good luck. You got a huge wound. You're putting a little band-aid on it. I like little band-aids when I have little cuts. Meditation can optimize things and sure there's people who have amazing results, but not as much as people who get those four.  Optimize those four. That's the best thing you can do. And yes, you could still meditate. I try to meditate a few minutes every day. I use call map or I use a couple different, I've used mine valleys sometimes, vision met him years ago. So, you know, people think of me as a Lamborghini guy. They don't know the farm side of me. You know, where you live. Be in a place. I did another video on this, a happiness hypothesis with Jonathan Haight. How living in big cities all the time spikes your cortisol in a horrible way. And that's hard to lose weight. It's hard to sleep right. Got fight or flight on all the time.  So at the end of the day, there's practical things you can do. First, it's kind of an echelon. There's an order of things you have to do if you're unhappy to become happy again. And meditation is not number one on that list. It might be number, you know, 18. And again, somebody's going to disagree with me. That's fine. People can disagree. I don't have all the answers. Neither do they. So, you know, find an amalgamation of different ideas and you merge them together. And hopefully you find a good life pattern. So, fix your patterns, especially around those big four. And if you want to go through a 67-day challenge about health, wealth, love, happiness, that's pretty powerful, go through my new 67 steps. So I'll put a link or go to tidalopis.com slash podcast67steps. tidalopis.com slash podcast67steps. It'll redirect you because I'm just coming out. It's not out yet. The new 67 steps. So hopefully by the time you hear this, I publish this video, you'll be able to access it. It's not expanding. I didn't charge, I didn't set the price very high. I want a million people to go through this. So, now, leave a comment. If you think meditation is way more powerful than I made it out to be, state your case. I'm always happy to change my mind. Change my mind. Leave a comment. Subscribe. I'm starting to record a lot more content. Hopefully, people have been telling me, I just did this experiment. I've been so busy. They're like, can you record more? And I did. And people seem to find some value in my ranting. So, maybe that's you. Subscribe. Producing content. Drive for 67 days. My paid program. Or if you can't afford it, you can go through some of this free stuff. It's not as systematic or as in-depth just because they're different systems. But, yeah.


here at the Wild Things booth also you have a Kerastaz product. That's right. So this is a partnership between withings. Kerastaz who's one of the leading professional salons and salon products in the world and L'Oreal Incubator Labs and the three of us have got together to create the world's first connected smart hairbrush. Well this smart hairbrush actually has five different cells. There is a gyroscope and accelerometer. There is a there is a conductivity sensor. There is a load cell and then in the middle there's a microphone and the moment you begin to comb your hair, mine's not quite long enough, but the moment you begin to comb your hair it starts to recognize the way you're combing your hair is it combing too fast too slow too much force and then it's also listening to your hair and it's depending on the on the moisture in your hair plus its knowledge of the environment for Wi-Fi connectivity or Bluetooth connectivity it'll predict from the algorithms from the sound what is your hair health and over time it's going to give you a hair score and teach you to improve your hair score by recommending different types of Kerastaz products or different ways to comb and handle your hair. Is this a real technology? Does it work? Real technology that works. So the the algorithms were developed by L'Oreal's incubator labs the products and the app were developed by Kerastaz and then the actual hairbrush it's beautiful styling the sensors all of that technology is what withings does better than anybody else so we've got a everyday object beautiful design and we've put all that technology into this with so there's a PCB inside with the bluetooth bluetooth connectivity how about a battery in the handle and a whole bunch of sensors whole bunch of five different sensors and a long battery and a dock to charge no dock to charge to change out the battery cable and how soon is available how much you passed mid-year under 200 us dollars all right and this this whole system about a microphone listening to your hair that sounds crazy but it's it's real stuff it's real very novel science yeah we think it's we think it's proprietary we don't know anybody else who's doing this it's the world's first the technology on the algorithms developed by the L'Oreal incubator labs um and that's it so for people with long hair for people without hair with long hair with long hair right for long hair right thank you and uh yes for people uh you really need shoulder length hair lots of different types of hair you have to configure that in the app nope no i don't believe so no it'll uh what it will do is it has the capability to look at the local environment and it'll know if it's a high humidity day if it's a low humidity day seasonality and it learns that


introduction and thank you very much for coming. I'm Siwei, I am a medical engineer and post-doc researcher working at TU Munich and as you just heard, in my free time I'd like to say it's my band. Now let's get to work. The topic of my talk tonight is copy of implants, also known as artificial hearing. Hearing has been an important part in our lives. Every day we get to hear sounds like speeches, music. The key organ that is responsible for our hearing is the coplia, which is the snare-like structure shown in the picture here. And then there is the auditory nerve, which is the central nerve responsible for hearing that goes from within the coplia all the way to the brain. We know that the sound is basically vibration, so when the sound comes into the ear canal, it vibrates the ear drums and then gets transmitted by the ear bones all the way into the coplia. There is some specific cells called the hairstyles. They sense the vibration and then they activate the auditory nerve to create electrical impulses with a shape like this. The activation of auditory nerve within the coplia is dependent on the frequency of the sound, also known as the pitch of the sound. And here is a video that's going to show you the difference in terms of the location depending on frequency. So note that for each individual frequency there's only a narrow band of the auditory nerve in the coplia gets activated. So after the electrical impulses is generated after the activation of auditory nerve, the electrical signal gets transmitted into the brain via the nerve. The brain receives the signal interpreted and then we hear. So therefore the hairstyles are very important because it's responsible for converting the mechanical vibration into electrical signals. Unfortunately it's very fragile and it's highly susceptible to noise damage such as loud music in the nightclubs.  And that leads to permanent ear loss.  Will that be able to help to restore hearing? That is the idea behind the coplia implant. So here is a picture of a person wearing the coplia implant and here is how it looks like on the inside. Again we see our old friend the coplia and then also the auditory nerve. We notice that the coplia implant has two parts, the external and internal parts. The internal parts of the coplia implant include the microphone and speech processor that goes behind the ear and also the transmission coil goes on the skin or on the hair depending on if the person has hair or not. And then the internal part includes the receiver and stimulator goes under the skin and an array of 12 to 20 electrodes that goes microelectricals that goes inside the coplia. So when the sound comes in, gets picked up by a microphone and converted into digital signal by the speech processor. And then the signal gets transmitted by a transmission coil into the receiver. After the signal being interpreted, depending on the property of the sound, such as frequency, the stimulator sends out a small amount of electrical current through the microelectro array to activate auditory nerve within the coplia. Again it creates electrical impulses which gets carried through the nerve into the brain. Coplia implants has been considered as the most successful neural implants nowadays. It has been capable of restoring 30% of hearing, especially speech understanding for more than 500,000 recipients. So you may wonder how the sound would sound like to the coplia implant recipients. So, I was playing an audio speech at the beginning of the presentation, which feels like a movement dem Alterweicht durch jede Lebensstufe, durch jede Weisheit auch um jede Lebensstufe outside. And here is a comparison that assimilates how that audio would sound like to the coplia implant recipients. So as we can imagine the excitement for the recipients, but they found that they are able to hear. But at the same time, you also notice that there was a lot of noise in the audio and how the noise was distorting the original sound. So it would be quite difficult for the recipient to understand what they hear, especially after a long time of deafness. And they need a certain amount of time of training to learn to hear again. And that's what we call the auditory rehabilitation. So as we would have figured that the coplia implant nowadays is far from being perfect, one of the major challenges is that it's difficult for the recipients to differentiate five pitches. And therefore it's difficult for them to understand tonal languages. It's difficult for them to understand the emotions in the speech because it's normally related to the pitch in our voice. For example, there's normally a difference in meaning between when I say, ah, the coplia implant recipients won't be able to detect it. And next is that it's difficult, it's almost impossible for them to hear music. Again, I'm going to play a comparison of two audios. One is the audio of the music that we are at the beginning. There is how it would sound like to the coplia implant recipients. Apparently, there is still a lot of room for the coplia implant to develop. For the last four years, I've been working at Tumile to develop computer models of coplia implant. And the model is based on this full set of medical images. Sorry, the models of course are to help develop the technology. Anyway, the computer model on the full set of medical images that shows the detail and complete geometry of the coplia and the surrounding structure. And the images was having such a high resolution that it was capable of showing a small object as small as 6 micrometer, that is 0.0006 meter. This video is going to show you how the computer model looks like. First, so this transparent object is the fluid inside the coplia. The semi-transparent object is the microelectro array and with these shiny metal plates representing the microelectros, they are altogether 12 microelectros in this model. And this yellow object is the auditory nerve. And from here you can see that the nerve goes from within the coplia model way out and leads to the brain, this side. And this model was in that inside scale of a human head model, that there was a lot of noise in what coplia implant was doing here. And now let's talk about why. So here is the stimulation results from the coplia model that shows the activation pattern of the auditory nerve if the electrical current is delivered from each of the 12 electrodes individually in a model. And we notice that for a single electrode, and also the redder the area is, the higher the possibility of the auditory nerve gets activated. So we notice that for a single electrode, a large nerve gets activated. And it's even reaching into the area that was supposedly responsible for other electrodes. And we notice that from one of the videos that parallel band of the auditory nerve is supposed to be responsible for one single frequencies, which means that one coplia implant electrode is going to activate a wide area that is supposed to be responsible for a wide range of frequencies. And since the noise that we just heard is practically made of a huge range of frequencies, which means that the noise is practically unavoidable in current coplia implants devices. And therefore we need to develop the coplia implant by finding a better way to activate the auditory nerves. And I hope that I'll be able to tell you what those methods will be very soon with the health of money can be a lot of. So in summary, what we learned in the last 15 minutes is that coplia implant works by activating the auditory nerve directly with a small amount of electrical current. It's capable of restoring certain degree of hearing, especially speech understanding. Despite that they're still facing a lot of challenges, such as the noise problem, they're still considered as one of the most successful neuro implants nowadays. And hopefully with the advancement of this technology, it's going to be able to restore full hearing for the coplia implant recipients. That's the end of my talk. Thank you very much. Thank you for those who like this. Thanks for the presentation. I was wondering, with the development of technology, because the idea would be to extract these implants when we develop your implants. Is there any risks? Has that already been done, extracting all the implants? So the question is that, is there going to be any risk for the implant removal? Very much the same risk as you would do any surgery is the anesthesia and also the potential of getting an infection. Otherwise, removing itself would have much problem. Thank you for your talk. I wanted to ask you, did you hear about the latest news? The US American University has developed a kind of community which recreates the hair in the ear. So you won't need any coplia anymore. They have made some researches on mice which work well and now they are trying to implement it on human beings. And this would be the, this was published about three or four weeks ago. So it won't be very interesting to say something to this. What is the status of this? Okay, so your question is about what would happen to this technology if we were able to re-grow the hair cells in the future. Because that's the goal and you can hear again. Yes, for sure, definitely. I mean this technology and also as saying as other types of neuro implants such as retinal implants and also cortical implants, they are the purpose of these implants is to restore the function. If we are really able to re-grow like every part in our body, then of course there is no need for any other type of implants. But for the moment I would say that it is even necessary to develop the neuro implants because right now as people say it's only in animal experiments and it would also be quite difficult to, it firstly also depends on what animals are they using because some animals today it's actually easy to control where the drug will go inside the cochlear, but some will be different as for example in human that the cochlear is being back where it did inside the skull. They are in the status, they are asking for people who would like to join this research So in the US human beings to try out the nerve you have is very much so it's quite fun so I hope it will be further than what I'm saying. So let's not be wait for your evidence. We have any tips if we talk to a person with cochlear implant fate and how can I speak or how I have to speak to the person understanding that is there any trick? The question is is there any trick to speak to the cochlear implant recipient so that they can better understand. So I mean the purpose of this implant is so that they are they're capable of communicating just as normal also although of course I mean one thing is that do not speak the thing under very normal situation because it would be difficult for them to understand why it's you know just make sure that he's wearing the so as you mentioned there was a 12-odd term used in this implant right? 12-odd term right? It's normally 12 to 20 or more if you add number of electrodes in this case could you put that here? Yes in a sense but at the same time it will also the noise will still be there like you can probably recruit you can probably stimulate some you can have some major frequency they don't want at the peak area where you see the most red area but at the same time it's still going to be very loud so the noise will still be there just think about the OT like if you turn it louder the noise is still there. Tencent then what is your approach to increase resolution and decrease this noise to develop a better energy of the implant? That could be a little bit more of little bit complicated to explain in this one minute so okay it's just mainly to change the so right now what I just showed you earlier is that they're using the ground using the receiver problem as the ground and then model polar stimulation from each of the electrodes individually but we can somehow carry by polar stimulation within just using the cochlear implant electrodes like within the cochlear so that to make it more full


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