Hi, this is Vicki Here and this week I will be featuring Waffleflour stumps So let's start with the first card for this week I will be using this stumpset and the matching dies This stumpset is actually calls Fither'more So first of all I am using Erectongletie and I am going to cut out an Erectangle And inside that die I am placing one of the Fither dies So after I decide, where I want this feather to go θα πω από τη σύζυγη μου η μοδηλή μου και η ιδια είναι να βρεις ένα κουμπιδό από αυτή η σύζυγη για να μπορώ να πω και να δημιουργήσω ένα σακόδρο. Θα χρησιμοποιήσω αυτή η σύζυγη στη άλλη σύζυγη. Θα βρω ένα τελειοτήτυπο στον κουμπιδό. Και τώρα μπορώ να διεθνώσουμε τη δυνατότητα. Έχω ένα πίσω της δυνατότητα εδώ, που θα δοκιμάσω εκεί. Και αυτός θα έχω δημιουργήσει ένα κουμπιδό. Εχω δημιουργήσει το εξέσιο. Και τώρα θα χρησιμοποιήσω το σύζυγη μου. Και θα δημιουργήσω ένα κουμπιδό, όλα εκεί, το τελειοτήτυπο. Θα αγώστε ότι όλα τα πίτσια και πίσια που θα δημιουργήσω στον κουμπιδό, δεν θα πω πίσω. Θα δημιουργήσω το σύζυγη, γιατί έχω αρκετά δυνατότητα για όλες τα πίσια και πίσια για να δημιουργήσω ασφαλό στο αυτοκλήτητα. Και τώρα θα μπορώ να εμπηγήσω το σύζυγη του κουμπιδό, όπως μπορείτε να βλέπεις ένα από τους, έχει το σύζυγη σύζυγη. Και θα εμπηγήσω ένα άλλο, το μικρό, που δεν έχει ένα σύζυγη, αλλά αυτό δεν μας σημαίνει. Θα εμπηγήσω τα σύζυγη μου με τα βέναση μου, γιατί θα εμπούσω τους για να χρησιμοποιήσουμε ένα σύστημα και ένα κομμάτι της κομμάτρας εμποσιακής. Λοιπόν, as you can see here I am going to use the Platinum εμποσιακή πόδρα πρώτα. Και αυτό είναι το μεγαλύτερο πόδρο από those that I am going to use and now I am stamping the smaller one again with VersaMarking. Και θα χρησιμοποιήσω αυτό το εμποσιακό πόδρο που είναι από Ranger. Και as I am heat setting the embossing powder on these fiddlers just to let you know that I will be posting 3 videos throughout the week as I am featuring Waffle Flowers. So the first one is today and I will be having another one on Wednesday and the last one on Friday. Also there is a giveaway on my blog so make sure to join and enter your name for the chance to win one of the Waffle Flowers stamp sets. Also there is a full list of all the supplies that I am using just below the video in the description area if you are watching on YouTube but there is also a full list of supplies on my blog.  And since there isn't a matching die for the other fiddler I am just going to use my scissors to cut it out. Now this isn't very difficult but as I am cutting around it I make sure that I leave a thin white border all around just like the other fiddler has. And just because I like to have my clusters in threes I am going to stamp again with Versamark another fiddler so I will be stamping the small one again one more time with VersaMarking and then I am going to emboss it but this but this time I am going to use another embossing powder this is gold embossing powder again but it's darker than the enchanted one by Ranger this is actually by zinc and I am going to heat set it and cut it out with my scissors again. For this card I like to keep the design simple but since I love gold lately and it's on red I decided to introduce gold together with silver and that's why I am using these embossing powders for the fiddlers. Also one of my big loves lately is creating shaker cards so I am combining all in this card today.  Once I decided where everything is going to go I am using a glue dot at the top of the fiddler and a foam square at the bottom so this will ensure that I will have a bit of dimension and I am going to do the same thing for the other fiddlers as I am going to stick them one on top of the other to create a cluster. So again I am using a glue dot at the top and I will be using a foam square at the bottom. To finish off my cluster I will be creating a double bow by using this gold thread and I am going to secure it at the top of the fiddlers with a glue dot. Inside my window I did add some silver gold and clear sequins and now I am covering up the window with a vanilla cardstock. And now it's time to stamp the sentiment. For the sentiment today I am using the you are the best thank you. So these are two phrases from the stamp set. I am using VersaMarking to stamp the sentiments and then I will be using gold embossing powder So out of the two embossing powders that I have already introduced in my card I will be using the zinc embossing powder which is a darker gold and that's because I want the recipient to be able to tell what that sentiment says. Since the enchanted gold embossing powder by Ranger is very light. I have heat set the sentiments and just because I don't know when to stop with my with adding details I am going to create a small cluster out of the little dots that come together with this stamp set and I'm going to stamp with VersaMarking here and there some of the dots and then I will go ahead and emboss them with the gold embossing powder again. And now it's time to assemble my card. For my card base I have created out of white cardstock a top folding card that's four and a quarter by five and a half and I am going to stick the main panel at the center of my card and that was the card for today. I hope you had fun and got inspired and if you did don't forget to leave me a comment as well as give me a thumbs up or my youtube channel. Thank you all for watching.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Carl Skechley, Vice President of Account Management at JSA, and joining me today is Mr. Brian Flynn, President of XTEL. Brian, welcome back to JSA TV. Thank you Carl, it's great to be here. Thank you, thank you for joining us. So Brian, the last time you were on, XTEL was in the midst of helping businesses replace their old POTS lines with cellular LTE. Soon after you embarked on a campaign addressing the varying technology needs of businesses continuing to manage either a complete work from home or hybrid workforce, can you tell us a bit more about what you offer in this area? Yeah, absolutely. So we've taken the same communication and network security services that have traditionally been provided to corporate locations and we've used them to help rethink the home network. Working from home is now a permanent part of most businesses' organizational structures, which makes it necessary to think of home networks as satellite offices worthy of the same communication tools and security policies used at the corporate network. So this means that a work from home employee must have the same voice, video and collaboration tools that they would have at the corporate level, at the corporate location or from any other location. And they must also have the same security policies as well. So XTEL works with the businesses to design a plan that works for all employees regardless of where they are located. Thank you, Brian. Yes, so I mean, I think that is a brilliant answer and obviously work from home became quite popular during the highlight of the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected us heavily from 2020 basically through to the end of 2021. But anyways, thanks to obviously mass vaccination programs, we all started 2022 with a rather optimistic bend and then a war happened, a war which has impacted businesses here in America. Why is that? And what should American businesses be concerned about from your viewpoint? I think the large issues have been well publicized such as the negative impact on supply chain, the huge increase in costs of oil and other raw materials and just in general more inflation pervasively. But also the threat of cyber attacks originating from Russia and targeting US businesses, that has been a heightened level of sensitivity towards that. I see. So when it comes to cybersecurity, what are some of the blind spots or weak areas today's business leaders have? What do they need to be paying attention to? So cybersecurity for a long time, I think it's been viewed similarly to an insurance policy where you feel that you're paying to defend against something that may or may not ever occur and if it does occur, it's not gonna occur for ever a long time. And I think also many business leaders prefer not to invest in it because they feel they are not a viable target for hackers. Perhaps they think they're too small or they don't have anything worth stealing. But I think recent events seem to indicate otherwise and it's not a matter of if but when a business will be attacked. So getting back to the working home dynamic, hackers always look for the weakest defended entry point into a network which now oftentimes is an employee's home network. Throughout the pandemic, there's been a huge increase in business insurance claims due to data breaches caused by home networks not being defended properly and being used as a means to infiltrate the corporate network. So business owners should really acknowledge that they need to properly defend the corporate network but also they need to acknowledge that they need to defend the networks and computers of the remote workers and work from home workers as well. Excellent answer. That's a very interesting viewpoint. So what does Xtel offer to support American businesses in this area? In other words, what is Xtel's value ad here specifically in a world full of other companies that may also offer various solutions? Yeah, good question. So the Xtel has a comprehensive telecommunications service offering that can address many if not all the needs of the business. The key is we customize these services to address the unique challenges that each organization faces. Telecommunications is not a one size that's all proposition and businesses have uniqueness and that uniqueness could be where they're located, where their employees work from, where they want to store their data, how they want their employees to access that data. They're bound by industry specific compliances such as HIPAA or PCI. And of course, they must adhere to the expectations of their customers. So because of all this variability, it's essential to understand the needs of the customer and to customize the solution to a building. That's one of the key differences between Xtel and many of our competitors. The ability to provide not only that comprehensive set of services, but to do so in a customized fashion. Interesting. So we have customization and it also sounds like we have a very holistic approach to everything when it comes to cybersecurity, telecommunications, networking, et cetera. So a follow-up question for me, can you explain to our viewers in greater detail why Xtel is a company that we should all be watching? Sure. So I think it's as simple as having to write services in the right approach to providing those services to the end customer. There are many companies that provide UCAS, otherwise known as Unified Communications. They provide voice services, many companies provide internet access. There's many companies that provide network security or DDoS mitigation. And there's companies that provide call center services. But there's not too many companies that provide all of those services and then customize them to meet the end customers specific and unique needs. That's our damage. Thank you. Thank you for that answer. So what else is ahead for Xtel over the next quarter? Are there any sneak peeks that you can give us? Yeah, we can talk about a few things. We've recently been able to set some strategic partnerships with many of the major wireless carriers in the country. And through these partnerships, we're now able to provide wireless data services directly to businesses. So this can be used for a backup to a primary internet connection or it even can be used as a primary connection for a partner to reach locations or a temporary location. It's an excellent add-on to many of our existing services such as SD-WAN and it provides additional flexibility and connectivity options to our customers anywhere in the country. I see. Well, Brian, thank you so much for your time here. Always a pleasure to have you on the show and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts. I wish you all happy networking.


I'm scoring sickles, I got mad techers, and I've got over a hundred million IG followers. Like, what else do I gotta do to be like? He's ridiculous, man. You're so dark. How could anyone not like you? According to Forbes, Neymar de Silva Santos Jr., or as he is more commonly known Neymar Jr., is number four on the list of world's highest paid athletes in 2020. He's actually moved down one space from being number three last year after Roger Federer springboarded to the top of this year's list. Widely considered one of the best players in the world, Neymar has played for the likes of Santos, Barcelona, and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as playing for the Brazilian national team. In 2017, Neymar signed a five-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain that guaranteed him a base salary of around $50 million per year, but he also earns an additional $20 to $40 million a year in bonuses and endorsements, bringing his annual total up to something closer to 90 million and his overall net worth to an astounding $185 million. Despite banking heaps of money for himself, Neymar has actually held off on purchasing a house outright to call his own, and has mainly gotten by with renting the nicest of possible homes in Paris, as well as Beverly Hills, before finally laying down roots in Rio de Janeiro after buying a mansion there a couple of years ago. Neymar Jr. was born in Brazil on February 5th, 1982. By the time he was only 11 years old, his family had already moved to Santos so that Neymar could join Santos FC when he was trained at their youth academy. By the time he was 14, he had travelled to Spain to join the Real Madrid youth team at a time when stars like Ronaldo and David Beckham were playing for the club. He made his professional debut at the age of 17 and within a handful of years he transformed himself into one of the most exceptional players to ever take the field, earning himself monster contracts in the process. Since transferring to Paris in 2017, there have been endless rumours that Neymar is actually looking to get back to Barcelona, the team he left for Paris. With the recent season being suspended, the only place that Neymar Jr. has been spending a lot of time at lately is his Rio de Janeiro estate. This $10 million mansion really does seem to have it all, the least of which being its very own helipad. But that's not the only home I'm going to give you an inside look at today. I'm also going to bring you on a tour of a couple other places Neymar rented out over the years, including a historic home in Paris and a luxurious Airbnb in Beverly Hills. Hey guys it's Kara and today we're doing another house tour here on Famous Entertainment. We'll be looking at where Neymar Jr. calls home since I got some requests for this one. If you like these videos make sure you're subscribed and ring that bell to be notified when we post so you can always be up to date. We've also done house tours and links with Lewis Hamilton and Lionel Messi and we'll link to some at the end. Follow me on Instagram to chat and as usual let me know who's house tour is next in those comments down below and let's get into this video. Take things off we're going to take a look at the 5 story building that Neymar rented out for an astounding $17,000 per month after signing his massive contract with Paris back in 2017. This 10,800 square foot mansion is situated in the posh western part of Paris 10 miles from the centre of the city. This area has been home to a ton of celebrities over the years including everyone's favourite French actor Gerard de Pardeau as well as footballer Ronaldinho. The property sits on top of a hilltop and was originally the home of an architect having been built in the 1950s. It has over 5,000 square metres of garden space situated around the property too. But the inside is a pretty well guarded secret.  In addition there's also a sauna, a Turkish bath and a massive game room where people can hang out and have fun. Something that Neymar and his friends are always looking to do. Neymar didn't end up staying at this property for all that long. The reason being that he had a major problem with fans reportedly scaling his walls and making their way onto the property. After that happened a handful of times Neymar eventually left and relocated to an undisclosed home somewhere else in Paris that hasn't been revealed to keep the same thing from happening again. Everyone on PSG is so judgmental. I need to go somewhere where I can clear my head. Next we're going to take a look at a vacation spot that Neymar has returned to time and time again. In fact he's even been spotted hanging out with good friend Justin Bieber when he visited this spot. Every celebrity wants to spend time in Beverly Hills and Neymar Jr is no different renting out this million dollar mansion for over 9k a night whenever he's in town. The residence is modeled after La Petite Trianon at Versailles and France. I promise you that the inside is just as beautiful as the outside when it comes to this equivalent to an American palace. The plush French chateau style villa boasts seven bedrooms 12 bathrooms and can accommodate up to 14 guests at a time with its own cinema, gigantic swimming pool, jacuzzi and tenants courts in its 22,000 square feet of space situated on 5.2 acres of land. But that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the type of amenities this place comes jam packed with. It also features a library, wine cellar, gym, sauna, breakfast room, chef's kitchen, powder room, elevator and a service staff consisting of a maid, butler and chauffeur. Of course when you're spending your time off at a place as nice as that you just know that your own personal home has got to keep up and thankfully for Neymar Jr his mansion Brazil does exactly that. Finally we've come to Neymar Jr's actual home a mansion that he bought in 2016 for 10 million dollars about 60 miles down the coast from Rio de Janeiro. The two and a half acre plot of land rest in a gated community known locally as Portobello and in the middle of the Mangaratiba resort. This same place where Sylvester Stallone shot some of the expendables. The interior of the home boasts a decor of fresh style and modern furniture with a simple cream and brown color theme to complement the five bedrooms and bathrooms located inside. The exterior of the property features a helipad and even its very own jetty spilling out onto the ocean. That's where Neymar docks his private yacht a 115 foot monster worth a reported 8 million dollars or should I say that's where he used to dock it. Before it was taken away by Brazilian authorities over some questionable tax decisions in 2018. But hey I'm willing to bet he enjoyed it while he had it. Recently Neymar has been staying at this property since shelter at home orders came down all over the world and he's managed to keep himself busy with plenty of self-isolation essentials like a home gym, tennis court, sauna, massage room spa and jacuzzi. And if that's not enough to keep him occupied it also boasts an underground cellar with space for 3,000 bottles of wine which I sure as hell know would do me for at least the next six months or however long all this craziness lasts for. And hey if he's feeling bored maybe he can extend his social circle by visiting his neighbors footballer Emerson Chic and Brazilian Emmy nominated actress Adriana Estevez. Alright guys I think that's gonna bring us to the end of our Neymar Junior House Tour. What did you guys think? Are you surprised despite all the money he makes? He only owns one home? Let me know what you guys think in the comments down below as well as whose house we should take a tour of next. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and I'll see you guys all in the next video. Bye!


The Senate has decided to have 30% of the profits from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation set aside for the search and exploration of crude oil in the north of the country. This is part of the recommendations captured in the Petroleum Industry Bill presented by the Joint Committee on Petroleum Downstream, Upstream and Gas. In February last year, the Minister of States for Petroleum, Timipri Silver, announced the discovery of a billion barrels of oil in northeastern Nigeria. The oil is yet undriiled, but the Senate is seeking to set money aside so that the search for the black gold in the wider northern region can continue. At plenary, the 54-member Joint Committee on Petroleum Downstream, Upstream and Gas, recommended the setting aside of 30% of NNPC's accrued profits towards the search and exploration of crude oil in the northern parts of the country. The committee's chairman, Senator Mohammed Sabu, says this will enable the country to take advantage of threats to the funding of fossil fuel projects. The Joint Committee's recommendation recognizes the need for the country to urgently and aggressively explore and develop the country's frontier business to take advantage of foreseeable threats to the funding of fossil fuel projects across the world due to speedy ship from fossil fuel to other alternative energy sources. To this end, the committee recommends funding mechanisms of 30% of NNPC's limiters share profit and profit gas, as in the production share and profit, and the risk service contract to fund the exploitation of the frontier business. A total of 110 amendments were recommended to this chapter, while others were retained. The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovier Omoagege, on his part is asking that Niger Delta communities be given up to 10% equity shareholding in oil facilities. He also wants the money paid as penalty for gas flaring to be used for the rehabilitation of host communities. Some experts believe that the petroleum industry bill, when passed into law, will attract capital investment to the oil industry. They also say it will strengthen accountability and transparency, but there are skeptics.


Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay. I have a 31 Poshmark Bolo's coming your way. No, no, no, no clothing hard goods toys stuff like that Home goods Yeah, no clothes not sharing the clothes Mm-hmm not doing it. All right. You guys don't like the clothes, right? If you like clothes, I guess tell me in the comments Actually, if you like clothes head on over to my new channel sourcing with Bolo buddies and Check out the what sold video that I did recently I don't know when this video will post but check out the what solds over there because The what sold I just did I shared the clothes and it was so weird because I don't normally share clothes And I was sharing them and I'm like, I hope everybody's okay with seeing the clothes So sourcing with Bolo buddies. Go check it out. All right Let's get started with these Poshmark Bolo items items to be on the lookout for items that I bought low and Sold high. All right the first item is This willow tree so I pick up willow tree About any time I see it if the price is right I don't overpay for it because sometimes people want a lot of money for these This one I Can't remember. I got it. I did not take notes on where I got it and what I paid for it So I'm gonna pull these from memory. I Pick these up at garage sales a lot for a buck or two I have gotten a few in mystery boxes and I do find them time from time to time at thrift stores now I Know there was one that I paid $5 for this might have been that one from the thrift store So let's just say I paid $5 for it and I sold this for $23 and the buyer paid shipping The next item is this vintage Gans bear.  I don't think it came out of a mystery box It's one of those situations because it's not something that I would have Picked up and said, oh, I want to buy this. This is gonna sell. So this was kind of a learning one The next item I sold is this Vera Bradley curling flat iron cover. I remember getting this I picked it up at a garage sale I want to say it was 50 cents because I know I bought two of them The other one was a different pattern and it sold quicker and this one took a little bit But I sold it for $10 in the buyer paid shipping The next item these came in a mystery box a mystery toy box. These are the vintage Darlin dyno dinosaurs. I had no clue what they were I did Google lens and I was like, oh and I sold these for $14 and the buyer paid shipping the next item I sold also came out of a mystery box and It was pre-owned, but it was in really great condition. It looked like it was not even used but their Code hopper active play mindware stem mat. So it's something to do with maybe coding jump into coding I don't know. I have no clue what it is. I almost donated it back because I felt like it was kind of Gonna be too Expensive to ship like on Mercari and eBay. So I put it on Poshmark and it sold for $12 in the buyer paid shipping The next item I sold are these Wade England miniature figures. They're just itty-bitty about this big and I picked these up at a thrift store. It was like a baggy just full of these and I Sold these for $32 and the buyer paid shipping now I do from time to time list these separately depending on what the item is But these were all animal themed so I went ahead and put these together They're actually the Noah's Ark because you can see right here That I believe that's Noah and his wife I'm assuming and then there were two of each animal Well, they're supposed to be some of them had to and some of them did not but it was not a complete set obviously and I have like some other ones listed and I've sold some others But I had like some sea animals that I listed together. So sometimes I will categorize them by theme Yeah, that's the word Okay, this is another item that I really like to put on Poshmark and the reason being is they're kind of heavy So if I put it on eBay and I put it on Mercari Those shipping fees are going to be probably higher than what they would be on Poshmark and somebody could also bundle on Poshmark So I didn't get a ton of money for this. I only sold it for $13 and the buyer paid the shipping but I didn't have to pay that shipping if it was on Mercari. I have free shipping So I would have had to pay that shipping and on eBay. I think it would have deterred somebody from buying the item The next item these also I believe came out of a mystery box. It's a mixed lot of dinosaurs actually This might have been a garage sale. I think I remember now It was a garage sale and I bought a bulk buy of toys and I think this was a part of it So I apologize Got that mixed up. So this one sold for $15 and the buyer paid shipping The next item I sold is this Kathy van Zeeland purse If I remember correctly, I was at a garage sale I bought a bunch of stuff and I want to say she just gave me like three or four purses free And I was like, okay. This is not something that I would source. I I'm not even really a big fan of it I can't believe it sold to be honest with you. I'm not even sure why I listed it But anyway, it sold so I'm happy Sold for $14 and the buyer paid shipping The next item are these vintage buttons. So these came from a garage sale. It was a Bulk lot of Sewing items and I decided to sell these buttons separately. I sold them for $13 and the buyer paid shipping the next item is awesome one of I Went to a garage sale over the summer and do you ever go to garage sale and you get home and you kind of kick yourself because you didn't buy more That's what I did. They had a whole table full of like NASCAR and Stuff like this Not all of them were this cool. Most of them were t-shirts, but I probably bought 30 and they were like a buck each Okay, and they had told me that they had a storage unit that had more and I was like Okay, and I kind of just wasn't real sure about it and then I went home and listed everything and I'm like, you know That wasn't so bad because I'm kind of overclose and that's a lot of the reason I didn't buy more is because I don't want to list clothes but The vintage tees and stuff like that. I think I need to keep An open mind about that stuff. So I think it was the next day I went back and I knocked on their door and I was like, hey I was here you had mentioned that you had a storage unit and you were maybe interested in Selling some of the other items to me that were because they had brought it up And I talked to the daughter and I left my phone number and nobody ever called me So I kind of lost out on that deal, but he didn't have them at the sale anyway So I don't know what happened I don't know if maybe she forgot to give him my number But I will definitely be going back to that garage sale if I see it on the garage sale post this summer I sold this for seventy five dollars and the buyer paid shipping and It's really really cool and what I've been doing lately because I'm kind of over putting measurements in my listings I will do this so it shows well It doesn't really show it that good does it? Well, you can kind of see what's that say 26 inches across the front and Approximately 33 inches long so you can tell But that's what I've been doing so it's easier But if people don't look at the pictures then they don't know but everything went fine with that transaction and all good The next item came I believe this was came. Oh my gosh. I cannot talk I think this was in my bulk buy I bought it on eBay to sell on eBay or it came from a garage sale one of the two either way I had probably ten cents in it and I sold this for twenty dollars and the buyer paid shipping the next item I sold are these vintage refrigerator magnets and I actually did a mystery box unboxing today and I Found some of the ABC vintage magnets, so they are not as nice as these these were really really Really nice good plastic Really solid, so I sold these best offer for thirty five dollars Poshmark took seven so my earnings on this was 28 and I probably had a dollar in all of these magnets so these are shape magnets and these are educational magnets that are in the shape of like Animals and different things like that if I remember correctly The next item I sold is this vintage license plate tag and it's Tigger from Winnie the Pooh and I sold this for twenty five dollars and the buyer paid shipping This is new old stock. I picked this up at a garage sale in a bulk buy of Disney items The lady was a hoarder and she was having some major emotional attachment to these items when I was trying to buy them Which is completely fine, but it's really really hard to Negotiate I Threw out an offer and then she was like oh no and then I don't know if it was her daughter or a friend who was helping her Sell the items But she's like I think it was her daughter because I think I remember her saying mom We really need to sell these items and she kind of talked her through it and you know She's had a lot of stuff and you know We all kind of accumulate stuff as resellers We know what it's like to accumulate Lots of inventory but ours is inventory and for me it is easy to sell so I can't imagine having That attachment to things But I ended up buying all of her Disney items and I can't remember what I paid for it But I probably have a dollar or less in this item The next item I sold is this pioneer deluxe jumbo 20-page photo album And I sold this for $30 and the buyer paid shipping. This is really really big I can't remember what the dimensions are but it's very like Wide I guess and it's very heavy So I was very happy that this sold on Poshmark for $30 buyer paid shipping I think I said that already the next item I sold are these character education children's books and I took a Homeless that I took a best offer. I sold these for $15 and the buyer paid shipping So these are just educational books like you can count on me following the rules telling the truth there to have courage How to how you understand? So or show you understand sorry so these came from a thrift store and I think they were a quarter each if I remember correctly The next item I sold is this Paul patrol learning watch and for some reason I got four-star feedback I noticed that when I Was pulling this item up to show you guys. I'm like, why did I get four stars? I mean, I don't know what I did wrong. I put a thank-you sticker.  That's what I'm doing. So maybe I'm a horrible reseller and I Don't know you guys probably sell on Poshmark if you're watching this put a comment down in the description of Or I'm sorry put a comment in the comment section telling me if you sell on Poshmark What do you do?  Do you put like a thank-you card? Do you write something out like are you super fancy with bows and just Tell me about it. Tell me about your experience because I have been selling on eBay since 2005 and there is none of that over there So Poshmark is a whole different platform for sure The next item I sold is this deadliest catch see adventure board game and it is new in the plastic sealed are still sealed and This came out of a mystery box This was another item that I was not gonna put on eBay because comps were not good I was not gonna put it on Mercari because I offer free shipping and I wasn't gonna pay $10 to ship it to someone So I put it on Poshmark and honestly, I was completely shocked that it sold I would never have sourced this item because the comps were low on eBay and I didn't make tons of money It's definitely a bread and butter item, but it sold pretty quick I sold it for $13 in the buyer paid shipping The next item I sold is this vintage Pendleton women's Cartagena. I honestly thought this was gonna be a big money. Bolo. I was super excited when I found it I got it at an estate sale. I think it was $2 if I remember correctly and I don't know I just Thought it was gonna go for more and unfortunately I only got $30 for it But Pendleton is a great brand to look for I've got the measurements down here and I bought a bunch of Pendleton from this sale and most of it sold pretty quickly this one took a little bit longer But again, I sold it for $30 in the buyer paid shipping The next item I sold are these leap pad phonics program lesson games They are sealed new in the packaging new old stock Purchased these and a bulk buy at a garage sale So I probably have a couple bucks in all of them if that The next item I sold is this money man jacket and this either came out of a mystery box Or this came out of the Halloween box that I purchased from auctions for you. It's a YouTube channel where I purchase Inventory and I had bought a bulk lot of Halloween items This item I only sold it for $7, but I had next to nothing in it probably less than a dollar so $7 buyer paid shipping so I was really quite happy with that because it really was just the jacket nothing fancy The next item I sold and I know I said no clothing But I really don't count vintage clothing as clothing because it's not really items that you can go out and Source right now so in my title it says no clothing, but the reason I Am including this again is because it's a vintage item that you're not gonna find every day that you're gonna need to look at Thrift stores and garage sales for you can't just go out to the store and get it now same with the Pendleton It's a vintage item. So those will be included even if it says no clothing. So I hope that's is that okay? Is it okay to put no clothing in the title if let me know what you think? Okay, so this is a Disney classics princess 3t bibs it is adorable And you can see here's the vintage tag It's a size 3t and this sold for $30 and the buyer paid shipping and this came from a garage sale The next item and I think it was a dollar the next item is this vintage playmobil city service trash truck came from a garage sale huge bulk buy of toys and I sold this for $45 and the buyer paid the shipping So I probably got a couple bucks in that The next item I sold is this holiday holiday time poop emoji singing dancing plush and he sings you can't touch this So dancing poop emoji. What is this world coming to dancing poop? It was new with tags. I sold this for $16 and the buyer paid shipping and if I remember correctly this came out of a mystery box and The last set of items this was a bundle and one thing I really like about posh mark is people will do things like this and It is fantastic. So these items I have sourced at garage sales and thrift stores different places and They are the loving family Loving family dollhouse items and you can see here These are the prices that I had the items listed for so they bundled and they sent me an offer for $95 This one plays music and the TV pushes down. So that one's kind of neat This is a three-piece set. This one has multiple pieces to it. So $95 posh mark took 19. So my earnings on this was $76 and I can't really say for sure what I have in all these items But not much because I pick them up at Different places and I typically buy them in bulk So like I'll buy a dollhouse that'll have all of the accessories and then I will sell the accessories Individually so I typically do not sell them with the dollhouse. I've sold probably three or four of those dollhouses I have one listed right now. They are big. They are annoying to ship. I've got to tell you It's just hard finding a box, you know what I'm saying like a box That's that big and you want to get it to fit as compact as possible Otherwise it goes into like the oversized box and then it's like crazy expensive All right, you guys, let me know what you think about this video Am I in trouble for including vintage clothing even though I put no clothing in the title? And then let me know what you think about like the free gifts the thank you notes You know, I'm guessing the eBay sellers I know what they're gonna say and I'm pretty sure I know what the posh mark sellers are gonna say So it should be interesting to see what everybody puts in the comments. So Comment below. Alright, please be sure to like comment subscribe and share as always. Thanks for watching and I'll see you at the next video


Thank you so much. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining. I appreciate your time here today. So yeah, thank you for joining me for this session, where I'm going to be taking a look at breaking down this concept of what does cloud native really mean? How can we go about building applications that don't just barely survive in the cloud, but actually thrive in that cloud environment? So the way I'm going to do this is from more of a biology perspective, kind of comparing and contrasting biology with software and looking at how we break this down into different segments and can maybe learn some lessons from biology in terms of our software evolution going forwards. So the reason I do that is because actually before I jumped into the world of tech, I was a biology graduate doing specializing in fish. So this is me studying coral reefs in the Bahamas. So that was not really necessarily sort of related to my work. But I like to try and bring it in whenever I'm talking about software, especially complex and often very abstract concepts that can be hard to sort of relate to if you don't have something concrete like an analogy. So about five years ago, I graduated and then came to IBM, joined the world of Java, learned all about object-oriented programming in cloud native. It was a fairly steep learning curve. And so I've been doing that for the last five years. And I do a lot of this. I'm a developer advocate. So I do everything from talks to creating demos to writing articles and tutorials. And I specialize mostly in cloud native Java technologies, things like reactive, anything with the JVM in the cloud, really. So that's a bit about me. But jumping into the topic at hand, first let's take a look at my title. So I've called this Cloud Anatomy 101. And that's because I really wanted to paint this picture of really breaking down this concept using this structure of anatomy. So what does anatomy really mean? So I've got a couple of definitions here. It's all about sort of this concept of being concerned with the various different bodily structures in animals or other living things. Really, it's just, if you look at the second definition, it's a bit more of a definition that you could apply to tech, where we're looking at sort of this study of the science of breaking down the internal workings of something. So looking at those individual pieces. And that's what I'm gonna do today is break down this concept of cloud native into the individual chunks and analyze what we need to do to be able to make them effective. So why do we care about making our applications effective on the cloud? What has happened in terms of the evolution that means that we're now having to adapt our applications from what they might have been traditionally in more of a monolithic type system, maybe running on prem. So the first thing we need to look at is the evolution of modern infrastructure. So we might have once had a sort of single core, but now we can take advantage of things like multi-threading and multiple cores. When we're looking at cloud native, we're gonna be taking a look at things like virtualization, containerization, and using the fact that our applications are normally distributed across many different data centers, different servers, when we're uploading them and deploying them to the cloud. So this evolution of the underlying infrastructure, so being able to have virtualization, being able to have containerization, has enabled us not just to evolve that infrastructure, but also to evolve our applications as well. So whereas we might have traditionally have had one large monolithic application that we deploy and develop in a waterfall style, we're now moving more towards sort of breaking that down into smaller segments, into perhaps microservices, and looking at deploying those and developing them in a more agile manner. And so the reason that we've done all of this and the reason that we're interested in making this evolution progress so we can be better at cloud native is because of this. Hopefully everyone's familiar with Toy Story. If you're not, please take that way as homework because it is a fabulous film. In Toy Story, we have these aliens and they get excited about the claw. This excitement is what drives us to build better applications. It's, there's a feeling of, ooh, the cloud. You know, we get excited about what we can achieve when we start deploying our applications to the cloud. Being able to achieve benefits like, for example, cost optimizations, being able to have that scalability, and that scalability be dynamic. So we're not just talking about scaling up our applications but also being able to scale them back down again because we want to be as cost effective as possible, but we also want to be able to provide the best possible service to our end users. Also things like speed of deployment. We can be quite rapid when we're using cloud resources. Things like resiliency, so being able to rapidly spin up new instances if our microservices were to go down at any point, for example, and things like flexibility. So being able to deploy to different platforms and not have to reconstruct our entire application again if we want to be able to achieve that. And then there's a couple of benefits on here that you might not necessarily think of, like fashion, for example. You might not necessarily think of development as a particularly fashionable place to be, but actually when you think about it, we follow fashions in development just as they do in fashion industries and other industries. It is cool to be on the cloud. It is cool to use cloud native technologies. And so that does play a part when we're considering the benefits that we could gain from cloud native. If our application is serving some sort of end client and they look at us and we're still using technologies from 15, 20, 25, keep going years ago, then they might not necessarily see us as innovative, as sort of forward focused. And so that does play a factor in terms of enabling us to be seen as thought leaders and sort of have that advantage in a competitive landscape that we currently have. So now that we're excited about the cloud and we know we want to get onto it and be effective, what does it really mean to be cloud native? And this is where we start looking at definitions. Now I had a look at a few different definitions from cloud native vendors, like, for example, VMware, Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM, et cetera. And a lot of them were quite specific in regards to what technologies you had to use, what infrastructure you had to use, what architecture type, for example. The one that I related to the best when I was looking at these various different definitions was this one. And it kind of makes sense coming from the CNCF. They are literally the cloud native computing foundation, the clues in the name. So in their definition, the bit that I've highlighted is the bit that I sort of really related to the most. So cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern dynamic environments, such as, and again, you can see here they don't limit it. It could be public, it could be private, it could be hybrid, whatever cloud you want to use. And although they do sort of specify some specific technologies, architecture types like containers, service measures, microservices, the nice thing about this definition is that they just say it exemplifies this approach. They don't say you have to use it when you're doing cloud native. And so it's really this sort of being able to enable these organizations to utilize whatever infrastructure, whatever tools they need to, to be able to be cloud native. Because really, all we want to be doing is those key characteristics I pointed out about being scalable, being flexible, being portable. And it's this that it's really trying to highlight in that definition. That's what cloud native is really all about. So if we're looking at being cloud native and we're trying to exemplify these definitions that we see about what does it really mean to be cloud native, how do we go about actually achieving that? And that can sometimes be the hardest step. You can see this sort of light at the end of the tunnel and it looks like paradise. And you're like, that looks amazing. Look at all these wonderful companies like Netflix and everything achieving this and being so amazing. And you want to achieve that too. But sometimes it's the steps in between that are the hardest to be able to figure out. And so hopefully by breaking this down, we can go through steps that can help you consider what you need to do if you want to be able to be cloud native. So the first thing you need to consider when we're looking at cloud native applications is what are you building? What are you actually creating? Because what you're creating is going to play a big part in how you're going to be building it and designing it. Because for example, let's take some biology analogies here because I love them. So let's take the biology analogy of a sponge or an amoeba. These are really simple organizations. A lot of the time with amoeba or bacteria, they are literally just a single cell because they don't need to be anymore. They can absorb food from around them. They don't need a digestive system and a whole system to break down food and take food in and hunt food. And they literally just sit there and absorb food. And that works for them because that's what they were designed to do. But if you're looking at, say, a more complex organism that has, say, more complicated structures, like, for example, a worm, when we're looking at a worm, okay, now we need to move about because we need to go and find the food. So now we have to have muscles involved that are able to move us. Now we have to have digestive systems involved. And that just keeps getting more complex as we work our way up the animal kingdom until we eventually get to highly complex animals like ourselves. We can be looking at apes, dolphins, lots of different types of animals that are actually really rather complex. We have very specialized cells that are designed to do one individual thing. And if any one of those were to go wrong, it can end up in catastrophic situations. And so really the way that you design and architect your system really depends on what's the purpose for that application? What are you trying to achieve with that application? And sort of what is the, really the minimal viable product of that application? What is the minimum number of microservices you need, for example? So by analyzing your application before you start designing, you can start to pick the best application architecture type when you're going through this process of designing and developing. And it's important that you first consider your own application and don't just look at what's cool. Because sometimes what's cool isn't necessarily what's best for you and your application. You might be looking at, say, really great organizations who have achieved some fantastic technical capabilities like, for example, Netflix, who were really pioneering when it came to microservices. And you might look at them and say, well, microservices seems to be the way to go. But is that really what's best suited to your application? There are lots of different architectures that can actually be cloud native, including things like monoliths. It depends on how you build them and how you design them. So you could pick anything from a monolith through to what you might call microservices, which are like bigger microservices, kind of, or smaller monoliths, depending on how you look at it. And then you might go down to microservices or you might go all the way down to functions if that's just what you need. It's about picking what's best for you depending on what you need. And there's a variety of different things that you need to consider, and they're not just technical. People often make this mistake where they look at their application and they say, well, from a technical standpoint, I need X, Y, and Z. Well, actually it's not just technical capabilities you need to be considering. You also need to be considering your organizational capabilities. Is your organization set up in a way that allows you to be able to develop in microservices? If your teams aren't able to go ahead and asynchronously create a microservices, if they're dependent on other teams getting permission from another team and another team and another team, you're probably never gonna have the process in place to be able to actually effectively develop microservices. So that's why I've deliberately included on this scale some of the organizational factors you need to be considering. Like, what's your pricing model? Can you afford to be deploying microservices? Are you flexible in terms of the costs? Things like delivery frequency, how quickly can you deploy and develop those microservices? If it's once a year, you're probably looking more towards the monolith end than the microservices. Things like modularity, network demand, fault isolation. So really it's about laying out these characteristics as well as the technical characteristics as well. And what's quite useful to do is to plot where your organization or your team is on this scale. And the reason I made it a scale and not just categorical segments is because really it is a scale. You could be anywhere on this line and it depends on your own application. I didn't want to silo people into specific segments. So by plotting on there and seeing where the majority of your sort of scales fall when you list out these characteristics can give you a great idea as to whether you should be more on the monolith again, microservices, microservices, or on the functions end. And that can help you to plot that out without just going with the coolest thing you see. So once that you have things like your architecture decided and you're starting to look more at the individual elements of your application, you might be looking at things like containerization to be able to achieve that. So we're looking here at sort of the smallest level of your application really, how we are packaging up various elements of our application. And in the body, this is exactly what we do. We deliberately have containers in the body because that makes it much easier to move them, much easier to replicate them and much easier to fix them and replace them if we need to. We call them cells. It's no different to having a container.  It would be a nightmare trying to sort out where the specialist cells were trying to get those functions done, being able to specialize particular cells, being able to have very complex systems like the digestive system, the brain, hormones, etc. This would all be a nightmare because all the DNA would just be really tangled up. So in biology, we've adapted to be able to create these containers to be able to achieve these key characteristics. And these key characteristics are really what we want to be achieving in our software as well. We want it to be easy to move. We want it to be easy to replicate and we want it to be easy to replace and fix if we need to because once we're deploying to these distributed environments, it's highly likely that at some point something's gonna go wrong. So we need to be able to rapidly say tear them down and put new instances back up and be able to replicate them if we have increased load and sort of containerization allows us to be able to do this. So rather than using something like a VM where we have to have sort of a guest OS on each of our VMs and that's taking up quite a lot of memory, we can utilize technologies like for example Docker which if you're interested, there is a Docker booth downstairs, so go and check that out. We can utilize Docker to be able to have a much more streamlined form of containerization where we can basically take out that guest OS and have that running on the underlying server so we don't have to have that in our application clogging it up. So it makes it a lot easier for us to be able to port, make our applications more portable so we can move it to any cloud infrastructure we want, whether that's on the Google cloud, IBM cloud, AWS, whatever we're using, it makes it a lot easier and it means that you can ensure every container is the same. So just like I need multiple heart cells or multiple muscle cells or multiple skin cells, I can make sure they're all the same and easily replicate them. If for example I want my DevOps team to do something with them or I want my development team or testing team, whatever, you can make sure the environment is the same every time. So containerization is really, really helpful when we're moving to a more distributed system and we have multiple aspects to our applications. So now that we have these sort of individual units within our applications, whether that's a microservice or a microservice or somewhere in between, what happens when we're now putting these into this distributed environment? Well now we have to somehow manage them, scale them and ensure that we're able to effectively deploy them. And we do exactly this in biology.  Imagine a software a point of failure. So if we've got a point of failure there, we need to do something about it and so our body is able to rapidly deploy cells to that particular area to be able to say right, you need to go to that area, form a clot, we need to protect the body from that potential infection. And the same thing is what we want to achieve in software. We want to be able to rapidly deploy resources or containers, whatever it may be, to that particular point of failure to ensure that it doesn't become a point of failure, it doesn't become a point of infection. So we do that within the body itself. Another one for example is, for example, infection. So this is a classic, especially at the moment, that's why we're all wearing masks. So when you have an infection, what happens is we have this adaptive immune response. So what we're trying to do is rapidly scale up the number of cells that could possibly deal with that infection. And we need to do that really rapidly because otherwise the body could get unwell and worst consequence, we could potentially die. So we need to be able to do this in our body and we have evolved to be able to do this very rapidly, very quickly and effectively because if we didn't, we wouldn't be here today. And so we need to be able to mimic this in our applications if we want to be dealing with those fluctuating loads and ensure our application is always at its best. And so this is where we look to things like, for example, Kubernetes. So utilizing tools that can enable us to automate this deployment, this scaling and essentially managing all of those individual units within our application and being able to do that in effective manner depending on the load to our system. So Kubernetes can be really useful for this. Again, it can also be shortened to K8. This is an open source system and it just automates all of these things for you for containerized applications. We can also use things like reactive principles. So looking at enabling our applications to be agile and flexible and really designing that into our applications designed from the very first word, go. So now that we've looked at sort of the fact that we need to, okay, we've got these individual units. We need to manage them, deploy them, scale them. What about communicating between them? Well, this is something, again, the body does very well and we have different kinds of communication. So we have sort of a more slow but longer lasting form of communication in terms of biosignalling. So that can include things like hormones. But we also have a very rapid form of communication where we can really rapidly form our body to do actions, for example, or respond to events.  So having this combination allows us to be able to respond to events asynchronously really because when you think about it, when our body kicks off a hormone response, so whether that, for example, is to say, right, we need to shiver because we're cold, maybe the aircon's too high, whether that's that or whether it's dropping the hot pan in that example, we don't have to wait to be able to know, oh, has that message gone through? Did you get that message? Because if we were waiting for that, we'd be holding the pan for a lot longer. We wouldn't be responding to events as quickly as we need to. All of this form of communication is asynchronous. There is no locking involved in terms of, I don't freeze when I'm waiting to start shivering because that would be a ridiculous evolution and we probably wouldn't survive long. So it's important that all of this is asynchronous in order to be able to survive and be effective as human beings. And so the same thing is what we want to achieve when we're doing communication in our cloud native apps. We want to be responding as soon as possible to events that are happening around us or events in the system and doing that in an asynchronous manner. And in order to do that, we can use a variety of different tools, for example, like you might take a look at event-driven or message-driven forms of communication. So you might look at EDA, which is event-driven architecture. It's a really interesting form of architecture where it sort of looks like this. You'll have essentially an event log in the center of your application and you'll have different microservices, either publishing events or subscribing to events or doing both depending on what your microservice needs to do. And the reason this can be a really effective form of communication is because you're no longer having to wait for a response to be able to continue doing something in the meantime. You can essentially broadcast that message to whoever needs to listen. They can listen and act on that in their own time, but you don't have to wait for that to happen. So this can be a lot more effective in cloud native applications because you're not restricting your application to potentially a very slow service that could be very slow to respond. And you're enabling that decoupling of your microservices. You're not reliant on another microservice when you're performing particular processes or transactions.  There's a load of different open source tools that you can use and utilize. So now that we've taken a look at communication, what about storage of data? Now in the body, so we're getting to sort of the higher levels here. We've gone right down from the very smallest level to the highest level here. We're looking at data storage. And in the body, we have a mixture of different forms of state.  It makes me a human. It's very useful, got lots of information in there. And yes, it is a very good form of information storage. We have a very complex system that, you know, we still don't really understand properly to this day where we are able to compartmentalize the various aspects of data that we're storing into different segments of the brain that are specialized for that function and is a very effective form of information storage. But what you might not necessarily know is as well as having that sort of stateless form of data storage. So the fact that, you know, our cells aren't necessarily storing data in them, they're then relying on the brain to be able to store that information, like our memories. We actually do have a form of sort of more stateful which is storing information within the cells itself. So actually in our adaptive immune system on the right-hand side for you guys here, we have something called memory B cells. So B cells are a form of white blood cell, so they're there to help prevent infection. And actually, as the name suggests, memory B cells have state within them. They're able to remember basically how particular viruses or bacteria or infections look so that they can more rapidly recognize them next time you're infected by them. That's why we have things like vaccinations to make it a lot easier for your body to be able to recognize the cell signals and sort of the pattern on the outside in terms of proteins and things when you're infected with something like a bacterius or a virus, for example. And by having this memory stored in state, we can be a lot more rapid in terms of responding to those infections as soon as possible. So we have this combination in our bodies of both stateful and stateless data storage. And really it depends on your application as to which one would be better suited for you. It's a case of essentially looking at, okay, do I have to store state within my microservice? Can I have state stored in an external database or an event log of some kind? And really that's a decision that has to be made by you. It's not one that I can just say, blanket, you should go stateless or stateful. It's very much a consultancy answer, I'm afraid of. It depends. So it's important for you to consider both. A lot of people when they're looking at cloud native automatically jump to stateless because it's so easy to be able to rapidly produce like replica microservices, for example, to be able to essentially tear down ones and re-instantiate them if they go wrong because you don't have to be thinking about re-instantiating the state in that microservice. However, there are times when you may need state within a microservice. We can still do that effectively in a cloud native environment using things like the saga pattern and transactions. So for example, if you need to book a package holiday, you're gonna need multiple read write operations to occur with things like flights, hotels, taxis, car bookings before you can actually do that overall transaction. So you might need to store state in that particular example. So really it's up to you, but if you're interested in learning more about sort of stateful in cloud native, there's a YouTube link there to one of my talks and you can check that out later if you're interested. But this is something to consider whether you wanna do one or the other. Okay, so now that we've taken a look at all these different aspects of development, what happens when inevitably things go wrong? Because it is inevitable when you're putting stuff onto a distributed system that sometimes can go down, sometimes can go wrong. And this happens a lot in the body. In the body, stuff goes wrong all the time. Sometimes we're aware of it, sometimes we're not. But we have lots of different monitoring tools that enable us to be able to distinguish, okay, is the body healthy right now or do I need to do something about this? And this sort of overall monitoring is what we call in biology homeostasis. So this is really this state of steady internal physical and chemical conditions that we need to maintain in order to stay alive. It's as simple as that. And that can include things like water levels. It can also include things like temperature, blood distribution, yeah, like temperature, fluid balance, blood sugar. So it includes all of these things and we have some really sophisticated monitoring tools in lots of different organs in the body to be able to analyze this and monitor it in real time. And this monitoring in real time, this ability to be able to observe what's happening in our bodies is exactly what we need in our applications. We can no longer just go in and say, oh, what are my logs doing? Let's go see what my logs, we don't have that locally anymore. We need to be monitoring our distributed applications in an effective manner through things like monitoring tools. And that can include things like elastic, cabana, prometheus, fluent D.  And we can actually utilize monitoring tools that enable us to visualize those monitoring metrics. Things like Grafana can be really useful in enabling dashboards so we can visually see those patterns and more easily spot when there's something that perhaps doesn't look quite right. Maybe there's a dip somewhere or a peak somewhere where there shouldn't be. So this is really important, especially in this distributed environment. And the last thing I wanted to cover is, okay, now that we've looked at all of these pieces, this can actually be quite complicated.  How are we communicating? How are we letting people in? How are we monitoring the security? So all of this is things that we have to consider and navigate. We have to navigate this complexity when we're now moving to these distributed systems. And this is the same thing in the human body. The human body is naturally very complex. That's why we don't understand all of it yet. You know, even the top scientists don't, the top doctors. And so it helps a lot that in the body we have this sort of central nervous system that enables us to have a single point of entry and a single point of control for most of our body. So things like you've got the CNS, which is the central nervous system.  Then you've got the peripheral. So these are the peripheral nerves that go to the rest of your body and help to control it. And by having this nervous system, we have this central point, the brain, that essentially controls most of what we do, arm movements and all the rest of it, breathing, everything. And so by having this central point, we know exactly where often things go wrong is in the brain, even when we're having symptoms elsewhere. And this helps us to at least have that central point of reference when we're looking into this complexity and trying to manage and control it. And we can do similar things in software, so we can enable us to sort of minimize that complexity by having things like, for example, proxies, API gateways that enable us to have that single point of entry into our application and automatically manage where those requests are sent to within our microservice architecture rather than having to direct those right from the get-go from, say, our front end as an example. So we can use tools like, for example, Kong, NGNX. There's lots of different tools that you can use that will enable this sort of single point of entry and help to reduce that complexity. And by going through all of these stages and looking at all of these various different elements of Cloud Native, hopefully what we should achieve is all of these characteristics. So being able to be resilient, to be able to be observable, scalable, have rapid deployment. And really this is what it means to be Cloud Native. These characteristics, it doesn't mean having microservices, having stateless microservices, using a particular language or a particular platform. It's just make an application that does this, that does all of these key characteristics and behaviors. So now that I scared you with all of that and all of the things you have to think about when you're designing Cloud Native applications, how do we actually truly achieve Cloud Native apps? So there are various different methodologies that we could potentially use. Some of them are very helpful in the fact that they're not language or platform agnostic. They're very much broad and can be applied to most applications. So we've got things like the 12 factor app methodology and this lays out 12, as the name suggests, 12 factors that you should follow if you want to achieve Cloud Native. So it goes right from the very word go, like the code base all the way through to external configuration, disposability, dev prod parity, and it can be a really useful one to follow. If you're interested in the 12 factor app methodology, you can head to 12factor.net and that's the original website where it goes through each of the factors. I've also created an article where I link off to some interactive labs where they link to technologies you can use and you can use those labs for free if you want to and it allows you, if you're interested in a particular factor, to get hands on with those technologies that could enable that. As well as the 12 factors, some, the 12 factor was created over a decade ago and so David Hoffman basically created a book that extended this to be the 15 factor apps. So 15 factors, I've given you a huge hint here. Those that I've highlighted are the additional three factors that have been added and some of the others have been slightly modified or edited. And again, I've created an article for this if you want to go through and have a look and get hands on with the technologies. Other methodologies we can use, things like the CNCF cloud native trail map. So this is designed to be a trail that you take from the very top all the way through to the bottom and again, it basically lays out various different stages and steps that you should be following when designing and building cloud native applications including things like containerization, observability like those metrics I was talking about, things like utilizing data storage and what kind you want to use. So that can be a very helpful one. We've also got the IBM garage methodology that you can check out as well which is a field guide you can access for free if you're interested. And then there's obviously a bunch of tools and technologies you can use and the nice thing is that there's loads of open source communities that can enable you and help you in building those applications and tools that you can use from them. So some of my favorites that I'm involved in quite heavily are things like Chikati EE. They're on my t-shirt so you can see I love them. Chikati EE, that helps people who are designing enterprise Java or Chikati EE applications with things like micro profile. Again, looking at those enterprise Java applications and this enables a huge variety of different APIs. So some of them you can see really do link to those different elements that you should be considering like having health and observability so monitoring in real time. Things like configuration. Being able to have things like REST clients in there documenting our APIs, making it really easy for others to be able to utilize your APIs in that distributed environment without having to dig around in your code. So this can be really helpful. And then Open Liberty, this is a cloud native runtime that I helped develop at IBM. It's all open source and actually this is where you'll find those interactive guides that I talked about and you can also try them at our booth downstairs. It's all free and if you have improvements please let us know because it's all open source. So make an issue or create a PR either way, we'd love to hear from you on what you think of our guides and our documentation. But as well as that, we are at the Linux Foundation. So this is one of the sponsors of the event. So there are tons of different tools I just wanted to highlight that you can go to the Linux Foundation website and look at the various different open source projects that you can utilize when it comes to creating cloud native apps. So I do encourage you to try some of these technologies yourselves when you're considering what you're going to be using to design your application. So for example, as I mentioned, we have these interactive guides. So the nice thing about this is that you don't actually have to have anything downloaded locally on your own machine. This is all running in an IBM cloud environment using a Thea IDE. So it's got the IDE, the terminal and the instructions all in there ready to go. And you can just take our GitHub projects and install them in there and play around. And you can access them all at the Open Liberty website slash guides. And have a go there. We've got like over 57 or something on different technologies. So definitely check them out if you're interested. And as if I haven't given you enough links already because everyone loves homework. If you are really interested in this topic, I've put some useful links here just going around various different elements like an overview of cloud native, how to modernize applications if you've got more of a brown field, things like microservices, how to choose the right runtime and just a fun video at the end on containers and cells that I did if you're interested. So with that, hopefully what I've shown you is sort of the various different elements to consider when we're trying to create really truly cloud native applications that thrive in that environment and how we can maybe look to nature to be able to inspire us and sort of conceptualize what can be quite abstract concepts in a more physical way and relate it to things that we know already. So hopefully I've given you guys something to ponder on, something to think about and maybe something to investigate for your own applications. Thanks very much for listening. I've got about, what, three minutes for questions. So if anyone has a question now, I'll take it. But otherwise, you can find me on Twitter at Grace Jansen 27. I'm more than happy to chat to you on there or afterwards at the booth downstairs or just to the side of the room here. Thanks very much.


Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and today I am here with another unboxing from 50 States of Mind. This is a monthly subscription box and this is not at all a sponsored video. I am paying for this subscription myself but it's a monthly subscription box. I paid for a three month subscription. It's about $48 a month so it's a little bit on the pricier side of the subscription boxes but what the subscription box is is it sends you goodies and treats and things like that from different states around the U.S. So last month was Ohio and I will make sure to link that video in the description box if you want to see what I got in that box and this month is Missouri. So let's jump into it.  Now one thing I did forget to mention is that all of the items that come in your box from the states come from small businesses. So that's one really great thing about this box but let me jump in and tell you what's in here. So and I'm gonna be reading this paper so I can tell you what's in here. You one thing let's see the first thing sorry I can't talk. The first thing is this cherry mash and I have seen these before. I didn't know that these originated out of Missouri. They actually originate out of Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1876. So I think this is a I think this is a chocolate covered cherry I think I could be wrong. It doesn't really give a description of what's in here per se just says it's cherry mash but so got that and then the next thing is the Billy Goat Chip company and it comes in a cute little bag and these are chips. This company was founded in 2009 by professional chefs and restaurateurs. They wanted to be they wanted this potato chip to be the best potato chip in the world and I will say I'm not going to be trying this stuff I just want to show you what's in the box. So got this and then we've got the gooey Louie butter cakes and it came in or comes in a cute little tin like this. As you can see the tin did get a little bent up that shouldn't affect the product but I happen to really like gooey butter cake. Let's see here so this company has been around for 15 years and they're famous for whipping up their home style gooey butter cake. Some people say they like it warmed up in the oven so I do like gooey butter cake so I'm excited to give this a try and then let's see here we have I think this is a cacao I hope I'm saying that right and it's cacao chocolates and it is pecan bacon brittle so I do love brittle I've never had it with bacon and I think I may have only had pecan brittle once I normally eat the peanut brittle but this sounds good and it looks good and it's very thick so I cannot wait to try this out and then we have some chips from the old Vienna of st. Louis these are red hot riplets chips and so here is the bag and I will say these are completely crushed through no fault of this company I know but these are completely crushed I mean flat as a pancake so I can tell that it's just crumbs in there really disappointed because I really like hot and spicy so we'll see so we've got that and then I have a candle and it is from giddy up soy company and I do love candles I am a candle fanatic I don't see how many ounces this is on the jar but it's a pretty small candle I don't know how many ounces it is but let's smell it smells good so the fragrance is fresh spring and that's what it smells like it's kind of it's very floral I love soy candles and this seems like when I light it it's going to have a pretty strong throw so I'm excited to try this out it also be good as a travel candle too like for hotels and things like that and then I've got some graces best cookies and these are really different so this company was founded in 1992 by the owner's grandmother and these are sunflower seed rolled cookies so and they feel like they're crunchy and I do love a crunchy cookie so excited to give these a try out a try and then the last thing that's in the box is simply a postcard from st louis so that's it little postcard so I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you have not subscribed to our channel I certainly hope you'll do so thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time


I am back with product reviews. I'm not sure if it's gonna be my first three or second But it's gonna be up there We are gonna be reviewing today blue magic Ergon oil herbal complex leave-in conditioner now girl. I Did not know that blue magic started making leave-in conditioners natural Nezzie Did you know that blue magic was making leave-in conditioners? I Purchased this through Amazon.com. Let me backtrack real quick Nezzie Why am I getting your girl Nezzie naps? Uses this product and that's where I that's why I decided to buy myself and see if it worked because we are hero twins We have very similar hair textures. Okay, so I purchased this from Amazon.com I will be listing everything below in the description box. This is 13.75 ounces. So almost four ounces quite a bit It has a lavender color very very I Mean it's a leave-in conditioner. So the consistency is very smooth.  I'm just gonna use a little bit Because I don't know how my hair is going to respond to this Smells so good though So this is how I know a lot of people like I'm surprised that you're not able that you don't do your hair in sections So when I apply my leave-in, I typically don't Because I end up adding more leave-in once I start to style my hair This go around I'm gonna be putting my split my hair down the middle So I'm going to do twists Large twists add a little bit towards the ends These are probably too big of a twist these twists are probably too big to be quite honest So y'all my goal was to come back the next day to show you what my hair looked like after it dried But I accidentally deleted that footage. However, I've been using this product now for about two weeks And I am liking it not loving it, but it's great as a backup leave-in conditioner for me Yeah, so I'm gonna continue applying this leave-in conditioner and you can see additional footage I know someone commented on one of my videos when I was showing the product I'm going to be using they're like, what what do you need biotin for you look? I'm trying to make my hair grow long I Know but my it's in this also used to add thickness my hair better not get thicker I didn't want to use the pills because of the Side effects of taking biotin supplements and y'all I'm screaming because my husband just took a shower after me and I used rice water and He's like cursing up a storm because he's like what the hell is this? This is now a couple of days later and I do apologize like I said I accidentally deleted that footage but in this particular video I'm using the leave-in conditioner in conjunction with the blue magic hair grease Now this is going to be a separate video you guys coming up in a week or so Or I attempt to do a twist out using the blue magic leave-in conditioner and the hair grease now The hair grease is just going to seal in that moisture because it acts as a sealant the moisture is coming from the water and The leave-in conditioner itself so right now I am just twisting my hair a medium to small size twist and like I said Then I'm gonna look out for the twist up video using blue magic products. Hi you guys This is two days after I've used the blue magic organ on organ oil herbal complex leave-in conditioner It's okay. You guys I've been using this often on for about a week actually close to two weeks And it is not bad at all. It has a light fragrance and I feel like since it's such a light product It's something that you can definitely layer With other products and you won't feel like it's too heavy. So that is it you guys Thank you so much for watching and thank you as always to all my subscribers. Take care. Bye