So Anand is the team leader of OpenShift Github service team at Red Hat. He has around 17 years of experience in building and operating interface applications. And yeah, I think we're all excited to hear from you Anand, yeah, over to you. Hello everyone, my name is Anand Francis and I'm from the Red Hat developer tools team. I'm here to present a talk on multi-cluster Github's, mainly dealing with two open source products, Argo CD and Open Cluster Management. So probably Argo CD, many of you might have been familiar with that, probably a quick show of hands, like how many have heard about Argo CD, you're not surprising, it's quite a popular CD tool. And how about Open Cluster Management, have any of you tried out or used Open Cluster Management? O.C.M. Okay, I see one hand, nice, okay, yeah. Probably this was done already, I'm working as a team lead for one of the managed service that we are building in Red Hat. It's a CI CD service built on Tecton and Argo CD. So this is a quick agenda on what we'll discuss in this session, we'll see what a multi-cluster setup is, the need for it and what are the challenges that we have. Next we look into like what is O.C.M. and how O.C.M. can help. Then we can see what are some of the Github's principles and what is Argo CD. Then we can see how we can leverage both O.C.M. and Argo CD to build an open application model based framework, so that will be a demo. Based on both these open-source tools, finally we can have questions. So let's start with a basic cluster, so this is a single Kubernetes cluster. We have a control plane and a data plane and in control plane we have storage in HCD, scheduler, controller manager and API server and data plane we can have multiple nodes and pods are kind of allotted to each node. So this is a single cluster setup and ultimately we can have a cloud provider which provides the load balancer to interface with all these workloads. So now let's get into one more detail, like I'm adding another cluster. So this is a two cluster setup but still you can see that the control plane nodes are kind of segregated, they work in isolation. So this is one issue with Kubernetes, like a cluster is kind of an independent resource and the control plane is kind of controlling all the aspects of it. The life cycle of the cluster is controlled by that single control plane. So there is no interaction with that. So what we mean by a multi cluster setup is some kind of federation between two or more Kubernetes clusters where we have a control plane that can control more than two clusters. So these are some of the common reasons why we need a multi cluster. So the broad areas I've just marked here. So one is the location, the next one is the isolation, reliability and there are some specific scenarios where multi cluster is the only choice. So let's start looking into each of them. For location there are like jurisdiction constraints where data has to reside on a particular region or a country. Latency, there can be like customers accessing your services across multiple regions from the world and the latency can be a factor. And then we have data and service gravity. Like you have your data residing in some particular region and you can't move that out. So you need to operate your Kubernetes cluster in the same region or your service might be already running in a particular region. And you want to run your Kubernetes cluster along with that. We'll look into each of it in detail. I'm just giving a quick overview here. Isolation, though Kubernetes provides isolation through namespaces, it's a weak isolation. So if you need strong isolation, you can have scenarios like where you have multiple environments like dev, test, staging and QA. You can have hard isolations by having multiple clusters. And cost could be a reason where you can segregate the cost aspect of it from different departments and different parts of your company having different cost controls. The next can be performance. You can have multiple clusters offering different service level agreements and thereby giving different performance and cost benefit of it. The last one is the security of it. Like you can run your audit services and security related services in a secure isolated cluster, which is not exposed to the other parts of the workload. And then the last reason is the organization. You can have an organization-specific multi-cluster so that each part of the organization does not interfere with the other part of the organization. Next, related to reliability, we have infrastructure diversity. Like you can have multiple clouds, multiple regions to increase the reliability of the service. So for example, if one AZ goes down, you can have multiple AZs, I mean clusters running in multiple AZs and regions to take care of the infrastructure, reducing the blast radius. So if one of the workloads is down, like you can reduce the blast radius by operating it on multiple regions and multiple clusters. Next one is to handle upgrades. So whenever you are upgrading your Kubernetes version, you can have multiple clusters and slowly move your workloads to the new version. Last one is scaling. So if your Kubernetes has reached a scaling point like where you have to increase the number of nodes and the number of nodes are kind of a limiting factor for a single cluster, you can have multiple clusters to kind of scale your workloads and move on to different clusters. Yeah, so the specific scenarios is like some complex migration scenarios where you have to migrate to a different CNI. You need a different cluster altogether to move to different CNI versions. And then there are some edge and IoT use cases. Now we are going towards MicroShift and K3S where Kubernetes is being run on a Raspberry Pi kind of a device. So there it can be like each device can be treated as a Kubernetes cluster in itself. And there we can use this multi-cluster scenario to kind of control the overall flow. So a bit more detail on the same aspect, like one is the due restriction, like where customers are forced to run all their data centers in a particular region or a country. Next one is controlling the latency. So if there are customers working and accessing your service in different regions, you can have different load balancers and you can point to the right load balancer based on the customer's region. This is related to data gravity and service gravity. For example, some of the data that your workload requires is already available in one of the regions. And the cost of egress of that data would be expensive. So you are forced to run your Kubernetes cluster in those regions. So this is one example. And this is related to service. Similar to data, if you are depending on some particular service, regional service, and you are not able to move that service, you can use the multi-cluster approach to handle that. Yeah, and these are like performance related, like you can have different customer tires where you can have different SLAs. You can offer different SLAs for different customers. This is the environment that we already spoke out. We can have dev functional different environments on each cluster. Organization, like during mergers and acquisition, like there can be different organizations that are kind of integrated. And you don't want different parts of the organizations to kind of interact with each other. In that case, you can have different clusters for each organization. And there could be cost-controlled reasons where each organization's want a separate bill. So they don't want to share the bill and they can have cost control on their usage. And infrastructure diversity, so you can use different flavors of Kubernetes cluster to have a diverse infrastructure, which can help in increasing the reliability of your workloads. Reducing the blast radius, for example, if one of the cluster goes down, there will be still one LTE cluster that will still serve the request from the customers. These are cluster upgrades. So when you want to upgrade a cluster across different versions, you can use this multi-cluster and kind of move your workloads to the newer clusters. So Edge IoT, that's an upcoming area where Kubernetes is being run on smaller devices. And you can use this multi-cluster approach to kind of handle the fleet management of those clusters. And this is like an example of a CNI migration where you need a completely different cluster with a different CNI provider that is installed. And you want to kind of slowly move your workloads to the newer cluster. So now let's look at the challenges we have. The first one is the infrastructure cost. So as you scale more clusters, the number of control planes is going to increase. And the cost of administering the cluster also will increase. So the infrastructure cost is going to go up. The next is the complex configuration. So you have to plan well in advance, especially the network configurations, how each cluster networking should look like, and how you kind of configure each of the cluster. So the R back and other related parameters that needs to be configured for each cluster needs to be done in an efficient way. So this is a challenge right now. And security aspects, same like we have to configure R back. And we have to ensure that all the security certificates are kind of handled efficiently. And the inter-API calls between these clusters also needs to be handled. So OCM or the Open Cluster Management handles some part of these challenges. Infrastructure cost is not something that can be addressed with the OCM tool. But configurations and security aspects of it can be handled using OCM. So now let's look into what OCM is. So Open Cluster Management, or OCM in short, is a community-driven open source project. It's in CNCF sandbox maturity level, as of now. It's based on a hub and spoke architecture. So we have a central admin server and several managed clusters that are attached to that. It supports multicluster and multicloud management. It can provide fleet management. So you can handle all the configurations with a single pane of view. So all the configurations are done in a single place that gets replicated to all the managed clusters. So it's highly scalable, basically, due to the pull-based model that it uses. So the admin server just acts as a storage layer. And all the managed clusters does most of the effort in pulling those configurations towards the managed cluster. So we have a CLI interface, which is called ClusterADM. That eases the management and creation of the resources. So this is what is briefly about the OCM. This is the architecture of it. So we have a central hub cluster, which acts as the control plane of all the Kubernetes clusters that are going to be connected to it. And then we have multiple managed clusters. Each managed clusters will have several agents that are running on it. And the hub cluster will have a placement controller and a registration controller. So the registration agent and the registration controller is the one that is involved in the initial registration of the managed cluster with the hub cluster. And the work agent picks the work from the hub cluster and executes it on the managed clusters and then sends the status back to the hub cluster. So the main advantage is you can manage the fleet and also you can have a single place where you can configure all the resources through the hub cluster. So this is the typical cluster registration process that we have. So hub cluster and the managed cluster are kind of isolated. So there can be two different administrators for them. The hub cluster will provide a token. And that token will be used by the managed cluster to do the initial registration. Then it creates a CSR certificate signing request that initiates the registration process. And the hub cluster has to accept that managed cluster in order to accept that signing request to create the managed cluster setup. Once the cluster is integrated to the hub cluster, it keeps sending the heartbeat to indicate that the services are running healthy. And whenever the certificates are kind of expired, the hub cluster will trigger and it will issue a new certificate for the managed cluster. So this is the hub and spoke model. So here you can see that the admin cluster does not have any workloads as such. It has a namespace for each cluster. And it assigns work for the managed clusters as the workload unit. Whereas the managed cluster is a typical one. It has nodes and it has pods assigned to it. It has the work agent that continuously pulls the hub cluster for any new work that is being created in the hub cluster. It will take and execute that on the managed cluster. So these are some of the concepts in the OCM. So we have a managed cluster. That's the cluster that is going to host the workloads. Hub cluster is one that is used purely for the management of the cluster purpose. And then you can group the clusters. The managed clusters can be grouped as cluster set. So you can group it on certain parameters. Like you can group your cluster set based on the environment or the cloud provider that is being used. So there are different combinations that can be used. So you can see the label selector, claim selector. And similar to Kubernetes, Tains and Tolerations, you can have Tains applied to the managed cluster as well. Placement is another custom resource type that can define what are the managed cluster that needs to be selected. And placement decision is the output. So whenever you are scheduling a workload, you create a placement and you associate a managed cluster set to it. Then the placement decision will select a subgroup of the clusters from the managed cluster. And all the workloads will be spread across those clusters. Manifest Work and Manifest Work replica set. These are the work-related items. So the workloads get spread using these two aspects. So Manifest Work replica set works on a per cluster basis. Manifest Work replica set will work on a cluster set basis. So that is the essential difference. But both are used to spread the workload across the managed cluster. So these are some snapshots that I've taken. So this is how a CRD for a managed cluster will look like. The below one is the managed cluster set. You can have different label selectors to select all the managed clusters that match a particular label. Then you have an exclusive cluster set label, which works on a label that is specific for cluster sets. So that particular label can be set only for one managed cluster set. Next we have placement. So this is used for the selection criteria. So you can select based on a label or a claim selector. So claims are properties which are assigned to the managed cluster. For example, you can set the platform. For example, if it's AWS, you can set the platform.open cluster management.io, which mainly says that what provider is that particular Kubernetes cluster is. You can also have a prioritizer policy. So predicates are like filtering criteria. The clusters get filtered based on the predicate criteria. You can also have the prioritizer policy where you don't want to filter, but you want to say the top 10 clusters that match this particular cluster criteria. So you can select based on how much CPU and how much memory is available. And you can tell the number of clusters that you need to select based on this particular criteria. So this is an example of a manifest work. So this is how the workloads get spread across the multiple clusters. So here you tell the namespace. So each managed cluster will have a particular namespace created in the hub cluster. So a manifest work will work only for a single managed cluster. So here you have to tell what kind of workload you want to deploy on your managed cluster. So this is how we have to kind of specify that using the workload manifest. So here I'm creating a deployment on the managed cluster. I can create this on a target namespace. And that particular cluster will pick this workload and deploy it. Next we have a manifest work replica set. This is an extension to the manifest work. And it's still in an alpha state. So this is a new feature that got developed. So here the advantage is you can refer a placement which can select any number of clusters. So this is spread across all the clusters that match this placement name app platform clusters. So in this example, I'm using the Agocid application to deploy a guest book application, which is a sample application. We can see an example of this in the demo as well. So now the OCM concepts are almost complete. Now I'll get into the GitOps aspect of it. So this is a standard GitOps principles that we have. We have a system that is described declaratively. And Kubernetes is a declarative system, so we can manage the artifacts and the workloads that need to run in Kubernetes. The desired state is versioned and stored in Git. So this is one of the principles that the storage should be versioned. And the desired state must be explicitly set in Git. So all the workflows that is applicable in Git, like all the approval and PR process, can be applied. And approved changes are applied automatically through an agent. And there is continuous reconciliation in GitOps, like where you have a controller running in the Kubernetes cluster, which constantly pulls the changes that are happening in the Git repository. And it constantly checks for differences and makes the required changes to keep it in sync with what is applied in Git. So a little bit about Agocity. So Agocity is a CNCF graduated project. It follows all the GitOps principles. Apart from Agocity, we have Flux CD as well. So both of these projects are kind of achieving the same GitOps principles. Agocity was created by engineers from Intude. And they have open sourced the project. Right now, Red Hat also contributes to most of the features and bug issues in Agocity. So in this demo, I'm using Agocity to store the workloads that needs to be distributed across the managed cluster. So on the left side, you can see the hub cluster, where you have different managed clusters grouped into a single managed cluster set. And then we have created a placement and a manifest replica set to spread the workloads to the clusters that are selected by a particular placement. Towards my right, this has all the managed clusters. So I have three managed clusters. And I have Agocity instances running on each of them. I have an application set, which builds an OEM-based platform as part of this demo. Applications set are a group of applications. So in this example, it has a group of Helm charts that installs a bunch of CNCF graduated projects that can be used as an app platform. And an application set controller, in turn, will create several applications. Like each one will be a separate Helm chart in itself. And the application controller, again, from Agocity, is what does the constant reconciliation. So any manual changes that you do to the managed cluster will be automatically fixed and reverted through the application controller. So let's see the recording of the demo. So here I'm creating, this is the cluster admin CLI that I'm using. So I'm creating a cluster set called App Platform. And I'm adding clusters 1 and 2 to that particular cluster set. I need to bind that cluster set to a particular namespace. This is to control who can associate a workload to that particular managed cluster. So we use our back for controlling that. And that's why we have to bind it to a particular namespace. So these are some of the commands that are available. I can list the cluster sets and what are the clusters that are selected for that particular cluster set. So the first problem is to install the ArgoCD instances on the managed cluster. So the first step is to create a work replica set to install ArgoCD. So with this, the workload for ArgoCD, ArgoCD gets installed in all the managed clusters. So this will be my first step. And the subsequent steps, I will create the application set and spread it across all the workloads. So there are some issues that I was debugging as part of the video, so I'm just skipping them. So the placement reference was wrong. So that's why it was initially not spreading the workloads. So once I corrected that, you can see that the ArgoCD pods, they are starting to initialize. So the next step is to apply the app platform, which is the application set that I initially briefed about. So that will create the workloads to create the application set and, in turn, the applications get created using ArgoCD. So here you can see all the applications that the ArgoCD instance has created. So it is initially in out-of-sync state, and it shows the health status. So ArgoCD has two concepts. One is the application sync, and another is the health check. So out-of-sync means that the required resources are not created yet. So it will keep on trying, retrying in a loop to bring it to sync. So it will create the required Kubernetes resources to bring it to sync. And the health check is for denoting the health of the deployed resources. So all of that is available in a single pane of glass. Like you can see all the components that are getting installed, and whether it's in sync and whether it's in a healthy state. So that's all I have for the demo. So I have one more video, but I'm skipping it to save time. That talks about how to add managed clusters to the hub cluster. But yeah, I'll skip that for now. I'm open to questions if there are any. So all the code that I have demoed here is available in my GitHub account. It's a public repository. So if you want to have a look at it, you can take a note of it. Hi. So my doubt is, let's say I have managed clusters in three different cloud providers, GKS, EKS, and everything. I am controlling it with OCM. So can I create a deployment file, so such as that where each pod will be placed on each cloud provider? Correct. So yeah, if I'm understanding your question, you have a deployment, and you want to spread the pods across different. That's not possible. You can have deployments on each of it, but probably you can control the replica of each of it based on if you want one replica in each environment, you can control that part of it. Because the deployment controller is running inside the specific cluster, right? So OCM doesn't understand what's running within the cluster. Yeah. Hi, thanks for your presentation. So initial slide, I could see you have connected two different clusters with one load balancer. So can you please explain how the connectivity will be? Because as far as my understanding, how the one load balancer will connect to another load balancer? Yeah, basically this is kind of a global load balancer concept wherein you can take a client request and based on the geographical area, you can redirect it to another IP address. So this is based on that concept. OK, if I have a multiple application in the, I have a multiple deployment in the cluster one, and I have a multiple deployment in the cluster tool, how does load balancer will route it to the correct application? You want to route it based on the endpoints? Yeah, since I have a multiple deployment ready, each application I pointed to, through ingress, I have pointed to on ALB, imagine in such a way. How this will route my packets when I have a multi load balancer concept? So is it about this particular example? Yeah. So in this, this is like all the workloads will be kind of replicated, and the idea here is to reduce the latency. So for example, a customer accessing your particular application from US region might require to be connecting to the service that is running in US, right? He doesn't want to connect to a cluster that is running in India. So based on the particular region, we can route it, route the request to the cluster running in US. So that latency will be reduced. But the workload will be kind of replicated in both the clusters. So it's to serve different customers. OK, thank you. Yeah, I think in the interest of time, we'll have the Q&A offline. You can reach out to one in the meantime. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thanks a lot. I would like to request money to once again.


Hi, my name is Sandra Botekis and I'll be bringing you through the Windows 7 Advanced Features. Now, as an instructor, I've been working with the Windows platforms since Microsoft came out with Windows. That brings me back to Windows 3.1. I still remember stepping into the classroom and teaching people what Windows was all about and how to use a mouse. Well I can say that Windows has certainly changed over the years and the features now make life so easy that almost anyone can learn how to use and easily navigate around the computer. So I look forward to showing you all the advanced features here in this course so that you can take your version of Windows and be up and running. In this unit, we'll learn about user accounts. We have a new interface that we use to create, edit, and even delete the user accounts. We'll learn how to switch users and how to log off an account. We'll also learn about passwords, why you need them, how to create them, and how to manage them. We can log an account and even disable it if we don't want the user to log in. So at the end of this module, we'll get a chance to really cover users from beginning to end. In this topic, we'll cover account management. The first thing we need to do is define user account.  So an example, Microsoft Word might be customized the way that I want it. I may have Outlook configured to pull my personal email. Also, I tend to be kind of a nature girl, so I want some form of nature-based background. So based on that, these are all my settings. I also want to make sure that all my documents are secure, that even if someone else logs onto the computer, that they don't have access to them. Well, how I can accomplish all of this is to create a user account specifically for me. Password it and make sure no one has a password. So the user account is a collection of all the above associated with that person. So, again, all experiences is really tailored to the person who's logged in. Now, there are two basic types of user accounts. An administrator and a standard user. There always has to be at least one administrator on the machine. They're the ones who have full access to the computer's resources and settings. They're also the ones that are allowed to install and uninstall software and even configure hardware. So based on that, we can't disable all administrator accounts, or we wouldn't have anyone with a privilege high enough to even re-enable the administrator. A standard user is someone who can simply do that. They can just use the programs. They can access them, but they can't make system changes. What's going to happen is it will prompt them for an administrative password. Now, an administrator can use programs, but they can also install and remove them. They can change passwords. They can change account pictures. They can change account names and types. Other users' passwords. They can add both local and network printers and even change system settings. Well, a user can't do all of that. They can use programs. They can change their own password and their own account picture, and they can also add printers. You can have multiple administrator accounts. This allows each administrator to have their own separate account. One of the things this would help you do is to track the system changes. Who configured or installed what. You can also easily delete an administrator level user without having to change and distribute the passwords for all the other administrators. We also have a guest account. By default it is disabled, because the guest account can officially be considered a type of security hole. Meaning someone who's logging on but has no privileges. I would rather create them a user account and give or limit the specific privileges. Now, the guest account has to be enabled in order to use, and it can use installed programs, but it has very, very limited privileges. When you manage user accounts, you go through control panel. In control panel, you can navigate to the user accounts, and then within user accounts, you could manage accounts. You can always tell your path by looking right here. Well, the first thing that you do is you take a look at the accounts that are existing, and if there's one that you want to change, all you need to do is click on it. So if we wanted to go ahead and change anything about Ann's account, we would go ahead and click right here. Now notice that Ann is listed. There's her username, and it tells us she's a standard user. Notice that there is nothing about a password underneath that. What that tells me is Ann does not have a password assigned to her account. If you look to the left, you have the administrator. Well, the administrator has admin, that's the name. Administrator specifies the role, and the third line here says password protected. So that's how I know the difference between the two. Now if you wish to create a new account, we've got a link right here. And below it we have some additional items like help on what a user account is. Maybe we want to set up parental controls. We can go ahead and do that as well. Or we can go back a step to just the main user accounts page. If you wish to create a user account, simply go to control panel from the start menu. Click on add and remove user accounts. It will ask you for an administrator password, so enter that in, and then click on create a new user account. Enter in the name, select the account type, and just simply click on create account. When you're creating an account, you can't specify all of the different properties, like the password and example. So to edit the user account, you want to go back through add and remove user accounts, enter in the administrator password, you can then click on the user account that you want to edit and make all of the changes right there. An account picture can help you identify which user account is active. It's displayed when the system requests you to enter in your password. Now you can use your own images, or you can browse windows for some of the default ones. So if you don't like the one it picked for you by default, go ahead and hit browse, look at the ones that Windows gave, or you can browse to your own pictures folder and go ahead and put your own picture in there. If you wish to delete account, you have to be logged on as administrator. Now an administrator can delete both standard user accounts and the other administrator accounts. You have an option to delete all files that are associated with the account. Now if you choose not to delete all files, only the administrator will have access to those files. Many changes require you to be an administrator. So even though you're logged on as administrator, when you go to access that restricted action, you may very well be prompted, unless of course someone has disabled the user account control. So when you attempt to hit the restricted action, you'll be prompted entering the administrator password and at that point it'll allow you to make the changes. You can switch user accounts without logging off. All you need to do is click on start, go to shutdown, there's a little arrow next to it. In that menu you'll see switch user. Click on the user account that you want to switch over to and log on as. Enter in the password if one has been set and when you click on the arrow button or press enter, you will switch over to that profile. Control Alt Delete is a keyboard sequence that's been around for a long, long time. Typically it's how we lock the computer, log on or even log off. Now these have been around since the beginning of Windows. Well Control Alt Delete still has similar account options. It'll allow you to lock the computer.


Good morning, my beautiful internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you so much for joining me this morning for some fantastic amputee related news. I feel like I should just use this permanently as a microphone. So without further ado, today in amputee news. Now, if you're not an amputee, please don't click away because this could apply to you or someone you know as well.  Thank you for sending information my way. Zappos, which is a shoe company, did something pretty cool this week. Let's talk about it. As we dive in, if you wanna give this video a thumbs up, it does help it to get out to more people. This one in particular I think would be pretty cool if as many people as possible could see it because this is really awesome news for my community and for many other communities. So give it a thumbs up or a foot up depending on what kind of appendages you may have. Subscribe if you feel like it and let's talk about this. It was recently announced as in two days ago because I am a little bit late to the story that Zappos, which is a shoe company as I mentioned will now be selling pairs of shoes as not pairs of shoes. As in you could buy a single pair if you wanted to. I keep saying pair. What I mean to say is a single shoe. You could buy just a single shoe from them and if you're a person who has an able body and has never really thought much about this, you might say, okay, that's weird and why would I ever do that? But for us amputees and for people who have feet that are different sizes because that absolutely exists, this is amazing news. One of the biggest questions I get asked is what do I do with the other shoe? And that's if someone seeks me if I'm not wearing my prosthetic leg. I think people kind of forget that some amputees do get to wear prosthesis and if you wear a prosthesis, both of your feet, whether or not they are human meat food you do need shoes to walk in places. But a lot of people wonder about this and there's never been a company that I've been aware of, especially a large company that will allow you to just buy a single pair of shoes. There are like exchange amputee exchange sites where you could find like your soul mate as in soul, not soul. If you're missing a right foot and they're missing a left foot and you guys happen to have the same shoe size you could kind of send pairs back and forth but this is so much simpler than that. Something that I'm personally really excited about is the fact that they are selling shoes in different sizes. So you could like get a size eight on your right side and a size nine on your left side. So Zappos has actually already been sort of on the cutting edge of actually being inclusive with their footwear. They have the Zappos adaptive line which has been going on for a little while which includes footwear that's a little bit easier for people to put on but I feel like this is really the next step. Literally and figuratively the needs to be taken. Though I realize it's standard and what everyone does, you know, you buy a pair of shoes, it comes in two that's how it works. People have two feet. The reality is that not everyone has two feet. Not all amputees use prosthetics meaning that some amputees really only ever need a right shoe and that's it. Some of my personal friends don't wear prosthetics either because they prefer not to or because they are unable to and having to pay for two shoes when they're only ever going to throw one out or donate one. I don't think goodwill would even take a single shoe that's useless to most people. That's just an unnecessary expense. So being able to get exactly what you need is so cool. This is something I had the luxury of not really thinking about for a long time and that's the case for many people. You go get a pair of shoes and if story you don't think about it but for many more people than I was previously aware of before I became an amputee, finding footwear and having to pay for two shoes when you only need one becomes an issue. If your feet are not the same size which is the case for many people you have to buy two pairs of shoes which is an extraordinary expense. Brands being inclusive to people with disabilities or people whose bodies are different is actually really meaningful. Like seeing this news made me really, really happy because it reminds you that people do know that you exist, that your existence is not forgotten or invisible to people and to brands and I find that to be really important. Like obviously if I wasn't able to wear a prosthetic leg I would just be buying pairs of shoes and two shoes and I probably wouldn't think twice about it because that's just the way things are but to have a company say hey, I know that's not the way things are for everybody and recognize that makes a difference. It makes you feel seen, it makes you feel heard and it's really important to feel that way. So as they launch this they're not doing with every single kind of shoe they're doing with 80 different styles and pairs so they'll be limited to selection to start with and then they'll see kind of what happens with it. If you've been following my channel for a little while you probably know this already but for the first year or so of being an ABT I could not wear a prosthetic limb at all. We tried a couple different times but I had a fall which led to surgery which led to a second amputation of sorts they had to take another inch of my leg off and so I couldn't wear a prosthetic leg meaning that all of my pressure, all my weight was coming down on one foot that entire time and I had pairs of shoes that got exponentially worn out on the left side and had absolutely no wear on the right side because obviously I didn't have a right foot I wasn't able to use it. And I got to a certain point throughout that year where I knew that this was gonna be the case for a while because I was waiting for more surgeries coming up and if I had known that I could just buy one shoe especially for a trip that I went on I probably would have done that. I wouldn't have spent the money on two pairs or on two sides, on both sides. I'm not sure of the proper terminology here. Personally I think that this is cause for celebration this is pretty awesome. I really appreciate that a major retailer is showing something so inclusive is making moves in this direction. I expect many other companies may follow. Fingers crossed, hopefully. This is launching on Tuesday so if you are interested if this is something you wanna try out check out their site Tuesday morning. It should be live. You should be able to see the 80 different pairs of shoes you can choose from or single shoes you can choose from or different sizes. Hopefully brands like Nike and I don't know other big shoe companies I can't think of any at the moment will be soon to follow. Zappos is one of the largest online retailers of footwear so they are setting the example for everyone else and I think this is really cool. I can say personally as a Bologna amputee I really appreciate that they are moving in this direction of inclusion. There are a lot of people who are gonna benefit from this so for me to use Zappos thank you so much for doing this. This is awesome news and I'm really excited to hear it. This is kind of a short and to the point video today I just wanted to make sure I got that information out to anyone who might be affected by it or know anyone affected by it. This is awesome. I think if someone likes to sign this video but I'm really excited for it. So thank you for listening. Thank you to my patrons for sponsoring these videos and making them possible. I truly appreciate each and every one of you. If you're interested in financially supporting this channel anyway, check out the link on screen or in the description down below. There are different perks that you can get for being a part of that community and I would appreciate it. To you watching this video, thank you so much for spending a few minutes out of your day here with me today getting excited about footwear. Thrilling, I know. You could be anywhere in the world doing anything and you chose to hang out with me for a few minutes and I really appreciate that. I love you guys, I'm thinking about you and I will see you in the next video. I really should use this as a microphone for the rest of my videos. Would it go this way or this way? I think it would go this way. Looks like I'm trying to eat a foot then. Which I'm definitely not into. Anyways, bye guys. Have you heard from the sky?


Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's coverage here at AWS re-invent. Our 11th year covering re-invent has been quite a journey. I'm John Furrier, host. Dave Vellante is at the analyst event getting Q and A with Adam Slepsky. Got George Gilbert, Shelley Kramer, a whole team is here. Got team coverage, Rob Hofe, Mark Albertson, Broadcasting Palo Alto, getting all the signal here at the event. It's been quite a journey to watch AWS over the past 11 years continue to grow. This year more than ever, you see a legit next level set of issues hitting, generative AI, so obviously the hot conversation, but the impact up and down across the stack is pretty significant, opens up all kinds of opportunities and challenges, one of them is security. We have a security expert here, Eric Brandewine, VP and distinguished engineer at Amazon Security, welcome to theCUBE. Great to see you. Thanks John, great to be here. So we were just talking before we came on camera about two things, well I want to start out of the gate. One is AWS now has a re-org with the security team. Stephen Schmidt is CSO, Chief Security Officer for Amazon, and Amazon has a security team, and we talked about generative AI and the fork in the road. So let's start with the AWS update, pretty notable focus that you guys have now one security to explain the current situation. So historically we cared about security across the company of course, and we had separate teams that handle different lines of business, but with Steve Schmidt taking this new role as Chief Security Officer, for the first time we have one security team that covers the entire company. And our biggest concern is that each of the teams that were already in place were competent, they were serving their businesses, they were enabling them to delight customers, and we have to make sure that we don't break that. We have to make sure that as we move forward and we appropriately centralize and consolidate our efforts that we enable each of those business line CISOs, each of those security teams to continue delighting their service teams and they can delight their customers. So is it the case that it's across all Amazon, which is very diverse business, you got retail, you got movies, you got studios, you got AWS, you got stores, you all kinds of things, you know, Twitch, all kinds of things out there. Is there a CISO for every kind of group or is it all one team, how does that work? So there's a CISO for every major line of business. So for example, we've got a CISO for the digital business, we've got a CISO for the consumer business, we've got a CISO for the AWS business, of course. But then there's a number of other security teams that are smaller and embedded with other parts of the business. For example, we have a security team on Kuiper. If you're going to be launching satellites into space, there's a whole different set of concerns. You can't touch them. Like once they're in orbit, they're gone, like you can't touch them. So you have to be able to do software updates securely. All of that stuff is ITAR restricted, international traffic and arms regulation. And so there's a whole new layer of security controls that you have to put onto everything starting from your development processes. And so we have a team that focuses on nothing but that because we need expertise there. So there's a lot of diversity there. And so the challenge is to figure out what data to share. We were talking about some of the things. What are some of the things that you're thinking about that's on your plate right now? I just holistically zoom out and go, okay, we got a wide aperture of security. What are some of the challenges that you guys think because it's not one model, one security framework can work. There are plenty of challenges, but the best opportunity that we have is that there's all of these smart people across the company that have completely different perspectives on these problems. And we've found all sorts of gems all over the organization that we've been able to use more broadly. And that addresses our big challenge, which is the cost to serve. We're not going to compromise on the security bar, but security is not cheap. And we want to make it such that our service teams can launch and launch securely, but they need to be able to launch faster and the cost of the security efforts we provide them has to go down. And so figuring out how we can automate, how we can centralize, how we can turn a whole bunch of the common work across the organization into structured tools and mechanisms so that the engineers can then focus on the thing that differentiates their business. Yeah, and Adam Szelecki mentioned that to me in my one-on-one, it's intrinsic to everything that we do. And he has this the same line, he has the same tone every time. Okay, got it, we got it. And that's important, part of this Amazon culture. So that's super cool. I love to revisit that. I want to focus to the question here at the event. Genervai is the hot topic. I heard there's a drinking game going on where every time someone said Genai, they do a shot and everyone's kind of stumbling around the hallways. But in all seriousness, how do we understand the path of Genervai because the good guys have a chance now to get better. But the bad news is the bad guys have the tools too. So you have a perspective on this. Absolutely, and that's the first fork in the road that you get to, is if Amazon is going to launch a generative AI powered service, the bar is going to be very high. We're going to do a tremendous amount of review and testing and validation to make sure that that service does exactly what we think it does and nothing else. If one of our customers in AWS is going to launch a generative AI powered service, they're going to invest similar care. The burden is again going to be high. Whereas our adversaries, they're just going to launch things. If you've got a trove of stolen data, like they'll point an AI at it, they'll start indexing it, they'll start asking questions. And if it hallucinates, who cares? Like maybe the key that you got out of it isn't valid, throw it away, ask again. If you want to attack someone's support processes, customer service, things like that, maybe a whole bunch of the context that generates are nonsensical. Who cares, generate more. And so there's an asymmetry there and we have to be prepared for this. The nice thing is that these aren't fundamentally new attacks, they're just efficiency gains in existing attacks. But the advantage that we have and what we're really going to double down on is that anywhere we learn across all of Amazon, we can apply that to all of our generative AI services, fleet learning. So anytime we get an adversarial example from any service, anywhere in the company, we can add that to our corpus of adversarial prompts and we can use that to make all of our models better. And so that scale there, we're using the scale of Amazon and the breadth and the diversity of Amazon as a benefit to us. You know, I remember when I first interviewed Steve Schmidt 2015, at that time, okay, again, this is dating myself, but back at that time, everyone, all the naysayers were saying, the cloud's not secure, we're better off on premises. What you just pointed out, I think illustrates that actually the cloud can be secure at a big time level because of the scale and data opportunity you guys have. Absolutely, I think it's very parallel to flying versus driving. If you ask a room of people, how many of you are above average drivers, everyone's going to put their hand up. Okay, go ahead.  I don't know how to fly a plane, I'm not competent, I'm not qualified, the pilots are more deeply trained than I am to drive a car, but I'm in the back.  And anytime you make a partnership with a service provider and it really is a partnership, anytime you do that, you're seating some control and that can be uncomfortable, that can be a hard thing to let go of, but the simple reality is that because of our scale, we have been able to invest. My largest customer as an AWS security engineer is AWS. My second largest customer is Amazon. And these are large going concerns. I mean, Amazon was a big company even before the cloud came along. And you look at the traditional infrastructure that Amazon used to run on. And this is our core competency. We were really, really good at it. And you look at what they get to run on today in AWS and there's absolutely no comparison. The amount of data available, the amount of control available, the scalability, the rate of new feature releases, like I am so much happier with our services running in the cloud than I was running on our traditional infrastructure and our traditional infrastructure was world-class. Let's talk about customer enablement. Great call out there by the way and great masterclass on Amazon security and the cloud, but now let's talk about customers. What does this enable them? Because now I'm the customer, I want to run securely on your cloud. Thank you very much for doing that work. What do I have to do? Because I want some control. I got data in there. So where do you see the enablement to be adaptable? Because that's one of the key features we heard in the keynote yesterday. Adaptability is the key to success in general AI. So this is something that we struggle with constantly is we're designing our services because there is no correct answer. There is no one size fits all. For your workload, a certain configuration may be entirely appropriate, but it may be wildly inappropriate for my workload. The thing that I love about the cloud is that it's democratized access to this stuff.  You're looking at months on the short side. And if you wanted a high availability, you needed two data centers, like your budget just more than doubled. If you want to run a highly available application in AWS, you just launch a second instance in a different region. We're talking the cost of a cup of coffee. Yeah, and by the way, we just had a MasterCard on while you were waiting. They're talking about the rules in country for data, colo, they got a colo of the data in the country. Sovereign clouds. And so all of this sovereignty issues, like if we have a region there, just run in that region, you don't have to hire a bulldozer and a surveyor like start from a cement slab. And so you get the same kind of democratization in our security controls. Every single host, every single instance in a VPC is wrapped in a security group. You've got fine-grained network segmentation and you don't have to argue about like how many firewall ports do I have or do we have enough bandwidth to handle the east-west traffic. If you want encryption and we strongly encourage people to encrypt, great, use KMS. It's already integrated with all of the services. Key management, encryption is incredibly hard. Like it's super easy to just, you know, you pull down a crypto library and you encrypt some data. Like anyone can do that in five minutes. But to build a robust, secure, scalable, available crypto system is really difficult. We have a world-class team that has spent years getting there. And every single one of our service teams and every single one of our customers can take advantage of those years of investment and expertise with a couple of API calls.  Because they'll determine what's for them and they'll use gen AI for that. Right, and so we're really looking forward to some of the generative AI features that Adam and Swami talked about where we're incredibly hopeful this is going to make it much easier for customers to discover the bits and pieces of AWS that they need. Again, it's not one-size-fits-all. The things that are incredibly important to one customer may not matter at all to another customer. And so helping them discover these things, get the right configuration in place and to move forward more quickly and more cognitively. I mean, I think some of the things that are like the little trivial stuff like S3 buckets, other configuration mistakes are going to be flagged immediately. You get the best practices kind of coming in. My word, not your word, but like using all that data kind of be a best practice library for customers with one prompt. Hey, am I secure? No, you're not. You've got something hanging out there. I mean, that could be the case. I mean, that's what the future is right now, right?  Am I secure? Yes, you are. There's no such thing as am I secure? Because security is not a Boolean discipline. It's about understanding and managing risk. But the question that we are hopeful that we can answer, I think we're going to get there, is if I want to improve my security, what should I do right now? Making it actionable, and then taking the customer by the hand and helping them take those steps, making it as simple as possible for them to achieve that next level and then the level beyond that. I got to ask you, Eric, because I've been sitting on the cube and I'm trying to get some input on this, maybe because I'm just kind of riffing, but the first time I saw a 3D printer, I'm like, that's freaking amazing, because it was cool. I've never seen it before. It's building something. It's not printing. That's like a cool factor, a wow factor. Are we going to be soon in an age, or are we there now where the infrastructure can self-build pipelines or take dynamic policy-based actions where the AI gets smart around what's happening and can build scaffolding around something or maybe do something that's been initiated that could be in a best practice? Are we going to be at an era where the infrastructure could just provision itself dynamically around these cases? In that kind of 3D printer way, it's kind of maybe a bad analogy, but I'm envisioning magic happening. That's positive. I have a 3D printer and it is magical. Like it is incredible that I can conjure this object and then it exists, but they're slow. It's really boring to watch a 3D printer. And I think that some really revolutionary things are going to be coming, especially from our customers and our partners.  And I'm really looking forward to seeing what our clever customers do with those things. But yes, a tremendous amount of the infrastructure and of the code that people write today, that people build today, is scaffolding. It's boilerplate. It's similar to other things that have come before and relieving the human from the burden of managing that stuff is going to be a huge advancement. Well, I'd love to unpack more. Great to have you on. I always love talking with you. It's like a master class. I like to know what's on your mind because you had a lot going on. Final question for you, as you look at today's event or this week's event, the keynotes, your swamis today, Adams yesterday, we've got Werner coming up. Got an ecosystem that's robust, building apps on top of AWS Resolve, Google. What are you most excited about? What are you thinking about these days? What's cool that you're working on? I know you're thinking about the whole organization thing, but what's on your mind and what are you excited about? So, obviously my day job revolves around the Amazon security organization and trying to figure out, and I'm not the only person doing this. We've got a large and very competent team. But what does it mean to be the Amazon security team? And honestly, it's trite and you expected this, but I'm most excited about what we're going to be able to do with generative AI. We have a whole bunch of projects in flight already using generative AI for security workloads for our own internal security needs. We had a couple of engineers go off and this was basically a weekend project. They pointed an AI at our security knowledge base and indexed it and made a chat bot. And this thing is not awesome. Like it hallucinates occasionally, it gives bad advice. It is so much better than anything we've ever had before. And it was a weekend's worth of effort. And if that's the ante, if that's how much it costs to get a seat at the table, imagine what's going to happen when we get a full service team involved and we really invest here. So I think that's going to be a transformative technology for us. I mean, I think that's the kind of value that this latency concept of getting action, not just latency packets, but that weekend project, they're already in value mode as default. And then it's just left in the finger. Imagine the next iteration, the next inference, adding more data in. So I think this is going to be creative, tsunami. It's so exciting because now the team has this direct visceral experience of it's not this huge complicated insurmountable hill to climb. Like look, like my colleagues just did this and it wasn't a huge investment, I should go do it too. And then the other engineers go, I got FOMO. I want to get out of the action. The ideas start sparking and things start happening. And I think that's why this return back to work is a cool thing. And whether you're doing it virtually or whatnot, this interaction and that group dynamic of inventing and building stuff and solving problems, you get the things faster. I mean, we index all our transcripts, it's really cool. And we got a little chat bot too. It's like, but it's great because it helps us get, what's the strategy for this company? And then the people who talked about it pops up. The vector embeds are beautiful. And it wasn't that hard to do. So great stuff, Eric. Great to have you on the queue. It was always a pleasure. Getting all the security action going on here. The thinking is, the key is the thinking with this generalized changing. The queue is reporting this on the ground here. The world has changed. Legit next level things happening. Weekend projects turned into innovation roads and then people working together, customers building value. This is what's going on here at Reinvent this year. Completely different vibe than any other year we've covered. We'll be back more coverage after this short break. Back to you in the studio.


Good evening, everybody. We are starting the meeting now for the Horn Street Camp Buoy to West Vickery Infrastructure Improvement Project. If you can see the screen, the bottom right-hand corner has the chat feature. You can write your questions, type your questions into chat, and we will respond to those after the presentation. If you're a call-in user, we will take your questions after we respond to the chat questions. I'm going to let Council Member Crane say a few words before we start the meeting. Oh, I'm sorry. We are recording the meeting. Thanks, Sally. I appreciate you all putting this presentation together for the neighborhood. I've been briefed on it overall, and I think it's great that we're putting these infrastructure improvements in the Como neighborhood. A big part of Horn Street, I know, during snowboard and post-snowboard have had issues with the infrastructure there. So I'm excited to see that and the other piece and all the changes coming there. But obviously, the neighborhood or anybody has any questions or issues or problems, you can reach out to me anytime to have a conversation. But I appreciate what you're doing, and I'll let you all get on with the meeting. Thank you, Council Member. Your project manager is Subhi Vairgis, and I'm going to hand that over to him. Subhi? Good evening. My name is Subhi Vairgis. I am the project manager managing this project. At the end of this project is introductions, project overview, project area, frequently asked questions, and timeline. Your construction project team includes project manager Subhi Vairgis. That's me. My contact number is<PHONE_NUMBER>3. My email address is sudy.varughece.gov. Engineering design consultant is Shield Engineering Group. Consultant PM, project manager is Craig Barnes. Project overview. This project is in Council District 3 and impact the Como Neighborhood Association. Existing sanitary sewer mains and water mains will be replaced in an area bound by Cambodia, Cambodia Boulevard to the north, Borein Street to the east, West Vicarie Boulevard to the south, and Halloran Street to the west. Project area, Hone Street from Cambodia Boulevard to West Vicarie Boulevard, water line and sewer line will be replaced. Dive Avenue from Hone Street to Borein Street, water line and sewer line will be replaced. Manhattan Drive from Hone Street to Hamilton Drive, water line will be replaced. Harvard Drive from Hone Street to 500 feet east, sewer line will be replaced. Alley between Donnelly Avenue and Gajas Avenue from Hone Street to Halloran Street, sewer line will be replaced. Alley between Hombat Avenue and Farnswater Avenue from Hone Street to Farham Street, sewer line will be replaced. Alley between Harvard Drive and Farnswater Drive from Hone Street to Farham Street, sewer line will be replaced. Why are we doing this project? Footwork prioritizes water and sewer line replacements based on available data, which includes the water main break history, leak history, CCTV inspection, age of the line, line material, and whether there are lead service lines. This project is being done because the existing water and sewer lines are in poor condition. Do you replace the water line up to my house? We replace the city owned service line, water meter, and meter box, and we will repair the street. We do not replace the water line up to your home or business. Will you need access to our property? This is in the public right of way or in the street. If Fort Worth Water Department needs access to your property, we will contact prior to the start of construction. Will our sewer service be disrupted? Sanitary sewer service will not be interrupted. Use sewer cleanouts will be installed at the property line. The sewer cleanouts provides the cruise easy access if a backup or blockage occurs. The sewer line from the cleanout to the house and the private plumbing are the owners responsibility to maintain. Will our water be turned off? Water will be turned off for 15-30 minutes when service is transferred from the existing line to a temporary water line, and when the service is transferred from temporary line to the new line. How does the temporary water line impact my home and water bill? The temporary water line ensures that you are not without water during construction. Water must be continuously flowing through the temporary line, which is above the ground, during the winter months to keep the line from freezing. The customers should also keep their faucets dripping. In the summer months, the continuous flow keeps the water from becoming stagnant in the above ground plane. The bill for your water usage while you are on the temporary line is based on an average of the previous month's usage. What happens if my property is damaged? The contractor will take pictures and video of the property before breaking ground. We also encourage property owners to take pictures and video of their property before construction commences. Damage during construction is the responsibility of the contractor. The construction will affect my irrigation. The contractor will ask property owners to turn on the irrigation system so the sprinkler heads can be located and flagged. The contractor has to cap irrigation lines before construction starts. The contractor will replace cap lines after construction is complete. Again, damage to irrigation systems during construction is the responsibility of the contractor. Are we getting new curb, gutter, and sidewalks? The existing curb, gutter, sidewalk, and dry waste will not be replaced except in certain circumstances which include those that are damaged by the contractor during construction. The contractor may need to remove and replace some curb and gutter and sidewalk to restore services. The contractor will also remove and replace driveway approaches that currently have water meters installed in the approach and must be relocated. Timeline. This is a design meeting. The next step includes advertising for construction, opening bids, city council approval to award the bid to the contractor, pre-construction meeting with the contractor and inspector, and the Webex community construction meeting to update those impacted by the project. And then after construction starts. Where can I get more information? Progress will be updated on the City of Fort Worth website. And you can also go to www.fortworthstexas.gov and enter 103123 in the search bar on the home page. The link to this meeting video, the project map, and the project summary frequently asked questions will be linked to this project page. You can contact me. My name is Subi Varghese. My contact number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And if you have any questions, you can email me. My email address is SUBY.VARUGHESE at Fort Worth, Texas.gov. How do I report an emergency or non-emergency? If there are any emergency contacts for water mine breaks, sewer buckets, you can contact at<PHONE_NUMBER> and select option one. For non-emergency, 7am to 7pm Monday through Friday, you can contact at<PHONE_NUMBER> and close to on-City holidays. You can loud load my Fort Worth app from the App Store or Google Play. And you can report the sewer overflows, leaks, water main breaks, missing or broken meter leads, water test, water violations, no water service, water pressure issues, and other – any sewer concerns. Thank you. If you have any questions, you can post it into the chat box. Maybe at this point we do not have any questions in the chat. Anybody have a question they want to ask on the project? I see you have their – who is Ella Burton is on the line for Como? Hello. How are you? And I see several other Como residents online. I'm sorry I got on a little late and I'm on the phone and I can just barely see the content of the slides. I was just curious. We do have our monthly meeting on tomorrow. Is it possible for me to get a copy of those just in case I need to answer questions regarding what's going to transpire down that one-street quarter? We will – we have what we call a summary FAQs, which covers everything that Sooby did in the PowerPoint. I can email that to you. What time is your meeting? It's at 7 o'clock tomorrow. Okay. If you would like to copy in on that meeting and perhaps you could answer the questions yourself if you want to. I can send you the link we're doing. Hopefully it's our last virtual meeting and perhaps we'll be back in person in September. But we are meeting virtually tomorrow night for our monthly meeting. Okay. I just want to bring this up so that the community is aware of it. Again, we do have some residents online and wanted to be sure they were there and perhaps they can speak to some of the questions, but a lot of it transpired before I got on. So – Okay. If you want to email that link, we'll see what we can do. And I will get the summary FAQs to you probably by noon tomorrow. Sounds good. Does that work? Okay. All right. I don't know whether there are any questions among those that are on or not. Okay. If Laura is open, anybody have a question? If Laura is taking – my name is Tanya Carter. I'm a resident in Lake Como, Texas. As far as taking a virtual video of your property before the construction starts, do you have an email that we are to forward these pictures or emails to – picture emails to? Yeah. You can email to my email address. That's S-U-B-Y dot V-A-R-U-G-H-E-C-I to forward to Texas dot U-E. You can email to me. Thank you. And I'm sorry. I am late coming on, but I'm curious. So you're going from Camp Booy to Vicry down Horn Street. So the residents that are facing east and south of each other are those the only ones that will be impacted or are you going into the inner streets between? Oh, the Horn Street starting from – sorry. Camp Booy to Vicry. And another street, Dyes Avenue. And another street, Wilmington Street. Great. Okay. I see that now. Got you. Okay. Yeah. Once I get that slide, I'll be able to see that as well. So great. That's what I was curious about so we can make sure those residents are in tune. And thank you, Tara. Chania, I know she's impacted there at Dyes. Especially we want to be sure. That's a good question. I do have a question as well. Go ahead. How were these streets selected? Is there something wrong with those lines already? Is there a leak or something? No. Usually Fort Worth Water Department prioritizes the water and sewer based on the leaks, CCTV inspection and the condition, age of the line and materials. And based on that data, we prioritize to know the line to replace. And these lines are pretty old cast and pipe. That's why we selected these lines. Brother Brooks, I'm sure we're well overdue. Okay. But expect it's very much needed. Probably well overdue. How far in advance will the residents be notified? How far in advance will the residents be notified that there'll be work done? Yeah, we will be. You will be notified with a seven day door harness and one day door harness before construction starts. And we will conduct another public meeting before construction starts. My name is Tony Carter. I have two more questions. If one things as the nine I do apologize is due to my ignorance first. My first question. I heard briefly stating something about when will the beads, when are y'all accepting beads for the contractors for the project? What kind of contractors will have a preview to the project? Are you going to honor a certain percentage of minority contractors for the project?  Is it cast iron pipe? Yeah. Removing only or some of these pipes lead based. So your second question. We are replacing all poor condition water and silver line on the street selected. Are they cast iron only or are they in copies of lead? There is no lead noticed on the street. Okay. And as far as the receiving beads for the contract and, you know, a percentage of minority contractors, how do we get information to be it on this project? Yeah, I know the contractors, you know, the pre-qualified contractors did on this project and the lowest contractor we selected for the, we'll select. Sorry. I couldn't understand you. You say they've already been selected. The contract has already been selected. No, no. Contractors are not selected yet. Currently we are on design. Around 90% design completed. And the next step is we are going to advertise the project and be doping and approve the council and then we will select the contractor. Yes, sir. We'll just be public information sir. As far as getting the information out to minority contractors in the neighborhood and our businesses, we do have contractors in Como in district three. So I was, I'm just a voluntary news source and I would like to get the information out of the beads put in the date for the contractors and everything. And will that be placed on the city of Fort Worth website, sir? You know, the website that you gave. Maybe I can answer that and I'll put the link in the chat. Can you see the chat, Tanya? No, ma'am, I can't be in, but I can get it from you. Ella, if you will, please. Thank you. Okay. It's a paid call awarded vision request. And it looks like there's still some open. So let me put that on the chat. Thank you. Good evening. This is Tony Shalala. I'm a Subi's assistant director of the department to answer to add more to what Subi is saying. As you know, the city has a minor MWB ordinance. So prior to the job going out for bid. A goal will be set for MWB participation. And when the job is advertised, that goal will be made known to all the contractors prior to the bid. And will be made a requirement for the project. So yes, the city has MWB requirements. If that answers your question. Thank you for referring to it correctly. Yes, sir. Thank you. Okay. All right. Okay. Do we have any more questions? Again, this is a design phase. So Subi, we're coming. Going to come back in two, three months. Yes. Okay. A quick question. Can you hear me? Yes. My name is Leon Reed. I thought I saw something that said that there was going to be work on an alley between Carver and Fernander, but don't all of the alleys and Como run east and west and not north and south. So which one you are talking about that you between Donnelly Avenue. Okay. Right there. The third bullet point it says alley between Carver and Fernander. I don't know of any alleyways that run north and south. Because that's maybe that line may be in good condition. And no need to replace that sectional segment. That's why we didn't pick up that line. Okay. Maybe I'm not phrasing the question. The alleys and Como typically run parallel with the streets and they run east and west. There are no north and south alleys, but Carver and Fernander are north and south of each other. So I'm confused when you say the alley between Carver and Fernander. It was just something that caught my eye. Because there is no alley. Let's do it Carver and Fernander. Unless. This is Ron Davis and Tanner. I'm one of the engineers of record. It's the alley that is between the Carver and Fernander. So if you're on Carver and be in your backyard from Fernander to be in your backyard. So you're right. Okay. Alley runs east west and it's alley between Carver Drive and Fernander Drive. Okay. I got you now. Better. Okay. Yeah. I understand that now. Thanks. Yeah. Okay. And I see that. All right. Good to go. Thank you. You guys have some great questions. Do we have any more coming in? Just a reminder. We make a YouTube video of this presentation. Tonya, I don't think it'll be. I mean Ella, I think it was Ella that asked me that. I don't think it'll be ready before your meeting tomorrow night. But we also, so we put the video of this meeting. We put the summary and frequently asked questions in English and Spanish on the website page that is in the chat. If you want to click on chatting and go to that page. And we also have a map of the project. Okay. No, I asked for the PowerPoints for the questions that he can answer. I have another question, please. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Next. Some sidewalk activity. That is some sidewalk construction activity that's going on. Right now. And I happen to notice it between. Goodman. And on little page on little page avenue between. Goodman and Kilpatrick. Is that part of, or did that funding come? For that come from the same source or was that something that was already. Designated in what other areas. In the neighborhood or sidewalks being added. Leon, that happens to be under that NIP. The same one that had to put these in all of that, the 3.2. That's what that construction is. Under the neighborhood improvement project. In fact, they extended it down the funds where we asked them to do that. First, they were just going to stop right there. At horn and little page. From Bonnell, but they've extended it down past this cross. So it goes down to Fawnsworth now, but that is a part of the NIP. Thank you. The rest of you have been quiet. No more questions. I see Mr. Crockett joined us. Well, since the island. This is time you caught. When construction starts. The spokesperson stated the city officials stated. The water is going to be turned often. Some type of. Temporary. Water line was going to be ran from the resident. Have. So they could, you know, still have water and everything. And. Your bill. The usage for it. Was going to be pro rated. By the amount. Of your old bill. Could you expand on it just a little bit more? Because I'm kind of confused on that process, please.  Water is going to come from one place. Please explain that to me because I'm confused on that. Please. So you're asking about the temporary water line. Yeah. Okay. No smart meter y'all going to be running that. And so y'all just going to do a average. That's what I heard you say. You know, Because there's a lot of water in the water, so I was just trying to get more clarification on that, please. Can you go back to that slide? There you go. Sorry. One second. This one day. The temporary water line will be installed, so the customers, you know, they do have a continuous water service. small metal pipe is placed on top of the ground along the curb and this line is connected to the fire hydrant and to the home or business. And if the temporary line causes the driveway, it will be covered with asphalt and the customers will have a brief introduction of the service when home or business are transferred to temporary line and again when uh connected to a new line then it will be 15 to 30 minutes will be interrupted. 13 or 15 days? No, no, 15 to 30 minutes interrupted. Oh, okay, okay, just a small, okay, I thought it would be, you know, some time. Okay, thank you. I think you're scary everyone, Tanya. Well, I thought it was going to be all for a while and you know, there was just going to be getting water from the fire hydrant and yeah, I was afraid that, you know, the water usage was going to be out for some time and it wasn't anyone, you know, measuring the amount of money because he did say something about the average. All right, last chance for questions. Okay, I do have another question. This is Nolan Brooks with Legacy. Just concerned about how long will the project take? We are anticipating the construction start on first quarter of next year. We don't have, you know, the contractor is not on board yet. So once we hire the contractor and he will prepare the schedule, then after that we will conduct another public meeting, then you will get more details, more idea about the project. So how long it will take? Usually it takes 18 months to finish the construction, 18 to 20 months. Okay. For the next meeting? We are anticipating the construction next, first quarter of next year. Okay. Well, for the next meeting, can we get like an earlier notification of the meeting because there are several people that I talked to that had not received the information. I'm sure they would have wanted been on today. Okay. Yeah, sure. Generally the rule of thumb is that we mail those out two weeks in advance. So some of the people did not receive it. Is that what you're saying? Majority of people I talked to, I talked to, as a matter of fact, I talked to several pastors today. Okay. And some of those pastors had no clue of a meeting today. Okay. We notified the neighborhood, common neighborhood association. I don't know if there's any other neighborhood association. We should have contacted them. Is that correct? I'm not sure who you all notified. Okay. We'll double check that list before the next meeting. I have a question. Okay. The link that is in the chat. One, I thought I would be clicking on a link to tonight's presentation, but when I clicked on that link that is in the chat, it took me, I guess, to the city's page for you know, all of the city projects.  So what the link that was put in the chat, what specifically is it for? What's the proper search term if it is in fact for for tonight's presentation? Okay. I just clicked on it and it worked for me. You may have clicked on the first line and not the second, but the, what you will do is go in the search bar on the homepage and put in 103123. Like, like I see, be shown on the screen. I'll take you straight to the project page. 103123. It'll take you to the project page and we've already got the map on there. And I hope by Friday we'll have the video of this meeting up on there. We'll have the summary FAQs up on there. When we are going to do the construction meeting that will also be on that page. So, bookmark that so you can check it. And Sally, let me, let me. It's not coming up. Okay. Go ahead. I'm sorry.  It's not coming up when I put in 103123. It says we couldn't find any results for 103123. So it brought up 103133. We might be having an issue with the website externally because it's working internally. And then when I clicked on it, it did warn me like, hey, you're going to an external link or something. So it may be something that is by design internal, but I'll try it on my own. Well, I'll try it again. Is that the same website that was in the presentation? Yes, sir. Would someone else also try that if you have a computer, please? And I got that same message when I just tried it. So there might be there might be some website work. And again, I'm working from my phone and it's about to go dead, but I do want to clarify, particularly for from minister Brooks there. Oh, it's saying low. It's about to go out. You can see this, this came in the mail. It comes from the Fort Worth water department. And a lot of people will disregard things like this that look like John. I got this on July the 20th. Our neighbors got this July the 20th, and it does have the Fort Worth water department logo on it. So that's what it would have looked like similar to a water bill. If your church is like mine, the pastor does not get the mail. So if that's not passed on to him, that might be the issue. And it comes into me though. I do try to get it out to those that I have email addresses for as soon as I can. I did reminder this afternoon. So please, please tell them don't disregard anything that's coming in from the city because we're getting a lot of information on a lot of construction that's going on out here and that's probably going to be going on for about 3 years. Beware, but I'll do my best to get what I can to you for as long as I remain in this. Okay, I'll make sure we let, you know, let the pastors know that as well. Okay. And I'll personally try to be sure they get it to Nolan. I know how that goes, trust me. Okay. Do anybody else have a question?  Well, trust my comrades that are on to help us share that tomorrow in our meeting, whatever I might leave out. In fact, I'm probably going to designate one of them to address it for me. But if you'll get that power point to me, I did come in the middle of it and I saw some interesting points that we're putting up that I'd like to make sure they're aware. Thank you guys so much. I'm going to probably bow out if the others want to stay on and ask more questions. I've got a meeting to get at 7 o'clock. So I'm going to sit on that out. Thank you. Thank you. All right, you too. Talk to you guys later. Hi, Leon. I just wanted to let you know this is Sirath Peter. I work at the city as well. I believe the misunderstanding is that you are clicking the link that is in the message of the chat box. And that's the actual link to bid and bids and awards. But I believe that if you go to www.fortworthtexas.gov and then put the number in, it should work for you. Okay, I'll try that now. You can also send me your email address, and I will send you the link. See if that'll work for you. Okay. I just did what was told to me to do at Horn Street, Horn Camp, Buoy to West Victory Infrastructure Improvement. Okay. And now I do see three tabs that came up. And I guess the last one that we're addressing tonight is the third one that was published on July 23rd, or all three of these, what we're discussing tonight. You're not looking, so I'll let you know what's here. Horn Camp, Buoy to West Victory Infrastructure Improvement, Horn Camp, Buoy to West Victory Virtual Design Meeting, and Virtual Meeting to Discuss Water Sewer Project along Horn Street. Which is this one? That's all of them are this meeting. The first one is the actual page. The second one is the calendar entry, in case you follow the calendar, you'll see the meeting in there. So those are actually the two meeting notices, the second two. So the top one is your website page. And that's the one we'll be updating following this meeting with the video, the summary FAQs, and I believe the map is already on there. So bookmark that first result. Okay, I just put the star by it. Thank you. Thank you, Seraph. Subbi, do you have anything else? No, that's all. Thank you all. Thank you, everybody. Surely welcome. Good night. Good night. Thank you.


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