Okay, hello and good morning. Hope you had a fantastic weekend and before I begin Don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel if you want to keep up to speed with our outlook every Monday morning But one of the main things we're looking out for this week Of course is my man Jay Powell is going to be given the Jackson Hole symposium speech on Friday and that's really gonna draw much of the main focus for this week and the reason for that is because this is one of the main platforms outside of the preset kind of eight scheduled FOMC meetings per year when the Fed chair gets to give an update on the economic climate and If needed give some further clarity and guidance towards what policy could look like in the future and of course everyone's Waiting to see what the Fed are gonna do in September and whether or not they'll pull the trigger on a third Consecutive 75 basis point rate hike But we'll talk about that a little bit more in a moment gonna kick things off and talk about Commodities starting off with gold which as you can see here is at a three week low as Fed officials Riterate their hawkishness the latest being Barkin who I must stress is a non voting member That has said will curb inflation even at the risk of recession and comes on a string of also Subsequent hawkish comments that we heard from a variety of Fed officials last week The debate really is between how aggressive do they tighten going forward ie 75 or 50? But we have seen that then translate into this divergence Traditionally as what we tend to see which is dollar strength on the premise of further Fed tightening to get on top of inflation and As a consequence then the yellow metal gold has been declining and as we can see from the stats here Holdings in Boolean backed ETFs have dropped for a 10th straight week at the moment this moment in time with gold this morning trading firmly below 1750 an ounce elsewhere on the commodity space oil resumes dropped WTI crew this morning training back below a $90 handle the possible return of Iranian supply in focus and a lot of that comes as US President Biden Last night on Sundays spoke with leaders from France Germany in the UK about reviving that nuclear cord Whether or not that happens still I'm not so sure seems like we've been here many times before and it's always stumbled at the final hurdle Last week we heard Goldman Sachs say Irrespective of whether or not they get a deal done that doesn't mean we're gonna get an instant immediate supply flush from Iran because it's gonna take somewhat up to 12 months or so before they can really start pulling that lever and Pumping to that magnitude. However, analysts at the Dutch Bank RNG. I read this morning We're saying that potentially Iran could tap into their current existing storage and infantry And therefore that could add a little bit of a bump to the supply situation And of course all of this comes as crude oil has been declining south for some time This isn't a new pattern predominantly on the back of the weakening of demand on the global picture at the moment And of course the key component of that has been China and one thing to be aware of over the weekend It's the Chinese province of shish sheswan, which approximately has a population size around 80 million So that is bigger than Britain just to give it some context They've extended industrial power cuts. They've activated its highest emergency response on Sunday Due to electricity supply deficiencies This is having impact on the performance of allowing Factories to operate and that's compounding further fears of economic weakness in China and all of this to do is extreme heat That they're experiencing at the moment So as we saw remember last week surprise rate cuts from the PBOC the Chinese Central Bank Lots of economic data points showing real pressure and we saw a number of Wall Street banks Downgrading their calls for economic growth Figures for this year and next year in China way shorter than what the state government of Beijing are Anticipating at this point in time that continues to be the kind of picture that's weighing on Crude oil for the time being but as I said drone power is is the main event of this week It's not going to come until 3 p.m. On Friday when he speaks at Jackson Hole for the keynote speech He's expected to restate the Fed's resolve to keep raising interest rates to get inflation back under control But he's probably going to stop short of signaling on how big the Fed officials will go next month One of the key things here not to forget is we're still 30 days out or so from the next FMC meetings Of course a lot can happen from a scheduled point of view. There are two important things One is the August jobs report is due to be published on the 2nd of September And then we'll get the August inflation report on the 13th of September as well These will be very crucial inputs for that decision-making process at the Fed and what they're going to do at that point in time one thing I was looking at this morning was this and this was basically looking at the fact that Fed shares Jackson Hole's speech has not been a big market mover in recent years This is just looking at the SMP Percentage fluctuation kind of change in a day He gives a speech and you can see here on an average basis tends to have an impact value of probably around 0.4% on average going back over the last 10 years So that's pretty tame and actually options positioning shows traders expect to 1.4% Move in the S&P 500 on Friday when he gives his speech That's only slightly above the expected 1% daily move options are implying for stocks over the next month So again for those aforementioned reasons of this being a little bit perhaps too far out to make Definitive judgments and what the Fed are going to do at their next meeting meaning that markets remain relatively calm at this point despite the Kind of importance of that speech. He's going to give nonetheless. We'll be watching very closely, of course from a data perspective We really kick off things on Tuesday this week, and that's because we get the various flash PMIs for August And well, excuse me. Yeah for August just double-checking there But what we're going to see is Eurozone Economy is likely to continue to deepen in terms of it's just general perception of his economic woes The flash eurozone PMI's forecast to drop from forty nine point nine to forty nine point five I don't think that comes as a whole Great deal of a surprise and one of the things it probably does do though It's just fit the narrative of the fact that we are heading for a recession there from the US perspective Durable goods on Wednesday initial jobless claims and the second reading of US GDP on Thursday alongside German IFO as well Which is the business sentiment kind of survey another important reading But also likely to deteriorate from the prior month and on Friday Alongside power you get the core PC numbers which are very important in the US Of course and the reason why is because that's the preferred measure of inflation for the Fed and in fact is Expected to have called in July the core reading is expected to come in at point three percent from the prior reading of zero Point six and that follows last month loan and expected CPI report that we saw and also An unexpected decline in producer prices PPI so this idea of are we at the point of peak inflation? What does that now look like in terms of the more broad based? Measurements of which the Fed will be looking at to make those decisions come the September FMC meeting From a stocks perspective just quickly Continued shake-ups of course at Credit Suisse as they look to get their house in order They've now appointed a couple of people for one They've hired Deutsche Bank's Dixit Joshi as their CFO and they've promoted internally McDonough as their chief operating officer This comes just a month or so after they appointed Eric Cooner as their new latest chief executive and then for Vodafone in the FTSE a fairly large deal there to sell It's Hungarian business for 1.8 billion US dollars in cash That's to the Hungarian for IG and state-run Covunas cert company But that is it for the outlet for the week ahead so plenty of US data points to get your teeth into Book ended with Jerome Powell on Friday Any questions at all feel free to drop me a comment below and have yourself a great week ahead. Take care


Thank you for joining the session and thank you for making it to the end of the day last session of day right there. They're always rough. They're always rough. So it's been a it's been a great, great, great event today. So I've been really enjoying it. So, but once again, thank you for joining me. My name is Josh Carlisle. I am a principal engineer at Zscaler and also on the community side. I'm on Microsoft MVP and I am also here with my colleague. And I'm a staff software engineer at Zscaler work with Josh. So we're colleagues and we work together and you're going to find out over the next 30 minutes what we have been working on. So to get started here a little bit, a little bit of our agenda here. So we're going to give a little bit of a platform overview about what our world looks like because we want to give this a little bit of a context, right? So that you understand a little bit more about our solution. And we're also going to kind of cover some of our, you know, buy versus build some of our considerations we made in a little bit of what our journey was like that led us to some of the decisions we made and where we landed on things. And then we're going to jump into a actual demo. You're going to see a a abbreviated version of kind of what our environment looks like a little bit of an easier to consume version that represents kind of where we landed on things. And then finally, we're going to be covering some best practices and some lessons learned, right? Nothing's perfect. And there's always hiccups along the way. So we're going to kind of be sharing a bit about what we learned and what worked well for us. So to give you a little bit of context before we get started, both Nita and I work on a product at Zscaler called Zscaler posture control. It is part of a category of applications commonly referred to as CNAP. And for those folks who aren't aware of all the latest ingredients, Gartner acronyms, it stands for cloud native application protection platform, which is kind of a mouthful. But in essence, we help our customers secure their cloud native applications. And we do that in a kind of a very specific way. So like most SaaS platforms out here, we have customers. And this is a little bit of a difference when we talk about tenants in our use case. It's a little bit different than what other talks may have been talking about when we're talking about tenants. We have tenants in the traditional conversation definition where we have a platform that we offer out to our developer and feature an engineering team, something we call subsystems internally. But we also have tenants as in actual customers, right? So the different spin on this is that in our use case, our multi-tenant use case, it's actually multi-tenant of multi-tenants. And that adds a little bit of a different spin on some of the complexities and some of the challenges we had along our way in our journey. So we have our customers and those customers like most customers are running cloud native applications today. They're living in Azure and AWS and GCP, right? And they're also using sets of tools to both build those applications, deploy those applications, define those applications in the case of IAC. And all of those platforms provide telemetry to us, right? And what our platform does is we essentially correlate and make sense out of all that telemetry coming in to help customers understand when they have misconfigurations that can lead to security problems, when they have vulnerabilities, maybe a pack. Oops, did we lose? Okay, sorry about that. That was weird. When we have vulnerabilities, for example, if there's a package that a particular service is using that has an exploit, and we correlate it all together and help customers make their applications more secure. So that's kind of the context that we live in. We consume lots and lots and lots of data as part of that. So what does this look like from a deployment standpoint? And where does this multi-tenant of multi-tenants start to kind of tie in? Well, this was a Greenfield project about 18 months ago, and that's both a blessing and a curse. We had a lot of freedom, but we had a lot of decisions that we needed to make along the way. And we secure cloud-native applications, so it makes sense that we should probably be a cloud-native application ourselves, right? So we have a lot of the traditional components that you expect from a cloud-native application. We live in the cloud. We are living in Kubernetes. We have microservices and messaging infrastructure that we host and database infrastructure, and a lot of other platform components, many of which are CNCF projects. We use open telemetry. We use CADA. We use just a lot of other CNCF projects to kind of help stitch together our platform. And from a traditional multi-tenant standpoint, we have multiple environments, right? And those multiple environments are deployed to what we call stamps or regions around the world. What makes things a little bit more challenging is that we also have customer-specific microservices and customer-specific components. When you're in a multi-tenant environment from a customer perspective, you have some challenges, things like noisy neighbors that you have to solve, noisy neighbor problems, things like customer data isolation, customer isolation. And some of those problems and the way that you solve them add a lot of complexity on how you deploy applications. So we have tenant-specific microservices. Microservices are just dedicated to tenants. It's worth mentioning we use another CNCF project I mentioned a minute ago called CADA that allows us to do that in a cost-effective way. So when nothing's running, we don't pay for it. Kind of like a scale to zero, a little serverless kind of model. But we also have things like customer-specific topics and customer-specific databases. And we have to be able to kind of manage those kind of things. So when we started kind of coming up with, you know, how do we handle... What do we want to do? How do we want to approach this? Remember, we're green field here, right? We kind of started making some decisions. We tried to start thinking about, you know, do we want to build our own? You know, are we that special, right? Everybody thinks you're special. Everybody, every product's unique. But do we decide, hey, do we want to build this ourselves? Do we want to use a traditional deployment platform?  Or do we want to maybe embrace a few GitOps side, right? Because GitOps, cloud-native, they kind of go hand-in-hand. So that was definitely on there. But we had some strong considerations, right? We needed to support some of the special multi-tenancy use cases we had, tenants of tenants of tenants kind of scenario. We also were sensitive to not getting too early on new platforms because we wanted something that had some maturity and some long life. And we also, it was very important that our engineers were comfortable with working with the platform. Because key consideration across the board was really around our velocity, right? And if we had to introduce something really, really new to our engineers, it's going to slow down our velocity, and we wouldn't be able to meet some of our deployment goals. And then obviously, cost is a determining factor. So we had some painful first steps that we learned from. Since velocity was really our number one goal, we started to align with basically do whatever you want as long as it's fast. Which obviously has its pluses and negatives. And since we have subsystems, which are basically teams, we said, you know, do what you need to do to deploy what you're responsible for deploying in the way that you feel confident doing. And that worked for a while. That definitely got us through our hump. We got a first release out really quickly. A very large product in about eight months. But as we went GA, we started to kind of identify, this isn't really that great, right? There are some pain points here. It was fragile. It was expensive. When we started kind of thinking about, how do we overcome these? And we were still a little bit in the mindset of, do we build this ourselves? Or do we lean into another solution? And we started looking at things like custom resource definitions and defining our own resources. And that led us into looking a little bit closer, again at GitOps. And a lot had changed in that year. A lot of things had matured in that year. And so as we started to think about what's next, we started to very quickly align against GitOps. It had the maturity that we were looking for. Our teams were comfortable with it, because the teams are already using Git today. We're doing PRs today. It was a metaphor that they were very comfortable with. Key to us, and you'll learn a little bit more as Neeta jumps in and shows some more details about our multi-tenant approach. Key to us was being able to eloquently handle that multi-tenant architecture, that tenant of tenant scenario. And what we found pretty quickly, and we were looking at various options. We looked at Argo. We looked at Flux. We found fairly quickly that Flux really shined in that multi-tenant scenario for us. And it did it in a way that we felt was relatively simple and simple to understand. And then, of course, the Flux community is fantastic. When we had some hesitations like, oh, we're getting into something really new, right? We started reaching out to the Slack channel at a few other locations, and we were getting really great vibes from the community, a lot of support, very responsive to questions and answers, and we felt really comfortable about getting involved with something that is relatively new. So with that kind of context in mind about what our journey kind of looked like, some of our bumps along the lines, I'm going to go ahead and pass off to Neeta, and she's going to kind of talk a little bit about what our solution actually looked like and some of the best practices around it. Yep, thanks, Josh. And just to add to what Josh just said, it was not just only the Slack channel, but they had a really good examples available online from their GitHub repository that we could just take in and then customize it, pun intended, customize it for our use case, right? So I'm just going to start with my first example, which is like a multi, excuse me, a mono-repository example, right? So as our keynote speaker said this morning, Christy, that you copy, paste, and then you evaluate, and then you customize, right? So that is exactly what we did. We took up their example for mono-repository, and then what we have here is apps. These apps are customer-specific apps, right? So you see on the base, we have identity subsystem, which has a bunch of microservice and so does processor subsystem. And then each customer has their own Kafka topics and so on and so forth, right? So that's all defined here in apps. And then in Infra, Infra is something that's shared across all of the tenants on any particular cluster. So there we would have whatever, Strimsy operator or KDA operator and so on and so forth, that's shared across the tenants. That's what we define in Infra. And then obviously in clusters, you bootstrap your flux, and then you pointed to whatever Kubernetes cluster you're pointing it to. And for this demo, we have it on dev and proud that they're calling it, but they both are our Docker desktops running here locally on our Mac, just for this demo. And then obviously we have tenants, right? So this is where we thought that flux came in to rescue us, and just instantly worked for us. So these are our actual tenants, right? The tenants that are using our product. So when we onboard them, we do nothing but create a PR or an auto commit to this repository and add a folder there, and we will see a demo of that later. But this is a repository structure, pretty standard practice that flux suggests to have your repository structure like that. So this is what I have here, and here in here, if you see underneath that cluster, what I have is an Infra.yaml and a tenants.yaml, which is pointing to those folders in the repository, right? Infra is pointing to an Infra dev, and then obviously, you know, my tenant is pointing to tenants dev. And this is, if you see, it is under cluster dev, right? And then similarly, I have underneath prod. I have, again, the Infra and prod, which if you notice, on line number 11, it's pointing to tenants prod path, which is this path. So each of those environments will get the tenants that are defined in that directory. All right. So I'm going to show you how this looks on the cluster, and again, as I mentioned, this is my Docker desktop here. If I see here, what are all the helm releases I have, right? And then you see, look at the power here. Like, you know, I can customize my helm releases. So I have defined them in base, but then I'm applying patches, and my helm releases are now customer-specific. I have an ACME identity service helm release, and then obviously, I also have a Contoso identity service helm release. I can also pretty much the same exact helm releases, but then for each of them, each of the customers. I also have here, if I look at the Kafka topics, let's see if I've gotten my Kafka topics for each of those tenants, right? So I have an ACME topic, a Contoso topic, and so on and so forth, right? And if I go take a look at my pods here, this is what is really important for us, because each of the tenants are running in their own namespaces, right? All of their resources are in their own namespace, and right here, multi-tenancy, right? You know, they have their own service account, they have their own access to secrets, and so on and so forth. Everything is locked down by their namespace, and right here, I have like those two pods for ACME, and if I go in Contoso, I have their pods in here. And obviously, I'm using, again, from Flux, for this demo, I'm using their pod info pod. So if I were to go take you on browser and go to one of those ports, it is the pod info standard app running in there. Now what I would like to ask here to Josh, like if you see here on my repository in both of these clusters, I have only two tenants, right? I have ACME and Contoso, and I would like Josh to merge my PR. So here, I have a pre... like, you know, PR up here, opened against my repository, which is onboarding Aviato for demo. And here, what I am doing is just adding a commit to the Git repository, and what the effect should be is I should be seeing pods for this new customer. I should see a Helm release. I should be a Kafka topic for this customer or our tenants. And Josh, please go ahead, merge this PR. And I'm using the handy GitHub app here. So real time here, we're going to merge this and see if this works. All right. Is it... All right. Successfully merged and closed. Great. Yep. All right. Okay, let's go on open lens and see if I've gotten a new namespace, maybe not yet. Let's go ahead and take a look at the reconciliation. So if I go on the customization and look at my tenant customization, let's see if it's... What's the state? Maybe it's reconciling. And eventually, like, you know, I should have a new namespace and a new Helm release. All right. Here it is. So I've got my... I've got my new tenants, my new customer here, running all of the pods that it's supposed to run. Obviously, what is defined on the base and in the dev path for that. All right. So this is pretty straightforward, right? You know, it's what Flux promises to do and that is what it is here. But in reality, we have a mono-repository structure, right? So we have... For each of our... For each of our tenants or our customer apps or like, you know, their Kafka or data requirements and so on and so forth, like, you know, we have multiple repository structure in reality. And like, you know, these are some of the best practices that we follow on top of whatever I showed you here in the demo, right? So if I go and take a look at all my repositories here, so the ones that are in green are the customer agnostic deployments, right? And the ones that are in yellow are customer-specific deployments. So how do I make it all available when Flux is reconciling, right? So we have a bunch of include there, right? And everything is getting accumulated there on the customization. Everything is pulled in from different repositories and then pushed to the cluster, right? So that is one of the features, standard feature from Flux that we use. Another is Flux DEF. It is a very powerful tool that Flux gives us. So even before I deploy or merge the PR to see what the state would be on the cluster, we have Flux DEF that we run on our GitHub actions. And then this will tell me, oh, by the way, if you were to merge this commit, it's going to break on the cluster for this particular reason, right? So then we go ahead and we fix our things because, you know, we are using Flux DEF as part of our continuous integration. So that's really powerful that we use. And yet another thing is obviously, like, you know, alerts and notifications. So we have both, like, a provider for Slack and for Grafana. And here you see, like, you know, Flux is constantly reconciling and sending us notifications. And we have, like, Slack and Grafana. And we also have generic webhooks that we do certain things based on those. So we are using all of that. And also something really important for us is post-built variable substitution. Like, as you can see, you know, we have a bunch of clusters, like, you know, DEF clusters for staging and integration in U.S. Vestu region. Like obviously we do on AWS, but then we also have in EU central and so on and so forth, right? So here we rely heavily on this post-built substitution because, you know, each of the environments have different values for those things. Like, you know, so we obviously use, define them and then we use them depending on where we are sending our workloads to. So that's, again, really one of the best practices and really good tool that customize along with Flux ProVisors that we use heavily. So along with, like, you know, all of these things, it is serving us really well because what happens now is I'm onboarding a tenant by an automatic commit, but then also I'm off-boarding them when they are done using our product. I'm off-boarding them by just sending another commit and removing that folder aviato from my repository, which Flux then reconciles because it has the purge set to true. So if you look at my tenants.yaml, here you see line number 12, excuse me, not purge, prune true, which means that if a resource is unfound on that path, it will automatically go ahead and clean up all the resources and then delete the namespace.  With that. And I'll add to the off-boarding piece and this is something that was really meaningful for us internally and I think different folks probably had some experience with traditional, like, more of a push kind of model. We were onboarding particular tenants, maybe we had had a trial or we were doing a POV, a POC with a customer and they were ready to buy, for example, and we wanted to have a formal environment for them. Or even in dev and lower environments, we were always spinning up, like, you know, practice environments and test environments and then we'd off-board them and stuff would get left behind and they're like zombies on your cluster and except they're very expensive zombies and that was a big problem for us and the desired state kind of model was really attractive, especially for off-boarding because we had a great deal of assurity that those resources would actually get cleaned up and we weren't paying for all these zombies sitting around in all of our environments, especially our lower environments where developers would spin up a new tenant to test with and then spin it back down and do that 10 times a day and each time something would go wrong and 20% of it would be left over, right? And that adds up day after day, week after week, right? And it also added a burden on to our DevOps team because there was always, like, man, you will clean up and need it to happen, right? And so this model, this multi-tenancy model, the multi-tenancy of multi-tenancy really, really, really helped us not only save on the complexity but on a lot of the costs as well. So that's real... Oh, go ahead, sorry. There we go. So let's, in the last few minutes we have here and we'll leave some time for some questions as well, there's a few learnings that we had from this, right? And no product's perfect. There's always pain points, right? And these are a few of the key learnings that we had coming out of this. Our organization relied heavily on helm charts, right? And one of the things that's super valuable, especially in production, with Flux is the ability to do drift detection, right?  I'm gonna delete whatever it may be. And there's a self-repair aspect of it, right? That'll repair itself pretty quickly. And that works as expected for typical deployments. If you're deploying with the YAML, your normal manifests, or if you're even using Customize, it works as expected. One of the challenges we had is that traditionally, and this has changed, but the helm charts didn't have the same level of drift detection that we expected. And what that meant is that someone went in and messed with a resource. If they deleted the helm chart, things would reconcile, it would come back. But if they deleted a resource that the helm chart deployed, then we didn't get some of the expected behavior. Now, it's worth mentioning we were able to work around this issue with notifications and some of the different tools that we had that Nita showed you about understanding when things are happening. And we were able to get around that, but it caused us a few hiccups. But luckily, there's actually a new, and I believe it's in preview right now. It's in preview to manage when you're using helm charts to do the drift detection that you expect. So even though it was a pain point for us, if this is new for your environments, it may not be a pain point for you guys. But it is, we will be waiting until it goes GA, so we have a little bit of there. The other aspect that caused us a few challenges is there's no real super powerful admin console, right? Now, once again, we were able to kind of address this by spinning up some really nice Grafana charts. We had lots of telemetry. We had no shortage of data points coming in. We had no shortage of visibility. But for folks who weren't familiar with Flux, and they were like, just give me a web page I can hit that shows me admin stuff, right? We didn't quite have that experience. So we had to do a little bit of work ahead of time to deliver on some full featured helm chart. I'm sorry, full featured Grafana charts and some other dashboarding tools that allowed us to kind of get the visibility that needed it. The other thing we ran into is we're in a very large environment, hundreds of microservices, right? And as you probably noticed, even more so when we're doing tenant-specific, right? And what we found over time as well is that we had to kind of tweak a little bit of how often we want to reconcile certain types of resources. So we want to reconcile our tenant-specific resources pretty quickly because they might be spinning up and spinning down. We deploy things like Neo4j and Mongo and other aspects. Those we don't need to reconcile too often. If we're reconciling those too often, we're probably doing something wrong, right? So all those reconciliations do cause overhead in the cluster. And these days with hundreds of operators from various solutions all landing on your cluster, right? We found that we needed to tweak a little bit of that reconciliation how often, how frequently we want to reconcile stuff because we were adding a lot of unneeded overhead onto our cluster with frequent unneeded reconcile cycles. The last thing, and this is more of an interesting antidote, is most people here are probably familiar with the garbage in, garbage out kind of statement. If you have badly defined deployments, they stand out exceedingly 10 times more when you're doing flux because every time you reconcile, it will let you know that you're doing something you shouldn't be doing as opposed to what would normally take the place of manual. So the quick story that we were telling is that, and lucky this was just in Dev, most folks are aware of different policies and Kubernetes around persistent storage and non-persistent storage. And if you don't define your storage with the way that you want to define your storage, it may be more persistent. And someone maybe happens to in Dev goes and deletes something and flux will reconcile it. You will lose that storage, right? So it's not a flux thing, but it made maybe some QA challenges in lower environments before the manifest were fully QA, a little bit more challenging because it became evident very, very quickly when you have a problem, right? Garbage and garbage out. We could put it in there, but flux made us fix our deployments, made us aware of how we should have a volume policy attached to our volume, whether we want to retain it or whether we want to delete it. So it brought some of the inconsistencies or some of the things that we overlooked to write on our face that, hey, we got to go fix this. Which is both, once again, a blessing and kind of a first kind of thing, right? One thing I want to mention as we wrap and open up for any questions is the demo that Nita did, that's all available up on a GitHub repo, and yes, it's up there, the demo code is on there. You can clone that and run it. We tried to make it so that you could take and apply our learnings, but didn't have all the crazy dependencies that we had, right? So you can actually pull this down and use it as is and explore how we were able to do multi-tenancy of multi-tenancy with some pretty simple use cases. We had a little bit of extras in there with a Kafka cluster and deploying topics so that you could kind of better understand some of the common dependencies that you have when you're deploying these as well. But a couple of quick resources, obviously one of our best experience was working with the Flux community. Definitely check out that Flux community link on there and they'll be able to explore how to kind of reach out to the community through the Slack channels and other mechanisms. Really, really helped us on our initial journey, reducing a lot of pain. And obviously, if you're interested in Flux, follow that Getting Started guide. And for both me and myself, please reach out to us on LinkedIn. Go ahead and feel free to connect with us. We're happy to answer questions and I think at this point in time, did you have anything else you wanted to add? No, this is great. We love Flux. Yeah, it solves our problems. Thank you. And we've got just a few minutes left for questions if you'd like to, if there's any questions from the audience. No questions? Okay, great. Thank you so much for joining. Okay, that's awesome. Yeah, fire away, please. Oh, good question. So what tools or how did you determine what intervals to use for your reconciliation after the fact? So we didn't use any tool, but we looked at the usage pattern, right? So for example, what are some of the things that are changing more frequently than other, right? So let's say if I have a microservice for a tenant that is not changing as often, that can be reconciled at a higher frequency, like, you know, maybe 30 minutes or 40 minutes. Like, you know, I could do that for that. But if there is something that is changing often, then that is like, you know, reconciliation faster. So for example, if I'm onboarding in dev, I get like, you know, hundreds of tenants every day. So I'm reconciling. My tenant, my frequency on my tenant customization is much shorter, versus like, you know, my microservices and changing does often. Like, you know, this is just done. And I know that we are not working on it. That stays longer. But we did not use any tool. It's just like a usage pattern and some of the best practices from Flux. If I have a lot of many reconcilations happening, I got to tweak my controller, source controller or customized controller. So I just practice, like, you know, the best practices for the documentation and then I just make sure I'm running the right number of threads for that. So for your infrastructure stuff, it's going to be like quite a long reconciliation versus your apps. Correct. Correct. Right. And what we are thinking as we are learning from it, maybe instead of doing all of the stuff together in one customization, maybe we can break it. So some of the things, like, you know, that we want to reconciliation often, that can be as part of one customization and something that is, like, you know, kind of be there, like, you know, happy, go lucky, stays there forever, could be another customer. Same as for tenants, like, you know, I could have, right now, I just showed, like, one customization for the entire tenant directory. I could have it, like, you know, do it by maybe paying me money, more money, what are my bigger customer, they get reconciliation faster than my other customer. So things like that. And it's important to know that, too, from the standpoint of, like, you're going to know that you need to do this because you're like, why am I keeping on having to increase my resources and resources over and over again, right? And to a certain extent, you run into, there's a potential to run into kind of like a deadlock scenario, right? Because reconciliations, you know, are the frequency of them. So the trigger was, is we were looking at resource utilization of all of our operators, you know, and there's so many operators from these days, right? That we were like, okay, we probably need to do something better about this. And I think the key thing, too, is keep it simple at first. I think you've probably heard that in a lot of conversations and a lot of presentations, is iteration is the key. You can absolutely overthink this and you can overarchitect this and it's easy to do. You can help with some crazy directory structures and you can go the other end of we had a monorepo for the demo and then for something very simple and straightforward, you know, you have 10 repos, right? Breaking things out. And so keep it simple and watch the telemetry and it will guide you on kind of what direction you need to grow. Watch, you know, how the patterns that the developers are doing PRs on, right? What are they triggering, so on and so forth. And the nice thing is, and once again we had a really good experience with working with Flux, it was super flexible to allow us to evolve.  It wasn't a big deal. It wasn't a scary thing to be able to do that. Another thing is also what it does good for us is the dependency management. So if I know that if my help chart A needs B and C and D before, it can reconcile that, right? I can do that on my Helm release throwing the dependencies that it need and what it means that Flux will only make sure that the dependencies are available before it reconciles that chart again, right? So I'm defining those for my Helm releases, so it is not constantly like, you know... So we don't have a, we don't want a scenario where we're spinning up a service that uses a topic that hasn't been created yet. Or you're referencing a database that hasn't been created yet, things like that. But good question, good question. Any other questions? Flux. Creators. Are we doing things right? Is there anything we can improve? For Flux creators, did we just scare you? Yeah.  But we are definitely looking into seeing, you know, once we have like customers in thousands, how are we going to scale our Flux controllers? Like, and obviously we're going to have some, oh my gosh, kind of moments, and we will reach out to you and obviously we're going to fine tune our controllers to see... And we're going to iterate, right? We're going to learn. And hopefully we'll come back here and maybe next year and say, this is what happened when we had 5,000 customers, right? And this is what we did. It's a good place to have 5,000 customers. It's a good problem to have, right? It's a good problem to have. But we're pretty confident in where we landed in this in terms of successes on this. Our developers are happy with it. We feel like we're getting the velocity that we want from it. So we're pretty happy with where we landed, but we know we're going to learn, we're going to grow, we're going to probably make some mistakes and hopefully we'll share those in what we did for them. Yes? Say that again? Sharding support. No, no, no. Have you seen the new sharding support? No, no. You should check it out. Sharding support. Absolutely. Where would we improve with that? What would we improve? What you can do is if your flux controllers are bottlenecking because you have too many... I'm assuming you're going to need this before you hit 5,000 or 10,000 customers because we have a couple of people who said this is a blocker for us. Okay. So it was sort of fast-tracked into the GA. So it's in... I think we have 2.0.0-rc.2 now. So you can check it out and see if it solves a problem for you. Awesome. And please mention your name. Oh, I'm Kingdon. I'm a flux maintainer. There you go. Thank you. You're on record now. But thank you so much. I hope everybody... I know this is the last show of the day, but I hope everybody... There's more? Okay, there's more. Sorry. Thanks. We're still going. Okay. Well, enjoy the rest of the day and thank you so much. Thank you.


The program I participate in year to year like it's a seasonal job is single track to success. It's like I maintain mountain bike trails and sometimes in the spring we teach others how to maintain trails or build their own trails for in their own communities. Usually the age range is like pretty sure it's 14 because that's when I started when I started working in like it's my first summer job ever so like it's so I got my sin number made out for this freaking this job so I think that's like the age range we would aim for but like the limit is kind of like to your own physical limits or to your own mental like uh like kind of confidence or whatever to to do it but like it's there's like other ways you could help too I mean other than that there's like it's kind of up to you for the the limit it's like 14 is the youngest and the limit is like your own what do you call it again like your to your own risk to add your own like on the mountain bike trails that we have up here it says at your own risk usually people who like to hike or outdoors people outdoorsy people like I don't know we don't want to get them like someone out in the wilderness where they're like they don't know what they're doing like they're when they're in a dangerous situation or something but like people that they're like confident with out in the land and just like to have fun and get adrenaline rushes with the aim is just to get people out on the land get the economy of like the community a little higher just through tourism and like getting people getting that town notice through mountain biking and like things like that I guess I mean other than that it's just like just changing your work ethics if you want if you will like if you really put your time and effort into it changes the way you think and like hard work and just like just everything in life just makes a little better in small ways just to improve efficiency on trail maintaining and like I don't know that's the only thing I could think of is like the most efficient way to like make a trail but like without making a big impact on the land kind of thing like this one my boss Derek always tries to aim for is like you want he's always like I don't know we always like to use hand tools we don't like to use machinery usually but when we do it's like it's very not minor but like it's for the very major kind of jobs that we need done like making a huge making a huge like jump or something either like you could be the logistics part of the business like learn how to finance and stuff or just learn to be like a labor worker but like like working with the hand tools and I don't know or else you could be like a heavy mechanic operator you could be like I mean heavy machinery operator like you could use the excavator or whatever to help us out with those major jobs like I mentioned earlier like I don't know that's like what we can vary for for like education that's kind of required for it but for like labor wise it's like it's kind of just labor just need to just need to think positive and do the right things I guess I mean just to get the right amount of energy for the day like it's the only education I think you could put out there is like physical education I've noticed positive changes and the people I've participated in it and yeah like I think it very uh changed like some people's not behaviors but like their their routines kind of thing most of the people I work with on the trails are like my family and stuff so indigenous to me would be like adversity through through trial and error I mean like that's all I could really say I mean like any any human being doesn't know everything they know just when they're born like you learn from your mistakes and just move on and look forward I mean like that's what an indigenous means to me I mean like just adversing through compromise education would be like kind of a must now in their modern world like there's it's always going to be there but like it's always nice to learn like things off of the land and I feel like the the future for indigenous education is is bright in Kirk Ross I don't I don't know the details I mean like I don't know there's people in CTFN that are organizing like a like a literacy kind of education for everyone kind of thing for everyone to learn like like our language from just from the basic phrases to something else if it wasn't for like the together today for children tomorrow we wouldn't have like any of the self-government like privileges or anything so I'm pretty grateful for that and I think that's a big push that needs to be done across Canada for in order to get indigenous education in general going so I think that's like my thoughts on the future more confidence to know that there's people behind me to to at least like support what I'm saying I guess or what I'm like achieving trying to achieve I guess like my goals and like that's anyone's kind of not opinion like not dreams but like what they would hope for


Thanks, Arpit, and welcome everybody. Good morning. Keysight Technologies is a leading technology company that helps enterprise service providers and governments accelerate innovation in order to secure and connect the world. But I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about something way, way more fun and totally different. And that's the birth of a brand new open source community called OpenTap, where TAP stands for Test Automation Platform. And we think that's entirely relevant, and I think everybody will agree. Automation's a big deal these days. So I'm going to step back a little bit and give you a little history of where it comes from. And I'll start with this quote, where what's his name? Martin Mico says that there are always people who will spend any amount of time in order to save money. And then on the other side, there's a lot of people who will spend a lot of money in order to save time. And at one point during your life or the life of the company, you'll switch from one to the other, depending on priorities and value that you see.  Keep moving around. So that goes to how we started it. So TAP, Test Automation Platform, started as an internal project to help us with our own internal testing. So they started building this project. But then when they found out other people through all the other teams wanted to do the exact same thing, they basically opened it up internally within the company. And that's a large company now. And what they noticed is a lot of people started using it and also started contributing to it. So it started growing in terms of users and in terms of capabilities, et cetera, because they opened it up internally. So what we call inner source. And it really worked. All of a sudden, it could support all sorts of instruments within Keysight. And it started growing and growing over the space of five years. And then they figured, wait, what can we learn about this? How can we move forward with this? So we started talking to our partners, our people externally, who used TAP, and then got encouraged by them and eventually partnered with them to convert TAP into open TAP. Decision was made a few years ago. And everybody at Linux Foundation, I'm sure, knows that it takes a while to prepare things for an open source community. So last May, we announced it. We made as big of a splash as we could. We wanted to make everybody aware of its existence so that people might get interested in it and see if we can get people into the community. So we talked to the press and we're still doing that. That's why we're here right now. We want to increase awareness of this project as much as we can. So in July, on top of that, we started talking to people directly that would be interested in this, either test and measurement companies or integrators or like Tokalabs, a test as a service company that they do this kind of stuff and they got immediately interested. So we've already interested some companies to come and participate and contribute into this community along with the company that founded it with ourselves, Nokia, because they were using it as well. So just to give you a very brief high-level overview, is OpenTap is an engine in the middle of a very modular architecture where the driving force are the instrument plugins. And I like that because Keysight is full of instruments that were being automated, but that's evolved considerably where it's not only instrumentation that can be automated, it's other software components or other software frameworks to the point where we already have a plugin that includes OP and a V yardstick into the fold. And then there's device under test plugins. All these are all modular and fit into the engine like that. User interface, result listeners or logging, how to store the results and obviously the mechanism to go through test steps and automate the test process completely. Now what I find very cool about this is that this is not vaporware. It just launched in May, but it already is running and it's deployed in the wild. And the best example is the 5G Vinny project. Vinny stands for Vertical Innovation Infrastructure. It's a 20 million-euro three-year project through Horizon 2020 and also the 3G PPP projects that has a goal of establishing infrastructure complete with radio for 5G and allowing verticals to come see and prove to them that it works and also to experiment with it to see how it works for their vertical itself. And it's a conglomerate, there's 23 companies. You'll recognize some of the big names in there. And right now there's, of all the installations they have, there's five of them where the test automation is completely done by OpenTap.  It was launched in May and it's already deployed and active and proven and it will evolve, okay? So obviously OpenTap has a home. We built a website, opentap.io. You visit and the code is available on GitLab. So we're inviting everybody to come take a look at it, see what you think, what value you see and then maybe contribute to it and use it. Once you get there, you'll find a ton of resources such as an introduction video, a developer guide, very importantly, project overview, blog, et cetera, all sorts of things to get you kick started. This is all in a preparation phase to begin with. And there's a monitored email address where you can ask questions and you will get answers. So I'll leave you with the last quote that basically says change. It's inevitable. For me, Elon Musk, I'm obviously paraphrasing. And I think this is part of it. I think we all recognize that. That's it. Thanks for hanging out with me. Have a great day.


When choosing between mice, weight is a big factor when it comes to your final decision. This video I will show you the pros and cons of each, as well as what the best weight for a mouse is. So let's start with the pros and cons of light mice. 1. They are easier to move around. If you play on a low sensitivity, a leather mouse can really help with that, because you're moving a long distance on your mouse pad, and a leather mouse makes your hand less fatiguing. Imagine you moving a mouse that is twice the weight of a light mouse. Why would you want to do that? It's less weight for your arm and wrist, so why not? 2. It's easier to lift and position again. A lot of the time, you move your mouse to the edge of the mouse pad. You would have to reposition your mouse to the middle to get that consistent aim. Using a lighter mouse to do this is easier, because lifting a lighter object is easier. 3. It's easier to use your fingers to make micro adjustments. A lot of the time, you need to make a smaller movement to aim at the enemy. Using a lighter mouse can make it easier for you, because moving a lighter object is not only easier on your wrist, it's also faster. So using your fingers to aim is faster on lighter mice. Heavier mice are bigger and harder to reposition.  4. The first one is less between your mouse pad. If you have less surface area touching your mouse pad, the mouse will glide faster. If you have a low sensitivity, this could be incredibly helpful, because the faster glide on the mouse pad also means less friction. So it's fast and quick to flick, track, and aim. Alright now let's look at the pros of heavier mice. 1. They're more consistent. With heavier mice, it's harder to move.  Heavier mice are no harder to aim with, but usually more reliable when you apply more force to your hand. 2. Checking is easier on heavier mice, because the body of the mouse is more full in your hand. With that, you have more control over the speed of the mouse. You can aim slower and faster if you would like. On lighter mice, it's hard to glide slowly, because usually you would end up having shaky aim. This could come in handy for most high sensitivity players. 3. The stopping power on heavier mice is better. You can stop easier because of the weight of the mouse is more. You don't need to push in or use your hand to stop the mouse as much. With lighter mice, you need to push harder on your mouse pad. Okay so now that we've discussed the pros and cons of each, let's now look at what the perfect weight is. Now I don't think there's a perfect weight for everyone, but I think that most people would like their mouse around 70 grams. This is where most wireless mice are at. It's on the lighter side, but it should be good enough for stopping power and inconsistency. It's not too light where it's gliding with zero friction. Alright I hope you enjoyed this video, and thanks for watching.


What is Lighthouse Effect? The teacher will have a vision across the audience which will facilitate an eye-to-eye contact with the audience and helps in engaging them and they will have a feeling of belongingness. The teacher will be scanning the entire audience like a Lighthouse without concentrating on one part of the audience. So this is called a Lighthouse Effect.


The genetic history of Wales shows that the Welsh are the most genetically similar to the ancient people of Britain following the last Ice Age compared to other groups in the British Isles. The reason for this is simple geography. So this is a map of Wales in the context of the UK. This is a map of Wales in the context of Europe. Over the centuries the main migrations and invasions into the British Isles have come from the Vikings, from places such as Norway and Scandinavia in general. Others have been from the Anglo-Saxons, from regions of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, flooding into the UK or the British Isles, and then also the Normans from obviously the north of France general territory that have flooded into the UK. As you can see, the geography of Wales has meant that it's sheltered to a large degree from all these migrations, these main migrations, into the British Isles. Furthermore, it seems when there was invasions and migrations into ancient Britain. Many ancient Britons fled west into Wales for safety. This is not to say that Wales was immune from invasions and migrations over the centuries, with the Romans famously conquering large parts of the lands we call Wales today, thousands of years ago. Yet Wales doesn't seem to have the same influx of migrations as other countries in the British Isles. The Anglo-Saxons left a notable genetic impression on the English, for instance, and in Scotland there is a somewhat notable Viking-Norse legacy on the genetics of Scotland. There is more to the story, however. Numerous studies have noted a north-south split in Wales. Professor Peter Donnelly, a professor of statistical science at Oxford University, who conducted a 2012 study on Welsh DNA, stated that people in north Wales look relatively distinct from people in south Wales. The people of the British Isles study also noted a north-south split in Wales, and found that the Welsh themselves are genetically distinct from the rest of the British Isles. In fact, this study found that north and south Wales are about as genetically distinct from each other, as are Central and Southern England, from Northern England and Scotland. This north-south division corresponds well with the ancient kingdoms of Gwyneth in the north and David in the south. As we have seen, the Welsh are the most genetically similar to the earliest settlers of the British Isles after the last Ice Age than any other group in the British Isles. What's your thoughts? Please let me know in the comments below. If you would like to support this work through Patreon and get ad-free content and other exclusive benefits, and also donate through buymeacoffee.com or PayPal, all the links are in the description below. Thanks for watching and please subscribe and hit the bell. I'll speak to you next time.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazzy's case breaks.com coming at you with 2021 panini impeccable football three box pick your team number eight There it is right here fresh case And here are the people who bought their team straight up. I appreciate that Thank you Sean ended up with the last spot mojo before we ended up pulling teams for those random number blocks Here are the results here for the Philadelphia Denver one, etc. Etc. Here's the results for the Chicago, Kansas City one I upload all of those random number blocks No, I did not upload the Chicago one. Let me just do that really quick. All right now Let's pop this case open and let's see what we can find in here Those all hits on the bottom. No, that's a numbered card on the bottom. All right, and I'll use one of these blank cards to Slow play some of the hits a little bit right there. They're say quam Barkley 42 out of 50 for David B and the Giants and a four out of five Joe Namath So out of fives and under of course get the train whistled and that's for Petrie and the Jets There you go. All aboard the big hit Express. Whoo. Whoo. There's Adam Thielen 44 out of 75 and We've got a rookie landscape autograph 19 out of 49 Mac Jones Patriots were picked up straight up by gale. There you go gale and a award winners autograph mean Joe Green Your 1974 defensive player of the year David B with the Steelers patch auto Calvin Ridley one out of 35 for Brody menace Falcons We got a two-color dual relic four out of 75. That's Kine in wangwu for the Vikings. That's gonna go to Steve Locke and back here is Terris Marshall Jr. One out of 25 two-color patch and autograph for Carolina Carolina is a number block team part of that Philadelphia group. So that goes to Carolina one Which will be for Brett first box in the books second box and there's the case hit which we will save For the end. Yeah, Brody. I agree with you, man Calvin really plays next year that that opens up Opens up the field for everybody. All right, there's Austin Eckler 24 out of 75 for the Charger Sean Mattick 15 out of 50 miles Garrett For the Browns Browns are a number block team also part of that Philadelphia group Goes to Mark the number five Then we've got Jameen Davis three out of 60 rookie autograph for the Washington football team Also part of that Philadelphia random number block group. So that'll go to Washington three that'll be for CvH And we've got a Gardner Minshew one out of 35 two-color patch and on-card autograph Still Jaguars edition here Sean Mattick picked up the Jags straight up Nick Bolton Rookie autograph 10 out of 49 That is for Kansas City Kansas City is a number block team and that's part of the Chicago group. So that goes to Kansas City zero That'll be for Tim Zero and we got a Marshall Fock canvas creations Autograph he's pretty good two out of 15 for the Rams That's for Aaron Trends setter and the Ramley gets the old-school Marshall Fock nice down here is Jalen waddle Rookie landscape autograph for Miami 78 out of 99 and Miami is a number block team part of the Chicago group. Let's see the eight right there 78 out of 99 so Miami eight is for Is for Hans there you go Hans All right third and final box. That's a plate down there You can see the rounded corner Telltale sign of a plate maybe an auto on there, too All right, there is Khalil Mack 54 out of 75 bears Bears for Is gonna be for Tim 36 out of 50 Xavier and Howard Miami six Will be for Adam cuperman. That's two out of 35 Christian McCaffrey Carolina two It's for the Philadelphia group. That's for Harry Cadarius Tony patch auto eight out of 99 That is for David B and the New York football Giants and your plate is for the Jets Three color a little bit of green peeking right there three color patch and autograph one of one Elijah Moore and Petrie picked up the Jets straight up and another train whistle All aboard the big hit express There you go My pat in the chat there you go Pat next we got Trey Sermon Maybe a piece of his helmet right there. That looks pretty cool Six out of 75 for the nine or Sean Maddock with San Francisco. I don't think no, uh, no Elijah Mitchell It's Trey Sermon healthy. Will he be getting some carries? Maybe Nice looking card a couple more here than the case it Nashi Harris patch auto nine out of 99 Pittsburgh that'll be for David B and the Steelers That's your first one of one. Congrats, man The last one is Kyle Trask. That is for Sean Maddock A bit of orange peeking up there. That's pretty cool. Kyle Trask seven out of 25 Could be the future after after Tom Brady. All right now. Let's see what's in here We haven't seen a gold piece yet. That could be pretty awesome Silver and this piece of fine fine silver is for Dallas Some fine fine silver the NFL Shield stamped on there. That's pretty cool 10 out of 20 Dallas Cowboys Dallas is a number block team It's the back of the card right there too A little bit of I don't know what happened there But Dallas zero Dallas zero is gonna be Part of the Chicago number block group And that's for tim with a spot that he won. There you go, tim. You got the case hit Thanks, everybody. I'm joe for jazzy's case breaks.com. That was impeccable football three box pick your team number eight I'll see you next time for the next football break. Bye. Bye


But that's it now. We'll do a little Q&A and I'll answer all your questions From there. All right, let's do this Jarky If you have a Bitcoin monitor, just connect electricity to a street grid and you don't pay You don't get to pay electricity again. Yeah, you know like when in Puerto Rico you have the the the favelas Down there by old San Juan, which is where pro tech shows builds all their all their roofs for free And they just connect to the grid and no one stops them Luma comes down says hey, you shouldn't do that. Like you want to get your head beat in Then just leave us alone. So yeah, I do that I've seen a lot of cool videos and pictures of people heating their entire house of Bitcoin miners. I thought that was pretty smart Ah crypto keeper long time no see up there as well Could be 50 Yeah, I agree with me. I'm not sure about the mining company. They may have too much debt But the machines themselves another question. Yeah machines themselves work up pretty well, but again The thing with technology and Bitcoin miners is that there's always a new one coming out that is more efficient That can make you more and then of course the old ones become obsolete I just find Bitcoin mining an extremely tough industry to be in and when people talk about how easy it is to make funds look, I Got a friend. We'll call him Pete and he's been in Bitcoin mining for ever and Was talking to me about how great it is and he asked me for a loan because the different different factors that that's Caused things to collapse So I'm just like well It's good. Now. I got this real estate works out pretty well Ah Sin City crypto possible for a bit Bitcoin improvement pros on tent to spread out hash rates So small guy can get a Bitcoin reward. No sin cities.  I'm just kidding. Yeah, that'd be a be up to the community Mr. K what did I miss? Riot blockchain is doing pretty good Bitcoin miners still keeping their head above water strong will survive ThunderDome. That's about it I'll do some wash trading. I mean tax loss harvesting before it's too late. You got three days Jordan's enough. I gotta tell you ladies and gentlemen It never ceases to amaze me and I get it like there are some entertaining people in in the crypto world that But they don't really do much, you know, they don't really It's all I Don't know it's all hype and stuff like that But like Jordan and his channel is fantastic. I mean this guy He's been dealing with in real estate Selling over a billion dollars getting involved over a billion dollars with real estate when he was in his 20s now, of course, he's think he's just hitting around 40. He's a young kid and He's got a lot of information to share the problem is he's not very hype. He's not very sensationalistic So I just try to bring attention to his channel. I think it's a good channel. That's it Drake says you're wrong Rob. Just use VPN ban cryptos like banning a cow giving her milk It's not possible. That's a good point. You can use to use a VPN I got a VPN now and you can do a lot of things with it. The only thing is that Which this is it which Because I've heard of these stories and only takes once People would connect to Binance International and not Binance US who are from America. They'd use the VPN But the one time they forgot to use the VPN Binance caught it and they locked all their funds up That is scary But you can do it. That's for sure Sean says the pools and large miners will always be out of the thumb of nodes If you had to quote a bad actor on a third of the network, you are scrod. It's interesting Jay and chow when it's gonna get worse minor profit is minimal Electric bills getting more expensive, especially in the EU sweet Marion Joseph If you've seen the prices the inflation on UK, let me show you in a bit Impending dooming industry might see capitulation Q2 save money by a lot of Bitcoin and mining. Yeah, I gotta agree There's this great website Called true flation I've talked about many many times and what it's great about it is it uses chain link as an oracle to pull in real data and We can see real-time data as far as inflation, which is this is Again, the Fed was telling us that you know inflation is only seven eight percent and I was looking at true flation Like there's no way it's that you know twelve and it's got a lot of different inputs And of course now it's doing pretty good five point seven three. However, look at UK That is ridiculous 20% year-over-year rate increase Insane and where's the most of it coming from? What's this red one? Housing now, which is one thing you till yeah, that's it right there that's Insanity any 5% increase so my heart goes out to people in the UK Pretty hard to make any profits when everything's mean Inflated away to oblivion Jay today, so I missed the bullish part all as I said Jay was this It makes no sense Why when things are starting to collapse? real estate Equity some things like that if we just get some clarity Just clarity on what is a commodity? What is a currency? What is a security? Then you can have the bigger companies and bigger institutions allocate some of their funds Even you get like one or two percent of somebody like you know Like like the black rocks or sovereign funds or something like that and they just kind of come in and go Well, it was we'll allocate a little bit It's all we need and that will be huge It's just getting it there, but no one seems to want to believe me Nobody nobody wants to believe me about anything about regulation like I am the moron on the hill Who keeps talking about it? And it's like we don't need regulation Rob You don't know what you're talking about. We can just do whatever we want to do and that's it. That's cool That's fine, but you understand like with retail Retail can only push us so far. I need to tell you that and then we go from there But you know some people I Understand the argument. So it's just I have my argument. That's it What's your thoughts on soul good time to buy more I don't know I Don't know I stopped delicose I don't even for a while. I just felt like it was gonna collapse with I Still help I still held on in so I mean I sold Stuff in 2021 wanted to buy it when I had to buy more property But I think right now I wouldn't touch it. I think it's got a longer way down side to go. I Also think Bitcoin is more down side to go and Ethereum and Cardano and polka dot and tomato coin everything else out there I just managed to go along I was taking these These courses which you just you just talk in Spanish with somebody for like an hour or two hours a day And I was doing pretty good, but then I ran into some hard times And I just couldn't couldn't keep going on This is which is why I'm doing this now because I have to keep myself busy and keep my mind off things Ha Rob does loans You don't want to be you don't want to loan from me.  Yes, Vicki. Thank you the sovereign report savants report with Jordan Weir's YouTube channel link in the description So this is a good question Steve Reynolds and again, I'm not a miner, but this is what I got Why would miners be in it for the long haul 30 plus years the reward is being halved every four years How is the network going to stay decentralized? Will the fees go through the roof in the future? so Sorry was up late So you have to understand that first of all, there's this great graphic I Just had it ABC the havings Look at this This is good So we can see here the amount of having that are having are happening This is only going to be our fourth one in 2024 So we went from 1245 to 6.25 and then one of 6.25 which were presently and Well, we're at 6.25. Excuse me Then of course 24 2832 and just keeps going on and on and on so the question then becomes well Why do I keep working the same amount but I get half of the half of the salary wouldn't that suck, huh? You're at the job like Hey, Rob, you're doing great. You know, I really appreciate all the things you're doing I need you to keep working the same amount of hours, but we're gonna cut your pay in half. Have a great weekend Would you stand for that? Well, not really however If you were getting paid in I don't know Let's just say Bitcoin It's the best example. I can think of you just you're getting paid in Bitcoin and of course When your salary goes down, you know, we get half of Bitcoin Let's say Bitcoin's worth in May 2020 is worth $10,000 But then in November 2021 You only get half of that Bitcoin, but it's worth $67,000 now you're getting like 30,000 like what's not too bad Actually, I'm doing the same thing same kind of work, but it's going up The only way this works folks Again, the only way this works and Michael Saylor can Well, of course tell you that the only thing that you should ever buy in your lifetime is Bitcoin because in a hundred years That's all it's gonna be. You may be right. I don't know but I like to diversify a little bit and that's just how I am you can do whatever you want to not your dad so For this one miners will keep sticking around as long as it is profitable as long as money flows into it, let's call a spade a spade and As the funds go up people will be happy and I'll do that now once things start to start to change and shift and people start paying for things in Bitcoin To the lighting network, which is I need to do a video on which is doing quite well and really is Increasing adoption then the then the whole dynamic shifts, but right now. It's all about the funds and it's all about how much is in dollars Some people think of it as bitcoins Per the per the value amount because one Bitcoin is still one Bitcoin However, right now if you're a Bitcoin miner and you want to keep the lights on and Not have to get a loan from Mike Novogratz. You need money and how do you get money? You sell Bitcoin for money and that's how it works So you can go and you can do loans For you Bitcoin, but you better be damn sure that you have enough of collateral I did the same thing with Ethereum and guess what happened When The rate of Ethereum went down Because that's just what happens in bear markets You better have a heck of a lot more Ethereum to collateralize your loan If not, you get liquidated So again, I Mean, this is why I harp on these things It's all a circle to me and then lastly will the feet will the fees go through the roof in the future. That's a good question and If we take a look here There was a great Here if we're using on-chain metrics and we're taking a look at the fees Let me get this out of here and we're looking at the fees the average transaction fee in In April at the very peak was $62 77 cents. Are you gonna pay that for every transaction? Well, I guess it's okay if you're moving billions of dollars, but chances are you're not moving billions of dollars. Are you? So if we take a look at this, let's just go through all time It's amazing when all time eyes hit everybody wants it. Everybody wants Bitcoin. Here's 2017 December 20th Every transaction is $41 here. We are probably November. Oh, it's April. Excuse me April $58 then around here is a dollar or two dollars Which honestly isn't bad depending on what you're actually moving compared to like these on Mastercard 1.99% transaction fee. Come on. It's crazy However, if you want to do that for everything Buying a cup of coffee prime example. It's $3 transaction fee is 225. I don't want to do that So the only way this works is letting network gets involved and it's all off-chain. Well That's essentially what it is and They pick up the side on the later end So it only works if we don't use everything on chain for Bitcoin and that's how I see things working. So a great question Yeah, sailor convinced miners not to sell trust me. They're selling Trust me. I'm gonna show you why So There's this great website. It's called crypto quant calm. I'm gonna sign in I'm gonna use my password one two three four five Hint that is not my password dashboard My dashboard Dan digital asset news that is me minor outflow You blow this up for you What is this it's great question Minor outflow is the mean amount of coins per transaction sent from the affiliated Minors wallets we can we know which ones are the miners wallets After all after all this time just like we're able to identify a Binance wallet a cold storage wall and a coin baseball and so on and so forth and you can see That again, yes, you can take loans out That's that's a sailor classic move. We're just gonna take loans out against our crypto And it'll just keep going up forever doesn't happen like that And that's why some Bitcoin money operations went under Whether that be fault of their own or not doesn't matter See all these little green spikes. This is when Bitcoin miners move their Bitcoin from one wall to another. Why would they do that? Probably to sell not that this is every time that they're selling That's a pretty good bet like I can move my my Bitcoin around I don't do it too much. No reason. I do it is if I'm gonna pay Now my man and are though biggie or if I'm transferring from Coinbase to my cold storage wallet That's pretty much it. It's really all I do, but you're gonna see that along on the way. Here's the outflow That's six thousand four and twenty bitcoins on November 8th Two thousand three thousand one thousand. Let's see what's over here. Oh, look at that One thousand two thousand three thousand something around there and that's the price and of course just so you know like when the price goes up Minor sell. Oh and also by the way, let me remind you is something It's a great website look on the Bitcoin comm there's this thing called charts You know people always tell you the diamond hands.  I swear. I think people say that so they can dump on you. There's this great one called Whale shadows I've talked about this before let me talk about it again The indicator shows when bitcoins that have not moved on change for many years finally move again And you can break this down. Let me get this out of here by Bitcoin that hasn't moved for four or five years or five and seven seven nine ten years Just so you know if you take a look at this Isn't it amazing how it doesn't really move too much when the price is low But then when the price goes up all of a sudden it starts moving Why does it start moving because if I had a Bitcoin sitting around for five years? I just had nothing else to do one of my Bitcoin. No, that's not it I probably send it to my exchange so I can dump it on people and that's that and there's nothing wrong with that I'm just saying what's wrong with it sometimes as people going you got a diamond hands diamond hands and behind the scenes They're lying right to your face because they're dumping on people which whatever. That's what it is That's just four to five years. Now. Let's take a look at five to seven That same thing price goes up people dump on you. How about seven or nine years?  So That's it for that What are these mythical prophets Rob keeps talking about Ladies and gentlemen, we have to get better at it We have to be better investors and crypto golfers got a good point at some point Just like we took a look at the historical s&p 500 when things started to collapse And it was it was winning all-time highs for over a decade. There were still many little bull runs within the bear market So we got to be better at identifying when these little bull runs are happening and not saying and not getting caught up in the The idea that hey guess what? Bitcoin is one of 10 percent this week, which means Bull run, baby and lambos and moonshots. It's up to us to figure out go Maybe this is a good opportunity for me to take some profits along the way. Nothing wrong with that Let's see So jane chess is rob Would you ever touch crypto if usa just the part of made statement that anybody Who touches crypto who didn't declare themselves as security will get 10-year jail sentence or 500 000 fine take risk Why would anybody take that risk? like I would really like crypto to flourish But i'm not gonna pull a sam bakeman freed And be like, yeah, just you know lock me up for 10 years because that's probably what's really good for my family Nope Sorry, I don't know if anybody else would disagree with me like rob.  I would definitely take that risk I think the next the the the bigger question would be how would they come to that that conclusion And to do that and people and of course people right now are screening going rob. You don't understand that's right around the corner maybe maybe But i'll tell you if that happens hmm Actually, I know exactly what I would do But I can't tell you here. Maybe I'd make a patreon and tell you exactly what I would have to do but Yeah, there's ways around that All right. Hey rob. Have the dca show stop doing it Let's see Oh, well, thanks. Well memes on board.  You should have met me like 10 years ago All right Oh, wow jane shouted a pretty good pretty good thing. No nobody believed me in the end of 21 when I capitulated When powell started increasing interest rate never fight the fed sold everything. So wait for the job smart Really good. I didn't do it as much as I should have I mean everything's as good as it can be Bit by rumor There's always a rumor about him Heard rumor that sam is dumping whatever wallet he can find for because Thus maybe reason why sold under 10k today 10 dollars. I don't know how many can they enforce and I heard about that too I heard one of the wallets that was controlled by alimony to research all of a sudden became live When sam got out of prison David I I just I just see slowly going taking more of a slide This is a great handle Critical mass gym that makes me want to go lift weights. That's a great name if sam is doing is doing it He is in violation of the stats. He's an embellished. He's playing around with alimony to funds gets caught He'll be liable for the whole term, but he might know of it, which is a good point And yeah, has anybody been to jail? Yeah, you don't have to put up the whole he'll be home out. Just let you know Let's see Marcus says chance of a new well-timed high next cycle or in jeopardy. No one is explaining this idea No, no, we've talked about this And even though the fire cycles have worked in the past doesn't mean they're gonna work again I personally believe like if we don't hit in 2025 2026 2027 here's the question. I mean for me I can hold on I I'll be okay Waiting, you know in the two years and accumulating And taking profits along the way. I'll be all right But can you do it? Can you hold on for the blow off top or can you not? That's the question I do think it's gonna be different this time because we don't have The leverage that we have or had and we don't have the shenanigans that was being puppeted by FTX. I really do think that they They monkeyed around a little bit too much and they stole part Of of our bull run I I just Just that that's why I take a look at Yeah, I'd have a chauffeur too Let's see I think that's it. Well good. We do it Look guys, that's all the questions that we have. I think we're good for today. 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I had coffee, but I ran out and I don't have anything else, but let's get into this. Ooh, that's a hot mug, right? So we're starting season three. Thank you guys for starting this journey with me because this is my favorite season as far as I can remember. From what I remember rewatching season one to five just before I did a five-part radio show when I still had a radio show, it's the whole part of me that I haven't talked about in much in a while. I remember season three being just as strong when I rewatched it as it was when I first saw the season. And that's why I've been very, very excited to start season three. But also at the same time, I'm kind of nervous because part of me is wondering whether or not it's going to actually live up to the appeal. And watching the first episode, The Magnificent Seven, I'm kind of on the fence, but I'm hoping. So season three starts off a few months after the events of All Hell breaks loose part two. Sam walks in on Dean doing something to a girl, but he says the twins. And this is the first point in where I think that the writer strike immediately started hitting the show because clearly in the window, there's one girl. Yet in the car, he mentions twins. I don't know whether he's talking about a previous experience or he's talking about that experience because then there's only one person, there's only one pair of underwear between the two between Dean and a woman. And yet he's talking about twins. I'm looking into this far too much. But that is something to state that this season was affected by the 2007's writer strike to the point where they had to shorten down the season to 16 episodes. However, I think it's that shortage of episodes that helped contribute to this being one of my favorite seasons because it makes Dean's predicament, his curse, his turmoil, all the more quick and all the more rampant. It doesn't drag it out. It makes it very short. It really encapsulates the idea of a year. But back onto the episode, a lot of demons got out when the door opened. Some of those demons include the Seven Deadly Sins, which we are first introduced to Envy where we see him manipulate a woman to kill someone for some shoes. And I remember thinking that those used to be the Army and Navy shoe sales. Didn't get that bad, but there were some times. Sad note, Army and Navy is actually closed now in Canada to not survive the COVID, which is kind of unfortunate. I actually didn't mind those shoe sales.     I don't care.  I don't care.    Kind of interesting how they brought this British lady out. But by God, is their writing horrible. Admittedly, Isaac actually has a pretty good point about not wanting to work with the Winchester considering they opened up a gate to hell.  They track down the Envy guy but then they get cornered. Admittedly, this is actually probably one of the best deaths in Supernatural. Isaac is told to drink straight drain-o.  They drive the car through the wall. They have this kind of funny fight where they're holding off the demons with holy water, but it just makes me think of Zoolander and the Gas Life.  Jim Beaver kills it. Every time that this episode dips into a bit of stupid, he brings it right back up, definitely making up for that bucket of chicken in season two. And the episode ends with them finding out that they are in fact fighting the Seven Deadly Sins and they have this battle at Bobby's house. And it's a cool fight. You really think they're screwed. There's a screenshot which hopefully I can find it of the brothers sitting in this room with Dean loading the shotgun and Sam making holy water bombs, I think, even though they don't really use them.  Well, this is a good way to end it. Obviously, it wouldn't end here. And then admittedly, there is a cool little twist at the end of the episode where they somehow bring back Isaac. And I don't know if it's another demon or if he's possessed. They don't really illustrate why he's alive and walking around and totally, totally mentally mind-gaming her.  We don't care. Let's go after the main cast. They fight the demons inside and Bobby gives one of the best jokes, best jokes to gluttony, who in fact is actually played by Ernst Harth. And I've met this guy. I got to be on an interview process with him when he worked on a indie full-length feature that I got to be the stills photographer for.  He towers. He's a big guy. And yet he's such a nice dude, too.  Sam almost gets killed, but then he gets saved by Ruby in the coolest introduction, as well as kind of the weirdest introduction. She comes in with her knife, which you remember when this knife meant something?  She comes in and saves Sam's life and then she says, see you around Sam and then walks out and leaves. Right or strike? Not everything's gonna be solid. Ruby's introduction is kind of oddly dragged out and I also wonder how she got out of the house without anyone noticing. Even Tamro not even making a point about it. Who by the way just disappears at the end of the episode? Thank gosh because again, just not a very well written character. Neither of them were. At least Isaac had a pretty cool death. And then the episode ends with a really cool question of if we let the sins out, what else did we let out? And it's not implied until later on in the season just the gravity of what the brothers have done. Either way, this is a very decent episode of starting off the season. Is it as good in my time of dying? No, it's not.  It's still a good episode for season three in my opinion and I'm hoping that everything gets better along the way and I guess we'll see what happened. But speaking of thoughts, give me your guys's thoughts about episode two of season three and I'll make sure to say the best ones in the next episode review. 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I'm getting hungry. Hungry for some reactions. With barbecue sauce.  First of the day, I'm Corbin. I am Richard Robert Siegel III. You can follow us on Instagram and Twitter. For what? Juicy content. I said I'm Richard Robert Siegel III and that popped up. And thank you for your support on Patreon. Put your hand down. Thank you for your support on Twitter as well. This has been highly requested. What is this? I don't know. But it's called EIC, the Donald Trump song. Oh dear. My guess is that it's funny, I hope. Because if it's not, I will not release this. This might not even be out there. This might never make it to the channel or even to Patreon. But people on Twitter know me. So, um, you know, I'm okay. This is what's happening. I'm hoping it's very funny.  They're following you very, very closely. This could be really dangerous. This might be very not okay. Let's go. But let's go. Let's go. Let's go. I think it'll be fun, I hope. Boy, I feel very kind of pitting my stomach weird about this. Okay, the next song is, let's get internationally with this. The next song is about the 45th president of United States of America. Thank you, please. The long-distance needs, actually. And this is what he actually wanted to say, but we made a song about it. And this is the most petty fun track we've got tonight. So clap along, cheer along, join us in this. And let's do it. It probably did because I know him. I'm really sorry to your moms and dads. We're really, really sorry that our president said all of those things. Yeah, and wow. That was great. Thank you for sending that. Oh my goodness. Wow. See, but you know what? It's not inaccurate. That's what I was just thinking. As much as that's just off the charts in the level of... See, the bad thing. That's the world we live in right now. The bad thing. That's the country we live in, man. I know. The bad things that most of the stuff they said were directly from draft quotes. I know. I know. So it's not like they're just... That's part of the wow. It's part of the wow. It's... Where's Rod Serling? Because that's how I have felt for quite a while, is that we're living in the twilight zone. Oh boy. That's an old song. We're living in the twilight zone. Wow. Also I have no idea if this will get copyrighted because that music behind it... Right. Yeah, the music behind it, those of you who wouldn't know that, which you should know that, that's Village People's YMCA from the 1970s. But it started off great. Wow. The white man. Wow. But it is... Sincerely, if you're gonna do a song like that, it's gonna contain the direct quotes and it's gonna be offensive and it's gonna shock and well done. Who are the... Who is this group, though? No clue. EIC, I presume? Are they like a singing funny... Right, like the Drudidians? Yeah. So I don't know. Never heard of them, obviously. I have no idea. Where did this air? Did this just go straight to the internet? Yeah, I think they're a Best Films 2016. So it looks like they're a 1.3 million. You need to put on the thumbnail, like the parental advisory stamp that goes on some songs, an explicit lyric thing. Because we can't... You just... Our country doesn't have that, Rick.   And that's the explanation you're gonna have to have. I'm sorry. Oh, man. Oh, boy. That was... That was funny. That was good. That's my kind of sense of humor. I need a new reaction now. I need to get my brain washed clean from that one. I'm trying to figure out who these guys are and see what they do.  So they're a group of stand-up comedians who do that thing together, right? Do this kind of stuff. Oh, so they just do regularly. They contribute their own stand-up stuff to this EIC. And that was their thing. Looks like they do different songs. The different people around the world. They do one with Golly. They do the Modi song. The Goa song. Yeah, there's a bunch of different music ones they do and they do a podcast. And so it looks like they're very popular content creators on YouTube. Yeah. That's funny, man. I mean, they even had one called The Trump and Kim Jong-un's. I don't want that one. I can only imagine where that one's gonna go. And we just don't... To the bedroom. Yeah, we just... 2019. They love each other. They love each other.  And it's because every day there's new material for them to use. Every day.  But that was really funny. I'm hoping you see this. If not, it's just a patron exclusive on Patreon. Yeah. Because I don't know if that song's gonna get copyrighted. I have no idea. Kind of partially hoping it does. You should make a song like this. Not like this. Yeah, I'm fine with a song, but I just... East India comedy is what ESE actually stands for. Ah, so East India comedy. Well, who's all a part of that? Do we know anybody who's a part of that group? Well, there's Sahel, Spahn, Kunal, Anjid and Azni. I'm proud of you for jumping at those names because I know you don't like to mispronounce people's names. I've probably mispronounced all of them. Yeah, but if you've ever noticed his carbonization of stuff, he doesn't mind doing it with a movie film. A movie film. A movie title. A movie film. But he takes very... He really wants to be careful with names. Except for these guys. Yeah. People are sensitive about their names sometimes. The nomenclature surrounding them. Yeah. They are. I feel the same way. I don't want people to think I'm making fun of their name. If I see someone with an unusual name on their... I'll ask them how they pronounce it and I want to get it right. And if I get it right, I'm really happy because I feel like it's honoring their name. So I'm track of it.  As an American, we don't place a lot of semblance and names. No, but I will tell you, I'm feeling a lot better about this reaction now that we're going to a place of how we like to respect people. There are... There still are Americans that do care about that. Most of them. Yeah. I don't want to get too political here. So why you never see videos because we don't like that. I mean, we do privately, but not publicly. Too divisive. I don't want to block so many people. You know, it's too much work for me. It's true because I will. He will. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. I'm talking to you who's writing your comment right now. He's going to do it. See your subscription. Go bye-bye. He doesn't care. Well. Oh, man. Oh, there you go. You know, we did it. Yeah, I'm proud of us.


The U.S. Congress sees an impulse to provide Ukraine with fighter jets. Michael McCall, influential U.S. congressman and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced a shift towards providing Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets and and ATA CMS long-range missile systems during a visit to Kiev. According to the congressman, the Biden administration and the National Security Council were still split over how fast and what weapons to send to Ukraine. At the time seeing increasing momentum towards getting the artillery and the planes in, he told reporters in central Kiev, And in any event, we can start training the pilots right now, so they're ready, he said. McCall met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, who gave him a list of weapons, in particular the F-16 and ATA CMS, designed to hit targets all the way to the territory of Crimea to counter Iranian drones used by Russia. The congressman arrived in Kiev just a day after U.S. President Joe Biden promised to allocate $500 million for new military assistance during an unexpected visit to the Ukrainian capital. As is well known, following the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, the United States has provided Ukraine with military assistance totaling almost $28 billion, but so far has refrained from sending long-range aircraft and missiles. According to media reports, General Christopher Cavoli, the commander-in-chief of the NATO Joint Armed Forces in Europe, supports providing Ukraine with the most modern Western weapons, including F-16 fighter jets and long-range missiles, to bring its victory in the war with Russia closer.