Everybody forced Europe in 2022 tops film black baseball hobby 12 bucks full case number 42 random team style the Results that are on your screen right now can be found anytime at late sports cards calm And there's a Lincoln chat for you right now as well for those results Well, let's go ahead and get started. Good luck everybody This one's gonna be quick not gonna recap this one.  It's gonna be sick. Let's get that filled up 2015 NT is also a pretty interesting box We're gonna be opening it'd be a famous James. We'll make an appearance There's a jaren to ran random marches of Philly and a gold yard on alvarez To 50 37 to 50 And Rookie Otto Lars a new bar the Cardinals Why would they fire coach coach bud and then turn to mark Jackson? what That's insane. It'd be like firing Pelle check on 2008 and hiring like Fisher Jeff Fisher is her head coach Baez was your Amir as green refractor Kyle Lewis number to 99 for the Mariners so Chris What's up Kyle? What's up Chris? 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Why can't you just like the movie?  Mainly because I'll spend five to ten minutes talking about the reasons why a film didn't work for me. So to say all that, to put the time and effort it takes to get the movie clips, to edit the film, you know, I'm spending hours on this shit, and then to have someone go into the comments with one sentence, why don't you like movies? Why don't you just like the film, Adam?   Most critics or people that have a high opinion on film or what they think makes a good movie at the end of the day are typically really big fans of movies to begin with. What? I know that's hard to believe. It's kind of like a food critic. You don't expect him to go to the local BK broiler, get himself a whopper with chi, and walk away from that experience saying, man, that was one of the greatest burgers I ever had, or, wow, I really enjoyed that meal. He'd be horrible at his job! Now, I myself don't have any issue with the whopper. This isn't an ad, although I'd gladly accept payment from Burger King. I'm also not a food critic. And to even take it a step further, it's not like I'm even an official critic. I don't have like a license to critic anywhere. I'm just someone that really likes going to the movies. That's it. I like talking about the movies. I like pointing out the pros and cons, and seeing what worked and what didn't, and giving it an overall score in my mind at the end, thinking, you know what, this wasn't half bad. It could have been better, but as it stands, I liked it. Or, man, they really dropped the ball on that one. This isn't hard to figure out. But what the hell kind of a comment is just like the movie? What kind of lame, boring-ass person is that? And why would you want to watch that person on YouTube? Hey, so how'd another film I really liked? 10 out of 10. Wow, this movie was great. I have zero issues with it at all. Thanks for watching. Make sure to jab that subscribe button, hit that notification bell, and I'll see you next time, bros. Maybe I should do an experimental channel where I am like that, where I just talk highly about every film that comes out, give myself an alias, and that would be that. Hey, another great movie. Thanks for jumping into the channel. I hope you stick around. We got a ton of awesome stuff coming up. It's all great. It's all good news on this end. I would die inside, but really there's not much left there in this empty husk of a man that once was. What's even more comical is I consider myself somewhat lenient on films. I like more than I would say a good amount of people on YouTube seem to, judging from the comments. I like Terminator Dark Fate. I could put that slogan on a t-shirt and probably get dragged in some states. Now, you can make a good chunk of coin hating on all movies, ragging on them, thinking they all suck, finding some sort of agenda with them. That's not what I'm here for. You know what? I'm looking at this wrong. I shouldn't take it as constructive criticism. I should look at it as a comment half full. A way to live my life going forward. Say I'm stuck in traffic with someone for a few hours and they're getting upset. I should just turn to them and say, Hey, why don't you try liking traffic? Why don't you try liking the car ride for once? Or maybe we're at an amusement park and the ride breaks down with us on it and people are starting to get upset. I would just turn to them and say, Hey, try liking the ride. A lot of engineers and people took the time to make this. You could at least appreciate what's going on. Even if it isn't the ride you expected it to be and it's not working seemingly and it's about to break down.   Try enjoying a meal. Just try it sometime. I'm pained to be entertained. If I'm not entertained, I didn't get my money's worth. That's the transaction. It's not a one-way street where the creator gets to make something get paid and then also get praised on top of that or not criticized. No. I'm a patron at the end of the day. I paid for a service and if I'm not satisfied, well, you're going to hear about it, Buster. Can I be too cynical at times? Yeah, sure, of course. Can I miss something in a movie that maybe would have changed my mind about it? Possibly. It doesn't happen often. But once in a while, I'll go back on a film. I'll say, you know what? I like this more. I know that I make mistakes. I know that sometimes my opinions aren't the the norm or that maybe I am a little bit too jaded on some film properties or just movies in general. But you know what?    I got a lot of cool stuff coming up and it's all positive, baby. Make sure to smash that notification bell too. We're going to be liking films left and right. Love that one. Love that one. Love this one. And I love you. And I hope you love me too. So subscribe. 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Hello. OK, let's be start. Hello again. My name is Milan Jeroš, I work for IT for Innovations, Czech National Supercomputer Center at VSB Technical University of Ostrava. Today I would like to talk about our extension for rendering of massive scenes, in blender of course. First, I would like to describe what does mean the massive scene for us. Then I would like to show very shortly how our rendering service works. Then I would like to describe two state of the art systems for multi GPU. And then I would like to show the psychose 5 renderer, which is our extension for psychose 5 on rendering on HPC systems. Then I would like to describe two methods, support rendering massive scenes. Then I would like to show how it works on multi GPU nodes. And at the end I would like to show the use case how we all use it in our visualization lab. Let's start. What is massive scene for us? This is two examples for massive scene. First is Moana Island scene, which is the production scene. Several years ago the Walt Disney release the Moana dataset for free for researchers for developer for testings. And for this scene we developed the add-on. The second case is loading and rendering the scientific data. In this case you can see the rendering in cycles where the data comes from open form, which is the simulation alpha water. For the open form we develop two add-ons, be Covice and be Vistel. Both add-ons are based on Covice and Vistel, which was developed by our colleagues from HLRS Computer Center. Now I would like to show very shortly how works the importing Moana Island scene into Blender. We develop very small, very easily add-ons, which support the loading Moana Island scene. Walt Disney release several scene description, for example USD, PBRT, or JSON scene description. We use JSON scene description with OBGA files, which contains geometry and PTX textures. Odfrančitly Blender doesn't support PTX format and we have to solve it. We develop the algorithm, which converts PTX to OpenXR and UV systems. In this example you can see how we import the palm depth. On the right side you can see how looks the example of exported texture. And now you can see how looks the UV system exported from PTX. Now I would like to show how we allocate the resources for the rendering. Because I work for Supercomputing Center, we develop by HPE add-on, which is very similar for example for Flamengo. You can use only one button for submitting job and send the blank file to the cluster. And after finish it, you can use the second button for download it. Using this button you can utilize very easily the whole cluster. The PHPs now support two modes, HPE mode, where we use our HPE middleware system, which was developed by our colleagues at IT for Innovations. Or we can use the direct access mode, which is the wrapper for remote SSH command. Now I would like to show how looks our state-of-the-art multi-GPU system. We have 70 HGX-A100. This cluster or this node each node contains 8 GPUs. The uniqueness of this system lies and interconnect. In this case it's NVSwitch and we switch from NVIDIA and NVailing. This is very fast interconnect with very high bandwidth and very low latency. In rendering perspective you can use all GPU memories in one other space using the unified system. That means you can use over 300 GB for rendering of scene. The second cluster, which we have, is DGX2. It's same architecture, but it contains 17 GPUs card. And you can use over 500 GB GPU memory together. Now I would like to show two modes of our extensions for rendering on HPC. On the left side you can see how works the interactive remote rendering. The blender runs on the user computer and cycles file runs on the cluster. Blender communicates via TCP protocol with the cycles file and cycles file can run on several nodes. And it communicates between each process using MPI or NCCL. On the right side you can see the client-only mode. In this mode we exported the binary file from the blender and saved to the disk. Then cycles file reads this data and continue with the rendering. The advantage of this mode is that you can run the preprocessing on the different machine, for example with large memory. Now I would like to show two methods for rendering of massive scenes. There is two main methods for solving the low memory on the GPU. You can use the out-of-core method, where it usually is using the CPU memory. Or you can use the distributed or parallel rendering. In the case of distributed parallel rendering, you can use the data parallel rendering or image rendering. Our approach is in the second category, that means in image parallel rendering, which means the race remains the fixed on GPUs. How I said, we use the unified memory. In this case you can see how works the CUDA unified memory. In the case of fully replicated data, in the unified memory perspective, this is example for one array and this one array occupies four times more memory in the unified system. On the right side you can see the example of our Barbara GPU node, which contains for GPU and each GPU has own color in this picture. If we can distribute the data, for example, if we use the continuous distribution, we can divide this array, which contains several data structures, for example BVH nodes. We can divide this array to the large part, to the large chunks. In this example to four and each part we can save to different GPU. Then, that means we saved four times more memory. But we can divide this array to the smaller parts, smaller chunks and we can distribute it, for example, in round robin fashion. In this distribution each small part is distributed over all GPUs. Of course, we can combine both methods. That means we have the partial replicated and partial distributed array. In CUDA, we can use CUDA MemAdvice function for that and with specific flags. In this case, for the replicated, we can use the set read mostly and in the case of distributed chunk, we can use setprefed location and save to the specific GPU. Here are four scenes, which we created for the developing testing. First is Moina Island scene and after importing, we get over 160 GB and this scene has specific properties. That means it has a large geometry and a large number of textures. On the right top side, you can see the museum scene and this scene has large geometry and large textures. On the bottom, you can see the familiar pictures from the open movies from Blender. On the left, Agent 327 and on the right, the spring and we a little bit increase the size from the several GB to 160 GB and we can test it. Both scene has complex shaders. The Blender Cycles contains over 40 data structures, these arrays for describing the scene and the other structures, other arrays are for the texture images. In this table, you can see the four key data structures, which we found that. In the case of Moina, you can see that BVH nodes, which contains BVH3, this array has a little bit over 80% from all accesses to this array, from all arrays, but it has only 8% size from whole scenes. In the case of Agent and Spring, you can see in the SVM, which is the array for shaders, you can see that it has almost 20% accesses. We use this behavior for next research. We developed two methods, basic distribution of anti-data structures and advanced distribution based on memory access pattern and statistic. Now, I would like to show how works basic distribution of anti-data structures. Here you can see the rendering time for Moina and in this case is Moina only 27 GB because we have used the fully replicated, which is the green line. In the case of 8 GPUs, which is the time rendering on the right, in the case of fully replicated, you can see over 100 milliseconds takes the rendering. In this case, the scene occupies four times more memory in the unified system. If we use the round robin fashion, which is the example on the top, and distribute each and divide each array by distributing divide to small part and distribute it over all GPUs, the rendering time has over 200 milliseconds, which is the two times slower, but we save the eight times more memory. I think which is very nice. In this case, if we fully replicated four key structures, in this case, VVH, triangles, vertices and shaders, we get very much better time. In this example in 8 GPUs, we are very close to the fully replicated scene. This is advantage and very interconnect. How works the second method? First, we distribute all GPUs, all data structures to all GPUs using round robin fashion. Then we run only rendering for only one sample per pixel to measure the statistic. Then we download the statistic to CPU and our algorithms, which decide where chunks will be placed. Then we run the CUDA-MEMAdvice function to migrate the data and run the original unmodified path tracing kernel. Very shortly, this looks the algorithm, which decides where the chunk will be placed. The important things here, we don't care what is the type of data structure because we put all measurements, all statistic to one array, in this case of h array, sort them by the number of accesses from the highest to the smaller and we decide where chunk will be placed. How looks, what is the difference between advanced and basic method? In this example, for Moana scene, you can see how looks, what is the difference between basic and advanced. In the case of 5% replication ratio, in the basic case, we have only 20%, we cover only 20% of all accesses, but if we use the advanced method and using the statistic, if we use the 5% replication ratio, we cover over 94% of all accesses to the arrays, which in the end has a very nice rendering time. This is some visualization example, how looks the distributed data, distributed array in this case, how looks the vertices, where are they placed. On the left, you can see fully distributed, where each color has a GPU and you can see where data are placed in fully distributed method. On the right side, you can see the rendered image and this rendered image means the replication, that means these parts are replicated and other with specific color are distributed. How looks the rendering time on the HGX multi GPU system and the GX2 with 16 cards. Orange color is the visualization of the rendering time for specific replication ratio. If we have the 0%, that means fully distributed, on the GX2, we get over 500 milliseconds. If we use the advanced method and replicate it 7%, we get very nice time all around 200 milliseconds. That means advanced method works very nice on system with 16 GPUs. Now I would like to very shortly how works, how looks the scalability over multiple nodes. In this case, this test was run on over 200 NVIDIA GPUs and over nodes we used splitting samples. That means each node using rendered only parts of samples. You can see very nice scalability. At the end, I would like to show how it works on our visualization lab. This is how looks the visualization lab. It's not theater, it's my second office. You can see how looks the interactive remote volume rendering in 4K with 3D in our visualization lab, in cycles of course. The Blender support stereoscopy for long time, basically for Borgbench and EV. But for cycles, it supports only offline rendering. We add to cycles fire rendering of 3D images. That means it runs side by side. For example, 4 GPUs run the left, render left image and next 4 GPU 1 node render right image. This is how looks the rendering in our visualization lab. For that, we create the VR Clia client, which uses the quad buffer for OpenGL. It's receive on images and showing in the cinema. We use it, we can use the GPU JPEG compression, which is very fast for NVIDIA GPUs. To last video, this is example how looks the interactive rendering in our visualization lab. You can see the samples, how it render. This is the example for 4K and 3D. At the end, now we are developing the method for interactive visualization of scientific data. This is example of rendering, which we are able to render in this case, example over 40 GB VDBs in almost real time. OK, thank you for attention today. We have 2 minutes for question, if somebody have. 1GPU, you've seen, can you use the same technology to render big stuff on a small hardware? We are working on the method, which is able to run, for example, on 1GPU or 2GPU and then similar algorithm and other safe to CPU memory, which is in this case, the out-of-core methods. Is your add-on for building the Moana scene for the domain? Again? The add-on you developed to open the Moana scene, is it public domain? Yeah, it's on our, but it's public. I can put it to GitHub, if someone would like to be better. In this example, I use Blenderf 2.83, which I have for the latest Blender 3.3 and now I'm working on using the geometry nodes for that, because I use that particle nodes, which I have to use the mine-out page for the instancing of each object, because it has over 10 million instances and I use the hair and bake it to the right place. It's a very small page, but with geometry nodes we don't need any page for that.


Welcome to JSA TV where we're covering the latest stories trends and innovations from leaders in global connectivity Digital infrastructure and the networks within and we are coming to you live from Times Square in New York It's jumping here, baby. New York here at DCV connect and I'm here with mr. Peter Panfil Peter is the VP of global power for Virtive Peter welcome to JSA TV. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. Of course I appreciate and you know, it's really jumping here I I've been coming to data center dynamics here for a for 20 years Yeah, and I I talked to a colleague and I said can you believe it? We used to fit down in the in the foyer downstairs and now we take up three floors Full full exhibit hall and the floor is as packed right now as it was at, you know, 11 o'clock this morning So jumping there is a lot going on and but um, so let's talk about bird of the little bit. Shall we okay? Let's do it We we don't let anybody leave the table until they've talked about AI So you're you're gonna be no different, but um, let's talk about it as it relates to putting pressure on the grid What is AI doing to the power source? So our customers right now They're facing these dual disruptions at the same time normally Disruptors disruptions happen one at a time. We can deal with it We figure out what the what the solution is to it. We implement it. We go on to the next generation We're seeing decarbonization and and the challenges of Availability of power. Yeah at the same time. We're seeing an explosion in the use of AI compute and the demand on AI compute and I Believe whatever numbers you want to believe all I get all I know is there's an incredible pressure To increase the the amount of compute being done with AI and it's gonna change the way we live life And I know there's people that are nervous about AI. I'm not man. I say bring it on. Yes I I think I think AI is gonna change the way we do things It's gonna get rid of the mundane pieces of life and let us focus. We are literally We're ending we're ending these interviews how we began because I could not agree with you more It is a societal a cultural shift. Yeah, and it's happening right now and the people in this room are Responsible for it you Peter are responsible for it. Well, so so I told you there's two disruptors, right? I'll call it pre-rona. So Rona and I it's COVID-19, you know, okay?  Yeah, I don't care. I don't whether you believe it's true or not. It's the right thing to do Let's decarbonize so along along that path of decarbonization the utilities are saying well We're not going to give you the power that you're asking us for And and the example I give to my people is that's like painting you in the corner Yeah, right our customers are painted into a corner now. They've got nowhere to go They go to their utility and their utility says well, I can see giving you some power in 2030 2035 yeah, you know and get in line. Yeah get one and no matter what They're not adding the capacity the generating capacity. They're not they're really not Improving the infrastructure to deliver their power More efficiently. So what's what's got to be done is we got to do it on our own And and so bring your own power is something that we've talked about Advertive yeah for at least the last year If not longer and it's and it's a it's a mentality I'm a bring your own power is a mentality It's it's using the critical infrastructure in a way that you're not used to using it today Yeah, most of our customers use their critical infrastructure Only in time of emergency right the utility fails. I go over the generator. I bridge through the battery The generator comes online. I walk in the generator. I run on generator the utility retrievers. I reverse that yeah What if we don't turn on the generator What if we run on an extended duty battery for longer periods of time? Can I reduce my generator starts if I can reduce my generator starts that really helps me in my along my Decarbonization path. Yeah, and then I got to think about it. What kind of generator am I going to use? Am I going to use a diesel generator? I'm going to use a natural gas generator. Am I going to use a hydrogen-based generator? Pick the technology that makes the most sense for you and your environment and you in your physical location Right. Yeah, and then once you've got that technology use the hell out of it How does something so simple sound so innovative? Well because for the most part? And and and I talked to lots of customers for a long time I was I've been in critical space now for about 40 years. Okay, and This is the most disruptive period I can remember in my entire career I've been about 30 years. So and then honestly, this is a watershed moment for us. Yes, it really is. Yeah, and so and so What we say to our to our customers is We got it. We got to meet you halfway. Yeah, right It's it's it's that joke. You know meet me halfway by a ticket. Yeah We've got to give them the levers to pull We've got to give them energy storage that they can call on on demand Whenever they want to Stay on that energy storage for as long as they want to yeah decide do I start my generator? Do I hold off on my generator? What generator am I starting or am I doing something with a battery energy storage system? Or with a fuel cell to supplement the generating capacity that I get from my utility and and Each one each customer is going to be unique in their requirements Yeah, and unique in the way they approach that but we've got to give them the tools and and and as an infrastructure provider We're starting to give our customers the tools that are going to allow them to do those kinds of things and make those kinds of choices I love it. Peter. Thank you very much. Oh wait, Peter. You're contributing to that. Oh, yeah Okay, this all makes sense now. I got a chapter in there. Yeah Outstanding I cannot wait to read it. Yeah, and thank you so much for contributing.  No, no So, you know when when when I was invited by the way, I'm honored to be invited. Thank you. Thank you And and they said well, what would you what what would you like to cover? And I said we've got to we've got to get the message out and bring your own power Yeah, I've talked to I I presented at a lunch Here yesterday and the customer said nobody's talking to us about this Where can I get this information from and so I'm gonna I'm gonna redouble my effort both internally and with our team as well as Efforts like the book the book that's gonna try and get that message out to customers and say, you know, you've got some options You got it. You don't feel painted into a corner. Mm-hmm.  What are their pain points?  What do you think about now? Oh, man? I'm trying to figure out something and then noodle up what solutions make sense for customers that help Help them deliver available solutions. Got it. Peter. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks. You bet. Appreciate it Yeah, and thank you viewers for watching JSA TV stay connected. Stay curious like my friend Peter here and We'll see you soon


We'd love to have another rotation on our farm, but with cash rents where they're at and being a young producer We we don't have the equity or the the cash built up I guess I'd say to to get through a year of loss or however, how have you guys found to work with those those small grains and and not only The cash flow where where do you find markets for them? A lot of our local elevators are just assumed deal corn and beans and that's about it We were able to integrate the small grains on our farm We had the same problem that you discussed with not really having a market to sell it And one option could be either food grade if you can you know find the company to to work with that We were talking about mills and that's one particular option Another would be South Dakota has a great certified seed program, especially with oats And you know, there's some options with wheat too And if you can afford the input cost of buying the certified seed the foundation seed in the first place That's another great way to try to get into Small grains and know that you have a market, you know As long as you meet the standards with the test weight essentially and you can have a weed-free Seed test for the most part you can find someone that will buy that seed So just another option, but again, it costs a little more upfront because you have to buy that foundation seed to get started We've always had wheat in our rotation So it's been easier ends just the fact that it's going to improve the yields of your other crops You know makes it worth it for us, but as far as any good advice to give to a young producer that's you know Needing income and profits year to year. I don't have any really good thoughts other than you know working small for one thing the crop insurance You know, it's a decent if to plant small grains because a lot of people don't if you've been plant once you get plant I mean build up yield history. That's alright, but you're just starting out. You don't have a yield history It's it's not easy just you know You just have to do some and try to build up yield history, but I have seen With the small grain on the soybean yields even two years out be like five bushel better We all often struggle getting the plant the wheat planted soon enough so that it's nice and growthy and tillered before freeze up We plant too much weed in October and so we need to actually do a better job We're raising shorter-day soybeans probably getting them in sooner so you can plant wheat 20th of September so you have a better start is is another helpful hint. I would say and then You know managements Intensively management as best you can so you got to be pushing it for yields Phosphorus on the wheat and can a low phosphorus can really hammer their early growth on the wheat


So here it is 615 Must be my mask All right, so here it is 615 on November the 8th, and we're gonna Bring this meeting to open we have Pat and I are here Frank's every is not feeling too good. So he's zooming in so he doesn't share with us and We are We have posted this agenda on the website and in publicly in town and email to interested parties So we can we can legally conduct this meeting and we will be Taking public comments at the end of the meeting and we'll be limited those to five minutes per Per speech on that and we're gonna start out with the minutes from the prior meeting of October 25th Martha, can you hear me now? Yes, I can thank you. You're welcome. All right They look good to me to Frank Pat. Do you have any modifications or changes? No, I do not They're fine with me. Yeah, all right, then I had moved to approve the minutes of the October 25th meeting I second that all in favor. All right. All right. All right, cool and we have Don't guess here. We've got Terry Savry and some others from the fire department and I presume you want to talk about the Discussion to purchase a secondhand compressor for the fire department. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you want to Come on up and give us a little presentation so they can hear you on the zoom Because we haven't had Easter for two years is the paper I gave you and Mr. Supper this fall couldn't do because of COVID and then the budget last year we had 3300 we couldn't get holes for six months Because of COVID backup So if you told up, you know Easter we usually take in 42 to 4500 somewhere in there and so if you figured it up, it's at the low end it's 14 7 and What we're really doing is looking for you know a commitment out of town to say maybe some of those funds that we're getting the money from states and See because the compressor is going to be in the range of 15 grand for the compressor and Phil station Which we figure we think it's a really good deal It's a second hand one, but still it's a Way ahead of 65,000 way ahead. Yeah, where are you getting it? Who's got it? I Don't exactly know yet where it's coming from. It's coming out of Massachusetts MES is the company that we'd be buying it from But our donations have been way off in the last two years and we don't get hardly anything now since COVID took over. Yeah, and you know, we just We aren't asking for you know, we just like Some way we got to raise this money to buy this thing because you know, we just needed to train it. I mean, it's essential really Excuse me, Terry. How much did you say you had raised was it 14,700? No, we haven't raised anything. Oh I would raise anything Because of the lack of the fundraising It's lack of fundraising. Yeah, we have nothing fundraising in two years and This year is not looking any better like we're going to be able to do it this year either So I think that's a pretty clear Result of the COVID which is what you know in terms of these Stimulus funds. I think that's a reasonable pretty clear Use for that and from the beginning we are thinking that fire You're so right The from from the beginning of trying to figure out how we can legally Distribute some of these stimulus funds that we've got the the fire department seemed like a pretty obvious Candidate for that seen as they canceled their Easter suppers and fundraising activities. So I think that's that's You're pretty reasonable ask you pat Yeah, we probably aren't gonna He said I wouldn't know for four to six weeks on when you would take it.  You can't for to have something bad. Yeah So excuse me, do am I correct that? You're going to be using it was very faint You're going to be using some town stimulus funds to pay for that $15,000 cost. Yes That's what we're talking about. Yeah, okay. Thank you. Sorry. That's all right So I can double check with Larry We have the money So I can double check with Larry to make sure that that fits into the criteria of all the ARPA funding Which I'm I'm also pretty confident that it would So we can check with Larry that way when you have that conversation With is it NES or MES MES You can have it with a firm footing that we would be able to provide the funding So what we would need from them would be a purchase order, right? And the size of this compressor was there's something about 30 horsepower or something. No, no, it's just it's big enough to fill our air bottles, which are Okay, okay All right, so the gist of this is we're going to verify with Larry who's been Kind of been our advisor on the ARPA funds and but the sense of the board here is that that's a reasonable ask and Encouraged a fire department to go ahead and say they're interested in that used compressor Frank you have something? Yeah, and I think we also Probably want to take beyond just the board Take some input from the town and then suggestions. This is I think Would be something good to put on the agenda for the town meeting to bring up and and invite the public to Bring their thoughts on that They may not be aware of the constrictions that there are on the funds But we could at least put it out there and ask their input Yeah, what's your question Robert? Larry Strauss Okay Everyone if if you wouldn't mind I think that at the beginning Select board meeting a school board meeting a board of civil authority meeting Every elected official and an appointed official should introduce themselves by name and their position especially regarding the planning board The so I'm a little upset. You seemed a little despondent But people don't know who people are even though they live in the town the last planning and zoning board I would recommend that so we the select board members the planning got we've got your point No, Larry Strauss is not present at zoom or in the room here tonight So that wouldn't help anything but we have clarified that that it is is Larry Larry's Larry's affecting the decision and I don't know who I know Larry Strauss, but when you guys say Larry did this and Larry did that You know Okay, we got your point Thank you All right, are you guys we're pretty much done with that Yeah, I'm okay with it. Yep. All right. Thank you guys for coming. Did you have anything else you wanted to No, all right, thanks for coming wait wait is the meeting over No, no this conversation about the fire department Asking about purchasing the compressor is over we're moving on to the the next item which is discussing the new increased dog license rates Okay So Julie do you want to speak to your thoughts on this? sure in the past our rates for a spade and neutered word was seven dollars and the non spade and or neutered was 13 and we're gonna raise it or I'm sorry was seven and 11 and now we're gonna I can't hear you. I'm sorry. Sorry So, I'm sorry We're looking to increase the fees for the dogs Licenses because we mail out all of the licenses in December for the April deadline and in order to Keep up with the Sorry in order to keep up with the fees with recording in progress. Sorry in order to keep up with the increase of postage and Sending out notices we thought that it would be wise to Ask the board if we could increase the spade and neutered from seven to nine and the non Spade to from 11 to 13 and Then after April 1st, there will be a five dollar late fee plus 50% added to each License which is state that's that's a state Briefly. Yeah, could you briefly?  I'll wait three seconds and then continue. How many dogs are in Rochester? Oh Kristen could you answer that? Um, yes, this year we've registered approximately 312 With a handful of people that I know that have dogs but have yet to license them So at the end of the day if every dog was registered in license, what would the outcome with the increase be? $600 So the town takes in $600 That would be the increase over what was the the number they're adding the $600 to Roughly $2,100 so 21 plus 6 is 27, right well kudos 300 Okay, all right, is that was that your question Robert? Well, I think we have other things to focus on rather than people's dogs because that ain't right But that's on the agenda Robert. So could you please hold your comments until we have something that you want to? Specifically talk about other than complaining about what's on the agenda Um, so I I'd move to accept this increase in the in the prices. Yes Yep Frank, I'm in favor. Okay, all in favor I Thank you for putting that together Yep the next item on the agenda is Approving a preventative maintenance contract for the town office elevator also something that we are pretty required to do and this is with Access mobility This is who we were using before yeah And as have they changed anything price wise No, we're looking at three hundred seventy five dollars per year and a five percent discount on all parts Not including Vermont sales tax So I've moved to approve the contract with access mobility for maintaining the Elevator in the town office All in favor Right And now we have We've been currently using the Get into me a blank what's other MVP MVP not yeah, we were using them last year for our time ploy health insurance and We're we have to look at how we're gonna go forward with them Is that MVP Let me speak up dude. Could you repeat that acronym? MVP it's one of the main health insurance offers out there other than blue cross and blue shield Well, you see that like I'm supposed to assume that I know it Well, it's Yep, so Julie you want to speak on that so The two the two carriers blue cross and blue shield and MVP for the platinum that the Current employees have I can't hear you. I'm sorry MVP and Blue cross and blue shield both carry are the carriers that were that this like Ford is looking at the MVP is what the employees have been using and Starting in January Blue cross and blue shield will increase by $80 the Benefits on both are identical and So it's just up to the board to decide if they want to continue with MVP And they think they only went up $12 So and have our employees been satisfied with the service they've been getting from MVP then no complaints on that No, and it still appears to be the better deal I would I would think that we would want to continue on using MVP you guys Frank Pat you have any comments Yeah, all right, I think if it isn't broke don't fix it. Okay, so I would move to continue on with MVP the platinum monthly plan for town employees Favor all right. Okay. Thank you now Oh Lots of papers Next on the agenda we have application from Ken Beatty DBA Beatty earthworks for a The class class for a highway maintenance permit for Oak Lodge Road It's basically winter plowing removal of downed trees and seasonal filling of potholes and and or stone raking so This would be the third year that he's he's taken this on And we have had no complaints from the public He seems to be Responsibly, I didn't hear Patty Harvey's comment saying that we we've had no complaints The work that Kenny has done from the public or neighbors And he's been this will be the third year that he's asked for permission to maintain this road. So I I'd I'd move to approve this Yeah, all in favor All right, all right Okay, the Next topic is the emergency generator grant We've got Joan if you got something that you want to say Yes, can you hear me? Yes. Okay. I've been yeah, I've been working with Frank on this and What I did on Friday was to call the three Companies that had submitted quotes for us back when we were just applying for the grant In order to find out what the supply of generators In power that we're looking to purchase What their availability is these days given a lot of supply chain issues and also if they could say Anything about what was happening to the price of both the generators themselves and any major parts that we would need Installation and all three of them slightly different ways basically said yeah Well, some generators are in very short supply. They seem to be more ones used at the retail or residential level More than the size we're looking for we're in the 10 to 12 or 14 kilowatt size Which is it's it's large for residential But anyway, what I'm being told is that they're sort of in stock in one At one company they have a few that they were able to get early on and have been stockpiling them another one says they have a 10 kilowatt They have a few of them left and If we order it sooner rather than later, we would be waiting a few months for it So they were recommending that we order it Sometime soon and then we would have it three four or five months is what they're guessing right now That that particular supplier said that the cost of the generators hasn't gone up that much But their installation costs have because of labor shortages and then the final Contractor that we got a quote from said They had a few 10 kilowatt collars in stock and The price had gone up four hundred dollars on those But everything else installation wise was the same for them. So it's a little bit of a mixed bag but it seems like If the town wants to go ahead and get started on that You know, we're not gonna lose anything Or we could wait a couple of months and it would probably be about the same situation So Frank you want to add anything to that? No, I think you covered it pretty well Joan. I I think in and Looking forward, I think we should probably order it up and get set on it. So we have it in stock You get ready to to prepare for that the grants good until December. Is that correct? Yeah, 2022 so we do have time if we put out the bid Probably I would say January Then by the time the ground is Unfrozen and they can start digging and doing the installation and getting the The parts and the and the generators in you know, March April something like that So excuse me Joan, do you have You said there were three Companies that have made bids. Are you and Frank recommending any particular company to the board? They were not bids They were just quotes. What excuse me quotes. Pardon me. You were quotes that were required for applying for the grant And are those the the amounts that they quoted are they within the grant? Parameters or the amount of money we were looking at getting well, it's not clear now I'm talking to these three different companies that appears those Possibly or probably I think we can probably expect some increase Either in the cost of the generators or the cost of installation or possibly both Doesn't seem to be No one's you know sounding the alarm and saying it's gonna be up a whole lot. I Don't know if they were just being salesman about it. Yeah No, the bids came in a Little bit less than what we got the grant for just to help with that specific issue But we weren't sure how much of the increase was going to be but that's how we determined the size of the grant That's how that grant was determined by the three bids that we got Right quotes. Yeah, and where did the grant come from? Excuse me. I forgot the federal grant. Thank you from FEMA So Jeff Jeffrey, I know if you wanted to chime in here You had put forth the question about whether or not the town had considered Investing in a battery bank instead of a generator to provide the same service and it's it appears to me that that the The nature of this as an emergency source standing there would Not play well with the batteries which would just they don't like to sit they want to be used, you know what I mean And so that was some of the information that I got that is it's not totally An optimal use of a battery bank to be just sitting there and charged waiting for an emergency It could well be doing I do not know That much about the battery banks. My question was if they can perform the same job Provide the same kilowatt output and coverage Is their flexibility in the grant to switch from a fossil fuel system to an electrified system? my understanding is that Residential Like a Tesla battery is about a 13 kilowatt system And I don't know that that as a residential system would be appropriate either Pretty much all generators need to be exercised You know fossil fuel generators are supposed to be run a certain number of hours each month to keep them in prime condition I don't know what the requirement for use discharge and recharge would be from you know An electrified system, but the the big question was is there any flexibility in the grant if it if this if the Function could be served with a non fossil fuel system That I don't know I'm not sure The funders really care how we power it, but we did Present it the proposal to them grant request to them With certain specifications You make it can I make a suggestion? Hello Yeah, we hear you. What's what's your suggestion Robert? Well, and I'll do a respective Jeff Jeffrey get part I am totally into batteries. I live off the grid and I know what it takes to run my home and Jeffrey's futuristic look is very respected But the problem is we still need the generator Like you said doom to exercise the batteries It's like if you have a generator and you don't run it the generator goes dead If you have batteries that aren't exercised the batteries go dead. So it goes back to the You know the question of this thing we're into Which I totally respect with regards to energy and What I have to do in my home every day to just be on this interview or this meeting tonight I know what I have to do. I know what I have to generate know what the batteries in my home will generate but Jeffrey or doing your right. They have to be exercised.  If you don't walk Yeah, to be at your feet. No, thank you, Robert That's I guess that maybe that plays into I now understand when the people put the Tesla batteries in that the power Company has it can drain them up or down And that's perhaps that is part of the necessity to exercise them But you could also have the power go out and not necessarily have a full charge if you're if you're Hooked up to the grid in that way, but Jeff you had another comment you want to make Yes, and you just pretty much said it the battery technology has changed over time and their control systems that are in use that Facilitate longer life and that's exactly what GMP was talking about with the Resiliency zone it would be necessary to have an appropriate technology And that kind of control and know what the longevity of the system is all of those things are important Yeah, the question really is is is there enough flexibility to consider this if it meets all the criteria that the fossil fuel generator would meet They're making This let someone else that we got them Joan you have comment never. Well, I'll just add a comment which is that I live off the grid as well And we have a lot of regular battery maintenance that has to be done And it's not, you know that hard to do but I think it's very different when You're in a residence and you know the batteries are Providing your power at home versus a situation like this where essentially that generator sits there quietly and is rarely used and only in an emergency and To you know, there might be someone like Frank or someone else who's prepared to Want someone to come down and run the generator a little bit and check on the batteries and stuff But I think the reality is it's hard to maintain that and it's easy to forget about it or somebody you know leaves and Then you have to find somebody else who's willing to do that and be reliable and because this is an emergency system You need to make sure that thing is prepared to go when you need it. So Speaking personally, I'm totally for off the grid living and Living green when you can but I just don't think this is a situation that would work well in it or that kind of thing So I'm sorry, excuse me. I thought you were I thought so I Just want to recommend that we stick with the propane I agree with that Joan and so do I all right So I I think we should go ahead and and put the order in and get in line because I'm I'm not totally trust in the supply Chain nowadays and I think the sooner we get our name on on something the better even if it's not going in until the spring Okay I'll do it as soon as I can but I'm really under the gun right now to finish all the FEMA work In December, so I I'll be glad to jump on that as soon as I finish that All right You know, you know in all due respect dune. Are you there? Yeah, I'm still here You know, this is a great conversation of a transition of power and survival and things but If if if Jeffrey and I could have a conversation Do you know how many Tesla cars run out of energy while I'm on the road? And they're saying where can I hook up?  Thank you, Robert And I'm not going to mention the people that have hookups to Tesla but You It's I yeah your point is it's um It's still an emerging technology and it's not um in in terms of an emergency generator to To power the town office an emergency that propane is probably a little bit more of a robust solution at this time I totally agree with John because uh, we're going Okay, so we're gonna Robert. We're gonna Move on but I appreciate your um your support and then input The next item on the agenda is a discussion about ideas moving forward with the eii findings That was the evaluation of the town buildings their state and how to move forward as a board and um Excuse me. Oh, I'm sorry. Could you just tell me what eii stands for? I apologize. I don't remember. Thank you Martha I I wanted that today too What is eii? Yeah, we talked about this at the last couple meetings energy efficient investments incorporated This was a thank you company that was um Yep There's the building audit for the town buildings and um Frank had some thoughts about the The practicality and the necessity to probably put together a separate task force to really um Take these this input in and that could should include some people more versed in the construction trades that could really Interpret and and you know help to to guide action moving forward about that Frank. Do you want to speak to that? Well, I don't don't really have too much to say about it doing but I I think that's the best way to move forward with this To get more people involved. We're always listening to people that Come in and say, you know, geez. What are you going to do or how you're going to manage this and And I think for the three of us on the select board to try to come up with some plan is just More than what the select board should be looking at and it sure would be nice to get some people that have some Some knowledge and some and could offer some some constructive input To where we go from here And I would like to see that happen and I think the way to do it is to Have a special select board meeting and just have that as what we're going to talk about and see how many people we could get to to Join in and and maybe form a citizen group that can Kind of figure out a path forward for us That's my thought Anybody out So we have Martha that did does that clear to you that's not a Bad thing to have in the paper and inviting people that would be interested in I can put in the article that you suggested that you would have a special meeting But if you unless you've got a specific date or time, I can certainly put that in if you have No, we don't have a specific date or time now But yeah, just putting it forth that We're open to you know If anyone's interested in serving on a committee Regarding the condition of the buildings and improvements needed in our town they could contact I cannot hear you She said is anyone out there is interested in serving on a committee that would be focused on This issue of the condition of the town buildings and how we go about addressing those They'd be good to Put it out there that we're looking for For contributors to that So discussing the condition of the buildings and and suggestions and they should call like the town office and talk to Julie about it. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, June. Yeah There's an incredible force of great people that will do everything they can to Scrape paint and make the town hall of Rochester look proper and anything we need to do. It's just Asking the people that aren't here. They don't get on these meetings But there's a force of great people in this town That will just offer their service. I'll offer the services What do you want done if you want to town office hour wash I'll power wash it for free All right, we may take you up on that one these days There is a little bit tricky with the lead paint issues and we have you have to It's the days of the volunteers jumping up and Scraping and painting the buildings at least on a public building. It's not so easily done that way But um, but that's why we want to um I agree with frank having a special meeting that is focused on this topic. It makes sense It's not and do you have any, um, excuse me Do you have any idea of when you might have it like soon or like in the next few months or something? I could say about over the course of the winter over the course of the winter martha Okay, thank you. Yeah Yeah After the holidays probably Yeah, um Can I just add one thing before you go on doing? Yeah, martha just just say we're we're looking for interested parties like pat said I think that's important Yeah To see what kind of response we get before we issue any any time for a meeting I I think we need to see if people are interested in that Uh, this is this would be kind of more of a project For a select board Can handle at this time. I think with all the other issues that we deal with And that's why I think that's it's a better way to go All right, thank you Joan, um, you're already speaking about the generator and and do you have any other updates other than Being under the gun to finish up the FEMA paperwork I don't want to make too much of that. But the only other item I have Is uh, do and I'll be drafting a letter for you this week for you to sign Uh, I finally was able to get some information on how the town Uh is able to decline the FEMA funding for the retaining wall Um, we will be having to return the funds of course and what I was told today is that Uh, we have to send a letter, uh, which just you know Says that we're declining that part of the grant from FEMA and give the reasons why and uh, apparently the funds will be returned to the state and the state will take care of returning them to FISA That's sorry to FEMA The amount that uh will be returned is 15,799 and 60 cents. That's what FEMA has paid us already that's 75 of what they estimated Uh, the retaining wall project was going to cost And just for the the public's um, understanding would you summarize what why that project kind of Came up against a wall, shall we say? Sure, uh, we originally thought it was a fairly simple thing, but uh at the time that we were required by FEMA to uh Do a quick design of the project and do a cost estimate it was Uh, it was at the end of 2019 and everybody was just going too crazy Especially Puder and his crew doing Road repairs to be able to spend any time figuring out how to do that retaining wall So we agreed to have FEMA To the design at least a preliminary design and the cost estimate for us, which they offered to do in cases like that and unfortunately, um Once we were able to hire an engineer Uh, this was Last summer it was sometime well into 2020. I'm forgetting exactly when Uh to actually take a closer look at what the problem was there What's causing the sinkhole and what would be the best long-term fix? Uh for a rather sensitive situation there with You know the sewer line as well as the outfall sewer line paralleling The brook there as well as the outfall, which is the thing where that was causing the the sinkhole We realized that was more Uh a more extensive job than what FEMA had had estimated for And as a result, uh the amount of money that they estimated was going to be too little And after discussion at a select board meeting a number of months ago, uh, you decided that it made more sense for us to Decide not to pursue the project right now And at that point, I think we were hearing that there was going to be a lot of federal money flowing Through the state possibly for projects of this sort town infrastructure That it made more sense to To wait and also consulting with the engineer cricket, uh who advised us that She thought things were stable for the time being that site The only thing that could upset that opinion was if we had another great big storm And if we don't be now and we're able to Raise the money for the project and do it and we'd be waiting And can you remind me exactly where the retaining wall is? I've forgotten It's along, uh, I guess it's brook street brook, which is right right this Thank you parking lot there. Thank you We had permission to to do it on the on the low end scale Um, we could have probably done it for the 15 000 but One of the concerns I had at the time was if we did it and the fix didn't work and we got into the sewer system Um through another flood of some sort we would be probably responsible for that So I felt an engineered plan would be a lot smarter to go as far as our liability down the road Um, and that was one of the reasons why we chose to go this way too Um, all the bids came in a lot higher than we assumed they would And drove us in a position where we hated to we couldn't really afford to do it. So um We should have probably looked into it a little differently I uh, that was probably my call where I made a mistake on which you know, I'll own that That's the way it is. I'll I'll learn from that situation and go forward with it So, uh, that's why we chose to to do it the way we did. Yeah So I'm I'm curious if now with some of this new stimulus money that's opened up. Maybe if we approach this as a sewer project Versus a retaining wall project that may give us access to funding in a different From a different pot there Yeah, well, certainly town infrastructure for both sewer, you know, stay up. Yeah to to protect that line. Yeah, right And also it's it's a storm water outfall And so yeah, it's all sort of the same Yeah, yeah so, but so Returning this money doesn't preclude us from applying in the future again. I would presume Ufima. Yeah. No, I I wouldn't think so. Um, okay Reasonable reason to decline the money. Yeah, can I make a comment? Sure well Look at Nancy willy. She's got her hand over her face I just want you guys to know that I'm not in this meeting to be a An interrupter I'm involved with Bethel and Rochester Both towns are incredibly resilient and need to grow And my my question to everyone on this meeting is how in god's world can we get Can we get the taxpayers? Not get them, but Be resilient with regards to the tax monies that are paid to the town without being dependent on FEMA two rivers out of qui chi All we do is get grants and we depend on them and then if there's a disaster and and joan doesn't have a A confirmation from FEMA or Two rivers out of qui chi we're cooked So my my point is Can we can we look? seriously everyone look at the tax base and I brought this up many times 92 of your taxes go to the education department All right, we have no control over that and and this board Well, no, wait a second 92 of your property taxes that are paid by taxpayers that work hard every day Go to the education department. Meanwhile, jones is trying to get a wall built on brook street There's a problem so um robert if you want to maybe At the end when we get public comment if you want to go on And we'll give you a chance to speak on that but um five minutes, you know, but um, I think that at this point We'd just like to keep moving forward Respect you. Yeah Um, joan, are you finished there? I am. Thank you. Thank you I don't see anyone here from the library on zoom or in person so we'll go on by that and um the highway they're prepping for winter changing tires and mountains snow plow frames The um been doing some grading terry you're here anything on the utilities front Yeah, terry just says that when some of this grant money Does come there are some projects that need to get done I'm curious about the The project across from terry sevry's house. Um, is that a new generator being installed By the private owner or is that a replacement? That's uh, that's a private private owners I believe that's at least what terry is indicating there. That's nothing relative from the municipality um, well there was concern there was concern about The property of terry sevry Regarding the sale of the property with the Nothing that says nothing to do with um that what you're talking about there. I don't think um Jeffrey get part um as an energy coordinator We had you speaking a little bit already, but is there anything else you'd like to to speak about tonight? Oh, you're muted. Sorry uh, I am waiting Confirmation of an appointment uh with Jeanette and the vermont present preservation trust to take a look at the building envelope And what could be done and who's good at working with that kind of material And all of that kind of thing as soon as uh, she's able to pin down a date We'll be starting the process of looking at that that enclosure Um the rochester area climate initiative Meeting was held last week and there will be There were a group both on zoom and in person that went through the collection of ideas for rochester Ranked them and selected some priorities Um, the next step would be a virtual meeting on december 6th uh to review How to structure task forces and to go about tackling some of these items Yeah, I don't think that I need to go into too much on the rochester area climate initiative as board members were We're available to to hear about that Excuse me, jeff the the part at the library building You said you're meeting with jeanette bear and the preservation trust to look at But what part of the is this is there a specific part of the library building? I can't remember that you're looking at the walls are the walls are basically not shedding water appropriately And we've got a lot of rod on the exterior of the building is is what you're looking at not the interior Yep, the building envelope their enclosure envelope. Yeah Jeffrey I I know exactly where you're talking about and that's three feet above the foundation of the library Now it looks like there could be some penetration points at a higher amount higher level to Yeah, it's it's about six feet, but I looked at it and I thought oh boy We need a a water deflection of six feet high No, you're you're that's a good point Yep, yep, it's um, so that I'm glad to hear that you got you and jeanette are are Moving forward with the preservation trust that some seems like a good opportunity to get some input Some of this initiative that we attended the other The first of last week That might be useful in some of this too Don't don't you think jeff? Absolutely Yeah, so you may even be able to encompass some of that into the group that we're Trying to get to to look at our buildings Yeah To help out with that Well, jeffrey, may I make a comment to you? There should be a french drain A trench dug on the north side of the library Probably eight or 10 feet deep filled with heavy gravel to to reduce that overflow Because the north side is rotting We'll certainly take a look at it. We'll take a look at all the components that Contribute to the problem that we have Yeah Well, thank you We didn't have anything under old business. We come down to public comment robert Is there anything that you didn't get a chance to speak about tonight? That you wanted to well Dune thank you for the compassion um One thing that I want I have a question On wednesday, I believe at 8 30 in the morning. There's a board of civil authority meeting regarding a property Uh, no, I don't think it's regarding the property. This is um, since this is regarding the Redistricting and the board of civil authorities comments on that But what what area is are they commenting on? The the state redistricting of the representative structures for the the towns are surrounding towns Oh Yeah, the way it's presented on the of The copied bulletin bulletins Uh, really doesn't bring in the fact that there's rezoning going on That's it's not it's not really It was redistricting more than rezoning I suppose that's a state statewide issue You can see it in the news. Um, but anyway, that's what that meeting is is it's about being held for Okay, it's not about west hill No Okay, well, I think um the the owner of west hill Should have a proper and very succinct survey done of 112 acres before the planning board planning and zoning board You're commenting on on something that happened in the the planning board. This is the select board tonight So that's not really our um our purview tonight So will you be on the uh planning and zoning board like you were last week? And will you be on the uh board of civil authority meeting of this week doom? Yes Yes, thank you. Yep. All right Um And that's that's it for tonight. Thank you for coming Cyber folks and thank you for coming in person


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Hi Helena. Welcome you. We are happy to have you. And would you please share what was the problem that you had and how did it affect your life? I had an ovarian cyst on my right ovary and it affected my life to the point where I couldn't sleep. What did it do to you like at night that you mentioned that you could not sleep? What did you do and what did it do? Well I would have cramps really really bad on my right side and I would wake up crying from pain and I would wake up others and it was bad. So yeah and I had to take pills like I'd wake up at 1.30 in the morning and take a pill so I would sleep through the whole night. And so did you go to doctors? Where were you in search for a solution? I was hospitalized three times and I went to see five doctors and there was like no solution because they said it was too tiny but the pain was really bad. Wow. Okay and what happened? How did you get healed? It was during healing prayer on Wednesday and I didn't feel a difference until I came home and I slept the whole night. So that was for the first time that you slept through without any painkillers? Yep. I slept. Come on put your hands together for God. Now she said that it's been two weeks where she did not take any pain medicine and she sleeps through the night with no pain whatsoever. But I want her to mention of how did your mom react when you told her that you received healing? She didn't believe me at first and she made me sleep in her bed because she didn't think I was sleeping the whole night. She didn't believe me at all. But now she believes you? Yeah, now she does after I slept with her. Amazing. Come on. This is awesome. Helena, we thank God for your amazing healing and we're very happy for you. Can you please share a word of advice for somebody who might struggle with some pain in their body? Just pray. Pray through it and ask for help and raise your hand when they ask you to if you're feeling pain. And the Lord will heal you. Yep. Come on. Amen. Thank you so much.


from the Regency Center in San Francisco, it's theCUBE.  Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and this is theCUBE's coverage of Serverless Conf 2018 here in San Francisco, our second year doing the program and happy to welcome back to the program, Sam Krünenberg, who is the CEO and founder, the guy that built A Cloud Guru, the company behind this Serverless Conf show, so thanks so much for joining me and we really appreciate that we can be here as a media partner. Thanks, Stu, thanks for coming along. It's been great, the conference has been great so far and it's great to have you here. Yeah, so Serverless, one of those technologies we've been talking about for a few years, super exciting, a lot of energy and I feel like it's translating the show, good buzz in the show. I hear about 500 people, so give us, compare and contrast for us a year ago to today. Yeah, there's huge energy here. This is the biggest turnout that we've had to date. You know, we started this two years ago in 2016, I think we had a couple of hundred people. Mostly at that time it was the vendors, it was like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and then some enthusiasts. I think last year we started seeing more of the tooling companies, the startups around the serverless space starting to come in and this year it's just exploded. I mean, if you have a look and you walk around and see the sponsor booths, it's just this explosion of new tooling companies that are, I guess, doing value ads on top of what the vendors are doing. So, yeah, like security, monitoring is a whole range of them. Yeah, and Sam, you were one of the first companies I talked to where it was like, oh, okay, this technology that just allows me spend a few weeks in a basement building a company that just totally changed the economics of how you build the company and how you deliver a service to users. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I built the original school in four weeks and I locked myself in a bedroom and because I built it serverless, not only was it cheap to run, but it scaled incredibly easily. I didn't have the operational overheads. If something, I didn't have to worry, what if we get a spike in traffic in the middle of the night while I'm asleep? You know, when we didn't have a lot of staff and it allowed us to move quickly early on, which was fantastic. So there was a lot of like rapid development tests and feedback cycles. But interestingly now, I find one of the biggest differentiators for us is the cost. The cost is so low. We do six and a half million lambda invocations every day. 1.8 million API requests and we pay $550 a month for compute for the entire business, 650,000 customers. Yeah, game changing on the economics. That is game changing. That is orders of magnitude, yeah. So it's, yeah, incredible. All right, A-Click Group Guru as a company has expanded quite a bit. It's not just AWS anymore. It's beyond. Tell us a little bit about the company and give us your viewpoint of serverless overall. It's much more than just lambda today. Yeah, for sure. So the company as a whole, we've grown like crazy. It's been great. We've expanded out. We're in Texas, in Austin, Texas now. And in the UK and in Australia. Yeah, we've a lot more focus on other clouds as well. So we've just released our first Google certification courses. We've got a few Google courses, a whole bunch of Azure courses. And we're seeing a lot of demand within our customer base and enterprises that we work with to go multi-cloud. So yeah, and I think the serverless space is kind of a little bit by nature more vendor agnostic than the generic cloud computing space. It's easier for companies to architect across clouds. Yeah, I'd love to dig into that a little bit for us because most of the people I talk to, it's pretty much dominated by lambda today and some of the other services that AWS have. Are you finding people that are doing serverless multi-cloud? There was just an announcement on that canative stuff where we're all trying to dig into. So what do you see on the kind of non-Amazon serverless? I think everyone has their preference. And like, so we are mostly built on AWS, but we use Firebase as well and we use Google Vision. And I think because when you build serverless, you're building against managed services effectively with APIs that you can build against and manage service in AWS and hit its API or you can hit one in Google, right? You've got that kind of boundary around the system. So yeah, I think it's a little bit easier just by its very nature of being really, you're building, architecting on a set of managed services. But I would say most companies are still focused on particular clouds, but I just mean by nature it's a little easier to build multi-cloud. So you mentioned a couple of other services you're using. The thing I want to ask you is, so many times in technology, it's like, oh, when you're a startup, you can do the latest and greatest cool new thing and you built on Lambda. And then two or three years later, wait, wait, it's changed and therefore, wait, I architected something differently. So give us your viewpoint as an architect as to how things have changed. Does using serverless allow you to just kind of be on the new thing easier than if I had kind of built on serverless? I'm actually talking about this in my talk tomorrow and I think one of the big advantages of serverless is that you can change your architecture over time much more easily. So when I built the platform originally, I built a monolith. It was a serverless monolith. There was like a whole bunch of functions reading to and writing from the same database and just highly coupled. And it was just this big kind of beast. Over time, as we brought on development teams, they didn't work anymore. They needed to be able to specialize in different areas. So we changed to a microservices architecture. We did that incrementally over time, but we changed our entire architecture without ever once having to think about infrastructure. We didn't have to think about what's the load balances? How's the web farm going to work? How am I going to autoscale? Infrastructure was an issue. So changing our architecture is just a matter of changing a YAML file, changing configuration file, hit deploy, cloud formation deals with it. So I think it gives you that flexibility. It's great. I mean, for years they used to talk about it. Well, when you build your infrastructure, well, what version of OS do you have? What gear do you have? And if you go to AWS or Azure or GCP, you don't say what version you're running on because you're running on whatever they had. But even in traditional infrastructure as a service, it's not what version you're running on. But it's like, oh wait, I have this compute instance. And now there's these new versions out and how do I move and change? And there's tooling to help with that. But it sounds like you're saying with the serverless microservices, it makes that even easier. Well, even with typical cloud, let's say instance-based, say EC2-based cloud, if you want to introduce a new microservice, you've got to be thinking about, yeah, what's my entry point? How am I going to load balance? How am I going to set up my auto-scaling? We just don't have to have those conversations. You know it's going to scale. Just expose an API endpoint or a Lambda function and just invoke it. And I think, who is it? Rob from Nordstrom is doing a talk of from one to N. With serverless, if what works for one invocation works for a million invocations. It just scales from one to N without any change in architecture. I think that's really compelling. That's the whole scale thing that we've been talking about, but really it does. Yeah, to talk a little bit, give some stats as to scaling your business. You don't want to need the limits or issues or spikes as to- I think over time, we've occasionally contacted AWS to increase concurrent execution limits and some of that stuff. If you just, you can pre-plan that, see that coming and talk to them about it. But we used to have to worry about write and read throughput on DynamoDB and now they have auto-scaling. We don't have to worry about that. So I think a lot of those constraints that were there in AWS infrastructure are changing now too. So yeah, it's something we have to do very, very rarely. Yeah, any commentary on the maturing space of serverless as to any limits that have been lifted, not just in Lambda, but in general, or things that you're looking forward to in the future that might expand some of the use cases or allow things to grow even faster. I think obvious things like SQS Lambda integration is great to finally have it. So there's some things that everyone was just waiting for. Got to pre-existing things. No, I think what's most interesting to me, like I get the vendors will keep innovating. They'll keep making this faster and more scalable and like tooling around that to make it easier to develop. I think we did an executive summit yesterday prior to the conference. And one of the things that really resonated to me in that summit was when you're a developer, a developer's entire experience of serverless is the dev experience. That's kind of all they see. Like they're not in the back-end infrastructure worrying about the monitoring the servers and all of that kind of stuff. So they're not looking so much at the ops. So their experience of serverless is the dev experience. So I think starting to see the vendors focus on dev tooling like Sam and having Sam local. And that is really great to see because that's improving experiences for developers. But I think the thing that excites me more than what the vendors are doing is what the startup ecosystem is doing in the security space, monitoring management. I know serverless just announced their new product for the serverless platform for deployment. So I think that I kind of get a little bit more excited about that. And the other thing is of course users that are doing cool and interesting things. I love to show you mentioned Nordstroms is presenting. I've heard them on podcasts before. I had Fender on today talk about how serverless helps them in the application. Had the people serverless.com talking about how even in marketing content serverless can help them do. Any other kind of cool, interesting stories that you could share? Yeah, I've seen like Expedia are doing a lot in the serverless space now. They're doing a lot there. Another one, even Netflix. Netflix aren't using, from my understanding, they're not using public cloud but they've rolled their own but they're using the same architectural principles and practices so they have their own function as a service system built internally. So it's interesting to see the same patterns applied outside of public cloud where they may not make sense for them as a business to be running particular things in AWS. So yeah, I think, yeah, there's a range. All right, Sam, I want to give you the final words, takeaways from the show and what to look for from a cloud guru in the future? Yeah, we've got a whole lot more AWS content coming, a lot more labs and a lot more Google and Azure content coming. So you just see a lot more really cool content from us. A lot more focus, our focus now is a lot on training teams at scale and enterprises. So we do a lot of work with large enterprises on helping them transform their talent. So we're doing a lot of work on that. And yeah, I think tomorrow at the serverless comp show, we've got Simon Wardley. I'm talking, so of course that'll be amazing. No, we've got some really good Linda Nichols from CloudReach this afternoon. So I'm excited, yeah, you can see a lot of cool content. Sam, really wanted to appreciate you, the partnership bringing theCUBE here for the second year and congrats, great community year. Yeah, thank you. Always a pleasure to catch up with you. Yeah, and thank you for supporting us. All right, Sam Cronenberg, I'm Stu Miniman and be sure to check out the kube.net for all of the content for shows in the past as well as where we'll be in the future. Reach out to us if there's a show that we should be at that you don't see on the list. For the whole crew here, most of them, the Palo Alto and San Francisco base, I'm an East Coast guy, but happen to be in the area. Stu Miniman, thanks so much for watching theCUBE.