Assalamu Alaykum. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Assalamu Alaykum. Wa-Alayhi wa-Sahbihi-Jami'in. Just a few words insha'Allah to Allah, and then we'll pray at Tawr-e-Wiyah insha'Allah to Allah. Just being in prayer and being filled with incredible gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for being in the Masjid, the Masajid are the most beloved places to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to be with the company of the righteous, many of my teachers, many of my beloved ones. This is a tremendous ni'ma, and sometimes we don't stop and think about these ni'ma. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us in the Quran that if you were to even try to enumerate the blessing of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, one blessing of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you would not be able to do so. And above that, I mean we're listening to the beautiful recitation of Qari Amr May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala preserve him, the story of Musa A.S. And it reminded me of something I read in a book called The Lives of Man by Imam Abdullah ibn Ali wal-Haddad, Rahimu Allahu Ta'ala, in which he said that, he said on the authority of Ibn Abbas, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, he said the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he once came to a group of Sahaba and he said to them, what do you say about this ayah? That you were not at the side of Mount Sinai when we called out and the Sahaba said, Allahu Rasulahu A'lam, Allah and His messenger are no best. And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said, this was when he revealed the alwah, the tablets to Musa A.S. And he described the Ummah of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the alwah and Musa A.S. was so absolutely mesmerized by what he was reading that he requested to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, oh Allah, make this my Ummah. Make the Ummah of Ahmad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam my Ummah and Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said to him, no, your Ummah is many Israel. And then Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala continued to describe the virtues of this Ummah in the scripture of Ahlul Kitab and there are many, many descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to this day in their books. And Musa A.S. he was so smitten by what he was reading and at one point according to the Hadith, Musa A.S. said to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, oh Allah, make me a man of that Ummah just a believer, a Muslim in the Ummah of Ahmad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Musa A.S. wanted to become just one of us. We were the envy, good envy, this is a good envy. We were the envy of prophets. This is the nima that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us and then Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said to Musa A.S. He said, no, your Ummah is many Israel, but you can hear their voice if you wish. You can hear the voice of this great Ummah. And Musa A.S. he said, I wish to hear their voice and then Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, ya Ummah ta'Ahmada oh Ummah of Ahmad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and all of us, all of us, he said, la bake ya Rabb la bake at your service and Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, praise me and we said Subhanallah and Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, give me praise and we said Alhamdulillah la ilaha illallah and Musa A.S. heard our praise, heard our tasbih and our tahmeer and our tahleed he heard us say Subhanallah wa Alhamdulillah wa la ilaha illallah and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, this is the meaning وَمَا كُنْ تَبِجَانِ بِتُرِ إِذْنَا دَيْنَا that you are not at the side of Sinai when we called out, when we called out to the Ummah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and Musa A.S. heard our voice this is a tremendous ni'ma we have to think about these things may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala increase us in this beautiful virtue it's called a theological virtue Imam al-Ghazali wa Rahim Allah Ta'ala he enumerates 19 theological virtues and towards the top of the list is Shukr gratitude to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala this is the epitome of the Akhlaq Nabawiyah the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when he is praying all night long and his feet were swollen red or his heels were cracking and his beloved wife, our mother Aisha radiallahu ta'ala anha she said, why do you do this? Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has forgiven your past and future transgressions and the transgression of a Prophet is completely different than our transgression a transgression of a Prophet is leaving an act of great virtue for an act of lesser virtue but he's always virtuous what was his response? sallallahu alayhi wa sallam shall I not be a grateful servant? he was Shakura which is different than the Shakir the Shakir is the one who praises Allah in times of prosperity but the Shakur is the one who continues to praise Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala whether in prosperity or in times of deprivation he praises Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala because he knows wisdom that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala if someone is asking Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala for something and he doesn't get it the wise person knows that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is insha'Allah he is taking something possibly dangerous or harmful away from me I don't deserve this thing it's not good for me and he continues to praise Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala this takes spiritual majority may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala peace be upon you Salat Al-Tarawih Salat Al-Tarawih may Allah bless you may Allah bless you may Allah bless you Allah is the greatest the greatest Praise be to Allah Lord of the worlds the Most Merciful the most Merciful the most Merciful we worship you we ask for help guide us to the straight path the path the path that you have bestowed upon them other than the anger upon them and the pressure put down what they have done on the truth and the battle that they used to do then turn away from you and turn away from you and cast down the magic and cast down the magic in come Allah is the house of theunder and before heơn you if you turn away from him Allah with your hands and your feet and turn away and with your palaces and then I will bend you together they say oh our Lord I shall raise you We have not been forced to be patient, and we have been entrusted to be Muslims. And Pharaoh said to them, Do you wait for Moses and his people to break down on the earth, and to bury you and your family? He said, We will kill their sons, and we will ask for the women above them who are disbelievers. Moses said, God's will is to show it to whom He wills. And the end is for the righteous. What did you bring us? He said, O Lord of your enemies, and He will ask for you on the earth, and he will see how you do. The Most Merciful, the Most Merciful. We worship you, and we ask for you for the right path. The path of those on whom they will be destroyed, and who will be cut off from the graves, so that they may remember. The good will be said to them, The evil will befall them. Moses and our magicians are believers. So We have sent down in the blood, detailed signs. So they grew up, and Moses called upon your Lord with what He had promised you, and you revealed the truth. We will not believe in you, and we will not send with you the Children of Israel. We revealed to you, and they were weak, and the earth was on fire, and the word of your Lord, the best is upon the Children of Israel. They were patient, and their blood was boiling. The Most Merciful, the Most Merciful. The Most Merciful, the Most Merciful. We worship you, and we ask for you. Guide us to the right path. The path of those on whom they will be destroyed, and they will come upon the disbelievers, and upon the righteous.   It is thirty nights, and we have spent twenty nights, and they will be destroyed.  Moses said to the mountain, and if it is close to him, he will see the mountain, and make it clear, and destroy Moses. He said, Glory be to you, and I am the first one, and I am the first of the believers. He said, O Moses, I have left you for the people, with my messages and with my words, so take what I have given you, and be grateful to me. All praise be to Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful, the Lord of the Day of Judgment. We worship you, and we ask for you. We seek refuge in the straight path, the straight path that you have bestowed upon it, and that you have bestowed upon it. And We have written for everything a promise and a detail for everything. So take it with strength, and order your people to take the best of it. I will show you the house of the corrupt. I will turn away from the straight path, and they will not take it as a path. And if they see a path, they will take it as a path. That is because they have denied Our messages, and they were heedless of it. And those who have denied the truth, their deeds will be destroyed. Will they be rewarded for their deeds? And take the people of Moses as a body for him, and a path for them. Take it as a path. All praise be to Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful, the Gracious, the Merciful, the Gracious, the Merciful. We seek refuge in the straight path, the straight path that you have bestowed upon them, and that you have bestowed upon them, the one who is most close to you after. Moses, the anger, took the doors, and in his bosom, he was guided and mercy, guided and mercy to Allah. All praise be to Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful, the Gracious, the Merciful, the Gracious, the Merciful, the Gracious, the Merciful, the Gracious, the Merciful, and He chose Moses, the man who was seventy years old, to fight with us. And when the storm took them, he said, My Lord, if you had destroyed them before, would you destroy us with what you have done to your sufferings? You will go astray with it whomever you will, and you will guide whomever you will. So forgive us. And write therein a good life, and in the Hereafter, He said, My punishment, I will suffer with it whomever I will, and everything will be alright. So I will write therein to stay, and give the zakat, and to the Messenger of the Prophet, the mother, who they find therein written therein, and he says to them, He wants to prohibit the debauchers against them, and He calls upon them their victory and the evils that were against them. So those who helped him and followed the successors, say, O Messenger of Allah, to you all who have the kingdom of the sky and the prophet of the mother with Allah and his words, and follow him, so that you may be guided. All praise is due to Allah. We ask Allah to guide us to the straight path. The path of those whom You have bestowed upon Moses, a nation who guides with the truth and with ten white stones made of stone. Then twelve of our eyes came down from it. Every one of us knew how to drink them and we went astray. They were astray, but their souls were driven away from this town where you were born, and say, Say, Behold, and enter the door, prostrate, We forgive you your sins. And we will increase the good people. So those who were wronged have been replaced. So We sent upon them a man from the sky and asked them about the town which was like the sea when they sat in the desert when they came to them while they were there on the day when they came to them prostrate. They proved to us that they came to them. That is why they prostrated. And when the mother said, What do you give to the people of Allah, to destroy them, or to punish them with a severe punishment, you say, So when we forget, what do you remember about the bad and We took those who were wronged with a bad punishment themselves? The straight path, the path of those who were wronged with a severe punishment, your Lord will punish them with a severe punishment. They are the righteous and among them without good deeds and evil. So they were wronged after them, behind them and behind the Book they take their place and they say, They will forgive us and the truth. And they will study what is in the Book and perform the prayers. May Allah's mercy and mercy be upon you. We ask you to guide us to the straight path. The path of those who were wronged with a severe punishment and a severe punishment. When we reached the mountain above them, they were wronged and wronged. They take their place and remember what is in it, so that you may be mindful. And when your Lord took from the sons of Adam their identity and made them witness and made them witness to their souls, did I not have your Lord and said, No, we have not witnessed. You say, On the Day of Resurrection, you will be forgiven. Or do you say, My father shared before and we were, will you destroy us with what the righteous did? And thus do we detail the signs and may they be returned. May Allah be the Greatest. Allah has heard for whom He has praised. May Allah be the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. The Most Merciful, the Most Merciful. Master of the Day of Judgment. We worship you and we ask your forgiveness. Guide us to the straight path. The path of those who were wronged with a severe punishment for them and for the wrongdoers. And recite to them the Qur'an, which We gave it Our Signs, and it was from it that the devil followed it and it was of the wrongdoers. And if We wished, We would have raised it with it, but it was led to the earth and followed its desires. For the dog, you can carry it or you can leave it. That is the example of the people who denied Our Signs. So the story of the story may they think about it. An example of the people who denied Our Signs and their souls and their souls and their souls and their souls were wrongdoers. Whoever is guided by Allah, he is the guided one.  Allah is the Greatest. Allah has heard for whom He is Praiseworthy. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah. Peace be upon you. Allah is the Greatest. All praise be due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. The Merciful, the Merciful is the owner of the Day of Judgment. We worship you and we seek refuge with Allah from the evils of the right path. The path of those whom You have bestowed upon them, other than the punishment upon them or the punishment. And We have indeed lost to Hell many of the jinn and the human beings. They have hearts which they do not understand. And they have eyes which they do not see, and they have ears which they do not hear. They are like cattle, rather, they are worse. They are the heedless. And to Allah are the best names, so call upon them. And beware of those who turn away in their names. They will be rewarded for what they used to do. And from whom We created a nation which guides with the truth, and with it they make justice. And from whom We created a nation which guides with the truth, and with it they make justice. And to those who have denied the signs of Our people, We will turn away from them, from where they do not know. And give them hope. Verily, it is two ways. Or do they not think of what their companion is? Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. And what Allah has created is nothing. And what Allah has created is nothing. And Al-Asa will be created, and his time will be nearer to them. So what is the Hadith after that? So what is the Hadith after that? So there is no gift for it. And they will see in a long time. They will ask you about the Hour, which is the Day of Resurrection. Say, My Lord, it is not possible for it to come to an end. So say, in the heavens and the earth, it will not come to you except its death. They will ask you as if you are a hafi from it. Say, It is not possible for it to come to an end. Say, And if I had known the unseen, I would have been more than good. And there is no harm except what He wills. Say, I have no power for myself except what He wills. And if I had known the unseen, I would have been more than good. And there is no harm except what He wills. And it is a sign for my people. He heard Allah for whom He has praised. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah. SubhanAllah. Allah is the Greatest. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. The Most Merciful, the Most Merciful. Malik, the Day of Judgment. If we worship you and if we ask for help, guide us to the straight path. The path of those whom you have bestowed upon them, not the anger upon them nor the anger. It is He who created you from a single soul, and made a wife from it, so that he may live to it. And when she was raised, she carried a light cloth, and she passed by it. And when the call of Allah became heavy, his Lord said, If you bestowed upon us good, we would be among the grateful. And when he bestowed upon them good, He made partners for him in what He had bestowed upon them. So come to Allah for what they associate with Him. Do they associate with Him what He does not create, and what they create? And they will not be able to help them, nor will they be able to help themselves. And if you call them to guidance, they will not follow you. It is the same for you. Have you called upon them? Or are you silent? Allah is the Greatest. Allah heard for whom He has praised. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. The Gracious, the Merciful. Master of the Day of Judgment. We worship you and we ask your help. Guide us to the right path. The path of those on whom you have bestowed upon them, other than the subject upon them or Allah.  Call upon them, so that they may respond to you, if you are truthful. Do they have men who walk with them? Or do they have hands who touch with them? Or do they have eyes who see with them? Or do they have ears who hear with them? Say, Say, Call upon your partners, who are firm in their commitment. Say, Say, Call upon your partners, then they are firm in their commitment. So do not look. Verily, the Wali is Allah who has sent down the Book. And it turns away to the righteous. Allah is the Greatest. He heard Allah for whom He has bestowed upon him. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah. God willing, I will be in Sajdah Tila and in the second raka'a insha'Allah. Allah is the Greatest. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. The Most Merciful, the Most Merciful. The Lord of the Day of Judgment. We worship you and we ask Your forgiveness. Guide us to the straight path. The path of those whom You have bestowed upon them, not those who are blinded by them or those who are blind. Verily, the Wali is Allah who has sent down the Book. And He turns away to the righteous. And those who call upon Him besides Him, they cannot help you nor their souls will help you. And if you call upon them to guidance, they will not hear. And you will see them looking at you and they will not see. Take forgiveness and order by the knowledge, and turn away from the ignorant. And if any of the shaytani will turn away from you, then seek refuge with Allah. Verily, He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. Verily, those who fear Allah, when they are touched by the shaytani, they will remember Him. And when they see Him, and their brothers will turn away from them in the darkness, then they will not be able to see Him. And when they do not come to Him with a sign, they will say, why did you not turn away from it? Say, Say, Say, Do you follow what is revealed? Say, Say, Say, Do you follow what is my Lord? This is the vision of you and guidance and mercy for my people. And when they recite the Qur'an, then listen to it and forget that you will be mercy. Allah is the greatest. He heard Allah for whom He has praised. Allah is the greatest. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The owner of the Day of Judgment. We worship you and we ask your forgiveness. Guide us to the straight path. The path of those whom you have bestowed upon them, other than those who are astray. And when they recite the Qur'an, then listen to it and forget that you will be mercy. And remember your Lord in your soul, that you will be humiliated and frightened, and, besides the jahre, you will say in the morning and in the evening, and you will not be of those who are heedless. Indeed, those who are with your Lord will not be proud of their worship, and they will glorify Him and He will be prostrated. Allah is the greatest. They ask you about the waste. Say, the waste belongs to Allah and to the Messenger. So fear Allah and reform that between you and obey Allah and His Messenger, if you are believers. The believers are the ones who, when Allah is mentioned in their hearts, and when His verses are recited to them, their faith increases. And they rely on their Lord. Those who establish prayer and what they have provided for them will be paid. Those are the truth. They have degrees of forgiveness and a generous provision. Allah has heard Allah for whom He has praised. Allah is the greatest. Peace be upon you and mercy of Allah. Allah is the greatest. All praise is due to Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The Lord of the Day of Judgment. We worship you and we ask your forgiveness. Guide us to the straight path. The path of those whom you have bestowed upon them is not to be missed upon them.  And Allah wants to make the truth come to you with His words and cut off the enemies of the disbelievers to make the truth come to you with the truth even if the criminals hate it. When you ask your Lord for help, He will answer you that I will give you a thousand of the angels who are pleased with me. And Allah has not made it but a sign that your hearts will be content with the Prophet. And who is a wise helper? When he covers you with a veil of faith from which he sends down upon you from the sky, the devil will leave you, and his heart will be content with your hearts, and his feet will be content with it. When your Lord is revealed to you with you, then be content with those who believe. I will throw in the hearts of those who are the disbelievers. So shoot above the children. That is because they are willing to say to Allah and His Messenger and whoever is willing to say to Allah and His Messenger, then Allah is severe. That is your punishment. All praise be to Allah, the Merciful. That is the day when we worship you and when we ask for help. Guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom you have bestowed upon them, the path of those whom you have bestowed upon them, and the path of those who have disbelieved, so do not turn them to the right path. And whoever is in the battle or in the battle, or in the battle of a god, then he has turned away, and he is in the battle of victory. So you have not killed one of them without a good cause. And it is a hearing, a knowing one. That is for you and the disbelievers. That is for you and the disbelievers. If you ask for help, then the opening has come to you. And if you ask for help, then it is best for you.   Peace be upon you all. Allah is the Greatest. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Highest. O you, we worship you and we ask for help. Guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom you have bestowed upon them. And tell them the evil of the Dawam, the falsehood of them. It is better for them to hear them. And if they hear them, they will turn away.  And remember those who are weak in the earth, you fear that the people will put you down, and they will turn away. They will turn away and guide you with my help, and will provide you with the good, so that you may be grateful to the messenger, and will be able to call you for help, and that you may be in the right path.  And Allah is the Most Gracious, Most Merciful. O you, we worship you and we ask for help. Guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom you have bestowed upon them, and to those who are unjust to you.   So taste the punishment. Salat al-Witri, O my Merciful, and O your Merciful, Allah. All praise is due to Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Lord of the Day of Judgment.  Guide us to the straight path. The path of those whom you have bestowed upon them, and to those who disbelieve, and to those who spend their wealth, so that they may turn away from the path of Allah.  So that Allah may protect him from the good, and He may make some of them and some of them will be left behind. So they will be left behind. Say to those who disbelieve, that they have been rejected, and if they return, then the previous generation has already passed away. And fight them, until there is no trial, and the religion is all for Allah. So if they do good, then they will see. And if they turn away, then they will know.   All praise is due to Allah.   Allah has bestowed upon them, and to those who have not. All praise is due to Allah. All praise is due to Allah. Allahumma salli wa sallim, wa barik ala Sayyidina wa Habibina Muhammad. Allahumma ahdina fee man hadayit, wa aafina fee man aafayit, wa tawallana fee man tawallayit, wa barik lana fee man aatayit, waqina wa srif'anna bi rahmatika sharra, wa su'ama qadayit. Fa innaka tabarakta rabbana wa ta'alayit. Laka al-hamdu ala ma aatayit, wa laka shukru ala ma qasamta bihi wa ulayit. Nastaafiruka Allahumma min jami'idunubi wal khataya wa natubu ilayit. Wa nu'minuk wa nuthni alaika al-khayra, kullahu subhanak. Subhanak anta al-gani wa nahnu al-fukarau ilayik. Allahumma asilna ahab lana amal an-salihayi wa qaribuna ilayik. Allahumma la tukhzina tafzahna gadan bayna yadeika wa la bayna khalqik. Allahumma bi rahmatika al-audhmata waffna muslimeen. Wa kab'u bi karamika al-hikna bi's-salihin. Wa la tukhayb raja'ana fika ya kareen. Al-jina bi rahmatika min al-qawmi al-kaafireen. Wa yassir illa tu'assirha bi fadlin wa jula akramin. Ya wala hamman illa farrajtah wa la'a illa satartah wa la'a marida illa shafaytah wa la'a mubtalan illa aafaytah wa la'a do'a wa la'a maimtah wa la'a musafiran illa salimun ghanimur radattah wa la'a hajatan min khirah iya lakarizun wa lana fiyaa salahan illa wa yassartaramika ya akram al-akramin.


All right guys, we're live Let's get started Okay, well good morning everyone and thank you so much for coming to cloud native apps with server-side web assembly My name is Liam Randall and I have been in technology for a long time. I'm a serial entrepreneur and investor I've focused primarily in the open-source space. I did a brozeek and then OS query I did an early Kubernetes company called critical stack that I sold to capital one and for the last few years I've been obsessed with web assembly and its implications for the cloud I'm a hectic man on Twitter. I'm on all the slacks and try to be very accessible So if you want to follow up with me afterwards, don't hesitate for a moment to ping me directly So we're gonna start with just a quick little summary of what web assembly is This talk is not designed to teach you all about the details of web assembly instead We're gonna talk about how you can use web assembly on server-side applications But we do want to summarize to make sure we bring along as many people as possible with us along for the journey So web assembly is a little bit like some things that people have tried before Strike stop me if this sounds familiar. You can write your apps once and run them anywhere Of course, you've heard that Java silver light flash. This promise has been made many times But this time it's different with web assembly. We have an open WC3 standard That's already supported on the devices you already use in love all of your major browser vendors It's incredibly efficient and fast and it's poly got like it's not like Java It doesn't come with its own programming language It allows you to take code that you have and then recompile it down to this intermediate format It runs everywhere and what's powerful about web assembly is is that these little engines? These wasm runtimes can be tuned for different circumstances So for example, you might want to have your code running on big silicon in the cloud And you can have a web assembly runtime like wasm time that's tuned for that or perhaps you want to do some Just in time compiling or ahead of time compiling out on the edge And you want to use it a runtime that's tuned for low power or low memory You can still use the same code and port them to both So this is a very portable technology and one of the most powerful things that we will talk about is that it's a very safe Technology, but I'm going to hold that value prop for a moment Let's talk about what we mean when we say cloud native. You know when we talk about cloud native We're really talking about this third epic in the last 25 or so and years of computing where 20 years ago even longer than that at this point 25 years ago people started to realize when they were building data centers that there was an opportunity to be more efficient and virtualization came out and that really was accelerated with the public cloud and The key move that happened there is that the security boundary moved from the box itself You know the the Dell server or the IBM server up to the CPU and there were a lot of crazy Implications in that and then a few years later We sort of entered the epic that we're in now with containers and people said God, you know I used to build these images and it would have you know raid controller Firmware in it and that was crazy and why am I doing this with my a software applications shipping entire operating systems So a virtualization layer of you know containers was put together and coupled with Kubernetes It's really come to dominate the landscape But we're gonna talk a little bit about how the technology technology we have today Does not meet the challenges that we have today and we're gonna do that by looking at the modern computing environment this picture of the world is really what is going to drive the next 20 years of change and we say that and I think that because Containers will work on much of this infrastructure when you think on the far left side of this image We have the central public cloud on on the far right We have the tiniest devices in your lives tiny watches refrigerators things like that There is a continuum where Kubernetes will work great It will continue to go out to the edge and containers can be brought there But there are an increasing number of cases that do not depend on Linux Nor will run Kubernetes and an easy one I'd point out is your web browser Which is probably one of the most common ways that you interact with software today Never mind all of these tiny devices lower power and memory constrained devices These are not these will not work and there is some lower bound where we can take today's technology So what are the problems? What are the additional problems that we have with today's technology? Yesterday we hosted the second cloud native web assembly day and my good friend Ralph Squatchy and I spelled his name wrong there. Sorry Ralph Actually quipped that in the new there is no edge in the new cloud and I think he's absolutely right I just had this article posted in the new stack last Monday But there are all these compelling reasons when if you want to sit and have the discussion on where will Compute live in the future, you know Will it all just live centrally on the far left side of that diagram in the public cloud and everything on the far right is Dumb and just makes API calls and I would argue absolutely not for at least these five reasons There are latency and determinant Deterministic reasons why you need to make decisions locally think like your Tesla you want real time There are privacy and security reasons why you would not want to ship personal data out of a particular environment There are times when you want liberate you're limited or deliberate autonomy think like drones or things that go offline Think of my refrigerator if it's disconnected from the public cloud it better still keep things cool Oftentimes on the edge is where the data is they give your nest doorbell. It doesn't ship all of that Data back to the central cloud It does pre-processing first to select key images that have faces and other things and then ships them back And regulatory reasons, you know GDPR CCPA Regulate regulation is an invest move right now We're gonna have far more regulation in the near future than we've ever had in our industry in the past And if we accept that the future of applications is distributed Then we also accept that there are some significant problems that we're going to have to deal with and we're gonna talk about these a Little bit, but the first one is a diverse set of system architectures The second one is is that the application architectures themselves will be different How many times are you using peer-to-peer technologies for example device-to-device that don't even transit the public cloud? System security. How do we how do we reuse this code and deploy it everywhere and keep it safe? Offline use and machine learning. There's a link to the article in the new stack If you'd like to read a couple page paper about or article about The further reasons there But let's walk through the three key challenges in today's computing environment that are driving the rise of web assembly The first is portability this diverse Execution environments that we need to be able to run in places where we have different CPUs different operating systems or even neither of those like the browser where we just sort of have an execution environment The second big reason is security across that new continuum of technology. How are we going to secure this and lock this down? Containers are scoped to a Linux process How do we take a security model that's scoped to a Linux process to places where we don't even have Linux or processes for that matter and The third big reason is the one we're going to spend the most time on because I think that this is the opportunity for the biggest innovation in technology period especially when coupled with web assembly and it's the tight coupling that we currently make between Applications and their libraries or capabilities that they use we'll tease that apart in a moment. Let's go through these one at a time So this first challenge is portability. We are on the way to 50 billion internet connected devices by 2030 That is a phenomenal number and Collectively this represents as much if not more computational power than we have in the cloud itself If this is the new cloud then we have a whole new set of challenges here But what I would emphasize is is that yes There's a story around arm and power PC and MIPS and all of the long tail of risk chips that you find out in today's ecosystem But this is also a problem in data centers. Think of the AMD Graviton 64 bit arm processors that they've launched When we build containers today, we make an implicit assumption and we target a specific CPU architecture So another case where containers don't fail and if you suddenly have to support Dozens or hundreds of different architectures having an intermediate format like web assembly is a huge win So for this first big challenge, I think it's clear web assembly brings a lot to the table and it's something that can be considered Let's go to the second big challenge. What about the security of these things? Now this idea of capability driven security is not new any of the Linux networking You know geeks in the audience have probably used, you know pseudo set cap before to give privileges to snort or shirikata Or bro or something to monitor network interface But it's the idea that the children no longer inherit the permissions of the parents and web assembly really embraces this capability-driven permissions in that if you want to access a file or a folder then you have to be Specifically granted to it web assembly is denied by default and you're becoming increasingly familiar with this Think five or ten years ago when you installed an application on your phone. It just installed today It actually prompts you on a line by line basis for access to the video camera to the microphone and the other capabilities That same model is coming to our cloud software and then we're gonna extend that so for this second big problem I think web assembly is another great fit It brings us a more it brings us a more portable more granular security model that runs everywhere That's feels like a win-win. It runs it near native speed So let's carry this forward a little bit. What about this third problem? You know and in French there's this wonderful word Elan and it's to translate it directly I think that means something like momentum, but it's so much more than that It's that moment right when the bird has got its wings flapped And it's about to take flight or when the dancer is spinning its leg faster and faster and faster and picking Momentum right that's the Elan and what what really I think is a big opportunity to ride this web assembly excitement Is to consider this tight coupling here because this tight coupling that we have acts as an anchor that holds us in place If you're building for a specific cloud provider and you're using specific cloud provider services Who cares how portable your code is if you're stuck in that particular location? So we've seen this rise of actor models in technologies like wasm cloud and in technologies like dapper We're instead of binding to specific libraries You bind to a contract and on the other side of that contract just like a Lego block you can plug in different capabilities So these are the capabilities that you would use to satisfy all sorts of things in your app if you're building An application to calculate loan interest or you're building some social media scoring or you know any kind of Business logic that you want to put into it You have to typically couple that with a large amount of Non-functional requirements in the enterprise that's gets extreme and you have to start coupling it with security and logging and other sorts of Tools and the dirty secret of enterprise application development Especially on the server side is is that the vast majority of the application? Code base is someone else's code It is nearly criminal that in today modern cloud native app development You start each new application with twenty thousand lines of someone else's code and there are some devastating impacts to that The private studies that I've seen in some enterprises was even higher as many as as much as 99% of their Templates some Java spring boot application was non-functional requirements that they were managing and those non-functional requirements Act as a weight that holds you in place there Now across this microservice life cycle when you accept all of those non-functional requirements You end up with some pretty devastating impacts The first is is that you have an inability to move things from design quickly out of POC into production Because there's completely different assumptions that are made that are non-functional The second is is that building your app means that you have a lot of boilerplate code that you have to manage and run Deploying this having to build pipelines for each different CPU architecture or each different device Becomes a long tail of non-functional requirements that you would just select I need one set of security Primitives for Android another for iOS yet another for my edge devices and yet another for my core cloud functioning and the last is by far the most devastating and if you've worked at an enterprise you're constantly hounded by these High-medium low vulnerabilities and that 20,000 lines of code that you need to patch and maintain and All of that holds you back from your core purpose of building and deploying business logic So this tight coupling that we see at the top layer Really becomes one of the biggest challenges that we're facing in modern cloud native development And with web assembly today and its adoption to meet the first two challenges There it comes a huge opportunity as well to solve for the third So I'm one of the co-creators of an open-source CNC a framework that's called wasm cloud And it's both compatible with but not dependent upon the current cloud native stack And we're going to look at a couple demonstrations of running things all together While also running for the edge and as I mentioned before this is not the only approach There's Microsoft has put out a wonderful application layer a tool that is Directly aligned to cloud native. It's a sort of depends on container In the ecosystem so it would meet the first left half of the cloud native world, but doesn't solve for the far right half here So in both of these models you essentially start to adopt this contractor of an approach Instead of importing all of this non-functional code You simply import a small contract and the goal of wasm cloud is to sort of flip those numbers on their head and make your applications 95% business logic and only 5% non-functional code Because on the other side of these Lego blocks these Contracts you can hot swap at runtime into different us actual requirements there so Now this isn't even a new idea It's a little different to start thinking from the top down to start at the business logic and work your way down But to me this is the next obvious step in The continued epics of technology and when you think about the landscape today We already have layers that are doing this for us just in a different domain for example on top of Kubernetes we could layer Istio and Istio would just remove some of the network related concerns such as Traffic routing and role-based access control and on top of that we could even use dapper which will give us this Application layer concerns like the key value store But wasm cloud takes it even further and really turns your business logic into these composable actors It's more of a shift and we couple it with both elixir on the back end for extreme scale and for and with gnats So you get a networking layer on the front end. So let's slide into our first demo Now this is an incredible demo that completely surprised me it came out of nowhere And I'm only going to give you the summary of this one because the full talk is definitely worth your time This was showed at wasm cloud. I'm sorry to a wasm day cloud native wasm day yesterday And this was a group called red badger and they did this on behalf of a large financial service and to help set the stage a little bit This organization had a number of service interruptions with some of the public cloud outages over the last year And they have their regulators asking them when can they go multi-cloud? So what they do in the demo the source code is linked right here if you want to go ahead and grab a quick link You can spin this up yourself, but I'll set up the scene a little bit further In this demo what we're going to have is we're going to have the same compiled code deployed to two Different clouds in this case AWS and GCP and you can see that we have a set of steps here and this basic Microservice that implements the to-do spec your common reference application that people will implement in a language for fun an example and What we're going to do is we kind of walk into this is We're going to start failing over live from one cloud to another as we delete parts of the application We'll just go a little chaos monkey on it. Now logically what's happening here is this view of the world in which case you have GCP on the left and you have AWS on the right and the NATS the CNCF NATS project Gives us a sort of application layer view that seamlessly connects these two environments So it does the auto-discovery and it does partitioning we'll talk a little bit about NATS in a moment And we'll start by just running things in the happy path We'll send we'll curl send a curl request into into GCP and they'll be resolved and then we'll send curl request into AWS and they'll be resolved and then we're going to Start deleting components and we'll watch the application still function normally without any changes whatsoever to the code And it happens because of that crisp separation between those two layers there Then we'll restore the happy path and and things will work here. So Kind of watch for a time on this and Hilarious I Can't see your screen So let me just Okay. Oh, there we go. Perfect Perfect dish Let me skip ahead here a little bit. This is the talk that we'll see tomorrow here and this is the little bit of setup that we're doing and then we're going to get to on the left here we've got Logically a set of windows just terminal setup just like in the pictures. So on the left We've got a GCP that wasm cloud demo and on the right. We've got AWS And as we start sending our simple curl commands in here We'll see that the application functions normally and delivers our code on both happy paths here And as we move into this demo We're going to start to see Us delete the pods down here at the bottom, which is what we're doing right now And the GCP path is now unhappy It doesn't have all the components in the microservice to complete it But the sort of the technology here is going to auto fail right over to AWS and as we watch the request come in here This really is a very interesting demo So I kind of wanted to summarize this one for you and encourage you to watch this when it hits YouTube in two weeks 13 days from today We'll tweet this out off of our accounts But this is a great demo and all the code is linked right off the previous link there as well It's on the red badgers Site there and I really encourage you guys to check that one out So let's explain a little bit about what's happening under the under the covers here The CNCF gnats essentially gives us the ability to create these super super nodes and leaf clusters here so In when you can satisfy a request locally these requests are being routed locally and in that previous demo We were running on Kubernetes by the way, I forgot to mention that detail my apologies So we're running on two different Kubernetes distributions in the previous demo But at the application layer we now have the ability to do this auto discovery and resolution Outside of our local leaf nodes if we can't meet or make our constraints there What it means to you as a developer is is that you no longer have to think about clouds You no longer have to think about topology. In fact your business logic Is completely separated from your topology and your topology can change at runtime We're going to demonstrate that in a live demo. We do in just a second here So in this next demo what we're going to do is we're going to do something similar to that except We're going to deploy running code to some people in the audience. So Taylor. Are you connected to the Wi-Fi? So Taylor up here is is running Wasm cloud as well and what we're going to do is we're going to demonstrate that same ability to fail over here Okay So, all right, so this is my local computer here And I'll just explain the dashboard a little bit and there's all of course works via API and Through a command line CLEE called wash everything in the web assembly world is some sort of a wah joke, you know It's this is the washboard. There's wash. There's All sorts of wah jokes that are out there and we're essentially running the Java a pet store Is anybody ever written the Java pet store before? No one alright, this is like a when you get into Java programming This will be one of the sort of demos that the books always use it starts simple and basic and it gets increasingly and increasingly complex here And logically what we have here is an API that's fronting three other different actors that are here now These actors have capabilities. They have Lego blocks on the bottom And what's great is is that you can plug them into Lego blocks anywhere? So locally they're plugged into an HTTP web server and into a postgres database And that's what's happening here with these link definitions Now I can also see that there's some other hosts here that are sitting on the on the network and Taylor, what is your ID? You any six la or n b v you? You not you all right All right Steve one of our co-workers is also connected. So this is Taylor's laptop here now Taylor Do you have control of the CNCF network? Have you forwarded any ports or networking or anything like that? Okay, so he said that there's nothing but Wasam cloud running that's on his computer. You can see that Taylor isn't isn't run anything So let's go ahead and start a part of the application here on Taylor's computer And we'll go ahead and start a vets, which is a piece of this app And I'm just gonna go and kick that off and I'll give you a demo of what this app actually looks like If you're not familiar with it So this is a simple web scaffolding that we've thrown on top of it But there are a couple simple routes here. We've got a pets. So we've got a Charlie Brown who has a dog Snoopy and Snoopy is a completely paranoid And having hallucinations Especially around Halloween We'll put that on here and he's gonna see a Diana Edwards first is vat and I can click close here and You can see that the That the I'm sorry. I close instead of ad visit. How's my bad? I'll just both hallucinations are on first And Edwards and visit there we go. Alright, so we can see Snoopy's goat has been to the vet now What's really powerful here is is that? This is all part of this somewhat Morphous mesh now so you can see Taylor's running a part of the vets app and if I come back to My computer right here. You can see that I'm running it all as well and we can you know beyond using the UI we could also You know curl this you guys probably can't see that very well. You'd let me in the back know when the text is big enough Great. Thank you so much Great, so I can just curl And I can see that I could hit that API now what would happen if we You know delete this and this is the you know the The live demo right so let's see what happens When we delete it, so I'm no longer running that piece of this application here locally And let's see Here's crossed I Really want to scream goal, but I'm mic'd up. Sorry to me. That's really exciting Think about what we just demonstrated there simply We have two completely disconnected clouds. There's no VPN between our between our devices here, right? I could be running on Kubernetes or not I could be on the edge or not I couldn't even define the edge to be honest with you All right, there is no definition of that of that term anymore because there is no real definition of cloud anymore because all of the old Boundaries has simply fallen to the wayside. Oh and we could be running on different CPUs or On different operating systems and we both are running and compiling the same code in WebAssembly as A developer. I love this because what I don't have to worry about is everything else It's simply resolved in the tower of turtles that live below me and trust me in modern cloud development. Yurtles got nothing on these turtles Right all the way down. Whatever your organization's opinionated choices are you need to run Istio You need to run Envoy however quickly they change All of that simply gets pushed to the layer below us now and up here at the developing at the developer layer We're free to just build our applications and run them Now there's a team that will be below us that will run those platforms However, they now can stay in their own swim lane and stay out of ours. This is a huge Opportunity in in cloud native computing and what I would want to emphasize is is that There are multiple approaches to this, you know, I'm demonstrating in Wasm cloud today because that's the technology that I work on but Dappers also moving in this direction as well Now they haven't adopted a web assembly so that wouldn't make a great talk about cloud native applications with web assembly except not with web assembly, but This is I think a huge piece of what the excitement is around with web assembly So with our last couple minutes here, let's talk about some of the things that are working together to make this happen So wasm cloud is a CNCF project. We started it about two years ago And it is a stack of components that give you the ability to Develop very simply and down at the bottom layer. It starts with web assembly, which I like to think of as just a virtual CPU You know when you're when you compile your code to web assembly, there's no virtual operating system here Now there are some operating system like constructs on the way called wazi and when those come along You'll sort of have the ability to you know open sockets and do some of those other things but right now this is just simply like a box that you're locked into and What wasm cloud does is it comes along and it brings a framework for your applications an application framework that gives you a Box of Legos and takes care of a lot of the hard underlying tasks For example when you want to move data out of your box out of web assembly into the guest operating system and back It does all that translation for you even with complex data types So it's designed for extreme scalability both horizontally and vertically as you just saw right now I could spun up. I could have scaled my acres locally to you know a hundred actors or I could scale horizontally Out and out and across and we leverage this built-in networking layer called NATS Also open source in order to get that done. So this is extremely Scalable and composable and of course signed it also inherits the capability driven model that web assembly starts with Now on top of that we centrally maintain a library of hot swappable capabilities Those are those Lego blocks like web servers and database You know driver type things like sequel servers message queues But these capabilities are very easy to add and we have a new developer experience with wasm cloud A dot 50 which we just launched last week that give you wizards in order to scaffold these things out and get them a built-out on Top of that you start running your actors like the pet store And then you plug in whatever Lego blocks you want. These are stateless and reactive and they're incredibly tiny And on the back end wasm cloud uses elixir which is the same powerful technology that's that's been developed over the last 20 years Diploment things like what's app initially and discord. It's incredibly scalable and powerful And then we combine this with gnats Which is the magic layer that just enabled that seamless connection between these two leaf nodes here When the vets app could satisfy its request locally here just like we did in the AWS GCP demo It did so but when it couldn't it Bid the contract out over to Taylor's computer and then pulled it back and that's is incredibly amazing For cncf projects. It's self-healing. It's self-forming. There's no service discovery And we just adopted a new technology called jet stream that sort of gives you a local cache of what's on the network That that works there now when we even I just want to mention that when we think about what this topology and what this technology Enables it's going to enable some pretty crazy things Just as I was able to seamlessly offload part of my microservice and make topology detail with Taylor here You can do that across clouds as well There's no reason that you can't have part of your application running in one cloud and Part of your application running in another cloud or on the edge itself If you'd like more information about our most recent demo, we just launched Zero dot five zero last week. There's live videos training and for more information About what we're doing with the stack in our view of the world. You can come visit us at wasm cloud comm This is the sort of summary view though of where I think we're going for the next epoch of technology And when we look at this worldview, it really involves this crisp layer here in separation between Your applications and what sits underneath them your business logic and everything else and It really starts to meet the sort of needs that we have today around tiny composable Portable business logic that we can take with us anywhere in a way that the current epoch of technology just doesn't So when we think cloud native, I just want to remind you that You know web assembly is neither, you know web nor assembly But cloud native is really kind of getting undefinable as well as those boundaries kind of fall away in the edge Thank you so much for your time today. My name is Liam Randall Wet wasm cloud comm and then for more information about our company. It's cosmetic comm. Thank you


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Ahoy, ahoy, and today's episode is going to be a little different than probably what you were expecting. We're not doing a tale reading or a verses today. There's a very important thing going on the scp community right now, and I feel it is critically important for me to make sure and spread the word about it. Now for anyone who's been following me on Twitter, you may have noticed last night I tweeted out a GoFundMe page for Dr. Gears. And you might be thinking yourself, well who is Dr. Gears? And if you're asking yourself that, you probably not super familiar with the wiki, or at least not as familiar as you think you are, but Dr. Gears is the author behind scp682, scp106, scp914, and a little thing called the document recovered from the marinara's trench. So super important articles with regards to the history of the scp wiki. And of course he's also the author of a number, a huge number of really, really popular articles beyond, you know, 682 or the old man or the clockworks machine. It's hard to overstate just how much impact Dr. Gears has had on the wiki. Dr. Gears was the master administrator of the scp wiki for like the first two years. When the wiki was just getting off the ground, he wrote the second scp of all time. He created the idea of groups of interest, like the serpent's hand, the broken gut, anything you particularly like, that originated, the idea of having other anomalous groups in the scp universe, that idea originated with Gears. The scp wiki owes its existence to Dr. Gears. I'm going to end today in case my own exultations of Dr. Gears are not enough for you. I'm going to end today by reading his personal message on the GoFundMe that he has created to help fund it's not just the medical costs. Medical costs are high in America. That's a guarantee. But even if he has insurance that covers him, there's going to be co-pays. There's going to be incidental costs like for example, he talks about in his GoFundMe how his wife has to take off work sometimes to take him to the doctor to get checkups, to get tests, to one of these days get the surgery, to remove his cancerous kidney. These things add up. And if us donating 10 bucks or 20 bucks, I should say 20 bucks because it's a little bit more expensive these days, he's got a family of four. But if us donating 20 or $30 means that one day out of the entire year, he doesn't have to worry about dinner, then I think it's worth it for all of us to make sure that that is the case. So I'm going to read his GoFundMe page right now because I think it's important that you hear directly from Gears as to what's going on in his life. Just as a warning, first of all, this does talk in some depth about his medical issues.  Before you do, I'll add revenue from this video up to I say the first 30 days because that's when most the ad revenue comes in and I can't keep track of it for years and years and years going on. But for the first 30 days of this video's ad revenue, that's going to go straight to this GoFundMe. After that, we're going to actually probably be thinking about doing some fundraising. I think maybe I'm going to do a fundraising livestream for this, but I'm still working out some details. I don't want to commit to that right now because I don't know for sure if I can do it, but if I can, I will be. I think I'm going to try and organize something along those lines. So there will be a link to his GoFundMe at the bottom of the page. And to my patrons for today, apologies. I know I claim that you get a credit in every video. We're not going to be doing the Patreon pledge thing today because it's not what this video is about. If you're thinking about making a new pledge to me this month, go on over to the GoFundMe, pledge some money to Gears. He needs it more than I do right now. So I'm going to go ahead and start reading now. My name is Daniel. I'm also known as Dr. Gears, one of the writers for the SCP Foundation and the creator of several beloved feared entities across several works. I'm also married with four children, two of whom have autism, and I'm a stay-at-home dad. I have been known to even call myself an author from time to time. In early January of 2020, after sitting on the porch with my wife one evening, I went to use the bathroom. I was horrified to discover I'd urinated a great deal of blood. It being late and wondering if perhaps it'd been a reaction to a diet aid I'd been taking, I decided to wait for the morning. When the morning came, it came with more blood, a sharp pain in my side, and a full blood clot along with blood and more urine. That was just a tad bit much for me, so we went to the emergency room. We assumed it was perhaps kidney stones or some kind of infection. The pain was impressively distracting, but began to ease as I passed more clots. They ran a scan, and I waited in a drug comforted daze to hear the results. Likely kidney stones, maybe some drugs to take, and so on. No. I had cancer, the doctor said. Pretty obviously, too. Days of confusion, appointments, tests, ones that have not really ended yet. However, there are some results. First, there's a seven centimeter wide mass on my kidney. That's rather horrifying to see it on the scan. It's nearly as big as the kidney itself, or at least looked like it to me. There are a lot of options, treatments and the like, but they boil down to a simple path. I need to have my kidney removed along with the tumor and swiftly. In terms of cancers, this isn't the worst outcome. We are blessed with two kidneys, and me finding it this early, it's likely I'll make a full recovery with no loss of function. However, tests are ongoing, and I have been stealing myself for the next step of the punchline. Some final divine gotcha, but no further tumors are as of yet found. I strive to remain cautiously optimistic. Surgery is hoped to be minimally invasive, and to have me return to full form as soon as possible. However, I will be significantly impaired for at least a few weeks, and depending on further developments may require ongoing treatments and medications. My wife, our sole breadwinner, has already been called to miss several days of work, blessedly with their approval for the time being, and will likely have more as this process goes forward. We are a poor household. While not fully destitute, even on good months, we are sometimes called on to decide what bills can be allowed to slide to pay for others, and to make decisions on what and how much we can eat. Raising a large family is not without its struggles, but we strive to make ends meet. My great fear is that my illness will break us. When deciding on getting a pizza for dinner requires a quick check of the bank balance and short math, the possibility of medical bills or medication and the already realized truth of missed income from work could be more than enough to put us in a tailspin. Our support is essentially non-existent. We have ourselves, a few well-meaning but similarly strapped friends in a county that lead the poorest state as the poorest county for several years. Simply, we have nowhere to turn if things go poorly, or even if just slightly unexpected. I am loath to rely on charity, to publicly display my own inability, but much more is at stake now than simply my own pride. Any amount, great or small, would aid us. Medical bills, rent, utilities, the various costs of life. Donating would help us through this time of unease and worry, and allow both myself and my family to focus more on healing and making the changes needed for my ongoing health. Should the worst happen, or some new growth be found, or complications arise, donations will allow us to face these challenges on better footing, instead of needing to decide between electricity or medication. Forgive me if I have pleaded my case poorly. I have never easily relied on others. I only do so now out of concern for my family. I hope to master this challenge and use it as a push forward, however, I cannot do so alone. I ask for your help, whatever the form. It should be noted that this GoFundMe was originally a $1,000 goal, and it reached it in like an hour from it being published. I think that was a low ball. It's now at $10,000, and that's still a low ball. I mean, oh man, I hope he has insurance to be honest with you, but even if he does, it's not gonna, $10,000 will probably only cover a fraction of his incidental cost. So if the goal is $10,000 and we reached $10,000, do not pat yourself on the back. This is still something that needs to be shared. This kind of stuff, I'd say anywhere between $50,000 and $100,000 would be reasonable as a number to hit because medical costs can skyrocket. And again, people having to miss work is a serious thing. What's important to me is just trying to remove as much pressure and stress from somebody as possible. It was undergoing something where pressure and stress can affect the recovery. So think about this.   This site, this avenue would not exist in its current form. Honestly, probably wouldn't exist at all without Dr. Gears, period. There would be no secret laboratory. There would be no containment breach. There would be no multimedia movies going on. There would be no YouTube channels devoted to readings and examinations of what's going on in the SCP universe. There would be no groups of interest. There would be no SCP 682, the unkillable lizard. The old man would not exist. And those are just the things that he directly influenced. So please, donate. The GoFundMe link will be in the description of this video and in a pinned comment at the top of the comment. So, you know, do the things, man. And if you can't, if you are broke, if you can't give any money, share the link. Explain why it's important for other people to donate. That's it. Thank you very much for watching and let me know for sure that we're not alone out here. I'll see you all again on Tuesday.