Yeah, what a day huh not mean fidelity news seems it does seem huge and Just picked it up. So we'll see how that works out and remember like I know that the the market sucks right now but hey, you know what there's a lot of things going on behind the backgrounds and I don't I just don't see how We don't increase over time. It just depends on the macro events. That's why I cover macro sometimes. I Admire the amount of corruption. It's really as impressive. That is true Bye-bye daddy. I'm nobody's that dad It's a good play that's a great comment I never thought about that real big fish plays the rave again. I'd get behind a fidelity purse of Voyager Yeah, so would I wow wouldn't that be a great way to for Cost of acquisition for customers. You don't know like it's it's pretty pricey to acquire customers So if you can just kind of pull them in through Voyager go look We know what you did over there. We're gonna offer the same thing over here It's gonna the same type of service, but we're not going to loan out to you know Three-hours capital and do stupid earn things I'm not place and blame. I know why they did it. It's just that let's just need time move on. All right No, I don't but Delboy says Rob, do you have any preference on who buys Voyager? I do not As long as they make everybody as whole as possible. I don't I don't even care about Celsius Celsius is a dead brand If they come through with that Bitcoin mining operation and were able to actually Perform that security token and later on when the IPO I'd get behind that I'm gonna be here for the next five ten years anyhow. So why not? David does bring it up sweat coin September 12th Also, I know people haven't problem with the sweat coin. They just updated the app So please download re-update the app or separate. Thank you, David Ah The Shaolin good point saying 2% inflation is ridiculous. I agree with James that to get this 2% as impossible We must service the debt and 2% inflation will break the central bank system James gotta Yeah, James got a pretty good pretty good beat on it He doesn't think we can get the 2% doesn't think we can keep raising and because it'll destroy the GDP I'm telling you He's right on that it will destroy the GDP and but I just got it You have to take a look at the lesser of two evils in all honesty Do we want to keep up with this inflation as it goes up and like what drum said the public perception is The most difficult thing to get that inflation right down. He talked about it in 1970s and 80s. I Think he's still gonna do it. I think everything be damned and then I think they're gonna overshoot and it's gonna overcorrect It's gonna crush the economy for a while then things will swing back remember There is a difference between Wall Street and the economy. I know people like to think that it's the same thing It's not it's it's really isn't there's a there's a big disconnect I think there's a disconnect to between sometimes the economy and crypto, but When it happens, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Thank you. I try to keep its tame No, okay with ETH goes the proof of stake does that mean they now have a Fixed max supply. I don't think that's going to happen Correct me in the comment section. I believe they don't well right now. They don't this is proof of work a proof of stake never thought about that Correct me the comment section. I don't think it there is no If they're even the foundation they've agreed that there is no max supply that can keep increasing and then Of course, but they also have that burn mechanism So that's what kind of keeps everything in in in state instead of going, you know, crazy high. Oh, I got that I think I went the wrong way. I Can see I can totally see the Fed changing the target inflation rate to three or three point five once you start easing Let's them reach it. Sure. Why not? Maybe they could just come on and go. Well, we did a pretty good job. It was that it was a 9% We got a 3% that's pretty good done for the day close enough for government's work. You ever heard that phrase? I would totally Be justified in this situation Yeah, not fix a fly I don't think how they could do that I just gathered we go over Luna classic. No, we will not be going over that I know people I made a lot of money. A lot of people lost a lot of money Luna classic I know it just I think it's ranks gosh. It went up there But I think people are shorting it right now. I'm not for sure But if you're a trader that sounds like a good thing, but this that's not my my field of expertise as people clearly know Yeah, thumbs up, please. That'd be nice Any new thoughts on Hedera? No Well, there was a story that we did the Not too long ago, I think was it it was about transaction cost being a fraction of a penny and NFTs and something else sound like it's pretty good But but beyond beyond that not really Yeah, my condolences to all our friends across the pond Not everyone in the UK is a royalist. That's true This one this one Christopher McCarthy is the housing market going to dip further. I don't see how it couldn't I mean The supply is remaining and the demand is a little bit waning but not as much as I thought it was I was not not correct on that and it just depends on different it just depends on the different locations like if you're talking about the housing market in Austin or Florida or parts of California It's booming right now. People can't get into houses fast enough But through other parts of the country, there's a little bit of a lag but the but the big question to ask yourself is is this is the supply more than post-COVID or pre-COVID and how much are we talking about as far as like the supply versus the demand and I I'm kind of Kind of expecting more of a slump as time goes on because as the as they raise the rates which they are Then people get priced out of homes when they get priced out of homes because you don't You buy a house usually just by going there and saying this is how much I can afford per month Okay. Well at 3.2 percent die annual percentage rate You know, whatever that house is it's a $400,000 house. Well, I can afford that, you know, $2,500 or whatever else it is Debt but if it starts to go from 3.2 to 4.6 and 5.7 Then all of a sudden if you use that amortization table and take a look at it all of a sudden you're Priced out and then you have to back out and then of course that leads to more supply and of course less demand There's still the demand for a house but not those expensive houses Then they have to bring the houses down and the people then the people actually built those houses take a loss and off it goes From what I've heard from different developers.  So we'll see I'm just waiting I'm waiting for next year That's it click bait. I don't know Yeah, probably that's my job, right? My job is to get you to click on it Let's see But be truthful So if you miss the tone if you miss the the story and watch the replay I don't got time for it. Ah That's true. That's very true Brandon says the queen had a good run historically significantly. In fact, it's not sad rejoice She did something literally nobody else in history has done and now she suffers no more. That's a good way to say it Brandon Oh Denver is the same way Robert that's a good one. Oh, that's right. Callum I think the Burmack as in this is for Ethereum after the merge increases, which is theory let it theoretically make ETH 0.4% inflationary We'll see Wow, George. I'm glad you're here. I'm really glad you're here I'm selling a piece of real estate and want to onboard into an exchange is it safe to store six figures on exchange or Should I convert to USD and self custody? George, I'm so glad you're here. I'm gonna tell you that there are these rules that I wrote for a specific reason and They are right below you The rules the rules are for me You don't have to follow these but these have done me quite well over time Don't invest more than you can afford to lose and assume it's all gone Everything that you run into is a scam until proven otherwise Leave absolutely nothing on exchanges Don't use leverage for trades And take profits along the way because nobody ever won broke taking profits this next one There's middle one nothing on exchanges talk to the people in the chats Who put their life savings in a Celsius and left it there talk to the people in the chats? Who put their college tuition into Voyager and it's stuck there So George, I'm gonna tell you with conviction Do not leave anything on any exchanges for any length of time as much as you possibly can and self custody And I cannot make that any more clear than what I what I just did. I'm glad you you stopped by David we need to be in DC tomorrow. I will I just got I've reached out to Ben and James I think it's on I think it's on James's channel. We'll go from there Whoo Celci claims are being bought up for 30% of their value to think what we'll get more than 30% of bankruptcy now That's why if they liquidate. I think it's a bad move I think we have to move forward with them and hopefully with that Bitcoin mining operation because it will be profitable just will take time That he white was cooler. They white was great. That's a great question Aquamar Sunsal nailed it. Why is some staking not as easy as a to stay? I don't know but I gotta tell you one thing the Cortana didn't break out the bank great out the park or great Out the gate was the staking. It's so simple There's no slashing There's no lock-up periods. Yeah, you can you control your private keys just like the last question we had, you know control your your keys not your keys not your crypto and In this situation, Cardano is the best out there. I think Ethereum minimum 32 You can have you can go through slashing. They can you know, it's a real and then of course the lock-up periods Which also by the way when this merge comes through you still can't un-stake your Ethereum if you wanted to you have to wait till that Shanghai Protocol update in six to twelve months. So with Cardano. Yeah, we have a stake pool You'd like to check it out. There's a link in the description the D new stake pool We have two but we're only like a quarter full on both of them so if you want to stake with us four to six percent AP AP Y or return on Ada and We haven't any problems in over a year and a half Is life peering good? I don't know about life here. I can't I I can't talk about it because I don't know it Louis says the next six months will open another opportunity. There's always opportunities ahead. It's just You know getting getting your mind right and it's tough But you guys can do it. Like I've always said if you're here right now in the in the grips the bear market Mentally you're stronger than 90 some percent of the people out there who who cut and run which is okay, you know if you if you can't take it It's fine.  We'll see. Yeah, I got no financial fights. I mean, I guess Self-custy isn't James has always got interesting numbers great Great George. I'm glad You're welcome Talladega steak with D news great Yeah, I mean, I've tried it with a vax. We we ran an a vax steak pool and It's it works. Okay, but it's just not as smooth as As Cardano just not Digital cable when you announce in the D's winner. So the premiere of the there is a pro a project I love I've been with them for eight months or so I bought my NFC back. I'm not big in NFTs. They don't make any sense to me period but I love the community and we did a premiere with cookie and and Michael From the D's nuts project and that premiere will be out in about an hour matter of fact And it'll be a live from here So it's pre-recorded But I'll be in the in the chats and they'll it'll roll over to a Q&A with Michael and cookie from from the project And it's pretty good I mean, they do a lot of great things for charity for cancer testicular cancer and breast cancer They've got some real-world utility, which is pretty nice And they got a fantastic community and it's not always about making things so damn serious sometimes you get a laugh and that is Exactly what they do to a great extent. I love those guys I'll go okay. Yeah, I'll goes real okay. It went from 1200 transactions per second to 6,000. It's gonna be awesome Robby thinks Charles will be successful at convincing Ray Godis-Cornado is not a security.  I mean he was there not too long ago He's pretty convincing fellow. So we'll see what he can do and Actually He might I think he's accepted to be on the show on the 23rd or 25th. No, it's not right 27th, I think it is so I'll ask him that question actually Why does Carnaval get so much fud? I don't know Just like everything else, you know people get if you don't invest into it, of course, you don't understand It's hard to really get into it. It's it's hard to be objective even with even for me like, uh, I think it took me quite some time to to get into Other coins outside of bitcoin. So it just takes time And then some people say it's a ghost chain It's awful and then some people say and just just pick a chain There's always a problem like a theorem they always say that it'll never go to e2.0 And remember this merge is only the second step. The third step is is Sharding then they talk about Solana being too too centralized and down for too long and different problems and so on and so forth Then they talk about Avalanche and different issues that they're having over there. I don't want to get into that So everybody's got a everybody's got an issue with something even people with the bitcoin They say it's too slow and it's a boomer coin doesn't really work out. It's not a store of value and so on and so forth So just take your pick Um, that's why I diversify a little bit because I don't know what's gonna happen Ah, this is a good one butawii najabu Matabu any thoughts on your djn fame. So there's a second channel It's called uh, dan djn and there is a link. You see I can find it There is a link in the description or looks Just like this dan djn second youtube channel and that's for the very risky risky plays I even say channels all about new products very risky And all underneath here five percent djn plays. There's a There's a spreadsheet Let me just copy that and it shows you how we've done so far or Fame So fame was one that we That we covered because it did actually quite well But right now it's dropped off the face of the planet fame was pretty great because what they did was It was a crypto finance smart chain Built on top of it. And what it does is is fame is a is a mixed martial arts Federation in in parts of europe and what they do is they they pit influencers against each other and they pay Well, they used to pay them in cash Now they pay them partially in fame and a little bit of cash and kind of back back and forth and I just the whole Understanding and what it was all about was that would be do very well Because of that aspect and it did initially so when we got in it was a penny We got a hundred thousand tokens and then we bought that You know as it launched and I went to 47 cents. We did pretty good now as you know On this channel There's a thing that says take profits. It's right on it's right under batawi's face as if I move them take profits And we did took out the initial investment and plus some but then let the rest of ride and right now It's doing awful that's a point zero one just a little bit above what we paid before and it's probably lower than that That was on august 17th. So Yeah So probably lower maybe even below what we paid so These are all down, but we've done pretty well so far like in so kishi. We bought it at Penny and a half went up to a dollar 60 now. It's at 20 cents. It's probably lower ever dome A fraction of penny went up to eight cents fame So again, these are very risky plays I think because the market's going down Of course fame and the token goes down when once the bull run comes back. It'll come back but It's just how it is for all those things James said sold going to $900 at one point. Hey Don't forget the guy that's talking to you right now. Remember did I not say that bitcoin is going to $150,000? Got that wrong. Did I not say that a theorem is going to $10,000? That was wrong Did I not say that caron would go to $3? I did get that right But that was just uh, these are just guesstimations and of course we know the of course the vgx token To $30 once at 29 cents to seven bucks, but still awful call rob awful And uh, that's what's up. So we don't all won't get him right, but maybe in the future we will Did I miss the luna classic talk? No, this is pretty much it. We're talking about it. And that's the That's all Let's see. Thank you crypto nights. I appreciate it Jaddo says is this your house? This is not my house. This is my mom's house is in the basement And it's a very nice green screen, but it looks good, doesn't it? Let's see That's funny. That's funny aburity Yeah I'll even show you like, uh, let's see There's my nft right there matter of fact So let's see What else I forget What do you think about cosmos adam? I think it's a great project Uh, I think it's one of those I believe it's a layer zero solution and uh, I still own some still on a good amount actually And I really I haven't started back dollar cost averaging into cosmos, but I'm waiting for some time I think it's gonna do very well and it's got a lot of good projects on it So I don't see we got a good team. I don't see why it couldn't do very well in the next bull run You know, I don't but the thing that lucas that concerns me is I haven't heard much news about it. Maybe I'm just not doing the right Investigations in the right place. So if anybody hears anything about cosmos, let me know I think uh guy over coin bureau did something good. No jungle links here I don't think theory classification will be a death sentence. That's true It just means probably we'll have to report key info which is great for investors And it's a good point by jungle if you don't watch jungle link When I first got on the crypto I watched him I catch his videos every so often whenever he puts them out. I think he's getting kind of lax on things That's okay jungle. I know you got to got to work But it's true Just because you're delegated as a security doesn't mean that you just go away. We trade securities all day long, right? I called stocks So it's not a big deal. It's just that you got to jump through a lot of hoops and I think How I see things going is like this To be registered with the sec as far as security will probably take a lot of Legal implications and a lot of money and a lot of these projects may not have that much money And they just kind of will fade away, which I think is actually good. Let's be honest Some of these projects don't should not be around So then I think what the next option that will happen is that the projects that do Actually have the money and do have the the staying power can actually buy into the process Go to the whole paperwork jump through all the hoops and finally be registered under the sec as a security Then the exchanges can list them the next step I think is they will go to these other smaller projects and go we like your project We're just going to absorb you how much you want for this project and We absorb your developers because we just saw how much the developer makes and how little they actually are Especially for web 3. So why wouldn't just go to another project and go we want you We're going to Assimilate you into our project and work very well for facebook and it also worked very well for amazon I think that's the next evolution Rob You questioned why someone over 50 would want to invest in crypto a week ago. Would that be I don't think I said that If I said it and it sounded like that. That's not what i'm talking about If you're over 50 Here's another thing I When I look at things to invest into I look for some asymmetrical bets, right?  I shares of fine art and real estate These are the things that I don't know about much about art. The real estate is pretty pretty solid reasonably solid So I kind of juggle between those two. So if I am an older person, which I am Around this age Ah If you're 59 years old and you want to get into something I can't give you advice But if I was 59 years old and depending on my Condition health wise what my goals potentially would be if I think I'm gonna live till 90 um Then maybe I go for a longer play as far as investing, but if I'm like, you know what Equities how much are they gonna return? Well statistically for the s&p 500 looking at 12.7 percent or a year over year not bad, right 12 percent great But I'm 59 or maybe I want to flip a house That's a lot of work and then of course there's a little bit more risk doing those other things and then maybe Uh, of course if I buy those houses then I have to get on the 15 or 30 year mortgages That's great. Maybe the kids will want it, but maybe I diversify a little bit into a crypto digital asset just something again What do we talk about on this channel? We talk about the rules And the rules look like this Don't invest more than you can afford to lose say it's all gone If you say it's all gone and you can't go and go I'll just put my life savings into luna classic, you know So if you're thinking about it, maybe you smart small $5 is dollar cost average into something very Safe like a bitcoin or an ethereum or something like that and go from there So I don't think it's a bad choice at all diversification. I think works much better That's me This is a good point free kekistan I'm not complaining. I've been holding karana forever. But why is everyone so hyped about it lately? I heard someone something about vasal vasal. I said and that's the extent of my knowledge. So remember Vasal these upgrades one of the knocks on on kardana was that it's kind of slow as far as transactions per second And what they want to do is in this upgrade with vasal is thing called pipelining The pipelining apparently allows that to open up and increase the transactions per second to Actually really didn't say but I know it increases it from a good amount So from there, we'll see how it works. I think that's the big thing and then also for developers to build on it I think it's another big positive for vasal. So That's one of the reasons and then also it just shows that you know the The kardana to go from The things that they've done and then kind of go through these upgrades and it's not just like these upgrade the code and that's it you know, they have to talk to over 50 plus exchanges and they have to be tech support as they do it for across the entire globe It's a pretty massive undertaking. So I think that's one of the reasons why people are excited. They they can pull it off Even though they have only had to delay it at what a month or so It's pretty big. So we'll see Yeah, we'll see if he shows up I think he will Uh, I don't get it I don't have any points taking my eith for four percent. There's any other advantage other than four percent interest in scone I don't I don't like the fact that you know your kardana's stake for so long or your kardana your aetherium Is staked for so long. So you it's at minimum six months and 12 months But four percent I mean if you want to I just Don't like the whole process. That's all Uh dancing cow. Love you rids. Thank you lost the money when the crash We all did but made my money back and more on the dead cap bounce left profit made in and it's up 190 Go figure right go figure Funny that is the the best phrase in crypto so far Uh Homes in california are one million jeez. Cramming christmas really Probably still i'm not Y'all getting timeouts Now larry wilson every review divi divi is a great project and uh, i'm at the founder in portorico real great guy and had breakfast at his place with a bunch of the different people and divi works really well and it's it's like You can you can pay somebody via text message. It's pretty cool. And uh, just hasn't gotten much traction. So maybe I should Talk more about it Where will sweat go? I don't know Like I said, I did that deep dive on sweat coin and there was some pros and cons Uh, the pros Is that they were a web 2 process for 110 million now. They have over 13 million. You know since april They have 13 million wallets crypto wallets created just for sweat coin 13 million I think that's the fastest while the cryptos that are out there correct me if i'm wrong in the comment section But the problems that I see is that it's built on near protocol And that's a lot of transactions to go through so hopefully near protocols up the task and if they are Then that would be a probably a big project to look into near protocol It should work in spain correct me if i'm wrong. It just doesn't work here in the states because you know genzler Genzler, I know you watch so I'd like you to chime in That's where I got it 3d green screens Yeah, mullet. I talked to him a couple weeks ago. He's busy playing golf Thoughts on phantom phantom could do well. I still have some phantom Yeah, when mullet I should probably text him today. See what he's doing. I will text him today Yeah, watching best answers good guy got a lot of good information Uh bend to No cosmos is also taking uniswap And so who's next to put over interesting did not know that see Tell me of the guys that you people that are here right now Um are the real deal Not the ones from the from the bull run days SEC doesn't have the budget to review thousands of coins tokens So it's up to the project to make sure they aren't a security It's not another another point to think to ponder. So think about this If the CFTC says, okay, we're going to take a theory on a bitcoin. That's it SEC and remember it's not the it's not the job of the SEC to set policy to set law They're not that they're there to enforce it So that has to really go through congress and legislator So if they're going to say Okay, everything is a security Whatever then all these products have to come in how long do you think it's going to take for Project number 287 on coin market cap To flow through the sec that's something to consider And that's why I think there's going to be a lot of consolidation But wouldn't that be not a bad thing? Exactly Exactly My girlfriend asked me why I since you know what youtube is because they're addicting sometimes Uh Okay, I think Let me make sure I didn't miss anything No, I'm the farthest thing from Zatoshi. You could possibly get George should not convert to usd George should not convert to usdc and self-custody You got a self-custody That's that's for sure Sweat will be available as an erc 20 Ethereum token and a near token. That's right I am and in that note That's it for today. So look guys, we're coming up on an hour, which is a long time, but um, this is great It's good times. I always like hanging out with everybody. So if you like today's video This is that last part. Give it a thumbs up consider subscribing. Hopefully youtube actually You know reports to you and tells you it's going to happen doubtful But if it does that'd be great. That's it for today. So thanks so much for stopping by It's been awesome And I'll see you on the next one, which is going to be in 45 minutes the premiere. So I gotta get out of here Thanks everybody. Adios


Nigerian airline operators are currently at loggerheads with oil marketers over the rising prices of Jet A1, also known as aviation fuel. While marketers have defended the price, which is as high as 600 Naira per liter, airlines have insisted that it is too high, accusing marketers of exploitation. As a result, airlines have threatened to shut down, forcing the state oil firm NNPC Ltd to intervene by importing two cargos of the product and selling at lower prices to cushion the effect of high operational cost on airlines. The chairman united Nigeria Airlines and spokesperson of airline operators of Nigeria, Obeora Okonko confirmed that the current price was too high and insisted that the price of aviation fuel per liter should not go as high as it was currently being sold. NEWS OPDATES


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It's really my great pleasure tonight to have as our guest speaker President Paul Kagame from Rwanda. I would like to thank him for two reasons. The first one is practical. I think it was not easy for him to be here tonight. He had to reschedule some of his activities and I am very grateful to him for that. But the fundamental reason why I feel honored to have President Kagame tonight is that I think I'm sure I am convinced that he is one of the greatest leaders today in Africa. He, after a very bloody war, he was able not only to reconcile the population of the country, but as I understand it, to help creating a real nation which is not obvious, you know, as in many other states in Africa. The concept of nation is not easy to to be to exist because because of just the division of Africa into borders inherited from the colonial times.  And since then he has transformed the state into a modeled state and which is very often compared to the Singapore of Africa. Of course I would say Singapore with better climate as I understand it. So Mr. President, I thank you very much again. I'm going to invite you to come here. You are going to make a short presentation and after that we will have a short also discussion, the two of us, and I will open the floor to a general discussion. Mr. President, the floor is yours.


Hi, I'm Tim from Atomic, and we're out here in Hymns of Tux with the Ellis Brigham crew testing the skis for next winter. The Vantage 90 CTI is aimed at the progressable mountain skier. So if you're a skier that likes to charge on the piste, but you want to go off the side and go into the powder if the conditions are good, this ski will enable you to do that. It's really a one ski quiver. So the Vantage 90 CTI, the key features in the ski are firstly the carbon tank mesh. This is a new material that we've introduced to the ski to reduce weight. It also improves stability, swing weight and torsional stiffness. This allows us to remove fiberglass out of the ski, therefore making the ski lighter and it's going to be more user friendly, especially if you're taking the ski off the piste. The second main feature on the Vantage 90 CTI is the far-walled sidewall, and this gives you extra edge grip and provides you with really good hold in the snow. So the Vantage 90 CTI is really aimed at the good intermediate to advanced skier because it has titanium in the ski, it's stiffer, therefore it's going to give you more response out of the turns. The Vantage 90 CTI, I really enjoyed it and my mixture of conditions really. The 90 mil waist just means it is a little bit more versatile. So you can, and it's got plenty of rock as well, so you can take it off piste. Again, shopped up conditions, softer snow, but what I'm surprised about is it's a really light ski, but it's still got loads of grips up. You can use it everywhere really. You know, some light skis, which feel like you haven't got that plant in the turns, but with the 90 CTI, it feels like I'm really rare at speed. The Vantage 90 CTI is going to be used all over the mountain. It's happy on the piste, it's narrow enough to be good on the piste. Yeah, it's wide enough to give you float patient and true to soft stuff.


Mara Naan. Yeah, you and Kate Balladou were Reggie Yinna. Hi, my name is Kate and I'm a Reggie woman. I'd like to acknowledge that I am currently standing on a country that was never seeded. It's Nunawal-Nambri and Naragoe country and these people were fabulous water managers. Hopefully these two lectures will help us all become better water managers. This first little lecture is about freshwater availability and the next one will be about freshwater quality and they kind of go together because the two are not separate. There might be a suggestion in the framing of the curricula there is a distinction between the natural processes and human activities but that's actually not a reasonable distinction to make. Human activities do not exist in isolation from environmental processes and can often change the pace of those processes and generate far from ideal outcomes. Like I said in this lecture we're going to look at freshwater availability. Now in terms of its existence freshwater is actually very scarce. Most of the planet shore is covered in more water than land. Approximately 70% of the earth's surface is water. There are only about two to three percent of the surface water is fresh. So that means that most of the water on this planet is actually saline which means it's salty and many land-based plants and animals can't use salty water for long periods of time without getting sick or even dying. There's also water underground which we simply call groundwater and that's found mostly in pockets of rocks and these pockets are called aquifers and in some places this groundwater in aquifers is quite easily accessible. It may affect the most accessible water in the area where you live but human practices are also known to make this water quite salty. It's also naturally in some places quite salty. So I'm not going to actually discuss groundwater. I just want you to know that exists. It's an important source of water for millions of people around the world even in Australia and it also too can be both freshwater or saline water. So like I said most of the fresh water on the earth's surface which is really just two to three percent of the water is actually ice at the poles or glaciers and it comes in snow or permafrost and just think of permafrost as permanent frost on the earth's surface in very cold places which leads us to an estimation of only about 0.4 percent of all water on the surface of the planet being fresh water. That's 0.4 percent that's available for plants and animals for them all to survive and thrive and this 0.4 percent is not evenly distributed across the globe. I think of this as geographical reality as water distribution rather than water allocation because even in dry places human presence is still able to exist because it's just enough water. But before you get excited and think that there is one good thing about human driven that is anthropogenic climate change is all the fresh water that's going to be released from melting ice caps and glaciers. Just think about where that melted ice and snow will run off to. It runs off to the salty oceans and so that means that climate change will actually reduce the volume of fresh water on the planet as the fresh water will be overwhelmed by the volume of saline water. That's becoming salty too and this is an example of human activities where we release greenhouse gases through our consumption choices behaviors and patterns that affect natural processes with far from ideal outcomes. So 0.4 percent of all surface fresh water is not a lot of water. It has been relatively consistent volume of water for many hundreds of thousands of years and it has mostly kept all living and non-living things on the planet going. So when people talk about water scarcity it's not so much that there is less fresh water available. It's simply that there is more people wanting to use more water for more activities. The term water scarcity is about human needs and behaviors. The water hasn't the amount of water on this planet hasn't changed in the last 50, 100 or 1000 years. It's about us, what we've chosen to do and how much more we want to do with water. It's really just that simple. With more people wanting to use more water for more activities whenever they want it means that many people don't have enough fresh water available for their very basic needs regardless of water distribution.  So did you know that human decisions and activities in one place can directly affect the water availability to people in other places? A very common example is all the women and children across the globe who walk long distances to get maybe 10 litres of poor quality water while mine sites and large cities in the very same region can get all the water they require. Is it fair that some people can turn on one of many taps inside the house and get as much drinking quality water be it hot or cold water which we call potable supply as they want? This inequality is found in rich countries too such as Australia not just poor countries like Asia or Africa. How is availability ensured for those with limited water supply or that stands? Interbasant transfers, water tanks and kiosks they're the ones you'll commonly see to ensure availability and in some ways this is a good thing because these practices can smooth out the lumps and bumps that come in water distribution but they also come with problems. So dams for example even small ones can drown habitats big ones can drown cities. Interbasant transfers where we take water from one catchment another word for basin to another catchment can cause environmental processes particularly in that first catchment to alter. Water kerosks which mean lots of people don't have to walk so far for water can provide water at a very expensive rate much more expensive than would come through a park service and if you live in a slum you often still have to walk to get to that kiosk. It is probably clear to you by now that water availability is usually only considered from the human perspective like when I raised the term water scarcity and this is particularly true of those who make decisions about what water will be used for and how it will be used and who gets to use it and that's what we're really talking about when we use the term water availability but we know that humans don't live in this planet on their own for example many of you probably have a pet that you love dearly I have two dogs or you might enjoy watching the butterflies through the grass or you enjoy climbing trees your pet those butterflies the grass the trees more they all need water too. I think the failure of most people particularly those responsible for managing water availability to not consider the water needs of the non-humans of the planet is selfish and unethical the way most people regard water water availability now is not how they have typically regarded water availability for example many indigenous peoples around the world believe and act that water is not only a living being but something to be shared between us and all that is more than human in Australia for example many indigenous nations ensure that there is enough water all through the very different practices that you are familiar with for example indigenous people in Australia do not impede flowing waters with dams or weirs because creek streams and rivers the sources of fresh water are living beings with their own rights obligations and responsibilities to permanently anchor structures to their bed is not only to inhibit the expression of their status as a living entity but to reduce water availability to humans downstream and the more than human who are also living downstream. I hope this mini lecture helps you understand the difference between water distribution and water availability and start you thinking about how water availability can more equitably provide water for humans and more than humans without the level of impact on the environmental processes on which we all rely that is currently happening.


Should you learn ASP.net in 2021? Well, you reach the right video. Let me explain. This video was brought to you by Digitalink Academy. You're number one source to learning, programming fast, and get to that six-figure freelance salary you desire. Our courses include our secret project course, our freelance Kickstarter, our Python course, and our interview programming course and much, much more. So if you haven't already, go ahead and click the link below to get to our free seven-step freelance guide so that we can help take your career to the next level. I'll see you guys in the course. All right, guys, ASP.net is a very critical framework when it comes to C-Sharp. Should you learn it? Yes. Is this a very critical part of web development? Yes, you should learn it. But the problem is a lot of you guys are spread so thin on what to learn. You just don't know where to focus on. And ASP.net, a lot of other frameworks, PHP, LaraVol, Spring Boot, so many other frameworks out here, you are confused on what to learn first. If you do anything with C-Sharp, ASP.net, web development, ASP.net is the way to go. And we're gonna focus on that today here. So what's the benefit of ASP.net? You guys are probably using a web browser or some kind of application right now, a web-based application. You see the power of web apps. ASP.net gives you all of that in a structure where you can deploy things pretty easily. It's tested, it has structure, it's backed by Microsoft, a lot of good benefits. You need to learn ASP.net. And the enterprise where it's gonna give you a leg up because a lot of people, contrary to popular belief, you got all these new frameworks and applications and programming languages out there. But at the end of the day, Java and C-Sharp are king of the enterprise and that's not gonna change anytime soon. So you need to learn ASP.net. On top of that, you're gonna have a lot of improvements to this as well. You got Microsoft continually adding to the toolbox. So you're gonna always have that company backing that's gonna help evolve this in the application development world. So you need to learn this guys. It's very important that you guys know at the end of the day, you have a tool bag that's gonna be current that you can get a job today and you can go to basically any city in United, any major city in United States. And then you're gonna have some form of a C-Sharp job. Usually you got C-Sharp Java, Python, JavaScript for the front-end developers, some PHP for the freelancers, some legacy stuff with Pearl and what's the other one, Ruby. Not so much of the legacy stuff, but it does exist. But C-Sharp is gonna be always on top of that list alone with CC++ and all that guys. So my point is ASP.net is a good language to learn in 2021. But you have to first of all, are you in the process of trying to get your first development job? You need to find out who need ASP.net in your local region. And if there's a good amount of companies, professional services, hospitals, transportation companies, they're probably gonna use C-Sharp, especially if they're a Microsoft shop, they're probably gonna be having a man for web development. ASP.net is where you wanna be. But there's Marius as well who are Java shops that may not necessarily need ASP.net. But ASP.net, the MVC model, it's easily translated on the Java side because Java and C-Sharp is similar. And then you can use Spring Boot in a similar fashion as well. So there are some benefits there. Find out what your local job market looks like, get you some projects, showcase those projects, find work specifically for the projects you complete. Real-world projects. I'm not talking about Hello World and all that. I'm talking about industry problems that you solved using cold. You need to jump on that guys. But at the end of the day, I can't cover everything in this video. So what I want you guys to do is two things for me. Number one, share your experience below. Have you had problems learning ASP.net? Are there jobs in your region with ASP.net? Do you feel like ASP.net is a learnable framework? Comment below. I wanna know your insights on it. I wanna kinda figure out how people are perceiving ASP.net. I know in the past, especially if you guys did this in the early 2000s, you remember the really buggy versions of ASP.net, those early versions, which was pretty buggy. It was bad, but it's mature to the point to where it's pretty seamless once everything dialed in correctly. You got your systems in place. You kinda worked out some of the initial hurdles and challenges. Everything else works out pretty good at that point, guys. So let's do this. So you're gonna share that with me. Then I'm one thing I need you to do. Number two, if you haven't already, go ahead, link's in the description box to my Seven Step Guide. We jump into ways you can learn fast, create projects and showcase them in an interview, and also be able to find work as well. And if you haven't, if you already signed up for my Seven Step Guide, go check out some of my premium courses, guys. It's gonna help take your career to the next level. You're gonna be able to learn C-Sharp much faster with some of the resources we have below premium courses as well. So go ahead and check those out for me, guys. And we'll help you get started here. So at the end of the day, I like C-Sharp. It's not the most easiest language to learn. It wouldn't be the first language I would get you to learn unless you had a job out of the gate saying if you learn C-Sharp, you will get this job. I always tell people so that I can get you some quick wins. Start with PHP, JavaScript, or Python. Usually PHP, JavaScript, or Python. One of those three languages you learn first because you're gonna get some quick wins. They got some, a huge community online. It's not that intimidating as a Java C-Sharp, but you can really kinda learn how to do it in that non-enterprise world. So any of those three are good programming languages to learn first, get comfortable with programming, learn how to write basic training applications and things like that. Hello world, print stuff to the screen, scripts on automating, open a program, that kind of stuff. Just the whole syntax of programming in the mindset. Once you kinda get those basic fundamentals out of the way to arrays, the variables, all that stuff, then you jump over to C-Sharp ASP.net. Same concept apply, syntax is a little different, but at the end of the day, if you get the basics down, you should be good to go on that. And I feel pretty confident you'll be ready to go on that guys. So it's so much of a challenge for me to give everybody advice about different programming. I'm trying to do a better job at it. Every, you gotta understand that software development is evolving to a point that even though all of us are software engineers or developers, we're specific based off of the industry and the company requirement. So a software developer for Silicon Valley, Fang company, and it could be drastically different than a software developer or software engineer for a professional services company or for a transportation company or for a hospital. Your day-to-day job will be different even though you're using the same programming language. So my point is there's a lot of different ways to become a software developer, but all of them start with getting that syntax together, learning on fundamental solving problems guys, just the basic stuff that most people forget. Y'all get into the tool bag and just think it's all about programming language, programming language, which programming language is a pretty good component of it, but you gotta get into this problem solving, the troubleshooting, identifying the issues and being able to put and bring all that together to become a more solid, a more refined, more mature developer. So at the end of the day, like, subscribe to the content. If you have additional questions, comment below. If you feel like this helped you out, go ahead and let's start a conversation below. Like, subscribe to the content. I'll put a link to my seven step guide here and I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.


Probably about a third of common cancers can be prevented by eating a healthy plant-based diet being physically active and maintaining a healthy weight. One of the ways plants may help is by cutting off the supply lines to cancerous tumors. A tumor cannot grow without a blood supply. Currently, it's believed that a tumor mass cannot exist in a volume greater than about the size of the ball at the tip of a bow point pen without a proper blood supply, which indicates that angiogenesis, angiomens vessel, so the genesis, the creation of new blood vessels, is critical to tumor growth. Each one of us has cancer cells in us right now. By age 70, microscopic cancers are detected in the thyroid glands of virtually everyone, for example. Most of these tumors never cause problems, never become clinically significant, leading to the concept of cancer without disease as a normal state during aging. Cancer cells are commonly present in the body, but they can't grow into tumors any bigger than that tiny dot size, no more than 10 million cancer cells, before needing to get hooked up to a blood supply. So tumors diabolically release angiogenic factors, chemicals, that cause new blood vessels to sprout into the tumor. The most important one is called VEGF vascular endothelial growth factor. But we can suppress VEGF with VEGGs. Many of the phytonutrients we know and love in tea, and spices, and fruit, and berries, and broccoli, and beans, can block cancer stimulation of new blood vessels. They're ideal for prophylactic long-term use against breast cancer, as their reliability, availability, safety, and affordable price. Dietary agents used to suppress angiogenesis may be an important step in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. And in fact, all types of tumors. The review concludes that we now have convincing evidence that dietary plant constituents possess the unique ability to affect tumor angiogenesis, which may be deemed advantageous in the prevention and treatment of human breast cancer. Most of these studies have only been done in a petri dish, though. You stimulate human blood vessel cells, and they start forming these tubular structures, trying to make new capillaries to feed the tumor. But if you add plant flavones, like apigen or luteolin, found throughout the plant kingdom, like in citrus, celery, and peppers, you can see they help block the tube formation. Here's the effect of fiscitin, a phytonutrient found in strawberries and other fruits and veggies. It just shrinks the beginnings of new blood vessel formation right on down. Where do researchers get their hands on human blood vessels? From human umbilical vein endothelial cells. They get them from discarded umbilical cords, or more controversially, from the eyes of aborted fetuses. But either way, you can stimulate blood vessel formation with the tumor compound VEGF, and then abolish that effect with plant compounds, in this case from purple rice. Therefore, the daily consumption of natural foods containing adequate flavonoids could be beneficial for the prevention of cancer metastasis, or could improve cancer prognosis. Given the power of plants, one might speculate that the foundation of an anti-angiogenic approach to cancer might be a whole food vegan diet.


Okay, hi everyone. I'd like to thank you all for joining us today. Welcome to today's CNCF webinar self-service of cloud services for Kubernetes application. I'm Christy Tan, Marketing Communications Manager here at CNCF. I'll be moderating today's webinar. We would like to welcome our presenter today, Louis Marshall, cloud native delivery advocate at Activa. A few housekeeping items before we get started. During the webinar, you are not able to talk as an attendee. There is a Q&A box at the bottom of your screen. Please feel free to drop in your questions and we'll get to as many as we can at the end. This is an official webinar of the CNCF and as such is subject to the CNCF code of conduct. Please do not add anything to the chat or questions that would be in violation of that code of conduct. Basically, please be respectful of all your fellow participants and presenter. Please also note that the recording and slides will be posted later today to the CNCF website at cncf.io slash webinars. With that, I'll hand it over to Louis to kick off today's presentation. Take it away, Louis. Thank you, Christy. And thank you CNCF for hosting this webinar. So self-service of cloud resources for Kubernetes applications. So a little bit about myself and before I kick off. So I'm a site reliability engineer and developer and tech evangelist. So we'll see how that goes. At Apfia, I've had over 28 years now of development experience, always with an operations focus started off with 8086 assembly for that little machine at the top right there. And more recently, concentrating on Golang Kubernetes and cloud with Apfia. So self-service of cloud resources for Kubernetes applications specifically. So what we're going to try and cover today, introduction and why this isn't necessarily easy. A bit about the problem domain with a specific focus for a developer experience and self-service description of what that is and what that looks like in reality. A quick demo of using customer resources in Kubernetes to self-serve cloud resources and a summary of the industry and a little bit about Apfia's approach as we have our open source product. Trying to tackle this very issue. And then a summary and some questions that would be good to get some feedback and answer that. So introduction, why isn't this easy. So we've learned from doing self-service for many years is the industry is moving rapidly in this space space. And there's a lot of products in the industry with a focus around cloud infrastructure per se. Many of them have a developer specific focus or slant and the developer solutions or solutions that come close to the developer domain seem to be being replaced in the industry. There's a movement within the industry away from self-serve and simplicity back towards operation and cloud domain specific solutions. We'll cover a bit more about that later. So we've had to implement a solution that's custom and wrap some of what exists in the industry to get a good outcome for our open source product. So let's have a little look at the problem we're from a developer focus. So developer works with Kubernetes, but before even that they'll deal with containers. And they used to shipping containers for a method for shipping their application itself, but also for testing their application with application dependencies obviously containers make it very easy to consume a lot of application dependencies like databases, message cues, etc. But fundamentally the developer concern is around the libraries that they build into their application and the containers that they may use locally to provide the access that those libraries need over a protocol. They really deal with cloud directly per se in that space. And as soon as they do, the velocity of using the cloud services slows their development cycle down. And cloud consumption is often broken and gated and requires specialist knowledge which is why that velocity is affected. What does the developer need when it comes to consuming application dependencies. An application will be shipped to a Kubernetes cluster. And here we have a picture of that, but they depend through that code library that wraps a protocol on a dependency and here we depict database. But why do we need managed services at all. It's really about removing operational overhead from a team and the crown jewels are in the state of what your application delivers on. Sometimes having as many eyes on that service as possible. So the reliability. Could dramatically be improved by consuming something from a cloud provider that provides something across the entire industry in that space. So reliability and potentially ideally simplicity would be provided. So what's the problem. Here we have an application in Kubernetes and a developer who's responsible for that application. Basically there's a dev ops or a different mindset required for the operations side of the piece where it comes to cloud services. And there's at least a mind shift between those two types of operation and why does that mind shift exist. It's really around the way you deliver those two very different solutions traditionally. So developers create their containerize applications by familiar with that potentially extraordinarily familiar with creating those containers and then shipping them to Kubernetes which then orchestrates those in a Kubernetes cluster. But an operations guy or a DevOps professional may be using configuration management tools. Here we have an example of Terraform talking to Amazon Web Services or any specific cloud provider, which would then broker and manage an instance of a cloud service or a cloud resource and that the application may depend on. So let's talk a bit more about self service because why is it even important why do we need this. So when it comes to cloud services, there are a dependency of an application and would want to reduce lead time. So when there is no separate team and no manual intervention required. There's no manual process around that separate set of steps required to procure those cloud services. But fundamentally when you've got two different mindsets or two different tooling paths and worst case to hold different pipelines to deliver updates, you've got application updates have to be coordinated and communicated with cloud updates. So there's a brittle. An issue that can occur due to those separate concerns and coordination effort that may be required to deliver updates. And fundamentally why self serve we want to enable an agile process. Enabling agile delivers on a reduced cost fundamentally, but the reason it does I mean it's talked about often elsewhere so I'm touch on this lightly but fundamentally reducing defects in a code base or the code base is dependency early in the cycle is vitally important because the cost of remedying those same defects later on when it's in front of customers or in production is vastly increased. So reducing cost. Now, there's a perceived risk in some circles around self service. So we want to ensure that we can limit that risk for providing an informed choice. So at this point on to introduce an analogy here between our developer operations with regards to mobile phone. So, in a mobile phone shop, we procure, not just a mobile phone but an operations piece to that a service, often referred to as a mobile phone, which can condense that best practice and simplify it so that all the operational concerns aren't back up and the cost of running and other security issues could be simplified down to a simple choice. Now, limiting risk with regards to running costs. There will be a perceived risk. If you don't trust your staff now obviously the staff development at the moment. We're all in a climate where we've with trusting staff a lot, but the staff that fundamentally put code together that has a business focus should be trusted, arguably the most in an organization. There's a further reduction of cost with the agility and reliability concerns that I've already spoken to. But further, the security risk, we think is reduced by having an informed choice and packaging that up as a product and a service that can be easily consumed and not communicated or lost in communication and maybe introducing human aspects. So developers of service, what would that look like in our ideal world should be able to procure a cloud dependency of our application with a simple service description should be able to give that instance of an application a name and refer to a plan. As if we're just taking off the shelf it should be very straightforward shouldn't limit our agility. So we post a request to something which then talks to any cloud provider and then provides back exactly what the application actually depends on which at this point is access configuration, which typically comes down to an end point the network connectivity details and credentials, the means of accessing a resource securely. So, what's that look like in practice. There's a lot of industry assumptions around Kubernetes resources being the best way to deliver this. So native Kubernetes resources are well documented, they manage resources very well. And typically pertaining to applications generally so application domain is well understood by developer who's created their application and shipped it in a container. So most of what they would look up around Kubernetes makes sense. And the idea around reconciling an intended state and not describing the how exactly you move a container from node A to node B is very desirable when it comes to cloud resources, but in practice, when Kubernetes is extended to relate to cloud resources. It's not that simple, because there's a lot of domain specific knowledge required in the operations space. In the worst case, and the developer may not quite understand what's the benefit to them to have to change that persona and understand those other concerns. So a customer source for a cloud service could look just like a Kubernetes source like any other. And there's a couple of examples here with operators that the industry is moving towards one from Google and one from Amazon here, both with almost identical requirement around a redis dependency for application. And we can use familiar tools to create and procure and ship those application dependencies, but fundamentally, the parameters between those two couldn't be more different. And they, in this case, they both show some operation domain knowledge that is required under study of a cloud provider in the worst case specific infrastructure that may be required. So how do we scale customer sources and make a bit more sense maybe. Well, at the moment, we have different specifications for each cloud, there's domain specific knowledge required, and there's no consistency for the developer. And there's no guidance almost more importantly about the security and the best practice about which plan and how to use it. Fundamentally, there's no high level abstraction for those Kubernetes resources and those operators. So this point it's worth delving into history as it informs where we are today in the industry and some of the most mature aspects of providing this capability in Kubernetes is around the service catalog project which is a means to wrap the open service broker API on Kubernetes. It's a Kubernetes native project. And it's born out of using a facility that existed and was invented by cloud foundry in the industry. And it does provide customer sources, but it's production readiness status with regards to self service specifically is questionable because the industry is changing and moving its focus, maybe because the cloud foundry requirements may not match where the cloud operators are going with regards to Kubernetes specifically. But it does provide service broker plans that provides a way of simplifying access to cloud service and ideally provide some best practice point of consumption if configured and set up right. And also can vet or reduce the scope of what services and which particular plans around those services are available in a particular cluster. So I'll take one lay down to go over that quickly. So we have service brokers, which are code that already exists and they can be deployed in multiple systems but in this case we're showing how they integrate with the service catalog project in Kubernetes by publishing plans and then the developer can request a service from that service catalog, which then passes that request onto a service broker, which talks to a cloud provider, which provides status information back to the service broker, which allows the application to be wired up to use it so a concrete example of that would be using the Amazon web services service broker and a relational database service production development plans being published to the service broker. The developer can choose a production ready relational database service, which generates a service instance request to the service broker using the open service broker API and then the cloud provider can be managed by that service broker, which would provide the details about a specific instance and the status back to the service catalog, which can then provision the details for consuming that in what's called a service binding. So I'm going to do a quick demo of what that looks like and I'm going to cover the use of plans and how we consume that application configuration. And on the right here we've got a view of consuming an S3 bucket with two resources and Kubernetes is one called a service instance, which has the name of a plan and a service and no parameters in this case so we're quite happy with defaults provided in this instance. And then a service binding which relates to the shape of how our application will consume that specific service with a secret name. So the developer can request both the service instance and the service binding which describes what we need and how our application will be shaped to consume that configuration. So without further ado, I use a demo I provided earlier a bit of webinar magic so here we have a look at secrets. So here's the default token for service account in this default namespace here. And we'll have a quick look at a S3 service catalog instance description, the same one that I showed earlier with no parameters and more importantly the service binding how our application will be wired up to consume that. So at this point I can go ahead and apply that to a cluster, a bit of magic later. We can see that that service instance should exist within the cluster. Now, although the service instance description is in the cluster, the actual service is obviously being created and managed by the service catalog and the service broker in the cloud operator. And we'll watch that resource and use a little bit of magic speed up there and we'll see the status goes to true, which means the cloud service should have been provisioned. So at this point, we have a look at the service instance, maybe clear up the screen, look at that again, and we can see that its status has turned to ready. So what we now want to look at is how to get to that with our within our application, we can see that a secret name has been referred to by our service binding, which also says it's ready so if we'll have a look at secrets, as it by magic, we have a secret with the name that we specified in our service binding. So now all there is to do is consume that secret in a Kubernetes deployment. So we have a Kubernetes deployment YAML here with a reference to a secret and specific environment variables that are familiar to anyone who's consumed Amazon services from an application. And we can see that that deployment gets ready. Now, instead of running a fully fledged application at this point, I'm going to use Kubernetes debugging technique to connect my laptop to an interactive shell session inside the workload inside the Kubernetes cluster. And at this point, we can have a look at the environment variable bucket name, and we can use the Amazon Web Services API for that command line interface to look like there's nothing in that bucket, and we can copy something that exists in every container or most to that bucket and see that it exists. So, that was a real quick walkthrough of the Amazon Service Broker and a tangible hopefully overview of what that actually looks like in practice, but it covers up a lot of complexity. So here we have a product comparison across open source capability in the industry. We have the Amazon Web Service Service Broker there with loads of application services. Now, they're dependent on cloud formation templates that are provided and there's a bunch of default templates provided, but really you need to look at those in detail, at least understand them for production use cases. And you've got to understand a lot more besides about how that's actually wired up in practice when you're self serving across multiple clusters or scoping credentials to particular workloads. But more importantly, the future is what's uncertain in this space. We like the idea it's got plans and service brokers for self service providing plans is a very good high level abstraction. So for a developer, it's a nice thing. But Amazon have stated that their service operator is their intended direction, but it's a very early stage in the project. So it's a bit too early to comment in any more detail. I would say there's a minimum viable product on a branch for the latest iteration of that project. There are other service brokers that exist for Azure and Google Cloud Project. But both of those large cloud operators have put a lot of resources into slightly different directions going forward. So Google have Google Confit connector, which is referred to in their Anthos product suite has been called to Anthos. But importantly to unpick here is the fact that the although Anthos describes itself as being multi cloud, the Google Confit connector is certainly focused only on Google cloud platform. So for self service. It's not as simple as it could be cross plain is worth a mention here. They, it's provided and backed by Microsoft and Alibaba cloud. But it's also got some really interesting ideals around application focus with traits and a new initiative around the open application model, but more of the resources pertain to cloud infrastructure than applications at this point. So it's an interesting one to watch. Terraform, there's new operators, both from HashiCorp and Ranchelabs, but both of those are extraordinarily early. And because of their infrastructure focus and the domain specific language, they don't really relate to developer self service. So that's an overview with regards to self service of developers, leaving a developer, maybe a little bit welded about what they could deploy to their cluster and consume within their team. So, at this point I want to touch on the cloud vendors direction and they have motives that are clear commercial and quite rightly so, and they want to support many customers. And their focus is about reliability at scale, which is a fantastic reason to want to consume managed services in the first place. But because of that holistic lowest common denominator approach, the complexity has to be put on the customer. So the self support aspect is very well. And also, they're not really driving out multi cloud obviously they've all got their own reasons and tie in products so they don't necessarily save the customer time and money with regards to self service for cloud resources here. So, Apia has an open source product called Core, which centers around self service of Kubernetes clusters, and we're iterating into providing cloud services so a developer would be able to request a service plan a high level abstraction from core, which would broker that to different approaches as we filter the industry and provide a set of concrete absolute production level ideals in an open source product, and then at the point of consumption the application can get that simply. So I'm going to do a quick demo now of using a user interface to self service plans and provide that simplicity and then run a an application to consume them. Here we have the open source cloud project core, running the interface. Now we think it's important to have a distinction between the operations side that can set the plans, both from an open source project where the community can procure what are good plans, but then again, a particular organization can further define what is in a plan and what that looks like. So we're going to consume that from a team where the agility and work can have been prior organized. So we have an EKS cluster here, and we want to provide cloud service now under the hood, we want to provide a custom resource definition and command line interface. So familiar tooling and techniques can be used but why we're discovering how to use those looking to use your interface gives a big uplay uplift for a developer where they can look at the parameters and decide whether they suit a particular requirement. So here we're going to create a cloud resource for S3 and we're going to get details back about that cloud resource in a secret in a specific Kubernetes cluster in a specific namespace and all the developer needs to provide is a service name for how they're referring to this with a service plan. Well, that's providing a cloud service instance for development. Now, it's possible to use one instance for multiple environments for some types of services. In this case we want to provide a discrete bucket for each instance of our application, but we want the same service name now it's easy to keep these the same when the plans provide an abstraction point where all the configuration can be done once in advance. So at this point we want to get access to that and the benefits of a user interface obviously allows to have a rich experience for the developer where they can find out how to consume that within Kubernetes, what the resource names are called, etc. So now we're going to deploy an application to Kubernetes looks very similar to before. So we have a secret reference there. And we're going to consume a Kubernetes cluster by getting access on the user interface here, finding out how to do that switch you back to the CLI and can set up a single sign on. So we have a switch context to get access to that specific cluster and the namespace where we want to deploy an instance of that application. So now we can deploy that application. We didn't really need to know much upfront. So we have CRDs that have been created behind the scenes, we can look at how they're consumed using kubectl later, and then put those in GitOps or however we work within any particular organization, we've created an application there. We can see it's already running. I've done that before. And now what we're going to do is connect our desktop to the running pod, the running container within that Kubernetes cluster. In order to use a web browser to access it without worrying about ingress and other types of resources at this point. So as a developer, it's very straightforward to consume S3 when we have a rich user interface to do that, and then get access to an application which has picked up the relevant configuration from whatever technology in the background has provided it. And we can then persist some state. So there's a quick overview of some of the thoughts and ideals we think are important in this space. I hope some of this resonates before we just finish up there. We create a couple of objects which are persisted. Okay, so in summary, we think the current solutions that exist across the industry in this space have operations heavy focus and they replay a certain amount of complexity back, which can hamper the agility. We like the idea of a high level abstraction and plans as a terminology makes a lot of sense. It provides simplicity for developers and hopefully increases agility, but almost more importantly, you can condense all the best practice into a plan and provide oversight and good practice and audit and compliance around ISO standards and what have you with regards to those plans. So I'll invite you to look up about that for you. I won't go into any of the details on to skip quickly over this slide. I would say we provide the core project and it'll be good to answer any questions at this point and I'll leave contact details and get repository there for your access there. Okay, thank you very much. That's the end of my portion. If I could now have the questions. Yeah, thanks so much Lewis for a great presentation. And as Lewis mentioned we now have time for questions. Just a reminder if you have a question that you'd like to ask please drop it in the Q&A tab at the bottom of your zoom screen and we'll get through as many as we can. We have a few that populated here so I'll read them aloud. The first one here is from an anonymous attendee. It says, can you import an existing S3 buckets as service instance into the Kubernetes cluster? That is a brilliant question and it's one that a lot of projects in the industry have skirted around and indeed if you're providing a new way of getting access to cloud resources, it's probably best to migrate to something that provides that uplift rather than trying to ask something that condenses a whole bunch of best practice to change its shape suddenly to bring in something that may or may not be compliant. It's a good question though but there's no magic bullet here in that space. Okay, the next question is and I apologize if I'm butchering this it's Vladislav. He's asking who manages a service broker. Is it a corresponding CSP collaborating with Kubernetes SIG or an independent vendor? So at the moment in the industry delivering the service brokers and how they're wired up in a specific cluster or in a operations cluster and what that looks like is a problem for the individual organization. But there is some good technology there, not just from a particular broker, but across a whole bunch of operators. So in our instance in the core product, we provide plans and automation in the core product to deliver all of the technology stack. So that at the point of consumption, the developer doesn't need to worry about it. We provide building blocks in core to deliver all of the above so that you don't need to worry about it as an operational concern. That's something we want to take on. Okay, we have another question here from Daniel. Daniel says, thanks for a nice presentation. Is there any offering overlap with VMware Tanzu applications catalog self service. He says I believe there is an open source version of it as well. So not really directly. I mean, I've been speaking to cloud services specifically. And Tanzu has an application catalog which talks across cloud and in cluster. And it's a similar area to where we're addressing but I think our focus is certainly on driving down complexity to make it absolute simple at the point of consumption for developer. So it's slightly overlapping in respect to many, many of the products in the industry, but at the point of use, the simplicity is where we think a product like core. The open source project and the community can engage please do to test and make sure that we're on track in that space. Okay, well looks like that's all the questions that have been submitted so far. And any, oh, here we got another one. Apologies, Vlad if I'm saying your name wrong it's a lot of slab is asking follow up to my previous question. So the core approach is excellent and clear, but what about service brokers you've compared in the table. So under the hood, we are using in our first iteration we have a feature gated capability, which is alpha at the moment where we're using the Amazon service broker, but we're populating the specific plans and specific cloud formation templates that we know to be good and fit operational concerns that we have tested. And we also have some operators from the Google config connector that we want to integrate with in that space so I guess the in the simple the simplest answers to say, yes, some of the technology in that table we would want to use, we want to orchestrate and automate how it's delivered and provide a higher level of abstraction so that regardless of whether it be a service broker providing the specifics of a plan, or an operator, you get the same experience as a user, of course. Okay, yeah. Yeah, well looks like those are all the questions and today. Thanks again Lewis for a very important presentation. That's all the questions and time that we have for today. Thanks again to everyone for joining us a friendly reminder that the webinar recording and slides will be online later today. We look forward to seeing you at a future CNCF webinar. Have a great day and stay safe. Thanks everyone.