Today's throwback, Madame Tinoubeba woman whose name and legacy still define legacy's reward for tenacity reaches Nigerians of the 1800s and the early 1900s and the timeless lessons we must learn from them for lasting riches. I must start this short literary bio-peak with a stand intellectual warning. Madame Efouroye Tinoubeba's bitter sweet life when put to review by modern literary critics must not be subjected to the ash lens of presentism, that is the practice of interpreting and evaluating past events and historical figures based on present-day moral, social and cultural standards. Efouroye Tinoubeba was a peculiarly enigmatic Yoruba female merchant and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Lagos, Nigeria. Efouroye Tinoubeba was a politically and economically astute and influential figure in Lagos during the reigns of obas or kings, adele, dosumu, uluwole, anakitoe. Having the latter two obas to attain the throne, she married oba adele while he was in exile and followed him to Lagos on his re-installation. She used his connections to establish a successful trading network with the Portuguese, Spanish and Brazilian merchants in slaves, tobacco, salt, cotton, palm oil, coconut oil and firearms.  She indeed had her own army. She reportedly, she reportedly next to the allotter of Otto and the mainland, had owned the largest piece of real estate of mainland Lagos. Asparling Kolanot Farm, Igbo-Obi, from whence the Igbo-Obi name was coined was said to have encompassed the all of where the National Orthopedic Hospital is in Igbo-Obi today and as far westward as Obela and where Luwole. Lagos University Teaching Hospital is presently located. Madame Tinumbu died in 1887 and was buried in Ojokodok Hortes of the ancient city of Abel Gutan after she had been declared personal non-gratia in Lagos due to her refusal to stop trading in slaves and also after she had deployed her wealth and connections to supply arms and ammunition to Igbo forces in the battle with which they liberated themselves from the rapacious daonies. The role which and are the highly esteemed title of the Yellow Day Igbo, the famous Tinumbu Square on Lagos Island, a place originally known as Ita Tinumbu Tinumbu's Cup was changed to Independence Square in the first republic before it was reverted to its former original name. Also a statue memorializing our stance in Abel Gutan today, the didactic, Madame Tinumbu's heroic life both before and after her death portrays a woman of purpose determination, greed and strategy.  She reportedly married up to five times her first in a native Luwole, second to Oba Adelae and first later to work captains in Lagos on Abel Gutan after an eviction from Lagos. That's it on the show tonight. I'm Bola Oba.


Hey, thank you so much. So all right, let's see if I can get the mic here. I'm not gonna hold it like a karaoke mic like Jay Stanton did but Yeah speak louder, okay, so anyway my talk today Kind of takes us all into an arena that we don't normally discuss but that I sort of saw the need to discuss I realize that what I'm gonna talk about today may be highly controversial and may not sit right with you know With a few people but at the very least I'm definitely putting myself at risk here For being accused of being a major buzzkill But this isn't some marketing campaign. I assure you Hopefully you're willing to suspend disbelief and you're willing To consider the evidence as I go down this potentially paradigm shifting rabbit hole With you guys today So I don't doubt that some of you are aware of at least some of the issues that I'm going to be talking about here but it's also clear to me that many of you may not be and As a movement, I think we all need to be if we want any hope of being able to make a positive difference in this world and Really survive as a movement. It's pretty impossible to make meaningful progress in any worthwhile area without truly understanding the way the system with the you know big s right with the way that's the way the system actually works and then progressively strategizing around that and I think that a lot of the issues that we're talking about here have the potential to kind of make or break this ancestral health movement that We're all a part of Right now in my mind. It's in danger And it already has in so many places either been co-opted by corporate interests, right? We've all seen that happening or it's degenerated into something that can only be termed a fad And so much of what so many of us have worked so hard for I think has the potential to be Conflated with that and sort of lumped together and disregarded by history at a tremendous cost I think to what this has the potential to offer humanity and health So I'll tell you up front that none of this is intended as fear porn Simply a dose of reality for which I'm going to offer some possible strategies to effectively address some of these issues Now we don't live in a Hollywood movie But there really is there really kind of is a matrix of sorts what we think of as our reality To a meaningful extent really kind of isn't and even where many people sort of suspect that things aren't quite right Or they might be different than maybe assumed You know most people are pretty happy to just kind of take their blue pill and go about their usual business Now I guess this talk is meant to be kind of a wake-up call for those of you who have the willingness to take the proverbial red pill And be willing to see or at least consider things a little differently So nothing meaningful really can ever be accomplished with anything worthwhile until steps are taken to really see things as they are And that's simply how we've always imagined them to be or maybe want them to be So the original presentation I tried to put together for this ended up being three or four hours worth of material Yeah, they're not gonna go for that probably So I've had to seriously like brutally and painfully pair this thing down and and try to stick to more of the rudimentary basics I've been you know, just slashing content and whatever wiping tears out of my eyes for days I've realized that there's literally no possible way. I can do this topic justice in just 30 to 40 minutes No way at all, but I'm going to try I'm gonna give it my best At some point I may offer a more detailed lecture webinar on the subject if you guys You know express an interest in that and maybe take a deeper dive into it all because God knows I have the material But just sort of think of this as your appetizer So a lot of you guys have heard about this, you know US News and World Report offers its top 100 list of best dietary approaches for health and well-being every single year and every single year both Paleo and ketogenic dietary approaches literally consistently ranked dead last on the list Like way behind even things like insure and Jenny Craig, you know Like how can this be right?  How can it be that a diet based solidly in human evolutionary science right human anatomy and physiology and Something in alignment with our genetic heritage That's focused on whole organic foods of unadulterated origin and naturally forged meats from healthy animals How can this possibly be considered the worst possible diet for humanity, right? And why is it that all the sound debunking of low-fat diets in recent years has resulted pretty much in zero Meaningful change to government sanctioned dietary guidelines, right? I'm guessing by now Or not by now, but I'm guessing that by the end of this talk a lot of you are gonna be wearing this mainstream news ranking like the badge of honor that I do you know, but Where do we start when it comes to making sense of this? Well, I'll give you your first hint. You always need to follow the money Now here's where we shift into conspiracy land But I promise you I will not be handing out tinfoil hats here. Okay This there is in fact a genuine conspiracy here Not all conspiracies, you know our conspiracy theories or whatever are based upon fabricated or kooky paranoia Right and just because something is presented as a conspiracy does not mean it's not true No one should be considered paranoid or some conspiracy not simply because they happen to be informed, right? Or because maybe the mainstream media or snopes, which is kind of a hack, you know watchdog Thing, you know points that finger We need to use all of the available information that we have in order to make Rational inferences from the facts and it's about logical Okay, this is not working out so well Why is this flopping over is it this is it that? Yeah, I don't think I can hold in anybody have duct tape. Yes What do you know duct tape? perfect, so You know when you ask yeah, well asking ye shall receive I guess okay So I mean it's about logical dot connecting right in tandem with solid data and rational evidence, so consider the following all right This is a partial representation of many of the transnational corporate interests that are either supportive of big agribusiness or Stand to profit from a human population basing their diet on mostly carbohydrate based foods, right? What I've termed many times is metabolic kindling And even metabolic enslavement It's a way of eating in other words that is designed to keep us all more or less perpetually hungry in a need of regular meals and snacks Right, I'm hoping most of you are aware of my wood stove analogy. Unfortunately. I don't have time to revisit that here But you know by the way I've tossed the weight loss industry in a casket on here to represent the interest of undertakers as a little extra seasoning I only included factory farming and CAFO operations here because those industries are really Dependent on and are much more likely to side with the interest of big agribusiness without whom they pretty much couldn't exist So not one single one of these interests is a friend to anyone having any integrity within the ancestral health movement This collage of transnational corporate interests if you will represents literally trillions upon trillions of dollars and as far as I'm concerned other than the petroleum that We're all dependent on to one degree or another and as of course as Jim Morrison famously once Stated no one gets out of here alive So an undertaker may be needed at some point But none of the rest of what's represented here stands to make so much as a penny from me or anyone else applying my information I know but I think that's true of a number of us here within the ancestral health community and of course that makes us extremely problematic Now these are many not remotely all of the products associated with major food manufacturers Every single one of them carbohydrate based Right think these guys might have some influence and resisting changes With respect to mainstream dietary guidelines or may exert a variety of efforts to instill confusion misinformation and disinformation Regarding anything and everything related to these interests you better believe it Obviously all this unnecessary mass metabolic and immunologic Derangement is going to lead to massive massive pharmaceutical profits almost beyond the dreams of avarice Funny how all this just sort of works together So this CBS news headline Study shows 70% of Americans take prescription drugs was from 2013 five years ago You guys think this percentage has gone down since then I seriously doubt it And these are last year's profits from only the top 10 pharmaceutical companies alone The numbers you see beneath the names are in billions with a B. Oh and by the way Blood sugar medicine is a 137 billion dollar a year industry, you know so kaching and Then we have the recently popularized push toward of necessity carb-based vegetarian and vegan Diets basically getting promoted all over the place in an inexplicable way Including a rash of very well-funded vegan propaganda films Most of us have probably been familiar with you know filmed by blockbuster Directors like James Cameron and black backed by celebrities like Joaquin Phoenix and Leonardo DiCaprio and whoever else I mean, where is all this coming from right? Is this really some altruistic movement? That's being promoted for our best health and well-being. I mean since when do they care about that? less than 5% of the American public identifies as either being vegetarian or vegan by the way and Depending on which studies you look at somewhere between seventy five to eighty four percent of all vegetarians and vegans end up Abandoning that dietary approach within a decade or less and almost always due to health related issues Right former vegetarians and vegans by the way also outnumber current vegetarians and vegans by a factor of no less than three To one right so where is all this money and top-tier funding coming from to promote this on film and in the press? It certainly isn't capitalizing on some mainstream popularity of the subject, right? Well Good old Bill Gates his Silicon Valley minions and other multinational corporate interests have set their sights on replacing Real meat with what they inexplicably term plant-based meats Hashtag WTF right in the diets of Americans Mark my words the rest of the world is next I promise you Bill Gates secured the National US Distribution rights for veggie burgers made from wheat soy and God knows what else right so expect and in fact I just saw something on science daily the other day Expect to see increased numbers of articles popping through both the mainstream media and science news Concerning the life-threatening evils of animal source foods. It's all part of the campaign, right? These people have unprecedented access to the media and their inability to get them to do whatever they want So the dark underbelly of this fabricated sort of health and environmental movement is for nothing other than massive profit And it's not just about advancing the popularity of Veganism and carbase diets. There's a very real potential here We need to be concerned about with respect to losing our access to quality animal source foods We need in order to be optimally healthy So for those of us that aren't going to be buying the veggie burgers, and I doubt anybody in here will We've got this whole, you know, they've got this covered, right? Right, so there is also considerable talk about carbon taxing animal source foods now and the implementation of this by the way Is highly highly probable It's all under the guise of saving the environment While it's really about collecting money and discouraging meat eating in favor of grains and legumes which are infinitely more profitable Right the big monocrops Grass-fed and finished meat has literally the opposite effect on the environment from feedlot meat as you all know But the taxing criteria would be exactly the same for all forms of meat except for of course the big You know the vegan or the plant-based meats and this is also overlooking the fact that the number one customer For environmentally compromising big oil is big agribusiness You know big farmers in there, too It's outrageous, but when does that ever stop to bureaucracy? So now this article this little gem of an article appeared in business insider in April of this year The article was based on yet another bogus Observational study that claimed to conclude that nuts were purportedly a healthier source of protein than meat Be like a squirrel the scientists said nibbling on nuts over meat. I wish I was kidding Now do you really believe that you have the digestive tract and physiology physiological makeup of a rodent I? Like what they have listed under the anus of the squirrel there anyway magic happens here What is really going on right? Okay So consider this also these are for the most part extremely typical baby foods that are overwhelmingly Represented on food shelves in grocery stores with one or two exceptions here I'm showing organic versions of these baby foods right which are far better quality and generally far more expensive than what most strapped Families in this country can afford These are solid. These are the solid foods That are introduced to babies as soon as they enter into the process of weaning Right assuming they were lucky enough to be breastfed in the first place Something of course the United States government is taking an international stand against now in favor of promoting right You know those horrific infant formulas instead which shows you exactly who owns our government But take a look at at each of these labels sometime, you know when you're in the in the these stores really just start turning them over And try to keep your jaw from hitting the floor Virtually every single one of them is carbohydrate loaded. In fact, most of these are exclusively carbohydrate based Now the protein value in most baby foods is negligible Below fat content of baby foods or the or the quality fat content of baby foods is also effectively negligible There is zero DHA or much of anything needed for the development of a baby's brain So what the heck are we setting up? So here we have a baby's meal in a jar all organic with no preservatives unsweetened and unsalted and I'm sure most parents Would feel as though they were giving their infant a top shelf meal here, right? And if I had to guess I would imagine this is a pretty pricey jar of baby food But what is this baby actually getting? Well, let's look a little more closely at the label So this is supposedly a meat entree, but it's overwhelmingly loaded with starch out of the 18 Wapping grams of carbs in a single meal two grams are fiber just two grams three grams are sugar and The rest is pure starch now three grams of sugar added to 13 grams of starch Which gives you 16 grams of? Utilizable carbohydrate may not sound like much to you and me But consider how much that amounts to in a tiny baby and in a healthy adult bloodstream there's never more than maybe four to five grams of glucose flowing through your veins at any given time and That's if you're healthy, right and that's assuming that you're dependent on glucose as your primary source of fuel So five gram dose of dietary sugar for an adult is literally doubling the amount in the bloodstream normally allowed and Remember all utilizable carbohydrates are sugar once they hit your bloodstream, right? Now I don't know what the exact number should be for a baby of glucose grams in their bloodstream But let's just say that even the three grams of sugar in a single serving all on its own It's likely more than doubling what is supposed to be there, right? Pretty good opiate hit I'd say I don't know how many you guys saw Jay Stanton talk earlier today, but it's like total soul brother, man So, you know grains which also contain exorphans, you know by the way morphine like compounds are the top ingredient in this meat Entree and and chicken is literally the last ingredient on the list With the meal supplying no more than three grams of protein some of which is undoubtedly coming from gluten Which is totally indigestible to literally any human alive and is always always health compromising, right? Anyone see something wrong with this picture at least something suspicious and worthy of concern Now it's important to keep in mind that babies are literally born in an effective state of ketogenic adaptation All right, this isn't just me talking right and and You know and for good reason their little brains are demanding roughly 85% of their total caloric energy intake in ketones, which are veritable brain super fuel Efficiently supply literally four times the ATP of of glucose And are the and they're supposed to be the major fuel for neonatal development So the moment we begin feeding a baby sugar starch ketosis comes to a screeching halt and The child and its brain development become fundamentally dependent enslaved if you will Conveniently to a carbohydrate based metabolism. Do you really think this is a coincidence? I mean think who does this serve, right? Where do we go when we follow the money here? This has begun by the food industry etc at the earliest possible point in life and Think of every baby snack food you've ever seen like Cheerios, right? You see the parents sitting there with a little ziplock baggie of Cheerios goldfish crackers sultans You know if we're lucky maybe fruit What are we setting children up for in life? I? Would submit that there's nothing I repeat nothing accidental or coincidental about any of this It's all by design and part of the earliest possible conditioning process by industry Now this study published in May of 2015 took a close look at the actual impact of dietary guidelines on the health of United States citizens between the years 1965 and 2011 and Shockingly at least a psalm The rates of obesity and all kinds of metabolic diseases during that time increased dramatically But the party line about why this was happening was basically that we were all just too stupid too dumb and lazy You know to follow the rules, right? But that's not what the study showed Even more shockingly It clearly showed that Americans actually had been following the rules and had been diligently following government guidelines all along to our collective and undeniable detriment and In fact the more closely we followed the rules the sicker and more obese we became as a society and in that span of time We radically increased our intake of dietary carbohydrates starchy foods and we would radically reduced our intake of dietary saturated fat Directly in line with the recommendations Now it was a total failure and it ultimately achieved the opposite effect that you know if it's purported intent, right? The science is here. The solid evidence is right here But has this changed official guidelines at all that the authorities say whoops are bad No, they continually just keep reinforcing the same tired nonsense. You know you tell a big enough lie Long enough and loudly enough and people just sort of you know accept that as a matter of course and you know this solid evidence and other untold scores of evidence are Just quietly being swept under the rug or simply ignored and disregarded. Frankly, there's no money in it Now for decades now We've been essentially asked by mainstream dietitians and nutritionist medical authorities and government agencies to base the foundation of our diet on carbohydrates, right while marginalizing or even eliminating animal fats and God knows cholesterol evil cholesterol almost entirely So US Department of Agriculture's food pyramid, right? No conflict of interest there, right? Is it's been basically telling us to base our diet on things like grains legumes potatoes rice and other so-called complex carbs? Is literally a modern-day experiment and a failed one at that No paleolithic human people group in the history of the human species has ever eaten a diet remotely resembling What the USDA the government or medical and dietitian authorities suggest as optimal and This advice is clearly clearly not served as well to put it mildly But how do this flip-flop of misguided mainstream thinking and vilifying the animal source foods? We were designed to consume ever happen in the first place Why anyone remember this? in an a rare bit of investigative journalism this 2016 New York Times article reads the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead and Basically, here's the documentation Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was stated in this internal medicine special communication that Together with other recent analyses of sugar industry documents our findings suggest the industry sponsored a research program in the 1960s and 1970s that successfully cast out upon the hazards of sucrose while promoting fat as the dietary culprit in coronary heart disease And by the way, there's also good evidence that the vegetable industry had a Big hand in the vilification of animal fats as well. I mean, there's plenty of profitable collusion to be found here And then we're also up against the FDA that's supposed to be protecting us right in a rare piece of Extremely in-depth journalism and integrity Charles Seif who's a journalism professor at New York University wrote this Excisive exposes in 2015 and it's all very well documented It's important to keep in mind that the reach of the FDA stretches far beyond far beyond medications and definitely includes our food supply Right food and drug administration in this article Where he exposes all the evidence in detail he states that and I quote For more than a decade the FDA has shown a pattern of burying the details of misconduct as a result Nobody ever finds out which data is bogus which experiments are tainted and which drugs might be on the market under false pretenses The FDA has repeatedly hidden hidden evidence of scientific fraud not just from the public But also from its most trusted scientific advisors Even as they were deciding whether or not a new drug should be allowed on the market Even a congressional panel Investigating a case of fraud regarding a dangerous drug couldn't get forthright answers for an agency devoted to protecting the public from bogus medical science the FDA seems to be spending an awful lot of effort protecting the perpetrators of bogus science from the public and I would add the interest of politicians big agribusiness and the food companies to these dubious bedfellows And I'd be adding the mainstream consumer to the casket So this is our mainstream news machine These are the sources that inform and influence our society on a largely global scale We look to some of the sources here is maybe being a little more credible than others In other words may be more in alignment with a particular political bias that we might have perhaps But some of you may or may not realize that essentially all of the mainstream televised radio and print media Not just the news but all of the media Including all of these new sources are owned and fully controlled by no more than five or six corporate entities Where they used to be dozens of different ones And there's plenty of both light left and right wing bias to go around here folks It's not all one or the other despite what you hear with certain people and all of the news media operate by superficial talking point reporting that is largely supplied and spoon feeding spoon feeding fashion by Major carefully controlled news feeds that go out basically to all of the major news sources which then Dutifully report accordingly. That's how it works true journalism is a modern-day rarity It's an endangered species more rare and scarce than Moondust and is any of this shocking to you because it really should be You know most news stories reliance and say should alism shock and awe to capture and manipulate its audiences They leave us little more than stressed overwhelmed feeling helpless and hopeless and even depressed, you know by design Mainstream journalism into some degree even academia and other institutions including education Have long been unduly influenced by the hands of transnational corporate interest in tandem with shadow intelligence agencies Since all the way back in 1947 Gosh, I wanted to go into this so much more. I just not time, but it's so well documented Look up Carl Bernstein's expose an operation mockingbird and also the findings of the 1976 church committees sometime and Realize this is not just something that happened once upon a time. This is not a thing of the past I've got news for you. Those were the good old days All right, it's highly pertinent to what's going on today So we should all be turning CNN and the rest of it off and for a whole bunch of reasons Now this article from the Guardian is both uncharacteristically Insightful superb and actually really important it lists all of the areas that have researched to show the ways in which mainstream news compromises your life In the article they showed how the mainstream news misleads and overrides rational thinking how mainstream news is irrelevant To anything that has a potential to improve the quality of your life How the news is literally toxic to your body and brain, you know, we become cortisol factories watching this news increases cognitive errors in people that watch it frequently news inhibits thinking and News works like a drug literally altering structures in your brain. All of this is documented in the article. It wastes your time It makes us passive, right? And it also kills creativity and in short They say news is bad for your health It leads to fear and aggression and it hinders your creativity and your ability to think deeply I mean these are hallmarks of the society we live in folks the solution stop consuming it all together and Then also and this is a gem Most of us do not yet understand that mainstream news is to the mind what sugar is to the body So how the heck did they get away with all this how do the sleazy corporate interests get away with it all here's how We're mostly kept distracted not to mention dumb down. In fact, it's sort of the point of it all The other thing they do is they find ways of pitting us against each other by fomenting polarizing issues in the press You know unleashing paid sock puppets in other words trolls over targeted social media sites and keeping us focused on our differences from one another instead of weather or Instead of whatever it is that we might share in common in ways that might God forbid bring us together But all of this is little more than a scratch on the tip of a much deeper and much more nefarious iceberg It's also really important to point out that as a species that evolved in the wild We are wired for what can be termed tangible threats, right? If a saber-toothed cat comes after us, that's tangible, you know if we're being chased or charged by a cantankerous woolly mammoth That's tangible, you know, or we see a poisonous snake or something or if there's a warring tribe or a major storm or a seismic event Or maybe your major volcanic eruption or something or maybe a famine Those are all things that we are wired to recognize as threats that require our action and self-protection So fast forward to the 21st century where we're all living in comfortable climate-controlled environments, right? Where most of us in the Western world don't need to take more than one or two steps in any direction To be able to grab a handful of something we think of as food and eat it Right, everyone is sitting in their nice soft couches at home in the evenings watching dancing with the stars and eating cheesy doodles Right, and I don't care if you're living in Minnesota in February, you know where it's 40 degrees below zero outside Winter isn't coming for us anymore So the vast majority of us live in this state of false complacency Right, we don't see the threat, but we're also living in an era That is demonstrably far more dangerous and by far the most dangerous and most perilous of our entire evolutionary history Yet most of what threatens us today is largely invisible to us. We're simply not wired for that For instance contaminants in our air water and food supply, right GMOs glyphosate fluoride, you know bio sludge You know emf pollution radiation contamination and on and on not to mention predatory corporate it control or you know or the erosion of our most fundamental human rights as our Constitution and Bill of Rights is just sort of crumbling into oblivion But nobody wants to see it. We are obliviously pissing it all away and Thank God for Monday night football though, huh? I mean we can simply ignore all that and pretend it's not there You know just have a beer and feel it all fade away blissfully into nothingness. It's a national pastime, right? We are just like those metaphorical boiling frogs, right that that are living with the illusion that we're sitting in a hot tub in Vegas and This mindset makes us especially malleable So now we've all heard of this phenomenon, right? We all need to sit up and pay attention to what's actually happening here in Contrast to what we're all being told about this concern. It turns out that actual fake news comes in several different varieties There's the funny kind that you see with like John Steward and Steven Colbert and Saturday Night Live The slightly less funny kind you know that you see in the tabloids and Then there's the predatory and even potentially illegal variety made by the Pentagon and multinational corporate and banking influencers This includes by the way big pharma for whom there is a representative sitting on every single board of every single television news outlet and the CDC by the way is a corporate entity trading on Wall Street and Profiting from many of the things that it's supposed to be regulating I'm digressing but But we're being led to believe that the alternative media the one in which The one that is in much more relentless pursuit of the truth is the actual fake news enemy right Many of us here have blogs or social media that would regularly that would that would readily be characterized as Fake news by the mainstream media machine right by mainstream authorities of different kinds right now It's just name-calling, but don't think that they're prepared to stop at that And this is going to get ugly and in certain places around the world including here. It already has in Malaysia posting anything online or in social media or YouTube deemed to be incorrect right or misleading by the authorities is Literally against the law now and is punishable by prison time and or exorbitant fines There's actually at least one conviction that's taken place already And in France Germany and elsewhere in the EU Similar legislation has either been passed or is being considered along with the UK Lots is happening right now in this arena and none of it.  Here's you know, this is where things are potentially headed And by the way, the new Malaysian law loosely defines fake news as news information data and reports Which are wholly or partly false and includes features visuals and audio recordings also covering digital publication and social media Of course interpretation of what's true or false is up to the discretion of the authorities That are frequently the target of alternative news articles and criticisms So one journalist speaking out on this dangerous global trend had the guts to point out that and I quote Not reporting something is as dangerous as reporting something that is false. This kind of legislation would Disincentivize journalists from publishing the truth Sort of the point I think Again when we talk about alternative news media being accused of creating fake news This is not what we're talking about Now we could easily beat I know it's hysterical and we could easily be talking about someone trying to write a Thoughtful piece on say the link between autism and vaccines for instance or an article about the many potential harmful effects of statin drugs Or the harm associated with officially sanctioned You know low-fat diets or the benefits associated with quality animal, you know source food diets I can tell you that in countries like Australia, which I'm very familiar with Alternative news articles like these are already resulting in extreme responses from authorities targeted social media attacks harassment Investigation and even the risk of loss of licensure if you happen to be a medical provider now think for a moment What happened to Tim notes in South Africa, right? Tip of the iceberg of what's coming or to Gary Fedki in Australia many of you are familiar with the mainstream media in Australia is Swift and merciless in its attacks On anything that challenges the mainstream narrative and it's it's really pretty terrifying Over there even so much as discussing the benefits of an ancestrally based diet can land you in massively hot water in the media and Lead to brutal personal attacks over social media when one woman recently Attempted to speak at a university on the benefits of a diet based in quality fats and when word got out She was mercilessly pilloried in the press Subjected to public ridicule Banned from that university and forbidden forbidden from ever speaking at a university in Australia ever again Now I was the first in the ancestral health genre to actually bring These ideas to Australia and I've actually spoken to three or four different universities in Australia over the years But that was before the ancestral health genre began taking off in earnest there Now that it's actually achieved a very widespread kind of mainstream popularity You know it poses a real threat to the status quo It's no longer tolerated by the press or authorities and the media is being relentless in its condemnation It's so called debunking and ridicule of the ancestral health genre and since Australians lack a similar constitution or bill of rights that Americans have the illusion of protecting them the government and its Media machine are far more brazen in their control measures, and I don't know if you guys have seen the magic pill But the the Australian version. Yeah, it's awesome. Isn't it the Australian version of the AMA over there is trying to get that film banned All right in Australia. They're trying to get it officially, but they won't be able to do it, but So this article published in the Harvard Law Review all the way back in June of 2014 offered a chilling description Of what was already happening way back then at that time The article stated that quote private companies that run social media sites and search engines are the main arbiters of what gets Communicated in the brave new world of cyberspace and despite their good intentions and their claims to free speech philosophy These companies employ terms of service that censor a broad range of constitutionally protected speech Now this Harvard Law Review article also stated and referenced a supportive citation for the following Facebook wields more power today in determining who can speak Than any Supreme Court justice any king or any president and unlike censor Censorship decisions by government agencies the process in the private world of social media secret and Facebook has recently committed itself to an all-out war using an undisclosed some sort of undisclosed algorithm Against so-called fake news that includes by the way health related topics Facebook pages in the health related genre are already coming down Now Google sensors its general search is to Alternative news web pages are starting to get systematically buried in the search engines I don't know if you've been noticing this also certain studies that are not in alignment with the mainstream narrative are also becoming harder and harder to Locate and are hidden behind paywalls now The especially outspoken website natural news was actually removed from search engine engines altogether for a time until Mike Adams Took aggressive legal action got it reinstated He had money and the know-how to do that not all of us do So can we really rely on capitalism to save us right? Do we really believe that we have any control whatsoever on the market forces supplying us with food products and whatever else And do we really believe that the mom-and-pop business operations working extra hard to do the right things in the right way for the Right reasons are operating on a level playing field in our society with transnational corporate interests seriously So the number one thing everyone needs to realize is that corporations have but one obligation one obligation only and that Obligation is not to provide us with quality anything or remotely healthy efficacious products that are environmentally responsible Nor are they obligated to provide us in reality with truth in advertising There are loopholes in the labeling laws alone that are big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through Their only obligation is to supply profit for their shareholders. That's it Nothing else really and increasingly the laws are being written not only to promote the consumer But instead yikes to promote the profits of transnational industries that they truly serve What capitalism amounts to nowadays is ever larger companies buying up ever smaller companies and edging out any semblance of fair competition With better quality mom-and-pop products by using things like pricing undercuts deceptive Advertising predatory marketing practices as a means of putting everyone else out of business We think of capitalism as being synonymous with democracy and or the antithesis of socialism But in reality, it's the antithesis of anything representing freedom It represents a hegemonic corporate monopoly on everything including our lawmakers Do I trust the marketplace to give me healthy and sustainable food that I want and demand simply because I'm asking for it Not for a single instant. So here's what we can trust companies to do we can trust them to tell us what they think We want to hear Simply as a means of selling us whatever Food labeling laws are written for them and not for us along with most of the rest of what governs our food supply The organic standard is rapidly becoming eroded to something borderline meaningless Certain popular companies claiming to be selling us grass-fed meat and their products reveal the use of GMO's in the fine print on their website And I've got news for you a box of gluten-free organic supposedly zero-trans fat low-carb non-gmo So-called paleo or keto-friendly brownie mix is still crap And by the way, this all has absolutely nothing to do with any one political party or politician They're all guilty of collusion with transnational corporate industry in the global banking system when it comes to prioritizing profit over people the environment or ethics National politics is little more than a distraction and Engaging local politics is ultimately our best strategy for getting anything done in the political sphere There's a Chinese proverb that tells us unless we change directions. We're likely to end up where we are going So let's just say we're not headed in an exactly in a positive direction So what steps are needed to counter this trend, right? We have to understand the nature of the matrix we are in If we can begin to even figure out how to shift the balance of power and increase the responsibility And leadership of humanity. So here's what we all need to think about doing to counter the mess that we're in. I know I'm sorry. I just have to keep going after didn't tell him dragged off I'll arm wrestle you for it so Number one take the red pill be willing to truly see what is happening, right? Do your homework in other words dig and don't just rely on sound bites or your favorite blogger to get to the bottom of things for you Be brave speak the truth and we're appropriate consider civil disobedience, you know, they can't get us all Don't let yourself and your life be governed by fear Take thoughtful and considered action including highly focused intense legislative pressure, you know We still have some illusion of due process and we need to take advantage of that Maybe a girl scout or boy scout and all of this, right? Focus primarily on localization Local politics and community and develop a firsthand knowing of where your food actually comes from now as much as humanly possible Do what you can to inspire and not proselytize or battle others In the world that we live in filled with all sorts of things. We seemingly have no control over it's incumbent upon us to take control of what we can Meditate just learn to operate in the calm center of the cyclone and and wind down your mental chaos This is way more important than you think and remember that we are all in this together And that your neighbor is not your enemy We're all much more alike than unlike and our values and needs as human beings and we need to be focused on that We also should be supporting the considerable efforts of activists like Scott tips and the national well actually International Health Federation nobody ever hears about this organization. These are our soul representatives of actual food freedom at the international codex elementarius meetings They are literally what stand between us and the laws governing the long-term quality of our food supply not to mention access to nutritional supplements, which is going away Obviously, we should also be supporting things like the savory Institute and farm to consumer and other activist organizations, you know so be become an activist if you can but at the very least support the activists Please don't do this or this right and by the way No one is coming to save us an official policy and mainstream practices people They're never going to change not ever from the top down Our power lies in the grassroots literally and figuratively our best health and future is up to us We are the ones we've been waiting for Right Thank you Lies and timely words from our friend George Orwell.  What is the biggest killer in the world? Here's your answer. It's apathy So most of all keep calm and care enough to choose the red pill the one supplement We should all be taking each and every day and one final reminder it. It's no measure It's no measure of health To be well adjusted to to a profoundly sick society. So let's wake up and work together And I wish to hell I had time to answer questions


Hello there, my beautiful, lovely, talented internet friends and good morning. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you so much for joining me here today for a morning routine amputee edition. I'm an amputee, thus it is an amputee morning routine, but it's really just what I do in the mornings. So I want to take you through and show you what I'm currently doing when I get up in the morning, how things are working. This is so different than it was a year ago or even a couple months ago. A lot has changed, I think, for the better. Since becoming an amputee, getting up and getting the day started has been, uh, it's not felt normal. It's always felt like a hassle. Like, I had to put thought into it and I feel like I'm finally getting to the point where very little thought is required and I'm able to just, like, go about, do the things I need to do. As a new amputee, still getting used to stuff, getting up in the morning used to feel like a real hassle. Like, took way too much energy. Uh, everything felt like an enormous next step to take. Like, oh my god, I have to put my leg on now. This is too much. And now I finally feel like I've sort of eased into a little bit more normalcy. I still have hiccups, I still have challenging moments, but I finally have a morning routine that really works for me and that I'm really, really excited about. I'm still able to do more and more every day right now. Fingers crossed, it'll continue in that direction. And I finally have a schedule that is starting to work for me both physically and mentally. So, if you've ever wondered what a morning routine looks like in my life or in general in the life of my amputee, this is what mine looks like. Every morning at about 5.30, my alarm will go off. But every morning at about 5.15, my German Shepherd Sophie hops up on the bed, starts kissing my face and pawing me because it's morning and there are things to do, mom. I keep my eye walk, which is a walking crutch, right by my bed. That way I can pop it on the side of my body that happens to be missing a foot and start my morning without having to worry about getting my prosthetic leg on. First thing every morning is to feed the puppy dogs. You know, they get very hungry. They're big dogs. They need food. Having an eye walk has really been helpful with this because when they get up in the morning, they really want to go downstairs quickly and I don't get my leg on very quickly, so using the eye walk to hobble about is really helpful. Next, of course, is coffee. I set my coffee pot to go off every morning at 5.15, so it's nice and warm when I get up. I spend a few minutes listening to an audiobook and sipping my coffee. The best part of any morning. Before heading upstairs to start the most strenuous parts of the day. Lately, my residual limb or sump has been doing pretty well. I've been getting pretty good on my prosthetic leg, so I've started actually exercising every morning. Now, to exercise for me takes a little bit of a hardware. I've got to change out my foot and my ankle on my prosthesis to a different socket. The reason I have to do this is range of motion. I've got to line it up. I've got to make sure it's good and I switch it to my biking socket so I can hop on a stationary bike that I was given. Always got to pet the watchful puppy for good luck. Then I get my liner on here and clip in to be able to ride. Now, I do have to take an inhaler every morning as I have asthma and, you know, exercising means breathing is a little bit challenging. Having this bike has been such a gift in my life, though, because there are a few things that I can really physically push myself at. I'm not able to run yet and my leg isn't out of place where I can do that much, but being able to get on a bike which is low impact means that I can do something that really makes me sweat, that makes me get out of my head and out of my body. It's the one place and time that I don't feel really disabled or impacted by anything. Workouts are really hard, but I like that. I like getting them out of the way in the morning under the watchful guys of puppies. When I'm done with my workout, I usually have to lay down for a couple minutes and I'm always attacked by, you guessed it, a German shepherd. She's very distracting. She's very good at convincing me I should just sit there and pet her and caress her little face instead of getting on with my day, which is what I actually need to do here. I usually have help from Sophie as I get my leg switched back over to my walking leg instead of my biking leg. Getting the alignment right on my leg so I'm actually walking straight can be a little bit challenging sometimes and I always have to double check that I don't have any skin issues popping up, but we're looking good today. So into the shower we go. So ever since I discovered the protrusion at the end of my leg bone, like the little spike, I don't know if you guys remember that, I've been using this silicone lotion and also this silicone pad right here to compensate so that the pressure doesn't go on that part of my leg. Many of you already know this, but this is my liner. This is what is in direct contact with my skin all day. Every night I wash it. Every morning it's dry and usually really cold to put on. I've got to make sure that I'm putting it on the right way. All right, there we go. Because you want the words in the front so that it bends the same way every time you walk. Also, I love that this just like sticks on to me because of that silicone lotion. Having a toilet in the background on one of my video shots is not aesthetically pleasing, but this is actually how I put my light on every morning. So we got to deal with it. Get all the air out and we're good to go. I feel like this is something that's true for everybody, but I've learned lately that it's really important for me to take time to connect with my body and take care of it in whatever way I feel like that day. Exercise is a big part of that for me and sometimes playing with makeup on my face is a good part of that as well. The more I can listen to what I think I need for that day, what my body needs the better. Dealing with disability and physical pain can lead to you feeling really disconnected from yourself, really disconnected from your physical form, and doing things like this actually helps me reconnect, which is really nice. Done with my face. Now it's time to head into work. I do have my rat cage in my office room, so I always stop by, give them some treats in the morning. They definitely deserve it. They are the cutest after all. Now it's time to dive into work. Every day I usually get to my desk around 7.30 or 8. I work for a company as well as working pretty much full time on YouTube as well, so I do a lot of editing. Every day is a little bit different, so I've really enjoyed having an actual morning routine to start with lately. And there we have it. The rest of my morning is usually spent working either at my job or depending on my schedule that day, maybe editing tomorrow's video or whatever that might be. Brian and I both work from home right now, obviously because of the current world situation, but when that's not the case, sometimes I'll head to a coffee shop to work for an hour or two, get a different change of scenery, then head about the rest of my day. But thank you for joining me here for a morning routine. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Are you interested in seeing a night routine? I'm really, I'm still not convinced how interesting it is to see someone else's life. But then again, I watch videos like this on YouTube, so maybe it's more interesting than I think. A huge shout out goes to all my patrons over on Patreon. Thank you so much for supporting me there. If you're interested in becoming a community member of my Patreon, the link is on screen or in the description down below. To you watching this video, thank you so much for spending a few minutes out of your day here in this morning with me. I really appreciate you and I appreciate your time. It could be anywhere in the world doing anything you chose to hang out with me for a few minutes. I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I'll see you in the next video. And now off to work.


Hi, everyone, and welcome to an on-demand session for the CNCF. My name is Moor. I'm a lead architect at Ford. And today we'll be talking about what do we mean when we say data model. We're going to learn how to think about what needs to be inside your developer portal. Should be a very cool session with a lot of very relevant information. So let's get started. OK, so what are we going to talk about today? First of all, we're going to go through a short introduction to the world of platform engineering. Then we're going to talk about the core pillars of a developer portal. We're going to talk about what is a data model? Why do you need one? How do we define a data model MVP? What is a blueprint, which is a port component? And we're going to go over some practical examples to create a core model and learn how to extend that model once we start getting started. OK, so first of all, an introduction to platform engineering. This became the rise for developer portals and internal developer platforms. Basically, as time went on and the DevOps boom passed, we reached a point where developers have so many tools. We need to keep in mind so many things. We need to keep track of Kubernetes and Argo CD and their cloud provider and their Git repository and all of the different tooling. And it just became a very cluttered mess. It became very hard to find all of the correct tooling, all of the correct pieces of information. It became very hard for developers and different personas in the R&D organization to keep track of everything. And this brought rise to the movement of platform engineering, whose goal was to make an organized platform that brings all that information together, exposes it in a convenient way that makes sense and gives you those tailored views and also gives personas more independence on what they do, giving them sole service, giving them an organized catalog, giving them scorecards to understand exactly how they're doing with the services they're responsible for, with their development process and so on. This is a process that was pushed by companies such as Spotify and Lyft. And now it became a very general movement, which is also heralded by Backstage, which is a project of the CNCF. And now we're going to talk about how to build your internal developer portal using a data model. So first of all, let's go over the core pillars of a developer portal and what makes a good developer portal. First of all, we have the software catalog. The software catalog is where all of the information flows into. This is the visibility layer that gives us insight that one pane of glass into everything that's happening in our organization. The services, the deployments, the CI CD jobs, the resources we have from our cloud provider and how they all connect to one another. This is that one pane of glass that one tab developers need in their browser to get the answer to every question they might have, such as who is the current on-call? What is the documentation or read me for a given service? And so on. Then we have the solve service layer. We want to give developers more independence. And nowadays it is very common that developers would require certain resources from their DevOps. They might require a new cloud resource, some permissions. They might need a temporary development environment and so on. And usually that revolves around finding their DevOps or sending a ticket or sending a Slack message. And usually what happens in that case, the DevOps will simply receive the request and run his own pre-made script that already performs that action and tell the developer, okay, it's ready, you can go ahead. We want to save that process and we want to give developers the option to simply consume those pre-made scripts and pre-made actions through a self-service layer that contains all the necessary role-based access control and guardrails to make sure developers gain more independence but still have a safe way to consume those self-service actions. After that, we have workflow automation. As time goes on and your developer portal becomes more robust and caters to more and more use cases, the information that it holds becomes even more precious and even more valuable, which means that not only personas such as developers and DevOps and platform engineers can make use of it, machines can make use of that information as well. So we're talking scripts, CICD, deployment processes and so on, they can all make use of the information in the software catalog to make decisions, to take control of the different processes and maybe put stops where they are needed and so on. So that is the workflow automation layer. And we have scorecards. Scorecards are a way for organizations to push forward their engineering excellence and to keep track of how they are standing with standards within the organization and also standards of the industry. So they are able to configure scorecards for the different services, for the different clusters and cloud resources and say, okay, I want a given microservice to only have less than five open tickets or I want him to have no critical security vulnerabilities and those scorecards will give us that overview of how a service is doing, how is it standing with regards to our best practices and to our goal and we can also push initiatives to improve the standing of that service and tell the responsible teams to take care of those misalignment and anomalies to make sure that all services are in good stand. Now, of course, the developer portal is surrounded by a very strong role-based access control layer which makes sure that only the proper personas see the information they need. It allows us to create those tailored views and not exposing too much information to personas who don't need it to reduce that cognitive load and also to make sure that certain expensive or dangerous requests or self-service actions can only be performed or approved by the proper people in the organization. And of course, the developer portal is comprised of a very strong interface so a very convenient way to consume the information in the portal would be either through the UI or through an API or through something such as a chat apps or chat bot and alongside with that with all of the information that we have in the portal we also have the R&D insights and reports layer which gives us visualizations over the information over what developers are doing in the portal over what actions are being executed and their status and so on. And since today we will be talking about how to create a data model and what should our data model contain. The primary layer that we're going to talk about today is the software catalog. Now, what is a data model? So a data model is a representation of the layout and architecture of the different components that make up your environment and infrastructure components. The goal of the data model is to make it easy to understand the interdependencies in your infrastructure and how your SDLC tech stack comes together. The idea is to create a model that shows how the different pieces in your infrastructure connect to one another how they speak, what are the dependencies what are the interdependencies to be able to create that proper cloud map showing you everything from the first line of code to the service running in your cluster in your cloud provider and all of the pieces in between. Now, why do we even need a data model? So every organization is a bit different. Everybody have a different architecture they use different set of tools they use a different cloud provider the frameworks might vary and all those changes might be very slight or very broad. Some organizations are completely different from one another and so we need a data model that is flexible and customizable because the data model should serve you and it should make it possible to build the best developer portal for your organization and for your needs. So that is why a flexible and dynamic data model is crucial. Now, the data model should reliably describe your infrastructure in a way that resonates with your organization terminology architecture and workflow. That means it can't be a close set of resources which you simply ingest information into it needs to be customizable and it needs to be able to have custom connections and custom properties which match what you care about you would like to track in your developer portal and in your organization. Now a data model is a way of addressing desired use cases for the internal developer portal tracking incidents, managing microservices resolving vulnerabilities these will all create different initial data models and as we'll see going ahead we're gonna see that we start with a core data model and we're gonna explain what a core data model is but we'll see that the key is to make an iterative process over the data model and continue to extend it according to the needs of your use case users and their use cases. So how do we go about defining a data model MVP? First, it might seem a bit daunting to create a data model but it really shouldn't be. The core thing that you need to remember is that while the data model is the starting point for your software catalog creating the model is an iterative process. As time goes on you will continue to add and modify and change and delete components in data model but the core should not find a new and should not stop you from starting to get going and creating that initial portal. The idea is to get started find a particular use case which your developers want to solve which your developers have a pain point in and implementing the initial blueprints that represent and solve that use case. Now notice that I mentioned the term blueprints a few times we're going to explain what that is in the next slide so hold on. Now once the initial use case is implemented the goal is to continue to extend the data model and implement additional use cases and as time goes on the demo will continue to grow but again because it is such a flexible object it is perfect for that purpose it can continue to adapt to your needs to the needs of your users. So we talked about blueprints a bit let's explain what a blueprint is so blueprints are schema definitions for any type or kind of asset in your software catalog blueprints are customizable components which make up the schema of your data model and blueprints are made of properties so what does that mean? You can think of a blueprint as a schema for a table in a database you can add all the different columns you want those are called properties and it should support all the major types so it should go from the standard primitives we're talking strings and numbers and booleans all the way to arrays and the ability to embed markdown and users from within the portal itself and also embedding iframes to get all the information and get the most customizable and tailored component and schema for your organization so in here you can see an example for a service blueprint and once we start diving a bit deeper into the core model you're gonna see exactly why that service blueprint is important and why it looks the way it does and we're gonna dive a bit deeper into that in just a few minutes so let's talk about creating a core model the core model is the initial set of blueprints used for your first developer pool of use case the MVP now what that means is that this is the first set of blueprints which we're going to implement it's going to be the starting point from which you will continue to add more blueprints and more use cases and the idea is that as your developer pool of growth in use cases and internal adoption your data model will also grow and that initial set of blueprints will evolve but in addition to that you will have more blueprints added around it and that will create a more complete map and a more complete developer pool which contains the answers for all of your internal use cases and all of the different personas that might consume the pool now you can see here the core data model that we will be talking about we're gonna start diving a bit deeper into each and every one of those components like I said those are called blueprints and we're going to see why their flexibility matters so much and we're also going to see why we went with this for the core model so our core model is the SDLC core model and now let's talk a bit about motivation and explanation for why we went with that so a very common core model for developer portals is a model for the software development life cycle and this is something that we see all the time with different adopters of developer portals with different use cases we're seeing it with users of port we see it with users of backstage we see it with users who implement their own developer portal internally and the reason is that this model is very easily extensible and this model also serves the core abstractions and visualizations portal users need 99% of the time really every time we go and talk to a potential customer and every time we go and talk to someone who's interested in developer portals or feels he has the need for a developer portal in his organization it always revolves around the SDLC use case first because that is the biggest pain point so why does the SDLC core model contain it contains three blueprints the first is service then we have environment and finally we have running service and now we're going to dive deeper into each and one of those specifically and understand what is its goal and also what it contains and what information it exposes for us so let's start with the service blueprint the service blueprint is used to represent a static code repository and it's related metadata for a microservice it is very common to use the service blueprint for metadata information and we have some example properties here for the service blueprint is the URL to the service repository the team responsible for the service the language of the service the readme documentation and the service architecture diagram now remember we said that blueprints are customizable objects and that developing the core data model and the data model itself is an iterative process so what you're seeing here is a suggestion for an initial core data model but since every organization is a bit different your core data model might differ it might have an additional blueprint or two it might have two properties less it doesn't matter, the idea is to start with a single use case that fits you and will answer the pain points of your developers and of the consumers of your developer portal and we're going to see why we went exactly with this initial set of properties in the service blueprint in just a few minutes when we see the end result inside the developer portal but use this as a reference, use this as a guide and also keep in mind why we even want all of this information so when we're talking about a service when we're talking about a static code repository we want to have all the necessary information in our developer portal we don't want to run around too much and have too many open tabs we want to keep track of everything from a single place, a single pane of glass and the service blueprint in the core data mall is exactly that so we're talking the URL to the service repository means we don't have to search around or get provider too much finding the team responsible for the service as the team property means that we always know who to contact if there's an issue, if we want to learn more about the service the language of the service could make it very easy to understand if it can easily be picked up by us if we need to add a new feature if we need to track how many services in our organization use a particular language or maybe make sure that it's using the latest version that has no vulnerabilities the readme documentation makes it very easy to onboard new developers and also for existing developers to pick up the service and start using it if they need to consume it or if they need to contribute to it and the service architecture diagram makes it very easy and easy to look around documentation for the proper architecture and the latest architecture it's all seen right there in the portal available for viewing instantly now let's talk about the environment blueprint so the environment blueprint is used to represent an environment where microservices are deployed and resources are hosted use the environment blueprint to keep track of the environments where services are deployed and also gain visibility into the different environments maintained by the organization so as organizations grow and today we are in a very cloud native oriented development methodology and we see a lot of organization having multiple cloud accounts multiple cloud environments we work in multiple regions serving customers from all around the globe and so keeping track of all these different environments and their components and their different cloud resources can become very challenging so the idea for the environment blueprint is to hold all of that information to be that high level grouping that gives us the visibility into everything that it contains so in order to do that here are some common properties for the environment blueprint we're talking about the cloud provider the environment is hosted on which can be very beneficial for companies that are in the transition between different cloud provider or maybe they are working with a multi-cloud keep track of multiple cloud environments from multiple cloud providers we're talking about the type of the environment so is this a production staging a test a QA environment and so on and the region of the environment to be able to see ok what regions are we working on are we missing some regions for some of our clients are we upholding all of our compliance requirements and so on so all of those things can be implemented through the environment blueprint and also as I'm going to discuss at the end of presentation the environment blueprint is also a good starting point to look into things such as FinOps and understanding the costs of an environment hosted on the cloud now we have the running service blueprint the running service blueprint is used to provide the runtime context for a service running a given environment now that is important because a service on its own is just static code we said it's just a repository it has some metadata the language responsible team and so on so that is all nice and well and in addition an environment is a collection of resources telling us what is what different cloud providers and cloud environments are we using if we're on AWS or GCP or Azure and what regions are we on but the running service is meant to bring some runtime information and make the connection between those two blueprints so the running service blueprint gives us the option to answer the question how is my service in production looking whether it's stats what are some URLs to its dashboards and monitoring dashboards and logs what is the current API definition and what is the URL to consume that API and so on so all that information is runtime information that we can only get from an actual service running in an actual environment and this is why the running service blueprint is so important because it gives us that runtime context that a service entity from a service blueprint on its own does not give us and it also gives us information on where is this running and should we care if it is not healthy for example it's a production service maybe if it's a test service and we can take care of that tomorrow we don't need to wake up the on-call developer so all that information is contained in the running service blueprint and that is why it's so important so some common properties for the running service blueprint is the commit hash of the deployed version which helps us understand what version is actually deployed in production right now or what version is deployed in tests right now and we would pretty soon want to promote to production we can have the URL to the Grafana dashboard to the Prometheus dashboard and we can have the Swagger API reference for that running version so for example if we have that version running production we can have our developers testing with that version and learning how to use that API with their own services in their development process and add more features now after we have all those three blueprints in place and we have that core model what is the actual result so as you can see here we have those three blueprints and we also have relations between them this is what gives us that strong contest this means that we can look at an environment and see all the different running services so we can see everything that is currently running in production but we can also look at it from a service perspective and see for a given service where is it currently deployed and for example if a service currently isn't running in staging and it's only running in production so we have no way to actually reliably test and validate changes before we deploy to production and we can also look at a given running service and look at our running service in production and look at its metrics, keep track of its direct access to the logs and to the API reference so that we can validate that everything with the service is okay it's running properly, it's using the expected amount of resources for example CPU and memory and so on so the SDLC core model provides us with the basic layer of visibility into our services and environments with the proper runtime context and while this model is only the core again this is the starting point for developers with insights into real services, the current state of the system and run time information all in a single pane of glass and when I show you the complete example with the information already ingested into the catalog to see exactly all the different views and different visibility insights that we can gather from this core data model so now let's talk about extending the core model remember that the core model is only just the starting point and designing data model for your developer portal is an iterative process so we start small, we start with the core model but then we continue to iterate and build on it and extend it according to the needs of our users and to the different use cases that we want the developer portal to tackle remember that the goal of the developer portal is to be the ultimate pane of glass that one tab that developers and DevOps and platform engineers all need in their browser all the information of the tailored views so they don't really need to look around too much for different things now once you have an initial core model in place for example the SDLC core model that we suggested you can start extending it with additional information so some common examples for core model extensions are adding CICD pipeline data ingesting all the different deployments, the builds, the service promotion tasks that we have to bring even more run time and even more process information to understand exactly how services change over time and also for example if we have some sort of issue in our CICD process or if we have a lot of builds that are failing and figure out the root cause we can talk about application security data we can look at outdated libraries or security vulnerabilities and make sure that we're compliant with the organization standards and requirements we can talk about project management data, tickets, sprints projects, understanding how a certain sprint is going how many features have we already implemented and have been deployed for a given service in a given sprint and so on we can talk about alerting and tracing data so incidents, alerts on-call paging and so on being able to page the on-call directly from the portal if there is an issue that we noticed given service for a given running service directly from the portal means that we have all the information in one place and then even when the on-call wakes up at 3 a.m. he simply opens his developer portal and he has all the information that he needs straight away he doesn't need to look around too much and solving the issue becomes a much more effective process and as I mentioned we can also add FinOps data such as how much does an environment or service sprint or a given feature cost to develop and to maintain and to host and we know that that is highly critical information that organizations really want insight into today and a developer portal and a core data model that can be extended to contain that FinOps information is crucial for organizations and they really want to see that and that is a very popular extension of the core data model and of course as we said this is an iterative process you want to continue extending you want to continue listening to feedback that you receive from your developers from the personas in your organization remember that the core goal of the platform engineering developer portal movement is to improve developer experience to improve efficiency and productivity and make lives for developers better and easier so ask your users talk to them request feedback understand their pain points and extend the core data model according to that so before we move to the questions I want to show you exactly what a core data model looks like when it's implemented so let's take a look here in the builder page we have the three blueprints that we mentioned for the core data model so we have the running service environment and service blueprints and as you can see they contain all the properties that we've discussed and remember since we're talking about blueprints which are simply schemas then we can always go and add properties as needed and we have all of the major types including markdown, swagger UIs and embedded URLs and so on so this shows you the flexibility and the power of the flexibility in the developer portal and now let's take a look at the actual result so if we go to the catalog first of all you'll notice that we have a page for every one of our blueprints so in the service page we can see our different services we can see the URLs, we can see the languages we can see a link to the architecture diagram if you look at the environment we can see our different environments we can see that we're using AWS and we have three environments for production, test and staging and we have our running services, we have a few instances of services running in the different environments for the different services and again remember this is a small example just showing the core model but let's take a look at what visibility this already gives us so first of all if I dive into a specific service what I can see is first of all this is all of the runtime information provided by the running service blueprint and the running service entity for the authorization service running in production and if we look at the related entities section we can actually see that this service is running in production and we can also see the entity for the service itself so we can go to the repository URL we can look at the language, you can look at the architecture diagram and so on and since the data model and developer portal is meant to show all the interdependencies between the different components we can also take a look at the graphical view and I will send exactly okay how does this running service connect to the rest of my infrastructure now remember that when you extend the data model further and add more blueprints you will see those appear here so we'll have a complete cloud map showing everything going from the single code line all the way to the running cloud provider, the cluster, the specific Kubernetes container running that service and all the information it contains and again as we said we have the swagger API and we have the logs dashboard URL and so on and if we go ahead and take a look from a different perspective if we take a look specifically at the production environment we can also see all the services running in production right now so this again as this list fills up and we bring more information into the developer portal we will have a complete list of services and we'll be able to see exactly what is currently running in production, what is its status and how is it doing is it healthy, is there something we need to take care of and so on and if we go ahead and take a look at it from the authorization service point of view we can also see all the different running instances so for example we can see here that the authorization service is currently running in production and staging so that is a very good result for us because that way we know ok we have a prep rod or staging environment where we can test and validate new versions before we promote or deploy to production so we have a very standardized SDLC process for our development and again as we said this service view also gives us a lot of high quality information for users who want to consume this service or learn about it so we have the README documentation and we have the architecture diagram here and this already gives us a lot of information that we know and I believe that you also know if you are watching this session that developers are missing and they really want to gain insight into this information and have that one pane of glass that provides them with all that high quality data and that's it this is the session I hope you learned a lot I hope you understand now what a data model is and what a core data model is and that this is an iterative process which you should continue to work on and improve do not be afraid to make the first step and do not be afraid to implement that core data model that you have shown here or you can talk to your developers and listen to their pain point maybe they care about something else except for the SDLC maybe they want to tackle that first so go ahead and do that and again if you have any thoughts if you have any comments feel free to contact me my email is right here and also feel free to reach out to us


It alfitli 2022 in the UAE is announced. Remember, the decision was announced by the federal authority for the government for human resources and emiratization. This is the government, this is the government sources authority that is responsible for announcing such kind of public qualities in the UAE. But according, when you look at that according to the federal government according to the federal authority for the government that is the government human emiratization resources, the aid is likely to form to have its break from the Ramadan that is on 29 to Shahro that is our third. Meaning that in case there is the UAE Monsaiting Committee convened to confirm the official starting date of the aid at that same. That means it is likely to follow on May 2 as per the AstroMetic calculations. In case the Monsaiting Committee is cited at that time then probably we will definitely have to expect or we expect that the aid will be falling on what you call May as per the AstroMetic calculations. Remember, according to the official UAE according to the official circular or according to the UAE laws and rules all workers or residents in the UAE have to be given what you call days of what you call paid days of. What we mean is they being days of they is being of but you are not paid and is what you call days of celebrating those days of that are being paid according to the law or according to the ministry of human humanization and immunization in the UAE. They are supposed to be given up but they are again supposed to be paid fully because it is they celebrated you know remember this is an islamic calendar that we get celebrated that marks the end of the Hori math of Ramadan in the whole world. But according to the official UAE Hori release residents will have aid al-Fitli that is from Ramadan 29 to Shalwa 3 and if Ramadan lasts for 29 days that means residents will have to get 4 days off and if the holy and if that means and if again Ramadan lasts for 30 days then that means the residents and all residents and nationals in the UAE will have to get what you call 5 days off. Hope you are trying to get it clear. It is actually now and they are believing actually that the astro band calculations believe that it may be on May what you call May starting May 2. But again we are looking at a situation that incase we incase the calculation or incase what after the moon sighting what what is being announced that it falls on the last Ramadan month last Ramadan date which is 29. That means for the calculation that all residents in the UAE will definitely get 4 days off but if it definitely falls if it definitely falls on what you call 30th of April then that means all residents in the UAE will have to get 5 days off break and those days are actually played both on what you call the private and both what you call the public sectors they are all entitled to those days but remember we said that this year's we are so much likely to see that it's falling on a weekend which is Saturday and Sunday meaning that more days will be added for especially people in the public sector to enjoy to have more time with their families and celebrate giving them a 9 days what you call a 9 day holiday at all the same. Thank you so much for coming by this channel by the way if it's your first time to come across this channel consider subscribing by the way don't forget to hit that notification bell because it's very important for you to be updated for you to get that notification when we upload a new video remember it's Migs from the Migs creation see you again in the next video


We have two selections, either in memory of or in honor of. We can all please be quiet, please. Thank you. Most of the ones seem to be. No. So they can hear you. Most of the ones are in memory of. Nancy Lee-Arlman from Audrey Richardson and Family. Dave Armstrong from June in Harold Richardson. Dave Armstrong from Bill Waterhouse. Dustin Audette from Ben and Katie Jones. Dustin Audette from Jasmine and Franks. Dustin Audette from Dolly Richardson and Dot Davey. Madeleine Bador from June in Harold Richardson. Madeleine Bador from Bill Waterhouse. Theodore Bador from Paul in Dorothy White. Willis Bador from Paul in Dorothy White. Nick and Marie Barberi from Chris in Laurel Barbera. Eva M. Bernard from Bill Sargent. Reginald M. Bernard from Bill Sargent. Alice Bettis from James, Mindy, and Colton Richardson. Alice Bettis from Ben and Katie Jones. Elizabeth Nana Blair from Jasmine, Franks. Elizabeth Wilder Blair from the Blair Girls. Elizabeth Wilder Blair from the grandchildren. Gerald Boldock from James, Mindy, and Colton Richardson. Linda Blown from Jane Magnet. Lani Lois Book from David and Mary Ann Book. John David Book Sr. from David and Mary Ann Book. Evelyn Mae Breen from Norma, Jane, Lang, and Judy Lang. Beatriz Brown from Dolly Richardson and Dot Davey. Clayton Brown from Dolly Richardson and Dot Davey. Mrs. Barbera, Nicole from Gloria, Naylor. John Dagna from Janet Richardson and Joe Stop. Beryl Daley from Earlene Forbes. Beryl P. Daley from Dolly Richardson and Dot Davey. Beryl Daley from Earlene Forbes. Beryl F. Daley from Dolly Richardson and Dot Davey. Mary A. Daley from Dolly Richardson and Dot Davey. Mildren D. Bailey from Dolly Richardson and Dot Davey. Anthony Densiglio from Russ and Marla Edson. Francis Darden from John Willard. Taylor Darden from John Willard. James Davey Sr. from Dolly Richardson and Dot Davey. Bessie Day from Ryan and Judy Richardson. Bessie Day from Jane Magnet. Earl and Bessie Day from Allie Richardson and Magnet. Urban Dodge from Audrey Richardson and Russ and Marla Edson. Guy Edson from Russ and Marla. Russell Edson Sr. from Russ and Marla Edson. Marjorie LaMelle from Wanda Mobile. Pochise from James. Tom Barbieri from Chuck and Elizabeth Schwartz. Steve Richie from Janet Richie. Val Richardson from Dolly Richardson. John Richardson from Jane Magnet. Robert Richardson from Dolly Richardson. Matthew Richardson from Jill. Papa Richardson from the Salvador. Grammy Kate Richardson from Paul. Susan Richardson from Dolly Richardson and Dot Davey. Dolly Richardson and Dilla Ross from Paul and Dorothy White. William and Joyce Schwartz from Chuck and Elizabeth Schwartz. Virginia Wells Schwartz from Chuck and Elizabeth Schwartz. Lila Rose Seisley and Joe Stahm. Jeffrey Stahm from Janet Richardson and Joe Stahm. Dylan Stevens and Marla Edson. Mom Pauline Utton from Paul Utton and Dad Thomas Utton from Buzzwaterhouse from Delwater from the Blair Girls. Eleanor Wild from the Grand Children. Hazel Wilder from Ramona Pierce and Family. Raymond Wilder from Ramona Pierce and Family. Richard Wilder from the Blair Girls. Richard Wilder from the Grand Children. Wayne Wilder from the Blair Girls. Bill Wiley, United States Navy from Elizabeth Kilburn. John B. Bulliff Sr. from John Willard. Nancy D. Willerhouse. Miles from Delwaterhouse. Therese Magnet from Jane Magnet. Mary Del Sweeney from Delwaterhouse. Roland James McSweeney from Delwaterhouse. Audrey Richardson from Brian and Judy Richardson. Audrey Richardson from Jane Magnet. Nanny Richardson from the Selden Girls. June and Harold Richardson from Karen Walter. Alvin James Stoll from Delwaterhouse. Orlo Charlotte Waterhouse from Delwaterhouse. Seth Waterhouse from Delwaterhouse. And now we remember our loved ones who died this year. We have Madeline Uffman of Airbank May 31st. George Darini, September 15th. Zoffer Paisley-Hindrides on Dormitory First. And Alice Bettis, November 25th. And I just want to say a special thank you to Tom Lang, the Balsamakers, and Betty White for donating a beautiful, a huge thank you to all for participating in this memorable event. Music, have some more cookies. Thank you and Merry Christmas. Turn on the lights and enjoy the sight for a few moments.