Hello everybody, welcome to my channel, it's Eva from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming to share with you my cute little Easter Mini. This is a journal I have created for Easter, Easter is coming very fast and I was thinking that this year I will do some Easter journal, I think this is actually my first, I'm not sure, I don't remember if I ever did proper Easter journal, so this is probably my first one and I added to this journal also my brand new resin pieces, I made myself those molds for those resin pieces, so they are not all done what I wanted to do, I'm still working on a few designs and I'm so learning, I need to show you. I'm learning how to mix, you can mix powders like metal powders or I do have here those brass powders and iron powders to resin because I never did that, like this brass metal powder, so when you mix it the right way it makes something like this, nice, beautiful, you know, piece because I'm beginner, this did happen to me, it's like stoning and it's very soft actually, so I need to learn that, but I will have few designs if they are not finished yet, but here I do have two of these designs I have created here as a closure, I do have wish and here I do have precious and this is the mini journal I have created for Easter, I will also have a digital design but I need to change few pictures which I didn't like or you know few tones of colours, so it will be on my Etsy soon, I do have already on my Etsy listing it's like pre-order for journal like this and this is just showing if you will order this journal there can be some changes because I don't like to copy exactly, so maybe here will be a little bit different picture or these background papers will be a little bit different in these colours, but maybe this paper will be here and this paper will be inside, you know, to change something or set up the pages will be maybe a little bit different, but you will have always everything inside or this inside here, so if you will like this journal click on that link down below, there will be link to my Etsy so you can have a look, I do have that link for pre-order, so this is my small but very very full mini journal, this is the back side and it's in kind of like a romantic or very soft very soft style and I really like that all pages are holding behind elastic bands so you can actually add there something or you can change the setup those pages, there is loads of pockets because you know I do love pockets so there is really a lot of pockets, I was kind of thinking that sometimes one it's not enough so some some pages have two pockets, one large one and then one small one, I did some decorating also that can be changed in the journal you will receive, there is so many quotes about spring, there are tags and some small decorations you can use for finishing this journal and there is another pocket here and another pocket there and there are also vintage postcards from Czech Republic, just copies not not originals and there is so many beautiful vintage images I do have here kind of like writing spot in the shape of Easter egg and some more images pocket here and beautiful really beautiful images I tried to choose those which are make me happy so there will be those mini clusters clusters and postcards and pictures and this is another of my written pieces and pocket here, another picture here and if you ever hear me to talk about Easter tradition in Czech Republic I said a few times that I don't like Easter and here is the reason if you will notice this guy it's holding in his hand I think it's called whip something you are making that sound so this is in that style something I forgot to have a look how it's translated to the English language but the guys on the Easter they are kind of like knitting from new branches from the tree they are knitting kind of like you know twisting those branches and they are making this I'm gonna call that whip and they are whipping or tushy I mean women's tushy and it's very painful and they do it because it's supposed to bring like a half and like a youngness to do women I think it's very silly and it's very painful that's why I don't like Easter I didn't like Easter but here in the UK they do have so gorgeous tradition you know they are placing those eggs and children are going to find them and I think that is so cute and not painful and it's so joyful so I think this is really my first my first proper Easter journal and I have to say that I love it so there will be some words some you know those labels and loads of Easter images I try to choose those cute ones and lots of fussy cutting and openings and pockets and lots of Easter images and here is yeah this is me through the Easter holiday here you can see the guy and here is that thingy which will whip her tushy so it's really not nice pocket here and another pocket here with another labels so these can be a little bit worry you know in in the journal if you will order it I will try do not make exact copy but there will be everything you know there will be pockets and quotes and postcards like this one and pockets oh and tags and more beautiful images about Easter and eggs so this is my small Easter journal and I have to say that I really enjoy that here is another pocket and I forgot to put there's something they have here something something what it's not holding somewhere will you fit there oh where is it no it's too big okay and another pocket here and some quotes and another resin piece here and opening here so as you can see in this mini journal it's lots of pockets and lots of openings and so many cute little embellishments and tag sports and writing sports so I try to fit in this as much as I can in the style I love so this is my sharing for today I know it's quick but I hope you you will enjoy this but and I hope you found that some inspiration if you like this journal the link for the etsy listing will be down below I'm not sure how long time I will have it on my etsy because you know Easter is coming quite fast so the link will be down below I will don't have there yet my resin pieces because they are not you know they hopefully one day I will have them there but not like this I have to be sure that the pieces will be stable so wish me luck if I will be successful I will have very soon some some resin pieces as decoration for your journal so this is my sharing for today thank you so so much for stopping by today thank you so much for spending your time with me have a beautiful day take care about yourself and I will see you soon bye


Welcome back to HPE Discover 2023. This is theCUBE's continuous coverage day three here in Las Vegas. We're in the Venetian conference center myself, Dave Vellante with Rob Streche. We haven't been outside all week, have we? No, I don't know if it's sunny out at this point. It's all good though, because it's pretty hot in here with all the talk of AI and new compute architectures. And we're going to talk to Krista Sat-Earthweight, who's the senior vice president and general manager of the HPE mainstream compute business. Great to see you, thanks for coming on. It's great to be here, thanks for having me. You're welcome. So, obviously great business. I mean, HPE's renowned, it's got a long history of building compute architectures. So, it's been a big show. I must be excited. What's hot at the show besides AI? Well, you know, I have to talk about AI a little bit because I'm really excited about the announcements that we had here today. So, first of all, of course you saw, we announced HPE GreenLake for large language models. And the reason I'm excited is because there's so many enterprise customers that really need that access to supercomputing. And now, with an on-demand supercomputing service, they can get that access without having to be, you know, buying a supercomputer themselves. And then when it comes to HPE Proliant, we introduced some inferencing solutions, several of them actually. And with our Proliant Gen 11, which is our new server line, we created two new servers for accelerator optimization. And we didn't have these servers for Gen 10 and Gen 10 Plus. One of them's the DL320, and it's great for edge inferencing, fits four GPUs in one use, so a compact space.  And this is a perfect platform for that. The second platform is a DL380A. So we have had the DL380 for years and years and years. Now we have the DL380A. And the A is because it's accelerator optimized. And it accepts four double-wide GPUs. And this is great for generative visual AI and AI natural language processing. That's great. And like you said, I think still the DL380 is one of the most popular servers out in customers today. And having been with you guys for a couple years back, definitely I even built product on the DL380s back in the day. I think what seems really interesting, and I think you hit on it, is the whole edge-to-cloud strategy that has been laid out and that Antonio was definitely early on. I think bringing inference to the edge, that sounds really exciting. What types of use cases are you seeing around that? Yeah, so, smart spaces, that's one. The other one is a lot of retail stores are trying to do a lot of video analytics, analyzing things. There's the airlines that are trying to use cameras to time, how long it takes them to do things when the planes come in. It's fascinating to watch because they start the clock when it pulls up, when doors open, when doors close, they can see exactly how long everything takes. So it's amazing, there's so many use cases at the edge and customers are trying to do more at the edge than ever before. So there's a couple of architectural evolutions going on here. One is just the AI, is this new sort of different workload, obviously very data intensive and then the other is inferencing at the edge, which is kind of real-time or near real-time. Can you talk about how that affects how HPE thinks about architecting systems? Yeah, so obviously customers need more compute than ever before when it comes to AI. So the use cases I mentioned, the inferencing use cases, we partner closely with NVIDIA to support the L4 card and that's really for the edge with the DL320 and then the L40 and the H100 cards and that's more at the data center. So they need levels of GPUs that we've never seen before and that's why we have these two new platforms. And at the same time, a lot of times at the edge, they're very concerned about power, power consumption and obviously cost. So that requires different thinking as well. So how are you solving for that? Yeah, so when it comes to power, luckily the new generation is much more power efficient than previous generations. And it's funny because when I talk to customers a lot of times, they love to show me their old server that's been running for 15 years. And when I say they love to show it to me, they drag me in to see it and they're like, look at it. And it's always at the bottom of the rack. Look at it, it's been running for 15 years. They're proud and excited, I'm proud and excited but the truth is that server is no longer serving them the way that it should because it's taken way too much power for the performance that it's delivering. So a lot of customers don't realize that, you know, if it's been a long time, you're probably not getting the most out of the server.  So everybody talks about, well, you know, generative AI is obviously the big buzz and a lot of people say, well, we've been thinking about this or actually doing this for many, many years. This is not, it wasn't invented last November by open AI. Okay, that's cool, it's funny. What were the customer conversations like, however, before sort of the AI heard around the world and have they changed or has it always been sort of, you know, steady as she goes? Yeah, so I think the big difference is, and we've been doing AI for a really, really long time. We've been doing super computing for a really, really long time. I think the difference is who's talking about AI now. Used to be a lot of, you know, universities talking about AI and really big laboratories talking about AI. Now, enterprise customers are talking about AI. Small businesses are talking about AI. Everybody's trying to figure out how they can take advantage of it to be more efficient. The other architectural question I have if you could help us understand it is the distributed nature of computers. You're building out this massive distributed network of systems. How is that different? What does that mean for the way in which you architect systems? Yeah, it's a really good point. Everyone's trying to do more at the edge than ever before, as I mentioned, which means they need more compute power at the edge, but it also means they need to be able to manage that. So with our Gen 11 servers, it comes with an intuitive cloud operating experience. And it's called HPE GreenLake for compute ops management and we call it COM for short. And basically you can easily onboard thousands of devices wherever they are into one console and see everything. It's a game changer and customers, especially customers with a lot of locations are seeing the improvements when it comes to firmware enhancements. One customer said it used to take them four hours and now 45 minutes. So amazing innovation and we have to look at things differently because we're no longer just managing the data center anymore. How does that affect the security model, Krista? Yeah, so security is a huge concern for customers. It's a huge concern for us. Actually six years ago right here at Discover, we introduced Silicon Root of Trust. We're the first ones to have this innovation and we've been innovating ever since and with ProLiant Gen 11 we expanded this to include protection for the cards that plug into the servers. So storage controllers, networking controllers that have SPDM are protected now as well. We also have secure trusted supply chain and it's available in more use cases and it's available worldwide now. So we keep raising the bar when it comes to server security. What's SPDM? Oh, so it's a protocol that some of our partners are using so that can tie in with our ILO 6, Silicon Root of Trust technology. Excellent. I remember that announcement from a couple of years ago. You were the first. Yes, we were. So what about coming back to energy consumption? We had a couple of sessions this week and really the business case is starting to become more front and center. What is that conversation like with customers? Yeah, with power consumption. Yeah, we have customers that are trying to save on power because they've run out of power or their power bill is too high or they're trying to meet sustainability goals. So it's really all over the spectrum and there's a few things besides more power efficient servers that we're doing. The other one is the HPE GreenLake Sustainability Dashboard. So now you can see where you are when it comes to what's taking up power. It could help you manage to reduce your carbon footprint and that's just not on HPE infrastructure. It's on infrastructure from others as well. Yeah, so running out of power, that's not a good thing. No, no, no, definitely. Server runs out of power. That's a very bad day for everybody. But I think that the sustainability message has been great this week and I think it is key. Are you seeing that there's areas like obviously in Europe where the price of electricity went through the roof, they have to be more concerned about this type of thing and is that accelerating refresh cycles and that type of thinking? It is and what we see is we have people on different ends of the spectrum. We have people that are very keenly aware of every single watt all the way down to how many watts the fan uses. And then we have customers who know it's coming but they're not getting as much pressure but they want to be prepared because everybody understands that whether it's your board of directors asking about how are you going to reduce your carbon or actually we have a lot of customers that have customers that they need to prove that they're making advancement when it comes to net zero. So the world's obviously been pretty crazy for the last few years. We've had this unbelievable ebb and flow and unpredictability. What's the current supply situation look like is it starting to moderate? Oh, the supply situation is good. Luckily, we are in a whole different place than we were when the industry shortage was occurring last year. So we are back to pre-pandemic levels when it comes to supply. Good, and I know there's all kinds of macro headwinds and everything else, but eventually you got to, like you said, refresh. And so I think when, you know, it's like almost like recession is self-fulfilling. Oh, it's going to be a recession and it's going to be the headlines. People watch CNBC, oh, it must be. So everybody taps the brakes, but it feels like things are calming down a little bit. You know, we heard Chair Powell yesterday. You know, the market seems to be okay and it's people get used to it. Consumer's strength is there. And I think, you know, at some point, people say, all right, the world's going to be okay. We're going to move on. And it's funny because it hasn't been, unlike other sort of, I don't even think of this as a downturn. I feel like, okay, there's been a little bit of, couple of speed bumps and economic headwinds, but it's not like, you know, remember .com in 2007, not like that, you know. It's been, we're okay, you know, I feel like. And I think, again, when you're talking about inference at the edge and you're talking about how companies are really embracing Gen AI and other AI components, they're trying to figure out where the right thing fits. Like you said, the LLM green light up there, great. So super computer, if I need that, if I need 100,000 cores or something with, you know, or 100,000 GPUs for a big model. But I think there's going to be that middle ground where people are, you know, we're running it, we bring the model back. Is that really a design focus of where the DL line and the ProLiant line, I guess you could say, is really aimed at? Yes, we're really aimed at inferencing. So you're exactly right. It's great though, to have the full end to end solution all the way up and down. But when it comes to ProLiant, we're focused on inferencing. And that's, I think I personally think that's where a lot of the action is going to be in the next 10 years. And then, you know, we can't forget digital transformation. And that was all the talk during the pandemic and coming out of the pandemic. I think it was Equinix had its investor day yesterday and they talked a lot about digital transformation and it hasn't gone away just because everybody's talking about AI. In fact, it's part of digital transformation, right? That automation, that AI, you know, doing new things that you haven't been able to do before. That is digital, right? So that's front and center still. It is. And that's where AI can really fuel the digital transformation. So I think they kind of go hand in hand. Yeah, good, please. No, and I think that digital transformation is not just about LLMs and things like that. People still need to actually change how they do their business as well. And I think that's where, again, like you said, the edge means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but being able to be as close as possible seems to make sense.  That makes a lot of sense as well. Yeah, and we do see people trying to tie in the sensor data to get a lot better analytics in real time and get a lot more eyes out there in all their different locations. So it's actually really exciting, all the different use cases for AI. And I think everybody's just trying to shop around for the right solutions for their use cases. Yeah, everybody's trying to get it right. So what's next? What's ahead? So what's ahead? We're going to continue to focus on making sure our edge is optimized. We're going to make sure that we're continuing to take security up a notch. We need to make sure we're focused on that. And the great thing about HPE GreenLake for compute ops management is it's a cloud-based management tool and we're updating it all the time with functionality. For example, at the show, we tied in one view addition to COM. We've also included integrations with VMware vSphere. We've integrated servers now. So it's great. It just keeps getting better and better. It's a cloud-based management tool that we can continue to iterate on to provide new features. Well, Krista, thanks for coming on theCUBE and sharing with us what's happening in compute. It's HPE's flagship business. I mean, it is. It's a good business and it continues to get interesting. So really appreciate your time. Oh, thanks for having me. You're very welcome. All right, Rob Stretchy and I will be back. After this, we're going to talk about more open source, Rob. Again, we are bringing open source to this conversation here. We didn't hear a ton on the keynotes, but we've been talking all week about open source. That's where the innovation is. This is theCUBE's coverage of HPE Discover 2023 from Las Vegas. We'll be right back.


All right, I think it is, this is working, right? Cool. I encourage everybody to come to the front, because this is a panel discussion, believe it or not. Of course, nobody's gonna move, but. Thanks for coming. So my name is Jason DeLorm, I work at Microsoft, and my job is to manage the relationship with Pivotal from Microsoft, among other strategic cloud partners, and Pivotal prominent amongst those. And we recently worked together very closely with Ford and Pivotal to deploy Ford Paz on Azure. And the idea behind this talk is that we would share some of the learnings, get to meet some of the engineers that were involved in the project, and open it up to questions. So I've got a couple of pre-canned questions, obviously, from the experience, but I'd love to hear from the audience if they've got any questions, and we'll tackle it directly. So with that, I'm gonna introduce John Sermon, or let him introduce himself. So yeah, my name's John Sermon. I'm a Senior Program Manager on the Windows Azure Cat Team. So the Cat Team, as we're called, is we're the customer-facing part of engineering. So we do the largest, most complicated implementations with Azure worldwide. They send us on-site, we write a lot of white papers, talk at conferences, and then we also handle executive escalations. So what that usually means is somebody's really, really mad, and their CEO's called our CEO, and then they send us on-site. Just for example. Yeah, just an example. Just an example, so no pressure. So yeah, hypothetically speaking. So it actually worked out, because I used to be an escalation engineer prior to joining the Cat Team, so I absolutely love escalations when everybody's screaming and mad at everybody. I mean, when I got on-site with Ford, I was kinda disappointed, because everything was actually not bad. Nobody was screaming at me, it was actually a pleasant environment. With that said, I'll let Hayden introduce himself. Great, thanks. My name's Hayden Ryan. For those of you that didn't meet me yesterday in my talk, I'm an advisory solutions architect with Pivotal. I'm part of what we refer to internally as Dino's team, which is our Dino's their boss. We go out on-site and work with large corporate customers to perform dojo operations, so we pair with them, we build up their platforms, we teach them day-to-operations, and how to manage your Cloud Foundry environments, as well as doing a little bit of professional services as well into the mix. I've been at Ford since October last year, and I've been working for Pivotal now for a couple of years, this is my second summit. Awesome, thanks Hayden. So, tell us a little bit about what it is that we actually built together with Ford. Give us a little overview of the product. What is Ford Pass? So, Ford Pass was the first application that Ford wanted to deploy to Cloud Foundry on Azure. It is a mobile application with a back-end written in spring. Ford actually used Pivotal Labs, as well as their internal developers and ICOM Mobile and a couple of other development houses to actually do the application development, and then they engaged with our team, the PCF Solutions team, to come out and help them build up the platform. So, what we originally built was a deployment of Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.5. At the time, we did have 1.6 out. This was back in October. We hadn't done a lot of testing on an Azure though, whereas we had with 1.5, so we'd done a couple of POCs, and we were very confident that it was gonna work quite well. So, we stuck with what we knew was gonna work and deployed that. That was the first foundation that went up. We interfaced with Ford's application teams. And got a bunch of requirements from one of them being that, okay, they now want this to be active-active, and they need this in the East and the West regions of the US to start with. And that was because another component to the application was actually built on the Microsoft Paz solution, and so they wanted to keep latency down in terms of communication from PCF to the vehicle SDN. Yeah, so I put, this is the architecture slide that you shared in your other presentation. So I just put that up maybe a little bit late, and I actually had this slide up for a second. This is bring your toothbrushes, right? Can you tell us a little bit about the toothbrush? Let's go back to the architecture first. So in terms of the active-active, there is one issue with deploying active-active that you do have to be cognizant of is how do I get my data to replicate? So in this deployment, what we actually used was GemFire. GemFire has a feature called WAN replication that enables you, sorry, to connect through a VPN and to sync what's in GemFire in each of those regions. So that's what we use to keep state and data correct between the two deployments. But if we go back to the toothbrushes picture, this is a whole bunch of us, including some of the Ford guys, or mostly Ford guys, on the day of the launch it was, there was a lot of work that was done leading up to the launch. There was a lot of iteration and I mentioned this a little bit yesterday in terms of deployments, in terms of additional features that we wanted to utilize in Azure. And so leading into the launch, we were all really nervous because this is a big launch. It's a big launch for Microsoft, for Ford, massive launch for Ford, and for Pivotal. And so after one of the meetings with Marcy Claver on the CIO of Ford, she said, well, you guys better bring your toothbrushes. So we actually have this photo of all of us ready, waiting for any issues that were gonna happen to jump on them with our toothbrushes. And unfortunately, well, fortunately, we didn't have a single issue and we still haven't. So we've had zero downtime of this platform since launch, which is pretty awesome. So there was a couple of references so far in the conference to unicorns, rainbows, and butterflies, actually, butterflies and rainbows. So it was all butterflies and rainbows. Were there any lessons learned, John? Actually, what was the biggest lesson learned? Actually, so yeah, there was one lesson learned. I always look for, I like to find broken stuff because I love fixing stuff. And unfortunately, there wasn't a lot, but there was one thing. So, and I use an analogy. I don't know, I like to use analogies when I'm explaining things. So TCP connections, if you're familiar with TCP, you create a socket connection to a client server environment. Connections are a lot like relationships. So you can have short relationships, you can have long relationships, you can have relationships that are abruptly or ended, terminated, about third parties sometimes. So in this example, I'll kind of explain what was happening here. So say we've got, I think, Hayden, you're single, right? Yeah.  Say you start dating somebody.  And you're talking to her. She's real pretty. She's an evil mistress now. Yeah, you're talking to her quite a bit and your conversations are pretty frequent. After a while, like say four days or something, you don't contact her.  Well, I'm gonna go ahead and just delete him out of my contact list, because I ain't got time for that. And so Hayden, the fifth day, he's like, hey, I'm gonna contact that girl I was talking to. And when he does, he contacts her. The number shows up as unknown. She's acknowledged the fact that I got a call from this guy, but she doesn't know who it is anymore. So she basically does an act reset. So she acknowledges it and resets the connection. So in Azure, what was going on, we had a idle timeout that basically at like four minutes, I think it was a default, we were destroying that connection. And it's a standards-based.   Client doesn't know about it. He's still trying to talk to the server, network load balancer. And she's like, I don't know who you are. You're nothing to me. So she resets the connection. The client gets the reset and he just like, what is this? And throws an unexpected error. So lesson learned here is we had to lower the TCP keepalives on the client to be consistent with what was on the Azure load balancer. So once we did that, it was like everything, all the problems we were noticing, these intermittent problems fixed it. Like it almost became a joke. Like if we ran into an issue, it was like, are TCP keepalives enabled? Do we lower the keepalives? And yeah, if we did, then we're like, ah, well I don't know what it is. And so ultimately that was the most effective change. And it was like, once we did that, it was like we were heroes at 40. Well, our lives got a lot easier at that point. Yeah, yes, it definitely did. So it should be added as well that the TCP packet that gets sent out, that's not required by the RFC. It's optional to be sent back. And so it's completely up to the vendors as to whether or not they're gonna implement that. So the resolution kind of posted here, right? Was a change, can you describe hidden, the change that was implemented? Yeah, sure, so the Pivotal Engineering team developed a Bosch release that was then applied to every single virtual machine using the Bosch Update Runtime Config command. And all that that did was to set the TCP keepalive for the kernel on the VM. And for the runners and also for cells, that will flow up through into the containers themselves as well. So all the issues around networking that we were seeing, once we enabled that, they were resolved straight away. So that, it was interesting actually digging into it because it manifested in different ways. We had an issue where we had Spring Cloud Services and that was an application that was pushed to Cloud Foundry. And we found that after a while they wouldn't be able to communicate to RabbitMQ. And so that was because the connection pool was filling up and it wasn't clearing out. So once we enabled the TCP keepalive, that worked correctly and the issue was resolved. Yeah, I think it manifested in other ways in the sense that it felt unstable, right? So that the environment itself, there was a broad label across it for a while that it's unstable until we really got to the root cause of what this was all about. And after that. Yeah, and then that was about the time that the CAT team got called out, which... Yeah. So I'm from Australia and the CAT team in Australia is stands for the Psychological Assessment Team. It's something that the hospital sends out when they think you need to be an old, true patient. So when I got told that the Microsoft Azure CAT team were coming out to assist it forward, I was like, what's that saying about me? Like, is it okay? We're kind of different. We're like a dysfunctional family where I look a little different than most guys in Microsoft maybe, and yeah, we're strange. And we work weird hours, but we're able to fix stuff. But yeah, and then whenever we ran into an issue, it was Hayden and I and then Ford.  And so we're working as a team now, which was really nice. So I've worked with partners. I've been at Microsoft like 15 years, and it was an escalation engineer. I've worked with tons of partners. This was really kind of a breath of fresh air because we're on the same team and whenever there was an issue, I was able to pull in our CSS team, which is our support team. We have CSS escalation engineers that are working with the Pivotal escalation engineers and they know the product, they know each other, and they work together. And it was like this, I think the one time we actually did have to create a support request, it was like this massive amount of technical horsepower on the phone. It was really impressive. And I was like, yeah, these are my guys. And then your guys got on the phone. I was like, yeah, this is pretty cool. So I think it's worth mentioning that Microsoft's a big company. There's lots of different teams. And if we were to say there's lots of thanks, let's say, to go around the table here. John, can you describe a couple of the teams that are out? So you mentioned CSS, we've got the Azure Cat. So I live on a team called DX and I'm responsible for managing the partnership with Pivotal. We've also got a customer team at Ford. They have a cloud solution architect. They've got a technical account manager for support. Yeah, and that's with our team, because we're part of engineering, we're kind of unique. So when we come in, we're not as sensitive to different teams. So a lot of times I'll stomp all over sales and marketing. I'll say things that are horrified that I've said. They usually hate it when I start talking. They're like, don't tell them that. But I mean, we keep it real. And we've had to interface with all these different teams. And we had sales, marketing, DX, you guys are great. When you come in and help the customer get up to speed and you've got breadth across customers, we're deep technical. We've got our engineering team. So we've got Kim Donna's team. She did a talk yesterday and then Ning and her team from Shanghai, they're amazing. Like I don't think Ning and her team actually slept for like two weeks. I don't know, she was always on IM whenever I had a question on CPI and Abel, they would fix it. I'm like, where, they're robots. And so we interface with them and then the CSS team, that's where I came from. So we interface with them and we're all kind of on the same page. So it was actually, I really enjoyed it. I mean, it was exhausting. I mean, I lived in Detroit for like three weeks. I had like closed for three days. And then I know my boss says, you need anything? I was like, I need some clean clothes. But I stayed there for three weeks just to make sure everything was fine. And it was, but yeah, there's the main teams. And then we worked with Pivotal Engineering and then Haydn's team. And Ford was deeply involved too. Yeah, Ford, yeah. Let me take a second. Ford's role in this. And so the Ford guys, like, they were great. So we've got, yeah, Shaji, I don't know if he's here. There he is. Yeah, he was amazing to work with. Most of it as well. Yeah, motion. Yeah, they were awesome to work with. Sometimes like, I'll get on site with customers and it's just, you know, they're not as deep technical as you'd like, but these guys were solid. They knew their stuff. And it was a really nice work with them. So switching topics and the mics are open. If you wanna come and ask questions, I've got a couple more here. Haydn, Pivotal talks about certain levels of availability in the way that you deploy Cloud Foundry. Can you describe some of the subtle differences maybe between Azure as an IaaS versus some of the other public IaaS that you work with and public Cloud IaaS and how Pivotal Cloud Foundry runs with in the context of availability? Yep, sure. In PCF, we usually talk about the four levels of high availability. They range from Bosch restarting virtual machines using Bosch Resurrector to Monit that runs on each of the VMs restarting processes. Then we have Cloud Foundry itself, as you'll be aware, will automatically restart application instances if they go down. And then we also have the level of high availability at the availability zone level. Now currently, Azure doesn't support availability zones, but they do have something else called availability sets. And this is something that is quite distinct from other public IaaSes. So I understand that availability zones will be coming very, very shortly on Azure, so there's gonna be a fifth level of high availability there. Yeah, we have managed to, did you mention that? Well, not in the scope of it to say, but yeah. Yep. What are some of the other challenges that you faced? We talked a little bit about storage in the way the storage system works in Azure relative to some of the other IaaS. What did you learn there? Yeah, so Azure provides a lot more transparency through to how the storage actually works than other IaaSes. So it gives the user really the ability to control where they're putting their data. So all the virtual machines that we have in Azure are backed by a VHD, and then Bosch attaches persistent disks for data, as well as having an ephemeral disk, which actually runs on the virtual machine hard drive and the compute cluster. So because it exposes up a lot of that details, it becomes a situation of you need to actually be cognizant as to what you're doing, where you're putting your data. You can get into situations, and I mentioned this briefly yesterday in the talk, where you need to make sure that you're managing your storage accounts correctly. So a storage account is a concept where it's a fault-tolerant cluster of physical hardware that's located in what's called a stamp. Now a stamp is a very, very large, well, they're racks of storage, and that's located in a data center. So as a best practice, if you wanted to be super paranoid, you absolutely should be splitting your deployments into multiple storage accounts, and even potentially your jobs until Managed disk comes along, which will resolve. Yeah, the takeaway is like multiple storage accounts is you can never have too many storage accounts sometimes. I mean, they give you a lot more granularity in terms of managing things. When Managed disk comes out, that's gonna make things a lot different. But I mean, I think that's one of the key differences that we had with the other clouds that you guys might have been familiar with. Now, are there any questions from the audience? Can you come up to the microphone? Yeah, any questions, like if you don't mind coming to the microphone, so we get it on the recording. Is there any shared storage support, is the question? Uh-huh, which, yes. And can you qualify that? So shared storage in... Like, you know, containers? So beyond the container, beyond the VM, is there shared storage? So just in general, Azure Blob Storage is, you know, a shared storage source. In the context of Cloud Foundry, can you qualify it a little bit more? Sure. So state, I mean, essentially maintaining state. And I think you guys use... There was a lot of gemfire use. Maybe you can talk about how gemfire was deployed, which is a... Yeah, so just to address the question, there are a lot of options in regards to storage. Cloud Foundry is a cloud native platform, which essentially separates the processing unit out from data storage. So you have a lot of different options as to... Test. Yeah. A lot of different options as to where you want to store your data. So gemfire was one of those, which is an in-memory data grid. We, you know, you could easily use MySQL, you could have Blob Storage. And from Cloud Foundry, in Azure, you can actually use any of the Microsoft services directly. But someone who doesn't like me, the microphone. The mic is not working. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, so you do that using a user-provided service. Yes, Sean. So on some of the other IaaSes, there are tools to test your high availability. Is there anything similar to that on Azure? High availability. So Simeon Army, shut down your instances at random, disconnect your security groups. Yeah. Actually, yeah, there are some. I don't know if we announced that yet. We don't want to do any product announcements here. Yeah, I know. I'm the worst about it. There's nothing in the public? Yeah. Yeah, it's funny. I was just in a session the other day on that, but I don't know if I'm allowed to say it. I'm the worst about it. Happy to follow up with you offline on that. Yeah, definitely. Good question. Short answer, yes. Yes, there's multiple ways. So our team, we've got solutions that we've written to do that. We've got more broad Azure-specific ways to do that. Then we've got things that are coming out that we do that. But yeah, definitely get up with this because we know people. We know different ways to do that. Thank you. You talked more about the mobile application of Ford. Could you tell us more about the application architecture? Did it do more reads, more writes? You didn't run any performance benchmarks on Azure to see you were meeting the required SLAs? Yeah, I can talk a little bit about that, but there was actually a different team at Ford that was involved in the application development. They did run full load tests with their expected load all the way through till the end of the year. So they've absolutely hammered Azure and Cloud Foundry on Azure. And all those tests did succeed. Did the app have more reads or writes? What was the combination? I don't know. As I was saying, that was a different time. Like at this stage, it is now, I believe it's predominantly most reads, but I think eventually we'll do more writes. So we had a separate, we have Microsoft Consulting Services, another team that I forgot to mention that they've partnered with Ford early on to create the mobile app. And so that part talks to the Telematics platform, which is the part that is inside the car. Like I think it's the 2017... The escape. Yeah, escapes and I think I can say that, but... You're okay with that one. Yeah, I'm okay with that one. All right, four guys are gonna get mad at me. But yeah, that's what talks to that. And I think the majority of the workloads they ever read oriented, I think eventually we'll do more writes, but based on the, I mean, there's lots of docs and stuff on this. It was kind of like drinking from a fire hose when I was ramping up on this. I'm like, oh wow, it's a lot of stuff. So yeah, it was a pretty performant. It was, if you meet up with me afterwards, I think I have some public docs that I could share with you guys. But we dealt mostly with, is the marketing, I forgot the acronym for it, but it was the microservices framework that was written in PCF that was running on Azure was the big piece that we were focusing on. So how many current users out of that right now? How many downloads have happened? It was... We can't say that. We haven't been cleared by Ford. See, I was about to say it. I was about to say it. But that's why I kind of... Yeah. Thank you for the question. Good question. Thank you. What? Hi, I'm Tushar. I had a question regarding monitoring at the IaaS layer. So things like storage monitoring and you'll have two different kinds of storage accounts and like what's the roadmap look like on supporting monitoring at the IaaS layer in Azure? Like a lot of things are not very visible and clear. Yeah. Like to draw parallels, I don't want to do this, but like Amazon has things like CloudWatch which shows metrics at the IaaS layer and like what's the roadmap looking like? Yeah, the roadmap, again, the question is... Yeah, so there are some capabilities in Azure. So we have app insights in Azure which will do some monitoring. There's also a lot of third-party solutions that plug-in like New Relic, et cetera. And PCF has built-in capabilities as well. So we've actually... I think in the case of Ford, we started prototyping a little bit. Microsoft has Operations Manager and Ford were a user of that. And we did some initial prototyping of pulling some of that data into the Operations Manager plug-in in there. And I think that you see the dashboard, that big green thing that we're all standing in front of with our toothbrushes, which is weird as it seems.  That was the dashboard that they used, Splunk. And I think internally you guys use Datadog for kind of road to your end. So my question is like, are those like Bosch health monitor metrics or are those Azure? Like are those coming from the infrastructure or are those coming from the platform? Yeah, those ones are the Bosch ones. Now, that's a great question. It's good to hear questions like that because a lot of people, they'll roll out some giant application architecture and they'll have no monitoring and then there'll be a problem and nobody will know that there's a problem until an end user calls in. So this is good. All right, thanks. Thank you. Thanks. Hey guys, I have two questions. The first one is more on the operational aspect of it. Right now, I mean, I can see there's Pivotal, Microsoft and Ford involved. Who's really operating it right now? And how did the handover work out? Well, that guy right there, one guy right there, one guy right there. Yeah. So we've been at Pivotal in terms of our platform and operations, Dojo's. We've actually been hands off keyboards. So it's basically been Ford that's been driving all of this. They've built new environments themselves. They've deployed PCF themselves. We have been there as an escalation point that they're very self-sufficient. Yeah, they've got mad tech skills, I'm impressed. Yeah, actually, I think it's an important point to reinforce is that our role from a Microsoft perspective is to make sure PCF runs great on Azure. So we've been working very, very closely and we didn't really get to it but the CPI got wrapped many, many times during this project and there was kind of some rapid iteration with the Microsoft team who was building that and contributing it to open source. Ultimately, Pivotal was helping teach the customer how to run this and manage it and the customer is ultimately managing it in the end. Thank you, that makes sense. I want to make sure that was... Yeah, yeah, yeah. As far, you mentioned that you guys deployed it with 1.5, have you already upgraded? When are you planning to upgrade? Is it a decision that Ford would make?  The 1.6 upgrade has been scheduled. It's, again, resources and timing that's the only question to get. Right now you're learning that on 1.5. 1.5, yeah. Great. So we've got about three minutes left. So if we wanted to kind of recap some of the things, any other big learnings that you guys wanted to share? Thank God. I know he likes beer. Yeah, yeah. We kind of formed a bond there. It's like he likes beer and I like beer, so we get along great. So I'll take one takeaway, one big happy family, right? Very close collaboration. Yeah, yeah, it was kind of Pivotal and Microsoft. We've kind of partnered together and I'll be going on site to Pivotal for the next six weeks and with another engineer from Redmond. So we've got a strong partnership and we're more committed to making customers successful. So that was the main takeaway. I didn't know what to expect when, when I go on site with customers, sometimes I'm like, oh, this is gonna be bad, but I really had no idea what to expect and it was, I actually had a blast. It was fun. I mean, it got stressful at times, but it was overall we worked well together.  So one of the things that I understand the CAT team delivers is some best practices and patterns and practices. Exactly right. So yeah, I'm glad you asked that. So we have a patterns and practices team. So they're part of the CAT team. So it's funny, when I was on site at Ford, I get everything in my inbox is like a variation of like hurry up, I need this. And so I'm getting all this information to engineering team. And so one of the groups that I'm giving this engineering feedback to is patterns and practices and hey, we need to document best practices, architecture best practices, how to configure storage options. So I've given the patterns and practices team like tons and tons of stuff on here. You need to write this up and make it pretty and take all my typos out because it's something that we need to get out there quick. So there's some of it out there. Like for OSS, Cloud Foundry in general, like some of the stuff's in the GitHub repo. There's some documentation there. And we just got some PCF document, some Pittle Cloud Foundry documentation that's been published recently. And if anybody has specific questions in my email, I'll see me at the end of the talk. Yeah, I'll throw it up on the screen. Hitting any kind of closing thoughts from your perspective. Yeah, I've got a couple around that. I think that also documentation is super important for the operators that are actually using the platform. So if you see an issue, log and collect as much logs as you can, submit a ticket as early as possible. And Microsoft have been super responsive on addressing these issues. I think it was a lot of fun, cross company pairing with John and with others. And it's definitely been super fun. And I just wanted to say thank you to Ford. Thank you to Pivotal. Thank you to Microsoft. Thank you to Abbey. Thank you to everyone. Definitely has not just been John and I on this. There are so many people that have been involved in this project and have just been above and beyond in every aspect of it. So thank you. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. And we'll send this out afterwards. Actually, I was going to type the email addresses in there, but... Yeah, John SI at Microsoft. John SI. I'm Jason DEL at Microsoft. I'll put these up in a second here. So if you're actually looking to run Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure, likely in your company probably has a relationship with Microsoft, would happily get engaged, work with you and Pivotal to see it running on Azure. There is a marketplace, an Azure marketplace offering that you can go to that will allow you to deploy it in your own Azure account. So I'll just throw that up there right now, which is aka.ms-cs-summit. This is agile presenting, right? Yeah. Oh, and it's not right. Well, you're doing that one last thing. So I'm the functional lead for Pivotal Cloud Foundry on the Azure Cat team. So we have 10 other guys on my team that have ramped up and Brian, he was actually on site with us for a week at Ford. So he'll also be working with Pivotal Cloud Foundry going forward. Awesome. Well, thanks guys. And thanks for your questions.


In this section, I would like to give you basic information about this session. The purpose of this session is to introduce you STM32Cube IDE tool. Its installation process will focus on Windows platform, its basic configuration, and fastrun. During the fastrun, I will toggle one of the LEDs present on the board. The next purpose is to demonstrate to the main components of STM32Cube IDE. Device configuration, code processing, and project debugging. Within this session, we have prepared some set of examples using HAL, so hardware abstraction layer, and low-layer libraries. Let's talk about the prerequisites for this session. The first and most important one is, of course, the PC. We've pre-installed STM32Cube IDE software and STM32G0Cube library. We have selected STM32G071RB microcontroller to practice during this session. This is why this library is a key to allow us to generate the code and prepare some set of examples. From hardware point of view, you would need one Nucleo board. It is called NucleoG071RB. You can see it on the screen. And one micro USB cable, which allows us to connect this board to your PC. Complete list of prerequisites and a link to all of the materials, slides, exercises, hands-on. You can find on the dedicated web page for this session. A link to this web page I have put within the description of this video. More information about our other STM32 devices, other tools, you can find on the dedicated web page, which contains all the information about our training materials. You can easily find it on the web using this address www.st.com. And within MOOC section, you can have a look on a complete set of available training sessions. I will start from the standard ST web page. This is our current ST web page. Let's go to mentioned web page of trainings www.st.com. If I will scroll down, I can see some additional icons, which I can select. You can find here online trainings, which are theoretical trainings for other STM32 products. Let's have a look what we can find here. You can find here some set of online trainings, theoretical trainings for STM32F7, STM32L4, L4PLUS, G0 and WB microcontrollers. Let's come back to our previous page. The other icons represent other areas, which could be interesting for you. The next one is so-called MOOC, Massive Open Online Courses. This is the area where we place all of our online trainings, which contains some set of examples as well as hands-on sessions. Those are hosted at the moment on our YouTube channel, so it is quite easy access to them. If you click on this icon, you will see the dedicated page for our online courses. You can find here five different groups of trainings. Basics, STM32 tools, STM32 lines, applications and tips and tricks. You can start from basics if you are new with an STM32 world. Then you can find some dedicated sessions about STM32 tools. Then if you are interested in the STM32 lines like L4, F7, G0 or L0, you have some set of dedicated training sessions of those microcontrollers. Then within applications we are presenting some dedicated sessions on Lora, Graphics, Motor Control, USB, so dedicated areas of microcontrollers usage. Within tips and tricks you can find some selected topics, which could be interesting for you within microcontrollers world. Like ultra low power handling, dynamic tools and in application programming or security basics. This list is quite dynamic. We are adding more trainings each month, so please visit it regularly to be up to date. All of the sessions right now are hosted on our ST Micro Electronics YouTube channel. This page and its sub pages, because here you can see the links to each session, contains main information about the session, its prerequisites, links to the materials, which can be useful for you to do the session. So, if I click on this STM32 Cubemix training, you can see a dedicated page where you can find basic information about the session. It's outline, it's agenda, list of the prerequisites, software and hardware, and you have the link as well to access the course. If I click this link, I'm landing on the dedicated page of the playlist of this session. So, you can see here under the video, I'm repeating the basic information about the session, you can see the set of videos for this particular training. Ok, let's start our adventure with STM32 Cubemix.


Hello everybody. Welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial. This one I'm going to show you how to stabilize footage for TikTok. For those of you that use your phones or whatever and you're filming, here's what I got.  I'll just hit spacebar and show you what I got. Really bouncy, brutal footage. Just stabilize. It's crazy, right? It's just all over the place. You're bouncing like you're in a fun castle, right? And you skip through right to the end. It's just bouncy all the way. How do we stabilize it? Nice and easy. I'll show you a step by step. The first step here is you want to go into your effects panel right here and then just right in stab or right in warp stabilizer. This is what we're looking for. Drag and drop that onto the footage. When you do that, it's going to run some calculations very quickly here. And while it's just quickly finishing up these calculations, there's a couple options. One, you can either have this on smooth motion so that you have some motion in the camera or no motion. No motion is the equivalent of having it on a tripod. So keep that in mind. Secondly, the method that you use is there are four different ones. The one that it automatically selects is subspace warp. But this one doesn't always work very well. Let me show you. Here is the current version. It's actually not as bad as I would have thought. But what I like to do is I generally will go for a position scale and rotation instead. So it basically it just stabilizes for these things. And now let's hit spacebar show you what happens. I mean, it's still got a little bit of jiggle in it. But when you compare it to the original shot, it looks nothing like it. And I'll just show you here. If you take this off, this was the original shot, and it's deliberately horrible. I mean, it's as bad as footage as you could possibly imagine. It's a gutter guy or a gal running down the hallway scared out of their mind is just stock footage. But if you apply warp stabilizer in Premiere Pro, and then you change the stabilization method and try out a couple of them, that's all you need to do guys. Thanks for watching. Time for stuff coming up. Stay tuned.


2026 Yep, I'm HR six. I guess they're right. Oh, let me go to friend session. So that works There's matrix. There's row. There's lady noob Naga I have no idea who the last first and last I know matrix I'll create one Let's see player type any quest preference Assignments Hunter rank preference No preference language Klingon What I don't have Klingon same language Message anyone is welcome No voice chat private session. No Did body by both bad bad thought bad body by four five not that school be do be do be do be do What are we doing? I got to find the The dudes with the peoples and stuff manage items escape yes Yes You have a cat. No, I have a dog and his name is Kent Oh, he's coming That's a song We're going to Check the research, but I have to turn in some stuff, but I don't know I don't remember where they are here We got the melder the scholar. Is it the main girl? That's the third fleet master. Then we got this guy. I Don't remember where to turn into the other. I think I have to go to the other area. I Could do it later then give your cat Toby Kodachi armor. That's what we're doing today. Wanna man Fiddle smurf. I don't care about no cat yet. I Will later Guys I open up my session so if you can find me feel free to join I don't even know how that even works I know a lot of my stuff is gonna be assignments So I'm gonna be throwing up flares when people can join. I didn't eat any food All right Be careful. Be careful. Is this game fun? Uh, I would say it is Because it's very addicting and Some other third thing So I have to hunt a pile out move. That's the rat dude, right? Wait, there we go. It's an acquired taste. Well, it's addictive. It's very addictive once you get into the game loop The game loop is insanely addictive and that's why there's so much of it. All right, so that the rat dude It's what I saw earlier What do you do in this game? It's kind of like Warframe You know how Warframe how you just repeat missions to get gear and to get frames and stuff in this game You hunt monsters to get better armor and better weapons and you repeat that over and over and over and over and over again So really addictive formula So it's kind of like a monster arpg monster hunting arpg game You do a lot of gathering for materials and stuff and in a Research and there's like reputation almost like reputation systems in place That's a very grindy game So that's why I say it's like Warframe And that you're gonna be doing a lot of repetition for items. I think Warframe players can understand the repetition stuff All footprints are old I know right footprints. I Think he's over there chat This'll be our first hunt.  I play fortnight save the world. I play fortnight save the world. I don't play the battle royale's Next question is why not? Oh because I don't really like battle royale that much as much as I like save the world You should play BR. Well, probably not. There's a floating rat. Does it sound low or is it just me? I feel like the sound is no Let me check my voice meter here. All right, SOS flare can go up. So I'm gonna use it I hate how you have to go through the menus to do this. I Mean you could put on your hot bar, but still it's kind of annoying that I have to do that and take damage Now like I'm taking two hits for nothing Where's my piercer this? I Just got the worst timing for switching ammo that missed He was literally right next to me That's the theme song right there that I'm humming Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. You see how I change it into like attack on Titan So whenever you hear me humming it I'm trying to hum this But it's actually wrong. So I turn it into attack on Titan dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun I can't even do it after I just heard it. I can't even do it now. I Can't even do it now that I've just heard it yet. Dude. Why you want to know about my dogs, man? Why you want to know about my dogs? You left. Okay, so let's put this away And run I do run run run. I do run run. Is this like wow? Absolutely not. Why would you why would you diss this game like that? I See you doing range combat.  He's right here There's plenty of range this game has a ton of range content. There's a bow to gumbo The luck. I mean, there's a heavy bow gun. There's the light bow gun There's a bow. I think there's another one the the the one they use the insect glaive. Is that range? This game has a ton of range. Just Dauntless. You're thinking about that doesn't have range. I don't want to fight here I don't want to fight here. So I'm gonna jump down Can you join me down here, sir? Thank you. I didn't know you could do that Snipe hey landed it boom. Oh, that's beautiful. I can't see the thing. Oh, it's not loaded. I hope that hits It did not chat.  I have a lot of trouble aiming on consoles All right, we can use our snipe now Stay there. Oh right in the face chat That was beautiful. Oh, I got him. Okay. Why are there more hit? See you're not fired at SOS flare some more people came I'm HR six as it says in the title HR six Yeah, oh Where is he at? Okay Drink I knew he's gonna do that. That's why I weighed it Got him that time chat Boom There they go. Oh hi And hi Poison oh the tail swipe. I didn't see it coming slicing Come on shoot. It didn't hit chat This is a gun of slicing. That was fun I have a lot more fun when I'm in the group than I'm gonna buy myself man That's why I threw up those flare SOS flares all the time people want to join I'm down for it Yeah, guys, that's an insect glaive right there, right? All that flipping and stuff Where's the monsters health bar? You don't see a health bar In true monster hunter fashion The monsters have tails that they're hurt You'll see like injuries. You'll see bleeding You'll see like when they're poisoning you'll see them foam at the mouth or kind of like drool Um, you'll see parts fly off. They'll start limping So there is no health bar. You kind of have to play it by ear Or by eye Yeah, this is story. I absolutely don't care about Oh, no, I am gonna prepare Okay To the rotten veil. So how do I Oh, here we go. Who's this guy? Right a rope lift, huh? So I can um Bring up the map and just go back to the other base at will I think We're gonna push on I'm gonna go ahead and push on I'll push on because uh I think I can do it I'm all about progression right now. I want to get past this story Because again guys, I got I played the ps4 version and I enjoyed it until I hit these These quest types that are really annoying And it wasn't really much of Farming footprints and uh, I had some viewers come in earlier and tell me that I shouldn't even be focusing on that particularly I should just be doing hunts and quests and then just doing that passively Instead of just focusing on that And if I think I would have did that before I probably would have had more fun. Hey camp What's up, buddy? Hey, buddy. Yeah, you were knocked out, weren't you?  There heads up You were knocked out It's a good movie, isn't it? You know what's going on too? I don't know what's going on. Do you know what's going on? Yay, can't just make the cutscene go by fast. Hey partner I need to refill first Hello and food that looks delicious doesn't it Mimus Hitting the button. Thank you so much 12 months in a row Doing the thing. They're about to show Mimus some love in the chat. Yeah One out Thank you so much Mimus for the 12 months of support. Please show Mimus some love in the chat chat the chat chat din din din We So what we got to do site a great giro. So it was cutscene hunter Cutscene hunter mission chat. These are annoying too not as bad as the footprint stuff We call them cutscene hunter because you can't really Can't really continue until you view a cutscene. This is uh, mr. Bones I wish I had the s'mores clip. I wish I had the s'mores clip What is this devil? Where's that clip s'mores, where's the clip? I want the devil What is this? I'll never forget that Oh, man Uh, it's mr. Bones Oh filing just so everybody's showing some love in the chat. Thank you so much filing for the love Uh I don't think I'm supposed to fight him. Am I I think I just run Nope, I actually have to kill him Okay, you can hunt it now or return the base. Okay. I can return the base Yeah, I mean people are giving donkeys a hard time about reskin monsters.  So it's not something new All right, so I have to site a great giro's now And hunt a rattle bond Uh, was that the rattle bond was what I just saw right that was mr. Bones. Yeah, so We'll site the great giro's first and then we'll come back and kill him. I guess Mr. Bones has a lot of bones and I have bone armor. So this is good. Whoa Ish lago The tier one sub four months in a row. Thank you so much for the support. Thank you Why not always finding a new grind? It's true. Love the channel. Keep up the good work. It's true I'm always grinding something on this channel always What a great observation everybody's showing some love in the chat Just this bitter bug Ah collecting bones. I'm gonna need a lot of these bones because I'm gonna be upgrading my bone armor Until I can get the next set So More bones are better Okay, I forgot about the roaches chat. I forgot about them Get some shotgun ammo here spread ammo.  Just shoot it. Just kill it. Please The game audio is really loaded.  I forgot what they give you. Let me see what they give you I don't know if they give you anything good anymore Frank's like no I could just do that That's actually better The torchpots Why do you have a cat in this game? I have no idea. Oh, I have mercy Here comes some more Last torch pop. I don't know the lore behind it. I'm assuming that's why he asked um great heroes I think I was on the right track here, but then This guy showed up You can't hear the game at all. That's what I wanted to do, but the roaches I don't know why it's so low Have no idea why it's so low I still can't hear it. Like I turn the volume like way up now Okay, I can kind of hear it a little bit better now This is my games are usually too loud. That's why this is a little bit perplexing I guess he wanted my attention I'm gonna go ahead and fight them Can I fire an sos blur? No, I can't Rather by an old strange rut There we go I gotta find the uh, great gyro stuff Hopefully the roaches will leave me alone Don't touch me roach I've been known to cut a roach Maybe the dynamic range settings Dynamic range and audio


Welcome back. I'm Pedro Rivera. I'm the director of Studio X Real, so I'm a little bit a kind of self-indrager to do kind of similar things back in Rio de Janeiro, and I want to read this table. So this table is about, the name of this table is Why Not the Whole City as a Play Site. So we have been looking at a sequence of presentations. So for example, Alexander yesterday mentioned the pattern language. Alexander's pattern language team mentioned affordancy, which he gave the example of this step here that we can use as a stage or as a seating place. He has mentioned infrastructure as playscapes in Colombia with the example of the water reservoir. But now we are going to look at people who are actually doing those things, who are actually designing or actively transforming spaces into the city. And also we're going to bring the question which, what if the whole city is a play site? Not only dedicated spaces, but also what would happen if the whole city functions as spaces that we, the kids, the toddlers, the babies can enjoy. So our first speaker is Edgar Blitz. Edgar runs a practice called CAR in the Netherlands, which has a focus on public space, especially looking after children and youngs. So welcome. It's good to be back and I'm happy to be re-invited again, because it's the second time for me in Istanbul in relation to Istanbul 95. Just let's start, because otherwise it will take too long. I only have 15 minutes and I tend to speak along. The city as a playground, something that intrigued me always. First of all, I'm the speaker, but I want to say what I'm going to show is a project. I'm going to elaborate on the project, but it's the whole team that is actually involved. It's not just me. And I always show this image, because I want to know that we still try to think as kids. It's the same people that you just saw before. We try to be maybe surprised unwittingly when we start a project. We work all around the world, although I would rather like to work in, let's say, Europe, because it's ridiculous that you invite someone here to work in Asia, at least. That's what I think. This is one of the projects we're known for. This is actually a renewal of a former mine site in Belgium. This is a project in Eindhoven that we did together with a landscape architect and team Outdoors to make an interesting public space at Strype S. This is probably the best known project for the Turkish audience, because this is at the Zorla Center, a commercial play space, but actually it's public and everybody is happily invited to go play there. And another one in Copenhagen. Copenhagen and Amsterdam have been meant frequently. I cannot help it. This is at the new blocks building site at Copenhagen, Copenhagen Harbour. But today I'm going to tell you about the van Beuling plan. The van Beuling plan is a project that we actually started with in 2007. We finished the preparations of the design in 2008 and I think it was constructed in 2010. But I'm going to relate this to a publication called The Active City that we did an essay in there and was commissioned by the City of Amsterdam and the main part is written by Orhan, an urbanist agency in Amsterdam. And our part was of course about playgrounds, leisure, etc. But the whole thing or purpose of this book is how can we rebuild our city in a sustainable, active, healthy city. And what are the design tools for playing and leisure and activities that we can implement? The whole book is about cycling path, healthcare, public transport, and so on and so on. Actually also walking, I never hear walking. The discussion is also, walking in the city is also very interesting. But the main conclusions already about play spaces is that they need to be multi-purpose. And they need to be challenging but without borders. That's the most important thing. And we need to understand that we're talking about a densifying city. Although Amsterdam is not as dense as Turkey, we have the same problems. There's developers. We need new housing. And how can we deal with the spaces that are left actually as public spaces? And how can we deal with that as playgrounds? So, we're talking about the importance of physical activity and we're also talking about the importance of spatial justice. And I'm not telling anything new here. Everybody knows this image. Everybody knows that whatever HR you need to be physically active is to stay healthy. Actually, from an economical perspective, it's good to stay healthy. Maybe if we put it to a financial point, that's something to be considered by people as well. But then I thought, let's introduce a very honest comment from a Dutch politician. She's no longer active, but she wanted to introduce the 3% rule for play spaces. And actually, I thought when we compared this to Istanbul, it already showed that even the 3% rule that never made it as a law actually is not even catering for all the kids in Istanbul. It's only catering for the half of the 0 to 3 years old. But we're talking about the whole group, 0 to 14 here. Even in a country, the Netherlands, where youth think that it's all being done well, there's lots of space, there's lots of place, we are suffering less than 3%, so we're not even there. OK, van Beunenme, I'm going to join you through a history because there's a history behind playgrounds. In the 19th or the 20th century layout of Amsterdam, there was the whole thing about healthy movement, getting people outside, doing gymnastics, and in our urban fabric we kept open places and they were meant to be playgrounds for the neighborhood. In the 30s of last century, they really became these hubs, it's actually all 7, as you can see. They had organizations there, they organized things for the neighborhood. The kids that was the place near their home, very nearby, reachable and safe because you knew that all kids were playing there. 70s cars started dominating also in Amsterdam. Again, it doesn't compare to Istanbul at all, but we thought this is a problem and kids have no place to play anymore, they have to play on the street. So in the end of or actually the zeroes, we started re-improving the neighborhood and we organized it a little bit nicer and we have nicer car parks, but still the cars are the enemies and block actually. If you live in that building there, you cannot reach the playground that is here because you're always behind a car.  This is how it is today, this is part of the building plan. It shows actually, because I'm telling you about playgrounds, but it shows actually why it's so important actually to see it holistic. All cars are taken out, we could do this here because we had the opportunity or there was the opportunity actually that we're going to build a parking garage underneath so we could take this out. And the interesting part is that all social housing here is now connected to the playground again. People have their own private space in front, it's not private, it's semi-private. It becomes part of the plan. It is a shared space, but surfaces or ambulances can still come there if there is a problem. This is the new playground that I'm going to tell a little bit more about later on. This is the sports area, this is the play area and a small facility to get coffee or child, I have to say. But I had the opportunity to actually look at my own projects last year when I contributed to the book. It's an opportunity that everybody always asks, have you looked into your old project? What do you think about it? On one hand it's judging your own needs, on the other hand it is a good opportunity to see why things work. Because designing is very often an intuitive process and then in the end you start rethinking why have you done this, what are the reasons that you have done this and can you still after a couple of years see that this work. So first I start to understand whom my influences were. And one of them is Alder van Eyck who is a known Dutch architect that built 700 up to 1000. People still discuss about how many playgrounds he has built in Amsterdam. But he actually and I'm going to read because otherwise I'm going to elaborate too long. I can learn from him how playgrounds can act as a catalyst in a new modernist environment, inviting people outside and meet through their children's activities to build a community. The second one is Konstant Nieuwenhuijzen who is an artist that belonged to the Kogla group and also to the Sitzu Asianist International. And he had a visionary idea on architecture. His new Babylon project is a world in which people no longer have to work long days, are free to move and play and he frequently refers to the Homo Ludens. And he advocated for car free cities in the 60s already and his artistic models that you see here actually represent his city new Babylon but they're almost like a playground aren't they? And it's very interesting actually to read what this guy has been doing in the 60s and 70s. Then another influence is of course William White's social life of small urban spaces. Most of you might have seen the footage of the movie because it shows actually how people are using public spaces. I heard Petra say talking about affordances, you see how they use ledges, benches, how they flock together, how they ignore certain corners. It's something that you as a designer take into consideration but it's very interesting to see someone who really studies or has studied this. And then of course Beatrice Colomina. I learned from her that people's expectation is built up by mass media but they are actually very conservative in their ideas because that's the image that they see and you can actually extrapolate that to a playground. A soccer cage is a soccer cage period and a playground is a post-platform system and when it is something else you find it very difficult actually to accept. And the last but not least is the design of everyday things and that is about perceived affordances Donald Norman is the director of the design lab at the University of California and he introduced this term perceived affordances and it is about design and usability engineering and perceived affordances describes in short to look at the usability of things not from the perspective of how they can be used rather than what they are intended for. So it's an island to be older, how you can use something. And I'm showing you this because afterwards I realized that we implemented all these thoughts in our design for the, from building a plan. So now we have to do some building a plan. I'm starting on that. I'm good. Okay, I tried to do it really fast. Okay, you have to understand where we are. The purple line is the periphery of Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a small city. It's actually exactly as big as Tirana, 800,000 inhabitants. We think we are a really big city in the world but we're just a little dot. And middle grey area is actually the pre-Second World War layout of Amsterdam that is a neighborhood that at the time, when from building a plan was rebuilt I have to say, was not gentrified yet. If you go to Amsterdam now you will probably pay an enormous amount of money to get an apartment there, but it wasn't at that time. I have shown here where the verbatim plan is situated. Here is a big road and actually this piece of the neighborhood was mainly, I think people from Moroccan originally, and this was a little bit mixed working class, although you cannot really use the word anymore. Form a square. What is interesting to know there is a big line of trees around it, trees of sacred in Amsterdam. It's always interesting to see that in a course that you cannot reach there is also almost an urban forest.   And for the rest, actually there was nothing, nobody went into this square anymore because it was surrounded by green. And the new plan, actually we took out all traffic on three sides. There is a possibility to park here because we need to cater for disabled parking spaces. Here is the big road and there is actually three areas on the square and there is a clubhouse for youngsters. Sports area, sitting area, playing area and it's surrounded by lots of green. So programmatically it looks like this. But more interesting are the transitional zones. We usually don't design transitional zones. We think in programmatic solutions. We need to cater for a playground, we need to cater for a soccer court, we need to cater for benches, we need to cater for young kids, for toddlers, for juveniles, for everyone. And then they all get their location. And that's not possible in a damn city because you have a small place. This is the smallest basketball court that we could make. If you just put it in the middle it already fills up the whole space. So the transitional zones are actually zones and this brings me back to Norman that you have to figure out what it is for. And I'm also relating this to the participation process because if you talk to people they want to have everything. They want to have a water feature, they want to have a soccer court, a basketball court, they want to have a skate facility, they want to have a playground, a tower, everything. And you cannot do that in space anymore, it's impossible. So what we try to do is combine sports and play. And what you see here is a very small kit in summertime, usually it doesn't get that warm in Amsterdam, but here it's actually a water feature. And if there's many people playing soccer, here's a big one, but here are small ones, but you can also use it in this direction. Assurances. Is it seating? Is it the playground? Is it the green area? Who's it for? Borderless space is very important. You can actually, as a user, occupy in a certain moment in time this space. And that actually asks for conflicts and we know that. But these conflicts dissolve in, say, 12 weeks because people learn how to use that space. Unexpected possibilities. Kids find their own space. This girl is on roller skates. Actually this little girl is learning from children that are older that they look at. This is one of my favorites, I call this for toddlers and teenagers, because we tend to design for age groups. But nobody can tell who it's for. It actually toddlers, three years old, uses a climbing structure where in the evening I see girls, 12 years old, sit there and talk to each other. And why is everything so directed when we design a playground or a public space? Why not make it UD, universal design? So it can actually cater for many more things than we actually had expected. Again, this part, this is a stage. Is it for children? Is it for parents? Another thing that we learned, or that I learned by looking at it, that it's important that it doesn't look like a stage, that it doesn't look like a bench, that it doesn't look like a playground, because actually that rules out all the possibilities. You cannot use a bench to walk over if it looks like a bench, but if it's just some undefined obstacle, you can use it for many more things. States of seeking, you can go sit in there. And we also always look in the design for smaller spaces. So we have the large space and we break it up in smaller spaces for more intimate things. If you want to sit together with friends, or in this case, I'm struck by the fact that there is a discussion here about parenting in relation to men. That is something that so you actually see it here. It's very common in the Netherlands where the men actually also take care of the children. Seating and skating. You can do whatever you want. And actually spectators are also a very important group of users on a certain space. So this guy is actually sitting there and watching what is happening on the square. Skating and basketball. He's for sure a professional basketball player. He has found his time slot here to use the space. And there is actually no conflict because the skaters come in at Sunday afternoons because they're cool. Basketball and waterplay. We said that before. Waterplay and festival. All this can happen in this space and we think of this as impossible because it's so small. Playground and neighborhood hub. This is where people meet. Actually, if you see, well, here's a nice combination of rubber flooring and sand. That can work very well together. And I also have to tell you, I really had to press to get sand in. I think this is the general image of the square. There is so much going on there, but all we tried to cater for as many user groups as possible in a very small place knowing that it's a 24-7 public space and not a playground that is only being used after school or Saturday afternoon. I want to point out one more thing. There is a commercial-run coffee shop here. The tables that you see in the front are public. They don't belong to the coffee shop. This is actually to stimulate people to sit there and bring their own lunches. And the one that runs the coffee shop is instructed to allow and do so. That is a condition for him to use that space. That was my story. I told you I kept it short.


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