The following is a presentation of TFNN. The TFNN Bull Bear Training Hour. Every training day, live at 10 a.m. Eastern. Call now, toll free at<PHONE_NUMBER> or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The TFNN Bull Bear Training Hour. Now, Tommy Ants, Tommy O'Brien. Welcome folks, appreciate you going around and proud of what is out here. We have the Dow Industries up 48, Nasdaq's down 4, S&Ps up 3.5, Gold's up 11.90, trading at 15.16 an ounce. We've got Silver up 48 cents, $18.28. They're both catching a bid. Gold's up about a percent, Silver's up about 2. Tom Nolley makes sense. Silver is highly volatile. Light Sweet Crude, Light Sweet Crude trading flat, $56.00. Two pennies, you get notes and bonds. You get the 10-year down one at 129.25, the 30-year flat at 160, and Kingdala, Kingdala up 129.6, trading 977.60. The euro is at 110, the yen is out here at 108.5, and the pound is at 128 to one that U.S. dollar. And we're going to start with Amazon. Got it, right? Can I just jump over to the overnight chart, man? Because boy, oh boy, I guess I jumped across, but check it out, right? So they come out with the earnings. They miss on earnings per share, right? They also guide down for the fourth quarter. They're looking for $80 to $86 billion, not bad, over the next 90 days of the holiday season. But the market was looking for about $87 billion. So that is quite a miss. I mean, they could miss by $7 billion over 90 days of revenue. The stock spikes down to 16, 18, but give it 24 hours, man. And we're up almost $100 from that low, 17.05, still down more than 4%. You know, that's a big move on a company the size of Amazon, but man, that is a quick rebound, and we can get into it more. I just want to kind of show that overnight action. And what you're going to have here, folks, this is, you know, I suspect we're going to be right back down here. It's going to get interesting because this is going to be, so here's your high volume low that it went after, 1672. Well, yeah. When we go to 16, 18, I was like, it went after and they crushed it. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Because this was trading at that all pre-morning. Now, what we're going to have here, so let's look at this. So this swing point has 3.2. You're already at 5. You're at 3.4. Put this on a weekly for a second. And there's a lot to digest in there, right? As you pull up the chart, I was just kind of pulling up the advertising. They went from about 2.5 billion last year to about 3.59 or something this year. It's only an increase of a year. Can I just jump over to the CMEC just to get, but if they start eating into Facebook and Google's lunch. And they will. And here's the number. So a year ago, 2.5 billion. This quarter, 3.59. 45% growth in the segment year over year. Well, picture, we buy everything on Amazon. What makes sense is if you buy and you have advertising right beside it. They got your eyes, man. Why not, right? And that is a tiny number probably comparative to what they might be able to crack if they keep getting into that business. And that business there is like the AWS business folks. Huge margins. Yeah, there's no cost for them putting ads on top of the screen space that they already control. Right. So let's take a look at some of the other higher volume equities. We'll see whether they get any volume out here today in the marketplace. Oh boy. PG&E. We might as well go there first. Another one. I mean, not another one. I know that the blackouts are persisting. There's a huge fire too. Is that what? Okay. I was like, what is the new revelation? This is going right after another high volume low. I mean, this thing has been laying out here for a while. What is that? 507. Okay. 528. Yeah. This is, in California, they got real problems folks. That's a real bottom line. They got a monster fire going on out there right now. Okay. If we get into the news, could we just pull it up? I hadn't heard about it. There's a lot going on, man. Amazon dominating a lot of the conversation. They were shutting down the electric simultaneously. But guess what? This is one of the biggest winds that are coming over the San Ante hills. Wow. We'll have to pull it up too. The saying here that the pre-market was down as low as 485. We're sitting at 553. So it got below that low. We were just looking at it in the pre-market. And they fear that they may be impacted in the King Cade fire, which is Burnley's 16,000 acres north of San Francisco, Sonoma County. That's kind of where some of those blackouts were, right? Yeah. And today's the day. Now that has started last night, but they're worried about today, because it's today, and there's still three hours behind us. So it's seven o'clock in the morning there, is when they're going to get these wild winds in San Ana Valley. So big number, man. It just could continue. Hopefully they get out of harm's way out there. It's pretty intense. Yeah. That's the biggest thing. There's no doubt about that. So that baby's down $1.60. The next one, Intel. They come out there and it's not bad. That's a $3.60.  Intel treated lower on that Texas Instruments number earlier in the week. And kaboom, man. It doesn't take long. Just like that. Look at that. Okay. So let's pull this up. Yeah? And look at this. Look at that downdraft from April, I guess. $59 and five weeks later, you're at 42. So let's see what they have to say. They have to say that they're making money hand over fist just like Amazon is. I guess so. Man, oh man, right? There we go. There we go. So let's see. Yeah. Okay. So fiscal year first. Well, fiscal year, they had seen 69.5 and now they've seen 71. Yeah. Right billion this year. Right. I mean, it's almost beaten all across the board, right? Yeah. We have the quarter they just reported, earnings per share, Buck 42 estimate was $1.24. Well, that's a big note. Yeah. That's a big hit. Definitely. And they're looking for next quarter. Like you said, Buck 24 estimate was 121. Revenue 19.2 estimate was 18.86. And when you put it in the fiscal year, they're going to crush it out of the park. Yeah. Good numbers. Yes, definitely. Good numbers. So that's the ying and the yang. That's intriguing inside the chip. The chip is definitely winners and losers. Yeah. Right. Well, that's in. Jaleed is down. Gilead. Yeah. Three 62. It's no big deal there. Let's go inside the MDX 100. The strength versus the weakness out here. So the strength is Intel. Then you get chart of communications up 5.4%. Verizon. No. Verisign. Verisign there is up 4%. Take it away from it. Look at this down. That's down. That's high. Got to love earning season, man. I'm guessing maybe. Such a fossil stock, man. Yeah. Let's look at this. Not often we see Amazon up there on the laggard. I know. 3.2. And it's only 3.2, man. That was 9% last night. Yeah. So let's see what's happening with this equity here. Nope. Can't do that. Sorry. I think I better get another screen quick here. Well, you're waiting for that computer to catch up. As you say. Well, there we go. But the numbers on Bezos, man, with these numbers are just staggering. What's he on? I think 57 million shares. And that's after the split with Mackenzie, his ex-wife. Yeah. Still he owns 57 million shares. So every $100, the Amazon moves. $5.7 billion. His personal wealth is affected. Anyway, go ahead. No, no. We'll get back to it. It's just crazy. Go ahead. So we got aluminum. This is the second gap away. This is interesting, man.  That's their last earnings. I'm guessing. Yeah. From 380 down to 303. Yep. Yesterday it closed at 309. At 315, it smoked again. Yeah. And what do they have to say? There it is. So yesterday it was 870 million. They made 907. Maybe go page up, actually. Yeah. I think it's right here. Let's see. Being good from what I can see right away. In terms of fiscal year, 646-45, they saw 610, but there's something buried in there. They needed more growth. Right. Big growth. That's stock, evidently. It didn't grow enough. Stay right there, folks. Tommy and I are coming right back. We're going to be talking Jeff Bezos as well. Billions. If you're not currently using the TAS Profile Scanner when looking at setting up your trading opportunities, then your arsenal is short a mighty weapon. The TAS Profile Scanner is a standalone piece of software that instantly filters over 2,500 global financial markets such as stocks, ETFs, commodity futures, and forex. Heated by Steve Dahl, TAS understands that in today's technological world, the use of top-flight software applications and technical analysis expertise is essential to successful trading in today's market. 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A host race folks between Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos who's going to be the richest man in the world at four o'clock this afternoon because that's how they gauge this thing. Well, guess what? Bill Gates would say, as of right now, I am the richest man in the world. Again, pretty remarkable when you get that type of a turn. And, you know, we're dealing with pennies compared to what both of these gentlemen are worth, but pretty remarkable, man. When you get that type of a shift, really remarkable. I was saying to you during the break that Bill Gates has still held onto it for so long in light of now, you could say he contributed to changing the world with personal computing, right? Windows, but man, there's a lot of things that have happened since then. And still, he's held onto that title. Microsoft with a huge resurgence, which is helping him. But as of right now, Bezos has a net worth of 107.1 billion. Pretty remarkable. 300 million less than Gates.  This is updated as of 945 a.m. with Amazon at 1712. Well, guess what? So what is, we just did the math, right? It's ten more bucks. I think he just got them though because Bezos has 57 million shares. Yeah, that's 570 million. That's right, yeah. So, but guess what? Did Microsoft just inch up in that same sentence, right? You know, that's what you got to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's put that in the other side. Well, let me see if we can, maybe they say what that number is predicated from Microsoft because they're predicating that one on 1712. Oh, they just got to look at 945. Yeah, no, I hear you. So Bezos took the spot from Microsoft two years ago. He's held onto it that long. And they've both been just going gangbusters since then. And as you said, the rankings officially update the close of each trading day. So any change won't, but I'm sure Bill Gates will have a few words to say about that. Yeah, less really. Yeah, like it matters, right? But you know what? I bet it matters a little bit, man. You don't think that Bezos is going to be popping the champagne when he loses that top spot going into the weekend, right? I would say that, not really, but you know, it's on his radar. You can't help, but 38% this year Microsoft alone has gone up and Gates has a 1% stake, bringing his fortune to 107.4. Pretty remarkable. 60% of his portfolio in equities. So Gates 63, both of them. So young man, Gates 63, Bezos 55. And this is where they tie into it, though, that if Bezos had not been divorced, then that really would tip the scales. And that's where, because he had such a mammoth lead. Now, in fairness to Gates, if Gates hadn't been given away his wealth, you know, to poor people and countries all over the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and everything, he'd be up there as well. So, pretty remarkable. Can I just say, I just wanted to let us, Gates on the other hand, he may have never relinquished the top spot if it was not for his philanthropy. Jordan, well, then 35 billion since 1994. And you think about the compounding that would have taken place if he had kept that in Microsoft stock. That's just what he gave away, starting in 94. Right. So... Microsoft is up since 9.45. 9.45 is right there. That's the 9.50 bar, yeah. So it's at least below... 86 cents. Right? Yeah. Pretty wild. It is pretty wild, man. Yeah, they're saying, I don't think they care. They really don't care. But man, when you're the richest man in the world for two years and you go into a weekend and you're now the number two man, and I bet he cares a lot more about the fact that Amazon stocks down 4% for the day. It's not like Microsoft charged ahead. It's that Amazon pulled back. That is what I would say Bezos might care about. But as we know with Bezos, man, he cares about long-term growth, man. He cares about getting something to you in one day, and next year he's going to care about getting something to you in four hours. That's what made him at that point, right? Right. And so I'd say he's on the right track. Yeah. I would. It's pretty amazing that you can run a company that's just that dynamic, that lodge, and just keep pushing, pushing, pushing. I agree. Let's go take a look at the GDX. We have gold as well as silver, you know, caught a bit out here. It's always nice on a Friday. So we have, you know, yesterday we did have, you can see it right in the GDX. It stopped pushing with volume estate. $55 million. Took out the swing point there with $50, which is, that's a good indication. So today's going to be a good day, man. You know, we're pushing into a swing high from a 2836 right now, or $2794. Now that swing only has $45 million. We're already done nine. So that's a big number, because what the GDX does do, particularly in a day that it's trending higher, or trending lower, meaning if it's not flat, it puts a huge amount of volume in at the close. You know, so this is going to be coming into that swing area with volume. If we go to the SLV, we take a look at the SLV and see where just that, now this is physical solo. Yeah, you can see this. This is a nice pop, man. I'd say so. Yeah. Coming into a Friday, as Basil would say, our man coming up at noon, the day is young. Yes. We're not even an hour into the trading day, man. Exactly. It's 1030. Most of us in the market, we're up super early, right? But man, trading starts at 930. We're 53 minutes into the trading day. That's all. We bring up the contract. You're going to see this juice under this contract. You're already done 72,000 contracts. So this is a nice little move. Well, we haven't had yet. We haven't had the dollar, basically. I mean, a week and a half ago, it goes low, but been sideways since then. You get a little bounce this week. We just went 97, 146, 97, 783. Sure. That's not a bad setup. No. You got Brexit. The euro and the balance. They're going to get a new election, man? Yeah. I don't know what they're going to get. The rest of the world, including England, has no idea what they're going to get. I mean, it's just a continuum. It sure is. So let's go inside the Dow and see what the strength versus the weakness in the Dow. I mean, this market's catching a bid right now. Ooh, Intel. Yeah. Intel's the big number out there. Yeah. Now what's interesting here, right, is this is where the price weighted just does crazy things, man. It does. You got a company like Intel. We'll pull up their market cap in a moment, but just up gangbusters, they're putting 25 points into it, versus you have a company like Boeing, which is down almost peanuts. Yeah. And they're putting negative 29. Right. I mean, so Boeing, that would be down $3.40. It would be 1%, right? So you're down just barely 1%. We'll have to pull up these market caps, OK? Right. And we have Intel closed yesterday at 520. Yeah. So 260 would be 5%. You know, do the math. We're up 6, 7, 8%. We'll pull up the number, OK? And we get into what the market cap of Intel is. So Intel's up about 6, 7, 8 times what Boeing is, compared to their market cap, all right? Intel, $248 billion company, my goodness. Boeing, tinier. Amazing how this works, right? So you're Boeing, $191 billion company. Meanwhile, Boeing, down 1%, offsetting in the Dow, a company like Intel that's up 7%, right? It's walked. I mean, if you came in, in math class, in ninth grade, and you said, this is how we're going to put out the index, the teacher would be like, fail, go back to the drawing board. That's remarkable, man. And really, that's... That's a perfect example. That's a perfect example there. We have Boeing down 1%, putting more negative points in, versus Intel up 7%, 8%, a bigger company than Boeing, and somehow the index is affected more negatively for a company like Boeing. Crazy, man. It is. X, A, U, H, U, I, both of these are going to be hitting a bit out here today. You get the X, A, U. Yeah, it's a good move. Okay, so let's... I want to see if they get... We had good volume in these last night. I suspect we did. And that's just what we need. Yep, a little pop-up in volume. So we did 33 million going up to 26. That's good. Yeah. I mean, we were just at 1490, I think, yesterday. Yeah, that one quick. I know. It was either yesterday or Wednesday. I had 15, 15, and I says, okay, that was a pretty good one. Yeah, and we made it about 1520, briefly, so... There it is, folks. Tommy and I are coming right back down. Down up one or two now. I think I'm 19. I think he's up nine. We're coming right back. Hi, folks. Tom O'Brien here. If you'd like to get my daily newsletter and market insights, then now is a great time to sign up for a 30-day free trial. 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It seems like we're a lot more over it than that, but we're not. It's been quite a run since this morning. Yeah, there's no doubt.  We're approaching 80 points above that level. Yeah. Solid 1%. So this is going to be cool, folks. So this is your benchmark right there. 7994.75. Oh, we're right there. Boom. Look at that. Yep. And what that is, folks, that's the highs of last week, basically. And it's pretty cool that... What is this one? 8,002, going back to September 12th, which is, you know... Right. You don't have to be a technician to see that top of the range there. No. Yeah. And if in fact this...  That's the reality. Yeah. And the market has a chance to break topside today, you know. Yeah. We'll see if it can handle it. The... Oh, Bezos just made another $500 million. It's only down $45. It is, man. Remarkable. And that chart doesn't even do its service, right? Because it made it to 16.18. We had pulled up the expected moves. I believe so. $62 or so forth. And see, this is what you can see, folks. You know, options are great. But what does happen is that, you know, options are traded during market hours, right? So you can imagine if, like, if you had the puts on this. Sure. Last night, right? You said, oh, this is great, man. This thing's down. But yet, guess what? As soon as that market had opened, well, it wasn't the same price. Sure. Yeah. So that's always a tough one when you're in that position. It sure is. You were in some good money. Sure is. And then if you didn't close it right at the beginning here, then you're really in trouble. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yep. Definitely. Yeah. Pretty staggering moves, man. Isn't it? And that one's on a delayed, which is why it hasn't caught up, I think, yet. We're sitting at 17.21. We know the stocks trading at 17.33 already. Yeah. Amazing. It is. The 3M, which is leading the Dow today, just when we were talking about how the Dow is skewed. Yeah. That's a good bounce compared to yesterday. That was a leader on the way down, but it really didn't get hurt that bad. Maybe some help there from Intel. Yeah. You know, talking about the sector in general might not be because yesterday they got hurt pretty bad. I know. 159 yesterday. Yeah. 166 the day before that. Close to 168. Yeah. 76, almost 169. Right. But you're at 166 again. The world is fine. It's almost like nothing happened. It is. It sure is. If you put it on a weekly, it looks like nothing's happened at all. Recently. Yeah. No, no, no. I'm just telling you this week I'm talking about. Yes. Oh, definitely. Yeah. You had a low at 159, high at 168. Because, boy, that was quite a sell-off in April and May. Yeah. Yeah. There's no doubt. The big industrials, man, when they make money, they print it when they don't get out of the way. Boy, right? So let's go over to the FTSE and see what's going on in the UK. Yeah, because they're talking about Macron in France. He's always been an integral player in there. Yeah. They're saying he doesn't want that Brexit extension. He's forced in their hand. Yeah. He wants to give them 30 days. Right. And we'll see who that checks out, man. The thing that's amazing is that what does happen is that every single European country has to say yes, you know. Okay. It has to be 100%. That's what's so wild about it. It's like, okay, how do you corral like that many countries, you know, in general? And maybe that's why things are so difficult to... Yeah. And I was just pulling up the yield. We got a little bit of a spike there. Above 1.78, pretty tame week in the yield compared to what we've been seeing across the border. And next Wednesday, folks, that's Fed meeting day. Yeah. Interesting. What are we lining up with? Up to 90. Yes, 90. 87 yesterday. Okay. Was it? Yeah. We're sitting right here in the 1.75 to two column. Odds of a cut come on October 30th, day before Halloween, 90%. And then where things really get interesting, I think, right, is that what are the odds that we get a second cut by December? We're looking at 32%. And all but assured, again, you're looking at about 94% that you're going to get a cut by those two meetings, but you get about, you know, just a one in three chance that we're getting two cuts. But that's all that's priced in there, right? Oh, I know. Because even when you go as far out to November of 2020, what's the market going to do thinking that they're not going to get another cut? Yeah, right. I mean, this is like, this has been continual, right?  Okay. And do something. Well, I remember that. Right. I do. The world changes quickly, man. Seriously. Right now it does. And speaking of changing quickly, right, we had the yield inversion going on from the two year to the 10 year. Yeah. Well, geez, now we're under 1.6 for the two year and we're over 1.76 for the 10 year. That was inverted. That one's steep. Yeah. That sure did. Pretty cool. That's pretty amazing. It is. I mean, this whole interest rate structure, we'll find out what the market's going to want, because the market's going to, the market always wants something, man. There's just so many moving parts, right? I mean, that's what I find so interesting in terms of all the moving parts that are hitting things right now. Oh yeah, late 10. And even we had consumer sentiment out this morning at 10 a.m. as we come on the air. Let's jump on to that and we'll jump over to the Macron one. I saw that as well. Consumer sentiment pairing gains from earlier in October while remaining elevated, suggesting American spending will continue to support the economy despite weakness in manufacturing and that consumer spending, man, it better because that's what's driving everything. Oh yeah. So University of Michigan's final sentiment index rose to 95.5 from September 93.2, the data showed today. The preliminary reading and median estimate of economists were both 96. The gauge of current conditions rose to 113.2 and the expectations index 84.2. So I guess that's a decent number. And I'm just going to jump back to the Macron article because that's what I went into the top originally and we'll see how this one plays out. So you have President Emmanuel Macron blocked the European Union's attempt to delay Brexit for three months, raising the prospect the UK might not know whether it will get an extension until just hours before it's scheduled to be ejected on October 31st even without a deal. Halloween, it's going to be a spooky day for those markets over in the footsie, man. If they have to wait literally minutes before they know if they're just going to cascade out of the EU without any type of a deal. At a meeting in Brussels today, diplomats from the EU's 27 remaining countries deferred a decision on the postponement while none of them want to be seen interfering in the UK's domestic politics. France is at longer loggerheads with the others. 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The funds are designed to be utilized only by sophisticated investors such as traders and active investors. Distributor, Foreside Fund Services, LLC. Watch Tiger TV for the latest market information. A wildfire was reported to a broken out late Wednesday. And a 230-kilovolt power line went down at about 9.20 pm local time. According to a report filed with the California Public Utility Commission. And the Kincaid Blader supported to have erupted five minutes later as of Friday that scorched at least 16,000 acres 49 structures. I'm trying to figure out is that it has to be controlled in a way that I mean, I'm trying to figure out, I'm trying to figure out is that has have the infrastructure got so bad out there that this is going on now all has the heat and the winds got so bad out there that, you know, it's worse. It can probably be an and situation versus an or, right? Right. I mean, it's pretty intense, man.  It's like, I mean, what do we have?  And so I imagine that's at least contributing to some degree, but they have infrastructure problems too. So this isn't let them off the hook. Okay. No, that's for sure. That's for sure. It goes all over the place. And, you know, you can't do that when they're in the middle of the desert. That says you can't do that when you're going to be dealing and guess what? It's only going to get worse no matter what we do. And I think we should be addressing that climate change, but it's only going to get worse. Okay. These, these, the storms, the, the temperature swings. It's a new high every single week in Florida in terms of temperatures. So they better, they better get that stuff in order. Let's go take a look at this NDX because it looks like the NDX is starting ready to get getting ready to sell down a little. We'll see how this shakes out. So you got, what, 10, 4, that's 10, 40, and then I'm going to keep your eye on the NDX is going to be this 79, 84, you know, you're above it. We stay above it. You go a lot higher. I start giving it up for me because what has happened, the reason I'm saying this folks is that each and every day what has happened is that, you know, the NDX is with always seems to be the first one that gets above the high and gave it up, you know, the, the S&P had a harder time. I don't think it, no, the S&P didn't make it this morning, you know, they only missed it by a point though. We went to 3,014, it's 3,015, 25, not even a point, a half a point, 50 cents, 50 cents. Yeah, exactly. Pretty wild. How about Bitcoin, man? We're getting a little bit of a pop on the reprieve that we got yesterday. I think we're up about $200. Let's see where we load up there. Yeah, up 228 bucks still sitting 76, 85. We were kind of hovering around 8000 for a while, but Bitcoin up a couple hundred bucks, but Bitcoin been in trouble for a while. Man, that was quite a pullback two days ago. Even today's pop, nothing too dramatic, but 15 years. Whoa, whoa, baby. 15 year chart of Bitcoins. Yeah, we'll do it, we'll do it about five, I'll do five. Give me a weekly if you could. Yeah, okay. Ops, that's not it. That's all right. I'll do a weekly. Just because the early days are almost non-existent, right? And you stretch that thing out.  Because what are we trading at there? $745. $745. I mean, it's really remarkable. You go back to 16, I think there were 200 somewhere, 600. 482 at the beginning of 2016, 482, 19,511. And right in that week, they introduced futures. Amazing, right? Got to keep that in mind. It is remarkable that that is how that played out. In hindsight, hindsight is always 20-20 and seemed like the easiest thing in the world to say the first time that you could short Bitcoin on an actual regulated exchange on top of things that they then cascades, of course it does. And just here, give them- Go ahead, go for it. It only cascaded folks, okay? This is a weekly, so you went from $19,500 to $10,700. Is that a lot? I don't have my calculator out. Is that a big number? That's insane. What is that for a percentage? Is that a big number?  It is, man. Pretty crazy. That was the, no doubt, the ultimate and- And you got, of course, now you got a good old zuckster out there saying that we're going to introduce a currency and, you know, don't worry, we're not a bank, we're not filing for a bank charter. And I literally, I don't know what politician was behind questioning him on that line, but do you hear that one? I don't know if he's a Republican or Democrat, but I loved it. You're saying that's the problem. That is the problem. That you are not a bank, you're not filing for a charter, and you're about to, you know, because he said, would this be like me having money in Wells Fargo? Yeah. He said, well, you know, it would be like that. And then he kind of caught himself. I felt like he said, but we're not a bank. Right. We're not filing for a charter. He said, that is the problem. Exactly.  Did you see, I heard the guy saying the zuck buck. And then they had a picture of it, the zuck buck. Yeah. I don't want, I don't want- It's all a struggle, folks. I don't want Mark Zuckerberg on my money, man. I don't trust him at all. There's no way. Actually, did you see Dorsey was going after him yesterday? Good. From Twitter. Good. And he was going, well, this is interesting, too. There's a time you were showing me, folks, on Dorsey's numbers yesterday that they were saying- They said they had targeting issues. Right. Right.  And maybe Dorsey in Twitter was saying, listen, we can't be collecting this data and targeting people in ways that are not appropriate beyond privacy. Right. But guess what that did? It sent the stock down 20%. Right. Okay. It makes less money. It does. And I would attest that Facebook is not willing to do the right thing if it comes at the expense of profits. Right. And you see that continually. Right. And so, yeah. Yeah. So Dorsey was out there giving it to him. Good. Somebody's got it. And it was about the speech that he was saying- Okay. Yeah. He's not doing it. No.  Yeah. And they were supposed to be doing things in accordance with that agreement. And they just broke it in an amazing way in terms of just the gall to break it with. But it doesn't- Well, when you, you know, I mean, that FTC fine was one of the largest they ever had. But for a large company like Facebook, that's nothing. No. You know, that's- No. That was akin to basically a capital expenditure. Right. To allow them to grow. Oh, yeah. You know? And you could almost- That's why you should have even more punitive damages, okay? Because it should be more than that. Because that doesn't dis-incentive us. No. Because they did that. They did it. But guess what? Now they own the world. They own Instagram. Yeah. They own WhatsApp. They own Facebook. They're about to release a currency. And $5 billion is nothing. And then one of the questions was great. Because they had told the European Union that there's no way they can integrate WhatsApp into Facebook. And did you have that question? No. And so it took them 15 months in order to do that. And so they were asking the question about, well, you know, you can integrate, you know, these payments into everything. And he just kept going around it, meaning, and of course, in technology, you know, they might have already been able to do it, period. Sure. Even before the fact. Ouch!  You know, even another six months... Yeah. Get in two years. I don't believe anything. Right. Of course they can do it. Why else would they have bought WhatsApp. Absolutely. Yeah. Dow. Dow's up 138, NASA gets up 33. S&Ps are up 13. Tommy's going to be right back, folks. All right.  I'm wrapping up. Have a good weekend, man. I'll be right back to finish up the program, folks. I'm certain you are, or strive to be, one of the best of the best at everything you do in life. 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Hey, good morning scorer contracts people and gov contracts folks out there My name is Eric coffee hosts of the YouTube channel score contracts.com today. We want to discuss Niko we always talk about FedBitSops and FedBit.com and we don't spend a lot of time looking at this website Niko which is NACO dot navy dot mill. You'll see it here on the screen I was browsing through Niko and the reason why is one of my clients nav fact They mentioned to us that in fact the majority of their jobs and solicitations are posted on the Niko website However on the Niko website I asked them if that information transferred over to FedBitSops and they said not all the time In fact the majority of the time the information doesn't even transfer because Niko is an outdated system And because this is an older system all the information doesn't get transferred over So let's take a look at the Niko dot navy dot mill site because a lot of people out there using FedBitSops And they're forgetting about Niko. So here on Niko. I just click the search bar and so now we're looking at direct solicitations So for example, let me let's go to Google Maps, and I want to do something. Let's type in Navy All right, so you see there's a Navy recruiting office Navy recruiting center here. Oh, Navy We don't want old Navy so we've got a couple Navy recruiting centers here So it doesn't look like much in Florida. Let's go in here and search this area. All right So you see some Navy recruiting areas so you can see there's a lot of Navy recruitment facilities if we type in naval All right, you'll see submarine base on naval complex There's a surface of water under for to see so you can see you can find out where the naval facilities are by just Doing Google search type of naval and what we're gonna do we're gonna go back over to Niko and Let's see you got naval hospital Jacksonville, San Diego I'm gonna go up to the area where I'm working at which is NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic and I'm gonna look for opportunities I'm just gonna do a broad search NAVF at minute length and I'm not even gonna type in max code just yet We're soliciting I don't have any information I'm just gonna type in this click search and it pulls up 84 record now The reason why I brought you here today was because I want to show you something that I thought was interesting And I saw it as an opportunity for some people that were getting started This is different in FedBizops because what I find in Niko is it seems like they're using a lot of the IDI queues the multiple-year contracts like the max the Maytox and things of that nature and What they do differently than I saw in FedBizops was they listed the actual Mack holders meaning that Here because I did reach out to the small business guy He gave me this listing of so for example Midland covers obvious the Atlantic Ocean everything touching Atlantic Ocean He gave me This list of contract holders which were the prime contractors, right? So these guys had the prime contract and it looks like it because of this note here it started in 2016 So it's gonna last till 2021 So these are the four companies that in this particular Mack, Pennsylvania They're gonna be doing the majority of the work same thing here This is the Mack holders for the IDI queue contract. So those are the big boys, right? And these five companies are gonna be doing work Let's see if they've got a number on here. It looks like this will start in 17 So let me work into 2022. They've got a hub zone Mack here out of Norfolk Same thing looks like it was issued in 17. You know see some of the company's names and information here so, you know going back over to the actual Niko website if you don't have that information like I had available if you look on a Solicitation it will tell you in the description whether or not it's available for the open public or if it's available Only to those Mack holders and then what I've saw this morning when I was browsing through is it listed the Mack holders So made it really easy for you to go on there find out who they are And then you could extrapolate their own name information from Sam that go of the website and find out who the person is There's also a other world of opportunity on her that a lot of us are Not finding I get people reaching out to me all the time saying Eric I'm looking on Fabis ups. I don't find any jobs or any contracts in my particular niche or my market So this is another source to go and look at opportunities for you. This is Newport Naval station in Rhode Island It says this is going to be simplified acquisition procedures Simplified acquisitions procedures means what anything under 250 goes to small business is upgrade fire alarms It's not something we do, but it's great to know that's going out simplified acquisition It'll probably be so sourced to someone replace some cooling towers. Again, those are open solicitations Here's an example right here This procurement is restricted to many Mack contract holders only the many Mack contract holders listen RSP may submit a proposal Perfect. Now what you can do is one is you can reach out to Jennifer here and call Jennifer and ask Jennifer the list of the Many Mack holders since her name and number is on there That's probably what I would do if you didn't have that information available. Hey, Jennifer This is Eric. I'm calling today from, you know, Mack construction We are looking at the opportunity here that you've got for the pumps moors and drives Do you happen to have the list of many Mack contract holders? I'm a subcontractor This is what I do and I like to reach out to one of them to give them a good price on the job. That's it Moving on same thing look here apply weather resistant coding again This is going out the many Mack contract holders. It says in a proposal. We can click on the solicitation Here's all Brad's information. Here's the files. Let's see if anything comes up interesting. All right So here you go apply weather resistant coding sounds like it goes to a roof scope of services somewhere of work Location drawings there you go And that's what we're looking for these are the companies that you can use to actually bid the contract So you would want to reach out to them directly, you know, you want to reach out to Robert You want to reach out to Damon Jones? You want to reach out to Ozzy mark and see if there's any opportunities available for you to help With that particular project This is excellent because like I said, you already see what the projects are and you can solicit to them to provide your bid Your proposal to that particular organization This is a lot easier than actually going as a prime because why your past performance can be Non-government related and a lot of times if you give them a good price and you seem like you're competent You've covered all the bases. They're probably not going to ask you for past performance because a lot of you know I know for a fact when I'm out there and I'm subcontracting out some of the guys like say for examples like doors or windows You know, you could take people's word of mouth But you're not actually going in and really interviewing them per se And again, it depends on the size and complexity of the project But for the most part, you don't really find that so again the purpose of the video today is like I said I want to give people another option out there for those of you who feel as though you've exhausted your FedBizOps opportunities This nico website doesn't necessarily cross-reference. In fact, like I said, I was told that for the majority of the time It doesn't go over in the FedBizOps. So this makes it a great pool To fish out of because why there's not a lot of people fishing over here for contract opportunities Only mechanical Mac contract holders. This is cool because if you are a mechanical company And you are looking for you're saying, well, I've Eric I've never seen any particular set aside for mechanical companies Here is a set aside for mechanical company. If you don't know mechanical, that's basically HVAC type corporations Here's a mini mac for mechanical companies. We could go look at this elicitation Here's some documents what I would do if I were you I'd get the names of the Mac contract holders And you could find out let me see if I could pull it up really quickly as an example If you were my client, I would say listen We want to be on the next upcoming Mac. So I would get the list of all the Mac holders find out what the number was And you could find out really easily When that Mac expires and then also go back and look at the requirements so that we can be prepared To when a Mac comes out again, we could be on that particular Mac contract. Oh, by the way I know I'm using another acronym Mac multiple award construction contract for those of you who were out there asking All right, this it doesn't look like the information is here. We're not going to scroll through the whole thing Let's see. All right. Perfect. That's what we're looking for. All right. So these are the Mac contract holders now This Mac was issued And 14 see that so this Mac was issued in 14 I would definitely reach out to the person in charge And find out because look at this project. All right, the Mac Estimate ranges between 5 and 10 million. That's for this particular project. So this is a nice size job For a secret guy All right, our first move is to sit by the prime contractor to this person Which means what that means that to me the government already knows that they're going to be subcontractors Submitting information and wanting to bid this job and participate. So that's why they're saying our fries must be Submitted by the prime contractor is only so again other people are already doing this So you just want to I had to jump in with one of these guys And see how I could get on this particular Mac and I would beg the differ that these people When I'm looking at the information where they're from, I bet you some of these companies are interrelated I would find out from the austubu. I call lauren right here pick up the phone I call lauren I'd find out when this mac expires and also how to be prepared For when it comes out again moving on same thing lajun Uh north port smith's shipyard. Look at this mid-atlantic 8a mac Want look at that. So again, there's an 8a mac. So they have I mean, I've seen hub zone max 8a max Now we've seen mechanical max They've got look hub zone design build design bid build id iq Multiple work construction contract mac So look at that this people got a design build mac hub zone design build mac The navy they seem to have it right when it when area actually looking for small businesses A lot of times if you're you're saying to yourself And I know we ran into this roadblock for my client when we're saying to ourselves Well, eric, where are the jobs out for the navy? Why aren't they posting and why are you not seeing navy projects on fed besops? Because what they're doing is they're lumping all of their small projects into a blanket purchase order an id iq multiple award Construction contract they're lumping it all together Right and then are pre-qualifying a few companies to handle all of the upcoming projects for the next five years Very efficient way of doing so I might say you know myself But it seems like that's the way that they're doing contracts So a few out there are interested at all in working with the navy It looks like this is going to be the best approach that I could suggest right now and working with them Look at this design build construction albany 200,000 square foot. Do you mean if our storage facility? I mean these people are going to need everything on that facility, but it's 200,000 square feet storage for ground weapon systems, right? They're going to need electronics. They're going to need everything in construction They're going to need site work out there for you guys that are supplying they're going to need metal panels They're going to need hvac systems hvac up there This project is going to need the whole gamut of supplies and or materials in order to facilitate that So definitely a good project to look at in fact, let me zoom in so we can see this good Look at that mini mac holder All right, here's a coast guard support structure and like I said, there's 84 records just in midland alone And midland Let's see if we can find it but again when I know when it says atlantic and it's nav fact it covers atlantic ocean Mid-link to me would mean the mid part looks like everything from say virginia up until up to main Look civil paving mac contractors So if you're a specialty contractor, you may want to pursue opportunities at nav fact and If you're a subcontractor that's looking to build relationships past performance history I would definitely approach some of these Mac contract holders And start soliciting right away for potential upcoming jobs. All right guys, listen I just want to do a walkthrough this morning of nico.navy.mil I saw some potential opportunities for people and as always I like to share immediately once I've Realized some things out there. So I hope this helps some people out there today and we'll see you next time


I'm from London. I'm very jetlagged, so it's very much good night. How is everyone? Thank you for that. So, thank you very much for coming along. I'm going to be talking about rocking the lattice, about two technologies, Cloud Rocker and lattice. My name is Colin Humphries. I am the CEO of Cloud Credo. We are a Cloud Foundry and Bosch consultancy based in London. I'm speaking with a very good friend of mine, Mr James Baer, from Pivotal. Hello. He's going to be giving the second half of this talk. He's going to be trying to use my Linux laptop, so that's going to be very amusing for everybody, watching him try and move between applications. Good luck with that, James. Thank you. OK, so, I want to start this with a question. What is an application? And I feel this is a very relevant topic for this conference. So, we're talking a lot about pushing code and source code, but we're also talking about containers a lot. So, what actually is an application? I think there's value in pushing source code. You push the code as you're used to doing that CF push. You push your code into Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry then has a look at the code, combines it with a build pack and produces a container. So, there's definitely value in that. There's also value in pushing containers. You have a known, good, tested artifact that has all your dependencies baked in. So, what's the right thing to do? I don't know. As I just alluded to, Cloud Foundry has two jobs, and these are actually very clear distinct jobs. It has the first job, which is staging, where it takes your application code, combines it with a build pack, produces a droplet. And the second job, which is running, where it schedules that droplet to be run inside of containers, and that's where it's scaled and has the services brought in behind and routed and all of that kind of thing. But these are two distinct jobs. So, I posed the question, do we want to take our applications on the left-hand side? And I apologise for my incredibly bad diagram. This is what happens when you use Linux as a desktop. You get diagrams like this. So, we have the application being pushed into Cloud Foundry, a droplet is produced and deployed. So, that pathway to production versus the application being built locally into a container, and then the container being pushed into production. So, we have what's on the left, and what Cloud Rocker and Lattice give us is what's on the right. So, we do our staging locally. And I think there's value in doing this. We get fast feedback about whether our application has staged correctly. If staging fails or there's an issue with the build pack, it's easy to diagnose it. We also create this artifact that is known good, and that artifact can be moved between environments, can be moved down your CI pipeline. So, you're thinking, stop talking, Colin. Show me how to actually do this. So, let's have a look at how this process works. Firstly, installation. This is a directory with a Java application inside it. This is my Java app. I have very straightforward set of files that comprise a Hello World Java app. Now, if I want to install Rocker, I can go get very straightforward. Let's go. This installs the Go binary. So, we've now got the Rock command line tool available to us. We take a quick look at Rock. This is the API you can use. So, we see a few things we can do there. The first one we're going to want to do is to download the Cloud Foundry base image. So, we would run Rock this. Now, I'm not going to actually run that command because that would pull down a 500 megabyte image, which is the same Cloud Foundry base image that's used to power all the Cloud Foundry applications running in a normal Cloud Foundry setup. I don't trust the conference Wi-Fi to let me do that in a reasonable period of time. So, I've already done that on this machine. So, I have a Java app. I need to have the build pack available to me locally. So, if I run Rock build packs, we can see that I've already added the Java build pack. If that wasn't here, I could just do rock, add build pack, and then a URL where I can go and get a build pack from. So, the GitHub repositories of any of the open source Cloud Foundry build packs will work here, and it will pull them down and add your build pack. So, as we have the build pack ready and the app, let's run this. Very simply, rock up. So, what this is actually doing now, it started a container in Docker that's running the same staging process that would run inside of Cloud Foundry. But it's doing it on my local machine. It's using the Java build pack, which we've got installed, combining that with the application code, and again, these logs are exactly the same logs that we've fired out by the build pack with normal Cloud Foundry staging. So, that's now completed. That's running. You see there the bottom line. Connect your running application at localhost 8080. So, that is the application staged and running locally. In case you haven't noticed, quickly look there, a little bit of unsubtle advertising. So, we've installed. We've rocked the application locally. What happens if you want to take this container away from your local machine, deploy it to production, maybe move it down your CI pipeline, do something else with it? So, we can do that too. Very simply, rock build, and then we give this a tag. So, I've given this my user at Docker Hub and Java test as the name of the application. This is staging the application, and then it's going to build us a container which we can push up to the Docker registry. So, it's done our staging, and that's actually creating the container dockerfile. In just a second, it will start running through that dockerfile and building us that container. So, we can see a series of steps there that have been run that are building our container that can be exported and run. As you see there, step number nine is the command that actually starts the Java application. Complete with double quotes and everything. There was a lot of pain to actually build, but now that's working. So, with this, we could then run docker push. We could push this now to the docker registry. I'm not going to do that again because of conference Wi-Fi, but we've built our container which we can then work with however we choose. So, you can push it to a registry. So, all the code for this is available on GitHub in the Cloud Credo account. This is an idea of the direction CloudRock is going in. So, we're going to add Rocket at C containers. We're going to improve the environment variable handling because it's not exactly the same as Cloud Foundry at the moment. It's an area that needs a little bit of work. I'd love to have a single command pushed to lattice so you can just build the whole thing locally and it goes straight into a local lattice setup. At the moment, this will only run a single application on your local machine. So, if you're doing microservices, it won't currently work. We've got lots of small services talking to each other, but we're working on that. That's very simple to fix. And as you may have noticed, my laptop is Linux. So, this works natively. I don't have a fantastic journey for Mac users at the moment. I'm providing a vagrant virtual machine which gives you a Linux-like environment and then I'm mapping in directories. So, I'm going to hand over to James. Thank you very much. Thank you, Colin. We were really excited to see what Colin was able to do in a pretty short amount of time with Cloud Something. It was called something else, Cloud Rocker, right? It was always Cloud Rocker. It was called Cloud Rocker. You can type these fun commands like rock up and rock this and it was pretty fun to type back in the old days. So, it leads to the question of what can you do with once you rock up something and rock build and what that is lattice. Well, we wanted to build something that was incredibly fun to use with lattice and something that we had heard about from people that had tried Cloud Foundry is it was a steep hill to climb because the first experience, the five to ten minute experience with Cloud Foundry was, all right, first you get to go learn Bosch. And if, like me, back in the day when I first started using Cloud Foundry, I was working in a Java e-server vendor at the day. And the first thing it said is, gem install something. I'm a gem. I don't, what's that? What's a gem? Because I'd only ever worked with Java.  So that's not that great of an experience. So we wanted to bring a 10 to 15 minute experience to put Cloud Foundry technologies into people's hands. And I can tell you that we actually, in my view, succeeded on this. So lattice is really fun and simple to use. One way of talking about it is it's just enough Cloud Foundry. We're still actually very opinionated on the Cloud Foundry team that we think Bosch is the way that you can do production operations the best. And so we still are very much a believer in that. So if you want to introduce this technology to people, if someone has a docker image and they just want to run it in a Cloud Foundry-like environment with Cloud Foundry technology, do they really need to start there? The answer is no, not with lattice. It's just enough Cloud Foundry. Andrew Schaefer put together a metaphor for some people that were asking questions about the difference between Cloud Foundry and lattice. He's like, Cloud Foundry is a fully operational battle station. It has every bell and whistle operational experience you need. It runs on all the virtual machines, split out by default and see every release if you do that. Everything's kind of scalable. And if you look at lattice, it's really a little bit less than that. It's something that, probably a better metaphor is maybe a Star Destroyer and a TIE fighter, but this one works pretty good too. Lattice doesn't have all the things that Cloud Foundry does, but that's okay because on a laptop, you don't need all the things that Cloud Foundry has and you want a simpler experience. When I talk about Cloud Foundry by subtraction, which is one of the things Unsee referenced today in this Diego talk, you get Diego. We're going to get clustered scheduling of containers. On your laptop, you really only need one virtual machine for that, but you can scale up and have a cluster. Everything that Diego can do is going to be inside of Lattice. You get the go router. So now all the very nice DNS-based load balancing for your applications, if you scale up several containers, we'll load balance that to those and that's really nice. You get logger gator. So you get all the streaming logs from your containers. If you scale up to 10, 15 containers for an application, you're going to get all those in one place. And really nicely, you don't have to deal with Bosch as your first experience. You can just do vagrant up, or if you have even a digital ocean, Amazon, OpenStack, or Google Cloud account, you can use Terraform. Terraform apply, and in several minutes have a cluster up and running. So we won't have Bosch, and importantly, you're missing out on a couple of other things.  If you have a digital ocean account and you spin it up to 5VMs, you don't necessarily want to share that with your whole organization, it's just for a small team of people. You don't need quotas and the marketplace and all the other stuff that comes with Cloud controller, you just want to run your Docker image. And we also took away the UAA. So the Enterprise Security and Login, the OAuth server, also a Java component, taking that away, saves a lot of footprint and hassle as well when you just want to get up and running quickly. So let's take a look at some of the commands that we have. So it's very similar to the CF command line. This is a command line, and we'll show you an actual demo in a second. But you look there that... Well, actually, let's go ahead and get into it. Let's just use Colin's example. So let's clear this off. And LTC list. You guys see that okay? So you can see we're just running a couple of containers already on this instance. And let's go ahead and see if we can just run Colin. So you guys saw him, he called one called Java test, right? So let's type LTC, create Java test, hat of monkeys, I have no idea what the heck that's all about, and Java test. So what we're doing here is we're taking the Docker image that already has gone through all the build pack processing. It's already pre-built, so we don't have to build that on the server side this time. And there we go. Now the application is up and running. Let's go ahead and... I forget how you did this, Colin. The Linux laptop hilarity is coming out. Oh yeah, right click. Oh, right click. Copy link address. Oh my goodness, we can do it. That's programming. Control T. Control, what is it? Oh, V, yes. There you go. So it's the same app that Colin showed you in... This can be run against a scheduler. And so you can be running it against lots of lattice containers. So let's do LTC visualize. So there you can see I'm running on one cell, and I've got three containers running. If I want to scale this up, LTC scale Java test. Let's go up to three containers. And scaling this up, it just takes just a moment. And what we're going to be doing is basically Diego does the scheduling for you, just like Auntie showed earlier in his talk, so that works. So you do LTC status Java test. And now we're running those three separate images. It's kind of interesting here. You can see how we do the port mapping for you. So all these containers are listening on 8080 inside, but we're getting different ports assigned to them on the host that they're running. And then the go router is automatically doing the load balancing for you. So it's pretty straightforward to do that. Let's go back to the presentation here. We also wanted to put a little bit of a UI on top of lattice. And so Pivotal's been working on something called Xray. And let's go ahead and go look at that. You saw that was one of the applications that was running on lattice when I first typed LTC list. And so what Colin did was he used Cloud Rocker. It's just a Node.js app, this one we're going to show you here, this thing called Xray. So Colin created a Docker image out of Xray, and it's just another app that you can push on top of lattice. So going back, let's go check at the LTC list here. I'll just do status Xray. And there is what I want to do. Oh boy Colin, you're in your Linux. It's going to be fun. Control Shift C. Control Shift C, oh boy. It's a secret code, there you go. Control T, control V, look at all this. I'm getting good. So this is a really simple user interface on top. So you can just do some simple things to visualize what's going on in your lattice cluster. So if you had more cells, you can see that they would be scaled out underneath here. And you can have availability zones and everything. So if we were running on a full AWS image, we would have that fill up the page with a whole bunch of stuff and do a demo. But if I go here and just LTC scale Java test one to get rid of stuff, you'll see that quickly already scaled down to one container there. So if I hover over here, you see Java test. These are the Ruby sanity and there's the Xray process itself. It's monitoring itself. So Xray is something we're going to add new capabilities to over time. What we really wanted to do was visualize what's happening in your lattice cluster so you can see it really easily. And this is an open source project that you can also get on GitHub. And so what have I seen at Pivotal for people using lattice? I've seen an explosion of interest in making the technology much more accessible to developers. So especially the Spring team has done a lot of neat stuff with it. So you might have seen some talks here from Matt Stein and some others using Spring Cloud and some of the Netflix OSS things. So imagine like a dynamic configuration server where you're distributing configuration to your containers that are running, but you want to change something dynamically. Let's say like a log level or something like that. That's a component you can run with Spring Cloud as a container on lattice and then have another app use that. If you want to use Hysterix and some of the other load balancing technologies, that's also built in there. The Spring Cloud team has done some really neat stuff with that. The Spring Batch team has made it such that you can now expose a new Diego primitive. Diego has this primitive called a task. It's actually how applications are staged. It's not a long running process. It's a one-time batch process that will have a lifetime in that end. So Spring Batch is this technology a lot of enterprises are using. So they've hooked up Spring Batch to lattice so that every time you want to run a new batch job, it schedules a Diego task. So now you can have your tasks in lattice being scheduled by Spring Batch, which is pretty cool. The Spring XD team has done some really neat demos where scaling up your Spring XD streams, for these are streams of data coming from things like the Twitter, Firehose and other places, and then piping them to other things and doing some processing on those. Every time you run a Spring XD stream, it will create a new Diego task for you and they've got that working with lattice. And this one is really cool. Mark Croft, Mike D'Lessie up here, and the team from the New York team from Pivotal. And then there's others involved in CenturyLink and HP announced some things as well. They're contributing some things for Windows. You can actually run Windows containers with lattice as well. So just like how you have Linux applications is what we were just demoing, Windows applications can run side-by-side with the Linux applications. And let's see if we can go see a JSON example that's approved to you that I'm not making. Do I still have that up here, Colin, or is that closed now? Is it in the... If you tab to the next one, you'll tab to the... I'll tab. Keep going. I don't want to keep tabbing. This one. Yeah, try that one. All right. There we go. So you're actually seeing... This is an output of the long-running process that we have of Mark's cluster that has the Windows server and a Linux server running side-by-side. And you see the root FS is the Windows Server 2012 instance. And so you can plug in these Linux images and Windows servers side-by-side and schedule the containers for both Linux apps and Windows apps in the same lattice technology. And the last thing I want to talk a little bit about is we have a team doing some hacking on Diego itself. When we're working with trying new things in Cloud Foundry, we've found it's really fun to just start with something small like Diego. And so we've had teams that are sending custom metrics to the loggergater firehose from their application. So I call this the foo metric. So imagine you're tracking sign-ups or you're tracking some other thing that's not just about your memory or a standard metric that comes out of your container. It's something that's related to a business aspect of the application. You can send that to loggergater on lattice and there's a demo of a team consuming that off the firehose as well. So that's pretty cool. Now you can have your applications sharing metrics that they're producing and having other applications consume those. And with that, I'll just show you that we have a proper mailing list on the Cloud Foundry community. So it's CFLattice at list.cloudfoundry.org. There's a Twitter handle there. There's some really cool lattice t-shirts that Andrew Shaffer has available if you want to get those. And then you can also join the... and contribute on the project. It's an incubation right now. And I think we're ready for questions. Okay. Any questions? There's two over there. Okay. Great question. So the question is, if you wanted to do something in lattice and you get it working there, how translatable is that to getting it working in Cloud Foundry? So today, lattice only speaks Docker images. What we're working on and we want to be able to have a lattice understand droplets as well. So one of the things that Cloud Rocker does is produce a full Docker image from your application source code. Well, what if we went the intermediary way? If you looked at what Heroku did last week, they kind of did the same kind of thing, where their CLI tooling will... you run a Docker image locally, but when you push that to Heroku, they actually just upload the droplet part. They call it a slug. So we're looking at something like that.  And then that's also translatable to Cloud Foundry. So it's something like that. You can just take your application source code, get it running on lattice, and then also get that running on Cloud Foundry. That should be a seamless experiment, experience. Could you please elaborate on the metrics that you can collect from the container? I couldn't hear that unfortunately. Let me see if I can... Can someone else repeat the question? Is it better now? Just about. Could you please elaborate on the metrics that you can collect from... with the lattice from the container? Metrics? Oh, elaborate on the metrics. Okay. Let me see. The metrics coming out of... the loggergator firehose basically, right? So with Diego, we're setting the container metrics that you... If you ever saw the stats endpoint in the Cloud Controller for applications, it'll show you the CPU, the memory, and the disc footprint. So you're going to get those for free by just listening on the loggergator firehose. What another team has done is they started producing metrics directly to the loggergator from their application. So that would be a custom metric that they make up. So let's say it's a number of sign-ups in your application you want to track or the amount of revenue you've sold or something like that day. You can send that metric along to the firehose and it's a structured thing as opposed to a log message, which is going to be just a kind of an opaque thing. You can set a structured value that downstream applications can interpret and understand exactly that value. This is a gauge or it's a value or it's an error of some kind, right? That's the kind of thing I'm talking about is being able to send those structured metrics down the pipeline. Okay, I think we're about done. All right, thanks so much. Appreciate your time.


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If strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure, when almost all was out, God made a stay, perceiving that alone of all his treasure, rest in the bottom lay. For if I should, said he, bestow this jewel also on my creature, he would adore my gifts instead of me, and rest in nature, not the God of nature, so both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, but keep them with repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, if goodness lead him not, yet weariness may toss him to my breast. The Pulley by George Herbert, read for LibberVox.org by Calm Dragon. When God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by, let us, said he, pour on him all we can, let the world's riches which dispersed lie, contract into a span. So strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure, when almost all was out, God made a stay, perceiving that alone of all his treasure, rest in the bottom lay. For if I should, said he, bestow this jewel also on my creature, he would adore my gifts instead of me, and rest in nature, not the God of nature, so both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, but keep them with repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, if goodness lead him not, yet weariness may toss him to my breast. End of Poem. This recording is in the Public Domain by George Herbert, read for LibberVox.org by David Starner. On June 15, 2008, when God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by, let us, said he, pour on him all we can, let the world's riches which dispersed lie, contract into a span. No strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure, when almost all was out, God made a stay, perceiving that alone of all his treasure, rest in the bottom lay. For if I should, said he, bestow this gem also on my creature, he would adore my gifts instead of me, and rest in nature, not the God of nature, so both should losers be. But let him keep the rest, but keep them with repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, if goodness lead him not, yet weariness may toss him to my breast. End of Poem. This recording is in the Public Domain by George Herbert, read for LibberVox.org by David Barnes. When God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by, let us, said he, pour on him all we can, let the world's riches which dispersed lie, contract into a span. So strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure, when almost all was out God made a stay, perceiving that alone of all his treasure, rest in the bottom lay. For if I should, said he, bestow this jewel also on my creature, he would adore my gifts instead of me, and rest in nature, not the God of nature, so both should losers be. Let him keep the rest, but keep them with repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, if goodness lead him not, yet weariness may toss him to my breast. End of Poem. This recording is in the Public Domain by George Herbert, read for LibberVox.org by Iswa in Belgium in June 2008. When God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by, let us, said he, pour on him all we can, let the world's riches which dispersed lie, contract into a span. So strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure, when almost all was out, God made a stay, perceiving that alone of all his treasure, rest in the bottom lay. For if I should, said he, bestow this jewel also on my creature, he would adore my gifts instead of me, and rest in nature, not the God of nature, so both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, but keep them with repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, if goodness lead him not, yet weariness make toss him to my breast. End of Poem. This recording is in the Public Domain. The Pully by George Herbert, read for LibberVox by Greg Bathon. When God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by, let us, said he, pour on him all we can, let the world's riches which dispersed lie, contract into a span. So strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay, perceiving that alone of all his treasure, rest in the bottom lay. For if I should, said he, bestow this jewel also on my creature, he would adore my gifts instead of me, and rest in nature, not the God of nature, so both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, but keep them with repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, if goodness lead him not, yet weariness may toss him to my breast. End of Poem. The Pully by George Herbert, read for LibberVox by Joe Pillsbury. When God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by, let us, said he, pour on him all we can, let the world's riches which dispersed lie, contract into a span. So strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay, perceiving that alone of all his treasure, rest in the bottom lay. For if I should, said he, bestow this jewel also on my creature, he would adore my gifts instead of me, and rest in nature, not the God of nature, so both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, but keep them with the repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, if goodness lead him not, yet weariness, may toss him to my breast. End of Poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Pully by George Herbert, read for LibberVox.org by Leanne Howlett. When God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by, let us, said he, pour on him all we can, let the world's riches which dispersed lie, contract into a span. So strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay, perceiving that alone of all his treasure, rest in the bottom lay. For if I should, said he, bestow this jewel also on my creature, he would adore my gifts instead of me, and rest in nature, not the God of nature, so both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, but keep them with repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, if goodness lead him not, yet weariness may toss him to my breast. The Pully by George Herbert, read for LibberVox.org by Matt Bonehoff. When God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by, let us, said he, pour on him all we can, let the world's riches which dispersed lie, contract into a span. So strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay, perceiving that alone of all his treasure, rest in the bottom lay. For if I should, said he, bestow this jewel also on my creature, he would adore my gifts instead of me, and rest in nature, not the God of nature, so both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, but keep them with repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, if goodness lead him not, yet weariness may toss him to my breast. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Pully by George Herbert, read for LibberVox.org by Paul Z. Hong Kong. When God at first made man, having a glass of blessings standing by, let us, said he, pour on him all we can, let the world's riches which dispersed lie, contract into a span. So strength first made away, then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure. 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