So, yeah, I am from the GAP Incorporated and I'm gonna be talking to you today basically about how we use the cloud, OpenStack in particular, and let's get started. So, I'm gonna tell you a brief story about my history of the GAP because it's actually kind of a case study of how you can implement and use OpenStack pretty much anywhere. And then I'm going to tell you all the stuff everyone's heard before, or if you've ever been to one of these before and you sat in on a case study, it will be rehashing a few things. As a matter of fact, watching the keynotes this morning, as they said most of the stuff I wanted to say. So, we'll do that and I'll go into how we use OpenStack now, as opposed to my story about how we initially began the journey. And I also want to talk about open source and our partnerships with companies providing the tools we use. And then the last slide there is just a little bit of discussion about public cloud and DevOps and being an infrastructure as a service provider. And then I'll open it up for Q&A and considering the keynotes this morning, I'll probably keep some of my comments brief so we'll have plenty of time for questions. So, as I mentioned, my name is Eli and I'm currently the cloud domain architect for the GAP. I did not start out that way when I first started at the GAP. I was a solutions architect on an infrastructure pod. And that was a great position for me because it allowed me to use my background to good effect. I'm definitely a jack of all trades. So, in the past I've been a data architect. I've been a database administrator. I've been a network engineer. I've been a UNIX technical support person. So, coming into the GAP as a solutions architect on an infrastructure pod, I had on my team a network engineer and a database administrator and a system administrator. And my job was to sit down with the project teams as they were incepting a project and figure out what their infrastructure needs were and get my team to deliver it and deliver it quickly. And it was about this time that the GAP was building its first cloud. And they partnered with Rackspace and deployed Icehouse and then Havana and immediately moved their isolation testing pipeline into it. And then, what do you do, right? Well, from my perspective, it was a wonderful tool for doing infrastructure delivery. It allowed me to, instead of having to buy a server, set it up bare metal or get into VMware, find an image, update an image, it allowed me to just do everything in one place. And it literally changed... That's the wrong slide. All right. It literally changed the paradigm, right? We heard from customers that it could take five, six, seven weeks to get the infrastructure for their application, not even starting to work on it.  And this is one of those stories you've probably heard before. We were able to spin up servers in 90 seconds, right? We were able to set up the networking on those servers in 90 seconds. We were able to get people working almost on day one. So that's the first use case we really had other than our isolation pipeline and our testing. So now we have a completely different environment. We have five private clouds right now. Liberty is our newest release. We have two clouds on Liberty and then we have three legacy clouds that are still on Havana. And workloads are being migrated into the newer clouds. We call them our next-gen clouds, but they're already old. And we're a multi-data center, and we're not just a compute cloud anymore, right? Our next-gen clouds are Liberty clouds. We're doing object storage. We're doing database as a service. We're doing some network function virtualization. It's becoming much more of a consumable cloud from a developer's perspective. We do multi-tenancy in our clouds. So we have production. We have pre-production altogether. We have CI CD pipelines in the clouds. As a matter of fact, when a project spins up, they get their own. So using FedCI Jenkins, they get their own pipeline and begin developing immediately and can see their code all the way through development to production. And the millions served, well, the millions served is twofold. First off, that isolation pipeline that I mentioned earlier, we have literally spun up and destroyed millions of VMs over the past four or five years. I think the number is close to 3 million now. And also, our ECOM stack lives in OpenStack. So if you go to GAP or Banana Republic or Old Navy online and you do an order or you just look at stuff, you're hitting OpenStack. So that leads into number three there, e-commerce. We do have 90% of our forward-facing applications are in OpenStack.  So the joke I like with this one is a guy walks into a bar and he looks around and he says to the bartender, I want 10 of what everybody else is having. The bartender says, well, that's an order of magnitude. So I like to point out that OpenStack is a great infrastructure tool. It's a great developer tool. It's got a lot of great tools to it. But if you're looking to get OpenStack into your organization, into your enterprise, especially if you're a retail organization and you don't have a business case or developers that are screaming for this if they're going to public cloud, well, it's a really great infrastructure tool. Internal infrastructure isn't going to go away, especially if you have brick-and-mortar stores, if you're supporting cash registers, if you're supporting just your sales organization or your HR organization. So if you want to speed up infrastructure delivery, you can do that day one with OpenStack. You can, as I said earlier, instantly spin up a server on demand. And that's a big boon to any organization, whether the phrase I'm looking for escapes me. So let's move on. All right, so we talked about the pipeline. Continuous integration, isolation testing, great place to live, right? No matter what you're coding, no matter what you're coding in, no matter what tools you're using, you can use an API and you can have your pipelines and your cattle in that API. Now the final two here, the challenges and benefits, I bet no one noticed that they're exactly the same. So from my perspective, if your challenges and your wins aren't the same thing, you're probably not trying hard enough, right?   Failing fast and moving on is also a big benefit. So that's why those are the same. And a lot of the challenges we hit, the cattle versus pets is a great one, right? We hear it all the time. But there are always going to be pets. And you can tell people that, you know, pets need to be somewhere where they're getting constantly backed up and they're getting constant care and feeding, and it doesn't matter. A developer, when they get access to OpenStack, they're going to spin it up in OpenStack. So the only way to fix that is to educate your users, right? And we have a policy, it's not a policy. I have a... What I want to do is I don't want to tell my users how they have to consume this, right? I just want to give it to them and help them consume it. So part of that is saying, you know, what you have here is a pet, right? You have a special snowflake here that needs a lot of care and feeding. And we have every tool imaginable for you to not have this. We have Chef so you can make it repeatable. We have Heat so that you can orchestrate multiple of these servers. So, you know, it's a challenge to change the way your developers are thinking or your users are thinking, but when you get there, it makes everything great, right? Another challenging we had is networking. I mean, we're a big company. We've been around a long time. We have a lot of legacy infrastructure. And I would encourage anybody who's starting out on this journey to partner with your siloed infrastructure teams to sit down with your networking team and say, look, you know, I went to the OpenStack summit and half the talks were about network function virtualization and software-defined networking. And we're not there. Let's take this journey together. So we still use a flat network today inside of OpenStack. We have the capability to do VXLam. We have the capability to do SDN. We're working very hard on getting load balancers of service together. But the reality is our network is still a legacy network. I wouldn't let that discourage you, but it's a challenge. And when you get there, when you get that software-defined networking, it's a big win. The other challenge is adoption. But as I said, we were immediately able to adopt for infrastructure. So once you start to adopt for infrastructure, especially in an environment where you're working closely with the developers, working on their inception, and then your team is building for them, once they start to see the speed of that, and once you tell them, you can do it yourselves. It's an API. You don't have to do much more than that. As soon as they're aware that it's out there and it's easy to use, they're going to use it. And they're going to use it until you go crazy because they're overusing it. And then lastly, DevOps. DevOps is a direction we're taking. It's a direction a lot of people are taking. And it gives us an interesting set of challenges as well. I'll give a real-world example. So we had users who came to us and they said, we need a lot of VMs. But we found in our testing that we need five CPUs and 16 gig of memory. That's all we need. Five CPUs and 16 gig of memory. That would be great. They would have the ability to create a t-shirt size. That's five CPUs and 16 gig of memory and use it all they wanted. What they're missing is the infrastructure background to understand the problems that come with that. The architect designed our whole compute platform to see one CPU, one thread gets two gigabytes of RAM. So when they start using an odd number of CPUs with an even number of RAM, we have problems because the way physical computing works is that RAM has to be addressed. You have to talk to it. And if you have a workload over on this CPU and a workload over on this CPU and this workload needs to talk to RAM that's over on this CPU, you hit high latency and your user's app has a problem, right? So DevOps requires some people with infrastructure knowledge to be in the mix. And it requires them to make reasonable rules that don't block a user from using your platform the way they want to but makes them use it in the same way. All right. So this one I like, as a retail company, we don't participate in or commit to the code base where it's very difficult for us to give back to the community. But what we can do is we can partner with great vendors. So at GAP, we partner with Rackspace and use their OpenStack distribution. We partner with Tesora for their Trove distribution. We partner as much as possible with some of these great companies that commit a lot of the code.  And the industry would be really great if it had this. And that's how I feel we at GAP give back is by trying to push the envelope with our vendors and make them take that next step. All right. So last slide, really. I wanted to talk about vertical integration. I added this this morning after hearing Boris talk. He mentioned that public cloud adoption is widespread, that some private clouds fail because you're trying to integrate too much. You need to integrate virtually or vertically. What I've found is with a good approach, you can integrate multiple vendors. You really can. One of the things I try to do is I try to silo those vendors.  You can run an OpenStack endpoint list and you can see your Swift endpoint and you can see your Nova endpoint and you can see your Neutron endpoint and whatever else you may have. And when you're integrating a new vendor, what you're really doing is you're adding that endpoint and that endpoint can have back-end services of its own. So when we decided to go with Tesora for our database as a service for Trove and integrate it with our Rackspace OpenStack and they did not support Trove at the time, we needed to make sure that there was a clear delineation of responsibility between when we would call Rackspace and when we would call Tesora. So rather than using the same RabbitMQ messaging and the same database as every installation document would tell you to do, we decided that they were going to be siloed and going to be separate. So our Tesora installation uses its own RabbitMQ. It uses its own MySQL database and we set it up as a cluster, highly available, and put a VIP in front of it. And the way it's consumed is the OpenStack endpoint is a VIP. We can change it in any way Tesora tells us to or we deem necessary and it integrates just fine. So multiple vendors is possible. You just have to approach it from an infrastructure standpoint and do it in an intelligent way. And that's not always the way the vendor would have you install it because that's maybe not something they do.  Why not put everything in the public cloud? I think that's pretty easy. And I think when Jonathan said 75% cost savings by moving out of the public cloud, that's really what you get. That's why we have a private cloud, right? Our private cloud is on our hardware. We're writing it off on our taxes. And if a developer leaves a workload running in there, it really doesn't cost us anything at the end of the day. So I would strongly recommend that if you're going to do both, if you're trying to choose, do a hybrid model. Put that Edge work case out there because it's available and it's fast and maybe do your development here and use containers so it's completely portable and it can go either place. I talked way too much about DevOps, so I think we can skip that. But infrastructure as a service as a service. So in my case, and I think in a lot of cases, I am doing that. I am doing infrastructure as a service as a service. I am a service provider. I'm an ISP for my developers. And it's a good way to look at it because like I say, I don't try to fit them into these channels. I let them consume my resources in whatever way they want to consume it, whether it be from a pipeline or just command line from Chef, from a tool they built themselves or a tool they found out on the Internet. I want them to just be able to consume. And I want to provide a service. I want to provide a performance service. And that allows me to not only provide that performance service and really keep an eye on the infrastructure and keep pushing out new ideas, but it also allows me to get with them and find out what they want us to provide. So that kind of covers the what else can should I do. What is the in-game? For me, the in-game is to take that to the extreme. So in a retail environment, we have one weekend a year that's insane. We have Black Friday through Cyber Monday that every year a whole bunch of us get in the car, we drive to one location, we sit down and we babysit everything for the whole weekend. My in-game is not to have that anymore. My in-game is that everyone at my company can stay home with their family over Thanksgiving weekend. And to do that, I need to provide a service that is very, very similar to what the public cloud provides. I need to provide a service that maybe you don't know how many CPUs and memory you need. It's not five. But you can spin something up and I'm going to grow it for you. I'm going to grow it for you if you need it. I'm going to shrink it for you if you don't. I'm going to take your disk workload and if it's not accessed very often, I'm going to push it on to cheap disk. And if you need it all the time, I'm going to move it on the flash and I'm not going to make you choose because developers don't understand the infrastructure, but they understand performance. So that's my in-game. I'm sure everyone else is here is different, but that's what I've got. So any questions? We've got microphones so that it gets recorded, but come on up. Yeah, I appreciate the talk and the hard-fought experiences. How are you... Do you bill the consumers the tenants of your cloud at all? Is there any sort of cost-back, charge-back model or are you guys just paying for it all? So we have done both. In the past, we basically charged a one-time upfront fee. And we would generally charge it based on the quota rather than on what was actually used. That doesn't work very well when you start looking at a lot of the software out there. Even if you look at Manage IQ, its bill-back is built a lot like a public cloud. 30 cents an hour for a CPU, so on and so forth. That didn't work for us because that's not how we had traditionally billed. So at a certain point, we did decide that we just weren't going to bill. And we were going to let the businesses decide how they wanted to deal with charge-back. I'll add one more thing while you're walking up. From a personal perspective, though, I would love to have that Manage IQ public cloud type of charge-back because for exactly what I talked about earlier, I'd like to be able to say, look, you ran this workload in my cloud and it cost you 50 bucks. If you had ran it in AWS, it would have been 500. Michael Elliott here, so share the last name. One little bit about that journey because you talked about bare metal provisioning is kind of where you started. Were you a Linux shop?  How did you start that journey to go open-stack? What was that decision point that led you there? Yeah, as I said, I was actually a solutions architect at the time, so we had an enterprise architect who saw the potential and did a small pilot for the ISO pipeline. We were a Unix Linux Windows shop, and we still are a Unix Linux Windows shop. Application workload generally doesn't occur on Windows, but yes, hopefully that answers your question. I love the questions. This is making it so easy. You spoke about having 90% of your customer-facing apps on the private cloud. I believe that's what you were getting at. Are you using the public cloud? And if so, what workloads are you using? Are you running there? We are just now beginning the journey to public cloud into a hybrid type setup. There are some workloads on the public cloud. I'm not entirely sure which ones are there, so I don't want to say anything and get it wrong. But yes, we do plan on heavily leveraging the public cloud and being a hybrid environment. 27 subparts. First of all, back to the other gentleman's question about hardware. How do you determine what type of hardware you use, whether blade servers or just standalone bare metal, and how do you choose to expand that? There are certain limitations to blade servers. So this is another thing I inherited. The decision was made to go with Dell hardware and to use physical servers. And since I've been architecting this, I wanted to remain as homogeneous as possible. So while we are going with slightly better processors and slightly better memory and CPU configurations, we're trying to stay pretty much the same. There are challenges to changing your hardware too much once you have a large compute workload in place, because for example, you can't live migrate a workload on a newer CPU to an older CPU. So yeah, there was some testing done. I was not a part of it, but we did find that blades did not work for our use case. The second question is, with so many different vendors and you have issues, I'm sure, how do you keep track of issues that they don't... You probably have your own internal system for keeping track of problems, but with external vendors, how do you keep track of all of those and make sure that they get fixed? You know, we try to silo off the technology as much as possible, as I mentioned, but in general, we don't have too many issues. My team is sitting back there. There's two of them, and there's me. And there's one guy who was at Red Hat last week. So we run five clouds and all that workload with four people. We do leverage rack space. We use tickets when we find a problem, you know, maybe some communication problems in the back end or something, and we just need extra hands to track it down. You know, we call rack space. But in general, it's pretty easy for us to determine which vendor is responsible. And because we've siloed things off, it's pretty easy for us if they come back and say, no, no, no, this is a rack space problem. We're like, well, rack space can't touch your database. They don't even have access. So we genuinely haven't had too many problems. And with a very lean team, we're able to operate very effectively.  Is it common across all five or different? It is common and different. So it's all rack space. Now, several years ago, when the initial clouds were spun up, rack space recommended that we use red hat or centos, and we install their open stack distribution. Before Kilo, they came out and they said, we're going to follow the community, and we're going to install an Ubuntu. So we were not able to upgrade our clouds. This is actually a fairly common problem, but we weren't able to upgrade. So we decided to build these next-gen clouds and add functionality like object storage and block storage and load balancers and service and databases and service and all these things. So we kind of went whole hog with the Ubuntu still using the rack space distribution of open stack. And now rack space is supporting red hat open stack. So that gives us possibilities again. And we're really not opposed to leveraging that or to changing the way we do this. It's really not that hard. So we're happy to weigh pros and cons and make a change if we need to. Hi, my name is Ahmed Sudikian from Veritas Technologies. So we attended the Mirantis keynote session in the morning and then they said private cloud is becoming a toxic word in enterprise domain, right? And then you're saying you've obviously had great experience building private clouds and you were able to do that with the lean team. So are you able to maybe further expand on why you choose to go that way versus managed public cloud solution? And, you know, so I know you tried to cover that, but maybe expand a little bit more. Sure. I need to think about that one for a moment, though. We have a great deal of expertise and we know our business better than any managed service provider would. And we do have something of a different use case when we're not a telco. We have a lot of brick and mortar stores. We sell a lot of pants and shirts. And I think for us it made more sense to continue, like I was saying, it's great to be able to sit down with Rackspace and say, you know, I need Magnum. When are you guys going to give us Magnum? Why don't we have Magnum yet, right? Magnum's a bad example because probably everyone wants container orchestration. But there are a lot of projects out there, maybe Barbacon for key management that, you know, we're taking credit cards. We need to make sure that data is secure. So that may not be the number one choice for a private cloud management company to provide. Right? Maybe it is, right? Public cloud is providing that kind of functionality. But for us, you know, the control and the ability to pivot to our consumers, our developers and our business units outweighs what a private management company could give us, I believe. No other questions? As a follow-up, do you see it to be a continuing practice for you guys? Or do you see a case where you would down the line shift to a managed public cloud solution? Or in other words, private clouds are always going to be around for use cases like yours? I think we're very flexible and I could easily see a world in which we had all three, public, private and managed, and moved workloads around as necessary. I don't think we would ever rule anything out. All right? Any other questions?


Hey everyone welcome to figure fantasy so today we're going to be discussing the best super rarities for all the beginners out there that are you know struggling a bit um don't know which uh which hero to bring or they lack ultras so this guide is going to help you in deciding on which super rarities you would want to take or you may take so without further ado let's go to the gallery to your figurine section and we will start with the three obvious ladies and the thumbnail and i will start with karen so karen is a militarist she is in tenma and um karen is actually one i think one of the best finishers at the at this rarity um basic attack is blooming shuriken um ultimate is zelot menace so this is what makes her good strikes the enemy with the lowest health if the target is is then defeated continues to strike another one so this continues until you know until she cannot kill someone anymore or she finishes everybody off so from what i've seen or um or i've experienced she is going to be good particularly in your pve if you're clearing out mobs and if you happen to have a lot of aoe and you cannot finish you know you cannot really finish them off then karen would be the one to finish them off so a very very good ranged unit and a very good assassin indeed so the upgrade effect of this skill is at 50 percent of targets lost health will be converted and added to the damage of the strike so let's move on to the passive so ultimate kitsune attack triggers every 10 seconds in attacks a random target three times again a good a very very good passive to have so upgrade effects attack one times at level two at level three triggers every eight seconds so again she's a value for for a ranged unit for a ranged figurine and also a good assassin if you want to bring her in your team southern girl boost damage by 50 percent there is no surrounding enemy so for the last one she actually has boosted damage so again recommend her for for for pve for pve content not so much for for pvp but again she is really a good figure to have if you are a beginner okay to the second one that is in the thumbnail i'm referring to is yuki so yuki is actually defender so with the brand galatea so for yuki let's take a look at her skills so for her basic attack so it's the usual so attack speed is fast so base will attack her ultimate is yuki home run attacks the current target reduce the damage taken by 10 for eight seconds so it has energy regeneration rate for six per second then upgrade effect is boost damage by 15 reducing the damage taken by 20 for yourself and all teammates and including some of the creatures in the same line okay again she is damaged damage reduction she's really really tough i tell you guys and this skill really hits a home run i tell you so damage reduction for a passive is yuki strike zone gains 15 percent damage reduction and raises shield to reflect damage so aside from damage reduction she has damage reflect fix damage for three seconds when healed by another figurine when the shield is up reflects damage through random surrounding enemies upon being attacked so upon the effect level two boost damage reduction to 18 percent and damage reflection to 15 percent that is why she's good i tell you um very good value for a superiority boost damage reduction up to 20 extends the duration of the shield up to four seconds when healed so again that's at level two and her um special is has 25 percent of reducing damage taken by 50 percent when attacked so again very tough very good value at defender and for your um superclass is yuki so let's proceed to the next one on the thumbnail it's going to be kazoo a watazo she's a specialist and she's from let's let's read so all three in the thumbnail are from different brands and what makes her special so for her basic attack it's your basic attack basic skills so swordplay attack speed is intermediate but her um ultimate is instant kill attacks all enemies in the same line energy regeneration rate is eight per second upon um upgrade effect so level two deals extra damage to the last enemy in the line and marks it increasing the amount of damage it takes by 15 seconds uh 15 percent for five seconds so for her she damages in the line uh how many there is in front of her and the last enemy will take extra damage so again very very good especially uh for actually for both pve and for pvp she is still being used in pvp right now so you can really be competitive in pvp if you bring her um in pvp so for her passive it's going to be split second deals damage to enemies in the same line at the start of each battle so upgrade effects for this one is boost damage by eight percent reduces hit enemies damage by eight percent for 15 seconds and boost damage of of allies in the same line by four percent every time the enemy is hit so she also has a boost damage a damage boost sorry for allies in the same line so very very good for a specialist and last skill is going to be her special so see through boost the damage dealt from basic attacks by 12 percent again very high value um very good for both pvp and pvp so consider bringing her i actually started with her um when i was playing in soft launch um really really good figure to have so please do make sure that you use her for both pvp and pve so aside from the three that i recommended uh first based on the thumbnail there are other there's another three that i'd like to share with you guys that i think is very good as well so one uh first and foremost is going to be chris so he is a militarist garatea as for chris he deals tremendous amount of damage only single target but again he has frost guys so frost causes the target to lose health every second this ignores its defense when frost targets attack speed will reduce by 50 percent so again very good effect some figurines attack against the enemies that are frost are dealing extra frost damage to them again he's a very good he's a very good figure to have especially if you want to frost some of your enemies and good basic attack because his basic attack has frost as well well for his ultimate is maniac zone enters the berserker state for 50 seconds boosting attack speed by eight percent also attacks uh deal a great amount of damage at the same time so aside from dealing tremendous attack tremendous damage attack speed is also increased if a target is frosted attacks also deal extra frost damage okay so next is going to be um his passive which is biting sunlight the first attack after an ultimate deals a large amount of extra damage so again um more damage coming your way particularly to the poor soul that is right in front of him so upgrade effects so level two the first attack after the ultimate freezes the target for three seconds aside from receiving a large amount of damage or extra damage and boost attack speed by three percent for 50 seconds after the freezing the target so again a lot of buffs coming his way once um freeze triggers and his passive um i know it's not passive special the phantom six boosts damage by 15 where there is no surrounding enemies so again very good as a finisher as well but you will need him if you need um great great amount of damage for a single target okay off to number five so who is number five and who could it be we'll go to sapphire so sapphire is a defender one of the most you know one of the high value defenders in your super rarity so as for sapphire let's see how what makes her great for her basic attack is actually just basic again great sword strike holy judgment is her ultimate so attacks the current target deals damage to it and reduces its attack by 20 for 10 seconds so energy reduction rate is a six out of uh or per second so upgrade effect boost damage by 15 this arms a target for five seconds so take note this arm um target cannot attack so for five seconds so very cool very cool um very very very efficient uh defender and for her passive which is actually i think uh insane define shield grants a shield to all your figurines at the start of each battle for 10 seconds it gives you a head start um the shield will be adjusted by the figurines max health really insane guys upgrade effect the shield is 15 stronger while the shield holds increased defense by 35 percent again um she's good not only for her for herself as a defender but the buffs that she gives or the protection that she gives to her teammates or her allies and at level three boost the damage the shield absorbs by 20 percent also increases its duration by 15 seconds again there are a lot of things working in her shield and worse her shield by the way it's only a sword anyway just a joke um i know that she she does a a force field like a shield but her special is has 25 percent it's a breakable will has 25 chance of reducing damage taken by uh 50 when attack so again very good value for a tank so um you know what and you now have two options for tanks sapphire or the other one is going to be yuki so so far we have discussed um two ranged militarists then we have two defenders and one specialist the last one would be another ranged uh figure which is minakami so he's a militarist and he belongs with the let's shred so what is good about him uh fast attack speed for his basic attack ultimate is shinobi soul chase summons a clone that lasts for 10 seconds this is actually what's good about him because of the clone and he's a ranged um figure so clone lasts for 10 seconds clones attack is equal to 1080 180 percent of minamaki minakami and 30 percent of health also boosts attack speed by 30 percent so again um this doubles his efficiency or damage dealing in range and take note upon upgrade effect grants a 30 chance to summon an extra clone so again if you do summon for an extra clone it's going to really improve the value of this skill so move on to his passive so shinobi abyss each attack deals extra damage after a clone is summoned so another good kit uh another good buff to his kit so upgrade effect boost attack speed by 30 after clone is summoned and at level three boost damage by 20 restore 20 energy when the clone disappears on its own so again the clone recycles itself and the last one is special so boost damage by 15 percent when there is no surrounding enemies again very very good value for super rarity guys so there are six that i am really pushing that you use as beginners um do not you know do not do not do not tell yourself that they are just you know a super rarity uh they're not good as your ultras but really guys they're one they are one of the best that you can use and even develop up until the middle stages of the game until you get those ultra rarities you can actually use these supers the rest um not really recommending a beyond those six but again with those six you already have a few that you can use as for um as for vanguard um not really recommending a few um these two but for the other positions you can actually use so there are six to choose from um be my guest hope you actually get to use some of them when you start out and hope that i hope that this video helps you um make up your mind on which super rarity you're gonna use okay guys so for those who have stopped this far um thank you very much and please consider subscribing because this helps my channel a lot also don't forget to click that bell icon so you don't miss um figure fantasy videos from my channel and also again another one don't forget to um put a like to this video so guys thank you very much um stay safe take care this is the warden and i'm out of here


alright everybody what is going on welcome back to another video let me get this focus sorted am I am I focused am I I think I am anyway today's video is pretty unexpected to be honest I was meant to do it yesterday I'm doing it today I went out to the shopping mall yesterday I don't go to the shopping mall much I spent eight years in Alice Springs there is no fucking shopping mall there or nothing to speak of anyway there's two shopping malls and they're like always half empty this this the stores go out of business you know it's it's that kind of shopping mall you know what I mean pretty shit anyways I went to a half decent one here in Kansas yesterday and I went to three sports stores looking for track spikes my first pair of actual track shoes because there's a track here in Kansas I've wanted to run on a track for freaking years like literally years guys I mean at least at least the past five years I've thought on a weekly base let me put it into layman's terms on a weekly basis every single week for the last six years I'm gonna say I have wished that I've lived somewhere with a track so I could go down and not only make YouTube content but frickin work on my speed man work on myself as an athlete I have thought that every single fucking week and so finally I'm here I've been in Kansas for four weeks it's taken me this long to get down there I knew it was there I went and checked it out yesterday it's a pretty pretty good-looking facility and so today I'm gonna head down to test out the shoes but I just wanted to show you them first and foremost before I do that because well there's no time like like now and I actually haven't really had a look at them yet so I bought the only pair of track spikes I could find in the entire mall I went to three shops and I finally found a pair of Assix so this is what they look like they are blue white and I call that pink or orange that's what they look like on the bottom and looking at that I am absolutely excited as a well I won't say that but I'm really excited guys what they actually called Hyper MD 6 Assix Hyper MD 6 men's track and field I like that so I've got the spikes in there I went down to the field but down to the track there is actually a rugby field in the middle of it I went down there and asked you know what the story was and basically said from 4 till 7 p.m. on weekdays is when the track is open to the public apart from that you can hire the whole place for four hours at a time for $75 and you know that's pretty cool it's like it's pretty much a whole like well it's a whole track with a rugby field on the inside and a decent sized grandstand with all the lights that you need because I think that's a semi pro rugby league team plays from there and they're based in cans and they play in the league the Intra Super Cup which is the Queensland League that's just under the NRL which is the National Rugby League but anyways we're not talking about rugby league we're talking about bloody track spikes and I've got some so I can't wait to take them down the next video you see will definitely be me taking those shoes down to the field I'm gonna keep saying field on it taking those shoes down to the track and actually trying it I'm gonna take my timing gates of course so you know hopefully I may hit I may hit a PB today after not sprinting for like the last two months and you know my legs almost feel like the Tin Man off the Wizard of Oz they feel like they're they feel like they're seizing up guys my hips and stuff I'm sitting down too much I'm driving sitting down you know I'm not exercising enough and so either today or tomorrow I'm gonna finally go down to the track with the shoes it's gonna motivate you know usually sometimes I need to sort of make a bit of a purchase spoil myself with some gear to actually motivate me enough to get something done as far as physical activity goes whether it's getting back in the gym I might have to go out and buy a new you know set of knee sleeves to go and do leave day or I might have to go out and buy a new I don't know a new a new singlet or a new top to wear in the gym just to get me back in there that first day and you know if that's if that's the way it is for you then then fine this is exactly what these are about motivating me to get down there and start working on my speed again so thanks for being here hopefully I've got the green screen working alright well I'm working on it put it that way so I'm kind of settled here in cans now I've been here for four weeks you may have seen my previous video talking about what's what's been happening I I had my my daughter here the other night which was great I've got major key physics which is launching within two weeks behind the camera right now as a mountain of major key physics products and I cannot wait I cannot wait for you guys to just check out the website to be honest because the website is going to look great so can't wait to be a business owner man it's it's been 12 months in the making but that's not what this video is about this video is about tracks bikes in fact I'm gonna I may as well put them get them ready yeah I was gonna do this at the trap for a little bit of extra content you know what I mean but I'm gonna do it now shouldn't be too hard should it when I bought them she said yep you can buy extra spikes very easily but as far as the tool to actually put them in these are pretty hard to come by apparently so I think she basically implied she didn't say it but she implied that if I ever do lose this I'm most likely gonna have to buy a new pair of shoes so that's great isn't it anyways here goes nothing threading my first track spike he's actually I also got told don't put them in too tight not crazy tight just firm so I cannot wait to feel what these feel like on the track I'm so excited guys I this is the kind of thing that I just get giddy about I love sport I love sprinting I love the Olympics I love I love trying to prove to myself that I can do things and you know this is just the next thing on the list and to make great content for YouTube because I've always wanted to make a video with like the orange of the track in the background you know what I mean or have a thumbnail you know down to the track doing some training I've always wanted to do that so hopefully in the coming video I will be able to do that finally I'm expecting a few people to possibly comment on this video telling me that these shoes are like very very basic or very entry level or pretty shit just in general because they were only $99 and I was quite surprised but some they were the only ones in the shop so I had no choice and I wouldn't honestly I wouldn't have wanted to pay too much more so all I can say guys is that she's ready to go so I'm gonna get the other one done and I'll see you guys down at the track in my next video I'm not sure when it will come but stay tuned to the channel if you have enjoyed this video as always hit that like button and I'll see you in the next one peace out


Hey everybody, I'm Aditya Peruppa. I'm a software engineer at Aviatrix and an undergrad at UIUC. I'm Kamal Lee. I'm a PhD student at UIUC. And we're presenting our system that optimizes latency and cost in service meshes called Slate. So, a bit of an introduction to the problem. When you have multiple clusters that are spread across multiple regions, the load between them can fluctuate pretty drastically. So, some clusters might experience high load sometimes of the day, sometimes relatively really low load. And so the autoscaler takes care of these load imbalances, but usually within the span of minutes. And so we can kind of see that when cluster east might be super overloaded and cluster west is not, and other times when the opposite is true. And so actually understanding and optimizing latency in these scenarios is hard. The other problem that we're attempting to solve is egress cost optimization. So in topologies, in some topologies, calls to a remote cluster or database are inevitable, where the call has to be made over to another region or another cluster. When you're making these calls, you usually want to make them with less data, because the data is traveling over a long distance, and cloud providers usually charge for data out, so it's called egress fees. And so we can maybe see in this scenario where we have two clusters. Gateway, front end, and MP, which is a processor service, and MP calls DB. So the call trees are very simple, but for some reason the database in US west is unavailable. This might happen to the GDPR, data regulations, or the database is just simply down, things like that. And so in this case, the call path conventionally with locality load balancing would be the red path, where it goes to front end, metric processor, and then the database. However, the very, and here the size of the error represents how much data is being sent with that call. The issue is that we're taking a very large amount of data over clusters, which usually results in a lot of egress fees and a lot of latency. So actually an optimal path for this call tree would be front end to MP in the US east, and then to database. So you make the large call locally, preserving, so you don't spend that much on egress and all that. So our two baselines here are multi-cluster load balancing, where you just distribute requests between clusters evenly around Robin. And then we have locality aware, which we try to keep a local, which is the red path. And then we have our system, and we improve the bandwidth expenditure a lot, and also the average latency for this scenario. And so our system is a system that basically adapts to the current load conditions and optimally partitions traffic between clusters in a way that results in the lowest predicted latency. So to go over the system architecture a bit, here's our system architecture. We have, this is a multi-cluster scenario running. You have ingress gateways, east-west gateways, and essentially we have WebAssembly plugins that are installed on every sidecar that stream their current load in the form of a request per second, and latency where they trace certain requests that are all agreed upon by a certain hash of the trace ID and this configurable, and the load and latency is streamed to the cluster controller. The cluster controller aggregates all these service level metrics, and then streams all these metrics to the global controller, where the global controller has basically a God's view of every cluster, the load of every service in every cluster, and the latency it's incurring right now. Additionally, the cluster controllers routinely perform pings between themselves, so it goes to the east-west gateway, and this essentially allows us to gauge how much time, what the network conditions are between clusters, because you could be traversing the public internet. So with all these calculations, our global controller will try to optimize latency and by pushing out rules for what the optimal partitioning is. So to delve into our sidecar, into our WebAssembly plugin, our WebAssembly plugin is basically an HTTP filter that uses the proxy WASM-ABI, and it essentially reports every second, or a few seconds, the current load and the latency of every trace request, and we use Yeager headers to figure out what we're tracing and what the parents of the current trace requests are, and all of this allows you to run this extension without having to recompile Envoy, which is really nice. We also have a cluster controller which aggregates all these metrics and serves as a relay to the global controller. The cluster controller also enforces the policy given by the global controller and by editing virtual services to enforce the policy. It also does inter-cluster things. And in the global controller, to calculate the optimal latency routing rule, we use linear programming technique, which is mathematically to optimize the latency to minimize it. And in this example, we're going to use Bookinfo application. This is an intermediate representation in Slate Optimizer. In this setup, we have two cluster, which is yellow and red, and the edges represent the flow of a request, and numbers on the edges represent the number of requests that flow from source to destination. Here you can see there are product page service, there are detail service, there are review service and rating services. And if we have almost equal load in each cluster, there's no reason to reroute the request from local cluster to remote clusters. And this is an ideal situation, and most of the production multi-cluster, I guess they assume that this is the most common case. So no cross-cluster routing. But what if there's like severe load imbalance in different clusters? Here we see 100 number requests per second to yellow cluster and 1,000 number requests to red clusters. If the red cluster doesn't have enough resource to process this 1,000 number request, then what we want to do is pay for the network latency and send some of the requests to the on-the-loaded cluster, which is yellow here, to minimize the latency of each request. However, if you just stick to the local routing policy, you will not do it. In our system, Slate, the linear programming will digest the load-to-latency relationship reported by Sarkard through the cluster controller and run this polynomial function to predict the latency based on the given load. And we're going to model the load-to-latency model for each every service individually so that we can predict with high accuracy. Now, by running this linear programming model, we see here from part of page in yellow red cluster, we want to reroute roughly 25% of the request to the remote clusters, the review service in the remote clusters, because this service start overloaded and you think that this model will calculate that this will be the routing policy to minimize latency. And also, we do the similar thing from review service in red cluster to rating service in yellow clusters. This is the example, the output of our prototype system. Here, we send loads to the west cluster and east cluster separately. After profiling phase, once we think that we have enough traces to train this polynomial function, we start to run this linear programming model and come up with this optimal routing rule. Here in cluster 1, we want to reroute 10 number requests from cluster 1 to cluster 0 from Ingress Gateway to the private page. And we translate this number into percentage and then we will install this routing rule to every single services in all clusters. As for where this product might go in some interesting future directions in this area, we think that the current reporting model of metrics and latency and load is not very robust as in we are using just HTTP filters and WebAssembly. A better alternative would be to move to Wasm services and do very little in the request path that I think would better the performance of the system a lot. The other idea that some students in our group are working on is per request routing where you can prioritize certain requests over others. So imagine you had a request tacked with a certain header. It would somehow get priority throughout the service mesh and have the lowest latency resulting as opposed to all of the other calls. The final example I want to offer is call graph prediction. Essentially, when you have these large microservice deployments, the call graph can be dynamic. So in models like Book Info, even where it's super simple, there's still a little bit of variance. As one version of reviews does not call ratings but the rest do. This is not very predictable but a behavior like where a certain header is tagged with something that results in a different call graph and just general call graph classification where given a certain method and path at the Ingress Gateway, can you figure out what upstream services will be called? That's a pretty useful model for models like cost optimization where you need to know the call graph ahead of time. It's also useful for other things. So that's an area of future research that we envision could be very fruitful. Thank you for listening.


Yeah, I'm gonna be giving a bit of a demo here today. I wanna make this as tangible for everyone to hop on board as possible. Many of you have already joined, it's very exciting to see this sort of membership growing within the community live over the past three days. And before I jump in, I just wanna provide a bit of high level sort of context and grounding Sustained Chain is free. It is a purpose built platform. And the role that we are ultimately looking to play is to act as a collaboration accelerator. So when we were introduced, very, you know, thankfully to Joy and Scott, actually by an attendee that's at this conference, you know, it couldn't have been a better use case, right? Our role really is communities of sustainability leaders and warriors to collaborate, right, to come together and actually engage around specific initiatives, right? To connect beyond the, you know, energy of a conference, right, to sort of reconnect afterwards and really find ways that they can engage and operationalize all of the incredible ideas, right? That came out of events like this. So, you know, just wanna reinforce, right, that we have no horse in this race, right? We are a technology platform truly built to kind of connect the macro dots. And, you know, the concept, the solution was born from a very simple ask, but from a very powerful woman, Amina Mohammed, who is dear friends with our founder and CEO, Jacqueline Corbelli, who's also on. And the ask from Amina, the woman who architected, right, the SDGs, the global goals, was simply to unify, right, and accelerate the efforts in the decade of action. So truly that is our mission. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and quickly demo and hopefully just make this, you know, really tangible for all. I will say we'll be in the expo booth, please reach out to me personally, I'm head of product. So anything I can do, answer questions, make it easier for you guys to join initiatives and so forth. I am happy to do. So what you're seeing here is the primary landing screen of sustain chain. And so you'll know you're in the right portal if you see integrate up here in the top right. And so this is your sort of curated landing screen, right, or dashboard for this integrate community. And so what we've done is we've designed this in a way where on this screen you are matched with peers, right, that you can collaborate with. So this is kind of the screen where we're making suggestions and recommendations for you, right, peers that you can collaborate with. You have been matched with these folks based on the fact that you are tackling similar challenges in achieving greater sustainability within your organization and similar goals. You're also then, you know, matched with potential solutions, innovators that are working on those specific, addressing those specific challenges. And then you're also matched with these initiatives, what we're calling collective ventures. So these are sustainability initiatives that are being launched to this community so that members coalesce right around something and achieve together. And so there's two primary views, right. One is on this dashboard where we're making suggestions for you. But then very importantly, if you look at the top here, you'll see a members tab and you'll see a collective ventures tab. If you click on collective ventures, you will see all of the brilliant collective ventures that Joy and Scott and team have uploaded, right, during and throughout this conference. These are sustainability initiatives that are underway. And so you can click on each one. You can learn a little bit more about it. You can have a link out to more information. You can see what SDG and target it is mapped to. And you can request to join. If I click request to join, Joy or whoever the owner, right, of this particular collective venture is, we'll receive a notification that member so-and-so is looking to join forces around this particular initiative. So collective ventures, this becomes sort of a library, right, of all of these initiatives underway. Very importantly, actually I'll go to members and I'll come back to collective ventures. Similarly with the member directory. So these are all of the, here's Patrick who we just heard from, right. So after the conference, you know, I remembered I wanted to, you know, look into Metrio, for example, right. I can click, I can learn more about Patrick and I can be taken to his site. I can also chat with him one to one. Great presentation. Let's connect. Sorry, Patrick, you're gonna be getting a message from me. And so in the member directory, right, this is the full member. These are all the members that are within this sort of inter-great community. Not only, I can also filter. So I can look right alphabetically or I can decide to find peers, right, that I can collaborate with based on specific goals. So maybe I actually want to search with folks and meet with folks that are also working on SDG 17, right, and SDG 13 and maybe folks that are focused on consumer goods and food and beverage. Those are my industries, right. If I hit apply, it will filter and those are now the peers that are surfaced for me. I can also just do a very simple search and I know that I want to look up Joy. I met her at the conference. I really enjoyed what she was talking about. I can reach out to Joy and then I can chat with Joy one to one, which we have been doing. Very importantly, you can also, for each member, you can get a quick snapshot of what SDGs do they focus on and what are their particular challenge areas and solution areas of focus. So you can get a sense of sort of the relevance, right, in terms of what you can engage around. So messages one to one, let me come back to collective ventures because many of you have probably seen both in the email, some of the emails as well as on the primaries would hop in screen that there's been this sort of invitation, right, a call to action for this community to really leverage sustain chain as a way to continue this incredible dialogue, right, and collaborate and join forces and so forth. And so one way that you can do that is coming to this collective ventures page, exploring these CVs that exist and either joining ones that are in progress or we're also really encouraging folks to create their own, which means if you're working on an initiative within your own organization and you've been thinking about finding collaborators, right, or other brands working on this particular challenge, right, perhaps we can share lessons learned and so forth. This is a fantastic forum for doing that. So create a collective venture, hopefully I'm just gonna go back to make sure everyone saw that button right here, create collective venture, click on that. And then it's a very simple two page form. We try to keep this tech really light and lean, right. This is just meant to be kind of a dot connector, if you will. So I'm gonna put venture name, let's, you know, pilot, you know, new tech together. I'm making something up here, right. You'd add a brief description here. You can add a web link if there's a landing page or more information that you want to surface for folks. You can either keep the collective venture open to all within your community or you can start by keeping it private if you'd like. If perhaps as a team, right, or even as an individual, you want to first kind of create the collective venture before making it public, you can certainly do that. I'll keep it open for now. Of course this is about, you know, open source technology, open sourcing initiatives and so forth, right, so that we can go further but there is always sometimes that need to just kind of confirm things internally first. Then you answer a couple key questions about your initiative just to give folks that high level, right, view, right, or understanding. So is this ultimate change driver? Is this about a new process or practice or is this about a new product or vendor? Are we standardizing, right? Are we automating? What's that sort of high level sustainable pathway? And then what's the potential to scale? And then based on my onboarding, which I'll speak about in just a moment here, these are the solutions that I selected. It knows what industry I'm in. So I'm gonna select a solution type for my initiative. So is my initiative about cloud networking solutions, right? Is it about carbon offsets? Is it about adapting new technologies? Depending on what your solution type is, the system does the work of mapping it to the SDG and SDG indicator. And between the mapping to the SDG and target and the mapping of solutions and challenges, this is how we keep all of these initiatives and members, right, and the data, right, mapping in such a way that we can make intelligent recommendations for the broader ecosystem and how we can ultimately de-silo efforts, right? If there are many collective ventures, right, or initiatives all focused on a very specific solution type, the system will ultimately begin to recommend that those individuals and organizations and initiatives actually join forces. So I'm just gonna continue this quickly just to give you a sense of how easy it is. You enter a couple of key dates, right? When the vendor or process will be identified, when are you kicking off? When do you anticipate having demonstrable results? And then ultimately this new initiative gets launched to this particular community. So I'm gonna pause on that, Joy, because these are, you know, between you and Scott, I wanted to make sure that you guys had an opportunity. If you wanted to just touch on any of these initiatives in particular. Not necessarily in particular initiatives. Joy and I seated a little bit in a great group, a couple more that are more directed what I'm involved with in other lives. I set up one here on Regenerative Ag that I think Jeff Trotter has joined in on because of what he's doing at Regenivus and others. But what we also wanna do is encourage all of you to actually get on this and put at least one of your own in and begin to see if we can really create a collaborative effort going forward. I'll just comment that I found the UX to be intuitive. You know, just clicking through. Couple of other points, Joe, because you and I were texting and emailing a lot when I was onboarding. Comment for a moment about the sharing function and comment for a moment about when you say SDG 12.1 or 12.5, you know, that might be a little bit more in here that the gang may wanna hear about. Sure. So I'll start with the SDG, this piece right here, right? So our mandate comes from Amina Mohamed, right, the deputy secretary general of the UN. We are looking to achieve this sustainable development goals. We also acknowledge that part of doing that is making the SDGs more friendly, if you will, right? And there are, you know, the SDGs, the 17, there are targets associated with each SDG, and then there are indicators associated with each. And so the system essentially makes recommendations not based on what SDG or what indicator are you because that is, you know, can be quite challenging, right, for folks in the private sector and even myself and many, but instead, you know, instead you can think about, what are my challenges? What are my problems, right? Or what am I, you know, as an innovator, right? Or a solution provider, right? What is my solution focus on? And so we're focusing really on challenges and solutions and then the system maps to the appropriate target, right, and the appropriate SDG. And all of that is so that we can get to this point where we're leveraging the global sort of framework, right? And we have this holistic view, right, across the SDGs as to how many brands, how many innovators, how many investors are targeting each SDG, right? And then each, you know, SDG target, right? And then we can really start breaking down the ecosystem in terms of, okay, by industry, what are the core challenges, right, that currently exists? And what are the primary solution pathways, right, that brands are leveraging for that particular challenge area and so forth? So this leaderboard is kind of that, you know, holistic view, right, of the SustainChain community. And this is where, I mean, the majority of the work now is really going into sort of the intelligence of the system so that we can continue to make smarter and smarter recommendations. Joe, I'm gonna ask Jax here quickly to make a comment because there's a nice stream of conversation going on that I'm gonna want her to comment on here in a bit. But when do you anticipate you'll open up, let's say the integrate kind of like subdomain into a more broader community. Where is that on the roadmap? Jax, you wanna answer that? Oh, we can't hear you. You gotta go off mute. Uh-oh. Not hearing you. Try again. Say hello. Uh-oh. Shoot. Okay. Our integrate organizer says maybe refresh your screen real quick and see if that goes. If not, she'll come back, Joe. Maybe you can answer that and then, yeah. And Scott, so the question was sort of about the adoption strategy? Yeah, please. Yeah, so it's exactly like this, right? So design the technology, both Jax and I come from a tech background. From day one, it was designed to be as flexible and as extensible as possible, which means we designed the core engine and then we enabled it to be white labeled. So for example, this community is leveraging an integrate version that's powered by sustain chain. We're also working with an incredible organization called Acre with over 100 members, NASA organizations, NASA, RAND. They're a resiliency community, right? Focus on initiatives in that space around SDG 13 and 15. We're also working with folks like Regeneration 2030 in Europe, right? And so a big piece of this adoption strategy is by enabling these communities of like-minded leaders and warriors focused on sustainability initiatives, right? We're, if we're able to enable them to do, to take action together, right? Sustain chain, the technology is ultimately connecting the dots across all of those communities, connecting peers, opening up initiatives, right? De-siloing. And so that's a big piece of the adoption strategy. And frankly, there's so many that have recognized this opportunity, right? Which is, wow, events really bring people together and we learn so much and we're so energized, right? But then we go away. And it used to be maybe you have a coffee but in the days of COVID, even that, right? Like how do you network and connect? How do you keep that momentum alive? It's a real challenge. And so sustain chain is kind of bridging that gap, if you will, right? And just supporting many of these communities. We've got NGO partners, very many like lots in fashion, right? Folks that weren't really collaborating before that are now collaborating by a sustain chain. So let's say the integrated community has, I'll just pick on one person because I happen to know him quite well. I'm Jeff Trotter with Regenivus and Regener of Agriculture. So let's say there's a nested group of 10 or 12 of us and integrate interested in that. When might the integrate team be able to see another community that's addressing that same exact initiative to collaborate cross-community? Very soon. It is in the roadmap for the next like six weeks, right? We're within sprints of that. We're within sprints of that. And it really is gonna be as simple as, you know, right now, and I was dealing with this, with Jeff this morning actually, right? Because he, you know, Jeff was talking with him for some time. Yeah, he's been in the sustain chain band for a while, part of the original sustain chain community, right? And now he's also part of integrate. And so what's gonna happen very simply is a dropdown and you can select, you know, from various communities and then these collective ventures and the broader membership, you can either decide all sustain chain members or just my community or even toggle between communities. Okay, cool. Jack, I know how frustrating it would be that you, so if you want to just keep like chatting over on the side, we can bring your commentary in here, but we talked about, you know, who's involved with this. It's a series of various people, it's not any one persona. It's people that are doing product development. It's people that are practitioners, it's solutions providers. It really doesn't have a single persona approach. That question was asked and Jack's answered it, but you'd have to scroll up on the chat thread. Joe, an interesting question. So that is fantastic that in six, eight weeks or so, you're gonna open this up. It will be relatively intuitive on a filtering level because I could imagine if there's, let's say, let's say we bring to the table the first, you know, in the integrate group, let's say 40 or 50 people that will be dedicated enough to do this and that joins a more global community, let's say 500. I could imagine that seeing all these initiatives, it could be overwhelming. How have you thought about the user's experience, like seeing all of that and like, oh my God, I don't know where to go, or does the system attempt to help you with that first instantiation?   I love this question. And we didn't even plan ahead for this. This is exactly what's going on. Well, this is your tech brain coming back in. So we're really, I mean, so, absolutely, right? And we're reaching that pivot point, right? Which is that this experience is much more guided, right? And so even the current UI, the way you see it, right? We designed it to be sort of as intuitive as possible at each various stage, right?  So imagine the experiences, hey, these five ventures need you to join to help them scale, right? That becomes very compelling, right? And it's basically just their enhanced logic and algorithms, right? Really serving you absolutely what you need to know. And increasingly, we don't need this to be the next Facebook, right? We don't expect people to live here. Everyone's got enough tools and tech and so forth that they're dealing with, right? It's going to be that when new collective ventures are launched that are those that are really, perfectly fit your sweet spot, right? That will be kind of one of those, you know, weekly email updates, right? Or push notification that says, hey, so-and-so just joined. You've been looking for a partner like that, right? Or this initiative just joined, right? This is exactly the solution area that you're. And so that's where we go. And be the lean in, I want to browse, right? You know, both collective ventures and members. And for that, you know, we're just borrowing, you know, modern practices of UX, right? It's like Airbnb style filtering. You know, this stuff is pretty intuitive these days and pretty easy to design, right? With modern tech tools. It's like, we have to start leveraging that, you know, the simplicity of user experience, right? For good. Totally, yeah. Okay, well, we've got about five more minutes. Jax makes a comment here. It's also a very protected community. The community builds the community itself and there's a vetting that occurs before members can join. I'll make a comment here, putting my sustainable brands hat on. One of the things that I notice a lot in the sustainable brands community is you're talking to a customer, maybe I'll just pick on a couple. Somebody at Unilever, let's say VV over at Unilever, who's the head of sustainability for North American. We're talking and she'll say something and I'll say, well, wait a minute, Virginia, who's the head of sustainability over Procter & Gamble, who's also in our community, is working on that very same thing. Now, even though Unilever and Procter & Gamble are competitors, they don't want to compete on single use plastics, right? So marrying those together cross competitively. So I'm hoping what is part of your vision and what will actually happen here is on those kinds of things where we're not competing for market share, but we're actually trying to move the needle forward in terms of ESG, that the competitors collaborating on areas that they know that they jointly need to work on. My biggest example of this is the Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Think the last number I heard Gil put in a little note here if I get this wrong, but I thought it was 1.6 billion in capital that they have that it's all industry funded to solve the plastic wastes problem because they all can't do it individually. Is that part of what you're hoping to see here? Yes, 1,000%. And we're already seeing it, right? So there's a reusable network, right? And there are a lot of small organizations that have come together. They've created a network. They didn't have any enabling tech, right? But to say, listen, we compete on clients, right? But we're in different markets and ultimately we can collaborate on policy, right? And marketing and awareness and education and so many other areas. So that's exactly it, right? And so we've been very thoughtful about the sort of classification system, if you will, so that folks can be connected based on similar challenges and goals. But you might wanna collaborate with somebody or to your point, similar challenge, maybe we're competitive, but not on this particular topic.


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