My life's kind of boring, but I'll film it anyway. No one else for this. Oh my God, please never let me do that again. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Vlogmas number 11. We're almost there. Can you believe it? Nuts, absolute madness. But I thought for this Vlogmas, I actually did this last year too, and a lot of you seem to enjoy it, where I kind of just like, wrap Christmas presents and answer your questions. Okay, you're gonna hear a lot of that because it's that time of day. It's just L.A. People like to vroom, vroom their cars everywhere. Vroom, vroom, vroom. So, okay, first question is, what are you loving about yourself during this season of life? That is so nice. I love that question. I got Drew some coffee cups.   I do feel like I'm entering a season of life where I'm just trusting my inner voice.  And I feel like I'm getting a lot better at that. Like I, in the past, and even still now, like I've been extremely consumed by what people may think of me or others' opinions of me or whatever. You can't even see what I'm doing, like hello? And I don't know, I think it's definitely like a thing that comes with being in your 30s, like getting older. I think you just become a lot more certain of yourself. And so yeah, I just like feel like I've been trusting my intuition a lot more. I've just been able to like hold true to myself and be like, no, you can think that about me, but that's not true. And just be less consumed by it, I guess. By the way, I got this Pokemon wrapping paper at an estate sale in Arizona, like a year or so ago. And I've never used it. Today is the first day that I was putting it to the test. I'm pretty sure it was from like the 90s, but it's still holding up quite well. So we're pleased with that. Okay, next question. Oh, this is from my friend, Emily Martinez. She said, what's the most important thing that you took and embraced from this year? Ooh, wow. This is a big one, but like advocating for myself, being like, this is what I need. And like not feeling like I'm a burden for doing so. Being like, hey, I need help with this, that and the other. Or like reaching out if I do need help. Or setting a boundary and be like, nah, I'm not cool with that. Or that's something that like, you're gonna have to figure out on your own or whatever. Like protecting my peace, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. Like by implementing boundaries, putting myself first, kind of a weird one for me. But this year has been like such a year of growth and amazing things. So I feel like next year's gonna be even better. Who are your celeb crushes? The first person I can think of right now is honestly Albie from White Lotus. Also on top of that, I mean Aubrey Plaza. Obviously I've been watching White Lotus, hello. I'm wrapping one of my many Stanley cups. This one's from my mom actually, which she watches my vlogs. So like, hi mom, I'm wrapping your Stanley cup. And I always look baby bridgers, hello. Baby bridgers, Taylor Swift, I mean, what's new there? Those are probably my biggest ones at the moment. Someone said, I recently learned I have ADHD. I'm also self-employed. How do you keep yourself motivated? I wish I had the answer to that.  It's very hard. I think the older I get and the more I learn about ADHD and like realize that so many things in my life that I thought were just like bad parts of my personality or whatever are actually like because I'm neurodivergent. It's just been very liberating. It makes so much sense. But I really, really struggle. Like I am currently in like the busiest week of the entire year. And I'm buckling, I gotta be, I gotta be honest. I am not doing well. I am like dropping the ball left and right. So please don't beat yourself up. And it's really difficult when you're in charge of like delegating your own tasks and you're in charge of your own deadlines. Like you said that you're self-employed but also just any job like that. It's really difficult. So I wish I had some sort of secret answer. I'm not very good at being my own boss but I tried my best. I got a couple questions about laser treatments on my face which if you're new here, I started laser treatments at the beginning of 2022. Then I have a like a spot on my cheek right here of rosacea and then I also have a lot of skin texture.  And unfortunately I moved halfway through the year. So I haven't actually found anywhere here in LA that does that or I just haven't looked. So I believe I got four or five laser treatments for my rosacea and it definitely has lightened but only a little bit. And then I got one Fraxel laser done which if you missed that vlog, just go check it out. It was something. It was something, let me tell you. Will I continue it? Yes, probably because my skin is one of my biggest insecurities but I haven't done anything since like May or maybe April of 2022. What is your most controversial Christmas opinion? Oh God, do I have one? Okay, honestly, no. Drew and I have talked about this before. I know what it is. I do feel like my unpopular Christmas opinion is that Christmas, like the day itself is just kind of meh. Like the Christmas season leading up it. It's so magical, so fun. There's the music and the lights and the doing all the things like going to Disneyland or getting together Christmas parties, all that kind of stuff. But the actual day of Christmas is just always kind of meh. That's just sort of how I feel. I'm always like a little bit like, oh, it doesn't feel like Christmas. Like it just doesn't feel like it did back in the day. 90s Christmas babies, you feel me. Like it was just so magical, but it's still really fun. It's just definitely not the same. And so I just feel like I like the Christmas season better than I like the actual day of Christmas itself. I don't know, it won't cancel me. I got quite a few comments sort of surrounding Taylor Swift and just like the era's tour debacle in general. If you're not familiar with Taylor Swift's whole like ticket master thing, it was a thing. But the first question says, how have you not discussed the T-Swift debacle? Did you get tickets? I did. I actually got tickets to two different shows because I had verified fan free sale and then I also had capital one free sale. And I don't know. It's like I dodge lightning twice or maybe like I got struck by lightning twice. I don't know. I don't know how I got so lucky, but I do, I'm like almost scared to talk about it because people are so intense and hardcore, but I will be going to two different shows in Arizona and in LA. And I seriously can't wait. I think the reason that I haven't talked about it is because it was traumatic. And I don't use that word lightly. It was genuinely traumatic. And I never want to go through that again. It was awful. I barely survived.  I have no idea. Like how am I supposed to do this? I already did Reputation because I went to that show. I already did 1989, so I went to that show. So I'm like, do I go full throwback and do red? Do I do Reputation again because it was so much fun? And it was my favorite from when Sierra and I did the Taylor Swift videos together last year. Also, do we coordinate? Because Sierra and I are going to a show together for one of them. So I'm like, do we coordinate something? Is everyone dressed up as a different era? Like I genuinely have no idea what I'm gonna do, but I'm excited. Let me tell you. Anyway, enough with the Taylor Swift.  So whatever, it's just a part of who I am. I may become a Taylor Swift stan account someday. Who knows? Besides LA, where else could you see yourself living in the US? That's actually a really good question because Drew and I talk about this all the time. We're kind of really only West Coast people, but like what we want out of a place doesn't really exist within our price range here. Like my dream home scenario is like a Tudor house or I mean, basically something that looks like it exists in England, which like you would have to most likely go to like the Midwest or the East Coast for. It doesn't really exist in the desert or in Los Angeles. And the ones that do exist like around like, you know, Beverly Hills and stuff. I mean our millions and millions of dollars, which I could never afford. So Drew and I are very much aligned in that way where we're like, we want seasons. Like we want to be able to have it be like cozy on Christmas and feel like we live somewhere that's like not a desert climate. But at the same time, like we don't know if we really want to be that far away. I will always like Nashville. I don't know if I would ever live there again, but I would probably like have a house there to come visit or like, I don't know. Honestly, our dream is to be snowbirds. So like either live in Arizona half the year or live in California half the year and then like live somewhere else. But who honestly knows like most likely we will end up in either Arizona or California. How are you doing with moving your body these days? I actually got a couple of questions about this. Like how's your joyful movement routine going? I have none.  I haven't worked out since probably October, September. And I feel like that directly correlates with like how my mental health is doing at the time. Also very sorry if this is an extremely chaotic method of wrapping presents, it just makes sense to my brain. I do notice my mental health like not doing as well when I haven't worked out in a while and it's happening. So I really, really, really want going into 2023 to like sort of realign me and focus on exercising for my mental health, exercising for my physical health and just like getting into a better routine of doing so because I've kind of not been great at it but I have a lot of grace for myself obviously. It's hard out here. What is this? Oh, okay, moving on. What is your favorite and least favorite thing about being a YouTuber and content creator? Much love. I am sending much love back to you. That is really, really sweet. I would say that my favorite thing about being a content creator, well, there's so many and you know, my favorite things far outweigh my least favorite things. Okay, my favorite things are having flexibility in my schedule, having like my literal dream job, having something that I feel like I'm finally was like meant to do. I really struggled with that growing up being like, I don't know what I want to do when I grow up. Like I don't know what I want to eat. I did feel motivated to do anything. I was always just kind of like, what do I do with my life? And this has really given me like a lot of purpose and confidence. But of course with that comes one of my least favorite things, which is just like kind of having to take everyone's criticism about you like on the chin and you have to really have thick skin to be able to do this for a job. And you have to, like I sort of mentioned at the beginning of the video, you have to really work on your inner voice and like knowing, okay, I am a good person or that, hey, that's actually not true or you know, being able to separate what's like, you know, fair criticism or pulling you accountable or whatever from like nitpicking you and like letting you gaslight yourself and letting you think, maybe I am that or maybe I am a bad person or maybe I do X, Y and Z when like in reality you know for a fact that you don't.  Like someone one time was secretly filming me at Disneyland and like they didn't think that I could see them and it was just a really like bizarre intrusive feeling type of thing. So I will reiterate though that the pros far outweigh the cons. I freaking love this job. Aw, Sierra just texted me. I love her so much. We just had a phone call before this and she's the best. Next question says, how is the neighbor's situation in your new apartment? So for the most part, our neighbors are awesome. The neighbors who live next to us are so, so sweet. We say hello to each other. They say hi to Layla. We've become like on a first name basis with a lot of people who live like in the neighborhood. It's very like neighborhood vibes here, which I love. So like there are people that say hi to Layla every morning and stuff. And we see like a lot of the same people. That's great. And our neighbor who lives above us is really nice. I've really never like spoken to him except like, hey, like when we're in passing he's like pretty quiet and keeps to himself.  Like they're just walking all the time with their shoes on and it's like, and it's not like it's at, you know, seven or eight PM. It's at like midnight, one in the morning. He's also, I don't know if it's him or his girlfriend. They've gotten into like a habit where they do laundry at like three AM. So their washer is like, and it's like banging against our bedroom ceiling. So that's kind of weird. Let me know if you think I should like politely say something or if I should just let it go.  He's like not trying to be a jerk, but it's sometimes like it's three in the morning and I just want to sleep. Do you know what I mean? So I don't know. But overall, like, oh my God, nothing compared. Like I had to think of that. I had to think to find something that like was less than stellar. But I genuinely love this apartment so much and Drew and I are so happy living here. Like we literally love it. Everyone that comes over, that's like from LA or our friends that live here that come here, they're like, how did you find this place? Like we feel really, really lucky. Someone said, what's a server story you've never gotten to tell, but still think about. You know what's so funny is I was just thinking about one this morning. I was thinking about, this is like not really a story, but it's just a quick thing that I remembered where I had worked a really long shift at this one restaurant job. I think it was a double shift. And I was so tired. And I think I like went to the bathroom or something after my shift. And then I like went to do something else.  And I got to my car and I started driving home and I realized I didn't have my like apron, my server apron. And my server apron had all of my money in it that I made that night. It probably was like $150 or $200 or something like that that I had made from a double shift. So I'd been there for like 12, 13 hours at that point. And so I immediately like turned around, went back to the restaurant, ran to the bathroom. Of course it was gone. Like it was gone. I can't even remember how long I had left it there, but I literally worked for an entire day and I didn't make any money.  I told my managers about it and they were just like, like there's nothing we can do. You just kind of left your wallet or you know, your apron and it got stolen. I was devastated. I was genuinely so upset. And yeah, so that was, you know, a day that I worked completely for free because if you know anything about waitressing, your paychecks are $0. So you fully rely on tips. And so I made $0 that day. And that was probably one of the worst days of my serving career. Next question is, are you still considering buying a property? Yes, question mark. If you missed it, Drew and I actually almost bought his mom's house his past year and it didn't end up working out for like a variety of reasons. So it's like something that I've kind of been thinking about moving forward. I'm like, hmm, like do we want to do this? And we continuously talk about it. And I do actually think that 2023, almost 2021, please help. I do think that 2023 might be the year that we buy something and it won't be in Los Angeles likely. I mean, unless I won the lottery, that's just simply not gonna happen. I don't think people realize how unhinged these prices are out here. And I just don't even know if I'd want to own anything here. I didn't make it, but probably. So likely we would want to buy something in Arizona just to have for when we're in town or maybe my mom can live in it or something. But it's difficult because we don't know if we would want to buy a house or a condo and also we would have to figure out how to like afford both. So that's just something that we've been talking about but I feel like it might happen. Maybe I'll get like a condo or something. Someone said, what is your least favorite question to be asked and what question do you get most often? I think my least favorite questions to be asked are, are you getting married or are you having kids? And I feel like people genuinely don't believe me. When I say that I'm just not that interested in having kids, like there's always a reason. I've seen comments before that are like, well, it has to be Drew then or it has to be this or that. And it's like, or I just don't think that it's for me. Like it's not that I don't love kids. I freaking love kids. I am really, really good with kids actually. I had younger siblings growing up that were like much younger than me. Like they were born when I was in high school or I guess middle school and high school. And I married for a little while during my life. I always babysat. I feel like I get along really well with like all of my friends, kids and stuff. But I just really, really love my peace and quiet. I love having nieces and nephews and I love coming home to like a quiet home. And I don't know, sometimes it feels like I have to like prove like, no, I see. There's not something wrong with me. I just don't know if I want that. And it's just kind of like, I don't know, it feels kind of yucky. So that's probably the one that I get asked the most often that I'm kind of like, okay, yeah, I get it, okay. Cause maybe to a lot of people, they don't have no women in their lives who like intentionally don't have children. Cause I know that that's like expected from a lot of us in society. So I don't know, man. I get that a lot of times people just genuinely want to know. So that doesn't bother me at all. Like there's a genuine, there's a difference between genuine curiosity and like your clock is ticking. What's wrong with you? So Drew and I have said that if it's not like, you know, cause I'm gonna be 35, let's be honest. And Drew and I have said that if it's not like between both of us, if it's not like an emphatic 100% yes by the time we're like 37, it's not gonna happen. I just like being a pet mom. I don't know. And then the last question says, how do you deal with feeling left out slash friendship rejection? Unintentional or intentional? Oh, I don't know if I'm the right person to ask about this cause I am sensitive. I'm a Pisces rising, which I apparently means I'm very emotional and I am, but also with ADHD, there's this thing called rejection sensitivity. I have a really hard time with like feeling left out, feeling rejected. And it's something that I'm continuously working on, but I went through a situation a couple of years ago where like your question said, you know, in a friendship, it was sort of like one of those things where you're like, you know when you like walk into a room, right? And you're like, was I just being talked about? Like, were people just discussing me in this room before I walked in?  But then you like find out that it was, and then you're just like, oh, and then it kind of just makes you sort of question everything. Like you're like, am I a bad person, am I unlovable? As a friend, am I flawed morally? Like what is wrong with me? You know, that's caused like this friendship break up to happen or whatever. And so like a lot of times if I have like drifted from friends or if I've been ghosted or if a friendship hasn't worked out, I like take it really, really hard and I put it all on me, even if it's not, I'm still working on it. It's definitely something I'm still working on because it's just part of like growing up. It's part of getting older and realizing that not everyone is gonna stick with you forever and you're gonna be friends with some people for a really long time and some people for a short time. And that doesn't make the friendship any less wonderful or valid for when it happened. But it can be really hard to not take it personally when, you know, you go through a situation where you feel rejected by people or like you said in friendships. So I think a lot of it just comes with like age and like therapy has really helped with that a lot. It's really helped me sort of recenter and be like, yeah, I am a good friend. I have a lot to offer. Of course I have flaws like everyone else, but having that voice in the back of my head that constantly reassures me that like, I'm doing okay. I'm on the right path type of thing really, really helps, you know? So anyways, I have one more big box to wrap and I need to like clear all this stuff out and we're going to Disneyland soon. So I hope you enjoyed. We are almost done with Vlogmas. Like I can't believe that. Okay, now I can come a little closer. We have one Vlogmas after this. I have no idea what it's gonna be because I'm gonna be honest, I'm tired. I'm tired, but we're gonna make it fun. We're gonna make it festive. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for sending in your awesome questions and we will see you next time for Vlogmas number 12, another year down. I can't believe it. It comes and goes in a flash. It really does. That's crazy. Okay, see you soon. Bye.


Hello everyone, my name is Rahul Miglani. I have over 15 years of experience in DevOps, SRE and cloud with a primary focus on build, release and delivery automation with high availability in mind. My core responsibility is around my career involved setting the overall delivery automation strategies via investments in automation at several layer of technology stack to implement a continuous deployment or delivery pipeline which is highly scalable and highly available. I have experience in building intelligence, SAS, IS and PAS. I hold experience in working on Puppet, M Collective, Aira, ActiveMQ, Gira Confidence, Pitpocket, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Accureft, Civil and continuous integration using Jenkins or Bamboo or Quark and Argo CD. I have worked on .NET, Android, Java and Scala projects. I have experience using DevOps tools using Docker, Puppet, Shev and Siebel cloud formation, Opswork and Elastic along with good exposure to cloud technologies and tools. I have a vast experience in AWS, Oracle and GCP. I am certified in AWS, I am certified in GCP and I am also certified in Oracle Cloud infrastructure. I have proven skills as a programmer and a DevOps engineer as a whole. Overall, I have also done project management of SRE and DevOps Cloud projects with experience in RFP, RFQ and RFI documentation and Agile. Scrum Kanban and obviously building O2 market strategies and architecting cloud development with in-depth business consulting and product management. Well, most recently, I have been working on the observability tech stack with monitoring, logging and tracing with open tracing and monitoring, logging with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus and creating custom dashboard with ELK and EFK tech stacks, creating complex architectures with SecOps and Phenops in mind, managing Kubernetes and cloud coast with tools like Qt coast and Infra coast and security in mind with vulnerability testing with tools like SNIC or Horushek and beginning into a big Phenops and SecOps area, I also have hands-on on managing DevOps audit, CI CD majority audit and Kubernetes maturity audit with complex architecture with hybrid or multi-cloud environments. Coming to this course, I welcome you all to this course and I hope you will enjoy this course and have fruitful learning. If you have any question regarding the course, you can get back to me via any of the social media channels or you can send a message on to this course as well. So welcome once again and happy learning. The topic for today is DevOps Incident Management, one of the very important aspects as we grow from ITIL to DevOps to SRE and make sure our infrastructure is available 24 course 7 and we have as low as possible downtime. So sit back and relax and let's begin with the session. So moving on to the content of this session, we will definitely be talking about what is DevOps Incident Management and then moving on, we'll see in detail the components of DevOps Incident Management and how ITIL Incident Management has now grown into SRE and DevOps Incident Management and how we can learn and probably recommend our dev teams on how to proceed in case of any incidents or how to work on our alerts. Also moving on, we'll see again in detail the benefits of our incident management processes and how to make them meaningful in case we have millions of alerts as well. Moving on, we'll look at the flow of our incident management process and how it should be made without blame on any teams but it should be made blame-free. And then at the end of the session, we'll look at the best practices of DevOps IM and see how we can make the whole process meaningful and obviously helpful to all the teams at stake. So these are some of the incident management tools. You can integrate them with tools like PagerDuty or any other tool and with this tool you can aggregate all applications, infrastructure and networking monitoring data in one place to initiate and execute any of the necessary response. You can send alerts via phone call, SMS, push notification or email to the correct subject or the expert. You can respond faster to alerts and provide incident response teams with more time to mitigate and reduce customer impact. There are multiple integrations available and there are extensible APIs available with custom logic. For example, Nagios, you can write your own plugin with Splunt. You can customize the integration and you can also have Slack alerts for all the issues you face. So depends on the type of incidents you're working on, you can use any of these tech tech. For example, you have AWS which has custom monitoring and logging tools. You have New Relate. ServiceNow was majorly used as a ticketing tool but now people have understood its importance in the incident management tech stack as well. Similarly, Datadoc sends you alerts and you can customize those alerts as well. So all in all, all these tools can help you mitigate all the incident and problems you might face in your delivery processes. First of all, what is incident management exactly? It is the process used by DevOps and software development teams to respond to an unplanned event or service interruption and restore the service to its operational state. Well incident management refers to a set of practices, processes, workflows, obviously runbooks and solutions that enable teams to detect, investigate and respond to the incident. It is a very, very crucial element for businesses of all sizes and obviously a very important requirement for meeting most data compliance standards. Incident management processes ensure that your IT teams can quickly address vulnerabilities and issues. A faster response help reduce the overall impact of the incident. It mitigate damages and ensure that system and services continue to operate as planned. If you look at the ideal incident management process, it would start with incident identification, incident categorization and obviously prioritization. Incident are identified through user reports, solution analysis or manual identification. Again, moving on to incident notification and escalation, incident alerting take place although the timing may vary according to how the incident are identified or categorized. The main idea is to make incident alert automatically managed and obviously we move on from investigation, diagnosis, resolution, recovery and at the end closure. But again, if you have to define incident management, it has to include a very easy accessibility to the report of a particular incident, a very effective communication strategy, an automated notification system, an automated alerting system, alert for let us say ticket updates, user replies, status updates and obviously DevOps SRE essentials. If you do that, you will probably end up having prevention of incident, reduction or elimination of downtime, improved mean time to resolution, improved customer experience as well and obviously increased data fidelity. You will probably have improved productivity as well. There are many tools. This webinar is not inclined towards tools but you probably might have already worked on Atlassian tools or alert or service now and our legacy remedy. So we are not going to talk about tools but the underlying framework, the underlying phenomena of why it is important because incident management is one of the most critical processes a software development team has to get right. Service outages can be very, very costly and it can be dramatically higher than the actual infrastructure cost. So let us move on and look at the details on why incident management is important, what are the incident management activities we need to perform as a DevOps and SRE provisional. Now moving on to common incident management activities, what are the activities that a common SRE who is handling the incidents will do. First of all, it would be detecting and recording the incident details. Now let us say you have a remedy tool like remedy or a service now which does the detecting, does the logging of the ticket but does it have the necessary details everyone requires to understand the situation. So our responsibility first would be to record the incident details and then what is our known error database looks like. For example in our remedy or in our service now we have the matching incidents. So what action was performed and what we did in the past can we do the same and resolve the incident. So that is what would be the main activity here. Again at the end of the night we will be resolving incidents as quickly as possible. We will end up prioritizing incident in terms of impact and urgency depending on our past experience with the matching incident and then obviously we have to will probably escalate incident to other teams to ensure timely resolution but the most important part here is what is our recommendation, what have we done in the past so that this incident doesn't occur. For example point number two states will probably find out in our known error database maybe on confluence or maybe in remedy or service now itself what were the matching incidents. Our recommendation so that this particular type of incident doesn't occur in future. So it could have been a recommendation for example increase of infrastructure or decrease or update of an infrastructure or maybe updation of a process or maybe deletion of a process which doesn't make sense. So that a particular incident doesn't occur in future so more than the detection and recording matching incident again the known problem it is what SRE is recommending. For example if you have faced the incident 10 times in the past you might end up recommending an automation which makes sure that this type of activity doesn't occur in future. So that would become then the main activity of an incident management SRE. Now if you look at the process implementation and its implementation we'll see we'll find out certain benefits of the implementation because it is important for any ID department to have a plan for managing incidents. After all no matter how good you are predicting events incident can still happen. So let us say let us look at the benefits of the implementation. Now let us say you are trying to maintain SLAs when it comes to meeting SLAs avoiding incident is ideal. So the best case scenario of an incident management is no incident at all. So we can use a risk mitigation solution which can help us with it but we still need to have a plan in place to keep our services up and running and just in case an incident happens we need to be ready. So we can use IM to outline how you'll ideally deal with the incident and resolve them as quickly as possible. Moving on how do you meet service availability requirements. So our business obviously cannot afford down times. So it is important that we are able to consistently meet service availability requirement and in this regard our IM processes can make it easier. We can use these processes to define how we'll detect incident and remember time is a sense considering performance management solution to help us keep a finger on the pulse over activity. Now let us say if we are trying to increase our staff efficiency and productivity our IM will help us achieve that but our staff should also have the tools. For example they should have something like a remedy or service now so they can mature the IM infrastructure at our end. So considering using a performance and capacity management software. So again when you include a software make sure that the return on investment on the cost of the software makes sense to the project as a whole. Now at the end of it obviously customer is the king and user satisfaction is of utmost importance. Now your customer and obviously employees for that matter don't want to be disrupted by the incident right. Practicing IM processes can help you improve your satisfaction too. You'll probably need to do a dummy user retrospection wherein you'll probably have a disaster recovery trial at your end and see how you use your capacity planning software how you use your incident management in case of disasters right. So that is how you can do a demo practice of your incident management process. At the end of it you'll probably end up maturing your incident management processes as a whole. So starting with maintaining the SLAs and going on till improving the user satisfaction incident management is the key. Now let's have a look at the overall process which should be followed in case of DevOps incident management. The DevOps approach to managing incident isn't very radically different from the traditional ITIL steps we already know. In fact DevOps incident management includes all explicit emphasis on involving developer teams from the beginning including opening up a bridge setting up on call, major duties, assigning work based on expertise etc right. So moving on to first step of the flow that would be detection right. So instead of hoping incident will never happen DevOps and SRE teams place a high value on the preparedness they work collaboratively to plan their responses to potential incidents by identifying a weakness in the infrastructural systems. They set up monitoring tools, alert system and obviously run books that help each member to know who to contact, what to do, what process to follow, whom to call, when to open a bridge and so on. Whenever an incident occurs they have to open the run book and see what to do in a particular set of situations right. Now this leads up to response rather than having a single on-call engineer responsible for responding to all incidents in an on-call shift DevOps incident management teams designate multiple team members to be available for escalations. So if the designated on-call engineer cannot resolve an incident independently there is a run book ready to act as a guide and obviously the on-call engineer can bring in the right people to assess the impact and severity level of the problem and escalate it to the right responder. It might also include opening up a bridge to have developers on the team to have a prover manager on the call so on and so forth. Moving on to the resolution part of it now when it comes to responding to an incident the DevOps incident management teams can often get to resolution very quickly applying a hot fix right. This is because as a whole we are more familiar with the application or the system code because obviously we wrote the script right but with the benefit of advanced preparation and good communication system together we can also do that work by you know resolving the incident reaching the resolution faster than a third party response team right. So making sure the right set of people are available to look at the right set of incident is actually an important part of the resolution. Now when we do a post-mortem we reach out to our next step in the flow which is analysis. Now let us see we are doing a post-mortem now this post-mortem has to be blameless right. Now the DevOps incident management teams close out an incident with a blameless post-mortem process they come together we share the information share the metrics share the lesson learned with the goal to continuously improve the resilience of our systems. As we do that we make sure that future incidents are resolved quickly and more efficiently again even if there are multiple team involved the process the analysis has to be again blameless right. Now at the end of it what is our readiness of the system what is our readiness of the infrastructure now what the incident is resolved our remediation steps have been completed and the system is restored DevOps incident management teams take a step back to assess their readiness for the next incident right they take what they have learned in the post-mortem process and update their runbooks accordingly and the DevOps focus on continuous improvement applies to the people and the team and not just to the infrastructure and technology itself. So after an incident each team member is better prepared for the next one right. So as long as we follow the this this this flow of incident management we end up at reaching out at the best practices which are affected for a DevOps incident management team right. Now in the previous flow we learned what are our action as a DevOps incident management SRE right. Now adopting a DevOps approach to the incident response can lead to improved communication between your various teams be it dev team or the off-stream obviously a faster incident response remediation and a more resilient system. So to achieve that the best practice would be to automate processes and workflows you know we need to integrate our service desk monitoring ticketing asset management CMDV or even chat tools we need to streamline these incident related teams as well as our alerts and work workflows right so that we ensure the right people get the right notification at the right time and the correct set of people are working at a particular set of incident and when they do that they have with themselves the information they need to get started on a resolution we need to set up runbooks again I am repeating this but we need to set up runbooks with predefined workflows so that people can hit the ground running when an incident hits. Moving on another best practice would be the communication between the teams we need to ensure the members of our teams can communicate across the organization with real-time chat tools we need to use tools that create a record of the incident so anyone can jump at any time and get up to speed on what's happened what's what's going to happen and what is the current state of the incident right it can be any of your ticketing tools be it remedy service now or any of your slack channels right and again as we looked into our flowchart as well we need to use the blameless approach right after you have resolved the incident we come together as a team to review what has happened for a blameless post-mortem now we should obviously avoid finger pointing and focus on you know sharing information what went wrong what could have been prevented and what we could have done in a better manner right now that can help everyone to do their job better and it probably will contribute to a more reliable system again another best practice would be identify and focus on the business bottom line that is very important because that was incident response is more than a means to a better communication it's a way it's a culture to ensure developers and operations are working together to deliver the real business value right now we track matrices such as mean time to detection mean time to repair and mean time between failures to understand your your team's rate of improvement we'll probably talk about them in the later slides but again moving on to we need to utilize an own culture dueling to position developers and cc means as system reliability engineers site reliability engineers to precise right so on a dev-optim the lines between a developer and cc means start to blur and those responding to the incident often become sres right but still the individuals will like to have specialized knowledge in either the application code or the infrastructure code or the infrastructure as a code for example and civil and terraform right so we need to set up our own cold schedule to ensure you've got the right mix of expertise available to respond the right set of incident now setting up an all cold schedule is tricky but if we communicate properly what set of expertise is available I think we'll do a better job if we understand the system better right now that closely brings us to the end of the session but if you look look closely as a recommendation we need to measure everything we don't need to send alert for everything obviously because we only need to send meaningful alerts but we need to measure at least everything what is the deployment frequency will give us our readiness will be encountered in our preparedness right what is the chain volume how many what fixes have gone through right or let us say what is the lead time from dev to deployment so that our testing can be ready on time or our multiple environments can be test ready on time so that we could you know avoid dependencies we do not encountered incident where there is a dependency management problem because the environment wasn't ready on time right again we need to see the percentage of field deployments more importantly what were the regions of it and at most important what were our recommendation on those right our mean time of recovery is also dependent on our incident because we need to see how many type of particular incident are occurring or reoccurring or have occurred in the past and what is our recommendation or action items on the incident right now customer ticket volume or change in user volume it will probably come at at the end of let us say usability and accessibility but again we need to see what type of tickets are coming in what types of issues are coming in is the are the issues coming in because there is a change in the user volume or are the tickets coming in because there is a change in infrastructure or are the ticket coming in because it is a particular time of the year where we could forecast more tickets because there is more activity on the system right now if we do 6 and 7 will probably have a greater control over high availability of the system because then we will be able to forecast now let us say in a particular time in a particular time in year or in a particular time in our product life cycle there is a need of high availability or there is a need of higher set of infrastructure values because our performance or our response time to the end user need to be at a particular value right again i'll probably say major everything but don't send alert of everything because our let us say if we send out 5000 alerts a day we'll probably end up ignoring all of them but let us say if there are generated alerts are 5000 we have an automation in place which sends out only let us say 2000 alerts which are meaningful and in the alert itself it is written on what set of alerts we need to take action and what set of alerts are FYI or just for information for the SREs right so you need to make sure that your alerts are intelligent your alerts trace back to from where the incident has occurred from and their alerts are intelligent enough to point you towards the recommended solution and obviously when you have a known as a database and you end up looking at multiple alerts on multiple on the same set of problems you already have a recommendation in place so that the same set of incident do not occur in future right so I hope you'll probably keep these things in mind when you set up your DevOps infrastructure and probably monitor it in the previous webinars we've already spoken about observability at scale but the ground rules still remain the same right so I hope you probably have learned something today and will you will probably go back and make sure that the alerts and the incidents are meaningful and obviously you have your runbook in place right well this brings us to the end of the current session I would like to thank you all for participating hi that brings us to the end of the course I hope you liked the course and had a fruitful learning if you have any suggestions any queries or questions do reach out to us email us or reach out to us via any of the social media handles thank you very much once again happy learning bye


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Tommy here from long system. We're going to talk about free nas 11 dot 3 u4 Which is the latest update some bug fixes that are in there a couple highlights And I want to talk about the longevity of free nas and well not really how long it runs because obviously you can run pretty much Forever, but what it looks like running on one of our older systems And I'll bring that up because talk a little bit about old hardware and what you should do with it in terms of free nas Because this comes up of should I use my older system? 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So here's the free nas eleven dot three you for update And once again, no feature changes mostly lots and lots of bug fixes over a hundred bug fixes that are located in here And there's a bunch of little interface nuances that were Goofy I guess I'm not going to go over every single of the hundred bugs in here But maybe you have one of the problems on your system that Will be fixed on this But let's talk about a couple that I have run into occasionally with clients and consulting that we do and this one was kind of interesting is when it decided not to delete expired snapshots and It turns out it turned the hold on one snapshot was where the problem was so I've set up snapshots And I wasn't experienced this problem, but I also haven't had to restore any data And I've also not had to stop and put a hold on a particular snapshot to not have it get purged But apparently by doing that hold on a snapshot That would stop it. So this bug can easily be created by Creating a snapshot schedule and then placing hold on one snap Removing the hold resolves the issue. So these are like I said a lot of minor bug fixes There is those security updates in here. So I do recommend you load this I know a lot of people are always nervous about loading updates I try to keep all of our systems patched and up to date a provider There's no major issues that would slow me down from doing it But in this particular case there are at least a few security issues including a kernel panic for the Linux KPI Subsystem fixed kernel panic and NPS driver. I fix USB HID descriptor parsing error fix vulnerabilities and unbound That's specifically the security things in here. So if I didn't dive deep into this But essentially this is Unbound server not that you run DNS on specifically free NAS But when free NAS where to do a if it were to do a DNS lookup a mail formed answer The result from a DNS lookup from an upstream name server consent unbounded to an infinite loop Resulting in denial of service a malicious query can cause a traffic amplification attack against a third-party authoritative name server so this is kind of a Interesting condition where if you're resolving something and free NAS looks up a site that site happens to be having a malicious DNS record in there it just sends unbounded to a loop and crashes. So I see that's not good And something you may not run into that often It's not like free NAS spends a lot of time resolving things because it's generally just looking up what you ask it to So it's kind of an edge case. It's not like you're running a browser on it You're looking up things actively with free NAS But if you were you know or someone figures out a way to do something Or maybe you have some plug-in and someone drops a resolver in that plug-in and say hey Go look up this site and it happens It's a real edge case for it to happen But nothing's you know, it's always better to err inside a caution keep your security patches up to date Unable to specify OAuth client ID and secret for Google Drive and OneDrive cloud sync credentials I have not done any video on backing up to Google Drive and a few people have asked me about that So that may be an upcoming video and it's good that they fixed the OAuth client ID on here And I bling that up because it's also related to the Google teams drive and the fact that teams offers quite a bit of storage It's been really popular Google's we have a lot of clients using it and we're a user of it So I may do a video on how to back it up to teams is something I may look into as there's you know it's important to get your data off-site and backed up and To Google teams if you already have an account or a one-drive account not a bad thing So I'm happy that this bug has been fixed Which is actually a weird bug because if you read through the details here Apparently it was exposed in the UI to put that in there and then somehow removed and then somehow turned back on So kind of strange but good news it's fixed if you're having that problem before now This is one that we kind of ran into I see we as in me and Xavier when we are setting up his server I do a lot of videos on xcp ng and xcp ng Can host a virtualized instance of free nas I've not done a video on this But it's something I've talked about how to pass drives through but apparently there was a Certain condition and under heavy load that would cause it to crash and that's now been fixed So yes, they are watching through the bugs on this as long as you're reporting these bugs If you are running a virtualized version of free nas It's a specific case that Xavier had for his setup Which at some point we made you a video on uncover for how he built his malware lab and Essentially test hacking lab that he's got the virtualized instance was having issues our solution was actually really quickly I said just go to true nas core because that's no more later version It's out and all the little bugs that we were experiencing for the virtualized was working fine It sounds like this is also fixed in you for Recursive replication is another one we ran into with a couple clients We did consulting with and it was basically a problem where when you want a bunch of data sets And I've done, you know how to do replication on Free nas, but you should be able to just check that little box It says hey just replicate all the data sets over to the other system And there was times when that didn't work and now that bug has been fixed as well Now let's talk a little bit about my old free nas server here That's been running for a while because this is kind of something that came up and said hey What about old hardware and free nas now this system has been rebuilt because I wanted to Re-engineer everything on it, but it's still an older system. This is just a system we built in 2014 I believe towards the end Over the beginning of 2015 and it is an old Intel i5 and yes You're seeing it right only for threads on it So no, this is not something that there's any bragging rights in terms of performance, but it does work quite well now I had the pools pulled up and I did a video on having unbalanced vdebs This is kind of like an over time. What does it look like after it's been running for well, you know five plus years and Still quite well, so these drives are broke down into Three different vdev groups that are all RAID z2 now these vdev groups Are also mismatched, so these are two terabyte These are three terabyte and these ones are four terabyte and this is I have a whole video where I dive into You know mismatch ddevs and how that works and I want to show some of the drive hours on here so if you look and first we can Show how we figure out the drive hours. I'm just running smart control dash a each drive and grepping for power on so then we could do Drive hours and And You can see based on the hours when you break these downs Which one every couple of years that I added more drives and expanded to vdevs and then we have the one here for 47,000 hours and if we divide 47,000 hours divided by 24 hours divided by 365 We get up about 5.3 years time on that particular drive And I just wanted to comment on that though because you know you can take older hardware You can find it for really good prices and it makes it pretty solid Freenia system especially when you just need what this particular use case for the server is it just holds all the backups It just everything lands on there and then gets replicated again to our more modern system And of course three two one backup means it also all critical data is replicated off-site as well So older systems do work really well And I have not had any problems running updates on it and it is still running on a flash drive Which I know some people like oh my gosh those flash drives could potentially wear out over time I purposely and I back up every time I have backups of this if the flash drive were to go I would just reload another flash drive or maybe actually put a hard drive in it's got plenty space for one and Put in another drive and restore the backup So I do take care of it, but in the question of longevity Yeah, it works quite well and the other side of that too is if you're looking to build a free NAS system You know the build it buy it build out of new hardware or shock a bunch of hard drives and get good deals on them It's great if you really need a high capacity on there, but when it comes to Pretty style of compatibility free NAS on older hardware that you can find you know used on eBay to get you started So I know not everyone has the budget to buy a brand new super micro super storage server Like the one I reviewed on this channel the other day That's I know not on everyone's budget My feelings overall and free NAS especially and I've done a couple of videos You know I generally am using older hardware for my demos and I just want to make sure that people one know It's very accessible to load free NAS and test it out And it's very reliable even on this over hardware even if it doesn't really old I5 4570 and Five years later of non-stop use You know because it really doesn't get turned off matter of fact the drive cycle time Let's go ahead and look at that real quick Besides the runtime hours the start stop count on this particular drives only 70 in five years So that's 70 reboots essentially or power cycles that this thing has gone through and started and stopped Over it's not just a reboot has actually power cycles So it's only been cycled 70 times over the last five years Which is really not that much will 5.3 years based on its hours of on time So just want to throw that out there because that question just kind of comes up once while and I don't know if it Yeah, I should do a dedicated video to old hardware or if I really can figure out a way to Articulate that better but I thought I'd throw it at the end of this video because the question seems to be asked a lot when I do a Free NAS video of what about older servers? Can I run it on my? Motherboard that I don't have to do with after I upgraded my computer and a lot of times the answer is yes It's great to run it on this old hardware It runs and you're not going to get the performance But it you know at least it's stable and if you're just need to place the land a bunch of extra data Because maybe you do have a performance system and you want to replicate over to the less expensive system So you have an extra backup works pretty good for that. 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Thank you for the invitation to join you as guests of honour at this annual observance of World Food Day in the Asia and Pacific region. When I spoke at this regional World Food Day last year on the 75th anniversary of FAO, the mood was somber with the entire world in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. We had hoped that the situation would be much improved the following year. However, sadly, safe for some countries, the situation has not improved. The pandemic has caused extreme levels of damage to lives and livelihoods, particularly here in Asia-Pacific region, and the consequences will be felt for many years to come. Meanwhile, the climate continues to heat up, causing even more loss and destruction and increase in hunger. The most recent global estimates on hunger from FAO and its sister UN agencies announced this summer estimated that some 811 million people, one in every 10 people on earth, was hungry last year, and that is not taking into account the full impact of the pandemic. This region accounts for more than half of those that are undernourished. In short, we need to work much better to end hunger than we have done so far to help millions of people, including smallholders and family farmers, to recover from COVID-19 and lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. That is the main takeaway message of this year's World Food Day. We must do better. We must do better to produce our food more sustainably so that people derive better nutrition and incomes from them and ensure a better cleaner environment and better quality lives for everyone. Nearly 40% of the world's population cannot afford a healthy diet. And while we can blame the global pandemic for making matters worse, much of the problem existed even before this pandemic. We promised ourselves, indeed the world promised itself, that by 2030 we would reach the sustainable development goals, including SDG-2 of achieving zero hunger in all its forms, and SDG-1 and end to poverty. And yet globally, 20% more women than men, age 25 to 34, live in extreme poverty, and more than 18% of indigenous women live on less than $1.90 a day. We promised to leave no one behind, so we should keep our promises. Transforming our agri-food systems will be a necessary challenge to build back better, to ensuring those for better are achieved. It is a big challenge that as we have heard just last month at the UN Food Systems Summit in New York, it is actually a challenge many players are keen to take on from governments to private sector and civil society. That is a role for everyone and especially for those on the front line, the family and smallholder farmers who work the land and the seas every day of their working lives. More than a billion people are involved in the agri-food sector, especially women who do the majority of work in the fields that produce food and then look after their families and yet receive very few benefits, if at all, in return. During another video message in the Pre-Food Systems Summit in July, I mentioned that there is indeed a role for everyone to play and that includes youth. I spoke about the school feeding program that I have been involved with here in Thailand for more than 40 years. At first, the program was only a school project for agriculture, for school lunch, but nowadays it is the model of sustainable consumption patterns and concept of which is useful to many communities. Everyone knows about the importance of food nutrients to the body and the relationship between diet and health. In school clinics, teacher and health workers teach pupils about health, sanitation, clean environment, clean food, clean drinking water, hand washing, clean kitchen and clean toilets. School clinics often provide pupils, vitamins and mineral supplements such as multivitamins, iodine and iron. Lastly, we also emphasize on environmental protection and preservation of local and national cultures. In the long run, these are related to both physical and mental health of the whole population. So finally, let me say that for our region to be better, we must be better together. We must move forward at the same time to be better at production, to be better as nutrition and to be better with our environment and to be better for all our lives. Our actions are indeed our future. Thank you.


Oh gosh. Okay. He's barely hooked. Dude, bout literally jerked the rod out of my hand. What's popping people? Welcome back to another episode of Kicking Their Best TV. Thank you guys so much for the love and support recently. I really appreciate y'all. Everybody who likes comments on the video subscribes to the channel. I really appreciate you guys. And if you could, if you're new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, hit the notification bell right next to it. Also hit the like button. If you guys have been enjoying the content. If you could, also, we're on the road to a million. If you don't mind, please share this video with a friend and maybe you can get somebody in the fishing. Maybe it's somebody who's never gone fishing before but maybe they end up watching this video and they get some in the fishing. And I'd really appreciate that. But today we're gonna be doing some pond fishing, more importantly some golf course pond fishing. And we're gonna see if we can hook some big fish. It's been a few months since we filmed like a golf course pond video. So I was like, you know what? Let's get out here, try to catch some big fish and just have fun while we're doing it. We've got our new kick in the bass TV combo right here. If you guys have been following my Instagram, you guys have already seen that this rod is actually dropping this Sunday. I am so excited about it.  We've been waiting just to release this thing and it's about to drop on Sunday. They're gonna be sold out instantly. If you guys want to get notified right when these drop, go to my website.  This is be the first to know. Type in your phone number right there and right when this rod drops, you guys will be getting a notification. So everybody who supports that and supports my brand, thank you so much. Means a lot. So let's go ahead and rig up a rod. We're gonna use the kicking combo. You guys are wondering what pound test I have. It's 17 pound fluorocarbon. I'm actually cutting off this little Texas rig right here. I might tie this on here in a bit. But the one thing that I like to do, especially when going to ponds, it doesn't matter, ponds, lakes, rivers. When I go out to a place, I like throwing my moving baits first, see if the fish are gonna eat it.  Slow moving bait like this. Scissor bait? Yeah, the little scissor bait. But yeah, I'll move over to something like this. So I might start off with like a top water or a moving bait, like a chatter dunk. And then if they're not eating that, I'll ease up and throw something slow. But we're just gonna throw this regular white chatter bait right here. I don't have any more thundercricks. I'm out of stock. I gotta order some more. Those were the ones that I've been using recently, but I actually had this one with me. If you guys wanna check out any of the rods or baits I use in the videos, I'll have discount codes and links down below. Let's go ahead and tie this bad boy up. If you guys are wondering with the trailer that I'm gonna be using, we're actually just gonna put on a standard little fluke right there. It's a white fluke to match this chatter dunk. There we go. I will say, look at that tail, Cody. You see that? That's the one thing that's bad about some soft plastics.  I kind of bent it to that, but it'd be fine. When this thing's chattering through the water, I think it's gonna be moving anyways. Let's go ahead and walk down to this pond. Start casting. Try to get this big one. Oh, she looking saucy, ain't she, Cody? She's looking good. She's looking real good. So this is the pond that we're gonna start off at. There's some big ones in here. I've caught like three fish that are over five, six pounds in here. And lost a couple really good ones. I think the last time we came out here, Cody, what did I lose? Like a six pound? You lost one right down there, yeah. Right here on the bank, right? Yeah, I think this one would be good, but let's go ahead and start. I'm gonna fan cast some of the bank right here. We're gonna end up walking all the way around it. So, see what we can do. I'm excited. All right, let's get it, baby. I don't know what to expect as far as with how this weather is. I don't know if they're gonna bite really good or just be really finicky. There's only one way to find out. Let's cast. Got to tighten my drag. That would have been so bad. Have like a six pound or eat it. Nothing. I'm gonna get bit right here on this point. There's all this slop. You just think with the clouds, so these fish would be roaming shallow. What? Right there's something for him. Just like, gosh, okay. He's barely hooked, dude. Let's get it. You called that. You saw that little boil. See, normally guys on a daylight today, look at that. Barely hooked. I don't know if that's a bad sign right there or not. He ate it though. He stayed pinned. It's a pretty fresh fish today. Let's get her back in the water real quick. Thank you, baby. This is the thing. When you come out here on like a cloudy daylight today, these fish are usually roaming. They're moving a lot. We don't really see much activity. You saw that swirl though. And he ate it right there. We've been throwing along this bank too, very shallow. You know, usually on a daylight today, they'd be pushed up roaming, but I think they might be positioned more off the bank. So now we're gonna start angling our cast more and figure out the hotspot of where this fish are sitting. I think I saw one chasing big right there. Ooh. He might have just hit me. That fish ate it right away though, out there. Yeah. I thought he was bigger than he was. I don't know, he was about a three. He looked big after I was bodied. Like when he twirled, dude, he looked so big. Some stuff right there. Yeah. See, it's hard to tell if that's wind or fish, actually. Yeah. Let's do this. Surprised you didn't get one. If you look away, I saw something look like the wind towards the bank. Yeah. I think I'm gonna be down that bank right there, maybe. Dude, bout literally jerked the rod out of my hand. That one ate it. That's how he wanted to eat it. That's a good fish right there. Pretty, very pretty bass.   And cloudy days. Look at that one actually ate it pretty good. The last one kind of slapped it. He bout pulled the rod out of my hand. I was not expecting him. It's kind of walking. About made me fall. There we go. That's pretty fish. Second one today. Get a little better. Let's get it.  There he goes. Well, there we go, guys. We got two fish. Hopefully they're gonna end up eating it good, man. That last one slapped it. He wasn't playing no games. He had it in the back of his throat too. That's exactly what you want. That's what I was hoping to get on today. This rain looks like it's coming in too. So we don't got too much longer. We just gotta put our heads down and keep casting. See if we can get us another one of these fish. Just had something hit in my line right there. If I can get some more of the way that one was hitting it, we're gonna have a good day. I know there's one sitting on this bank somewhere. Dude, that was crazy. I like thumped it off of something. It almost felt like I hit it off a fish's back. Now I just watched him eat it right there. He wasn't big. That was kind of cool though. I was hoping he was gonna stay on. I was gonna flop him right up on the bank. Just hook set, flop him.  Think there's a juicy mama in here, Cody? Yeah, there's a few. Just gotta sing to them. You know what's crazy? They want me to sing to them? Yeah. Is that what they want? They probably do. I'll tell you, man, I don't think you've seen any big ones out of here, have you? Or you've seen them, but we haven't caught them. We haven't caught a real big one out of here. Because remember I broke that one off over there is like what, maybe six pounds? And then I lost that one. I was like what, four and a half, four? That was right here. Remember that? Yeah. It was right at the bank. I just know we can get one today. They're in here. I just remembered about that one. You remember that? It was like standing right here. That was crazy. He ate it right at the bank and he was happening to come off. I know they're in here. We just gotta get one to buy it. Way back up in there? Yeah. Yeah, I see that. Look at that boil. I don't know what that was. Probably as it could be a turtle, it could be a gator. It wore a fish right behind my bait just like that. That was a fish, dog. He saw me. That was kind of cool, wasn't it? Yeah. Well, another one following me back. He's not big, but hey, that was pretty sweet. This is a little hook set flop on the bank one motion. All right. Boop. Thank you, buddy. You can tell they don't want to eat it though. Why are they falling it to the bank like that? Like the last second they kind of turn. You know, it's not like they're actively hitting it. Those first two fish were kind of actively hitting it, but the rest of them just followed this sucker right up to the bank and they don't do anything about it.  Then again, that's like one of those things that should I be popping this more? Or should I slow it down? You know what I mean? Like should I steadily retrieve this thing and then just give it one little sporadic movement? You know what I mean? Maybe there needs to be more action with it.  It might just be tailing it, not really wanting it. But if it pops, it might commit. I thought it was a lot bigger than that. It was a good one though. That's the best one. Look at that. That's all the two and a half. So they don't act hyper and then you get them on the bank and they just pass out for you. Barely hooked though. That's a good two pound fish. Look at that. That's a chunky monkey. That's the ones that you want right there. I still want a four or five pounder, but gotta love those fat guys. Yeah. It's a nice one. All right, boys and girls. That's a nice little fish. We're upgrading. We're getting bigger. All right, we just came out of this other pond. See if we can get something rolling. Maybe they'll bite a little better in here. Not that they were biting bad, but it's just they're biting very weird. Like I said, this weather has been, not only has the weather been so bad, but it's been so inconsistent.  They're not biting how they really should be. We'll get some, we'll get some fish here in a minute. We're gonna cover a lot of water. Oh, that's how they should be roaming. That's a good one, dude. You see that boil to the right? Yeah, we might have caught it at the right time. That's a good fish, dude. It's fighting hard as it can be. Strong bass, man. Strong. Oh, look at him tug. It's a good little fish. He's only about a pound and a half, but dude, he was fighting like he's getting three pounds. Look at that. Just a brute, fat and chunky. We're good. There's the first one at the new pond. Well, we saw a couple of boils at the bank over here. You know, I was talking about it over there. We just never really saw that action. But over here, we've seen a few boil. Might get on a good bite. That's a little pound and a half here. So the main thing is, you know, I'm getting this chatter bait. I'm really paying attention to the bank. You know, when we're fishing out here, it don't matter where you're fishing. Lakes, rivers, ponds, it doesn't matter. The biggest thing, one of the most important things to fishing is keeping your eyes open and paying attention. Like I wouldn't have caught that first fish today if Cody wasn't watching right there.  So something to pay attention to when you're fishing. And right now, you know, I'm just casting down the bank. I'm watching for that activity. And then we're going to determine where we need to be putting our bait. So let's keep on casting.  Didn't even thump it. Nothing, straight load up action. Barely hooked to another little guy. That's cool. Guys, I want to talk about something too. We're kind of on a time crunch. You know, it's, it's actually about the rain. So we're like kind of trying to hustle. You know, we got like an hour to go.  You want to get out on the outdoors. I know a lot of guys that go out there for 30, 45 minutes on their lunch break. Well, one thing to do, especially if you're over here hitting ponds, just walk down the bank. There is something that you can cast like this.  Just go down the bank and cast a lot. And when you're on a time crunch, you can really run into more fish. The more cast that you throw, most of the time there's more bites. It depends on the day though. All depends where you're fishing too. You know, some fish might want something slower, but if you are on a time crunch and the weather's right, but you want a moving bait, cover it with some water, go down the bank, it's a good way to catch them. Thank you, baby. You see how I'm doing this right here guys? I'm casting and walking. I'm not stopping the whole time. Look at that. Here we go, baby. Just casting and walking. That's all we're doing. Another little tiny squirt. Man, we just can't get the big ones to eat today, but man, I'm enjoying it. Just coming out here, catching some fish. It's a good time. That's a little skinnier, dude. It's just a good time, baby. Walking and casting down that bank, covering water as much as we can. We beaming. That feels like a- I'm trolling, bro, on foot. I'm literally trolling on foot. People don't know about that one. I've never seen that one. He actually ate it pretty good. He felt big, dude. I was like, ah, dog. I mean, it's a good one. It's a good bass. Yeah. Yeah, I started walking down the bank, just reeling fast, guys. It looks like it's about to rain, so I was just going quick and he ate it. Doesn't make any sense, anything today. That was so cool. That was cool. Guys, that was sweet right there. I actually stopped the bait and I felt him just slam it. So I reeled up really quick and hooked at him. He's barely hooked, though, just like the rest of them.  If you guys enjoyed this video, please hit the like button. If you guys are new to the channel, hit the sub button. I'd really appreciate it if you could. Share this video with a friend and get them in the fishing because I love seeing more people getting outdoors. But I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please hit the like button. I'll catch you guys in the next one.


Validity of measurement or measurement validity whichever way you'd like to call it But the first things first folks Let's give you the most simple straightforward definition possible and we can just stop the video right there Are you measuring what you intend to measure? You do not measure my length Sorry, you did not measure my length I guess I could not measure my length with a with a bathroom scale Okay, it might be very reliable, right? It could be completely reliable and by the way reliability is a necessary component of validity You have to be reliable in order to be valid, but it's not the only component, right? So you're not going to measure my height with a bathroom scale, right? That's an invalid measurement It's not it's it's not a valid measurement tool for that particular construct You're trying to measure length then or height then you need to them use something that has I don't know like a I don't know a tape measure, but make sure your tape measure isn't made out of elastic Because a tape measure made out of elastic it may be measuring the right thing, but it's not going to give you a reliable score So it's not going to be valid So measurement validity measure what you intend to measure and make sure that there's reliability as a component


The King of the Cowboys, Roy Rogers. Transcribed from out of the West and into your home, riding the range of mystery and adventures, blazing the trail of Western story and song, with Roy Rogers' writers, that teller of tall tales, Gabby Hayes, the Queen of the West, Dale Evans, and in person, the King of the Cowboys himself, Roy Rogers. Well, howdy, folks. This is Roy Rogers. Buckaroos, did you read in the papers how constable Jerry Stuler captured Ken Tilden's gang of outlaws upstate? Well, Jerry Stuler was born right here in Paradise Valley. He's on his way home for a visit, and we're set to give him a royal welcome. I'd sure like to see him go to work on the wrestlers that are bothering our cattle. Let's see, right about now, Jerry should be on the bus somewhere between Squaw Creek and Mineral City. I wish I'd known about this celebration, Bob. I'd have asked the folks to call it all.  Yeah, but it looks as though I'm coming home to be fussed over. Honest, Bob, the only reason I have for getting back is to fix up the home ranch a little. With the reward money, eh? It'll mean an awful lot to me when I pull this $2,500 out of my pocket and say, Dad, suppose we... Hey, Jerry, I'll across the aisle. I wouldn't say too much about having money on you. Oh, that's all right, Bob. The bank at Pine Grove has a list of the serial numbers on the bill. Say, this bus is traveling pretty fast. For down the hill especially. Hang on! The brakes are gone! The bus's out of control! A accident. The bus. Jerry Stuller. Sheriff, is Jerry Stuller... He's hurt pretty bad, so are several others. Bob, I'm inclined to believe somebody left before help got here. Everybody was hurt, including yourself, at his pocket's pit. Jerry too? Jerry too. He was carrying that reward money. $2,500. Eh, wait, though. Maybe you can trace it. Jerry told me the bank at Pine Grove has a list of the serial numbers on the bill. Good, good. Bob, I'll wire the bank for that list. We'll have copies distributed to every place of business in the state. I'd rather get my hands on the man who robbed accident victims than any other outlaw in the world, who are making our lives miserable. Lists of the serial numbers are distributed quickly and quietly throughout the state. There's no publicity about it because publicity might frighten the thief. And every merchant, every clerk, every law officer wants the thief to try and pass the stolen money. They're waiting for him. For several days the money does not appear. Then early in the morning a customer is in Bob Benison's store. Dave Wyatt, a rancher of the state, is none too good. Eh, anything else I can get for you this morning, Mr. Wyatt? No, no, I don't believe so. And I'd better total this up. I wonder how long it'll be before our sheriff gets a rustling gang. Five pounds Axel Grease.  Meanwhile, they're driving off our herd. Yeah, I know. Two pounds, ten penny nails. They took 80 head and Charlie Corson when last night. And this comes to 780, Mr. Wyatt. 780, huh? Let's see. Here's $20. I think I can change it. Bob walks toward the money drawer, looking at the serial numbers on the $20 bill Dave Wyatt has given him. He pulls out the drawer, checks the bill against the list of numbers on the stolen money. His eyes open wide. One set of numbers on the list checks exactly. One is Jerry Stoolers. It was stolen from Jerry's pocket at the bus wreck. Bob tries to hide his excitement. Uh, I seem to be out of change, Mr. Wyatt. I'll run across the hotel. Day 11 will give me some change. You just wait here. Bob leaves his store, runs to the hotel. He saw Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes go inside a few minutes ago. Better to ask Roy for help than take time to go all the way down the street to the sheriff's office. Roy, here's one of the bills. Oh, howdy, Bob. One of what bills? Bob, yeah, pink brain lemon. When you start talking, you're supposed to sneak up on a subject, not bust into the middle of it. Now, Gabby. Dave, Wyatt, just give it to me. One of the bills that was stolen from Jerry Stooler and the bus accident. Dave? Well, Dave's been out of town for 10 days. Well, here's the bill. And Dave's still in my store waiting for change. I stall him. We'd better get over there, Pappy. Dave may be able to explain how he got this bill. And then we can really go to work. What I'm trying to say is it's none of your business where I got this money, but I'll tell you, I got it at the bank and cashed a check this morning. He's a party pine with purple feathers. You won't mind stepping over to the bank, will you, while we see if they can trace it down? Well, uh, well, no, I guess not. We'll go with you. Pappy, she bruh. Well, Roy, just a minute. I'll tell you the truth. I didn't get this 20 at the bank. I found it near where the bus crashed last night as I was coming home. You found the whole roll of bills, did you? Yes, yes, I did. At that time, I hadn't heard about the robbery. Where's the rest of the money, Dave? Home, in my safe. I had no idea whose it was. Let's go home and get it. I think the people who were hurt and had their pockets picked ought to have their money back as soon as possible, don't you? Just how much was it, Jerry Lost? $2,500. Oh, yes, yes, of course. I didn't count the money I found, you know. Just threw it here on top of my papers and money.  The other folks in that accident had their pockets picked too, Dave. They lost $155. The thief probably had the whole works in one place when he lost it. See now, $2,500 and $155 is how much. $5,500 and $9,000, carry one. Two and one's, uh, uh, oh, three. I always say do away with small numbers like one and two. They bother me. Here you are, Roy. This covers everything. Now, we're in the clear. Roy takes the money Dave way at Hanson. He and Gaby go outside. As they walk toward their horses, Roy thumbs through the bills, looking at the serial numbers. Five and five is nine. Five and zero is zero. Gaby, this money doesn't check. Just second, Roy, I'm adding up to see how much folks lost altogether. Roll trigger. Get on your horse. Sure thing. Zero and zero is... Only $200 of the money Dave handed us was stolen. The rest wasn't. What do you mean? Dave may be watching. Keep moving along. I doubt that he found this money at all. Well, he must have did something or he wouldn't have given it up. That's right. And the $200 of stolen money is too much to have without knowing where it came from. He got it either by selling something or working somewhere. Six-toed hypotenuse. Now he's trying to protect whoever gave it to him. Even to the point of making himself look suspicious. Roy, I'll bet you Dave got this $200 by doing something illegal. You hit the nail right on the head, Pappy. It's my radar brain. Pappy, once we get over this rise, they won't be able to see us from the house. I want you to hightail it into town and give the money to the sheriff. Good. On the way, I'll have a chance to figure the total. I'll wait here and see what happens. Dave's probably scared and mad. He'll ride out to find the man who gave the stolen money to him, and that's the man I want to see. Eat of the afternoon sun bears down upon Roy and Trigger as they wait in their place of concealment. Not once during the afternoon does Wyatt leave his house. That in itself is strange, for a rancher seldom stays indoors. Then as darkness falls, Roy sees Wyatt slip through the back door and walk rapidly toward the corral. At the same time, he hears horses approaching from the direction of town. Gabby has returned bringing Dale with him. You all right, Roy? Keep your horses quiet. We hadn't heard from you, so we thought we'd better come out. Dave Wyatt's got some alhoot riders working for him. I haven't seen any of him so far, but I'm glad you came. Dave's getting ready to pull out. Even as Roy speaks, a lone figure rides through the blindness. Dave Wyatt. He's leaving his home after dark, riding away from town. His horse, traveling fast, passes within a few feet of where Roy, Dale, and Gabby are standing. Let him get ahead, then we'll follow. Ride off to the side of the trail where the ground's soft. We don't want Wyatt to know he's being followed. Unconscious passengers were robbed. All Paradise Valley waited for the stolen money to appear. Roy discovered Dave Wyatt had $200 of it in his possession. And Roy, Dale, and Gabby have trailed Wyatt through the night. For several miles, he's ridden toward the border. Now, he has stopped near what appears to be a deserted cabin. Pull up, Dale and Gabby. Oh, good girl. We'll keep out of sight until we see what Dave is going to do with that cabin. Five and five, right. Looks to me like he's scared and is trying to run out. I hope not. I've got my heart set on finding a man who gave him the stolen money. Hero and hero is, well, call it one. If somebody did pass the stolen money to him and he didn't steal it himself. He couldn't have stolen it, Dale. He's been out of town. Hey, somebody's in that cabin. Look, Dave's knocking at the door. He sure is. Let's move up a little. If they light a lamp, we can watch what goes on through the window. Huge boulders docked the area around the cabin. Roy, Dale and Gabby move in behind one of the largest of these, directly opposite the cabin's window. As they watch, someone inside the cabin lights a lantern and opens the door. They're too far away to hear, but they see this man welcome Dave Wyatt. Wyatt pushes past him into the cabin. An argument seems to be taking place. Wyatt can be seen shouting, waving his fists. The other man shakes his head as though denying some charge as Wyatt is making. Suddenly, Wyatt becomes enraged. His hand flashes to his holster, bringing up a gun. He hits the second man on the head, hard. The man falls. Wyatt hesitates and bends down, reaches into the man's pocket and takes a money wallet. He counts out a sum of money, places it in his own pocket, then walks out of the cabin. He's the one who gave Dave the stolen money. Dave's replaced it now. Sure must be more to this than we thought. Are we going to let Dave get away, Roy? We can pick him up anytime, Dale. But the man inside the cabin interests me more right now. Let's find out about him. Chuck, this told it out like a light. I never will get time to figure out how much 2,500 and 155 make. He's not hurt, just knocked out. Do you know him, Roy? I've seen him hanging around town the past couple of months. They call him Chris.  Dave Wyatt's place? Roy, be careful. What those alhoot riders Dave has will do anything. Something's been going on here, Dale, and I aim to find out what it is. Roy, this fella must be hurt worse than we thought. Well, he's been unconscious all the way here. Five, five, eleven. Yeah, we probably better send for a doctor. Wrap on the door, will you? Sure. Get Dave out here. Eleven, that means carry one. I thought like you did, but he was just unconscious. We may have to change our plans. Two and one is all of them dog-eared small numbers again. Gabby, what are you doing? I'm acting up to see how much money Dave Wyatt's given us to see before. Well, you'd better get your mind on what's happening here. There's have to be plenty of trouble. My mind is on what's happening here. Every time this porcupine started to come to, ain't I jarred his chin and put him to sleep again? Dave's coming to the door. Roger. Sorry to bother you, Dave, but we found the man who'd been hurt. Well, I'm trying to get some rest. Well, your place was nearer than anyone else's. What do we do, Roy? Lay him on the bunk? Yeah. Dave, come on over here. I want you to see if you know this man. How would I know him? I'm not acquainted with all the riffraff and paradise valley. Take a look at him, Dave. Dave glances across the room at the unconscious man. An expression of fright crosses his face. Come over close so you can be sure. I don't even know the man. Dave is backing away from the bunk and from Roy toward the other side of the room.  Dave has reached the door that leads to another room. He flings it open. Hey, come on out. I need help. Get your gun, Roy. Watch it, Roy. Hard, bitten, ugly-faced outlaws come to the doorway toward Roy. Dave, Wyatt's hired gunman. I didn't want to do this, Rogers. I tried not to, but you asked for it. They all hoots use their guns. Roy throws himself back out of the way. Dave and Gabby drop to the floor. Now in a split second after the first volley, Roy levels his own gun. A pistol drops from the hand of the nearest outlaw. Another shot from Roy's gun. Another outlaw hand is empty. While the gunmen are still frozen in their places, Roy acts. Come on, Gabby. We can do this without guns. He lunges. A man goes down. Now Gabby's fist finds its mark. Dave stops the man trying to go past her with a chair. Only three are left. Two gang up on Roy. He leaps to a table. He comes crashing down on them. They fall. Mourning. Fighting. They're through. Finished. Roy gets to his feet. Good work, Dave and Gabby. The man on the bunk. The man you said was called Chris. Where is he, Roy? He got away, Rogers. Chris stole one of the horses and it's gone. I tried to stop him, but I couldn't. But who is he, Dave? It's time you were talking. He's the man you want, Rogers. He's the one who stole the money after that bus accident.  Who's cattle did you sell, Dave? Where'd you come from? I came to get you, Roy. I stuck around because I enjoy watching a good fight. All right, Dave, who's cattle did you sell to Robert Griffith? My own, my own. Your neighbor's not your own and don't tell me different. We've got your rustling gang cornered in the blind canyon. We bagged one of them and he confessed. You're the leader. You get back. I'm getting out of here. No, you're not. You're staying. What about Griffith, Sheriff? More than likely we'll find him with the rustlers we've got cornered.  Let's get going then. There's nothing I like better than hunting rustlers. Dozen rustlers, tough, grim and battle-scarred, ride slowly out of the canyon. Their hands above their heads, their holsters empty. Their game is over. The only thing ahead is prison. They approach the posse. One biter suddenly puts spurs to his horse and tries to break through the line. There goes good real, Sheriff. What's the others? I'll get him. Come on, Trigger. Trigger wheels, breaks into a gallop and is after the outlaw's horse while Roy reaches for his rope. The outlaw's lead grows less, with Trigger taking great strides against it. Gaining, gaining, gaining. The rope is burning above Roy's head now. The two horses are almost opposite each other. Roy throws his rope. It settles about grip shoulders. The last of the outlaw gang is taken. They're herded toward Minerval City and Chale. As they file into the building, Bob Benison is watching. Roy, that one fellow, he said opposite Jerry Stooler and me on the bus the day of the accident. I warned Jerry he was watching us when Jerry was talking about his money. He's the man who robbed the passengers after the accident, Bob. If it hadn't been for that, we might not have had this rustling gang quite so soon. Once the outlaws are in jail, Roy and Gabby ride down Main Street with Dale toward her hotel. One million seven hundred and eighty-five. What, Gabby? Just think, Dale. Roy and me was carrying one million seven hundred and eighty-five dollars yesterday afternoon. Where was I when this happened, Gabby? Well, it was me. Don't you remember? Dave White gave us... Dave White gave us twenty-five hundred dollars. Plus a hundred fifty-five more. And if twenty-five hundred and a hundred fifty-five don't make one million seven hundred and eighty-five dollars, then I sure wasted my time adding all day. Shall I tell him, Roy? Or will you? Let's neither of us this time, Dale. But the next time he goes to do any arithmetic in his head, just slip him a pencil and a piece of paper and have a first grader show him what to do.  You've been on the trail all day. Can't you hear that Sandman calling? Time to put your toys away.  Time you headed for the bunkhouse. Little man, your chores are clean. It's round up time. Come along, your battle and your old trusty cap gun. Come along. Right in the head. Multiply, digit. Why I even square-rooted that trigonometry right in the head once. When a man does a thing like that, you can't offer him a pencil and paper to do a simple Latin problem. Now, can you? Find someone to pet a senorita, a sweet perpeta. Forget if he's insistent and she's not distant.  If they find the promise that they have in store, they'll be counting little chico's by the store. This is Roy Rogers saying to all of you, from all of us, goodbye, good luck and may the good Lord take a liking to you. See you next week. This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service, The Voice of Information and Education.


It has been such an essential part of my education at Mount Holyoke to have so many people in the classroom who come from places other than where I'm from. When you come into Mount Holyoke the biggest thing is that everyone's really different. They have their own story. Being exposed to so many different kinds of people is a place where everyone is accepted no matter your background, your perspectives, where you come from. When I come back to Mount Holyoke I feel so lucky to be a part of such a diverse inclusive campus. Really just having that community to go back to at the end of the day has helped me feel like I belong here at Mount Holyoke. Everyone is coming in with these different life experiences whether it be cultural diversity, religious diversity, socioeconomic diversity.  It's pretty great. It's really exciting to know that we have friends from all over the world that we can continue to be in touch with even after we leave Mount Holyoke in South Hadling.