Well there's a guy who finessed his way and boosted his followers on Instagram using the AI music finesse and people were some people were really messing with his music using a big name in this case, Ice Spice. Let's just share it on a screen real quick if you listen on the podcast just let my voice soothe you and take you through the journey. Welcome to the underground. It's the IG page that posted it. So that was the page you use for promo and the slide is Ice Spice and this rapper that you don't know, right? When you first see it, obviously, it says breaking news. Ice Spice. She thought I was feeling you the fact that got though in there just just cosigned this artist in recent interview. Ice Spice just cosigned this artist in a recent interview. Listen to this clip right here. JD's birthday is like my favorite artist right now. At first it weirded me out that he was like using my name for promo and stuff, but I keep hearing his song Pink Floyd when I'm scrolling on TikTok and it finally got stuck in my head. Heard that? JD's birthday. JD's birthday is like my favorite artist right now.  So let's break this down. Some of y'all are watching the clip, the YouTube folks. Shout out to y'all. But the problem is you might be able to see that it's obvious that she's not actually saying this. If you watch close enough, or if you've just seen enough AI combinations, but it's her voice, right? So if you're just watching on a regular scroll, not paying full attention, it really does seem like Ice Spice is sitting in this interview talking about this JD's birthday. God, all right? Now this is where we get into some promo tip too. Because the way that sentence was formed, right? The way he broke that down and said it, it felt realistic, right? Like at first it was weirding me out. So I don't know who this artist is. Like if you're just listening as a fan, I don't know who JD's birthday is. But at first it was weirding me out. So it kind of sounds like he might be a nobody, right? Just saying, like throwing my name, using me for promo, da, da, da, da, da, all right? But he won me over.  So that whole way of presenting it, like really made it feel more realistic. Now, if he really was able to nail the AI aspect, he should have spent a little bit more time on that finding somebody who could have, you know, really made it feel more realistic in terms of like catching the audio with the video. Like he probably would have passed for even longer. Yeah, that would have been scary at that point. He could have gotten the video off, yeah. That's what I'm saying. Because we know there are those AIs that can take the mouth and like move with it. You should have went that extra step because the plan was genius. Instead of me just doing some AI song or like, or me like playing with an artist and having them rap one of their verses or a famous artist doing another artist's verse or something like that. No, like how can I use the AI to promote myself? So he got this paid for on an Instagram public blog page, welcome to the underground and they did a collab post, right? So he has how many followers right now? It's not an enormous amount, but he has 7,700 followers, but I'm not gonna really play a song not to like hate on them. It's just that these copyright strikes otherwise, bruh, I would show the song love and we would play it. Sure, check out JD's birthday. They is like my favorite. Decide for yourself if you like it. But that's another thing. You can do all these strategies just like anything else and people gotta like it or not. So you can do all these interesting things. Please still have quality music.  Yeah, yeah. And like I said, gotta be believable. Gotta be believable. Some level believable. Some level, right, right, right. Let's look at some of the comments though. Let's see, like how this goes. Bro, no way niggas use AI for promo. So people are just happy with it. Like, you know, entertain by the idea. AI voiceovers for promo are crazy. See people, and this is the thing. Even when it's clear that it's a fake, people appreciate your attempts at creativity. Like they appreciate you for trying to get one over on them. If it feels like it's in good.  Yeah, I see what's going on. And I mean, even if it wasn't an AI finesse or something like that trying to finesse them, just any attempt at like trying to do something on another level, people, they can sense it. It might not be something worth commenting on this type of level, but they can sense when you try and when you just like, you know, you just show up. Yeah. All right.  It's there most people are deeper down from others.  We all got it. It's so weird to see where the world is heading. Next thing you know, well, the kid 23 said this. Next thing you know, you'll be in court trying to prove something you never said. Man, we call that relationships. And they'll have an AI recording all of your voice saying that exact thing. So now you automatically guilty.  She want him people playing in with it. Keep pushing. Let's go. The dumbest and lamest thing. Any I've seen anyone do to get attention. Bro said, I got no real way of showcasing my talent.   This is a very bad take. This is a very bad take. Like this is first of all, this is way dumber things to do than this. Second of all, this ain't that serious. You got attention. And there's a lot of things. This is like, you actually took time and put some thought into this, which that's what I appreciate. For real, for real. She'll probably call some money because I know these AI programs ain't cheap. Yeah. Or free at least. Right. Free. Exactly.  All right, cool. Now with that being said, actually, let me pull something up right quick. Quick second. Have you ever seen an artist catch some traction and then they start to move? The numbers start to grow. They might even go viral, but then fast forward a year from now, somehow their numbers haven't really grown that much. They dropped back close to the same monthly listeners they had before the traction and viral moment. Well, that's because you have to know how to convert those moments into careers. And we've done this again and again with not only songs, but artists. And so has J.R. McKee, who's been a part of helping artists like Lil Durk, Rod Wave, Justin Scott, and Money Long. And we just did a collab where J.R. McKee does a step-by-step breakdown of how he took Money Long from zero to millions of monthly listeners and winning a Grammy over Beyoncé, Mary J. Blize, and Jasmine Sullivan. Check out this breakdown while we still have it up. You can check it out at www.brandmannetwork.com slash Grammy. Don't forget the www or it won't work. Again, that's www.brandmannetwork.com slash Grammy. Back to the video. All right, speaking of promo, I can't find a post, but Sean, I got to give my apologies. So I don't know if you remember, South by Southwest episode, I showed that post where they do is had a promo with the truck on the back and all that stuff. And I was talking about how they could have did better ways of promo. So I sent it to the chat, but I couldn't, I don't know, I feel like they must have took it down or something. I couldn't find it, but they posted a video and they like chopped up my, me talking about them, right? I guess they must have watched the podcast and they have somebody, they chopped up the video and it was like me saying, I would have had the video recording cause we didn't see nobody recording a video. And I would have had, I don't know, let's just say your name or something like that. And they'll chop up like them doing their name.  It was one thing that I was writing about, but they didn't like record or I gave them credit for it. They didn't put that out there. Point is they did do it. They did a lot of things. Now I feel like there's a lesson in that.   It's like when you almost walked out on a buddy but you stayed cause he finally hit that right part of the song. Yeah, the right song, yeah, yeah. Right, so that's the lesson there, which I wouldn't do my own things with that. Like damn, how can I make almost every second I'm doing this, like catch as much as possible? But two, they did exactly what I would have did too. I would have chopped me up and promote that. And that's why I'm mad. I can't find it cause like I would have promoted harder. You know what I'm saying? Or I mean, like even if they didn't promote, I wanted to like show love and post it. But the point also still stands, doing those things, right? Making sure if you do in a creative event, that's why I thought about it cause it's I spiced posts and promo posts is creative. If you do something creative, you wanna make sure it gets seen, make sure you record it. Make sure you like people know who you are when you do it in the real world. The most important thing is recording though. I'm not gonna even get into the other details. Y'all could watch that episode back. Most important thing is recording, which is something that they did. Cause my whole point was like, bro y'all doing this all this amazing creative shit, but you gotta make sure it gets recorded. So that still stands point fact is they did it. With that being said, since I can't show y'all the posts cause I couldn't find it. Let's move on to this other AI idea. Like we're talking about the creativity, how you move with your campaigns, the ice spice posts, like really paying attention to the details, make it feel realistic as possible. Just those small nuances, right?


وإن شاء الله اليوم نريد أن نفتح المفاولة في هذا المشكل لأن في مباشرة نجد نفسنا في المشكلة المشكلة سرية من المشكلة المشكلة سرية من المشكلة المشكلة في المشكلة المعرفة في المشكلة العام على اذاح نجد نفسنا في المشكلة المشكلة وفاعتمه when we look at the concept of marriage especially when we look at the lives of the imams especially عالي وفاعتمه because on one aspect we find that yes their marriage was blessed فالسول الله كانت مجموعة في مجموعةهم الله سبحانه وتعالى قلت هذه المجموعة في المنطقة قبل المنطقة لكننا نجد هذا على أول أسبب كأننا نكون جداً جداً جداً في حياتنا كما نرى لدينا مجموعة من المنطقة وفي many occasions نجد مجموعة من فاطمة الزهراء في which الله سبحانه وتعالى يتكلم للمجموعة الإسلام لو لاك لما خلقت الأفلاك لدينا مجموعة ثم يقول لولا علي لما خلقتك يعني ما؟ إذا it wasn't for Fatima I would not have created any of the one of you but before it he says if it wasn't for Ali I would not have created you and then before that he says if it wasn't for you I would not have created the universe or it might be a plural he's saying universe is the majority of it now let's find that yes these people have a significance in our life these people play a vital role but when we take their life how much of it do we have but when we take their life how much of it do we actually apply when we learn about the story of the marriage of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima al-Tazahra how much do we learn from it now insha'Allah tonight in 15 minutes that I have I want to talk firstly about having role models and the importance of learning in a practical manner not just a theoretical manner that's number one number two I want to look at the marriage of Ali and Fatima and look at the specific aspect of it that applies to us which is in our days the mahar and insha'Allah we try to learn from this and try to put it on a 21st century basis what's happening within our communities what's the walls that have been put up and especially in cases which people want to get married now insha'Allah by the end of tonight we want to learn that yes we can apply Ali ibn Abi Talib's marriage and Fatima al-Tazahra's marriage to our own lives and insha'Allah you can help me by starting tonight with the loud Salawat Ala Muhammad and Ali Muhammad now the importance firstly of role models that we have is that when we look at role models often when you ask the youth and insha'Allah we have a lot of youth in front of us tonight when we ask them who do you look up to you find many of the youth that's insha'Allah in front of me and they say that one of their role models will be Ronaldo and everyone's up and they say what Ronaldo many other people say that Messi is my role model and they actually look up to them saying that these are the people that I want to strive to be like these are the people that I hang posters on my walls these are the people that I Google from time to time to keep up with their lives how much goals have they scored what they're coming in the ladder where is Maryam Adrid coming or where is Barcelona coming who do they have as their next fixtures who are they going to verse what are the likely outcomes they read reviews and they occupy themselves learning in the people that they look up to such as that we refer to earlier such as Ronaldo and Messi being sportsmen of the 21st century and arguably two of the best players in the world yes without a shadow of doubt but when we look at the aspect of role models and we find the youth that yes they're attached to such and such these two figures in history we find they've occupied all their time learning about these figures understanding these figures understanding their lives understanding how they became what they became even often you see people are having the same haircuts people having their jerseys people updating their statuses but when we look at and question how much do we know about our Imam have we questioned how much we know about Ali ibn Abi Talib have the females questioned themselves how much do they know about Fatima tu al-Zahra what year after heger did they get married what age did they get married what they did in their marriage ceremonies what they gave up in their marriage ceremonies why are they looked at and when Allah SWT teaches us about who to have as role models who refers to these in union now obviously there's lessons to be learnt when we look at role models such as the superstars that we the soccer superstars that we mentioned earlier we find that they may be good in one aspect which is the sport that they play which is soccer however if we find that we want to follow every single footstep of their life that's where the problem comes if they have a haircut for example that doesn't occupy itself or looks it looks doesn't occupy and go hand in hand with that of a religious background if someone sees that haircut and says well you know what that person may elude to not being religious that haircut is still taken upon it says doesn't matter Ronaldo wore it Ronaldo did such and such Messi listens to this this music Messi goes to these places so they follow in every aspect and that's where the danger lies yes we look at them as good superstars we try to follow them in let's say soccer perspective for those soccer fanatics however we don't apply everything to our lives and that's where the importance of a perfect role model comes into perspective yes the people that we follow nowadays that are fallible we don't follow them in everything however when Allah gives to us from the Holy Quran He gives us nothing but perfection when He gives us the examples of the prophets nothing but perfection when He gives us the examples of the imams nothing but perfection that's why whatever story we hear whatever line we hear from these people we know that's perfect and also not only is it perfect that we can apply it to our lives each every individual can look at a particular hadith and discover new ways in which to apply it to their lives every story that we hear from the imams and the prophets the more we gain knowledge and we hear the same story it has a different effect on us a different parameter a different dynamic in which it may apply because of that new knowledge that we have the same as the Holy Quran the more we learn about Ahl al Bayt the more we increase in wisdom increase in knowledge the second time we read that particular line in the Holy Quran it may have 6 or 7 new meanings that we didn't even think about and that's the aspect in perfection when we follow these role models we will keep elevating we will keep going up in the eyes of Allah سبحانه وتعالى now the question arises is in aspect that we want to talk about tonight which is the aspect of marriage when we look at the marriage of Ali and Fatima what can we say that we are not applying to our lives what aspect can we take from their lives and say that you know what theoretically yes I believe that Ali and Fatima was a beautiful marriage yes I believe that their Mahar was arguably around about from 460 in some narrations other narrations say that 480 ounces of silver that was the Mahar because when Ali ibn Abi Talib came to the prophet of Islam the prophet asked him what do you have oh Ali and he says I have that which is a horse and I have a shield and the prophet says no you'll need your horse for your work you'll need your sword to defend Islam however you are not need of a shield sell it and whatever comes from its value bring it forth as dowry and that's how we have the mustahab dowry nowadays which is arguably between 460 to 480 ounces of silver now when we take that aspect nowadays when we look at the life of Imam Ali and Fatima to Zahra when he came to the proposal the prophet of Islam did he not have any other proposal except Ali ibn Abi Talib did no one else came to Fatima to Zahra and asked for a hand on the contrary there's narrations that tell us that there was no one in the Arabian Peninsula except asked for the hand of Fatima to Zahra people that came and offered wealth upon wealth people came and said I will offer you a thousand dinas because that's the aspect that they had this was the major aspect of counting units which was a thousand so if someone says I'll come with a thousand thousands it's a million isn't it I said that's how much gold I will offer when Ali ibn Abi Talib he doesn't say I have learnt from the prophet of Islam one million doors of knowledge he says that he has taught me one thousand doors of knowledge and from each door one thousand other opens up meaning one million doors of knowledge so that's the aspect of an absolute or a major number of value when they come to the proposal and say I will give you a thousand thousand coins for a dowry of Fatima to Zahra do you think he will be bought out by money do you think the prophet is selling his daughter no he didn't look for value he didn't look for money he didn't say well this persons offered me fifty thousand you should offer me more only then will I accept your offer no nowadays when we look at our daughters when we look at our sisters when we find a person that comes to propose they didn't ask for the question well does he pray five times a day does he attend the mosques what is his عقيدة like how religious is he how much knowledge does he know what's the first question what's he working how much does he make in a week what property does he have what car does he drive these are the questions nowadays and even when the fathers accept when you come towards the daughters the daughters will ask the same question yes I've accepted you that's not a problem but my friend they've offered her fifty thousand dowry how is it that I don't have fifty thousand you think I'm less than this person I'm not less than such and such friend of mine why is it that she should have fifty and I shouldn't have fifty if not more and that's where we begin to have problems within the community this person was what was looking in a reference point to her friend my friend had fifty thousand how is it I don't have fifty thousand more if you compare that's where the that's where the downfall of society lies when you compare other than that of what Allah has given you the comparison when Allah says the comparison and the red line and the reference point to all your marriages should be Ali and Fatima we don't look at our friends and the people that have made it within societies the people that are when you open a magazine and you open the TVs and you say to yourself well this such and such person had such and such wedding dress she had such and such palace for her wedding it doesn't buy you happiness you ask anyone in our knee approaching eight billion population ask anyone has money bought you happiness and look at the reply you get you find that people living in palaces that only can be explained or described as a heaven on earth you go into those palaces that people dream of going towards and you find there's not one corner of that palace that has a scent of happiness the father is in a corner the mother is in a corner the daughter has problems upon problems the son is causing mischief left right and center where you find there could be a house made of clay a house made of nothing simple simple house however it has happiness bursting from every corner such as the house of Ali and Fatima when we have the reference point of Mahar that's our Imam's occupied and said our mother Fatima had such and such Mahar no way will we ask or we will allow anyone of us to have something higher that's the reference point that you want to have when someone comes and approaches don't look at how much he has in the bank don't look at how much he makes in a week because one day he can be making hundreds of thousands in all the way sustenance can take it all the way be happy you have health people occupy their wealth there's a person as I don't want to mention his name but this person was a racing legend billions upon billions he occupied during his time then he had an accident and he's paraplegic and he spent all his wealth that he's occupied amongst the ease trying to find the cure for what we have when we thank Allah SWT we just don't thank him enough Ali ibn Abi Talib has a beautiful narration saying if I want to only say thank you I should have a thank you for being allowed to say thank you towards that which you have blessed me with so in actual fact I could never say thank you enough for giving me the blessing of the word thank you imagine that's Ali ibn Abi Talib nowadays when we're in a position of power and someone asks for our daughters or our sister's hands in marriage the questions 21 questions if he doesn't meet these criteria then next until our sisters and our daughters become of an age where he says well you know what I should have said yes to such and such person he was a mu'min or when they marry for wealth or when they marry for looks they say I should not have married for this because wealth goes looks go what stays is religiosity when the prophet of Islam says to us he says if you marry for three reasons and there is a fourth if you marry for three I guarantee you that these three will be removed but if you marry for the fourth I guarantee you the three what are they he says number one people will marry for good looks as if someone may find someone extremely attractive you can't take your eyes away and you go towards your parents I can't dad I can't if you don't marry me to this person that's it I'm gonna commit suicide I don't know how I'm gonna live on the other aspect you find that this person when he marries to this person that he married only for the sake of good looks of what he attained as good looks you go and ask that person and you say to him well what happened he says well yes she has good looks but her tongue is not that very good looking her speech isn't very good looking her أخلاق isn't the best of أخلاق he says well where's the looks now he says well the looks have been degrading in my eyes ever since the prophet says that he says if you marry for good looks Allah will make that person that you married for good looks lower in your eyes and appear to be that which is not very good looking because of the mannerisms because of the أخلاق he says number two people marry for wealth he says if you marry for wealth and it goes both hands by the way I'm talking in a male perspective going towards the female or a female perspective marrying the male for that purpose it's a equilibrium it's a balance it's not just for the males or for the females it's on both contexts if you marry for wealth the prophet says what he says if you marry for wealth Allah guarantees that that will diminish number three he says number three if you marry for lineage and we're not saying obviously from good lineage as in such and such is the son of a pious man it's different when you marry for lineage it's because he's a son or she's a daughter of a king or a queen it will give you prestige it will give you some position you marry for a position let's say this person is the CEO of a company if I marry him I will be elevated in the ranks or the eyes of my friends he says Allah will make sure that your lineage will not be that of a good lineage after that's why you marry he says however there is a fourth reason that you may marry that will Allah will bless you with the other three what is it he says religiosity if you find a man that's religious or if you find a woman that's religious and you marry them because of their piousness because of their piety their closeness to Allah سبحانه وتعالى he says Allah will guarantee you the other three he will guarantee you wealth he will guarantee you sustenance he will guarantee that that spouse will be beautiful in your eyes because of how much you can see Allah through them and he says your lineage he says your lineage will be that of a good lineage a respected lineage a person that will come to inherit you will be that will raise your name not degrade your name he says that's important aspects to look at when you're looking for a spouse he says that's a very important aspect and that's something we can learn from the marriage of Ali and Fatemeh nowadays when someone wants to go out and try to get married nowadays there's something that they have to get ready for financially they have to get ready for mentally physically whereas if we look at the time of our prophets no you didn't have to save 50 to 100,000 to get married no you look at the story of سلمان المحمدي once upon a time he goes past a place by the name of Median and he finds himself in a place where it's enclosed but it has four corners and people were situated in every corner so he says I remember the prophet saying that it is very recommended and it's actually looked down upon not to sleep with a spouse on a night he says okay he says I remember this as I was going to sleep that night he says one of the corners look at the beauty of this narration and try to apply it to a 21st century try to see if nowadays we can apply this particular situation سلمان الفارسي what does he say he says I saw an old man with his daughter in one of the corners he says I went to that man I asked him he said he says oh man he says I am سلمان المحمدي I am one of the companions of the prophet of Islam I was a person that was on the time of the prophet of Islam I was a person which saw the prophet I was a person in which has instilled with the prophet I have talked with the prophet I was one of his companions he says yes not a problem he says what is it he says I have heard the prophet say such about getting married that you should always sleep with a spouse and not sleep by yourself and it's very recommended he says will you not marry me your daughter look at the beauty of the narration so the person says not a problem he goes to his daughter he doesn't say yes or no from his own instance he goes to his daughter he says oh daughter he says I have a person outside he says that his name is سلمان المحمدي he says that he knows the prophet that he is friends with the prophet he was a companion he saw the prophet he lived with the prophet he says and he is proposed for you what did you say what have you to say she says not a problem not a problem the narration stays look at the beauty of the narration he says from that instance the father read the he took the hand of his daughter put it into سلمان المحمد he says go that's it you are married go nowadays we might look at this as wow but nowadays we actually the same smile that we have the same laughter that we have in such an instance should be tears dripping down our faces do you know why brothers and sisters is because the more that we have increased this in difficulty the less people are getting married the more people that are not getting married the more males in the households the more females in the households the easier you make it for the religious people the easier Allah سبحانه وتعالى will make it for them in their future lives the less you will see calamities within the society that we live in the more beauty you will see in the religion of Islam when we call ourselves when we call ourselves when we call ourselves do we question ourselves how much do we actually learn from him because to be a Shi'a of someone means that you share from the same mentalities you share from the same ideologies you share from the same stories you learn from the same principles you apply to your life that which you preach that it's to become a Shi'a to be a Shi'a is to follow in the footsteps of the Shi'a of Ali ibn Abi Talib it means you're in the same footsteps as Ali ibn Abi Talib stepped when Imam Hussein on the 10th of Muharram referred to the opposition he also called them Shi'a but he called them the Shi'a of the opposition the followers in the footsteps of the opposition didn't he didn't call them the Shi'a of Ali ibn Abi Talib no, Shi'a means followers but how much do we follow that's the question we have to put into our lives brothers and sisters how much do we actually follow from the prophet of Islam and I end on this narration insha'Allah because there's a beauty in it when the prophet of Islam is asked he says oh prophet I love you he says get ready for poverty get ready to give up that which you love get ready for that and I've mentioned this narration but when he said Ali ibn Abi Talib says I love Ali what was the reply what was the reply of the prophet of Islam when someone says I love Ali ibn Abi Talib and I try to be like him what did he say he says prepare for calamities he says it's not an easy task that you know when a person by the name of Abdullah ibn Ya'qub comes towards in the time of the ma'moon the grand chief of the time by the name of Yahya ibn Akthem and he was bear witnessing for a specific incident he was a witness Yahya ibn Akthem looked at him he says well I'm obviously going to take your witness because of the position of the person you are he says you're a man of piety we know that you're a man that stays up night in ibadah I would have taken your bear witnessing except look at this narration it says except that you have one small aspect in you that I may hesitate to take you as a witness he says what is it he says they say that you have an inclination towards the people that call themselves روافظ did you see that aspect he says you are a pious man a man that stays up the night and I would not hesitate to take you as a righteous witness except that I know that you lean towards the people that call themselves روافظ meaning what and that's instance the person begins to cry so I am thinking that he offended him by saying that you may be of the Shi'a he says don't get me wrong I didn't mean to say that you are of the Shi'a I have stories that say you incline towards those people the person says don't get me wrong I am not crying because you've said that about me I am crying because you've associated me with people that I wish to be towards on the day of judgment when we take this into perspective brothers and sisters and we end on this note we want to pray to Allah on this blessed night that Allah will grant all those that are unmarried will make it easier for the parents for the children for the men for the women that are unmarried to be married will stand under this particular دوم or this roof next year and we will know that our sisters and our brothers are married and we pray to Allah that he makes it easy as he made it easy for Ali Ibn Abi Talib and Fatima Al-Zahra we pray to Allah that he may allow us to stay firm on this religion to follow in their footsteps and not to go against anything that they teach or preach to us with this blessed night with the Surah Al-Mubarakat Al-Fatiha but before the 3 of your loudest Salawat على محمد وقال محمد


My name is Andrew Booser. I'm the Executive Director of Senior Resources. While I did have a birthday this week, I'm not quite old enough to be a member at the Lori Center, but we're excited to serve the older adults here in Columbia in those over 50. Last August, our boards of the Lori Center and its senior resources unified the two nonprofit organizations under one umbrella. And so this is our first year working together in a formal way. And I want to recognize the board members that are here today. If you're on the board, senior resources or from the Lori Center organization or on the advisory teams that are working, if you just raise your hand so we can recognize you real quickly. Thank you all so much for your energy and time. One of the most exciting new developments in this process has been a renewed energy and partnership with the City of Columbia. Over the last spring and summer, the City Council really encouraged further collaboration between the two organizations in the community. And so today, thanks to the council's support, we have a great announcement that's going to make the city residents more accessible to the Lori Center. Thanks to this new partnership, all senior or all older adults over the age of 50 can have a membership to the Lori Center free of charge. And so we're really excited to offer this. It makes the Lori Center more accessible than ever. So thanks to the city. It's really a great way to keep our older adult community, those who are still working and retirees to make make Columbia a place that that is great for all to live in. And here to speak a little bit, we were honored today to have Mayor Daniel Rickman and Mayor Rickman if you'll come up. I'll turn the mic over to you. Good morning everyone. It's great to see you here. I'm glad I'm getting a free membership because I am one of those people over 50. A proud AARP member as well. But no, we're really excited about it. I think Andrew captured it well when he used the word re-energize because I believe that's what it is because it never went away. But the re-energization of this facility is incredible. And the plans that I've just heard, you know, about the investment that's going to come here, the updating, the programming. And no, you will not see me in the Zumba class because I've seen those ladies. I don't think I could keep up with that crowd in the Zumba class. But no, we're just really excited to be more part of it. And I think there's more things to come. There are more opportunities than there ever been for us to invest in our senior population. And obviously, you know, we have our former Senator Lurie here who this senator is named after. His father, of course, is an incredible individual and gave so much as community. Heather Bauer, Representative, is in the back. Heather, raise your hand so they can see you who has been instrumental in making sure that funding gets here today. So, you know, working together and a collaborative effort. And I think you heard that word from Andrew as well, collaborative. That's how we move forward. So we're excited. Enjoy your membership. Enjoy what's coming. There's a lot more to come. I think Andrew's going to keep having press conferences every other month announcing all the great things, which is exciting. But if we can do anything for anyone, any issues that are up, we're here. Just want you to know that City Council is fully on board and supporting not only the Lurie Center and its new partnership and collaboration, but also we're fully engaged with our community and we want to make sure that you know that you have access to all of us 24-7. I do try to sleep between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., but other than that, I'll be around. But thank you so much, Andrew. Thank you, Mayor Rickman. As he said, you know, the Lurie Center has really been a part of this community for a long time for over 30 years and it's really continuing a tradition of re-energizing and for this facility it was named after the late Senator Isidore Lurie and we we're honored to continue his legacy today and we're also happy to have his son, Joel Lurie, former Senator and current billboard extraordinaire. I think I've seen him on every billboard from here to Myrtle Beach. And Joel, if you would, if you come up, I'd love for you to make a few comments on how this is important to the Lurie family. Good afternoon. Come on now, we got a lot of active seniors in this room here. We can do better than that. Good afternoon. Much better. Thank you. I just want to thank, first of all, Mayor Rickman for the great support that he and City Council give the Lurie Center. Representative Bowell, I saw you back there. Just, you know, you've done really great work and helped them provide some funding solutions. But I want to take you back. It was about 10 years ago this year, Andrew, about this time that Bob Covell, who used to be former Mayor Bob Covell, who used to be on the board, maybe chairman of the board of something at that time called the Capitol Senior Center. Raise your hand if you remember the Capitol Senior Center. Okay. And Bob came to me and we're old friends, dear friends. In fact, he was when he was in law school, he clerked at my father's law firm. And he said, Joel, we are thinking about rebranding the Capitol Senior Center as the Lurie Center and name it after your late father. My dad, that was 2003, which was, let's say, but no, excuse me, that was 2013, about 10 years after my dad's passing. And he said, what do you think? I said, I am sure that my family would be honored. I just want to run it by my mom and brothers. And of course we were. And we had a great renaming celebration and our family has been very supportive of those efforts to rebrand the Lurie Center. And I think today now, Andrew, with this now becoming under the family of senior resources, is just the next evolution of what this center means for this community, for people of all ages, but particularly 15-older, okay, but for people of all ages. And we're just so excited to be under the umbrella of such a great, great organization like senior resources. A little bit about my dad, the reason they renamed this center for him 10 years ago, he was very much responsible when he was in the Senate and providing a recurring revenue stream to build centers like this all across South Carolina. And nothing warms my heart and out of my family more than to walk in and see so many people here doing such great work. We've got insurance carrier partners, we've got AmeriCorps, we've got AARP, we've got so many things happening here and that's really what he envisioned for a place like this to be. So thank you all for supporting it. Please, if you know people that want to join, please encourage them to join because I really believe the best is yet to come for the Lurie Center. Thank you very much, Andrew. Thank you Joel. We're certainly honored to carry on your father's legacy here. In addition to increased access and partnership that we talked about with the city, we're also excited to announce today that there are going to be improvements to the facility on the horizon with the support of Richland County Council and the Council on Retreat out of town right now and able to be here. But through their community impact grants, we've been able to upgrade a lot of our gem equipment so please take a second to look at those as you're leaving today and have the county council support on that. And importantly, through the state budget request of Representative Bauer last year, the Lurie Center will be able this year to start phase one of what we hope to be a comprehensive renovation. This will upfit the Lurie Center to really fit the needs of today's adults and so we're really excited to save phase one which is the lobby and entrance area and also some improved lighting and other structures here at the Lurie Center and make it ready for us to live into this new chapter of history. So we're very appreciative Representative Bauer and we'd love to have you address the crowd as well but thank you so much for being our advocate of the legislator, one of many, and for the support to make this possible. Well days like today are why exactly I wanted to serve in the state house. It is an absolute honor to serve in the General Assembly representing House District 75 and it's even a bigger honor to advocate for state dollars to help with this project. There's no better feeling than to see dollars go towards such a worthy cause and it really touches my heart and I do believe that together we're making a difference. This work is so important we've heard some of that already today because South Carolina has experienced a rapid growth in the senior population and is even on track for seniors to outnumber the youth for the first time in the history of our state. National studies show one quarter of seniors are socially isolated and lonely leading to health outcomes more dangerous than smoking but it doesn't have to be that way. In places like this the Laurier Center are key examples to how to prevent social isolation and improve health for our aging population. Programs like this also decrease risk for Alzheimer's, dementia, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses. Seniors living in isolation not only lack the quality of life they truly deserve but it also comes at a cost. Older adult isolation results in 6.7 billion in annual Medicare expenditures and $1400 per senior each year to help them stay out of nursing homes. Investing in the health and the well-being of seniors not only improves the quality of life for seniors but it saves taxpayers and decreases health care costs and I know that the Laurier Center is truly the heart of a heart in our community and it holds a special place in many hearts including mine and again this is why I serve and it's truly heart touching to see you know real things dollars go to real projects that help people every day so it's truly an honor. Thank you so much. Thank you Representative Bauer. In closing I think everybody can agree that you can feel the excitement and the energy that's in this building today so now our task moving forward is to make every day like that here at the Laurier Center and so we encourage you to be active here to spread the word in your communities and your circles that the Laurier Center is open for business and ready to serve the older adults in our community if you have suggestions please reach out to us how can we help you and your family better that's what we're here for so please stick around enjoy the great spread provided by Aetna thank you for providing that if you would be interested in joining the membership or coming to Laurier Lectures we've got a table here or at the front lobby as well to help with that so thank you all for coming and we're looking forward to a great 2024. Thank you.


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Let's do another group of these law counts in composition. So if we have two samples of water obtained from different sources and they're decomposed into their constituent elements, one sample produces 176.0 grams of oxygen and 22.0 grams of hydrogen and the sample 2 produces 113.6 grams of oxygen and 14.2 grams of hydrogen. Show that the results are consistent with the law of constant composition. So remember for the law of constant composition we want to use the mass ratio and we want it to be a number that's bigger than 1 to make it easy for us to work with. So if we're going to find the mass ratio hopefully we see well oxygen in each sample is bigger than hydrogen, the mass. So when we do the mass ratio for water it's going to be the mass of oxygen over the mass of hydrogen. So hopefully the mass ratio of this sample equals the mass ratio of this sample and that would prove to us the law of constant composition. So the mass ratio of sample 1 we have 176.0 grams by 22. So hopefully when we do the same ratio for sample 2 in that same number what do we get? We get 113.6 grams divided by 14.2 grams and both of these your grams are canceling out. I should have showed you that in the last class. But again let's do it. 113.6 divided by 14.2 and sure enough 80.00. So hopefully you see 8.00, 8.00 those are the same number. So this again is another example that will prove the law of constant composition. Any questions on this one? Hopefully by now we after all these examples we're pretty good at law of constant composition.


Hello everybody. My name is Pankaj. I work at Flipkart. A little bit about myself. I have been at Flipkart since the very beginning in Jan 2010. At that point in time we had like 3 servers. Now we have 2 data centers with 5000 servers. Also very accident prone I keep breaking myself and I like taking pictures sometimes. You can find me as Spoonman on the internet. Does this work for everybody? Alright. So I will talk a little bit about Flipkart what we do. Flipkart is an e-commerce portal. We have lots of users all over India mostly. We do around 4000 requests per second. Maybe more. Sometimes when we launch new products. We do one click build and deployment. I spoke about this at PHP on clouds. Another conference that we had some time earlier. You can talk about it to me if you like later on. About how we do production pushes and stuff. There are lot of this in Flipkart. These collaborating together on Git and SVN. It's a large setup. Let's talk about what we are really going to talk about today. Essentially we are talking about building elastic infrastructures. Why should we automate infrastructures? Why should we automate infrastructures? How to scale infrastructures and applications in an automated manner. We will talk about an open source tool from Flipkart which helps us achieve this. If we have time we will also talk about philosophy of deep customization versus generalized tools. I believe that when you are trying to solve problems you need to look at the problem and have a customized solution around it instead of using some general tools. Speaking of the problem, what is really the problem? Why are we building infrastructures and why do we need elastic infrastructures? We will talk about some of the history. Essentially in 2010 I was the only guy at Flipkart doing ops. Before being at Flipkart I was at Yahoo where I had this cushion living where if I needed a server I would write an email. If I needed a DNS entry changed I will write an email and somebody will do it. But when I was the only one running infrastructure I had to do all those things myself.  For example, let's say there is a new project happening and somebody comes to me and says give me five servers to do this. I am sitting there installing Debian. I am running all my things. I am running all the infrastructure setup and ten minutes later this guy comes and says well forget about those, give me these. Essentially you are constantly struggling with meeting the demands of what is going live because if you are web app or web company which is growing really fast you need to be able to do things in a very, very fast manner. You need to do, you need to get machines, you need to set things up really fast. There are also times when you don't know what hardware you have. Essentially if you grow from ten machines to fifty machines in a span of a month or two you really don't know what is live, what is not live. So dangerously you could reclone the machine or something.  You could forget if you are setting things up manually. Essentially the need was to be able to create infrastructure in such a manner that the obvious things figure themselves out. You don't have to do those repetitive tasks again and again. Some of the challenges for this is to provision hardware as well as virtualized machines just like that in a click without doing anything. How to configure DNS automatically? If you manually edit the zone files you will end up making mistakes sometime or the other. You shouldn't edit the zone files. It should just happen on its own. Also if you are growing really fast you need to be able to set up lots of infrastructure pieces on a daily basis. Set up MySQL clusters, set up monitoring and alerting, log aggregation and all these things should just happen automatically. That's one of the key reasons why you should build infrastructures in an automated manner. Some of the early learnings really early on three or four years ago was that you need to standardize on hardware. You cannot have all sorts of different hardware running around in your data center. You say I am going to use one, two, three types of machines. Let's say you are using VMs.  These are the configurations of the VM. It will have this much memory, this much CPU and this much disk space. All the problems that you are trying to solve you put them in brackets here or there. You will find out about remote installation and management. Most hardware comes with a remote management card of some sort. It will have its own operating system and network interface. You can manage the hardware from there. You could reboot the box. You could do anything with it. That was also an early win to find hardware that allows you to do remote management. Because if you are stuck with hardware that you have to get a remote hands person to do things with, every time you have to reboot a box, every time you have to do rate control or anything to do with hardware, you shouldn't be dependent on a human being in the data center. You should be able to do it remotely. Virtualization obviously helps a lot. Another thing that is really important is to package software. You don't really need to make RPMs or devs, even if you have tar balls that will work, but you need to have some standardized mechanism of deployment. You cannot just SEP code and hope that it will work. Another early win for us was from the very beginning started using Puppet. Puppet is a configuration management tool. It lets you push configurations to servers. You can break your configurations down in two parts. One is the base environment that is going to be the same for all the machines. Some are machine specific or application specific information that you keep in another environment in Puppet. One of the most important things is to have a centralized inventory or a host database. We will talk about why this is so important. In the beginning, we were managing our infrastructure or the list of hosts we have, our host names and what is the rack position, what is the network IP of this box in a Google Sheet or something, which was not scaling at all. You tell the site ops guy, go to this rack, this unit and do something. He has no idea what he is doing. He is just going to pull some wrong wire out. If you are managing your infrastructure in Excel Sheet, somebody may read the wrong column and reboot the wrong column. You may allocate hardware that you know that it is not even being used and you do not know about it. All these problems were there in our infrastructure. How did we solve it? Essentially, we go to a diagram like this which talks about interaction between different components. The problem essentially is of information and communication of that information to various pieces which are taking action. We will look at this graph again once we understand something. At the core of the whole problem is the host information. What is the purpose of a machine? You know the purpose of the machine. Does your infrastructure know the purpose and how do you communicate that purpose to your infrastructure? For that, you need a sort of information store or a host database where you can keep the details of all the hosts. You have this is a box. This is its physical location. This is the rack where it is at. This is the network port that it is connected to. If it is a virtual machine, this is the box it is hosted on because all this information you need to know about the machine to take actions. You should be able to tag a host. Let us say the ability to tag a host gives you a lot of information about it. What you can do, for example, is let us say you have MySQL databases. Maybe you have 10 clusters. There are some masters and there are slaves. If you were able to tag all the masters saying these are all the masters, they may be masters of different components of data. If you can tag them, you can take action on all of them together. For example, you may want to say that you cannot write two slaves. You will want to set up read-only equals to on all the slaves. What you can do is you can tag all the slaves together and push a configuration specifically to them. All those things are really easy to do. Also, it becomes a single source of truth for everyone and for a lot of people to interact. What happens there is, this is like a screenshot of hostdb. Here you see the host name and this is the information about this host. This host is actually a virtual host because you can see that it has these classes, FKEN, VVC, which is our pseudo name for a virtual machine. You know who created this host and when. You know what is the full name of this host, what is the IP of this host and all this information is here. It is all fine. It is not a great deal. You store information somewhere. It is fine. What it allows you to do is it allows you to get everybody on the same page. Now you can communicate to everybody in your organization with the host name. You say do this to that host and if there is a guy in the data center, he can go to hostdb and see where it is physically located. If you want to set DNS for the host, you could write a script which could look this guy up and say, okay, this is the FQD and this is the IP. I will make this one file. Another simple idea which is very powerful is to have an API for this host database. If you have a HGTPA API where you say, give me tag, give me all hosts which are in this tag. Then you can do really interesting things. Because it is a single source of truth, you can be sure that whatever you are going to do is to have a single source of truth. Even if it is wrong, it is wrong for everybody. It is not that somebody thinks that this is the truth, somebody else thinks this is the truth which allows you to do even more interesting things. You can create decentralized pieces of software which interacts with this centralized repository to create a virtual machine on a particular physical box. You could go to hostdb and check how many physical machines I have, how many virtual machines are on each physical machine which is the one which is the most free where I can create this virtual machine. You can make really interesting decisions. For example, lots of people use Puppet here. How many people use Puppet? Quite a few. One of the problems with Puppet is to get a list of hosts and create nodes. Puppet allows you to do an ENC. If I am creating a machine and destroying a machine, let us say you are scaling and scaling down, scaling up, scaling down at will. If you are creating and destroying machines at will, you do not want to be sitting there editing node files. What you can do is, as soon as you can put that information in the hostdb, write an agent which scans the host database and then creates these node files automatically. Even that is smarter. You can create an agent which adds DNS records. You can create an agent which adds automated monitoring to hosts based on specific things. We will get into how we can express that. Now we can go back to this diagram. In the middle, we have this host database which has an API. This is like our orchestration layer. We call it cloud. It generally just creates virtual machines. What you can do is, you can have a software here which creates a machine in hostdb. There will be an agent here which says get host information and get puppet information. An agent will create a virtual machine and say when the virtual machine comes up, it will say what am I? What is my host name? What am I supposed to do? All this information you get from puppet, you can express in puppet that this machine is actually a web server and it needs these packages and whatever you want to express. Other things you can do like a monitoring service. Let's say you have Nagyos. Lots of people use Nagyos. You have to keep adding hosts. You have to keep adding them in clusters and all of that. If you can just write an agent which says we have web servers. All web servers perhaps need the same sort of monitoring. Let's say you are a web server for a particular thing in a website and all your brother's web servers will need the same sort of monitoring. What you can do is, you can put a tag saying web server for x, y, z and put the monitoring information right there in the tag. What hostdb allows you to do is it will pull all the hosts will pull their tag specific information as well. Whatever you write in one tag is just shared across all the machines that share the tag. It's a simple thing but it is very powerful and we will see what all we can do with it. Essentially as I mentioned, you have a single source of truth. You define the life cycle of the host. If you have to delete a host, you go to the host database and say this host is no longer live or this is dead. Then you have the orchestration layer, the cloud layer looking at host database and saying this one is dead so it will go and kill that machine off and take all the resources. How did we do it? It's essentially very simple. You take Puppet and you take hostdb which is another open source software that we have written. We have been using hostdb inside Flipkart for three years now. It's fairly mature software and the author of hostdb is here today so you can come to Flipkart and talk about it. What does it do? It's built to be highly available and reliable. We didn't build hostdb to be really fancy using latest and greatest technology. We just wrote it in Perl and the main purpose is to be available and be reliable. It allows you to have namespaces. What are namespaces? You could have all information about hosts which relate to your infrastructure in one namespace and let's say there is another team which is doing something else with machines.  You want to create clusters in tags. They want to create cluster in tags differently. You can have another namespace. Hostdb is based on Git. All the information that you have is saved inside Git and you can roll back any commit made. If by mistake somebody says change this so you can always go back to the previous version and you have an API. It has a web application. You saw the screenshot. It has an API. It has a command line interface. You could write scripts that can query. There is a Perl module. There is another C library. You could write programs that query hostdb directly and if you don't want to use the API. Puppet is infrastructure and configuration management tool. What you do with Puppet is essentially you define all your machines in Puppet as nodes and then you define classes which say what is the purpose of this host. What all should go into this box. What we do with Puppet is we essentially segregate the things in two environments. One is a base environment where all the information like how to do network, what default packages will come, what pseudo privileges will be there, what are user limits and like basic stuff that every machine should know about itself. That goes inside the base environment and it is important which means that there is an agent running on each and every machine which updates itself automatically. If you make any base change it reflects on all the machines automatically. Then there is another environment where you don't want to do things. Sometimes you just want to do things once at a time. Let's say when you are setting up a MySQL server. If you want to set up MySQL automatically so that a master comes up and a slave comes up and all. There are some things that you may want to do. You will write class and you will write scripts that will do things automatically. You don't want to run them again and again. Those things you go inside an app environment which runs once or maybe once in a while. You can use hostDB as ENC. Puppet has a concept of an external node configuration. What it allows you to do is it allows you to have, it allows you to dump the host information in YAML. This is the exact configuration that you use. Here we will say external nodes equals to one script. Our script will generate a YAML file and then Puppet will just use it to say these are the nodes. What we do is we define our machines and virtual machines inside hostDB. We run agents to dump it to Puppet. In Puppet we define what is the purpose of this box. Some of the examples of what you can do and how you build elastic infrastructure with it. For example, auto-provisioning of hardware. How many people deal with real hardware? Have data center and rack machines and stuff. It's a really long process. First you acquire hardware, then you have to rack it, then you have to go configure RAID, then you have to go configure IP addresses, and you have to do a lot of things. Every time you need to reclone a box, you need to go to some really, really bad interface, click which takes like 15 minutes to do, so it's really painful. What we wanted was as soon as you rack the machine, the infrastructure should know there is a new machine. We should know this is a new machine, it has this much RAM, it has these many CPUs, and it should become this. That's what we want to achieve, and how did we achieve it? Essentially you write an agent which does auto-discovery. Essentially when all the machines are racked, they have two interfaces. One interface is connected to the regular LAN, another one is on a management interface. Management LAN is there. As soon as the machine comes up in a default VLAN, we just boot the box and we do a discovery. We figure out this much memory it has, these are the MAC addresses of this box, and all the information that you need. Then you populate that information into hostdv. Inside hostdv, now you have all the machines that are not yet live. They are not yet installed, they just have been discovered. What you can do is then you can mark them and give them a purpose. Let's say you can do these things automatically. When the machine comes up, in hostdv you say this is supposed to go inside cloud. That will express that, install the bin version, this is the IP address, put DNS, and all of those things. You use DHCP to boot it into EtherMage that will give you all those information. This is the part of hardware detection. You say this is a new box that came up. When the box comes up, it doesn't have a host name or IP or anything, but you can express that. If this is the tags, each machine is defined by a service tag. If this is the tag, this is the IP. Essentially you can figure out it is connected to this port of the switch. It has a MAC address, it has this physical location, unit number. You can write scripts that interact with network devices to change VLAN if you wish, to do different things with the box. Virtual machines are even simpler. What you can do is you can just create a new machine inside the host database and write an agent which scans a tag saying new virtual machine. It does what it needs to do, whatever it may be. You can use KVM, you can use OpenVZ, you can use containers, whatever you want to use. You can express what needs to be done post the recognition. What we do is we have these mother ships on which an agent is running. The agent creates the virtual machine, starts the host up and the first task of each host is to run puppet. As soon as the host runs puppet, it knows what it is. When you put the machine inside, let's say this is the box we are trying to build. When you put the machine inside, you have put this information. When the puppet agent will build the node configuration, it will know that I have to add these classes. It is really simple. Puppet knows what to do. When you need DNS agent to do something, a new machine comes up, DNS agent looks at these things and it generates the zone file. Even DNS is automating, DNS is really simple. DNS looks at the tag saying all the machines that are participating in this tag, I need to build a zone file or X for this. There is another tag, I create another zone file for this. It is really simple. Essentially, as I mentioned, tags. You have a tag section. For example, Nagia server is a tag. These two guys are members. One is in one DC, one is in another DC. You have two Nagia servers. The Nagia server will have its own specific rules which will go inside the config part. It will just use those rules to generate configurations. How to automate backups? Essentially, the same thing. You tag it with backup. I will give you an example of what we can do. You can say, this can be different for different hosts. This host has a backup thingy. You can have this information specific to a host or you can have this information specific to a tag. If you have something that is common across hosts, you put it in a tag. If you have something specific for a host, you put it in the host configuration. Then you can write an agent. It just dumps stuff for it. This is the same way we automate everything. Monitoring on the host also is generated using information from host TV. Scaling applications. So because we can create machines automatically, we can interact with host TV using an API, which creates a machine. If we can express what needs to go inside a box. Even the puppet rules that go inside a box, even the puppet rules that goes inside the box are there. What you all need to do is express the box and then everything will just happen. You can just create machines at will and you can destroy them at will. Essentially, you can write a small script that monitors your request per second. For example, a really silly example. Monitor request per second. If it is increasing, just add another box. It is not that simple to scale, but you get the idea. You can do interesting things with it. For example, unbound is expressed as its own class. Whenever you need to add a new DNS client or a DNS server, you just create a machine with that tag and it just builds it. We can generate load balancer configurations using this. You can express load balancer information inside the configuration and a specific agent will read it and write configurations into the load balancer. Same way, we build MySQL clusters. Essentially, one of the problems is when you have to build a MySQL cluster, it is a really painful long procedure, which is repetitive and can be easily automated.  It is really simple to automate. You can set up a tag. This is the master and you can set up a tag, which is a slave of relationship. You can have rules to create partitions, add packages, set up automated backup and all of these. HostDB is released under a partial license. It is available at GitHub. We are committed to maintain it. The deep conviction here is when you are building, the reason this is sort of a framework is when you are doing something specific, you just need a bare minimum framework and you have to build around it. If you see the hostDB and the agent thing is really simple, but it has allowed us to really do a lot of interesting things because it allows you to express whatever you please because there is a centralized information about hosts. That is about it. I mean, I am not preaching a way of doing things, but this works for us and that is my job. You can follow Flipkart Tech for information about Flipkart. You can follow me. Questions? A tool to maintain hosts for the amount of servers that you have. Puppet is kind of given not like you are building it. It is a third party tool. It makes a lot of sense because your business is a little different. Is there a comparison that you have done with other tools that maintain hosts? Similar to what you are doing with hostDB and you have found not tools beneficial? I am just curious. I mean, when we started writing hostDB, this was like 2011. At that point of time, there were not many CMDBs. Now, I think there are a couple available, but I think the interesting thing is the ability to access information about hosts and cluster them together in tags and having nameshift. We have built the tool. It is customized to our approach to solving things, but it is also a very generalized tool that can work for everybody. I think there are tools, but I do not think there is something comparable which can do what we do. One other question. I wanted to understand the part where you mentioned once you rack your server, there is something that gets automated out and there is information going to hostDB because you are talking now at a hardware level and I do not know you have an agent running somewhere else that picks it up. I can explain some. You have two interfaces. One is the regular interface of the box and one is the management interface. Using the management interface, you could reboot the box. You could change the boot order of the box. Essentially, as soon as any box comes in the default VLAN, it is made to boot in PXC mode. As soon as you boot in PXC mode, there is a default DHCP server which gives you an IP and a host name and it also gives you a kernel to boot. As soon as you boot that kernel, because you are in the default VLAN, you get a particular version of Linux. As soon as you boot into that box, it is customized and it runs a discovery script. Essentially, that script then communicates back to hostDB and says, I found this. You have, because when you mention single source of truth, in our world, we do a lot of UCS. There is that world that still maintains host which is away from foreman. I do not want to do that. I get that. I do not want anybody to sit and enter that information because I can discover it and it is more reliable. Thank you. Hi. You mentioned that you are using Puppet for compression management. How about the orchestration part? Is that M-collective or some other? Currently, for orchestration, what do you mean? Like to create machines? Yeah, doing something remote execution or remote running commands. Right now, we are in the process of using M-collective to do that. M-collective is really good at doing that. We do not use anything to do remote execution, large scale remote execution. If we have to do something like that, we put it in the idempotent. Essentially, we have divided our configuration in base and idempotent. Let us say you need to upgrade LS on all machines. Essentially, you just go to the base classes and say LS should be this version above. And then because it is idempotent and it is running every minute, it will immediately reflect on all the boxes. You do not have to worry about it. If it is not something that can be expressed as packages, we do not do it. That is one thing that I mentioned right in the beginning. You have to manage your infrastructure using a package management system. If you are doing remote execution of commands, let us say you want to restart Apache on all the boxes. That is probably one of the use cases. For that, you can use M-collective. All of these are agent-based solutions. If everything is working fine with the agent-based solution, then it is good. But what happens when the agent fails? Either you auto-discovery agent fails or something which is something on the box to gather all the info. What happens when that fails? So then it fails. Essentially, because it is a single piece of software that is running everywhere, you test it and then you deploy it. If it has a bug, it has a bug. Then you fix it. You discover the bug and then you fix it. Let us say there is an agent which is writing a DNS configuration file. This is a very important agent. If this agent fails, Flipkart will not run because no host will be able to find the other host inside our network. We write the agent in such a manner that it takes automores, precautions as to this is the specific thing that you are looking for. If it does not exist, do not do anything. There are a lot of rules. Is it a single agent doing everything or are there different agents? There are different agents. That is why deep customization. For DNS, there is a specific piece of code that is doing it. It is a small code maintained by one guy. To do something else, let us say monitoring. To do monitoring for servers. It is a small piece of code maintained by the guy who is managing the web servers for a particular department. Because information is central, but how you do things with it is up to you. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hi. Hi. This question is related to your host db is there and then your missions are connected to a rack. The host db is something which has some sort of an agent is what you said. Which checks if the one rack is connected and it gets the data. Any concept of a messaging broker or a worker where it checks on a UDP or the multicast and then gets the data or something like that? Sure. We are not at that scale. For example, we have 5,000 boxes and how many agents? Maybe 10, 15, 20, 30,000 agents. And we can scale that by just having multiple boxes. And very little network stock is there. So I think the broker and all that is useful when you are doing large scale network I.O. Yeah, but still I see in Flipkart that is their large scale I.O. So there are things where we do large scale I.O. For that we use request broker. But for this particular software there is, I don't think right now there is a need. But if we become, if we grow to 50,000 and 80,000 machines where like millions of host db calls are being made then obviously we will need to look into that direction. So is that something like the agent and the host db are with the Perl or is it something like the agents are in other language? You can write agent in any language. So because host db allows you to do a rest interface. You can write it in any other language. So you pull it on different machines with the scripts. Yes. Awesome, thanks. No questions. All right. Thank you guys.


Alright guys, what's up? I'm out here at this Long Beach DIY.  Grip drop here some public snowboard stickers in the grip gap there Yeah, wow this place is big This place is vast blue this stairs It's a set of stairs. Someone's just left here. All this rubble. Look at all this rubble and rebar. Yeah A lot of graffiti here going on. I've seen people skate this gap here Over the room once they're flat here and look at that We've got some people painting right now live painting during the day in Long Beach, California There's Dan over there a bit windy out here today. Oh, wow Pretty sick Thing whatever this is Is this a butter bench?  It looks like a big Allen key Like if that was curved a bit more that way it'd be a big Allen key We're dealing with an unusual amount of wind out here today. It's gonna be tricky Yeah, I'm trying to hide from the wind noise because it's annoying But there's a few things I want to get here and I'll have to go in between the winds basically Hopefully that's a plant fingers cross some little stuff. I want to get done here Yeah, pretty big DIY. I mean The part that they built it is like 15% of the whole area like this what's massive Those those riders are getting the boot.  We don't know yet. There's a bloke there Maybe he's just working on something here. I don't know maybe So we're just waiting for the wind to drop in this bloke and the you to nick off before I Start trying to get some stuff here It's too windy to talk First try out the gate almost on the bench. You're scared to pop it probably I feel like you can just Stand here and Ollie the one will just take you out Miles per hour. Welcome to America. I think knowledge over flak app. It's like, yeah, it's so hard to skate now It's a mind-fuck for me. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like you're got doing always up is easier It throws you up it Sean's wrong, and I'm right. I love it when you get off your board and keep going So it's very good switch here. That's a good kickflip every time Yeah, get ready That mindset right I didn't help at all When a switch manual, yeah, get it It's a really easy tendency to put the switch manual down and notice how you're setting it down not scraping just like don't think 180 and a switch manual worry about your shoulders just focus on holding the switch man That's all just make get into those teeters immediately. Okay, there it is It is being in here.  Yeah, show us that one.  I see I think it's a lot harder. Really? Yeah Oh, I'm longer manual pads. It's way way harder a short one I could be out because you're right your momentum keeps going. Yeah It's just about locking behind your shoulders to stop that 180 out. Yeah. Hey good new trick. I Don't know what it is, but I'm feeling crook as a dog right now. It feels like Ovid K like the Omnicron Like starts to feel like that. So hopefully it doesn't last too long I'm gonna go CVS.  We'll we go home and then draw wash some clothes I don't know this might just be end up being a vlog because try to skate couldn't skate have some immense Throbbing pain going on right at the top of my spine where it connects to my skull. So I don't feel the best But yeah, I got to get a video done for YouTube for you guys. So yeah, I'm going home now I'm going to CVS and I'm gonna go home. So fast forward one day went to the CVS got some syrup Got some Advil Pretty much been sleeping a lot. I've been drawing some stuff.  So yeah, I'm gonna draw a bunch of outlines So I have stuff ready at work stuff. I want to do Because it's cooler and funner that way. So today Actually, I stayed home the whole day and it was a really nice day outside, but I just rested up I did some editing. I did some drawing ate some food and then I just rested and I feel way better now Which is good.  So I'm glad that that's passed got a COVID test wasn't COVID as You can see here. There's one I don't know if you're gonna be able to see it But it tells you if you have COVID or not obviously because it's a rapid antigen test, but it's negative So I'm glad it's not COVID because this would have been the third time I've had COVID if it was positive, but luckily enough it was negative. Sorry for the short video guys I feel like this is just luck of the draw. You get dealt the hand you're given or whatever those bogans get tattooed on them Yeah, we tried to hit Long Beach to our wiles too windy. I set up a board just for the DIY as well I'm gonna have to go back there because it was a bunch of tricks I wanted to get and when we were skating at La Puente I was just in so much pain like I could skate for a bit then once I stopped skating My spine like where it connects to my skull would just like frob like this. So I was buggered I couldn't do a thing. So I'm glad I feel better now And I hope you guys enjoyed this short but sweet video be sure to check out evening mob.com Pick something up free stickers of every order go and check my second channel out link is in the description Um, yeah, cheers for the support and thank you for watching the video if you've made it as far Means the world to me. See you guys later


If it isn't my favorite freelancer, I hear you've been busy You know how it is zone another day another disaster averted. What have you done this time? nothing My arm is fine Probably I hope you should swing by my amplifier in the ugly something wrong walking speed Sprinting speed walking speed Sprinting speed. I gotta say it feels like one point zero zero one percent faster You see what I mean You picked up on that right little wobble. It's wobbling right all readings far with an acceptable tolerances You gotta look past the numbers for once in your life. Something is off the connection. It's a bit fuzzy How do you quantify fuzzy? You don't quantify fuzzy. You don't measure it. You don't count it It's nothing like that. It's it's a feeling everything okay here on development. Yeah Well on your last mission I noticed that the cipher chair was giving off some very strange feedback Oh reading spot with an acceptable tolerances. Yes, you're called, but if you ignore it and something goes wrong I will find an archonist and perform a full protocol inspection on this unit There's nothing wrong with the chair is there? No No, it's turning up trouble. What are you talking about?  She does not get to work with the freelancer She does not get to see the world through the eyes of a javelin pilot No, no, no, no. You know what she gets to do? She gets to relay official messages back and forth to ciphers at the capital day after day after day Some people like boring not everyone's cut out to be a freelancer. So you have said But you have to admit that last mission would have gone better with apartment. I have a partner you Every good javelin pilot needs a cipher and it's not what I meant Look If I had a suit of my own I could be out there in the field with you Hold down your boosters archa with more training. You'll get your chance. I promise Fine Not like we could afford a space suit anyway Jobboard is empty. We'll figure something out. We always do Yeah, do you ever regret missing out on the glory days? Back when freelancers were treated like heroes Contracts were just falling to their laps everywhere they went. They were given respect And free sandwiches. It sounds good free sandwiches. Yeah, I've ended up a lunch. Yeah, I'm starving We're on a tight budget here budget for sandwiches.  So we're ready to roll if they contract does fall into our laps Why can't the comms audio?  Who's the guy who wanted to see the store? It's probably he's probably already gone featured hold the skate Then I can claim my stuff at it Then the rewards tab there it is rewards Claim VIP weekend item Hold left click Hey, I got a thing Outstanding I have no idea what it is What does do Legion of dawn items. Hey, look at that Legend Wait for it dairy Oh, we got some mouth stuff origin access items Okay, and then we got this guy And we got that. All right, so I got all my stuff. So store Uh $850 reduced. How much is that open store? I thought I wasn't a store So I have 80 000 coin now But no shards. How much do shards cost get shards? Oh Time for a very fast web browsing experience I can't get shards I want shards Chat Does anybody know how much shards cost? I don't need shards. I'm just saying I want to know what all this is worth featured Dreadnought armor pack guardian armor pack It's like six things here Okay Well, we have to come back to that at some point because you can't At least I can't buy shards This sprint is so hilarious. All right, I'm gonna walk. Let me see if I notice a difference Dude It's like it's like you can barely deal a difference Oh, oh and you need something What are you talking about? I just got a message from you sent and meet you at the forge. I didn't say any Why would I want to meet up here? Something's not right. My name is tassan. Where'd you come from?  I'll give you that I have a contract for you freelancer I'd like to know who I'm working for before I take a job really From what I hear Two of you will take about any job you can get these days. What's the job? An arcanist has gone missing missing. I thought arcanists just hung out and lab studying shaker release Mathias Sumner was investigating some wrongs that are ruined near the fort I need you to find him and bring him back home safe if he's still alive No one knows more about the dangers of shaper artifacts. I'm confident that knowledge And his own resourcefulness will keep him alive until you find him When you say freelancer We'll make it worth your while No one looks like the freelancer's right again. Well, us anyway Excuse me. I just got a That is excellent. I will then run my diagnostics. Let me know when you're ready to leave It was a pleasure That's silly, man On behalf of myself and Mathias. Thank you for doing this Uh, okay, and if I have fine Mathias Trust me. I'm a person you want to know these two percent those. I'm going to be saving thousands of you guys Forage unlocked And for some reason we're back in the store. Why would why would you bring Decisions should I talk to you and go through a bunch of dialogues or should I get right into fashion javelin? I'm disciplined back in one piece. So did you expect me in more pieces than one discipline? Never I trust you've brought me work Always good to give your javelin the once over after a run. What have you done this time? My job girl Just my job fascinating I never would have guessed I just want to be sure everything's in order. That's what I like to hear Scars beasts relic based nonsense Can't be too careful out there.  Make sure everything's humming won't impact performance But I'll add moisture. Did she just go scottish padding while I'm at it I could have sworn she wasn't scottish and then all of a sudden I heard scottish Can't argue with that. Why would you if you're running head first into chaos may as well be comfy Like the way you think I have my moments Go on. I'll run the checks while you're off Yeah, that was that was some private meeting wouldn't it Activate forage. All right Uh Javelin unlocked that's just give you resources to replace your old javelin choose carefully Uh, you'll be using the suit until the new javelin classes become available at level eight Even if you restart the game Oh, so this is where you choose your starter right here. All right. So that's The thing so I got two unlocks. Nothing's unlocked right now But I can get a brand new ranger and and Wait for it. Wait for it.  I'm using this guy R I know they use it r Ranger boy, okay Oh Whoa Pay the win. How'd I get this? light of the lesion power level 18 Pay the win I'll be all right Take right now this I guess I got that for the This thing of my stuff Okay, this isn't unlocked yet and that is not yet Yeah, they give you a crappy.  They give you a starter weapon, which will be obsolete Pay the win Yes, part of the bundle. All right colors. I can't do colors yet. Can I? Oh, yes, you can use coins or charts to unlock stuff. All right chat. We're gonna be here. Wow Oh, we're gonna be here a while.  What in the nation of Tars is this? Or like a Star Wars hat But let's let's talk about this the the head size here. Look, it's like it's like his head just got super big Or so all right. We're putting all the pay-to-win stuff chat pay to win all day And they see all the triangles that means that it's pay-to-win that it makes me 10% stronger faster better Stronger where state? I don't know what this does, but we're doing it because we are Victory pose 16,000 dollar reduce for that these remotes. Okay That same ones way. Okay, so you get three slots Hey, so I am going to go with Thank you very much. You know some love the chat. Thank you so much. What we're gonna clean metallic We're gonna go we're gonna go clean as a whistle irish spring Clean as a whistle. Actually that doesn't look all that great with blue all right uh, okay secondary metal bear Okay, that's that one.  I don't want to spend too much time here metal aged leather painted clean What's this green is this color?  All right, so here's an idea We'll keep the tertiary We'll get that one that one and then we'll just go black everywhere else. How about that? How about them apples chat? How about them apples? We're gonna be boring to begin with because Uh, they just uh They just uh, all right. There we go That looks awful. So we're gonna make this gold make that gold That's gold. That's not gold either. That's kind of gold little gold. Remember I say we're gonna like do this quickly That doesn't seem to be happening. Where'd the orange come from? I don't even know. Let's just go I am so torn I mean Okay, even can I preview it? It's just the arm. Okay All right, let's get out of here.   This wasn't too bad. We're gonna get tired of the exclusive gear Like now All right mission difficulties. So lost arch in this. Yep. Yeah Out out out out out out We're public, right? We're public, right? public Let's do this public Like somebody just dipped me in freaking bacon oil. Why am I so slimy? Check you saw that you don't see that Like he was bait. He was just like greasy Wait, those are my colors kind of not exactly but I can't believe how big my head got when I got the The legion of dawn. It was just like I know everything I see all My cranial dome is the size of three skyscrapers. I know your thoughts tomorrow Serious, man. Dude was like a Well, let's go. Let's not keep that y'all taking too long waiting. Our contract is to locate an arcanist named Matthias Tassan has given us the last location where he may come The location tassan davis must be close. I'm detecting the camp's shortwave radio Broken equipment arcanist made And he's known Matthias I want a personal He has a reputation Oh push the talking on I'm sorry guys if you can hear me in advance I'm one of those streamers that talk a lot Oh my goodness.  I gotta do something. No, I don't even know by the map tutorials and my settings I'll put it in medium. Dude. I'm adjusting my settings. Stop shooting me. Ali. I'm trying to adjust my settings You think I'm trying to afk I can't change this. Where are you? He didn't hear you But I think I found another camp. Okay, let's go. That's lost the radio signal. We need signal booster Wait, reduce the settings man for a signal booster, right? I feel I'm about 35 like 40 fps He's turned it off. Don't can't hear us. I've got a location So it looks like they won't let you change the settings mid-mission And I hit space Just everything's grayed out here. I guess I have to go to custom There we go medium Medium mesh quality medium lighting quality Where shadows post processing low terrain low vegetation low Mesh quality low. Okay. Yeah restart got it I'm sorry teammates. I'm coming I'm really glad they increased that timeout value That's the radio we were following. That transport the missionary used to come up so fast So I would think it would change it if I if I go to medium and I change something you should just flip it to custom That's what every other game does It was a little weird that it didn't do that, but I got it now So on restart I already see the anti-aliasing is gone down Which helps me see a little bit better Let's fix that. Good job team. Yeah, good job Job everybody Good job. Well done access panel open starting repairs Oh, that doesn't look like a repair. Would you just let me oh Can it be fixed? Yes, of course. Just deal with the scars. I'll figure it out