I'm gonna move this mess up though in the shower. Water resistant, made in Vietnam. Mine's so clear though, it's black and white. Let's find something bad. The blue's just gonna be getting. So what I'm gonna do to ruin my bathroom. Okay, y'all know how I was talking about I wanted to do yellow in the guest bathroom. I can get some type of vase and put like some greenery or plants in here. Where did all this lie what? That's too big though. I think that'll be cute. Now I need to see like front of the yellow stuff. 24.9 million. I like that one though. Let me get the item number so if I want to I can order it online. Pro tip. Oh, okay. There you go, fixed it. That is cute.  That is a nice bedroom. Cause y'all know I got that little bitty rug in there. So I want to put this like under the bed or something. I don't know what type of black and white rug I want. See y'all tell me if y'all like any of these. This one, this one, not these. See, I mean this one's okay, but need a rough one. So what's today? The six are getting ready to go to Memphis to spend basically a whole day in Memphis. So I'm just getting ready. Let's talk to you guys. I don't think I recorded a actual intro yet. I think I just did like montage footage. But yesterday we went to a few stores before we actually go to Memphis tomorrow to kind of see what our stores here in Arkansas have compared to the one in Memphis. So to kind of see who got the better stuff and it just makes sense to look at ours first and then compare them to Memphis because obviously we're not going to turn back around and go back if we find something there better than here. So I already had curl my hair like two days ago because I was going to do a like she and holla or whatever but decided not to. So in this vlog, I'm not sure if it's going to be like title moving blog or something or just kind of productive day in my life or something like that. But I do know I do want to go hygiene shopping so that'll be tomorrow probably. I don't know, we'll see. Cause I need some more body wash, deodorant, like mouthwash. Like I didn't ran out of everything since I've been here for I think about like three weeks now. So I'm not going to curl the whole rest of my head. It's still kind of like that falling beach wave going on. So the front, I just want the front to look like brand new basically since it is hot outside. I know they're going to fall again.  But hey, if you're new here, my name's Akira Jenae. Don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave. We got to go to Costco to get some gas and then we'll be on our way. I'll probably get like a hash brown or something. I don't know until we get there. We have reservations at one o'clock for the rest of what we went to in my Valentine's Day vlog I posted right here. It is called season 52. So yeah, just letting this lay down a little bit. I couldn't find my brand of my lace melt bands but baby period shop HMBBD collection. I'll show y'all right here. I don't like to, if I can't find my lace band I'm not about to open up a new one because I may obviously this is product. So these are on my website. Go copy up here, HMBBD collection. I think mine is in one of my purses. I can't find it ever since I had moved. But yeah, we got these on sale on the website. Type it in right here. And flashes and stuff will be added here soon. I don't know where I put my lace band. Cause I need that to promote. I don't know if I'm gonna do any makeup or not. It's kind of feeling like just a regular, regular day. I may like feel in my eyebrows just a little bit like in the car. I'm just gonna take it with me cause we are trying to get on the road. Like I said, it's like 18 in the morning and it's gonna take us two hours to get there. So about to take the dogs out and then we're gonna be on the road. I'll get back at y'all when we get to probably Costco. It's gonna take us two hours to get there. So we'll be pulling up at noon at this point. So, you know, I got that heavy foot. Yeah, I know, but then we better be going to those stores really before I'm gonna gotta eat in one. I'm gonna go to Target cause it's a cross. But so we'll have to just go after the end. I remember last time I said we didn't have to wait. Remember? Wait, what? Did I have to wait? She didn't want. Why did you? But it was also about time for that too though. Oh yeah, so. We'll see. We'll see. There may be nobody in there cause I mean it's a freaking Tuesday at one o'clock. So, I was feeling like too bad. Let me survive. Because we're all gonna be eating in one and I don't wanna get my regular for McDonald's and be cool. And baby, I need room for this season 52, okay? It's so good. So, what do I have by them? How about this? Finger licking good, huh? We're talking with the mouth full. Finger licking good, huh? I caught it in the camera. That's quite good. No, I'm saying like I don't like the spray cause I'm asking you if it's good. Oh yeah, it's straight to there. It's cool. It don't hit though. It don't hit like that, you know, like that Ruffian McDonald's, make you cough, that type of McDonald's quake. But I mean, it's getting the drive down right here. We're back from Memphis basically. So I'm back in, I just got done recording as she in hall. So I don't know if it's gonna be up before after this video, but if it's up before, it'll be right here.  And if it's not up yet, then it'll be up probably after this video. So I made a mess, only had like six or seven pieces to actually like record or whatever, but my beauty room is a little bit of a mess. I did try to try out my new like wall, which basically only got like two strips. So it was hard to kind of stay in like one spot. So we'll see how it come out. I do need to add more wallpaper to the bottom of this wall. So I'm gonna have to do a disclaimer when I post on TikTok and Instagram. So I'm gonna leave some in the up because my wall ain't finished, okay? But yeah, what time is it? It is 10, 17 at night. I just finished eating the rest of my season 52 food. Literally top tier, so good. Then I know Roof Chris, Roof's Chris was right across the street from season 52, like definitely gotta go there next. But he just went to check in to kind of like close out today. I think in the morning, I'm gonna go restock up on my hygiene products. I do work tomorrow and I'm supposed to be posting this video Thursday. So today is Tuesday night and basically I'll have all day Wednesday to edit but really not all day because they hang on even to like noon. And then it's like, if I just spend the rest of that day, the rest of that time editing up until I gotta go to work at six, it's just gonna be too much. And then if I try to edit when I'm at work, I don't know, I'm gonna start it tomorrow. I'm probably gonna import the footage tonight so it can already be like ready to start tomorrow. But yeah, I do wanna go hygiene shopping so that's gonna be like the other part of this video. I know I didn't really vlog a lot in Memphis and I'll probably see y'all tomorrow. I'm about to go show y'all the stuff that I bought at IKEA today. IKEA has a sale going on until the 29th so this video will be posted before the 29th. So if you've been looking at something from IKEA, definitely go check that out. I'm gonna take this off, hopefully.  Basically, this is how my room looking. I had to move this out the way to sit in front of this but these are clothes I just reviewed. Gotta move all this stuff back and then straighten up this stuff, but that's really it. So the stuff that I got from IKEA is just the TV stand. I don't know if I recorded that in IKEA or not but it came in a two pack. So it says one, two and then they're just long boxes. So my TV stand, this will basically replace that cubicle right there. So I'm gonna take majority of that stuff out and then put it up into my new TV stand. This is the aftermath of me doing my makeup. Literally nothing is organized but this will be in another video. Like I'm gonna turn this whole bathroom into a spa. Already got the stuff on Amazon that I wanna buy and yeah, we about to do this apartment up, okay? It's gonna be so stinking cute. So yeah, that's all. I'll talk to y'all tomorrow. I gotta work. So get out. But yeah, I've been talking long enough so I'll get with y'all tomorrow. 10th, almost the April 10th. I just put up the Sonic as you can see behind me. Probably it is like raining, grubbing. So I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pay with court. I'm gonna make sure my court of luck. I'm at Sonic. I don't know if I just said that or not. So you have to go to DHS to renew my health insurance. I use a blue cross. So I get it through wherever. I don't know. It's my court of luck child, close to the world. Okay, yeah. All right. And I have not ate Sonic in over a year since I am closer to a Sonic now. I was close to a Sonic but I'm like close to a Sonic. So I decided to eat Sonic today. That's new Sonic. My name is Araya. I look forward to for you.  DMI for a cherry limeade, it's all of these. Seven, I think. Okay. Ooh, baby, it's pouring down. It was saying it was gonna rain all week. And today is the only day besides the rain when I gotta go to work. Y'all know I got hooks right here. So the hooks that I use are from Amazon. They're my Amazon storefront link under 2022 KK5 essential. Something like that. Something about KK5. So I got those right there. So I just hook my purse right there. You see that giving tour lanes nine years? A minimum of nine years. Hello. Yes, marinara please. That's the goods.  So he's serving up to nine. So let me get off this vlog because it is pouring down right in y'all. And I'll talk to y'all when I get to the house and I ain't got no umbrella. All right, made it home. I use my sun visor as basically a like umbrella shield. So it is, it's 223. I just said I go to work tonight. I kind of want to go ahead and finish the night in the life of a PCT when I do it my job. Cause I started to record it last week, but they made me a sitter. I explained that in that vlog. So I meant trying to get some footage of that, but I do have a sheen haul that I just did last night that I'm about to edit tonight. And then I think I'll just post that for Thursday because my plan didn't go explained because I was waiting on a company to freakin' approve the last vlog that I posted. The moving vlog, I think episode five. So I'm just about to eat real quick.  So I just need to straighten up. And then Friday, I think I'm going to start putting together my TV stand that's back there. Hopefully it ain't too long because y'all see how short that one is. And I got that mirror right there. So it is going to be, I think a little bit lower, but I'm going to have like more space and you won't be able to like see everything that I got. So I don't know, I may have to end up moving that mirror to my bedroom or something. I actually wanted to give y'all a sneak peek. I'm redoing my bedroom. I'm redoing every room. I told y'all I'm keeping my same furniture. I'm just going to be redoing like color schemes and taking things away and adding things. But like the main furniture pieces like my bed, my couch, all of that I'm keeping just kind of switching out the decor basically. So that being said, this is my bedroom. Now I don't know if this is going to be like the full transformation is going to be in this vlog or another one depending on how much footage I got. But like, y'all know I told y'all I'm tired of the pink like all of that. So the pink is going to be exchanged for, excuse my lace girl, we didn't really do that today. So this is what's going to be coming tomorrow and then I have one coming next week. So this is going to be my new color scheme. I love that dark green, velvet green. I'm really loving it right now. So that's what I decided to go ahead and get. So I got another throw blanket. I got the sheets. I got a little jewelry holder box so I can switch mine out from the one that I got from she and I got long curtains. I think the length is like 108 inches. And then I want to have all black. So I got a black comforter. I got the pompous grass and another tray. So I'm super excited to put my room together.  So this whole wall, I'm going to put that black wallpaper that was in my previous vlog in here not the brick, just the regular kind of textured one. And then everything's going to be all black except for the pillowcases in my new sheets that's going to be green. So I may keep this one in here or I may go ahead and switch out to the green pompous in this vase or I may get a new vase. So I don't know. So today is Saturday, May 13th. I just got done getting dressed. It is hot today but we're going to be inside and we're going to the casino for my dad's birthday. So I got on these pants from she and this shirt is from somewhere I don't know. Then carrying my tote bag. I'm not taking this into the casino because I don't want to like carry it around. And then these shoes are from Target. Got these with me and they went to Memphis. I think I put that in the vlog. So this is the fit for today. No makeup or anything. I'm not really feeling it all too much. So yeah, this is the fit. I'm about to go actually get my nails done because I can't be going to the casino looking like this. Especially when they gonna be here. So yeah, I got to get this handle. I'm just going to get a whole new set. And these are my real nails right here. They're really long. I don't know. I'm going to see what they say. If I need to just cut my nails down and then just start completely over because I'm going to need a tip for that one. I'm getting my nails really short. So they'll probably be about this length. So I don't know. We're going to see what they say. But I'm not thinking my nails done. It's only 2.14 in the evening. We do plan to leave out in about two hours. And happy Mother's Day. Today is Mother's Day. And I have a lot to do. So I woke up later than expected today. Well, I told you what today is. It's 11.13. So on my agenda today, I have to finish this vlog that y'all watching right now. Ended up today by at least like 7.30 or whatever. Because my viewers, most of y'all are always on on Sunday. And I think it starts to kind of die down by like nine o'clock. So I feel really confident in posting tonight. Because three o'clock, the video's probably not going to be done. Maybe. I may be done editing, but like uploading and stuff is not going to be up until maybe like five, six. Because it'd be taking a minute because I edit in 4K. Anyways, I did tell y'all earlier in the vlog that I wanted to do my hygiene shopping in this video because I need to up reel up on all of my stuff. Oh, nails are done. Went yesterday. Girl, these are my real nails, okay? Get into it. Get into it. I only have real, real, real. I have two tips. Not gonna lie. These two are tips. The rest are my real nails, but literally fire. Lucas always give me together. I'm gonna have to start driving 20 minutes across town to get my nails done. Because the ones that's close by me do not be doing it for me, but it looks amazing and he is in my face right now. But on the agenda today, I have to go hygiene shopping. So I'm gonna go to Target. I do have a coupon code, two coupon codes for five off of 15. So I think I'm just gonna split my, I always go to self checkout. So I'm gonna split my items up. Cause right now my cart at Target, girl. I always kind of do this. I'll like put this up in my cart instead of making like a shopping list. I kind of just shop on Target to kind of already see what they got. So my cart right now is 6703. So if I split that into two, that'd be 33 dollars. So when I get to like 33 dollars, then I'm gonna use my five off of 15 and then go like that. Cause I don't think you can stack the coupons per se. So that's what I'm gonna do. I have seven items in my cart. That's all that I can think of right now to get until I actually get inside of Target. But like my hodging items isn't anything extravagant. I don't have like 20 different, you know, fan favorites of things. Like it's a good like 10 or so. So I'm gonna go get this stuff at Target. I could do pickup to make it easier on myself. But like I said, I don't really, like I gotta get in the store to kind of really see. Like, you know, I've definitely probably forgotten something. So this is all I could think of. After Target, I do have to go to Lush Cosmetics because I do like to get the like foot bomb cream, whatever you'll see when I go. So I need to get one item from there. And then I did put Sephora on my list because I do love the Fenty lotion. You guys definitely already know what I'm talking about. This one. So I'm ran out. You can get the replacements or whatever because you're able to like pop these out. Because honey, this is all I have left. So I don't know if I want to get that today or not. Like obviously I can just show y'all this is what I use. But I already have lotion in my cart at Target. So that's why I'm like, do I really need this today? Cause I am on a time crunch. So I think I may skip it on this today. But this is obviously part of my hygiene regimen. And then the other thing that I need to do is go to the European Wax Center. If they're open today, I got to get a scrub from there. And then I also have to go to, let's see. I'm going to look around at the clothes at Target but I do have to go to get my mom a Mother's Day gift. Yes, I'm one of those last minute shoppers, whatever. But I have to get her a Mother's Day gift. And then my dad birthday is actually tomorrow. That's all he went to the casino yesterday. I think I put a little, a few clips in yesterday or last night. So his birthday is tomorrow. We did celebrate yesterday, but I didn't actually give him like a physical gift besides just taking him there, you know, letting him enjoy himself or whatever. So the thing is today is Sunday. They don't sell beer on Sunday. My dad loves to drink beer. So I'm going to have to just give him the money for that. Getting my birthday card, whoop-de-whoop. And my mom, she said that she needed a new outfit. So I'm just going to go try to find her an outfit. Yeah, I have a lot to do within a few hours right now. My Sunday is a busy Sunday. I usually like to relax on Sunday, but girl, it ain't no relaxing. So I'm going to probably pick back up the camera when I get to Target and kind of just do like montage, footage or whatever. Because like I said, it's Mother's Day. It's definitely probably going to be packed like crazy. So it ain't really no aesthetically pleasing angles and shots that's about to be going on. Okay. So yeah, I got my hat on. Didn't feel like really in my wig down, regular little black shirt going on. So yeah, we about to head out and we still got to open up these packages. So I don't know if I'm going to open it in this vlog or the vlog that's going to be for this Thursday. But I do know the vlog for Thursday I am going to be redoing my whole room. I just don't know if I'm going to show y'all what I got now and then wait to put it up and show y'all Thursday. But yeah, I've been talking a long enough, I'll see y'all at Target Girlie's, bye. Got two balloons to say happy birthday. And then I got a balloon that says happy birthday for my dad. I got two cards, one card for my sister. So special sister, caring mom. Obviously this one's for my sister. This one's for my mom, but this was super cute. They're both cute. So I got them a card. And then from Burlington, I done just spent $1. So I got, I paid $54 for one, two, three, four, five items from Burlington. So these bags was $3.99. I do reuse birthday bags and like gift bags and stuff. But honestly, I don't know where they are since I moved and I got time to try to find them. So a pack of two was $3.99 at Burlington. And these are like really, really big bags. So I'm gonna put my dad's stuff in one of these. And then I got, so from Burlington, I got four other items for my parents. My mom loves Burlington to get her like little shirts and stuff from. So this one, I got her. This one is super cute. Like with a little bow, can keep right there. Pink is flowy. So, you know, it's been 80 degrees out here in Arkansas, Little Rock. So I think she really, really liked this one. I actually really liked this for myself and I could have found this in a small. I definitely will wear this to church. So pretty sure she might end up wearing this to church this Sunday. And then I got her this one. The lady who checked me out said that she loved this color. So I got this one for her. She'll probably wear this one to the casino or something, no telling. Got my dad a Tommy Hill figure shirt. Super cute. Just a cute little white t-shirt. And then this one I got. My dad really don't care about clothes. So I was thinking maybe he could wear this, this one to church when we go. So yeah, that's what I got. And then got the cars, the balloons and my dad. I'm also gonna be giving him, I forgot his card. And then I gotta give him some beer. Like I'm just gonna finish getting their gifts and stuff on my way there. Can't buy any beer today. But then I was gonna give my mom some flowers. So yeah. Okay, so a quick Tarjay haul. Target I spent $95 on this one transaction. The other transaction was $21. So, hmm. Luckily the supplements and vitamins I won't have to buy again until I've got like a 30 count and like 90 count, 50 count, 60 count. So I won't be having to buy these until like at least like another month, month and a half depending on. But this right here, this was $120, $25. So let's just get into it. Cause I just, I don't know. Before y'all saying I priced all of the same things and Walmart, Walmart they are the exact same price. Target actually did have a sale and I did use a $5 off coupon. So $10 off and it's still this high. So I did compare to Walmart.  So anyway, get into this. These are pants for my dad. So this is part of his birthday gift. Got him a new pair of pants, 34, 32. Hopefully these fit him pretty well. My mama gave me his size. Just a regular straight leg is what he liked. And these were $25. So the pants are with a good quality. My boyfriend says he actually likes to wear target pants also. So getting into the supplements first. Y'all can comment down below if y'all like these or not. The only ones that I've been taking was the Apple cider vinegar ones in this brand. And then I also really love the Ollie Melatonis sleep gummies. I've been buying these. So Target has been stepping it up for us, okay? Like we got Ulta in Target now. We got Apple in Target. The little travel section is top tier. Like they have so much stuff to try in the travel section. So I've been getting these. The 10 kind of gummies for like $3.99 I think. So honestly, these are only three milligrams I believe. So they say like take two before 30 minutes before bed. I usually just take one. And girl, these knocking me out. Like that's why I really like these. I feel like stuff like this is either hit or miss. They work for some people. They don't work for some people. Me personally, all I gotta take is one, knocks me out. Sometimes I take two if I wanna like just go to sleep instantly. But if it's like midnight and I'm already kinda tired, literally one, I was trying to read my book last night. I read four pages and I was asleep. So I really, really love this brand. So with that being said, I decided to try the women's multivitamins. Colla Shay was talking about the probiotics and the bloating one. My target, I don't think I saw the probiotics. I might've overlooked it. I may look online to see if they got it. But I just got the women multivitamins. I'll probably go back and see if they got the probiotics. She was taking the capsules for the bloating. I can't take capsules, so I wouldn't buy those. But I'm excited to see how these work. It says take two gummies. So super excited about that. Like I said, I've already taken this before. And then this one, I decided to get this in the same brand. I see all the girlies talk about this on TikTok. So I decided to get it and try it out. I'm super excited to try it. Basically, this long word, ashwagandha. I guess, I don't know. Says relax, restore, and unwind. Literally, I see so, so many things this can help with. So yeah, I'm excited to try these. Okay, I'm stuck to the bottom girl. Yeah, so that's all of my supplements. That's what I got for now. And then moving over to the more so physical hygiene. I love the EOS brand of the shaving cream. I normally get the one that you pump out, but, and I usually get the pink, the dark pink bottle. I don't really like that one anymore. Not, I don't like the actual product. I don't like what it comes in. Like when I try to pump it, after I use it about two or three times, it like basically stops working. I had that problem with Honey Pot. So literally, I will like pump it. Then you gotta give it some time to go back up and then like it's just too much. So I decided to get the one that you just squeeze out. I feel like this will be 10 times better for me. Haven't used this one before. Sensitive, shaving cream, 24 hour moisture. I think I would actually really, really like this one. So yeah, this looks thick, honey. So I'm excited to try this out. I think this was like four, three or four dollars. So I'll tell you how I like this one. But that's that. Got me a two pack of dub. I usually get the aluminum free one. I don't know if this one has aluminum in it or not. Yes it does. So the aluminum free ones, they didn't have the scent that I like. So I decided to get that. Been using this all my life. It'll be okay to use it one more time, honey. Sarah Breff just got put onto this about a month ago. Target also had this in the little travel size. I got it in my bathroom right now. I wanted to try it out. Didn't want about a whole thing. I mean, I like it. This is the only one that I've tried. Definitely love it. And I'm gonna continue to use this because the Dennis on TikTok, if y'all know, he always goes to like Costco or something and be like, this is what you need to be using or this is like bullshit or something. So he did a pH balance test. This one and another one, maybe like two or three. This one and another one, pH balance was amazing. It was maybe like one or two more that was like, okay, Listerine was like a four or three pH balance. So I'm gonna stop using it. So I'm super excited to get this beer bottle. Absolutely love this. Next I got the Tree Hood. I didn't see any other scrub there. So I just decided to get this because I mean, it does get the dead skin off, but ultimately I would like to try to find a better scrub that is better for your like body or whatever. But I got strawberry. You never had strawberry before. It smells okay. I got watermelon in my shower right now. I tried my rocking rose I think and the vitamin C one and a few other ones. So strawberry will do for now. The Holy Grail Dove Sensitive Skin. You know, gotta have this on deck. And then I love my Nivea lotion. I like to get dry to very dry skin. This is hands down the best lotion ever. Didn't get a chance to go to Sephora because it is currently 1.51. So it's about to be two o'clock. So I had to hurry up and come back and try to edit. Me trying to find my appearance, something for one of them for their birthday and for Mother's Day. It ran over time. So tomorrow I'll probably go to Lush Cosmetics. I'll probably put up a picture right here of what I'll only go to Lush for honestly. And then from Sephora y'all. So I get the Fenty lotion, you know. So I already showed y'all that I literally use it to the bottom of the container. So that's all for this. I'm gonna package this up really, really cute. And then I'm about to start editing this video that you're watching now. Hopefully this was enjoyable. Hope you guys liked it. Don't forget to like this video, comment and subscribe. And into my next video I will see you lovely soon. Bye guys. Oh, actually I don't know if I'm gonna have enough footage or not. But I think I'm just gonna open this later today when I get back or open this tomorrow morning and like start on my bedroom transformation. And that bedroom transformation video will be up this Thursday. So today is Mother's Day. So whatever date is Thursday, that video of me transferring my bedroom will be up. I'll start on that. Later tonight when I get back from my parents house or early tomorrow morning, which will be Monday morning. So yeah, but yeah, that's all. See y'all in the next one. Bye guys.


Hello everybody, and welcome back to my channel. Today we are doing a budget video for June 2017. If you guys have never watched my channel before, I do decorative planning. I just like the way it looks and it keeps my mind on task for the entire month. If you're not into decorative budgets and planning, this may not be the video for you, but I just like to give a little disclaimer. As always, let's take a peek at last month, see how the month panned out. The month is not over yet. Today is Thursday the 25th. I currently have a very very bad cold so I'm super stuffed up. So sorry about my voice. It's just the way it's gonna be. As you can see yesterday, I spent almost $40 at Walgreens on cold medicine. So yeah, I've been really sick ever since last Tuesday, so nothing I can do about it. The month panned out pretty well. There was a couple of unexpected expenses. The first one was here on the first. It's called Equity Solutions. I had to hire a appraisal company to do an appraise on the home that I'm gonna be purchasing on June 1. So that was $5.25, so I actually took that completely out of my budget because I had the extra money versus putting it in my savings account. So that was fine. I did have a hair appointment, which I had budgeted out $200 for and it only cost me with tip $131. So that was actually great. My dog was kind of expensive. He actually got a bath and I needed some new supplies for him like food and I needed some medicine for him too. So that got a little bit expensive, but it wasn't too bad. The only other random thing that happened was Lowe's. I had to pay them $64 for doing a estimate for my home. So I actually already just got the estimate the other day. I haven't hired them yet, but I'm gonna hire them after I close on the home on the first. They're gonna be doing some flooring in my first floor flooring, I guess. So anyway, this is how the, not the week, how the month is so far. Let's get in to June. I like to have these up for you guys before the month actually starts because I don't know. I just feel like, you know, you kind of get motivated and stuff before the month actually starts to get going. Oh, and if you're interested in any of these stickers on here, this is called the Emily's Budget Bundle from Coffee Break Planner. I will put a link down below as well as a discount code if you'd like to buy anything else at Coffee Break Planner. It's for 20% off your entire purchase. They are matte removable stickers. So like even this no-spend, even though I put it on a long time ago, like I can remove it off the page really nicely. So I really like that. Also, Catherine from Coffee Break Planner just came out with these and I figured I'd test them out and they're just these long strips for, it just says, build-do and then paid with all these little flags. So I thought this was really cute and I am going to put this in my June one over here and I think these are kind of like a universal fit. I don't think they're supposed to fit perfectly in this planner, but that can fit pretty much any sidebar. And if you ever have questions, like she has, like she literally has like all the planners. So she can either custom fit it or if you have a specific planner and you're wondering if it fits, you can, you know, send her a message on Etsy. So yeah, there is some negative space, but I guess I'd rather have negative space than, you know, not enough space. So these are a new addition to her shop. This is not in the Emily's Budget Bundle. This is just a strip you can get and it's a, every page has three. So yeah, if you buy a few sheets, then you're good for the entire year. So I thought that was a cool idea. The thing I need to factor in this month is my dog has to go to the vet because June is the time where he goes to the vet. I'm going to be using these. This is from Erin Condren. All of the monthly spreads that I've really ever done, I've always used these Erin Condren stickers. I like them. I think they're fun. Way to kind of jazz it up a little bit too. So why not? And I just kind of put it on the top here. Just try to line it up as best as possible. And oh, no overhang. Okay. That's good. Cool. Everyone asked me what I do with this page. I don't do anything. So I go like this. That's what I do with that page. Last month, I couldn't find this sheet. So my May, I guess it's just going to hang out there and stay, but June, here you go. All right. So here is my June budget. And this month is actually going to be kind of exciting for you guys if you've been watching my channel for a little while. Like I said, in June, I am actually purchasing a home. So I'm very excited about that. But you know what that means? I'm going to have normal bills. Ta-da! I don't know if I'm actually paying these bills in June or if it's going to be in July. I don't know if I need to like work that out with the whole like the original homeowner. I don't know how that's going to work. But you know, sometimes when you like hook up utilities, you have to put like money down or they take like a prorated payment. I don't know how that's going to all work out. But I'm going to budget into what was originally in the disclosures of, you know, average monthly bills. So that's what I'm going to put down for June. Once really August hits because July is going to be a funny month too. But once August hits, then I think I'm going to have a better understanding of like exactly like to the dollar amount like what to estimate for. Some of them are going to be set expenses and others are going to fluctuate with the amount of usage with like utilities and things like that. So anyway, let me zoom you guys in and then we'll get to this a little bit better. All right. So I'm going to have a lot more like lines this month. So I think I'm going to do my incoming on this side and then all my outgoing on here just to give me a little bit more space to work with. All right. And June is one of those months where I get paid five times because I get paid every Friday, which is probably going to be kind of nice because I'm buying a new house. All right. So then my total will be $3,287 and 70 cents. These are kind of estimates, but they're just like if I work 40 hours a week, that's what I'm getting paid. Sometimes I work less, sometimes I work more, just kind of depends. Most of the time I work more than that, not always. So yeah. Okay. So let me put on all of my expenses. Since I'm closing on the house on June 1, I actually don't have a mortgage payment due until August 1st because I'm pre-paying all of my interest for June and July is what I understand in the documents that I actually just signed today. So yeah, I'm still going to set money aside, not in June, but in July for a mortgage payment and then like double pay in August, if that makes sense. So I'm still going to set that money aside in July, but yeah, I don't know. It's just, it's one of those funny things. So I'm going to just go with what I know for now. And you know, these couple months in the summer are going to be a little bit of a trial and error until I figure out expenses for that home. I mean, I'm sure if you guys have a house or you move into a new home, regardless if you had a home before, sometimes the utilities and things like that, they kind of fluctuate and it takes a couple of months to kind of like get it regulated and figure out, you know, how much it is in your area. And sometimes it fluctuates from like town to town and all that jazz. I know I have to pay my HOA, which is going to be 158. I have insurance and this is not homeowners insurance. This is just regular old insurance is 10417. So that includes, that's my auto policy and my renter policy here. I'm not moving out of here until all of the contract work is done on the home. So that's probably going to be like mid month or the end of the month in June until that actually happens. So I will have a couple policies that'll lapse a little, not lapse, but they'll like kind of overshadow each other. I don't know. I'm going to have like double coverage kind of for a little while, but I mean, it makes more sense to do it that way. And then once I'm completely moved out of here, then I'm going to get rid of my renters policy and then it'll be just auto. But I do actually pay my homeowners insurance at the same time I pay my mortgage. So it sits in escrow is what my understanding is of it. So I'll get all those final documents on the first. So it's just there's there's a whole lot of moving parts to this whole situation. So another fixed expense that I know is my cell phone is 101 55 and then my Netflix 1068. All right. And the Wi-Fi is $45 and 29 cents. I'm currently paying for the Wi-Fi here, but I have to get that switched over to my parents when they get back here. And then I have to set up Wi-Fi in my new home. I think I'm just going to go with the same company because I've been pretty happy with their Wi-Fi speeds and everything. So I'm thinking I'm just going to go with the same company for that, but I don't know if they've ever serviced that home. So if they haven't serviced the home, they have to like wire in for it, which isn't the biggest deal in the world, but there may be like a little bit of a setup fee. I don't really know. I can't remember. I think that will actually end up working out just fine, but I might actually double pay Wi-Fi. So I might just pay it for June here and then pay it for June in the new place as well. We'll figure that out. All right. So let's go into some of the expenses that I don't know if they're going to be true or not. So here's kind of what I was told. Electric is estimated about $70 a month. The gas bill is estimated about $75 a month. The garbage is actually very specific at $17.85 a month. So I don't know if garbage is actually paid every three months or if it's paid every other month or every single month. I don't know. Again, I'll find that out. And then let's see. The water sewer is $56 a month. And so that's like these are the funny ones. So I think what they do with the gas and electric is they went for like 12 months and then averaged it out. So one might be higher. The other might be lower.  So on the back, like not the bottom, but let's kind of skip a line and then we'll go into... Well, let's skip a couple of lines. I'll go into some of the cash items and then I'll go into some of the more other miscellaneous expenses. All right. So grocery, I'm going to give myself $250 just because there's five weeks. So usually at average is out to about $50 a week. And then dining, I did $150. My brother's going to be in town at the very end of the year, not end of the year, the end of the month as well. So I figured we'll probably be going out to dinner as well. These are the only two items I have in my cash category. Let me skip a couple more lines and then I'll put in some of the other stuff that is kind of estimates. So gas for my vehicle is usually around the $200 mark. My dog needs a vet visit. So I need to actually find a vet. I haven't done that yet. I'm going to guesstimate about $200 for his vet visit. Sometimes they're less. It just depends on if he's like due for shots or anything. And then personal and household. Usually I put that around the $100 and this is for like laundry supplies, medicine, like personal stuff like shampoo and conditioner and toothpaste and things like that. But I will be purchasing some things for the home. I need to find two rugs, some bar stools and a kitchen table and chairs. Those are like the only main things I'm missing. And I'd like to do it out of this particular budget. I do have some money and savings, which is how I'm paying for all of the home renovations, which is why you don't see them on here. Because I have squirreled away quite a bit of money to do that kind of stuff. And I'm paying all cash for it. So none of it's going on a credit card or anything. I do have enough money in there to pay for some of those items, like the bar stools and the rugs and stuff. But if I can kind of squeak it out of this budget, I would love to do that if possible. So hopefully I can be really diligent with my spending this month and be able to do that. So I think I'm actually going to do a whole Financial Friday video about trying to find things at a good deal and really shopping around. You can get the same type of a look for a very limited price. It might not be the best quality in the world, but if you're not super hard on your things and you take care of them, I don't see why you can't spend $100 less on a chair than spending $100 more on a chair to get almost the same look. So I'm excited to show you guys that stuff when that happens. It'll probably be in the month of June or July when those videos will actually go up because it's going to take me a while to edit and all of that. Plus I'm moving and it's like this whole long thing. So really, I'm not going to be putting any more money into my savings account as of right now. What I'm going to do with the excess is that's going to be essentially my budget for any items I want for the home. So let's get this guy totaled up and we'll see where we're at. All right, so I got them totaled up. So let's total up all of the categories. All right, so I'm looking for like a total outgoing right now with my cash and kind of my estimates of gas and doil and then like personal household of $1,538.54, but I'm bringing in $3,200. So let's see what the difference is and then see kind of how much money I have to play with for buying some of those items that I am looking for in the month of June. All right, so I'm looking at a total of $1,700 for any of my kind of miscellaneous expenses that I would like to spend for the month. I'm not 100% sure if I'm going to spend all of it. Maybe I will, maybe I won't. Like I said before, let me actually zoom you guys out a little bit. Like I said before, I may or may not buy anything in June. I'm hoping I can get everything done in June that I would like to get done, especially with finding some of those pieces. I have been looking online at some of the discount places just to see what they have, also going on like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. I did a whole vlog about Facebook Marketplace and I'll link that down below for you guys. But yeah, this is my June budget. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them down below and I'll get back to as many of you as I can. All the links for all of the places that I mentioned or used will be linked down below for you guys as well. So if it's your first time here, make sure to subscribe. I have new videos coming out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And feel free to give the video a thumbs up if you liked it. And I will see you guys in my next video. Bye guys!


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Yeah, my name is Levani, and here with me is Jonathan, we work at TransRise, and today we're going to talk how we have secured our Kafka infrastructure using Stephen. So, first, I will briefly describe what Kafka is. So Kafka is essentially a stream processing platform. We use it to transfer as our kind of a backbone for event processing, and most of the async cross-service communications happen through Kafka, so it's kind of our central infrastructure that is very important for TransRise. So on the Kafka side we have different components, and on the client side we have a producers and consumers, and on the kind of the management and the server side we have a Kafka broker. Kafka broker is the one who is responsible to actually manage the clients as well as store the data on the disks. So usually in the production you have many Kafka brokers, and on the broker side we also have the notion of a topic, and the topic is kind of a logical obstruction on top of the data that is stored on the Kafka brokers. Topics are split into multiple partitions, and those partitions can be on the single broker or they can be on multiple brokers. And you and one partition, and one broker is a leader for a single partition. So usually clients are talking to the leader in order to write the data to the topic. So producers produce the data, and this is appended on the log files that Kafka manages the data formats and consumers in parallel can consume the data from those partitions. So I won't go into all the details around the configuration of the brokers, but I will cover some important bits and pieces that are that is important for this talk. So we need to understand before describing technical details how we have done this, how this client broker connection works. So on the broker side we have a configuration that is called listeners. And this is where the Kafka broker process creates the server sockets so for example, in this example. In this slide we see that we create new listener called plain text internal, which binds to the port 1992. And we also have another listener which is called as a sol internal and it binds to the port 1993. On the other hand we have another configuration which is called advertise listeners and this is the configuration that is used by the clients in order to communicate to the brokers. And this should be, and this must be unique for each broker across the cluster. So for here we are using DNS record for example Kafka zero dot internal in order to uniquely kind of reach to the broker. And this is how what the clients will use in order to communicate to the single broker. Since clients need to talk to their leaders, they have to kind of reach to the particular broker. We also have listener security protocol map and this we kind of define what's our security protocols for the particular listener. Here we are saying that plain text internal is a plain text so no security and SSL internal is we expect SSL on that listener. On the one side things are a bit more boring, we just have just bootstrap servers and this client uses this bootstrap servers in order to kind of get cluster state. So, how it works all together on the one side we have a broker, and then we have a client. So, first client will use this bootstrap servers configuration. And we'll ask the broker, can you please give me the cluster state. On the other hand, we'll return the cluster state. And it will really will use advertised listener configuration for each broker to move to and it will pass this configuration to the client. And then client will use this configuration in order to identify the leaders and how to reach the leaders on the partitions. So this is kind of flow how the broker client on communication works. So we have to cover the, like, basics of the connection now let's see how the mutual can work in a traditional manner for this kind of setup. So for example we have on the other hand on one hand we have a client we did with it some client key store that imports client certificate. And then we have a broker with broker key store that imports broker certificate, and they are signed by the same CA in this example. So how this gonna how this mutual to us would be established. First client will make a connection to the broker. Then broker would represent broker certificate to the client since we are talking about mutual TLS client will try to verify the broker against the CA, since they are signed by the same one everything passes here so we are all set. The client will present the client certificate to the broker and the broker will do the same one and will verify the client certificate against against the CA. And when everything is done as a final step the connection is established so this is kind of a classical flow of how a mutual TLS like simply by the view of how mutual TLS can be established. Now this setup obviously has problems. The first one is that the long live certificates are very hard to manage. We are a transfer as we have more than 300 microservices and having them kind of certificate management for each one of them would be a nightmare to manage for any platform team. We have also diverse set of clients, not every client and every language supports the TLS will together so it might not be really possible to implement something like this in some languages. And it's like if we are talking about migration to this new setup it would be quite hard to do if we are if we have like that many microservices you know infrastructure because it would require some of the code changes on the client side. So this is where we have started looking into now spiffer with spire and see like how we can utilize this technology in order to automate some of the some of these processes. So let me now describe how it works. So for the scenery mentioned that the on the one side we have a microservice that runs inside the Kubernetes. And this microservice talks to the envoy as an envoy runs as a side car. And envoy talks to the spire agent over SDC. So this is kind of classical setup. And on the other hand we have a broker. And we need to make this kind of connection between microservice to the broker work over and so over the proxy. So in order to do that we for the broker side we have to add some additional configurations. And for the listeners so we can add that can define a new listener named envoy, and it will find through the port 1994. And we can define advertise listeners for anyway which will be a local host 9101. Now this is an important bit here. Because before we have used the DNS record or maybe I peel together to uniquely identify the broker. But now since we just have a local host since envoy runs like locally on the as a side car next to the microservice, we need to use different port to uniquely identify different brokers. So that's why the support needs to be unique for each of the brokers. And we also have listener security protocol map. And we are saying that envoy needs to be over SSL. Now on the, my on the invoice site. We can have as simple as like static envoy conflicts where we are mapping that local host 9101 needs to be proxy to the Kafka zero dot internal 1994 and local host 9102 need to be proxy to Kafka one dot internal. And then we can have an impact between the ports and the actual Kafka brokers that are running inside the infrastructure. Now this can with this setup we have kind of connection figured out so connection between the microservice and Kafka broker will work over and avoid now we need to teach Kafka brokers and to understand the speed is So for this we are using just the library, which has a, which, which makes a connection to the spire server using the agents of profile that is running that is created by spire agent with the trans on that same host. And with that we have kind of integration between the broker and when the end the spire server done so it's kind of works out of the box. And we have to, we have to change some configurations, but nothing that serious. So we have to what by integrating JavaScript library into the Kafka broker will automatically get the speed for trust manager and the key manager implementation so we can say to the Kafka process that use key manager algorithm and trust manager algorithm as beef as well. So it will use the speed for us manager and key managers. And we also tell Kafka to make the client as well authentication as required so we expect identity on each of the on each of the from each of the client. So from the how it would work in practice now that since we have this integration ready on the microservice side will have the it connected to bootstrap service and until use local host 9101 to make the connection. So it will make the connection to local envoy on as a plain text so it doesn't really need to know or it doesn't even expect to talk to broker over TLS. So plain text connection to envoy on this board and envoy will make a connection to the Kafka broker and it will upgrade the connection to empty less because we have the spire agents running on both on both places. And obviously spire agents on this microservice side and on the broker side they both talk to the spire server, and they get this certificate rotation like they will get them. Spire server will manage all the rotations and we'll get all this kind of nice automatic setup out of the box. Now I will hand over to Jonathan who will talk more in details how we run envoy transfer. Thank you. So, Lovani mentioned and why quite a lot there why why envoy and how we're using it. Trust wise well, we already have an employee in place. We have a full service mesh setup already. This is deployed across our entire state so across our communities clusters. It's present as side car in order that service pods. It's deployed on EC2 instances where there are services running on various instances. It's deployed in various data centers around the world where we're running services, some data centers. This is used for all service to service calls and those calls are really secured using s fits ex 509 s fits provided by spy agent via the envoy sds protocol. This is driven by a homegrown control plane. But as this is present everywhere across our infrastructure already the components were ready in place to just add Kafka support to this. Next slide please. So how do we go about adding Kafka support today. The Kafka brokers are static. So we didn't even touch the control plane. We can avoid configs are templatized so helm for communities ginger to for everything else. And so by having that static list of Kafka brokers for each of the clusters, we can just feed that into the templating and produce bootstrap configs which already know about all the brokers. Static configuration is not ideal. But it was an easy way to get started doing this and get it into production. So avoided touching the control plan as well. Next slide please. So what is the conflict do this look like. Well, we have a listener configured an envoy for each broker that we need to talk to. That listener has a cluster associated with it for each listener. Each cluster has a single endpoint, which will be the Kafka broker that that listeners intended for the listeners configured with the envoy TCP proxy filter. And the clusters configured to have a TLS transport socket so that then pulls certificate information and the trust bundle from spy agent via the envoy SDS API that the agent supports. We've also got the listeners configured with the Kafka filter. This is completely optional. It's not essential at all. It doesn't do anything for routing traffic. All it does is pass the messages they go by and produce some very basic metrics about messages. It's nice to have additional metrics. So that's what we have it turned on. And with this configuration, you now have a listener per broker. And so your bootstrap serves on the client side. It looks something like localhost 9101, localhost 9102, and so on in this case. This is still not perfect because it means that the client still needs to be configured with this list of ports. And if you want to renumber brokers or you want to remove brokers and things you'd have to go around changing configurations. So we can make this slightly better make bootstrapping even simpler. Next slide please. By adding a another listener with a cluster that has an endpoint for every single broker. So you have this in this example, a listener on 9100. If you connect that it will connect you to one of the brokers that it knows about so any one of the brokers. And that's enough bootstrapping that broker will return the cluster metadata which will contain the advertised listeners for the rest of the cluster while at itself. So that will give the client all of the individual ports that it needed to know to connect to the individual brokers. This means the configuration is as simple as having a single port in the bootstrap service for each client. And it's now completely oblivious to how many brokers are really behind each of these bootstrap ports. Next slide. So what problems are with this? Well, the state broker configuration is far from ideal. People want to deploy Kafka into Kubernetes clusters, for example, and other dynamic environments. Even adding new brokers at the moment as a pain, you have to basically regenerate a large number of envoy configs and redeploy them. It's not as bad as having to change the client configuration for every single service, but it's still not ideal. We'll simply move the configuration into the control plane at some point in the future when this becomes a significant problem for us. It's not a showstopper. We just wanted to have the simplest sort of path to getting this into production that we could and so avoiding touching the control plane was the best way to do that. In terms of overhead, there were worries that introducing envoy into the mix would have some high overhead. In reality, we found that offloading the TLS work to envoy has better performance than using the Java client using TLS on that directly. Anyone who's dealt with the Java TLS implementation knows that it's not known for its performance. So probably with hindsight, there shouldn't have been a surprise. We actually have lower latency and higher throughput with running it via envoy. Java, of course, we're a Java shop primarily, so this was our main use case. That's what we benchmark most heavily. For non-Java implementations, we'd expect their own TLS implementations to be significantly better than the Java one. But in benchmarks, the overhead of empty less via envoy compared to just plain text straight to the broker wasn't actually that high at all. It was, unfortunately, but yeah, we found that insignificant enough for our use case that we don't believe that there's a problem with our languages either. Next slide. So what did we gain from doing all of this? Well, unified service identity across our infrastructure, obviously a big win, spiffy IDs for everything. So service calls are authenticated with the same as vids as we use for connecting up to our Kafka clusters, which is brilliant. So we didn't have to introduce Java spiffy, for example, or equivalents in other languages to our clients. We didn't have to add TLS support for the Kafka library that don't have it for a couple of languages. And so diverse clients, not a problem either because all of the client libraries support plain text out the box. You can just speak plain text to envoy and it all works. And of course, the big win, no longer live certificates to manage anymore. Everything is espids managed by Spire, which was brilliant. So I've also included a couple of resources. There's an example, envoy config, a template for generating an example, envoy config in that GitHub repo. Another important component is the Kafka spiffy principle library. We didn't write this, but this converts. This reads the spiffy ID of an X509 Svid in Kafka and converts it to a Kafka principle. So you can then use it in the Kafka ACLs. That is obviously an important bit of this all. And that's basically how we've secured access to our Kafka brokers using. There are a few questions from the chat. I don't know if you rather read those or take them offline. Maybe we can take them offline. That's probably easier to spare some time. Great. Well, this is fascinating. Spiffy with Kafka is a very sought after and desired integration. Thanks for assembling the pieces and lighting the path for others to be able to refer to the configuration about how you've gone about it. And also, well, the insights you've gained throughout the process.


He's got a lot of illustrators going when he's doing this whole entertainer piece. He's loud. He's doing all that. I got you. They don't want to take the other bottle. And then when Charlotte may be asking the question about, let's talk hip hop.  I want to talk to Puff right now. Yes, yes. He turns and he does some appearance enhancement. He licks his lips. Because he's thinking it's going to be hip hop talk. Not a, did you pay to have somebody killed? The minute that happens, he uses the only way I'm going to describe this is he caused peace. No, no, we don't answer that. We don't talk about things that are nonsense. Doesn't make him look good. He goes to internal voice. You see him look down into his left. He adapts to that pin to his face. And after he gets through the whole thing, guys, I rarely say something looks like doopers to me. That looks like it to me. That quick joop will turn to the side of the mouth when he says as a journalist. I appreciate you as a journalist asking. That to me just does not look good.


It's a very special occasion for me to be here, and it's also an honor to be here on this occasion of the 33rd inaugural lecture of the Babcock University. And this occasion is special to me because the inaugural lecturer, as you've heard, is my friend and brother, Professor Omishemi Oduyori. Professor Omishemi Oduyori and I met in 1969, where we're classmates from one, from one, I did go to college, Yama. And of course we've been friends since then, this is 52 years ago. Some of our classmates are here, Mr. Tude Fowler, I believe Mr. Taiwudutola, and I'm told Mr. Kune, who used to be our head boy, is also here somewhere, and I'm sure maybe one or two others who I can't immediately see are set, that's the 6975 as we call ourselves. It's a very close-knit one, and we meet every second of every month and we'll be meeting for decades. Professor Omishemi Oduyori and others, you have to go further, I haven't spare you today. I'm also especially pleased today because two of us are probably the only two in our set that eventually became professors. Will you talk that? Of course. Okay, of Mexico. All right. So there are three of us, three of us, but I'm very pleased that at least we went through the mill and eventually became professors. The others went the way of money, and they've all, of course, made tremendous success in all their endeavors. So like some of us who are here, as I've said to one or two of the academics here, we are proud academics. I'm also excited to be here at Bartholm University, a university that proves the point that with clarity of vision, excellence, color, and resources, a private university in Africa can compete with the rest of the world. And I must say that I'm especially impressed with the quality of graduates of this university. Their confidence, their sound learning, and especially their solid entrepreneurial skills have come across them in several different businesses, especially in film tech and technology, and they have proved to be solid, disciplined, and innovative individuals. This is a very young university, and the best is yet to come. And as congratulates my dear friend and brother, Professor Oduya Young, this is very relevant, very contemporary, and very scholarly nature. I had the opportunity to browse through it, and there's a lot of material in there, which I believe is going to be very useful for us, especially those of us who are policy makers on the economy, and especially for small businesses. There's no question at all going from the submissions they have made that the economic future of our country will depend on small businesses, maybe of our small businesses. And the obvious reason is because small businesses, indisputably, are the engine of growth of every economy, and I think that your statistics from different other countries of the world there that are very eloquent. MSMEs also of course employ the largest number of people, which explains why our government decided to do what is described as the MSME clinics, the MSME clinics. Now this is a commission which I have the privilege of chairing. And what the clinics do is that every state will go to every state of the federation, almost on a bi-monthly basis, and one of the state governments to support small businesses, all across Nigeria. The MSME clinics were designed to bring regulatory agencies whose work affects the business enterprises of MSME. So all we do is that we'll go to the states, and we'll go with the regulatory agencies. Mr. Fowler, of course, has been on several of those trips while he was chairman of the Air Force. We'll go with NAFDAF, with SOM, all the regulatory agencies. The idea is to bring those regulatory agencies to the various states so that the MSMEs can meet with them and discuss their various problems. What has happened in some states, and at the moment I think we have got 12 states, that have one stop centers in their states. Now these one stop centers are places where you can meet with all the regulatory agencies, they are offices, so that it's easy for them to access NAFDAF, access SOM, and any of these other places. But only 12. Our country is a very big country, a very large country. And one of the major problems that they have is in trying to use one, for instance SMEDA, one enterprise, one government agency to satisfy several different MSMEs. And they run into millions. What we try to encourage in the states, the situation where the states themselves develop their own versions of the SMEDA. So that states themselves are able to sponsor businesses, able to support businesses. In some of the states, we've set up what are called resource centers, where you build a cluster. For example, we have clusters of farming, where we build a cluster for those who do farming and processing. And so farmers who cannot afford equipment, come together and use the equipment there. We have one that is about to be launched in the neighborhood for shoe makers. So they put a cluster there with equipment that can be used by the shoe makers there. Incidentally, in the neighborhood there is an exporter, close to a million pairs of shoes, everyone coming out of that neighborhood. So it's a very important cluster for, and of course there are all small businesses in cluster there. We also have one in your state, and a few of these clusters. So the whole idea is to set up some of these services in different states. But the states must accompany the federal government in doing it, because as I've said, it's a big country. This is a federation. In many of the countries that you've cited, especially the US, state support is very important for small businesses. And when you look at some of the sums of money, you'll see that a million, two million here and there is the sort of thing that some states at least should be able to afford. But I wanted to also make the point that one of the things that we did with MSMEs during the COVID, is what is called the MSME Survival Fund. The MSME Survival Fund gave almost a million businesses support after COVID. It paid three months' salaries for several of its MSMEs, especially at private schools, private separate schools. It paid for teachers and also for several small transport units. So the MSME Survival Fund, and I think that some of the statistics will be useful, especially as you further research the work. There's so much that was done. But as I keep saying, it's a large country. It's a very big country. In order to deal with all of those issues, and to be able to support small businesses in a way that they ought to be supported, a lot more money is needed. And also one final point on that. The AFDP, the African Government Bank, has agreed to support the government with $500 million for small businesses in technology. And so we think that this is something that will be very helpful in addition to the $75 billion fund, which the Federal Government has set up also for young people that are small businesses. We must keep working on small businesses, because that certainly is the future of our country. No question at all. And those businesses bring hope, they bring jobs, they bring opportunities. And I very strongly believe that this is where the direction of the world will be headed. As I close, let me also commend the 70th Advances Church for the investments that have been made with education. I think that this is very commendable indeed. And this is the direction that several religious organizations must follow. The real work of ministry is the work of ministering to the people, especially those who cannot afford to do many of those things themselves. The work that ministries did is why the likes of Professor UiAi are able to be here, because our college was one that was founded by two Christian ministries, the Christian mission, the Methodist and Anglican mission. And they gave education, quality education, very, very cheap, so that we were able to afford it. And several of us were able to go to school and be the people that would be able to do it. So I believe that it's very important that religious organizations see this as primary in all of the tasks and all of the things that they choose to do. So I'd like to commend the church for this. I would like to begin to congratulate my dear brother and friend, Professor UiAi, on this very auspicious occasion, and also to wish him a very happy life. But I have to say before I say that he has arrived at the point very clearly, because he has, of course, actually reached the point very clearly that he should not expect. God bless you. Happy birthday.


Hello, and welcome to my career in data, a podcast where we discuss with industry leaders and experts how they have built their careers. I'm your host, Shannon Kemp, and today we're talking to Jatine Solanke from DeCube. With a robust catalog of courses offered on demand and industry-leading live online sessions throughout the year, the DataVersity Training Center is your launchpad for career success. Browse the complete catalog at training.dativersity.net and use code DVTOX for 20% off your purchase. Hello and welcome, my name is Shannon Kemp and I'm the Chief Digital Officer at DataVersity, and this is my career in data, a DataVersity Talks podcast dedicated to learning from those who have careers in data management to understand how they got there and to be talking with people who help make those careers a little bit easier. To keep up to date in the latest in data management education, go to DataVersity.net forward slash subscribe. Today we're joined by Jatine Solanke, the founder of DeCube, and normally this is where a podcast host would read a short bio, the guest, but in this podcast your bio is what we're here to talk about. Jatine, hello and welcome. Hey, Shannon. I'm super excited. Thank you for having me here and excited to share my journey and how I reached to this position. I'm so excited to connect with you and so tell me you're the founder of DeCube. So tell me what type of business is this? What have you started here? Well DeCube is a unified platform which manages data observability, data catalog, and governance. And the reason why we have a unified platform is because we don't want people to juggle between multiple applications and also the biggest struggle of a data leader or data managers is the single source of truth. And that's exactly what we're trying to solve with our unified platform and that's what DeCube does at a very, very high level. I love that a lot. It's definitely a need out there for sure. We hear that from our community all the time. So you're in a sweet spot there for sure. So what do you do then? What does your typical work week look like as a founder? I'm sure you work with lots of data yourself. Yeah. As a founder of DeCube, my job is to bring the data domain expertise within the team itself. Our team comprises of software engineers, data engineers, and even machine learning experts. My job is to ensure that everything is tight and we are focused on one region itself. How does a typical week look like? Though I'm a founder, but we need to sell what we build. So I spend a lot of time on the discovery call talking to data leaders of what kind of challenges they are facing, especially around data observability. And we try to see whether DeCube can fit into that environment. And if it doesn't, I also take the feedback from them and also that will help me to sharpen the product for the future roadmap. So that's precisely how our week looked like for me. And I love doing that every minute, every day, every week. Yeah, you have to be passionate about something to found a start a company, right? Absolutely.  You have to love what you do.  And if you are not motivated enough, it's quite a challenge for you to bring that same motivation within your employees and get the similar kind of output. So tell me, was this the dream when you say you were six years old? Did you say I'm going to grow up and I'm going to found a company to solve data governance problems? Honestly, no. My dream was, I was very, very fascinated with the commercial pilots. So I always dreamt like, how can I be the commercial pilot? And today also, I do have a flight simulator at home, which is like a proper flight simulator. I do enjoy that. It's also one of the areas you can love flying aircrafts and all. But of course, I didn't sort of focus on that. I want to be a founder of a startup and all. But the way it actually, the journey is more from an in-section point of view, where my father was an entrepreneur. So he had a large business. I lost him quite early in 2003. But there are a couple of learnings I got from him, especially that when you want to do, especially on the business. So I was always also loving what the business is and what it takes.  But that's not like something which is guaranteed. You need to work towards it. I definitely wanted to be like a commercial pilot, but I didn't know and I will end up into a businessman. But again, here, one of the things which I learned from my father was don't jump the ship. First learn about it. First spend the time. Build the domain expertise. See where you want to head to. And that's precisely what I did. I spent a lot of time with the data space, data domain. And then I decided that this is the problem I need to solve. And that's how I ended up as a founder. Oh, very nice. And first, you know, I want to say I'm sorry for your loss and how nice that you're building his memory into your business. So tell me those. So as you started growing up, then how did you start change the passion and from like I want to be a pilot to what did you start studying and where did you start? How did you start moving your career forward before getting into data?  The other is when I was graduating in my academics, I found out and even, you know, along with my brother, my with my father, if I found out that I'm pretty good in mathematics, right? And gradually, you know, the passion towards numbers sort of grew within me. So I did spend, you know, from an academic perspective, I did my bachelor in business. But again, I did my masters in finance with minors and statistics from one of the top B schools in India. And after that, also, I did postgraduate diploma in data science and AI. So sort of, you know, the academics, which is more like a foundation for you, I've spent a lot of time there. And as I was just mentioning, as I was graduating towards my academic career, that's the passion towards number grew. And it was like when I got a first campus offer, it was in the data field itself. And which is why I decided that, hey, this is something which I really love, spending my time, understanding data, crunching numbers at that time, and which is why I continue in that field. Again, the passion, you know, grew as a sort of, you know, sort of progress in my career. And this is one of the fields which I don't regret, you know, sort of, you know, starting my career with. And I love doing it. Amazing. So you just really got into data just right away. I love that a lot.  Yeah, so a couple of lessons out there.  So I'm talking into sort of, you know, fourth year. So one is one is at the team side.  So ensure that, you know, the bottom layer is always happy. If they are happy, the middle layer will be happy. And if they are happy, you are happy. Right. So to spend more time with them, understand what is, what is the motivation? And most of the times, I also learn money is not the motivation, not the driver every time. And I always have, I always have a tendency to spend, you know, a little bit of time on understanding the personal kind of goals to, right? You know, understanding about the family, because that impacts the performance. If a one person has a pipe with his wife, that morning is not good for him, it's not productive. So if you understand that, that sort of, you know, background of the person, it really helps you to get the best out of the person itself. On the, on the personal side, I think so, you know, the collaboration between other departments is super crucial.  And one of the lessons which I have learned in past was, so I was building a machine learning model, and I was ready with the model. But one of the biggest things which I didn't do properly was the stakeholder management, especially from the product management side. And so I was ready with the API and the product said, hey, you know, it's two months away from now. So, so again, you know, boiling down is the collaboration, the stakeholder management is something super, super crucial. Considering that the data department is also like one of the, is the center part of the business value chain. You are supplying the data, you are working with multiple stakeholders. You need to ensure that, you know, you spend tremendous amount of time there. Wow, I love those lessons. And, you know, I love that you mentioned that the lessons come from, you know, a challenge and a misstep, so to speak, in order to learn it. And how, what a great message to like how important the people are no matter what you're doing. And you're talking about building, you know, AI and, you know, it's not replacing your people, but the people are so important to what it is you are building. That's really, really nice. So, so tell me, you know, having worked with data for so long now, and, and, and it being your primary focus, what is your definition of data?  So, for me, the data could be in any shape and form, mostly I look at whether there's a structural data, whether it's unstructured data, but even you take an image on your iPhone or, or any phone for that matter, that's a data. Even when you're talking to anyone on the phone, that's data. So, data is like any form in a digital format, right, or even if it's necessary to say digital, but it could be in a physical format too, but there's any exchange of information in, in any language, either it's a binary language, either it's a one-necular language, it's English. That to me is a definition of data and, and nowadays there are so many tools out there where you can collect whether your unstructured data, that's your image, audio, and any other files, and, and the other thing is the structural data, what, what kind of interactions you do with the application, that is, that is something more like structured data. But yeah, that's, that to me is data, but the next step towards the data is how do you translate that into a knowledge and that is something which is very, very crucial, you know, as, as a data leader, as a data manager. Very true. Any best practices to translate that data and put it into context? Well, there are a lot of libraries available where you can sort of translate that data into, into, you know, a certain form, right, like just to give you an example, if there is an image, you can definitely use libraries to convert that image into a binary language, right, where you can, we can just convert like all the colors, like you know, it's, you know, the colors have a range of 0 to 256, so you can define that, you can actually pixelate that into, into a matrix into a numbers. The other form which is the very, very, you know, simple is you dump data lake and nowadays a lot of companies are adopting that structure where you sort of ingest, sort of store everything in a likes of Amazon S3 or something like, you know, Google, so it's more like a bloop storage, that's what I'm predominantly going through, so that's that's the, I would say one of the best practices out there. Very nice. So especially having worked with data for so long, do you see the importance of data management and the number of jobs working with data increasing or decreasing over the next 10 years and why? Well, this is, this is a tricky question but at the same time, you know, in a very early stage, after discussing with few of the data leaders out there in the industry, the data management is definitely going to evolve as companies get to invest in generative AI and I believe that having generative AI, the roles will redefine within data itself, we may have less amount of data analysts because the generative AI is able to crunch the numbers, is able to slice the numbers, business will be able to directly interact with those models and understand the data pretty easier and faster but at the same time, for your model to perform well, you need to feed the data in a accurate fashion or you need to feed the reliable data. So that's where the dependency on your data engineers, your data ops people becomes more critical. So I see the weightage changing, right? You may end up having more data engineers, more data operation people because as company invests in the generative AI, you need to have more pipelines, more data going in, more unstructured data and you need to take out the meaning out of the data. So again, there you will require some of the ML experts and AI engineers too to maintain that model and continuously monitor that model too. So I see the shift happening in and definitely one of the reasons why we are focusing and every company needs to focus on the data reliability because that lays the foundation again for whether it's your AI model or whether it is your data products internally. If you have a right and reliable data, accurate information, you will get accurate output.  So that's the paradigm shift which I am, which early signs are showing. But again, as the models evolve, as the generative AI evolves across in the coming few years, I guess we also get to sort of change that within our data management as a community. But again, just to answer that, from an outcome perspective, I see there's definitely going to be an increase in the data management people within the organization itself. More and more companies are considering investing in data literacy education but still have questions about its value, purpose, and how to get the ball rolling. Introducing the newest monthly webinar series from Dataversity, Elevating Enterprise Data Literacy, where we discuss the landscape of data literacy and answer your burning questions. Learn more about this new series and register for free at dataversity.net.  So putting an emphasis and stress on then the importance of data governance in order to manage that, yeah? Yeah, absolutely. I guess the data governance, as you graduate into your journey of the data management, sometimes I have seen that the data governance is not required on day one itself. But as it is, I mean, based on my best practices, I would include that into day one, but I'm just more talking towards the reality part of it, right? Because as the company is developing the data practices internally, they hit a wall where they need to bring in more control, right? They have understood what it takes to drive the data internally for growth and which is where now they want to bring a control saying that we would require a modular framework like data governance because we have so much data internally, we have external data, IoT data, we have internal sensitive data, we have certain inter, we have transactional customer data and so on and so forth, which is where then access becomes like a challenge, right? How do you provide access to the people and how do you monitor those access? And that's one element. The other element is you have certain sensitive information, some of the financial companies have credit information about you as a person. You need to ensure that those are protected from even the internal employees and that's where the requirement of data governance comes into picture and which is why it's very, very crucial. At the same time, people need to realize the importance of it. It is the long-term gain. It is not something like a magic wand. It is not like an AI model also where you deploy and you may see the results in a month or so. It's also a cultural change, right? It's the way you function, the way you define your processes internally. So that's where the data governance comes into picture. Again, I also emphasize the data governance is more like a framework which you need to bring across in the organization, the cultural changes. Then you should look at the tooling part. We solve the tooling problem, but if you deploy the tool now and there's still not a change in the culture or the frame or the process itself, it's not going to reap any benefits for you. So that something is very, very important for all the companies to sort of emphasize on is the importance of the framework. You know, it's interesting. We still hear from a lot of people that they're struggling to get funding for or get executives to buy off on even starting a data governance initiative. What would you say to those executives, say, hey, this is why it's not... So many executives think that the data governance is a dirty word and it's really just about adhering to laws, but it's so much more like you just said than that and it's so important to the management of the data within the company. So what would be your sales pitch to somebody who's not yet on board to understand the importance of why it could benefit the company? Yeah, this is super important and this is also a very important question for a lot of data leaders out there, even for executives. The way I help the data leaders because we work very closely with the data leaders to sort of champion internally and be sort of a sponsor in this particular data governance project. Where they can onboard us. So it's actually for me, it's agreed out there. But in reality, even when I was a data leader and when I wanted to pitch in the data governance framework, the way I got the buy-in was you don't need to talk to the data, the technical language in front of your executives. They really won't understand what you are trying to define, what is the kind of impact. So what I did was I simplified things for them. Because we as maybe exacts or even like a human, we are more reactive than preventive. And data governance is also part of preventive frameworks. So we always have to showcase that what is the impact if your data gets leaked out. So if you sort of, this is just one example, if you tell your executives that hey, if your data gets leaked out, first of all, you get a loss of millions of dollars. The other thing is the reputation of the company.  And but at the same time, if it is like, so if the reputation gets impacted, it also impacts your customer sentiments. They might not do business with you. And even if it is a B2B companies, the businesses might not want to engage with you because you're not safeguarding your data in a right fashion. So this is just one of the replications you will see. And if your data gets leaked out. So if you are able to explain that, and I'm sure executives will give you a bind for that. At the same time, you also need to tell them what it takes to bring that project in. What is the absolute dollar value? And what's the absolute dollar value in terms of returns you will be getting in the next three or four years? What's the kind of savings you have? So it's more like a total cost of ownership kind of model. But again, you also need to understand what's the value you're driving internally. That is something which is very crucial. And the value sometimes is not always about absolute dollar because subjects like data governance, and even for that matter, data observability, these are subjective. These are productive tools. It helps you to improve productivity internally. So you will see the gradual change in the coming months slash years, which is where you will always see the data governance is not like a SaaS tool which you can install it today and uninstall it tomorrow. So that's something which doesn't happen that day. So if you sort of focus on all these elements and put a very simplified version to your executives, you will get a high, it's a high probability for you to get the approval slash the kind of stamp on your project, saying that please go ahead and do the procurement. Very nice. So then tell me, what advice would you give to people who are looking to get into a career in data management, especially with the shift, as you mentioned, happening? So what do you think people should focus on? And how do they get into these data engineering role, per se? Yeah. So again, as I just personally speaking, we have to emphasize more on the foundational layer of what it takes to be a data engineer, to be ML experts or AI experts out there. But if you notice, there are a couple of things which are pretty common. Maybe it's writing codes on Python, maybe it's writing codes on some other language for that matter. So having, I would say, basic skills about the coding skills about Python or some other common languages would be really, really important. But at the same time, the reason why the foundational knowledge helps you is, tomorrow, if there's a new language which comes in and it sort of overpowers Python, you need to have the skills to immediately shift into those new languages itself, which is why if you have the right foundation, like maybe some of the basics of computer science, doesn't matter. You don't have to do a degree in computer science, but maybe just understanding some of the modules out there, which there are a lot of websites available today where people can learn that. The other thing is about spending about time of how data, what is the data framework, what are the types of data you have, what it takes to write a SQL query. So there are this basic functional knowledge which is already available. I'm more inclined towards the data engineering part where you need to have a basic of how does an SQL, how do you write an SQL script, some of the basic Python scripts, but also some of the technologies nowadays have become quite common. What is Kafka? What is the event streaming? Because as companies are investing in the data management, people want real time and there are solutions out there which does this real time streaming. So it's better to have a knowledge of it, maybe not the deployment knowledge or not the advanced knowledge, but when you're preparing yourself for an interview or even that you want to graduate into this particular role, build that, have that particular layer itself defined for you, invest there. I would say if I would not jump into getting into interview rounds but I would jump into, I would actually spend more time in sort of preparing myself, upskilling myself, take a pause there and then sort of go in the interview and start sort of, you know, discussing important roles. Oh, what's your name? Thank you so much. I mean, that's really very helpful and really great advice. And I will be remiss if I didn't ask, you know, if somebody want to learn more about DeCube and how it can help their business, how would they find you? Well, they can just type in the word DeCube in Google and I'm sure we will be the first link appearing there. Alternatively, you can also search on just type in DeCube.io and you will be on our website. It's a very, I try to again simplify things for all the data people out there. What we do and how we sort of interact with your data infrastructure. So yeah, you will find more information. Alternatively, you can also find me on LinkedIn and I love to talk with data people and we're all happy to spend some time and even simplifying what exactly the framework of data observability, governance, even data catalog for that matter. Oh, very nice. Well, thank you so much. And we'll get those links posted on the podcast page for everybody so they can click on those and chat with you. Thank you. That will be fantastic. That will be an easy browse for everyone. Indeed. Well, today it's been such a pleasure to me. Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us today. Thank you so much once again for having me and I'm excited to see the published version of it once again. Thank you so much. You guys have a fantastic day and a week ahead and look forward for I've already subscribed to your talks. I love hearing more from you guys and thanks for again helping the other data people to sort of learn from data leaders out there in the market. And this kind of learning is definitely required and you are also building a community out there which I'm super excited for. Well, thank you so much. We really appreciate that. And I look forward to the community learning more about your product. It just again, it's a nice sweet spot that you've got going on there. And to all of our listeners out there, if you'd like to keep up to date on the latest in podcasts and the latest in data management education, you may go to dataversed.net forward slash subscribe. Until next time, stay curious everyone. Thank you for listening to Dataversed Talks, a podcast brought to you by DataVersity. Subscribe to our newsletter for podcast updates and information about our free educational webinars at dataversed.net forward slash subscribe.