This session will examine how enterprises can leverage cloud-enabled application lifecycle management (ALM) frameworks to manage, govern and empower IT. It will explore best practices for quick release cycle management and rapid template-driven development to deliver applications in a governed and secure manner. It will also focus on how to provide internal business capabilities as APIs for application development. Moreover, the session will discuss WSO2 clients that are increasing startup speed, reducing project risk, and enabling new business models using WSO2 DevOps platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions.
Success of a Connected Business depends on robust architecture that will reuse the existing IT assets and fill the gaps by introducing required architecture layers. Having a iterative approach with a milestone plan helps to overcome the technical and non-technical challenges businesses face during implementation. Middleware and Next-Gen Middleware are the raw materials to build an integrated, secured, monitored and governed Connected Business.
Most organizations engaged in transformation today are moving from left to right in digitally-driven maturity models. The objectives are well known: increase agility, boost productivity, and provide seamless digital experiences for consumers.
Architects play a pivotal role as the curators of this transformation. In this session, Asanka will share his experience on how architects can contribute and introduce a framework to follow on refactoring enterprises.
A Decentralized Reference Architecture for Cloud-native Applications Asanka Abeysinghe
The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily. As a result, service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. A “cell-based” architecture is an approach that can be applied to current or desired development and technologies to address these issues. This technology-neutral approach helps cloud-native dev teams become more efficient, act in a more self-organized manner, and speed overall release times.
In this talk, Asanka will introduce the "cell-based" architecture, which is decentralized, API-centric, cloud-native and microservices friendly. He will explain the role of APIs in the cell-based approach, as well as examine how real applications are built as cells. Asanka will explore the metrics and approaches that can be used to measure the effectiveness of the architecture and explore how organizations can implement the cell approach.
A Decentralized Reference Architecture for Cloud-native Applications Asanka Abeysinghe
The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily. As a result, service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. A “cell-based” architecture is an approach that can be applied to current or desired development and technologies to address these issues. This technology-neutral approach helps cloud-native dev teams become more efficient, act in a more self-organized manner, and speed overall release times.
In this talk, Asanka will introduce the "cell-based" architecture, which is decentralized, API-centric, cloud-native and microservices friendly. He will explain the role of APIs in the cell-based approach, as well as examine how real applications are built as cells. Asanka will explore the metrics and approaches that can be used to measure the effectiveness of the architecture and explore how organizations can implement the cell approach.
Patterns are the universal language of architects to communicate, refer, implement and improve. Architecture patterns from traditional SOA (service-oriented architecture) to ROA (resource-oriented architecture) and today to MSA (microservice architecture) drive most enterprise architectures today. Subpatterns such as EDA (event driven architecture) and WOA (web oriented architecture) also has a lot of traction today. These high-level concepts provide many best practices for enterprise architects that are looking to evolve their existing enterprise architecture or for those creating newer enterprise architecture strategies.
However, where should do we draw the line? Is SOA still the way to go or should we focus on MSA? During this session, Asanka will critically analyze the good, the bad and the ugly (if any) of the various architecture patterns, and jointly figure out where they should fit in.
Cell-based Architecture: An Emerging Architecture Pattern for Agile Integrati...Asanka Abeysinghe
The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily. As a result, service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. A “cell-based” architecture is an approach that can be applied to current or desired development and technologies to address these issues. This technology-neutral approach helps cloud-native dev teams become more efficient, act in a more self-organized manner, and speed overall release times.
In this talk, Asanka will introduce the “cell-based” reference architecture, which is API-centric, cloud-native and microservices friendly. He will explain the role of APIs in the cell-based approach, as well as examine how real applications are built as cells. Asanka will explore the metrics and approaches that can be used to measure the effectiveness of the architecture and explore how organizations can implement the cell approach.
A Decentralized Reference Architecture for Cloud-native Applications V2.0Asanka Abeysinghe
This document summarizes Asanka Abeysinghe's career and introduces the concept of cell-based architecture. It discusses the motivation for a new decentralized architecture pattern and describes cell-based architecture, where cells are self-contained units of enterprise architecture that contain components and communicate with each other. The key aspects are that it is decentralized, microservices-based, cloud-native, technology neutral, and human-centric.
Iterative Architecture: Your Path to on-time DeliveryAsanka Abeysinghe
Think big, act small. It’s easy to develop a vision, but there are often many architecture barriers along the path to achieving it. Asanka Abeysinghe explores iterative architecture—introducing iterative architectural changes to support business and technical requirements—and shares real-world examples.
Enterprises today operate in complex and competitive markets. They are constantly trying to optimize business functions, introduce new business capabilities, and tap into new markets quickly and efficiently. For the business to be agile, tis software systems must also be agile, with the ability to build and integrate new capabilities in a short time. At the same time, enterprise software systems should help with evolutionary (and revolutionary) changes that will affect core business functions.
Asanka Abeysinghe explores iterative architecture—introducing iterative architectural changes to support business and technical requirements—and shares real-world examples.
Most organizations engaged in transformation today are moving from left to right in digitally-driven maturity models. The objectives are well known: increase agility, boost productivity, and provide seamless digital experiences for consumers.
Architects play a pivotal role as the curators of this transformation. In this session, Asanka will share his experience on how architects can contribute and introduce a framework to follow on refactoring enterprises.
Asanka Abeysinghe discusses how APIs are the foundation for digital transformation. He explains that APIs allow for real-time personalized experiences across applications, platforms, and networks. A top-down approach to API design defines the user experience first and then identifies the necessary APIs and services. This modular approach to APIs allows for reuse, integration, and iterative development. When done right, APIs can act as the connective tissue across people, applications, platforms, and networks, fueling digital experiences and powering today's connected world.
Teams using IaaS and traditional application servers to deploy cloud applications benefit on-demand efficiencies, but continue to spend significant effort on application delivery, including deployment, scaling, and governance. PaaS solutions have helped automate some functions, but still falls short. Examining how to address these challenges with a PaaS, this session will also review the architectural approach of the WSO2 Private PaaS to be cloud native, providing polyglot language and environment support, and ability to run on multiple runtimes.
Securing the Digital Double - The Path to a Trusted Digital Ecosystem Asanka Abeysinghe
Digital life is a replication of the physical world in a digital ecosystem. As a result, people and things have an equal digital representation, which we call a digital double. Your digital double is active and involved in various activities, even when you take a nap. Therefore, securing the digital double is critical.
As an enterprise or security architect designing digital experiences, you have to pay attention to privacy, confidentiality, trust, and the security of a digital double.
In this session, Asanka will explain an architectural approach to building a trusted digital ecosystem using APIs, integration, and identity.
The Role of Integration in Microservice Architecture (MSA)Asanka Abeysinghe
Integration was treated as old-school technology when microservice architecture (MSA) was introduced. However, when theory became practice, the technologist who designed and implemented MSA identified the important role integration plays in this modern architecture paradigm. An architecture layer that connects many microservices and builds composite services, requests dispatching and service routing, connects microservices with legacy services and cloud providers are among common integration use cases across most enterprises.
During this session, Asanka will discuss how integration fits into MSA and technologies that can be used to implement integration microservices.
Iterative Architecture: A Pragmatic Approach to Digital TransformationAsanka Abeysinghe
This document discusses an iterative architecture approach for digital transformation. It advocates for an iterative process of planning, building, testing, and repeating to develop solutions. This approach establishes both a platform team and individual project teams to work on the platform and projects in parallel using an iterative methodology. The iterative architecture enables organizations to build solutions incrementally using an open technology stack while continuously engaging stakeholders for feedback to guide further development.
The document discusses building a future-ready bank by focusing on delivering excellent customer experiences through digital technologies and platforms. It emphasizes establishing an agile, decentralized organizational structure and adopting cloud-native and API-first approaches to drive innovation. The document also promotes open source technologies and partnerships to help banks modernize and keep up with changing customer expectations in the experience economy.
Building a Digital Enterprise: learning from experience V2Asanka Abeysinghe
Digital transformation, digital enterprise and connected business; what does this all mean for each industry vertical? How does one innovate in critical strategies? What does the reference architecture look like for a small, medium or larger enterprise? How does an organization implement such an architecture?
As an avid technology partner, WSO2 has helped many organisations in their journey to build the right digital enterprise capabilities that create better customer and internal user experiences. This session will answer the above questions and share our own experience from successful projects.
Crossing the low-code and pro-code chasm: a platform approachAsanka Abeysinghe
Organizations are now using low-code and pro-code tools to build digital experiences internally and externally. However, not having the right alignment between these two approaches slows down delivery.
Different developer personas that work in silos, no connection between low-code and pro-code applications, low-code creating unmanageable shadow IT applications, no single codebase or build pipeline, and interruptions to the professional developer flow are some significant drawbacks.
In this session, Asanka will look at a platform approach to bridge the low-code and pro-code chasm.
Building a future-ready bank (whatever that future may be)Asanka Abeysinghe
The document discusses building a future-ready bank by focusing on delivering excellent customer experiences through digital transformation and adopting a cloud-native architecture. It emphasizes establishing an innovation culture through decentralized teams, open source technologies, and API-first strategies. The presenter offers their expertise in digital transformation and identity management through their company WSO2's products and strategic consulting services.
The document introduces an evolutionary event-driven architecture called the Enterprise Digital Transformation Platform (EDTP) for accelerating digital transformation. The EDTP is a 4-tier platform based on cloud, containers, microservices, events and streaming. It addresses challenges of data integration and decoupling through architectural concepts like event-driven design, microservices and templates. The EDTP provides full-stack deployment automation and microservice templating to accelerate development. Use cases from Toyota Financial Services are presented to demonstrate the EDTP's capabilities.
Connected Car … Connected Aeroplane … Connected light bulb…. IoT has become a necessity in every business vertical. A few decades ago enterprises were keen on internal connectivity before attending to external connectivity. But, today it has changed, to connecting anything to everything.
Connecting anything to everything requires additional precautionary measures to be taken in areas such as security and governance.
In addition to this, delivery channels of IoT (devices/sensors) are required to connect with existing backend systems and service platforms to pull and push events. Therefore, IoT architecture requires an unified manner of handling this situation.
APIs, enable extensibility of business operations in internal, external and partner networks. The capability of APIs is such that it can be used to bridge the new IoT world and SOA, EDA, also legacy systems that exists in the enterprises.
During this session Asanka Abeysinghe vice president of Solutions Architecture at WSO2 will discuss the relation between APIs and IoT as well as how APIs can be used as a bridge between IoT and other technology domains. Asanka will explain the reference architecture and describe use-cases around the same, while using WSO2 enterprise middleware and cloud platform as the toolset for implementation.
This document provides an overview of reference architectures for several enterprise architecture patterns including gateway, facade, web oriented architecture (WOA), event driven architecture (EDA), master data management (MDM), and entitlement when taking a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach. It describes each pattern's problem domain, provides a vendor-neutral reference architecture, and maps the patterns to specific products within the WSO2 platform.
Success of a Connected Business depends on robust architecture that will reuse the existing IT assets and fill the gaps by introducing required architecture layers. Having a iterative approach with a milestone plan helps to overcome the technical and non-technical challenges businesses face during implementation. Middleware and Next-Gen Middleware are the raw materials to build an integrated, secured, monitored and governed Connected Business.
Asanka will begin the presentation by discussing the opportunities for businesses to increase customer satisfaction, open new business models, and generate additive revenue streams by integrating IoT functionality into enterprise systems. He then will explore how employing IoT channels, such as devices, sensors and actuators, can be used to enhance users’ digital experiences and enable more data access points that link with their day-to-day lives. Next Asanka will examine how an IoT architecture facilitates the ability a digital enterprise to use real-time and predictive analytics to gain meaningful insights from IoT-driven data. He will conclude by presenting a vendor-neutral IoT reference architecture that can serve as a roadmap for enterprises implementing an IoT strategy. Throughout the discussion, Asanka
will provide real-world examples of enterprise IoT implementations and how they are being used to create new business avenues.
A highly opinionated, strawman reference architecture for success with Microservices.
Presented at the fifth Sydney Microservices Meetup on Feb 18th 2015.
Building a Digital Enterprise: Learning from ExperienceAsanka Abeysinghe
Digital transformation, digital enterprise, and connected business – what does this all mean for each industry vertical? How does one innovate in critical strategies? What does the reference architecture look like for a small, medium, or larger enterprise? How does an organization implement such an architecture? As an avid technology partner, WSO2 has helped many organizations in their journey to build the right digital enterprise capabilities that create better customer and internal user experiences. This session will answer the above questions and share our own experiences from successful projects.
Pragmatic approach to Microservice Architecture: Role of MiddlewareAsanka Abeysinghe
Microservice Architecture (MSA) is emerging as a popular architecture pattern in today’s agile enterprise. Its iterative architecture and development methodologies are particularly attracting the interest of architects who need continuous delivery to fulfil business needs.
But, is every characteristics of MSA new or even pragmatic? Asanka Abeysinghe, vice president of solutions architecture at WSO2, will provide insights into MSA requirements from real-world examples and provide details of an architect friendly pragmatic approach for this architecture pattern.
Middleware plays a key role in successful MSA-based implementations. Using the correct middleware capabilities enable enterprises to fully leverage advantages provided by MSA, and ensures ease of implementation and faster time to market.
Asanka will explain essential middleware capabilities required to resolve the MSA puzzle, where you can also utilize supportive technologies such as Continuous Integration (CI), containerization and Container as a Service (CaaS).
A platform is a long-term investment that supports a community by providing shared resources to attract and retain members over time. An organization needs a digital platform to address business demands, rapid changes, and quick release cycles while providing middleware services. The platform should be introduced with onboarding programs and evangelized internally. It is built by developing foundational reusable services and APIs and ensuring seamless integration across common enterprise architecture practices.
WSO2Con EU 2015: Keynote - System of Systems - Building a Connected BusinessWSO2
This document discusses system of systems and building a connected business using an enterprise middleware platform. Some key points:
- A system of systems is a collection of independent systems that are networked together to achieve greater functionality than any individual system alone.
- An enterprise middleware platform can connect different internal and external systems to create a system of systems, moving from isolated "systems of record" to more connected "systems of engagement."
- This allows building integrated solutions that connect people, processes, and technology across business units and organizational boundaries for improved collaboration.
Patterns provide structure and clarity, enabling architects to establish their solutions across the enterprise. Moreover, these software patterns also help to link technology and business requirements in an effective and efficient manner. Patterns help to incorporate robust solutions for business problems due to it’s wide adoption as well as it’s reusability. In addition, patterns create a common method to communicate, document and describe solutions. This session will explain some of these patterns ranging from SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), WOA (Web-Oriented Architecture), EDA (Event Driven Architecture), and IoT (Internet of Things)
The document outlines the agenda for an SOA 12c Launch event taking place on September 23, 2014. It includes a schedule of presentations on topics like SOA 12c integration capabilities in the cloud, mobile solutions, and the Internet of Things. Presenters will discuss new SOA 12c products and features, automation of business processes with BPM 12c, development on SOA 12c and transitioning to the new version.
JAXLondon 2015 "DevOps and the Cloud: All Hail the (Developer) King"Daniel Bryant
Last year we talked about DevOps, what it was, why it was important and how to get started. Boy, was it scary. Now we’re wiser. More battle-scarred. The scale of the challenge for application writers exploiting cloud and DevOps is clearer, but so is the path forward. Understanding the DevOps approach is important but equally you must understand specific deployment technologies. How to exploit them and how they effect the design of applications. Whether creating simple applications or sophisticated microservice architectures many of the challenges are the same.
Presented at JAXLondon 2015 with Steve Poole
Next generation enterprise applications from Oracle are modular, have a rich user experience, and are adaptable. They leverage standards-based middleware, have embedded business intelligence and social capabilities, use declarative processes, and provide centralized security and identity management. Oracle's applications development framework and tools allow for productive development across multiple devices.
DevOps and the cloud: all hail the (developer) king - Daniel Bryant, Steve PooleJAXLondon_Conference
1) The document discusses the rise of microservices and DevOps approaches in application development and deployment. It notes both the promises and challenges of these approaches, including increased complexity and the need for new tooling.
2) It describes lessons learned from early adoption of microservices, such as the problems that can arise from shared data stores and monolithic upgrades.
3) The document advocates for a "safety first" mindset with DevOps, emphasizing the importance of security, compliance, and understanding where data is located in cloud environments.
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apidays LIVE LONDON - The Road to Embedded Finance, Banking and Insurance with APIs
A Decentralized Reference Architecture for Cloud-native Applications
Asanka Abeysinghe, Chief Technology Evangelist at WSO2
Brighttalk understanding the promise of sde - finalAndrew White
Mr. White has 15 years of experience designing and managing systems monitoring and event management software. He previously led monitoring organizations at a Fortune 100 company and consulted for various organizations. He is now a cloud and smarter infrastructure specialist at IBM. The document discusses software-defined environments and their promise to increase agility through automation and integration of IT infrastructure.
The document discusses how software architecture is currently static and difficult to change, but emerging technologies could enable dynamic, self-adaptive systems. By combining infrastructure APIs, big data analytics, and a proposed "architecture API", systems could monitor and adjust their structure and behavior in response to changing conditions. This would allow systems to automatically scale resources, replace components, and reconfigure in an intelligent way. The speaker provides an example of a risk estimation system adapting its architecture based on analytics. Overall, the talk argues that cross-disciplinary research is needed to develop first-class runtime models of software architecture.
Solution day : Running infrastructure like a cloud speed and agilePT Datacomm Diangraha
The document discusses hybrid IT and outlines strategies for delivering hybrid IT solutions. It discusses evolving from traditional IT architectures to hybrid IT environments that leverage both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure and services. It also discusses the need for agility, automation, and consumption-based models to power digital transformation and next-generation applications.
WSO2Con Asia 2014 - Complete Your Corporate Jigsaw - Build a Connected BusinessWSO2
This document discusses how to build a connected business by completing a corporate "jigsaw puzzle". It outlines challenges like complex requirements and rapidly changing technologies. It then presents an architectural approach with multiple levels from business to runtime. Key aspects discussed include services, APIs, connectivity, monitoring, workflows and moving to the cloud. Finally, it provides 7 steps to become a connected business, including converting functionality to services, exposing APIs, collecting data and ongoing improvement.
WSO2Con ASIA 2016: Enterprise Platform for Digital TransformationWSO2
Enterprises are looking for digital transformation today by making it the highest priority in every CxO and enterprise architect’s task list. This session answers the questions what is digital transformation and how do we get there in a business and technical manner. In addition to sharing a few success stories from his experiences, Asanka will also explain
The pattern of building a platform or platform of platforms
How to evangelize the platform
How to onboard business units and application groups
The role of middleware in this process
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Bechtel On OpenID and OAuth from Cloud Identity SummitMatterport
Christian Reilly, Manager of Global Systems Engineering and Brian Ward, Manager of Integration Services make a good case for how to use OpenID and OAuth in an extended enterprise environment. Bechtel is a $30B business with 44,000 employees.
See slide 13 for a description of Identity 2.0, and BYOI (Bring Your Own Identity) provided by Janrain Engage: www.janrain.com
This document discusses securing Microsoft technologies for HITECH compliance. It covers introducing Microsoft technologies that can help secure protected health information as required by HITECH, including SharePoint, Active Directory, and encryption. It also summarizes challenges around managing risk and complexity when connecting systems and collaborating while maintaining security. Best practices are provided around areas like governance, access controls, and an enterprise security model.
The document provides an overview of Agile, DevOps and Cloud Management from a security, risk management and audit compliance perspective. It discusses how the IT industry paradigm is shifting towards microservices, containers, continuous delivery and cloud platforms. DevOps is described as development and operations engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle. Key differences in DevOps include changes to configuration management, release and change management, and event monitoring. Factors for DevOps success include culture, collaboration, eliminating waste, unified processes, tooling and automation.
This document discusses challenges and opportunities related to virtualization and cloud computing in 2011. It begins by stating that server virtualization is very popular but also has some issues related to quality of service, monitoring, and capacity planning. Desktop virtualization is emerging but has challenges around cost and maturity. The document advocates a hybrid cloud approach and emphasizes the importance of standardization and well-defined processes.
Atlanta Salesforce UG Meeting 2/23/2011 Symplifiedvraopolisetti
This document provides a summary of a presentation about managing user experience across SaaS applications. It discusses the market dynamics of cloud computing and how different cloud markets are projected to evolve. It emphasizes that user experience is a key driver of adoption and outlines how seamless identity and access management can be provided across web, cloud, and mobile apps. The presentation then discusses Symplified's converged identity stack and logical runtime architecture to provide a centralized solution for provisioning, access control, single sign-on, and auditing across internal and external applications.
Your Business, as APIs Leveraging Abstractions to Drive the Experience Economy Asanka Abeysinghe
In this session, Asanka will explore how leveraging the correct level of abstractions can drive agile software manufacturing and improve customer experiences in the experience economy. By viewing their business as a set of APIs and using other abstraction layers, businesses can build modular and customer-centric systems that enable rapid innovation and growth. Attendees will gain insights into real-world examples of businesses leveraging APIs to drive growth and competitiveness. They will leave with practical strategies and tactics for streamlining software manufacturing processes and unlocking new revenue streams in the experience economy.
Inside and Outside the Mesh: Role of APIs in the Mesh Architecture Asanka Abeysinghe
When service mesh was introduced as a concept, some thought this was the end of APIs - a few even said: "API Management is Dead". However, it was fiction, and the reality is that APIs are a crucial attribute of modern digital enterprises.
Mesh architecture is fueling distributed patterns like microservices and Web 3.0. As a result, sub-patterns such as data, event, and identity mesh are added to the catalog. At the same time, mesh implementations are improving by utilizing high-performance low-level protocols like eBPF.
In this session, Asanka will deep-dive into the mesh architecture and look at the role of APIs from a digital craftsman's view.
Creating a Seamless Access Experience with the Digital Double Asanka Abeysinghe
The document discusses how customer identity management (CIAM) can be used to create a digital double that fuses a person's identity and personality. CIAM provides the foundation to create and manage the digital double by recording interaction data and using AI/ML to derive insights about customers. This helps deliver personalized experiences. The document outlines a CIAM maturity model and how WSO2's Asgardeo platform can provide CIAM capabilities as a service to power the digital double.
APIs are the products of the 21st century. As we build out API systems, we find that we are constantly learning from product journeys. We propose a new kind of supply chain - the Integrated Supply Chain for APIs (ISCA) - which is needed by any organization looking to create and monetize API products, either directly or indirectly. In this session, Asanka will outline our vision of the ISCA, identify five key patterns for success, and give a blueprint for creating a digital business based on API products.
A Decentralized Reference Architecture for Cloud-native ApplicationsAsanka Abeysinghe
The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily. As a result, service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. A “cell-based” architecture is an approach that can be applied to current or desired development and technologies to address these issues. This technology-neutral approach helps cloud-native dev teams become more efficient and be self-organized.
Cell-based Architecture: OReilly Software Architecture Conference NY 2019 Asanka Abeysinghe
The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily. As a result, service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. A cell-based architecture is an approach that can be applied to current or desired development and technologies to address these issues. This technology-neutral approach helps cloud-native dev teams become more efficient, act in a more self-organized manner, and speed up overall release times.
Asanka Abeysinghe offers an overview of a cell-based reference architecture that is API-centric, cloud native, and microservices friendly. You’ll learn the role of APIs in the cell-based approach and examine how real applications are built as cells. Along the way, Asanka explores metrics and approaches that can be used to measure the effectiveness of the architecture and demonstrates how organizations can implement the cell approach.
Cell-based Architecture : An Emerging Architecture Pattern for Agile IntegrationAsanka Abeysinghe
This document proposes a cell-based reference architecture for building agile integration in a microservices environment. It describes challenges with existing layered and microservices architectures, and introduces the concept of grouping components into independently deployable and managed "cells". The architecture aims to provide structured agility through versioned cells with dependency management and automated governance. Reference implementations and measures of success are discussed to demonstrate how a cell-based approach can support agile development practices and organizational transformation.
In this follow-up session on knowledge and prompt engineering, we will explore structured prompting, chain of thought prompting, iterative prompting, prompt optimization, emotional language prompts, and the inclusion of user signals and industry-specific data to enhance LLM performance.
Join EIS Founder & CEO Seth Earley and special guest Nick Usborne, Copywriter, Trainer, and Speaker, as they delve into these methodologies to improve AI-driven knowledge processes for employees and customers alike.
Paradigm Shifts in User Modeling: A Journey from Historical Foundations to Em...Erasmo Purificato
Slide of the tutorial entitled "Paradigm Shifts in User Modeling: A Journey from Historical Foundations to Emerging Trends" held at UMAP'24: 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (July 1, 2024 | Cagliari, Italy)
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7 Most Powerful Solar Storms in the History of Earth.pdfEnterprise Wired
Solar Storms (Geo Magnetic Storms) are the motion of accelerated charged particles in the solar environment with high velocities due to the coronal mass ejection (CME).
Quality Patents: Patents That Stand the Test of TimeAurora Consulting
Is your patent a vanity piece of paper for your office wall? Or is it a reliable, defendable, assertable, property right? The difference is often quality.
Is your patent simply a transactional cost and a large pile of legal bills for your startup? Or is it a leverageable asset worthy of attracting precious investment dollars, worth its cost in multiples of valuation? The difference is often quality.
Is your patent application only good enough to get through the examination process? Or has it been crafted to stand the tests of time and varied audiences if you later need to assert that document against an infringer, find yourself litigating with it in an Article 3 Court at the hands of a judge and jury, God forbid, end up having to defend its validity at the PTAB, or even needing to use it to block pirated imports at the International Trade Commission? The difference is often quality.
Quality will be our focus for a good chunk of the remainder of this season. What goes into a quality patent, and where possible, how do you get it without breaking the bank?
** Episode Overview **
In this first episode of our quality series, Kristen Hansen and the panel discuss:
⦿ What do we mean when we say patent quality?
⦿ Why is patent quality important?
⦿ How to balance quality and budget
⦿ The importance of searching, continuations, and draftsperson domain expertise
⦿ Very practical tips, tricks, examples, and Kristen’s Musts for drafting quality applications
https://www.aurorapatents.com/patently-strategic-podcast.html
UiPath Community Day Kraków: Devs4Devs ConferenceUiPathCommunity
We are honored to launch and host this event for our UiPath Polish Community, with the help of our partners - Proservartner!
We certainly hope we have managed to spike your interest in the subjects to be presented and the incredible networking opportunities at hand, too!
Check out our proposed agenda below 👇👇
08:30 ☕ Welcome coffee (30')
09:00 Opening note/ Intro to UiPath Community (10')
Cristina Vidu, Global Manager, Marketing Community @UiPath
Dawid Kot, Digital Transformation Lead @Proservartner
09:10 Cloud migration - Proservartner & DOVISTA case study (30')
Marcin Drozdowski, Automation CoE Manager @DOVISTA
Pawel Kamiński, RPA developer @DOVISTA
Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner
09:40 From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Citizen Development in action (25')
Pawel Poplawski, Director, Improvement and Automation @McCormick & Company
Michał Cieślak, Senior Manager, Automation Programs @McCormick & Company
10:05 Next-level bots: API integration in UiPath Studio (30')
Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner
10:35 ☕ Coffee Break (15')
10:50 Document Understanding with my RPA Companion (45')
Ewa Gruszka, Enterprise Sales Specialist, AI & ML @UiPath
11:35 Power up your Robots: GenAI and GPT in REFramework (45')
Krzysztof Karaszewski, Global RPA Product Manager
12:20 🍕 Lunch Break (1hr)
13:20 From Concept to Quality: UiPath Test Suite for AI-powered Knowledge Bots (30')
Kamil Miśko, UiPath MVP, Senior RPA Developer @Zurich Insurance
13:50 Communications Mining - focus on AI capabilities (30')
Thomasz Wierzbicki, Business Analyst @Office Samurai
14:20 Polish MVP panel: Insights on MVP award achievements and career profiling
The DealBook is our annual overview of the Ukrainian tech investment industry. This edition comprehensively covers the full year 2023 and the first deals of 2024.
Sustainability requires ingenuity and stewardship. Did you know Pigging Solutions pigging systems help you achieve your sustainable manufacturing goals AND provide rapid return on investment.
How? Our systems recover over 99% of product in transfer piping. Recovering trapped product from transfer lines that would otherwise become flush-waste, means you can increase batch yields and eliminate flush waste. From raw materials to finished product, if you can pump it, we can pig it.
Implementations of Fused Deposition Modeling in real worldEmerging Tech
The presentation showcases the diverse real-world applications of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) across multiple industries:
1. **Manufacturing**: FDM is utilized in manufacturing for rapid prototyping, creating custom tools and fixtures, and producing functional end-use parts. Companies leverage its cost-effectiveness and flexibility to streamline production processes.
2. **Medical**: In the medical field, FDM is used to create patient-specific anatomical models, surgical guides, and prosthetics. Its ability to produce precise and biocompatible parts supports advancements in personalized healthcare solutions.
3. **Education**: FDM plays a crucial role in education by enabling students to learn about design and engineering through hands-on 3D printing projects. It promotes innovation and practical skill development in STEM disciplines.
4. **Science**: Researchers use FDM to prototype equipment for scientific experiments, build custom laboratory tools, and create models for visualization and testing purposes. It facilitates rapid iteration and customization in scientific endeavors.
5. **Automotive**: Automotive manufacturers employ FDM for prototyping vehicle components, tooling for assembly lines, and customized parts. It speeds up the design validation process and enhances efficiency in automotive engineering.
6. **Consumer Electronics**: FDM is utilized in consumer electronics for designing and prototyping product enclosures, casings, and internal components. It enables rapid iteration and customization to meet evolving consumer demands.
7. **Robotics**: Robotics engineers leverage FDM to prototype robot parts, create lightweight and durable components, and customize robot designs for specific applications. It supports innovation and optimization in robotic systems.
8. **Aerospace**: In aerospace, FDM is used to manufacture lightweight parts, complex geometries, and prototypes of aircraft components. It contributes to cost reduction, faster production cycles, and weight savings in aerospace engineering.
9. **Architecture**: Architects utilize FDM for creating detailed architectural models, prototypes of building components, and intricate designs. It aids in visualizing concepts, testing structural integrity, and communicating design ideas effectively.
Each industry example demonstrates how FDM enhances innovation, accelerates product development, and addresses specific challenges through advanced manufacturing capabilities.
GDG Cloud Southlake #34: Neatsun Ziv: Automating AppsecJames Anderson
The lecture titled "Automating AppSec" delves into the critical challenges associated with manual application security (AppSec) processes and outlines strategic approaches for incorporating automation to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. The lecture is structured to highlight the inherent difficulties in traditional AppSec practices, emphasizing the labor-intensive triage of issues, the complexity of identifying responsible owners for security flaws, and the challenges of implementing security checks within CI/CD pipelines. Furthermore, it provides actionable insights on automating these processes to not only mitigate these pains but also to enable a more proactive and scalable security posture within development cycles.
The Pains of Manual AppSec:
This section will explore the time-consuming and error-prone nature of manually triaging security issues, including the difficulty of prioritizing vulnerabilities based on their actual risk to the organization. It will also discuss the challenges in determining ownership for remediation tasks, a process often complicated by cross-functional teams and microservices architectures. Additionally, the inefficiencies of manual checks within CI/CD gates will be examined, highlighting how they can delay deployments and introduce security risks.
Automating CI/CD Gates:
Here, the focus shifts to the automation of security within the CI/CD pipelines. The lecture will cover methods to seamlessly integrate security tools that automatically scan for vulnerabilities as part of the build process, thereby ensuring that security is a core component of the development lifecycle. Strategies for configuring automated gates that can block or flag builds based on the severity of detected issues will be discussed, ensuring that only secure code progresses through the pipeline.
Triaging Issues with Automation:
This segment addresses how automation can be leveraged to intelligently triage and prioritize security issues. It will cover technologies and methodologies for automatically assessing the context and potential impact of vulnerabilities, facilitating quicker and more accurate decision-making. The use of automated alerting and reporting mechanisms to ensure the right stakeholders are informed in a timely manner will also be discussed.
Identifying Ownership Automatically:
Automating the process of identifying who owns the responsibility for fixing specific security issues is critical for efficient remediation. This part of the lecture will explore tools and practices for mapping vulnerabilities to code owners, leveraging version control and project management tools.
Three Tips to Scale the Shift Left Program:
Finally, the lecture will offer three practical tips for organizations looking to scale their Shift Left security programs. These will include recommendations on fostering a security culture within development teams, employing DevSecOps principles to integrate security throughout the development
Details of description part II: Describing images in practice - Tech Forum 2024BookNet Canada
This presentation explores the practical application of image description techniques. Familiar guidelines will be demonstrated in practice, and descriptions will be developed “live”! If you have learned a lot about the theory of image description techniques but want to feel more confident putting them into practice, this is the presentation for you. There will be useful, actionable information for everyone, whether you are working with authors, colleagues, alone, or leveraging AI as a collaborator.
Link to presentation recording and transcript: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/details-of-description-part-ii-describing-images-in-practice/
Presented by BookNet Canada on June 25, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume a predominant share of the available Internet bandwidth. A major technical breakthrough and enabler in multimedia systems research and of industrial networked multimedia services certainly was the HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) technique. This resulted in the standardization of MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) which, together with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), is widely used for multimedia delivery in today’s networks. Existing challenges in multimedia systems research deal with the trade-off between (i) the ever-increasing content complexity, (ii) various requirements with respect to time (most importantly, latency), and (iii) quality of experience (QoE). Optimizing towards one aspect usually negatively impacts at least one of the other two aspects if not both. This situation sets the stage for our research work in the ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory (Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services; https://athena.itec.aau.at/), jointly funded by public sources and industry. In this talk, we will present selected novel approaches and research results of the first year of the ATHENA CD Lab’s operation. We will highlight HAS-related research on (i) multimedia content provisioning (machine learning for video encoding); (ii) multimedia content delivery (support of edge processing and virtualized network functions for video networking); (iii) multimedia content consumption and end-to-end aspects (player-triggered segment retransmissions to improve video playout quality); and (iv) novel QoE investigations (adaptive point cloud streaming). We will also put the work into the context of international multimedia systems research.
9. Platform 1.0 - Mainframe and before : centralized
computing
Platform 2.0 - Messaging, object orientation, SOA,
EDA : distributed computing and internet
Platform 3.0 - Platform 2.0 + next-generation
middleware : the cloud
10. Features of Platform 3.0
• Cloud native
• Open Source
• API driven
• Mobile, social , App, *store is critical
• Polyglot programming model
• Event driven, analytics, big data is fundamental
• DevOps/ALM built-in
– Continuous testing, integration, deployment
• QoS - scalability, reliability, security
• Connect everything to anything (IoT)
11. System of Systems
System of systems is a collection of task-
oriented or dedicated systems that pool
their resources and capabilities together
to create a new, more complex system
which offers more functionality and
performance than simply the sum of the
constituent systems.
- Wikipedia
14. Forrester view of System of Systems
Systems of record are technologies
that manage and store
transactions, content, and
processes.
Systems of engagement are
technologies that directly support
customer interactions through
software.
Systems of automation are
technologies that intelligently
manage physical products,
networks, and infrastructure.