Provisioning
Context & Problem
This document describes patterns to automate the deployment of an application to a target environment. The major players in this documentation are (1) the process as a whole (aka provisioning), (2) automation code and (3) application/ infra code to be deployed.
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Automation code:
The automation code is about automating parts of deployment cycle. In an ideal world this covers the entire code development cycle from the first pull request to the final deployment. Possible activities in this cycle are: (1) quality gates, (2) build and (3) deployment. Quality gates refer to testing or approval. Approval might include a manual approval to deploy to sensitive environments like production or enforcing a review before the commit through a pull request. Failing a quality gate should stop the workflow to proceed. Ideally they are maximizing application code coverage and kick in as early as possible. From a timeline perspective major events that are kicking off actions from the automation code are:
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Pull request/ commit (Only triggers quality gates that don’t take too long)
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Build
They can be manually, scheduled (e.g. as part of a nightly build) or automatically started. Additional quality gates ensure code quality.
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Deplyoment to target environment
A typical quality gate for sensible environments such as production are manual approvals.
The major construct is a pipeline that implements a certain activity or a combination. The trigger defines the condition that kick offs a pipeline. Kicking off a pipeline usually includes parameters such as the name of the target environment. The support of different triggers is essental to cover the entire lifecycle. Pipelines can be implemented using a UI driven or programatic approach.
Pipelines are built in a modular way which also adds intermediate steps such as placing the built output in a build artefact repository for later deployment. It also introduces the need to orchestrate them into larger workflows such as creating an entire environment from scratch.
Pipelines must ensure traceability of the performed actions across the entire chain including source code repo, the targeted environment or intermediate stores. This includes a versioning schema for built artefacts. Branches in source repos must be tagged to be able to reconstruct the code behind a versioned artefact.
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Application code/ infra:
The base for automation code activities is the code creating/ updating the infrastructure and the application on top. Focus in this documentation is the interaction between automation code and application/ infra code. This includes:
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Programming approach (Language or UI) for deploying infrastructure and application code
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Interaction standard problems between automation code and application/ infra code
Problems also depend on the chosen programing approach.
Not relevant are:
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Application code: Structuring in repo, programming language specifics and details of build mechanism
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Specific deployment options of the platform services forming the infrastructure
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Provisioning
The process must work in a compliant way end-to-end. Compliance includes the general concern security and to adhere to constraints from the organization’s perspective that need to be enforced.
Provisoning should be subject to monitoring and must be able to adapt to the organizational structure.
Configuration is also a cross concern that affects both sides. From the automation side this includes properties of the environment and settings of the involved automation code. The application specific settings are out of scope in this pattern description. However, provisioning must enable the application code to access settings.
As shown automation does not only include pipelines but also additional configuration settings. Automation code must be able to access the infra/ app code for deployment. This pattern includes guidelines regarding options to store the code and how to structure it in a repository. Application code structure is treated as black box.
In most cases enterprises have already existing technologies in place that might not be based on cloud of a certain provider. Integration with other third party offerings to cover functionally also from elsewhere is also important.
The picture below summarizes the major aspects:
Standard Problems
The following standard problems will be addressed in subsequent paragraphs:
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Automation code
Regarding pipelines the folloqing aspects will be detailed:
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Modeling environments
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Pipeline Implementation (Programing approaches, Triggers, Paramterization, Store Code, Quality Gates)
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Orchestration
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Traceability (Versioning, Tagging)
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Infra/ Application code (Programming approach, Interaction standard problems)
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Provisioning
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Organizational Mapping
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Integration
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Code Repository (Automation/ Infra & App Code)
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Configuration
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Compliance
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For the following aspectcs check out the other defined patterns:
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Monitoring infrastructure and application code
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General guidelines for structuring repositories (e.g. mono vs. multi-repo)
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General guidelines for defining landing zones
Azure as Platform
Automation code
Modelling Environments
Azure provides the following structural elements to model an environment:
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Resource groups: Smallest possible container
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Subscriptions: One subscription can contain many resource groups. With a subscription discounts for dev/ test environments are possible.
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Management groups: One management group can contain many resource groups. They can be used enforce policies across subscriptions if environments share common characteristics.
An environment can be linked to another environment. Linking an environment to multiple environment is beneficial for addressing cross concerns such as monitoring (Similar to Hub/ Spoke topology in networks).
Pipeline Implementation
The programming approach can be either UI driven or programmatic. Pipeline programming languages such as YAML structure the actions to be performed by the pipeline and provide basic mechansims such as downloading code from the repo, parameter handling, stating triggers and triggering other programming languages. These other languages are then used to setup infrastructure such as terraform or deploying application code.
Azure allows to trigger pipelines upon (1) a push to repo, (2) a pull request to repo, (3) a schedule and (4) a pipeline completion (Link).
The platform allows to pass parameters by various mechanisms to pipelines(Explicit per user input, programmatically). Parameters can be passed by group identifier or explicitly as key value pairs. Complex structured objects as known from object programming languages are not directly possible (Require parsing of files with object structure). Parametrization might be constrained by the used service in certain areas.
The platform provides support for quality gates as follows:
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Static code analysis
Microsoft does not provide own tools for static code analysis but allows integration of others.
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Automated tests (Unit, Integration, End-To-End)
Microsoft provides services that include test management e.g. creating test suites with test cases and getting an overview about the results.
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Approval
Azure services support approval for a certain environments and enforcing pull requests as quality gates.
The Azure platform provides the following basic options to store automation code:
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Services that provide repositories
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Integration of various external code repositories
Orchestration
To orchestrate pipelines the two following basic mechanisms can be used:
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Implicit Chaining
In that case the complete workflow is not explicitly coded in a dedicated pipeline. Pipelines are chained implicitly by triggering events. The biggest problem with that approach is the missing single pane of control. The current state in the overall workflow is for instance only implicitly given by the currently running pipeline.
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Creating a dedicated orchestration pipeline
An additional pipeline triggers in this scenario other pipelines acting as building blocks. Pipelines can run separately (Just run the deployment) or as part of a bigger workflow (=create environment from scratch).
Orchestration must take dependencies into account. They might result from the deployed code or the scope of the pipeline (Scope = e.g. a single microservice; Code = libraries needed). Orchestrated pipelines must pass data between them. The recommended method is to use key vault.
Recreation of resources in short intervals can cause pipelines to fail since the previously deleted resource still exists in the background.(Even although soft delete is not applicable). Whether Azure really deleted everything depends on the service. For instance Azure API management seemed to be affected by that problem.
Traceability
Traceability requires an identifier for referencing artefacts. A standard schema is a semantic version. The platform only supports partial support for number generation such as incrementing numbers (Link). Linking the code in the repo to a certain version depends on used repository.
Infrastructure/ Application code
A programming language is either "declarative" or "imperative". Declarative programming languages state the target state and it is the job of the declarative programming language how to get there. The following rules are applied to achieve that: (1) Create a resource if not there, (2) update an existing resource if different properties, (3) delete resource if not there. Imperative programming languages state the how. The internal delta calculation needs to be explicitly programmed here. If possible declarative programming languages are recommended due to automatic delta calculation. Typical case is infrastructure.
Typical declarative options are shown in detail in the table below. The overall recommendation is to go for terraform. Major reasons for downvoting Bicep/ ARM:
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ARM: difficult readability for humans
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Bicep: Lack of support for testing based on plan and testing ecosystem since first added recently.
Table with declarative programming language options:
| Criteria | Bicep | ARM | Terraform |
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Same syntax across clouds |
- (Azure Only) |
- (Azure Only) |
+ (multi) |
What if |
o (no complete prop list;only display of plan; unexpected delete) |
- (not available) |
+ (plan command) |
Detection current |
o (Real anaylsis but time) |
+ (Real anaylsis) |
o (Statefile) |
Testing/ static analysis |
o (Only via ARM) |
+ (available) |
+ (available) |
Human Readability |
+ |
- |
+ |
Reverse Engineering |
- (Extra ARM step + adjust) |
o (adjust) |
+ (Direct via Terraformer) |
Latest features |
o (No embedded fallback) |
+ (native) |
o (Time lag but embedded fallback) |
The major options for imperative programming languages are Azure CLI, Powershell (Windows) or Linux based scripting. Azure CLI is recommended as prefered choice since it works on linux and windows based VMs.
The created resources should follow a uniform naming schema. This requires naming to be factored out in a centralized module. Terraform supports factoring out common code in modules. However the backend must already exist and should also follow a naming convention. The recommendation is therefore to expose the common terraform module via an additional path that does not require a backend to determine the names for the azure resources representing the backend.
Provisioning
Organizational Mapping
The provisioning must match the organizational requirements of your organization. Azure provides services to model sub units within your organization such as departments, projects and teams.
Integration
Platform allows a modular approach to outsource certain functionality to third party software such as code repository. Which parts is service specific.
External tools providing pipelines can be integrated in two conceptual ways:
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Trigger automation pipelines from external: This involves the configuration of a CI pipeline in the external tool such as Jenkins and mechanism in the automation service that invokes the CI process when source code is pushed to a repository or a branch.
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Run external pipelines from within the platform: In this approach automation reaches out to an external tool to work with the results.
Configuration
Configuration for provisioning is required in various areas:
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Environment: E.g. name of resource group per potential target environment
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Repository: E.g. relevant repos/ branching
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Pipelines: Parameters pipelines run with such as the technical user name or settings required by the built/ deployed code.
Concrete features used for the above three points depend on the used services. A general storage for sensitive data (Keys, secrets, certificates) in Azure is always Azure Key Vault.
Compliance
The standard concept for role-based access controls is called RBAC in Azure. It assigns principals (=humans or technical accounts) permissions for a certain resource. Regarding provisioning the following users are relevant:
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Technical user (=service principal) the pipelines are running with
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Users for administrating the provisioning service
Azure Active Directory is the central service in Azure that defines and controls all principals (human/ service).
Granularity of roles that can be granted depend on the service. The boundaries in which users exist/ permissions can be assigned is also service specific.
Solution (Full blown productive)
Overview
The Azure service targeting a full-blown productive provisioning setup is Azure DevOps.
Note: Azure DevOps will be superseeded by GitHub in the long run after Microsoft acquired GitHub. New features will be initially implemented there.
The services that (can) complement Azure DevOps:
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Azure Key Vault for storing secrets/ exchange of settings
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Azure App Configuration
This service provides settings (key-value pairs) and feature toggles. Native integrations exist for typical application programming languages like .NET/ Java. However native integrations with terraform do not exist and it is also a special hardened service for sensitive information as key vault. Therefore, it is recommended to use that service as special case for application layer if feature toggles are needed.
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Azure AD
Azure Active Directory provides the service principal the pipelines run with.
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Monitoring
Azure DevOps generates metrics to check the health pipelines and displays te state in the Azure DevOps portal . However no built-in forwarding to App Insights independent from the deployed application exists. Continous monitoring assumes Web Applications. Check out the pattern monitoring how monitoring for infrastructure/ application code can be achieved. Essential is that a monitoring consumer gets a single control plane across multiple environments.
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Structural elements to model environments
The picture illustrates the setup with the major dependencies:
Pattern Details
Geting Started
Many aspects influence the setup of the service. Following a top down approach the following decisions have to be made: * Define landing zone of the service itself (out of scope) * Organizational mapping
+ This yields the structural components to host provisioning which will be detailed in the next chapter. It introduces the possible components and guidelines for its structuring. * Modelling other outlined aspects across automation, infra/ app code and provisioning
The structural components are organizations, teams and projects. A team is a unit that supports many team-configurable tools. These tools help you plan and manage work, and make collaboration easier. Every team owns their own backlog, to create a new backlog you create a new team. By configuring teams and backlogs into a hierarchical structure, program owners can more easily track progress across teams, manage portfolios, and generate rollup data.
A project in Azure DevOps contains the following set of features:
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Boards and backlogs for agile planning
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Pipelines for continuous integration and deployment
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Repos
The service comes with hosted git repositories inside that service. You can also use the following external source repositories: Bitbuckt Cloud, GitHub, Any generic git repo, Subversion
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Testing
Azure DevOps supports the following testing by defining test suites with test cases (Link):
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Planned manual testing. Manual testing by organizing tests into test plans and test suites by designated testers and test leads.
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User acceptance testing. Testing carried out by designated user acceptance testers to verify the value delivered meets customer requirements, while reusing the test artifacts created by engineering teams.
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Exploratory testing. Testing carried out by development teams, including developers, testers, UX teams, product owners and more, by exploring the software systems without using test plans or test suites.
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Stakeholder feedback. Testing carried out by stakeholders outside the development team, such as users from marketing and sales divisions.
Tests can also be integrated in pipelines. Pipelines support a wide range of frameworks/ libraries.
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Each organization contains one or more projects
Your business structure should act as a guide for the number of organizations, projects, and teams that you create in Azure DevOps (Link). Each organization gets its own free tier of services (up to five users for each service type) as follows. You can use all the services, or choose just what you need to complement your existing workflows.
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Azure Pipelines: One hosted job with 1,800 minutes per month for CI/CD and one self-hosted job
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Azure Boards: Work item tracking and Kanban boards
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Azure Repos: for version control and management of source code and artifacts
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Azure Artifacts: Package management
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Testing: Continuous test integration throughout the project life cycle
Adding multiple projects makes sense in the following cases (Link):
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To prohibit or manage access to the information contained within a project to select groups
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To support custom work tracking processes for specific business units within your organization
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To support entirely separate business units that have their own administrative policies and administrators
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To support testing customization activities or adding extensions before rolling out changes to the working project
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To support an Open Source Software (OSS) project
Adding teams instead of projects is recommended over projects for the following reasons (Link):
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Visibility: It’s much easier to view progress across all teams
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Tracking and auditing: It’s easier to link work items and other objects for tracking and auditing purposes
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Maintainability: You minimize the maintenance of security groups and process updates.
The table below lists typical configurations along with their characteristics :
| Criteria | 1 project, N teams | 1 org, N projects/ teams | N orgs |
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General guidance |
Smaller or larger organizations with highly aligned teams |
Good when different efforts require different processes (multi) |
Legacy migration |
Process |
Aligned processes across teams; team flexibility to customize boards, dashboards, and so on |
Different processes per prj;e.g. different work item types, custom fields |
same as many projects |
Remaining goals (Automation Code)
This chapter details how the above conceptual features can be achieved with Azure DevOps pipelines.
The pipeline programming approach can be either UI driven or programmatic by using YAML. YAML organizes pipelines into a hierarchy of stages, jobs and tasks. Tasks are the workhorse where activities are implemented. Tasks support scripting languages as stated below. They in turn allow to install additional libraries frameworks from third party providers such as terraform (or you use extensions that give you additional task types). The list below highlights a few YAML points you have to be aware of:
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Passing files/ artefacts between jobs/ pipelines
Passing between jobs within the same pipeline requires publishing the files as pipeline artefacts and downloading it afterwards. Passing between syntax requires a different syntax and also requires a version.
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Variables
Variables can have different scopes. A special syntax is required to publish them at runtime and to consume them in a different job (requires declaration). (Link)
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Obtaining client secret
Scripting languages such as terraform might require the client secret for embedded scripting blocks. However, terraform does not provide a way to get it. The only way was to include an AzureCLI scripting task. Setting the argument "addSpnToEnvironment" to true makes the value for scripting languages as environment variable. A script can then publish the variable so that the value is available in the YAML pipeline.
Pipelines that shall be triggered by pushing to the repo state in the trigger element the details like branch when they shall run. The example below shows a scheduled trigger:
# Disable all other triggers
pr: none
trigger: none
# Define schedule
schedules:
# Note: Azure DevOps only understands the limited part of the cron
# expression below. See this link for further details:
# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/scheduled-triggers?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml
# Note: With DevOps organization setting of UTC+1 Berlin,...
# for a given hour x you have to specify x-2 e.g. 16:00 will be
# started 18:00 o'clock
- cron: "30 5 * * MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI"
displayName: Business daily morning creation
always: true # also run if no code changes
branches:
include:
- 'refs/heads/master'
Pull request (PR) triggers cause a pipeline to run whenever a pull request is opened with one of the specified target branches, or when changes are pushed to such a pull request. In Azure Repos Git, this functionality is implemented using branch policies. To enable pull request validation in Azure Git Repos, navigate to the branch policies for the desired branch, and configure the Build validation policy for that branch. For more information, see Configure branch policies. Draft pull requests do not trigger a pipeline even if you configure a branch policy. Building pull requests from Azure Repos forks is no different from building pull requests within the same repository or project. You can create forks only within the same organization that your project is part of. (Link) To trigger a pipeline upon the completion of another pipeline, specify the triggering pipeline as a pipeline resource. The following example has two pipelines - app-ci (the pipeline defined by the YAML snippet), and security-lib-ci (the triggering pipeline referenced by the pipeline resource). We want the app-ci pipeline to run automatically every time a new version of security-lib-ci is built.
# this is being defined in app-ci pipeline
resources:
pipelines:
- pipeline: securitylib # Name of the pipeline resource
source: security-lib-ci # Name of the pipeline referenced by the pipeline resource
project: FabrikamProject # Required only if the source pipeline is in another project
trigger: true # Run app-ci pipeline when any run of security-lib-ci completes
Implicit Chaining for orchestration is possible by using trigger condition. Calling pipelines explicitly is so far only possible with scripting. The code snippet below shows an example:
#
# Make call to schedule pipeline run
#
# Body
$body = @{
stagesToSkip = @()
resources = @{
self = @{
refName = $branch_name
}
}
templateParameters = $params
variables = @{}
}
$bodyJson = $body | ConvertTo-Json
# Uri extracted from the Azure DevOps UI
# $org_uri and $prj_id contain names of current organization/ project
# $pl_id denotes the internal pipeline id to be started
$uri = "${org_uri}${prj_id}/_apis/pipelines/${pl_id}/runs?api-version=5.1-preview.1"
# Output paramters
Write-Host("-------- Call ${pl_name} --------")
Write-Host("Headers: ${headersJson}")
Write-Host("Json body: ${bodyJson}")
Write-Host("Uri: ${uri}")
try
{
# Trigger pipeline
$result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method POST -Headers $headers -Uri $uri -Body $bodyJson
Write-Host("Result: ${result}")
# Wait until run completed
$buildid = $result.id
$start_time = (get-date).ToString('T')
Write-Host("------------ Loop until ${pl_name} completed --------")
Write-Host("started runbuild ${buildid} at ${start_time}")
# Uri for checking state
$uri = "${org_uri}${prj_id}/_apis/pipelines/${pl_id}/runs/${buildid}?api-version=5.1-preview.1"
Do {
Start-Sleep -Seconds 60
$current_time = (get-date).ToString('T')
# Retrieve current state
$result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method GET -Headers $headers -Uri $uri
$status = $result.state
Write-Host("Received state ${status} at ${current_time}...")
} until ($status -eq "completed")
# return result
$pl_run_result = $result.result
Write-Host("Result: ${pl_run_result}")
return $pl_run_result
}
catch {
$excMsg = $_.Exception.Message
Write-Host("Exception text: ${excMsg}")
return "Failed"
}
Orchestration must take dependencies into account. They might result from the deployed code or the scope of the pipeline (Scope = e.g. a single microservice; Code = libraries needed). Orchestrated pipelines must pass data between them. The recommended method is to use key vault.
Recreation of resources in short intervals might cause pipelines to fail.Even if resources are deleted they might still exist in the background (Even although soft delete is not applicable). Programming languages can therefore get confused if pipelines recreate things in short intervals. Creating a new resource group can solve the problem since they are part of the tecnical resource id.
As part of the configuration Azure DevOps provides the possibility to provide various settings that are used for development such as enforcing pull requests instead of direct pushes to the repo. The major configuration mechanisms in YAML are variables, parameters and variable groups. Variable groups bundle multiple settings as key value pairs. Parameters are not possible in a variable section (Dynamic inclusion of variable groups is possible via file switching). If they are declared on top level they have to be passed when the pipeline is called programmatically or manually by the user.
Quality gates can be enforced as follows:
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Static code analysis:
Various tool support exists depending on the programming language.
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Automated tests (Unit, Integration, End-To-End)
Tests can be included in pipelines via additional libraries and additional previous installment through scripting. The task below uses an Azure CLI task to run tests for terraform:
- task: AzureCLI@2 displayName: Run terratest inputs: azureSubscription: ${{parameters.svcConn}} scriptType: bash scriptLocation: 'inlineScript' addSpnToEnvironment: true inlineScript: | # Expose required settings as environment variables # ARM_XXX initialized by task due to addSpnToEnvironment = true subsid=`az account show --query id -o tsv` echo "client_id:"$servicePrincipalId echo "client_secret:"$servicePrincipalKey echo "subscription_id:"$subsid echo "tenant_id:"$tenantId export ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=$subsid export ARM_CLIENT_ID=$servicePrincipalId export ARM_CLIENT_SECRET=$servicePrincipalKey export ARM_TENANT_ID=$tenantId # Backend settings export storage_account_name=${{parameters.bkStname}} export container_name=${{parameters.bkCntName}} export key=${{parameters.bkRmKeyName}} # Other settings export resource_group_name=${{parameters.rgName}} # Switch to directory with tests pwd cd test # Testfile must end with "<your name>_test.go" go test -v my_test.go
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Manual approval e.g. for production
YAML allows deployments to named environments. Approvers can then be defined for the named environments in the portal what causes the deployment pipeline to wait. However Approval must be done multiple times if you have multiple deplyoment blocks. The example below shows a deployment to the environment "env-demo":
jobs: - deployment: displayName: run deploy template pool: vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest' environment: env-demo strategy: runOnce: deploy: steps: # - 1. Download artefact - task: DownloadPipelineArtifact@2 displayName: Get artefact inputs: downloadPath: '$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)' artifact: ${{parameters.pipelineArtifactName}}
Remaining goals (Provisioning)
Configuration settings can be broken down into key value pairs. As already stated key vault is the recommended place for storage. Azure App Configuration and variable groups can reference values in Key Vault. Key Value pairs must be selected in YAML based on the target environment. Switching based on the parameter value is possible by constructing filenames based on the parameter value. The resolved filenam contains then the variable group or the key value pairs. as shown below:
(1) Main pipeline that requires switching
...
# Switch in the pipeline which is implemented in a shared repository
variables:
- template: ./pipelines/configurations/vars-env-single-template.yaml@repo-shared
parameters: ${{parameters.envName}}
...
(2) Shared: Switch to correct configuration file
...
parameters:
- name: envName
displayName: name of environment
type: string
# Load filename with resolved parameter value
variables:
- template: vars-env-def-${{parameters.envName}}-template.yaml
(3) Shared: Configuration file vars-env-def-dev1.yaml
variables:
envNamePPE1MainScriptLocation: app/dev
envNamePPE1SvcLevel: Full
envNamePPE1BranchName: dev
envNamePPE1KvEnvName: $(envNameCRST)1
Azure DevOps can integrate with various external tools. Pipelines can be called from external and allow calling external tools. Various third party tools can be manually installed or used via extensions. The built in repository and the artefact store can be replaced with third party tools such as github.
For compliance Azure DevOps provides various settings inside Azure DevOps itself and via Azure Active Directory. Portal access to Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts and Test Plans can be controlled through Azure DevOps project settings (Link). Azure DevOps supports the following autthentication mechanisms to connect to services and resources in your organization (Link):
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OAuth to generate tokens for accessing REST APIs for Azure DevOps. The Organizations and Profiles APIs support only OAuth.
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SSH authentication to generate encryption keys for using Linux, macOS, and Windows running Git for Windows, but you can’t use Git credential managers or personal access tokens (PATs) for HTTPS authentication.
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Personal access token (PAT) to generate tokens for:
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Accessing specific resources or activities, like builds or work items
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Clients like Xcode and NuGet that require usernames and passwords as basic credentials and don’t support Microsoft account and Azure Active Directory features like multi-factor authentication
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Accessing REST APIs for Azure DevOps
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User permissions for team members are split in access levels and project permissions inside Azure DevOps. The Basic and higher access levels support full access to all Azure Boards features. Stakeholder access provides partial support to select features, allowing users to view and modify work items without having access to all other features. Additional restrictions are possible by Azure Active Directory settings using conditional access policies and MFA. Azure DevOps honors all conditional access policies 100% for our Web flows. For third-party client flow, like using a PAT with git.exe, IP fencing policies are supported only (no support for MFA policies). Permissions to work with repositories can be set under project’s repositories settings which also allows to disable forks. Many forks makes it hard to keep the overview and forking allows to download code into someones private account. Azure DevOps supports creating branch protection policies, which protect the code committed to the main branches (project settings ⇒ repo ⇒ branch policies). Compliance affects dealing with sensitive settings. As already stated key vault is the standard service for storing them at runtime. Exports from key vault can only be decrypted in a key vault instance. Hence, secrets can be stored in a repository in a safe way without having to store the values in plain. Using them later should be done in a safe way. This includes publishing them in a safe way and passing them from YAML to terraform by avoiding log output in plain text. Avoiding log output passing them as environment variables/ files.
The following repository structure shows a conceptual breakdown that covers most aspects:
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1. Infra
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1.1. Infrastructure
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1.1.1. Other landing zones
Represents other areas with shared functionality that are required. Examples are environments for monitoring, the environment containing Azure DevOps, Key Vault settings etc.
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1.1.2. App Environments
Represents the environments where application is deployed to.
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<IP_ADDRESS>. Envs
This level contains all infrastructure code for seting up en environment. The split between dev and non-dev leverages cost savings for less performant dev environments e.g. by picking cheaper service configurations or totally different Azure services.
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<IP_ADDRESS>.1. Dev
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<IP_ADDRESS>.2. Non-Dev
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<IP_ADDRESS>.3. Modules
Factored out modules for shared reuse. One example is could a central module to generate the name for a given module.
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<IP_ADDRESS>. Envs-Mgmt
Captures aspects assumed by the chosen programming language such as terraform for managing an environment. This includes for instance the backend creation code.
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1.2. Pipelines
Pipelines for automating infrastrcuture deployment.
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2. App
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2.1. Application (Black Box)
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2.2. Pipelines
Pipelines for automating app code deployment.
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3. Shared
Captures shared aspects between infrastructure and application code such as publishing key vault secrets for a pipeline or triggering another pipeline.
Variations
For Dev/ Test scenarios the following services exist:
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Azure Lab Services (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/)
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Kubernetes
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Azure DevSpaces (Deprecated) in favor of “Bridge-to-kubernetes”
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Bridge-to-Kubernetes
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When to use
This solution assumes that your control plane is in Azure and that your monitored resources are located in Azure.


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commands that are used in Content are mapped to any arbitrary outside defined stylename. This is to prevent pollution from outside formatting stuff in the content module. For instance, a content tag can say <#!bold, company#> the formatdict can look like this: {‘bold’: ‘CSS_my_specific_bold’} If the style cmd from the tag cam be found in the provided formatdict format func is used to format the final resulting text.
def formatfunc(text, tagname)This means that Writer and Content should also be able to be used to make RTF, or any other kind of formatted text without making the modules specific to any kind of format, or platform.
3.0 added support for the Content package, added some UI 17 1 2000
3.1 Writer can now handle nested tags, opening a whole world of metaprogramming evb
3.2 messed with the caching mechanism evb
3.3 now the write() method also accepts tagged entries, simpler code, more flexible evb w.write(‘<#name#>’) and w.write(‘name’) have the same results
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Bases: unittest.case.TestCase
Tests to ensure titlecase follows all of the rules
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This filter changes all words to Title Caps, and attempts to be clever about *un*capitalizing SMALL words like a/an/the in the input.
The list of “SMALL words” which are not capped comes from the New York Times Manual of Style, plus ‘vs’ and ‘v’.


Syntax
{d|u|o|x|X|f|e|E|g|G|c|s|i|I}
Description
The fmt operand specifies the format used by the Display and Enter commands, as follows:
The case of the x, e, and g formats determines whether alphabetic characters in the formatted data will be in upper or lower case. The fmt operand is the sole exception to the rule that keywords are not case-sensitive in monitor commands.
Some formats are not valid for some object sizes. Refer to Table 4-2 for valid combinations.
|
Type |
Valid Formats |
|
|---|---|---|
|
for Enter |
for Display |
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|
B |
d, u, o, x, X, c, s |
d, u, o, x, X, c, s |
|
H |
d, u, o, x, X |
i, I, d, u, o, x, X |
|
W |
any except c or s |
any except c or s |
|
D |
f, e, E, g, G, x, X |
f, e, E, g, G, x, X |
See D (Display Data) and EB, ED, EH, EQ, EW (Enter or Fill Data) for examples.


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In this task, participants are asked to classify images as either malignant (melanoma) or non-malignant (non-melanoma).
Data
Lesion classification data includes the original image, paired with a gold standard (definitive) malignancy diagnosis.
Training Data
The Training Data file is a ZIP file, containing 900 dermoscopic lesion
images in JPEG format. All images are named using the scheme
ISIC_<image_id>.jpg
, where <image_id>
is a 7-digit
unique identifier. EXIF tags in the images have been removed; any remaining EXIF tags should
not be relied upon to provide accurate metadata.
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The Training Ground Truth file is a single CSV (comma-separated value)
file, containing 2 columns and 900 rows. The first column of each row contains a string of
the form ISIC_<image_id>
, where <image_id>
matches the
corresponding Training Data image. The second column of each row contains either the string:
benign
: representing non-malignantmalignant
: representing malignant
Notes: Malignancy diagnosis data were obtained from expert consensus and pathology report information.
Participants are not strictly required to utilize the training data in the development of their lesion classification algorithm and are free to train their algorithm using external data sources.
Test Data
Given the Test Data file, a ZIP file of 379 images of the exact same format as the Training Data, participants are expected to generate and submit a file of Test Results.
Download Test Data: The Test Data file should be downloaded via the "Download test dataset" button below, which becomes available once a participant is signed-in and opts to participate in this phase of the challenge.
Submission Format
Test Results
The submitted Test Results file should not use the same format as
the Training Ground Truth file. Rather, the Test Results file should be a single CSV file,
containing 2 columns and 379 rows. The first column of each row should contain a string of
the form ISIC_<image_id>
, where <image_id>
matches a
corresponding Test Data image. The second column of each row should contain a floating-point
value in the closed interval [0.0, 1.0]
, where values:
0.0
to0.5
: represent some confidence in the prediction that the lesion in the image in non-malignant (i.e. benign), with relatively lesser values indicating relatively more confidence in non-malignancy> 0.5
to1.0
: represent some confidence in the prediction that the lesion in the image is malignant, with relatively greater values indicating relatively more confidence in malignancy
Note, arbitrary score ranges and thresholds can be converted to the range of 0.0 to 1.0, with a threshold of 0.5, trivially using the following sigmoid conversion:
1 / (1 + e^(-(a(x - b))))
where x
is the original score, b
is the binary threshold, and
a
is a scaling parameter (often the measured standard deviation on a held-out
dataset).
Submission Process
Shortly after being submitted, participants will receive a confirmation email to their registered email address to confirm that their submission was parsed and scored, or to provide a notification that parsing of their submission failed (with a link to details as to the cause of the failure). Participants should not consider their submission complete until receiving a confirmation email.
Multiple submissions may be made with absolutely no penalty. Only the most recent submission will be used to determine a participant's final score. Indeed, participants are encouraged to provide trial submissions early to ensure that the format of their submission is parsed and evaluated successfully, even if final results are not yet ready for submission.
Evaluation
Submitted Test Results classifications will be compared to private (until after the challenge ends) Test Ground Truth. The Test Ground Truth was produced from the exact same source and methodology as the Training Ground Truth (both sets were randomly sub-sampled from a larger data pool).
Submissions will be compared using using a variety of common classification metrics, including:
However, participants will be ranked and awards granted based only on average precision.
Some useful resources for metrics computation include:


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EDtv (1999) Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Ellen DeGeneres, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau, Elizabeth Hurley, Rob Reiner, Dennis Hopper, Adam Goldberg, Viveka Davis, Clint Howard, Don Most. Written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, based on Michel Poulette's film "Le Roi des Ondes" ("King of the Airwaves"). Directed by Ron Howard. 122 minutes.
Rated PG-13, 3 stars (out of five stars)
Review by Ed Johnson-Ott, NUVO Newsweekly www.nuvo-online.com Archive reviews at http://us.imdb.com/M/reviews_by?Edward+Johnson-ott To receive reviews by e-mail at no charge, send subscription requests to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>When presenting her idea for a 24 hour a day TV show following a real person through his unscripted life, a network executive explains that her brainchild will be live and unedited, thus separating it from PBS' notorious documentary "An American Family" and MTV's "The Real World." Had I written the script, she would have added, "And it's not like 'The Truman Show' either. Our star will be a volunteer with a lot more charisma than Truman Burbank."
"EDtv" blends comedy and drama while exploring the lure of fame and the perverse contemporary mystique surrounding celebrities. The story suffers from unrealistic plot developments towards the end and fails to carry its theme through to its logical conclusion, but entertains nonetheless, thanks primarily to a deft performance from Matthew McConaughey. As 31 year old video clerk Ed Pekurny, McConaughey is just terrific, making Ed a thoroughly likable doofus stud.
Ed may be a slacker, but he's a cagey one. Asked by the network about his drawl, he explains, "I can get rid of this Texas accent whenever I want, or I can slide real deep into it just like this. As a rule, it's helpful with the ladies." He is remarkably relaxed around the camera, casually studying his fanny in one early scene and, later, addressing friends directly by talking into the lens. His self-awareness and lack of self- consciousness makes for a winning combination. When director Ron Howard cuts to shots of representative viewers who are hooked on the program, you understand why. In fact, "EDtv" the show is considerably more enjoyable than "EDtv" the movie.
"EDtv" the show is packed with colorful characters, family histrionics, big laughs, high drama and just the right amount of vulgarity. I'd watch it in a heartbeat; to catch up on the love triangle between Ed, Shari (Jenna Elfman) and big-brother Ray (Woody Harrelson); to hear the latest one-liners from Al (Martin Landau), Ed's lovable scene-stealing step- father; or to witness mother Jeanette (Sally Kirkland) frantically doing spin-control when Ed's long-missing father Hank (Dennis Hopper) reappears and drops some bombshells about the circumstances surrounding his departure. Hell, Ed's fun even during his down time. When he awakens sporting morning wood, will he remember the camera is there, or forget and allow his hand to slide down his drawers? Voyeurism may be tacky, but the truth is that most of you would watch as well.
"EDtv" the movie is far less engaging. Ron Howard inserts too many ironic winks about the decidedly mixed blessings of celebrity, from soundtrack lyric references ("Thank you for letting me be myself," "Be careful what you wish for") to visual underlining (Shari tries to escape the cameras by ducking into a theater playing the film "Solitude"). Enough, Ron, we get it!
Some of the inside gags succeed. After her well-publicized war with ABC, it's a kick seeing Ellen DeGeneres play a network executive. Shots of a TV talk show where commentators condemn "EDtv" as "a new low in broadcasting" work because the panelists, including "TV Nation" vets Michael Moore and Merrill Markoe, are not exactly strangers to video vulgarity in real life.
Unfortunately, the story takes some wrong turns. When Ed and Shari have a spat, the network inserts a cheesy femme fatale straight out of "Melrose Place."
In real-life, no network official would willingly appear on-camera as a villain. Instead, as soon as the show proved successful, they would anticipate the inevitable end of the series and be ready to begin "SARAHtv" or "MIKEtv" at a moment's notice. As opposed to the ending of the film, which I will not reveal, imagine this. The network releases Ed from his contract and continues the concept with a new subject. For a while, Ed savors his privacy, not to mention all the money. Then the cash runs out, he begins to miss the attention and eventually ends up pleading in vain for a sequel series. Such a resolution might be on the dour side, but if Howard really wants to explore the arc fame generally follows, it would be far more realistic and resonant than the film's tidy ending. Perhaps Ron Howard, by all reports a level-headed and decent man despite his life-long celebrity status, is just too clean-cut for this subject matter. Good for Ron, bad for us. As is, "EDtv" serves as breezy, disposable entertainment, but only skims the surface of its own dark waters.
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Yes I've practiced most of the techniques at various times in my life to establish and maintain trust. In my previous work, I've used the technique of trusting someone until I have reason to believe otherwise, in other words giving someone the benefit of any doubt. I've reflected with others about embarassing moments or when I was in a vunerable situation. I've been empathetic of others opinions and issues, helping them where possible.
Yes this went really well. I certainly felt a deeper connection with the person when I was trying to read and relay back the feelings I felt from them while they are speaking. I will continue to practice this deep listening technique.
Fantastic meditation. I enjoyed the 'just like me' practice too, in which we remind ourselves how similar other people are to us, thereby creating the mental habit of equality. The 'loving kindness meditation' starts with resting our mind for a few minutes then inviting a feeling of kindness to ourself. We quietly repeat the following sentences to ourselves: May I be well...May I be happy...May I be free from suffering. After a minutes of this we invite this kind feeling towards someone we feel strongly towards, then we complete the same process for someone neutral and for someone we dislike or have difficulty with.
I had a coach, Jonty(for names sake), in my team who wanted to change the way we assessed our students. At the time I thought our current process was fair and provided us with the reporting we required. We held a general meeting with an open table to discuss key points. Jonty was very passionate about changing our process and firmly beleived that his recommended changes were the best pathway forward for the business and tennis students.
This was an interesting discussion. The way that Jonty expressed his views was not very nice and really discredited the current way that we were doing things...emotion got in the way. After deliberation within our team we decided to take the best parts from each structure and create a new one.


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torchtraining.steps¶
Perform single step on data and via specific module(s).
Note
IMPORTANT: This module is one of core features so be sure to understand how it works. It is the core and defines how you perform single step through the data.
See Introduction tutorial for example of step
.
Usually it looks something along those lines:
class Step(tt.steps.Step):
def forward(self, module, batch):
images, labels = batch
images, labels = images.to(self.device), labels.to(self.device)
predictions = module(images)
loss = self.criterion(predictions, labels)
return loss, predictions, labels
step = Step(criterion=torch.nn.BCEWithLogitsLoss, device=torch.device("cuda"))
Note
IMPORTANT: You can override __init__
if you wish to pass
other arguments.
Note
IMPORTANT: You can override forward
signature to anything you
desire. Just be sure to pass appropriate data to it (via iteration
or epoch
)
or simple __call__
.
Note
IMPORTANT: module
is passed from other objects and can be anything.
In case of GANs in tutorial this is a Tuple
of torch.nn.Module
.
-
class
torchtraining.steps.
Eval
(criterion: Callable, device=None)[source]¶ Bases:
torchtraining.steps.Step
Perform user specified evaluation step with disabled gradient..
Users should override forward method.
- Parameters
-
class
torchtraining.steps.
Step
(criterion: Callable, gradient, device=None)[source]¶ Bases:
torchtraining._base.Step
General
step
, usable both in training & evaluation..User should override
forward
method.- Parameters
criterion (typing.Callable) – Criterion to use to get loss value. Available in
forward
asself.criterion
attribute.gradient (bool) – Whether to turn gradient on/off (for training/evaluation respectively).
device (torch.device) – Device to which tensors could be casted. Available in
forward
asself.device
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torchtraining.steps.
Train
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THE ABYSS: THE SPECIAL EDITION A film review by Anthony Horan Copyright 1993 Anthony Horan
The long-awaited release of the Special Edition laserdisc sets of James Cameron's 1989 film THE ABYSS has finally happened, and for once all the anticipation has been worth it. This review attempts to cover the different aspects of this landmark release in a half-critical, half-informational light, and though some things here have been noted by others on rec.video.releases, I'm putting my two cents' worth in anyway :-)
OVERVIEW ~~~~~~~ THE ABYSS: SPECIAL EDITION comprises an extended version of the 1989 film, containing, by the director's count, twenty-eight minutes of new footage and three minutes of expanded credits. The total running time of the feature film is 171 minutes versus the original version's 140. This release is available in either an original aspect ratio "letterbox" version at 2.2:1 aspect ratio, or a "Director's Pan And Scan" version presented full-frame. The set also includes an extensive supplement disc containing a new one hour documentary about the making of the film, and an exhaustive CAV supplement containing a wealth of information about the production. The release is the first to be mastered to the new THX LaserDisc standard. Also included is a colour tri-fold brochure containing full restoration notes and a short essay by Cameron about the restoration and his views on the Widescreen Vs Pan-and-scan debate. The recommended retail price in the US is $99.95, and as this reviewer lives in Australia, the set cost $190 in Australian currency, or about US$140. The version reviewed is the Widescreen edition.
THE FILM ~~~~~~~ I should point out first and foremost that I am an unashamed fan of this film, not only for its incredible visuals but also for the two amazing performances put in by Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Cameron's naively romantic script. So watching an expanded "Special Edition" of the film I have grown to count as one of my favorites was a strange experience. The trouble with being so familiar with the pace and structure of a film is that when scenes are added, there's the possibility that they may jar with what is expected and take the viewer out of the world of the film for an instant as they notice, "hey, that's new" and often give a small restored scene more attention than it should be given in the context of the film.
The restored scenes are many and varied, the longest sequences appearing at the film's climax, when the legendary wave sequence finally makes its appearance. But the scenes added earlier are of a far more personal nature; the relationship between Bud and Lindsey is far more clearly defined and coloured, as is that of the crew amongst each other. I could have done without the "camaraderie" shot of One Night and the gang all singing along to Linda Ronstadt as they tow their rig along the ocean floor, but hey, Jim's always had a redneck streak appear somewhere in his movies. Hell, the man was a trucker once, after all :-)
Technically the inserts vary. Most of the cast returned for additional ADR and the one notable exception, as throughout the whole three discs, was Mastrantonio. Her dialogue has been restored from secondary audio sources, easily identifiable due to the mains hum and hiss in the background. Visually a few of the new scenes are noticeable immediately due to the shift in colour balance and less careful negative storage procedures, and there's an editing mark or two visible in there. Having said that, the new shots still look fine, and the added footage for the Wave sequence and Bud's extra dialogue with the NTIs looks sharp, crisp, and perfect.
A curious thing is Cameron's assertion that in the release version of the film, he ran the end credits in tiny text lightning-fast to save time, and that he has now re-shot them with new info, bigger text and a slower crawl. Certainly, if you check the VHS release of the film, there are those pesky fast credits. But on the original LD of the original cut of the film, the credits had been mysteriously re-composited and slowed down, making them slow, big, and legible. They ran for exactly 9.5 minutes. The new credits run for slightly less than that, and faster! So why did Cameron have to re-score the end credits using some of Robert Garrett's music, when a full 9.5 minute Alan Silvestri end credit score was available? Hmmm....
All in all, and as Cameron himself says, this is in some ways a very different film to the original release. The mood of the film has noticeably changed, and there's more *character* in the characters. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen it a few more times, but I like the way it's turned out. A lot.
THE DOCUMENTARY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Titled "Under Pressure: Making The Abyss" this one-hour presentation, completed in 1993 by Ed Marsh, is entertaining, informative, and thankfully almost hype-free. It contains contemporary interviews with the cast who retuned for new ADR (sorry, Mastrantonio isn't interviewed) and old ones shot by Fox's promo crew back in 88/89 (strangely, not one word from Mary here either, unfortunately). There's a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage, some humour, Gale Anne Hurd and Jim Cameron in separate rooms, anecdotes, drama, and a truly massive water-filled nuclear reactor. If you like the film, you'll find this fascinating. As you also will if you don't. However good the documentary is, though, in matters of pure information it pales in comparison to...
THE SUPPLEMENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A 23-minute CAV side packed to the rafters with everything you could possibly want to know about the film and its production. There's a complete early script treatment, the complete final shooting script, the full storyboard collection, detailed info on the creation of the individual effects including copious stills and raw video footage, costume design info and stills, casting, Cameron's actual epic memo to SFX houses saying what he wants and how he wants it, and more. Sequences such as the pseudopod scene are explained from conception to execution; there are loads more archival photos of the cast, posters, the old LD sleeve (!), crew t-shirts, promotional stuff, restoration info; there are three trailers including Ed Marsh's terrific theatrical trailer which was never seen outside the US.
This, simply, is unbelievable--there's enough here to fill a large glossy colour book, and it's only after viewing this supplement that you'll really realise how much of a bargain the set is. I have spent a good hour reading over it thoroughly and still haven't seen a quarter of it in detail. Unprecedented access to materials has helped of course, and the closet in these terms seen before this would be Terry Gilliam's "Fisher King" supplement--in terms of co-operation, not content. This supplement out-contents them all. Period.
DISC TECHNICAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The only word that can be used is PHENOMENAL. For starters, I don't know which Japanese plant Fox got these discs manufactured at, but these three platters are the cleanest, most dropout-free discs I have ever seen. Then there's the mastering. A D1/D2 digital video transfer, the image has been immeasurably aided by the THX program, which as it turns out is essentially a reference test signal inserted in the vertical blanking interval at the telecine stage and referenced during all stages of mastering, the image quality surpasses just about any other disc I've seen. I compared this with the original Fox LD of the film, and the difference is astounding. The original, which I'd always considered to look fairly good, is in comparison with the new disc grainy, contrasty and lacks definition. I recorded a section of the new disc onto VHS tape and played it back whole a/B comparing with the old disc. Guess which looked better? Yep, the *tape*! This new transfer from interpositives struck from the origianl negatives, conveys more detail, colour, and outright resolution than the original. The transfer was, according to the packaging, supervised by Cameron, and the restoration, unlike the "Aliens" Special Edition, was completed not on videotape but on film.
The wide-screen edition is letterboxed at 2.2:1, which is probably as close as we're ever going to get to the original theatrical 2.35:1 aspect ratio (I finally had the theater aspect confirmed by a friend who's actually projected the thing!). The original version of the film on LD was presented at 1.85:1, and A/B comparison reveals some extra image, usually, strangely enough, at the bottom of the frame, and some side information missing.
Cameron's philosophy on Super 35mm -> anamorphic presentation is (and this is even noted in his notes to the SFX crew before production began, as seen on the supplement side) "You get *more* on the pan-and-scan version than you did in the cinema". Look Jim, if that's so desirable, why not just present the thing in Academy ratio to begin with? The wide-screen edition contains the film as seen in the cinema, and if you're used to letterboxing already you won't have it any other way. Cameron's worries about the resolution of NTSC video have been offset by the wonders the THX mastering process has done for the image.
Sound is superb, mastered with dynamic range to spare--and it's used--with the exception of the final credit music, which has obviously suffered master tape damage, as dropouts of the analogue variety that don't appear on the original film's soundtrack are present.
And the THX chord is there at the start of the disc, sounding amazing but regrettably shortened for video, missing out on the surround channel effects that accompany the "Audience Is Listening" text in the cinema.
Side changes are well-placed at the end of key sections of the story, and notably the film has been spread over four sides despite the fact that it would have fit on three. The last side is CAV, and it includes the wave sequence.
The discs are well-packaged in plastic-lined paper sleeves sitting in a perfectly-sized box that doesn't allow the disks to move around when closed.
SUMMARY ~~~~~~ A bargain, if you love the film. Still worthwhile if you have an interest in the technology of film-making and/or presentation. Fox have outdone themselves here, and presented a worthy opening salvo for the THX disc program to boot. Lets hope this technology filters down from collector's sets to standard LD releases--as in time it no doubt will.
But what could simply have been a very good LD edition of the film turns out to be beyond anyone's wildest dreams--the correct aspect ratio, the startling image and sound quality, and the comprehensive supplement make this set not only a benchmark for future reference and a stunning showpiece for your home theater, but also the entire "Abyss" story and the film itself, all wrapped up in a neat box. Congratulations, James Cameron, Van Ling and crew, and Fox. You've come up with a masterpiece.
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With Your Navigator Deluxe from U.S. Cellular, you'll get turn-by-turn . YND v2.2 User's Guide for Blackberry (3.2MB PDF) . Pricing. FREE w/select data plans .
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LOST SOULS RATING: 7/10 --> Good movie
For more reviews and movie screensavers, visit http://www.joblo.com/
You can't help but go into a movie like this one with low expectations. Here we are, up to our umpteenth "devil" thriller of the past two years, and still, Hollywood keeps churning them out like there's no tomorrow. But with this film, we have reason to expect even less. It was originally supposed to be released in October 1999, and has basically been sitting on the shelf ever since. So is it as stinky as many of the others? Does it provide for any type of entertainment value whatsoever? Stick around...
PLOT: A best-selling author has apparently been chosen by Satan to become his physical vehicle to return to earth. A young woman, who herself once went through an exorcism of her own, takes it upon herself to try and convince the skeptic writer of his oncoming doom.
CRITIQUE: Despite its lame title, general feeling of deja-vu and somewhat slow pace, I enjoyed this film based on its interesting script, abundance of creepy atmosphere, grungy look and neat-o ending. Yes, I'm as sick of "satanic thrillers" as the next guy, but all things considered, this movie kept me interested pretty much the whole way through, and that's a mighty big chore at this point. It didn't have any major plot holes, it had a very believable character in the lead, one Ben Chaplin, and it didn't bog the story down with all kinds of biblical mumbo jumbo. The one thing that did surprise me about this film was its lack of MTV-ness. I say that only because its trailer makes it look like yet another thrill-a-minute, split-second edited, soundtrack enhanced disposable horror movie, but that is far from what we have here. This movie doesn't have any fake scares. It doesn't play the latest "teen band" on the soundtrack and it doesn't feature any nutballs in masks. It's eerie, features a dark look and muddled cinematography, saddled up to an appropriately brooding score and exorcisms galore (nice timing on the release, guys...just as THE EXORCIST is scaring up the youngens in the theatres).
I liked this movie because it was able to pull me into its world and make me a believer. Forget BLESS THE CHILD and END OF DAYS, movies featuring name actors hopping around plot holes left and right. Ben Chaplin won me over in this film.  A couple of scenes from this film even managed to stick in my mind, especially one really great scene early on featuring a bathroom which suddenly becomes...well, possessed of sorts. A highly stylized film. I suppose that the story could've benefited from a few more "thrilling" moments, and certainly been cut by about ten minutes in the middle, but all in all, this late entry into the satanic world of Hollywood thrillers, generally held my attention. Winona Ryder, I could've done without, but kudos to Chaplin for convincing me of the possibility of his dilemma. I look forward to seeing what director Janusz Kaminski will take on next. Not a film that will win over the MTV generation, but definitely a decent creepy thriller that'll keep you on your toes while cuddled under a blanket, late at night, all by yourself. Far from being a classic, but decent as a stylishly passable concoction.
Little Known facts about this film and its stars: This is director Janusz Kaminski's directorial debut. He is best known as a cinematographer. His previous work on SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and SCHINLDER'S LIST have won him Oscars in cinematography. He is currently doing the cinematography for Steven Spielberg's next project entitled A.I. He was also the cinematographer on JERRY MAGUIRE, LOST WORLD and AMISTAD. This film was originally slated for an October 1999 release but was held back due to concern over too many similarly themed movies coming out around that same time (STIGMATA, END OF DAYS, BLESS THE CHILD). Alfre Woodard has an uncredited role in this film as the head nurse of the prison. Actress Meg Ryan is one of the producers of this film. How that happened is beyond me!
Review Date: October 11, 2000 Director: Janusz Kaminski Writer: Pierce Gardner Producers: Meg Ryan and Nina R. Sadowsky Actors: Winona Ryder as Maya Larkin Ben Chaplin as Peter Kendell Genre: Thriller Year of Release: 2000 ------------------------------------ JoBlo's Movie Emporium http://www.joblo.com/ ------------------------------------ (c) 2000 Berge Garabedian
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This Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver sample application demonstrates how to retrieve an updateable set of data from a SQL Server database. Then, using methods of the SQLServerResultSet object, it inserts, modifies, and then finally deletes a row of data from the set of data.
The code file for this sample is named updateRS.java, and it can be found in the following location:
<installation directory>\sqljdbc_<version>\<language>\help\samples\resultsets
Requirements
To run this sample application, you must set the classpath to include the sqljdbc.jar file or the sqljdbc4.jar file. If the classpath is missing an entry for sqljdbc.jar or sqljdbc4.jar, the sample application will throw the common "Class not found" exception. You will also need access to the SQL Server 2005 AdventureWorks sample database. For more information about how to set the classpath, see Using the JDBC Driver.
Example
In the following example, the sample code makes a connection to the AdventureWorks sample database. Then, using an SQL statement with the SQLServerStatement object, it runs the SQL statement and places the data that it returns into an updateable SQLServerResultSet object.
Next, the sample code uses the moveToInsertRow method to move the result set cursor to the insert row, uses a series of updateString methods to insert data into the new row, and then calls the insertRow method to persist the new row of data back to the database.
After inserting the new row of data, the sample code uses an SQL statement to retrieve the previously inserted row, and then uses the combination of updateString and updateRow methods to update the row of data and again persist it back to the database.
Finally, the sample code retrieves the previously updated row of data and then deletes it from the database using the deleteRow method.
import java.sql.*; public class updateRS { public static void main(String[] args) { // Create a variable for the connection string. String connectionUrl = "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;" + "databaseName=AdventureWorks;integratedSecurity=true;"; // Declare the JDBC objects. Connection con = null; Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rs = null; try { // Establish the connection. Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"); con = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl); // Create and execute an SQL statement, retrieving an updateable result set. String SQL = "SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Department;"; stmt = con.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE, ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE); rs = stmt.executeQuery(SQL); // Insert a row of data. rs.moveToInsertRow(); rs.updateString("Name", "Accounting"); rs.updateString("GroupName", "Executive General and Administration"); rs.updateString("ModifiedDate", "08/01/2006"); rs.insertRow(); // Retrieve the inserted row of data and display it. SQL = "SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Department WHERE Name = 'Accounting';"; rs = stmt.executeQuery(SQL); displayRow("ADDED ROW", rs); // Update the row of data. rs.first(); rs.updateString("GroupName", "Finance"); rs.updateRow(); // Retrieve the updated row of data and display it. rs = stmt.executeQuery(SQL); displayRow("UPDATED ROW", rs); // Delete the row of data. rs.first(); rs.deleteRow(); System.out.println("ROW DELETED"); } // Handle any errors that may have occurred. catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { if (rs != null) try { rs.close(); } catch(Exception e) {} if (stmt != null) try { stmt.close(); } catch(Exception e) {} if (con != null) try { con.close(); } catch(Exception e) {} } } private static void displayRow(String title, ResultSet rs) { try { System.out.println(title); while (rs.next()) { System.out.println(rs.getString("Name") + " : " + rs.getString("GroupName")); System.out.println(); } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }


I filled out the sheet! https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FVe20ojrMWiTo4%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1 Target: https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FLs6ahtmYHU760%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1 Sender: https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FY8ocCgwtdj29O%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1
Sender - I have been noticeably absent from all forms of social media.  You can send me whatever you want and I'm sure I'll enjoy it. I've been on a beer buying/trading hiatus for awhile now and subsequently out of the loop. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Target - I haven't been buying beer, which means you get cellar funk and sour. https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FxfD6mEBfQM3wk%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1
Target - I'm off tomorrow and my wife is working most of the day... I'm toying with idea of day drinking, pulling a bunch of bottles out onto the living room carpet and having my 11mo old choose the beers for me. What do you think? https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FK6VhXtbgCXqQU%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1 I could ship Tuesday or Wednesday and it should still arrive by Saturday. Sender - http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Anna-Kendrick-Blows-a-Kiss-At-The-Golden-Globe-Awards-In-a-Classy-Red-Dress.gif
Target - I made solid progress today, 10 our of 12 slots filled! Now I just need to figure out what is going in the last two spots. I hope you like stone fruit, some how 4 things I've picked out already contain one form of it. Sender - https://media0.giphy.com/media/6wnAgnToO7DtS/giphy.gif
Target - I had two crowlers of heavily fruited berliner going your way. One made a loud pop inside the shipper today... It didn't explode, but I definitely can't ship these two without potentially losing the box. https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FCMRWlA55AYLpS%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1
Sender: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/920/736/619.jpg Finally posting because I'm a slacker. http://media.giphy.com/media/26BkO2rpQCsjJApdC/giphy.gif Hint #1: Target, I don't think you've posted in the wants spreadsheet yet, but I can't be sure because I have a seizure every time I look at it. Hint #2: You have a better social media presence than I do (which is about nonexistent).
Hint #3: This will be my shortest distance shipped in this BIF, within 3 FedEx zones of the Bay Area. https://media1.tenor.com/images/2631866fcb70bc09b19171a2b6129095/tenor.gif?itemid=9243117 Hint #4: We may have been in the same beer club last year. https://media.giphy.com/media/fO6VhyBeUbLj2/giphy.gif
Just revisited the spreadsheet and found a bunch of info from jermy who started swimming into my row on the spreadsheet. https://media1.tenor.com/images/aea21aee4ef21749c31a19946afb6cae/tenor.gif?itemid=4777042 LYMI! Unfortunately for my sender I am not as cool as jermy and don't use untappd, or have any travel plans coming up . But I'm cool and will drink whatever, and I've even gotten back into dark sours (shit has come full-circle), especially those magic bottles from Scratch that capnmike hooks me up with! Target, hint N+1: You do have untappd, and luckily haven't ticked too many beers from our local honey pot. Another hint: I don't have what you want (it's about 3,100 miles from here), but I do have stuff you'll like!
https://media.giphy.com/media/l4EpfelNaciPKY37y/giphy.gif Hints and Hauls thread for Sour, Saison, and Funk Round 16! Post hints for your sender and target; along with general shenanigans. The rules: A box filled with lambic, wild ales, berliners, saisons, farmhouse ales, goses, etc., as well as anything else that is rustic or funky. A 6 bottle shipper* All beers must be an rAvg of 4.0 or higher or a 'want' by your target.** Try to find fun and exciting bottles/growlers that your target otherwise wouldn't likely be able to try Quantity is good, quality is better! * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ **If you can't hit wants, please try to find fun stuff that your target otherwise wouldn't likely be able to try. Shipping deadline: Monday, May 13
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Target: you have a social media presence. I found it or we may already swipe the one direction for each other. I’d hit it.
Target: Doing some local research. At in laws this weekend and went for a run. Half way point was a brewery and enjoying this saison thinking of your beautiful smile.  Hint? No care? Many months 2 go? No Collusion or Hot dog Sandwiches! https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7qDMjkAZ2RwFvDaw/giphy.gif
Target. Beer was stolen from my porch this weekend. They contained beer from a brewery you wanted. Sorry, had some ones saved for you. But thanks to a generous friend I got two bottles from the same brewery and they are vintage. If five years old counts? Overall it’s a win. I think?
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- RArray - Class in net.tomp2p.synchronization
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- RArray(byte[], int, int) - Constructor for class net.tomp2p.synchronization.RArray
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- RArray(DataBuffer) - Constructor for class net.tomp2p.synchronization.RArray
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- reconstruct(byte[], List<Instruction>, int) - Static method in class net.tomp2p.synchronization.RSync
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It reconstructs the copy of responsible peer's value using instructions
and the replica's value.
- reference() - Method in class net.tomp2p.synchronization.Instruction
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- rejectReplication(PeerAddress) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.Replication
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- rejectReplication(PeerAddress) - Method in interface net.tomp2p.replication.ReplicationFilter
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- rejectReplication(PeerAddress) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.SlowReplicationFilter
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- reliability(double) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.AutoReplication
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- reliability() - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.AutoReplication
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- removeResponsibilityListener(ResponsibilityListener) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.IndirectReplication
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- removeResponsibilityListener(ResponsibilityListener) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.Replication
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Remove a responsibility listener.
- Replication - Class in net.tomp2p.replication
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This class has 3 methods that are called from outside events: check, peerInsert, peerRemoved.
- Replication(PeerDHT, int, boolean, boolean, Collection<ReplicationFilter>) - Constructor for class net.tomp2p.replication.Replication
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Constructor.
- replicationFactor() - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.AutoReplication
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- replicationFactor(int, int, double, int, int) - Static method in class net.tomp2p.replication.AutoReplication
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Calculate the replication factor given the reliability within a churn
interval and the (predicted) number of peers that left the system.
- replicationFactor(ReplicationFactor) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.IndirectReplication
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- replicationFactor(int) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.IndirectReplication
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- replicationFactor() - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.IndirectReplication
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- replicationFactor(int) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.Replication
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- replicationFactor() - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.Replication
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- ReplicationFactor - Interface in net.tomp2p.replication
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- replicationFactor() - Method in interface net.tomp2p.replication.ReplicationFactor
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- replicationFactor2(int, int, double, int, int) - Static method in class net.tomp2p.replication.AutoReplication
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Calculate the replication factor given the reliability within a churn
interval and the (predicted) number of peers that left the system.
- ReplicationFilter - Interface in net.tomp2p.replication
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Allows to filter peers that should not be considered for the replication
- replicationFilters() - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.IndirectReplication
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- replicationFilters(Collection<ReplicationFilter>) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.IndirectReplication
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- ReplicationSender - Interface in net.tomp2p.replication
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- reset() - Method in class net.tomp2p.synchronization.RSync.RollingChecksum
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Resets the checksum to its initial state 1.
- ResponsibilityListener - Interface in net.tomp2p.replication
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- RollingChecksum() - Constructor for class net.tomp2p.synchronization.RSync.RollingChecksum
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- rsync(boolean) - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.IndirectReplication
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- rsync() - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.IndirectReplication
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- RSync - Class in net.tomp2p.synchronization
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Synchronization class is responsible for efficient and optimal
synchronization of data resources between responsible peer and replica peers.
- RSync() - Constructor for class net.tomp2p.synchronization.RSync
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- RSync.RollingChecksum - Class in net.tomp2p.synchronization
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Variation of Adler as used in Rsync.
- run() - Method in class net.tomp2p.replication.IndirectReplication
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FreeRADIUS 'man' pages
Documentation from the server
radrelay.conf
Section: FreeRADIUS configuration file (5)Updated: 27 May 2005
Index Return to Main Contents
NAME
radrelay.conf - configuration file for the FreeRADIUS server "radrelay" personalityDESCRIPTION
The radrelay.conf file resides in the radius database directory, by default /etc/raddb. It defines the global configuration for the FreeRADIUS server, when the server is operating as "radrelay".FILE FORMAT
For a detailed description of the file format, see "man radiusd.conf". The configuration entries are much the same for radrelay.conf, with a few differences as noted here.REPLICATION FOR BACKUPS
Many sites run multiple radius servers; at least one primary and one backup server. When the primary goes down, most NASes detect that and switch to the backup server.That will cause your accounting packets to go the the backup server - and some NASes don't even switch back to the primary server when it comes back up.
The result is that accounting records are missed, and/or the administrator must jump through hoops in order to combine the different detail files from multiple servers. It also means that the session database ("radutmp", used for radwho and simultaneous use detection) gets out of sync.
radrelay solves this issue by "relaying" packets from one server to another, so they both have the same set of accounting data.
BUFFERING FOR HIGH-LOAD SERVERS
If the RADIUS server suddenly receives a many accounting packets, there may be insufficient CPU power to process them all in a timely manner. This problem is especially noticeable when the accounting packets are going to a back-end database.Similarly, you may have one database that tracks "live" sessions, and another that tracks historical accounting data. In that case, accessing the first database is fast, as it is small. Accessing the second database many be slower, as it may contain multiple gigabytes of data. In addition, writing to the first database in a timely manner is important, while data may be written to the second database with a few minutes delay, without any harm being done.
RELAYING OF ACCOUNTING PACKETS
The radrelay.conf file controls the "radrelay" personality of the server, which can perform both of the functions above at the same time.USAGE
First, you should configure the main radius server to log to an extra, single detail file. This may be done by adding an extra instance of the detail module to radiusd.conf:For example:
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detail radrelay-detail {
filename = ${radacctdir}/radrelay/detail
permissions = 0600
dir_permissions = 0755
locking = yes
}
...
process Accounting-Request {
...
radrelay-detail
...
}
This configuration will cause accounting packets to be logged to the ${radacctdir}/radrelay/detail file. This file should not be rotated by standard log rotation scripts, as the radrelay program will read and rotate it.
RADRELAY.CONF EXAMPLE
See the radrelay.conf file for detailed instructions on configuration entries, what they mean, and how to use them.To have the "radrelay" portion of the server read the above detail file, configure radrelay.conf with the following section:
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listen {
type = detail
filename = ${radacctdir}/radrelay/detail
max_outstanding = 100
identity = radrelay
}
The server will read the accounting packets from the detail file, and process them just as if it had received them from the NAS. Therefore, you should configure the "accounting" section of radrelay.conf to write the accounting records to an "sql" module, or to proxy them to another RADIUS server.
Then, start the server via the following command:
$ radiusd -n radrelay
The server should start up, read the detail file, and process accounting packets from it.
NOTES
The radiusd.conf file is not read at all when the server is running as radrelay. Please edit radrelay.conf.CREDITS
The original "radrelay" program was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg for the Cistron radius project, and ported to FreeRADIUS by Simon Ekstrand. The "radsqlrelay" was written by Kostas Kalavras. It was never released as part of an official FreeRADIUS release, but served as a basis for the design of this implementation.FILES
/etc/raddb/radrelay.confSEE ALSO
radiusd(8), radiusd.conf(5)AUTHOR
Alan DeKok<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Index
- NAME
- DESCRIPTION
- FILE FORMAT
- REPLICATION FOR BACKUPS
- BUFFERING FOR HIGH-LOAD SERVERS
- RELAYING OF ACCOUNTING PACKETS
- USAGE
- RADRELAY.CONF EXAMPLE
- NOTES
- CREDITS
- FILES
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
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1, Tell your non-tech friend a story about a time you:
(1)Got blocked on a simple problem
(2)Solved a problem in an elegant way.
One time, I got blocked on reference another website page to the main page. I had to put my new page's path on the main page, but I was not clear about certain relative path and absolute path, so it turned out my refrence page not showing properly.
When it didn't show properly, I instantly know it's the reference problem, so I had a good read of relative path and absolute path on google.
2, Reflect on how confident you feel using the problem solving techniques and process:
(1)Pseudocode
(2)Trying something
(3)Rubber ducky method
(4)Reading error messages
(5)Console.logging
(6)Googling
(7)Asking your peers for help
(8)Asking coaches for help
(9)Improving your process with reflection
I found out I got used to use pseudocode and Rubber ducky motheod, also Googling during my study process.
When I need to write a function that is a bit complicated, I need pseudocode to breakdown to small steps. After I know every steps, I can just follow those steps and compelete my code.
Rubber ducky helps me to stay positive when my code is not working. I get stressed easily when face to an unknown problem, I use rubber ducky to talk through myself and trying to focus on solving problem instead of beating myself up.


org.apache.maven.archiva.dependency.graph
Classes
DependencyGraph
DependencyGraphBuilder
DependencyGraphEdge
DependencyGraphKeys
DependencyGraphNode
DependencyGraphUtils
DependencyResolutionEvent
GraphListener
GraphPhaseEvent
GraphTask
GraphTaskException
PotentialCyclicEdgeProducer
ProjectModelBasedGraphBuilder


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Treebank Statistics: UD_Amharic-ATT: POS Tags: CCONJ
There are 9 CCONJ
lemmas (1%), 9 CCONJ
types (1%) and 100 CCONJ
tokens (1%).
Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of CCONJ
is: 14 in number of lemmas, 14 in number of types and 12 in number of tokens.
The 10 most frequent CCONJ
lemmas: ም, ና, ስ, እንጂ, ወይስ, ሳ, ነገርግን, ደግሞ, ግን
The 10 most frequent CCONJ
types: ም, ና, ስ, እንጂ, ወይስ, ሳ, ነገር, ደግሞ, ግን
The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: ም (PART 121, CCONJ 64, ADV 1, SCONJ 1), ስ (SCONJ 44, INTJ 18, CCONJ 10), እንጂ (CCONJ 2, INTJ 1), ሳ (INTJ 3, CCONJ 1)
The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ም (PART 121, CCONJ 64, X 2, ADV 1, SCONJ 1), ስ (SCONJ 44, INTJ 18, CCONJ 10), እንጂ (CCONJ 2, INTJ 1), ሳ (INTJ 3, CCONJ 1), ነገር (NOUN 7, VERB 6, CCONJ 1), ግን (CCONJ 1, X 1)
- ም
- ስ
- እንጂ
- ሳ
- ነገር
- ግን
Morphology
The form / lemma ratio of CCONJ
is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.029841).
The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “ም”: ም.
The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “ሳ”: ሳ.
The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “ስ”: ስ.
CCONJ
occurs with 1 features: Typo (1; 1% instances)
CCONJ
occurs with 1 feature-value pairs: Typo=Yes
CCONJ
occurs with 2 feature combinations.
The most frequent feature combination is _
(99 tokens).
Examples: ም, ና, ስ, እንጂ, ወይስ, ሳ, ደግሞ, ግን
Relations
CCONJ
nodes are attached to their parents using 3 different relations: cc (82; 82% instances), discourse (13; 13% instances), mark (5; 5% instances)
Parents of CCONJ
nodes belong to 8 different parts of speech: VERB (42; 42% instances), NOUN (28; 28% instances), PRON (22; 22% instances), PROPN (3; 3% instances), NUM (2; 2% instances), ADJ (1; 1% instances), ADV (1; 1% instances), DET (1; 1% instances)
99 (99%) CCONJ
nodes are leaves.
1 (1%) CCONJ
nodes have one child.
The highest child degree of a CCONJ
node is 1.
Children of CCONJ
nodes are attached using 1 different relations: goeswith (1; 100% instances)
Children of CCONJ
nodes belong to 1 different parts of speech: X (1; 100% instances)


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