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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - FEBRUARY 2020 ANNOUNCEMENTS =====================================================================

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1. UNIGROUP'S FEBRUARY 2020 GENERAL MEETING
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Topic: MicroServices and Kubernetes Design Patterns,
Best Practices for Container Design and Orchestration
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Speaker: Robert Sedor,
Senior Cloud Platform Solutions Architect,
Red Hat <http://www.redhat.com>

When: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)

Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: To-be-announced (** New Building **)

Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.


INTRODUCTION:
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Unigroup's February 2020 meeting will be on Design Patterns,
a technique for utilizing known-to-work reusable designs, a
concept applicable to both software development and systems
administration. Our meeting will explore three industry hot
topics: Design Patterns (concept), and Design Patterns for
MicroServices and Kubernetes (implementations), and makes
for a great followup to last month's meeting on Kubernetes.

Unigroup has a couple handfuls of speakers lined up for our
upcoming meetings, and we are working on locking down
topics/speakers to meeting dates (see the updated Upcoming
Meetings section below).

Unigroup's Meeting Calendar:
20-FEB-2020: Design Patterns (RedHat).
19-MAR-2020: Tentatively: C++20 Language and Standards Update (1of2).
21-MAY-2020: Tentatively: C++20 Language and Standards Update (2of2).
17-JUN-2020: Tentatively: IBM AIX Operating System and Power CPU Update (IBM).

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public!

To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html

This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please avoid Emailed RSVPs.

Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your Email for any last
minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from
our mailing list.

Also, if you have an interest in Unigroup, be sure to receive
Unigroup information DIRECTLY from Unigroup, via direct receipt
of our Emails and by visiting the Unigroup Web Site. NO OTHER
SOURCE provides timely, accurate and complete Unigroup information.

Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.

Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list" (note: things tend to work out OK).

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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: MicroServices and Kubernetes Design Patterns,
Best Practices for Container Design and Orchestration

Related Topics/Keywords
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Design Patterns, MicroServices, Kubernetes, Cloud-native,
Containers, DevOps, Linux.

Introduction & Description of Talk
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Kubernetes provides a number of distributed primitives which
developers, architects, tech leads and DevOps engineers can
leverage for realizing more resilient and consistent design
practices. This presentation offers an introduction to a set
of patterns to solve cloud native challenges using Kubernetes.

Presentation Outline
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Attendees will learn:

- Why use Kubernetes design patterns.
- How are Kubernetes design patterns categorized.
- Examples of Kubernetes design patterns from each category
of patterns.
- Examples of Microservices patterns such as
CDC (Change Data Capture) and CQRS.
- How a service mesh can make realizing Kubernetes patterns
even easier.

References & Web Resources:
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Wikipedia on Software Design Pattern:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern

IBM Cloud Architecture: Design Pattern:
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS):
https://ibm-cloud-architecture.github.io/refarch-eda/design-patterns/cqrs

Microsoft Azure: Architecture Design Pattern CQRS:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/cqrs

Debezium.io Blog: Distributed Data for Microservices:
Event Sourcing vs. Change Data Capture (CDC):
https://debezium.io/blog/2020/02/10/event-sourcing-vs-cdc/

Wikipedia on MicroServices:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices

Wikipedia on Kubernetes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes

Kubernetes: Production-Grade Container Orchestration:
http://kubernetes.io

What is Kubernetes?
http://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF):
https://www.cncf.io

Red Hat:
http://www.redhat.com

Red Hat Enterprise Linux - RHEL:
http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux

Red Hat RHEL Release History Timeline:
http://access.redhat.com/articles/3078

CentOS Linux Project:
http://www.centos.org

Fedora Linux Project:
http://www.getfedora.org

Unigroup Meeting 2020-01: Understanding Kubernetes and
Kubernetes Clusters:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-202001.html

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Speaker Biography
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Robert Sedor, Senior Cloud Platform Solutions Architect, Red Hat.

Robert Sedor is a Red Hat Cloud Platform Architect. He was the
lead architect and developer on the eBay Shipping API from
Pitney Bowes and has developed event driven solutions such as
tracking RFID tags in casino chips and acoustic gunshot detection.
He works with C++ and Golang doing systems programming and with
Golang, Python and Java/Camel doing cloud native development.

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Company Biography
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For company information about Red Hat, please visit:
http://www.redhat.com/en/about/company

For further information, visit the Red Hat Web Site:
http://www.redhat.com

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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.

Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to
restock.

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Fee Schedule:
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Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00

* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
MasterCard, VISA, Discover (since 2013).

! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,

NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.

Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!

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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.

We expect to have Pizza, soft drinks, and cookies/brownies
at this meeting.

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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)

Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.

Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).

Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East,
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.

Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.

There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street), across from the West side of
Cooper Square, as well as various others in the area.

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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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** Unigroup issues a "Thank You" to all our speakers and sponsors!

Our ongoing thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
and its staff, for hosting our meetings.

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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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a) DCD - DataCenterDynamics NY 2020
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Dates: Tue, Mar 31, 2020
Wed, Apr 01, 2020

Where: New York Marriott Marquis Times Square
Midtown, NYC

For information and registration visit:
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/conferences/new-york/2020/

(Note: Event has criteria for a complimentary pass.)

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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- 2020??: Linux on ARM
- 2020??: The Latest C++ Standards, C++20, Parts 1+2.
- 2020??: IBM AIX Tuning and AIX Update
- 2020??: Programming for Performance with GPUs.
- 2020??: Multi-Path Redundant Networking/Routing/Switching
- 2020??: AI+ML using Open Source Tools
- 2020??: Using Object Databases
- Planning: New CPU Architectures, x86 and ARM.
- Planning: The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
- Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
- Planning: Building a Data Server with ZFS
- Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Fibrechannel and iSCSI Storage
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Planning: The latest on AIX
- Planning: Security Threats & Anti-Virus
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
- Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- GNU Development Environments
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
- Web Development Frameworks

** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.

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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event
meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to the
Unix/Linux/BSD Operating Systems and User Communities. Unigroup
meetings tend to be focused towards System Administrators, Network
Administrators, and Software Developers.

Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.

Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
02/20/2020, 03/19/2020, 05/21/2020, 06/18/2020, 07/16/2020, ...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

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= For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
= visit our World Wide Web Home Page: =
= http://www.unigroup.org =
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For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
List send an EMail message to:
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org

To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard (-a_t-) unigroup.org

If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.

Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!

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-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org

--
Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@panix(dot)com
The original Dr. JCL and Mr .hide

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