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Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . The Exile of Time - Chapter XVIII: Tugh, the Clever Man CHAPTER XVIII. Tugh, the Clever Man "Sit quiet, George Rankin. And you, Mistress Mary; you will both be quite safe with Migul if you are docile." Tugh stood before us. We were in a dim recess of a great cavern with the throb of whirring machinery around us. It was the same day which I have just described; Larry was at this moment asleep in the palace room. Tugh and Tina had come searching for Migul; and Tugh had contrived to send Tina back. Then he had come directly to us, finding us readily since we were hidden where he had told Migul to hide us. This cavern was directly beneath the Robot laboratory in which the Time-traveling cage was placed. A small spiral stairway led downward some two levels, opening into a great, luridly lighted room. Huge inert machines stood about. Great wheels were flashing as they revolved, turning the dynamos to generate the several types of current used by the city's underground industrial activities. It was a tremendous subterranean room. I saw only one small section of it; down the blue-lit aisles the rows of machines may have stretched for half a mile or more. The low hum of them was an incessant pound against my senses. The great inert mechanisms had tiny lights upon them which gleamed like eyes. The illumined gauge-faces—each of them I passed seemed staring at me. The brass jackets were polished until they shone with the sheen of the overhead tube lights; the giant wheels flashed smoothly upon oiled bearings. They were in every fashion of shape and size, these inert machines. Some towered toward the metal-beamed ceiling, with great swaying pendulums that ticked like a giant clock. Some clanked with eccentric cams—a jarring rhythm as though the heart of the thing were limping with its beat. Others had a ragged, frightened pulse; others stood placid, outwardly motionless under smooth, polished cases, but humming inside with a myriad blended sounds. Inert machines. Yet some were capable of locomotion. There was a small truck on wheels which were set in universal joints. Of its own power—radio controlled perhaps, so that it seemed acting of its own volition—it rolled up and down one of the aisles, stopping at set intervals and allowing a metal arm lever in it to blow out a tiny jet of oil. One of the attending Robots encountered it in an aisle, and the cart swung automatically aside. The Robot spoke to the cart; ordered it away; and the tone of his order, registering upon some sensitive mechanism, whirled the cart around and sent it rolling to another aisle section. The strange perfection of machinery! I realized there was no line sharply to be drawn between the inert machine and the sentient, thinking Robots. That cart, for instance, was almost a connecting link. There were also Robots here of many different types. Some of them were eight or ten feet in stature, in the fashion of a man: Migul was of this design. Others were small, with bulging foreheads and bulging chest plates: Larry saw this type as domestics in the palace. Still others were little pot-bellied things with bent legs and long thin arms set crescent-shape. I saw one of these peer into a huge chassis of a machine, and reach in with his curved arm to make an interior adjustment.... Migul had brought Mary Atwood and me in the larger cage, from that burned forest of the year 762, where with the disintegrating ray-gun Tugh had killed Harl. The body of Harl in a moment had melted into putrescence, and dried, leaving only the skeleton within the clothes. The white-ray, Tugh had called his weapon. We were destined very shortly to have many dealings with it. Tugh had given Migul its orders. Then Tugh took Harl's smaller cage and flashed away to meet Tina and Larry in 1777, as I have already described. And Migul brought us here to 2930. As we descended the spiral staircase and came into the cavern, it stood with us for a moment. "That's wonderful," the Robot said proudly. "I am part of it. We are machinery almost human." Then it led us down a side aisle of the cavern and into a dim recess. A great transparent tube bubbling with a violet fluorescence stood in the alcove space. Behind it in the wall Migul slid a door, and we passed through, into a small metal room. It was bare, save for two couch-seats. With the door closed upon us, we waited through an interval. How long it was, I do not know; several hours, possibly. Migul told us that Tugh would come. The giant mechanism stood in the corner, and its red-lit eyes watched us alertly. It stood motionless, inert, tireless—so superior to a human in this job, for it could stand there indefinitely. We found food and drink here. We talked a little; whispered; and I hoped Migul, who was ten feet away, could not hear us. But there was nothing we could say or plan. Mary slept a little. I had not thought that I could sleep, but I did too; and was awakened by Tugh's entrance. I was lying on the couch; Mary had left hers and was sitting now beside me. Tugh slid the door closed after him and came toward us, and I sat up beside Mary. Migul was standing motionless in the corner, exactly where he had been hours before. "Well enough, Migul," Tugh greeted the Robot. "You obey well." "Master, yes. Always I obey you; no one else." I saw Tugh glance at the mechanism keenly. "Stand aside, Migul. Or no, I think you had better leave us. Just for a moment, wait outside." "Yes, Master." It left, and Tugh confronted us. "Sit where you are," he said. "I assume you are not injured. You have been fed? And slept, perhaps! I wish to treat you kindly." "Thanks," I said. "Will you not tell us what you are going to do with us?" He stood with folded arms. The light was dim, but such as it was it shone full upon him. His face was, as always, a mask of imperturbability. "Mistress Mary knows that I love her." He said it with a startlingly calm abruptness. Mary shuddered against me, but she did not speak. I thought possibly Tugh was not armed; I could leap upon him. Doubtless I was stronger than he. But outside the door Migul was armed with a white-ray. "I love her as I have always loved her.... But this is no time to talk of love. I have much on my mind; much to do." He seemed willing to talk now, but he was talking more for Mary than for me. As I watched him and listened, I was struck with a queerness in his manner and in his words. Was he irrational, this exile of Time who had impressed his sinister personality upon so many different eras? I suddenly thought so. Demented, or obsessed with some strange purpose? His acts as well as his words, were strange. He had devastated the New York of 1935 because its officials had mistreated him. He had done many strange, sinister, murderous things. He said, with his gaze upon Mary, "I am going to conquer this city here. There will follow the rule of the Robots—and I will be their sole master. Do you want me to tell you a secret? It is I who have actuated these mechanisms to revolt." His eyes held a cunning gleam. Surely this was a madman leering before me. "When the revolt is over," he went on, "I will be master of New York. And that mastery will spread. The Robots elsewhere will revolt to join my rule, and there will come a new era. I may be master of the world; who knows? The humans who have made the Robots slaves for them will become slaves themselves. Workers! It is the Robots' turn now. And I—Tugh—will be the only human in power!" These were the words of a madman! I could imagine that he might stir these mechanical beings to a temporarily successful revolt: he might control New York City; but the great human nations of the world could not be overcome so easily. And then I remembered the white-ray. A giant projector of that ray would melt human armies as though they were wax; yet the metal Robots could stand its blast unharmed. Perhaps he was no madman.... He was saying, "I will be the only human ruler. Tugh will be the greatest man on Earth! And I do it for you, Mistress Mary—because I love you. Do not shudder." He put out his hand to touch her, and when she shrank away I saw the muscles of his face twitch in a fashion very odd. It was a queer, wholly repulsive grimace. "So? You do not like my looks? I tried to correct that, Mary. I have searched through many eras, for surgeons with skill to make me like other men. Like this young man here, for instance—you. George Rankin, I am glad to have you; do not fear I will harm you. Shall I tell you why?" "Yes," I stammered. In truth I was swept now with a shuddering revulsion for this leering cripple. "Because," he said, "Mary Atwood loves you. When I have conquered New York with my Robots, I shall search further into Time and find an era where scientific skill will give me—shall I say, your body? That is what I mean. My soul, my identity, in your body—there is nothing too strange about that. In some era, no doubt, it has been accomplished. When that has been done, Mary Atwood, you will love me. You, George Rankin, can have this poor miserable body of mine, and welcome." For all my repugnance to him, I could not miss his earnest sincerity. There was a pathos to it, perhaps, but I was in no mood to feel that. He seemed to read my thoughts. He added, "You think I am irrational. I am not at all. I scheme very carefully. I killed Harl for a reason you need not know. But the Princess Tina I did not kill. Not yet. Because here in New York now there is a very vital fortified place. It is operated by humans; not many; only three or four, I think. But my Robots cannot attack it successfully, and the City Council does not trust me enough to let me go there by the surface route. There is a route underground, which even I do not know; but Princess Tina knows it, and presently I will cajole her—trick her if you like—into leading me there. And, armed with the white-ray, once I get into the place—You see that I am clever, don't you?" I could fancy that he considered he was impressing Mary with all this talk. "Very clever," I said. "And what are you going to do with us in the meantime? Let us go with you." "Not at all," he smiled. "You will stay here, safe with Migul. The Princess Tina and your friend Larry are much concerned over you." Larry! It was the first I knew of Larry's whereabouts. Larry here? Tugh saw the surprise upon my face; and Mary had clutched me with a startled exclamation. "Yes," said Tugh. "This Larry says he is your friend; he came with Tina from 1935. I brought him with Tina from when they were marooned in 1777. I have not killed this man yet. He is harmless; and as I told you I do not want Tina suspicious of me until she has led me to the Power House.... You see, Mistress Mary, how cleverly I plan?" What strange, childlike, naive simplicity! He added calmly, unemotionally, "I want to make you love me, Mary Atwood. Then we will be Tugh, the great man, and Mary Atwood, the beautiful woman. Perhaps we may rule this world together, some time soon." The door slid open. Migul appeared. "Master, the Robot leaders wish to consult with you." "Now, Migul?" "Master, yes." "They are ready for the demonstration at the palace?" "Yes, Master." "And ready—for everything else?" "They are ready." "Very well, I will come. You, Migul, stay here and guard these captives. Treat them kindly so long as they are docile; but be watchful." "I am always watchful, Master." "It will not take long. This night which is coming should see me in control of the city." "Time is nothing to me," said the Robot. "I will stand here until you return." "That is right." Without another word or look at Mary and me, Tugh swung around, gathered his cloak and went through the doorway. The door slid closed upon him. We were again alone with the mechanism, which backed into the corner and stood with long dangling arms and expressionless metal face. This inert thing of metal, we had come to regard as almost human! It stood motionless, with the chilling red gleam from its eye sockets upon us. Mary had not once spoken since Tugh entered the room. She was huddled beside me, a strange, beautiful figure in her long white silk dress. In the glow of light within this bare metal apartment I could see how pale and drawn was her beautiful face. But her eyes were gleaming. She drew me closer to her; whispered into my ear: "George, I think perhaps I can control this mechanism, Migul." "How, Mary?" "I—well, just let me talk to him. George, we've got to get out of here and warn Larry and that Princess Tina against Tugh. And join them. It's our only chance; we've got to get out of here now!" "But Mary—" "Let me try. I won't startle or anger Migul. Let me." I nodded. "But be careful." "Yes." She sat away from me. "Migul!" she said. "Migul, look here." The Robot moved its huge square head and raised an arm with a vague gesture. "What do you want?" It advanced, and stood before us, its dangling arms clanking against its metal sides. In one of its hands the ray-cylinder was clutched, the wire from which ran loosely up the arm, over the huge shoulder and into an aperture of the chest plate where the battery was located. "Closer, Migul." "I am close enough." The cylinder was pointed directly at us. "What do you want?" the Robot repeated. Mary smiled. "Just to talk to you," she said gently. "To tell you how foolish you are—a big strong thing like you!—to let Tugh control you." About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Various. 2010. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June 1931. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved May 2022 from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31893/31893-h/31893-h.htm#Page_386 . This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html

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It's a crowded space so for brevity we'll just list the one that has been referred to us. Linear Linear defines itself as "The issue tracking tool you'll enjoy using". Linear doesn't have an application listed in the Slack marketplace but you can integrate Slack from your Linear WorkSpace: . Linear Linear has a traditional /linear command that allows you to create new issues. Link posted on Slack from linear will be displayed in an organized fashion for people to identify them easily. What we like: Linear has a way to create a specific channel for a project, sending updates from that project to a channel and making a contextual update on a specific linear project. Learn more about the Slack Linear integration on . Linear Trello "Trello helps team move work forward". Trello is the simple Kanban project management tool, they are pioneers in TODO DOING DONE. The app integration allows you to add new Trello cards with the /trello command, edit cards, attach conversations and get previews. What we like 👍: Trello is very popular and has other dedicated Slack app made by the community. So if you are a Trello user there are a lot of chances you will find what you are looking for. Trello on Slack App Marketplace Asana "Move work forward" Asana is also a popular project management app based in San Francisco. Their integration does pretty much what the others do with the ability to be personally notified when they are changes about a ticket you own. More about the integration: and about Asana: Asana on Slack App Marketplace Asana.com Jira Jira started as a bug tracking system and has evolved into an all you can do project management App. Find out more on: Jira on Slack App Marketplace Pivotal Tracker Pivotal is an agile project management tool made for developers. It’s old-school but does the job. Find out more on Pivotal Tracker Workast Workast describes itself as "The missing piece of Slack". They seem to be the best-integrated project management app to Slack we've seen so far. They were built around Slack and is fully featured to be workable on Slack. What we like 👍: Fully integrated into Slack and easy to use for everyone in your team. For example, you can sign in with your Slack account, you won't need to sign up with your email. Learn more about Workast: Workast.com Notion Notion started off as a wiki all-in-one workspace for notes and also does collaboration, tables, project management and much more. They have a clean UI/UX and has been around for a few years. The Notion integration allows you to subscribe to changes for a particular page. This is good if you want to monitor changes in your Notion workspace. What could be better 😬: This integration only updates you on changes. Would be interesting to have workflow automation and more actions you could do directly in Slack. More about Notion: notion.so Slack Apps for Managing Teams and Culture Disco Enable value-driven work and foster team appreciation directly from Slack. Disco makes it easy to encourage actions within the organization by enabling kudos, appreciation dashboards, and raffles. What we like 👍: Value-driven company with a well-integrated with actions you can do directly into Slack. More information on justdisco heyTaco "Build Stronger, happier remote teams". HeyTaco is here to help build camaraderie within the organization. What we like 👍: Who doesn't like tacos here? More on HeyTaco: heytaco Karma Karma makes it super easy to give appreciation to one another, @tag ++ someone to give him Karma and show appreciation. More on their website: karmabot Greetbot Greetbot is made for big teams who onboard new employees on a rolling basis. It will allow you to remind you and people in your team to greet and meet new people in your team. What we like 👍: Schedule follow-ups, encourage connections, and view the latest activity. The app is well thought and does the job! Greetbot on Slack marketplace Onboarding ⚡ by Roots Onboarding by Roots does a similar job to Greebot and also allows you to set up a workflow. You can automate asking tasks to specific people like creating a Gmail GSuite email to @support and more. Roots on Slack marketplace AnonymityBot Anonimity bot Ask polls, make anonymous announcements, or ask anonymous questions to your team. I feel this could be useful in some company cultures where some employees might be afraid to speak on their name. Anonymity feedback on Slack marketplace Lunch Train Do you work in a city and have you ever tried to organize lunch with more than 2 colleagues in your company? Lunchtrain is the answer, making it easy to organize your lunches by getting everyone on board. What we like 👍: Great copy, fun, and simple Slack app that works well for its purpose. Lunch Train on Slack marketplace Whatis Does your company use a lot of acronyms? Whatis is the answer. It will identify when you use one and show the members of the channel what this acronym does. It also makes it easy for you to create a dictionary of all the acronyms in your company. Whatis on Slack marketplace Code Related Integrations PR Patrol PR patrol allows you to monitor some part of your codebase you care about. You can set it up to be alerted whenever a specific file gets changed. What we like 👍: Easy to set up! Patrol on Slack marketplace Circle CI Circle CI Slack integration will post to a channel of your choice whenever a build finishes. Circleci on Slack marketplace AppFollow With , you can track critical app updates around rating, keywords and reviews from your favorite stores. Passively receive alerts, reply to user reviews or monitor all your app data without leaving Slack. AppFollow 1Password 1 Password Slack integration allows you to share private notes within Slack. Can be useful for developers to share private keys or things you don't want to be out there in the wild. 1password on Slack marketplace StatusPage Be alerted when there are changes to your Status page. notifications on Slack marketplace CodeMagic Easily follow your mobile app development with Code Magic. Configure a channel to get notified of relevant events. More on Codemagic Standup Slack App Bot Standup meetings are notorious in tech teams, they allow you to stay in sync with your team in a (usually) short and efficient way. A standup meeting is usually a time where you share what you've done the day before and what are your plans for the day. It's simple and allows you to share if you need help, and vice versa, see if there is a colleague to who you can give help. Standup.ly Automate standup meetings, retrospectives, other agile processes and get an internal Q&A system to level up the productivity of your team. What we like 👍: Standup.ly is more than just a simple standup bot it also allows to have other agile processes with 360 feedback, retrospective meeting, and more. Find out more on: Standuply DailyBot Daily bot is pretty similar to Standup.ly and seems to have analytics in your team motivation and blockers. Find out more on Dailybot Calendar Slack apps Google Calendar Connect your calendar and update your status automatically when you are in a meeting. Pretty useful to know if someone in your team is busy in a meeting and won't be able to answer you're urgent question straight away. You can also set it up to get notified of your events coming up during the day. Find out more on Google Slack Marketplace Fellow Fellow encourages people in the meeting to come prepared and to follow a course of action during the meeting. The fellow also makes it easy to manage your agenda directly in Slack. Find out more on: Fellow Random Slack appsGiphy Giphy might be the most used / underrated / overrated app in the Slack marketplace. With a simple command /giphy (text) one can send a giph in seconds. Giphy on Slack Marketplace Gif Keyboard Giphy has a competitor and Gif Key is there to help you add a caption and search Giphy in a more productive way ;). Gif Keyboard on Slack Marketplace BirthdayBot Show that you care and make sure not to forget anyone’s birthday in your company! Birthdaybot What could be improved 😅 Free trial is only for 14 days and no free version of the product. Miro Miro is a whiteboard collaboration app. Great to brainstorm or even to share ideas with post it or drawings or anything you could do on a white board. Their slack integrations allows you to Install review comments, find recently updated boards, and approve access requests. Find out more on: Miro Slack App Marketplace Automation Slack Apps Here is a list of Slack apps that can automate some of your workflows. They can be useful in numerous ways in order to automate repetitive tasks. Zapier Zapier is the most famous automation tool out there. Easy to use, with workflow, they seem to be well connected to the Slack API. The first pricing goes for 20$/month. Zapier Slack App Marketplace Automate.io Automate.io does a similar job to Zapier. You might want to use Automate since they have a cheaper alternative and might have some specific integrations. The first pricing goes for 10$/month. Integromat and HotGlue Two other automation apps. I honestly couldn’t tell you which one to go for, they all seem to be working well. It will probably depend on if you are already one of those tools. Pricing is about equivalent, and they sometimes have different integrations and different levels of integrations. Integromat Hotglue Incident Apps I’ve seen numerous incident apps coming up in the past few/months/years. They are usually targeted at bigger companies that have SRE (Site reliability engineers) in the company. They are quite useful to put a methodology in place for any tech and non-tech urgency that one company can have. They usually have a similar process: you have a command you can do from slack /incident create and you need to fill out a form. In the form you put someone in charge, mention the severity and information you can provide to show the problem. It then spins off a channel and you can discuss how to best resolve it with the right team and people who are automatically invited to that channel. Incident.io Incident.io is a well-funded company by ex-Monzo (banking) employees. They have a 250+ people community in Slack and seem to have happy customers. I’ve seen screenshots of incident recaps and it looks nice! Incident.io Allma.io Also another funded company. Check out their website. They have a great way of showing how their process works in Slack so you can see if it’s something you should be interested in. Allma.io Bug Tracker Bug tracker apps will let you know whenever there is something going wrong with your apps. There are many different services but here are the most common ones. BugSnag BugSnag has been mentioned by a lot of tech teams. It’s a world-famous service. The integration allows you to snooze, or say that you’ve resolved the bug from Slack. Find out more on BugSnag in Slack Marketplace Sentry Sentry is a similar service. What we particularly like about the Sentry slack integration is that you can assign a bug to someone directly from the Slack integration. . Sentry on Slack app marketplace Raygun “Resolve errors, crashes, and application performance problems faster with Raygun and Slack”. What we like about Raygun: The error display is wide and seems like you have enough information to handle most of your errors. . Raygun on Slack app marketplace Log tracker: Papertrail Papertrail integration enables you to receive important system and application messages right when they happen. Papertrail app offers an intuitive Web-based log viewer, alerts, charts and analytics exports, long-term archives, and other time-saving log tools. Papertrail was developed by Slack. . Papertrail on Slack app marketplace Polls Slack Apps It's easy to ask a poll as a question and get an emoji response but if you want to go further there are other apps out there that can help you be more precise. Simple Poll “What is your preferred JS framework?” “Where should we have lunch?” Create polls in seconds with Simple Poll. Easily collect your team’s preferences and know how your team is feeling with this integration. Simple on Slack app marketplace Typeform With Slack app, receive all your respondents' answers in Slack as soon as they’re sent! Collect them in specific channels and start collaborating with your colleagues without leaving your app. Screenshot Typeform on Slack app marketplace Data Visualizer: New Relic With New Relic Proactive Detection, anomalies from your APM-monitored applications will surface in their activity streams and anomalies feed. You will be able to create an automatic analysis of these anomalies and receive notifications from Slack directly. . New relic on Slack app marketplace CRM + Customers Hubspot With the Hubspot Slack integration, you are able to query any source of information from your CRM, create tasks/tickets and change specific information regarding your customers. A chat feature is available to answer to your users right from Slack as well. . Hubspot on Slack app marketplace People Management Platform Café . COVID forced everyone to work from home and it made collaboration hard. Café knows teams need to meet but it’s a real struggle. Their real-time flex agenda is designed for teams that mix Office and Remote work. Café on Slack app marketplace Donut With Donuts, discover new rituals for your team that foster camaraderie, collaboration, and community. You can organize random coffees, schedule meetings to have a water cooler chats with your colleagues, and create bonds between coworkers, no matter whether they’re in-office or working remotely. . Donut on Slack app marketplace Cloud Hosting Heroku ChatOps Heroku ChatOps enables you to deploy code, and get CI tests directly within Slack. Stay on top of your Heroku app’s status without jumping from one site to another. Command output is organized into threads for easier readability, with app details like who performed the operation, the Github repo, hash, and task duration. If you need to further investigate, the app will link you to your dashboard, where additional details and configurations will be available. . Screenshot Heroku on Slack app marketplace AWS Chatbot AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent that simplifies monitoring and interacting with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat spaces. AWS Chatbot allows you to receive alerts, execute commands to return diagnostic information, call AWS Lambda functions, and create AWS support cases. . AWS on Slack app marketplace Awsome enables simple, easy and quick management of Amazon Web Services EC2 instances directly from Slack. You can start using Awsome features with the `/awsome` Slack command. Awsome simplifies the process of: - starting AWS EC2 instances - stopping AWS EC2 instances - checking AWS EC2 instances status. Awsome Also check out: Top 5 GitHub pull request Slack Integration and the Top 4 GitHub Action Slack integrations.

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This article covers the DevOps process, the role of DevOps engineers, and the skills required to become an AWS Certified DevOps engineer. What is DevOps? In the development lifecycle developers, sysadmins, and programmers usually work in different silos. DevOps is a philosophy that seeks to bridge the gap between each of these roles. It describes a set of operations in which the product development lifecycle works together to make the procedure faster, automated, and stable. This leads to a shortened lead time between fixes and fewer software failures. Above all, allow businesses to scale up fast, reduce operation costs, and improve application reliability. In this article, you will learn what it takes to become a Certified AWS DevOps Engineer. DevOps best practices Who Is a DevOps Engineer? DevOps engineers are experienced IT professionals who work with developers, QA professionals, and IT operations. Additionally, they are heavily involved in the software development lifecycle, working with automation tools, CI/CD, application software, and cloud infrastructure. Lastly, they oversee code releases, facilitate IT changes, and make sure the IT environment runs smoothly. What Are The Job Responsibilities of a DevOps Engineer? The following are some expected roles, responsibilities, and skills that are expected from a DevOps Engineer: Deploy, automate, maintain, and manage the application production system. Ensure higher levels of availability, scalability, and performance of application code and infrastructure. Create strategies to ensure compliance of the process with DevOps principles. Perform system troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains. Ability to manage projects effectively through open, standards-based platforms Analyze, design, and evaluate automation scripts & systems Ensure critical resolution of system issues by using the best cloud security solutions services Provide support to cloud architects for the facility of operation and migration services to ensure availability and delivery of cloud computing services DevOps Engineer Salaries Studying to become an AWS DevOps engineer has a huge payout once you get certified. The for a DevOps Engineer in the US is $140,000. The additional cash compensation for a DevOps Engineer in the US is $15,291. The total compensation for a DevOps Engineer in the US is $140,766. This salary will depend on how many years of experience, so if you’re new to DevOps engineering don’t expect this to be your starting salary. average salary AWS DevOps Automation Tools If you’re interested in transforming your engineering career into DevOps, you should definitely have some experience with cloud services like AWS. The AWS cloud consists of two kinds of services: Compute services (EC2, S3, DNS, Route 53) and Infrastructure Services (VPC, Lambda, ELB). AWS offers a plethora of DevOps-related tools that engineers employ when building automation in the cloud. AWS DevOps automation tools automate manual tasks, help teams manage complex environments at scale, and keep engineers in control of the high velocity that is enabled by DevOps.  Every engineer should be familiar with all AWS DevOps tools. To get current on these tools and services read up on the following AWS DevOps Services: Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration Code Pipelines Codebuild Code Deploy Codestar Microservices Elastic Container Service Lambda Infrastructure as code Cloud Formation Ops Work Systems Manager Config Monitoring and logging Cloudwatch X-Ray Cloudtrail Platform as a service Elastic Beanstalk Version Control Code Commit Useful DevOps Automation Tools As you can see, there are many powerful sets of tools and building systems that improve time to market. However, there are other DevOps tools outside of AWS that great engineers use in conjunction with cloud services.  To accelerate into being a great devops engineer, one should be familiar with these tools too: DevOps automation Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration Jenkins Vagrant Ansible Puppet Containers Docker Kubernetes Monitoring and alerting: SignalFX Splunk Raygun Recommended AWS Knowledge It is recommended to have some experience with AWS cloud services before you take the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Exam. If you have this experience, passing the AWS DevOps exam will be much easier. Here are some base requirements that will assist in leveling up with the AWS Certification: 2 or more years of experience provisioning, operating and managing AWS environments Be able to code in at least one high-level programming language Build highly automated infrastructures Administer operating systems Understand modern development and operations processes and methodologies The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Exam The costs $300. It is possible to use a discount code provided by the different course providers in order to reduce this cost. Additionally, if you need a classroom environment to learn, you can sign up for paid AWS training course. However, if paid training cost is a concern, AWS offers free online courses for all levels. The Certification Track includes short videos on a wide range of topics to assist the student in AWS certification questions answers. The AWS Certified DevOps Professional exam is intended for individuals who perform a DevOps role with two or more years of experience provisioning, operating and managing AWS DevOps environments. AWS exam AWS DevOps Abilities Validated by the Certification Taking the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam demonstrates the following skills: Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS Implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS Devops platform Design, manage and maintain tools to automate operational processes Career as An AWS DevOps Engineer If you obtain an AWS certification for DevOps Professionals you will be a cut above the rest. Passing the exams is highly coveted by a lot of professional services organizations and tech companies. With a lot of enterprise companies moving to the cloud from on-premise data centers, there is a high demand for certified AWS engineers everywhere. DevOps consulting firms like are always looking for AWS DevOps Engineers to employ cost savings for their clients using cutting-edge AWS DevOps strategies. Gennovacap First Published here

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Ten years ago , , , and built tools we loved to use. They were easy to implement and solved problems quickly and efficiently. Each company was known primarily for a single, well-conceived product. NewRelic’s APM. Splunk’s log file analyzer.  DataDog’s server monitor. SolarWinds’ network performance monitor. These companies were beloved by users during the 2000s. NewRelic DataDog Splunk Dynatrace SolarWinds Fast forward to 2020 and the world is very different.  These “Big 5” companies control over . They now look very different.  Each now offers products across multiple categories.  Many of the products were acquired along the way and are a far cry from the quality that once made the Big 5 adored by users.  It’s not surprising. $5 Billion in DevOps spending DevOps monitoring As you get bigger and bigger, you tend to worry about the needs of your bigger and bigger customers. Eventually, salespeople start to drive decision making instead of engineers and product managers.  The sales tactics get aggressive.  The products trend toward the mediocre, you can feel locked into a single vendor and the prices go up, up up. Who can blame them? Collectively the Big 5 are valued at over $50 Billion! However, the path they have chosen means their key stakeholders are public shareholders and Fortune 500 IT departments. We are here to tell you there are alternatives for those of us who are not among the world’s top 500 companies. There is a new breed of vendors who care about users, who build beloved products, who charge a reasonable price and back it up with fanatical service. Below is a list of high-quality alternatives to the Big 5. These companies are SMBs and mid-market companies like yours. They are users like you and build products for you, not for the Fortune 500. Application Performance Monitoring and NewRelic Alternatives APM tools “allow users to monitor and track the performance of particular software or web applications to identify and solve any performance issues that may arise.”  ( )  Common customer concerns with New Relic include: G2 Overly expensive, per server pricing does not match containerized world Pushy sales and renewal experience Product bloat - only use a subset of the features continually analyzes your app's performance to identify the root cause of performance bottlenecks down to the Git commit. Developers see an auto-prioritized list of performance issues like N+1 database queries, memory bloat, and expensive SQL calls. There's far less digging around with Scout. Scout APM Scout supports the most popular languages and including Ruby, PHP, Node, Python and Elixir. Plans start at $129 per month and Scout is offering up to a 50% price reduction for customers who . APM frameworks switch from NewRelic "With ScoutAPM we got a product we like better, and it saves us 39% over New Relic, it was a win win" - Brett Herford-Fell, CTO of Print Speak Log Analysis and Splunk Alternatives Log Analysis software “helps to document application log files for records and analytics. This type of software provides tools to increase the collection of logs and to supply centralized databases to store the data. From there, log analysis tools provide analytics components to identify the cause and impact of events.” ( ) Common customer concerns with Splunk include: G2 Volume-based pricing quickly gets out of control Built for the C-suite not the end user Steep learning curve due to proprietary search language Security is higher priority than DevOps Built by engineers for engineers, offers a scalable log management solution built on ELK and Grafana.  Logz.io offers substantial savings vs Splunk and is . Logz.io free up to 1GB Infrastructure Monitoring and DataDog Alternatives Infrastructure Monitoring tools “offer a single pane of glass approach to keeping constant watch over a large spectrum of IT systems. These solutions allow businesses to monitor servers, applications, networks, databases, and more through a single dashboard, creating a more uniform, consolidated approach to systems monitoring.” ( ) Common customer concerns with DataDog include G2 Surprise increases in bill Platform lock-in increases with usage Great for shepherding flocks, but not specific issues Steep learning curve provides simple, easy-to-use infrastructure monitoring based on popular open-source tools like , and .  MetricFire’s and customers often save vs DataDog and . MetricFire also integrates with technologies such as Amazon CloudWatch, allowing users to reduce costs and amplify their monitoring. MetricFire Grafana Prometheus Graphite pricing is transparent Amazon CloudWatch Check out the MetricFire , where you can send your metrics from hundreds of data sources, and build Grafana dashboards within minutes. free trial "Metricfire is cost effective, doesn’t require maintenance, and means we discover business issues quickly, which saves engineering time and improves productivity." - Shahar Kobrinsky, Eyeview, VP of Architecture and Scale, Eyeview Incident Management and PagerDuty and SolarWinds Alternatives Incident Management is “an end-to-end solution that responds to, reports on, investigates digital incidents or errors and overall works towards incident resolution” ( ) Common customer concerns with PagerDuty and SolarWinds include G2 Price not aligned to value Web and mobile UIs fall short Noisy alerting helps customers solve technology problems before they become business problems.  In their own words,”when $hit happens, we minimize the blast radius.”  xMatters is and is currently offering on customer communications and crisis management. xMatters free for up to 10 users free workshops Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and Dynatrace Alternatives Digital Experience Management software “is used to discover, track, and optimize web-based resources and the end-user experience. These tools monitor traffic, user behavior, and a number of additional factors to help businesses understand their products’ performance and usability.” ( ) DEM products include and .  Common customer concerns with Dynatrace include: G2 RUM synthetic monitoring High price Deep learning curve and suboptimal support Difficult implementation, not cloud native from start (RUM) empowers teams to deliver flawless digital experiences, each and every time. Raygun doesn’t just give you insights into page load speeds, but also provides full journeys of each individual user's session. Where customers encounter errors or performance problems, Raygun highlights the areas of your application that need attention. Raygun Real User Monitoring Installation is simple and you can be up and running within minutes. Raygun RUM supports web, mobile and single page (SPA) applications. Monitoring starts at just $8 per 10,000 user sessions. You can get unlimited monitoring for 14 days with their . free trial We hope you will join in exploring these best-in-class alternatives to the Big 5! I look forward to your feedback and plan to update this list as more quality alternatives become available. Scout APM Jason Hable, CEO, Scout APM

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There are several top-notch CI/CD tools for your Android and iOS projects out there. And all these CI/CD tools will do the job one way or another. That is also true for the highly popular open-source CI tool Jenkins. You need deep pockets and time to support the luxury of high customization and feature-richness — all extremely valuable resources that could be put into better use. Yet, the maintenance side of free Jenkins can soon turn into an expensive nightmare! Therefore, it might be a good idea to try out different CI/CD tools and to keep an eye out for possible Jenkins alternatives that may boost your Android and iOS application development drastically. So, let’s dig in. We decided to take Jenkins alternatives for a spin. Find out what are these CI/CD tools and their top features, integrations, clients and pricing. On top of that, we tested all these Jenkins alternatives ourselves to find out which one of these reduces the hassle the most and we’ll give you the results in real numbers! Check out what we learned about continuous integration for mobile apps analyzing 75k CI/CD builds. Taking CI/CD tools for the spin: what and how Before we start, please note that the purpose of this article is not to recommend a particular service rather than provide mobile app developers an extensive overview of existing Jenkins alternatives on the market. Every project is unique in its own way and these are our results in current time frame with one specific project. So, what did we do? First, we took a basic app and decided to test it on the Jenkins alternatives out there. The lucky chosen app was , “a free and open-source blueprint to kickstart your mobile product development for Android and iOS, powered by React Native” and empowered by . Pepperoni Futurice Second, we took this with the addition of Circle CI and Travis CI and tested them with the Pepperoni app to to find out how they will handle the challenge. list of top CI tools for mobile Now, let us introduce you the CI/CD tools for mobile that we took for a test drive. Top CI/CD tools for mobile to consider Nevercode.io Nevercode is a cloud-based continuous integration tool for your projects. Setting up a new project is dead simple and all projects are configured automatically. Nevercode builds your projects for every commit and runs all your unit & UI tests. Automatic build distribution keeps your team and clients up to date with the latest state of your apps. Android, iOS, React Native, Cordova, Flutter, Ionic & Flutter ** Nevercode lauched a dedicated CI/CD tool for Flutter projects called on Flutter Live. Codemagic Top features: Automatic configuration and setup Integrates with Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab and any other source repository Concurrent builds Custom unit and UI tests using emulators or actual hardware Test automation with Firebase / Amazon Device Farm and test parallelisation Automatic publishing to Google Play, iTunes Connect, HockeyApp, Crashlytics, TestFairy Scheduled builds Data encryption for all sensitive data First-class customer support Easy-to-understand documentation GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, , Slack, email, HipChat, AWS, Firebase Test Lab, TestFlight, Crashlytics, Cocoapods, TestFairy, Relution, Jasmine, HockeyApp, iTunes Connect, Gradle Build Tool, Espresso, Robotium, Robolectric, Arma, Protractor etc. Integrations: fastlane Channel 4, Toyota, BMW Group, Walmart, Mooncascade, Sainsbury’s, ingogo, Thunderhead and more. Clients: Nevercode was created with mobile in mind and it really shows in every aspect of the product. Building a basic RN app for Android and iOS on Nevercode from scratch takes about 7 minutes, which is a solid result for a mobile CI/CD (for this test project, we configured build settings automatically). Unlike many other CI/CD tools in the list, Nevercode is highly customizable to clients’ needs, which makes them a flexible CI/CD partner. Our experience with Nevercode CI/CD tool: However, customizability comes with a price, making Nevercode more suitable for fast-growing and big companies that value fast results. From $99 per month / paid annually Pricing: Try Nevercode for free Travis CI is another highly popular hosted, distributed continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub. While not focusing strictly on mobile needs, it’s extremely popular among open-source projects as it does not charge them any fees. The Travis CI hosted server enables projects to be tested in different environments, on different machines running different OSs, by different developers. Travis CI Top features: Free for all open-source projects Easy to set up and configure Live build setup Pull request support Pre-installed database service Auto deployments of passing builds Extended API and CMD tools for custom management Extensive community for discussing and providing tutorials for private repositories and personal support TravisPro Extensive documentation GitHub, Heroku, AWS CodeDeploy, Slack, , TestFairy, Testmunk, Sauce Labs etc. Integrations: fastlane Zendesk, Heroku, BitTorrent, Moz, Engine Yard Clients: Free for open-source plans and first 100 builds, paid plans for everything else Pricing: Travis CI is an excellent CI/CD tool, but maybe not the best one for your mobile app projects. There are several key aspects missing for seamless mobile app development. First of all, Travis CI does not support BitBucket or GitLab projects. Second, it’s lacking build settings automation, automatic distribution and automatic code signing, which can create a lot of headache that could be prevented with a CI tool dedicated for mobile apps. For example, to configure build settings automatically, Travis needs YAML config in 60 lines. It also seems that Travis doesn’t store build artefacts and there’s limited information available on how to publish apps to iTunes Connect / Google Play / HockeyApp / Crashlytics / Relution. Last but not least, there seems to be no way to use Xcode beta versions. Our experience with Travis CI/CD tool: Try Travis CI for free Circle CI is the next cloud-based CI/CD tool in our list. It enables you to automate your build, test and delivery process. The mission of Circle CI is to give people everywhere the power to build and deliver software at the speed of imagination. To make that happen, Circle CI provides quick setup, integration with a range of tools, support for all test frameworks and the ability to easily configure the entire setup. Ultimately, it allows users to ship healthy code faster, safely and at scale. Circle CI Top features: Sleek and intuitive UI Up to 16-way parallelization Ability to test many code pushes concurrently Supports Docker Comprehensive cache dependencies All distribution also via fastlane I Bitbucket, GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Sauce Labs, Coveralls, Heroku, Docker, Firebase, Compose, Slack, Jira, HipChat etc. ntegrations: Facebook, Segment, Kickstarter, Spotify, GoPro Clients: Pricing is per container. The first container is free. Every additional container is $50/month. Pricing: Like Travis CI, CircleCI is not tailored for mobile needs and this will result in some difficulties when you want to build quality apps fast. First, it’s quite hard to understand how to set up and configure everything, but after some struggle we found out that CircleCI does provide automatic setup to some extent. While CircleCI provides tons of integrations, making users’ work environment truly flexible, setting up a workflow is a time-consuming project. For this React Native project, we didn’t manage to finish the setup. On the bright side, CircleCI detects and runs to build an app automatically, which is extremely nice! Our experience with CircleCI CI/CD tool: fastlane Bitrise is another gem in the Jenkins alternatives list. A continuous integration and delivery tailored for mobile needs with 180+ of integrations for your favourite services. A great productivity tool for your iOS, Android, Xamarin, Ionic, Cordova and React Native mobile app development. Bitrise Top features: Flexible configuration and intuitive setup Helpful setup wizard Intuitive UI and easy to use Customizable workflows Hosted environment Automatic code signing Smart caching done fast Security with no compromise Firebase Test Lab integration Fast and reliable emulators iOS, Android, React Native, Android SDK, Apache Cordova, Xamarin, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Xamarin Test Cloud, Slack, Amazon S3, Ruby, JIRA, gulp, Gradle, Crashlytics, TestFlight, Codecov, , Flowdock, Raygun, TestFairy, AWS Device Farm, HipChat, Twilio, HockeyApp, Parse, Mailgun, Coveralls, Bower etc. Integrations: fastlane Virgin Mobile, TNT, Zeplin, Duolingo, Starva, Wunder and more Users: Free. Paid plans start at $36/month per concurrency Pricing: Bitrise is definitely an Android & iOS friendly CI/CD tool. The extensive list of integrations is Bitrise’s true superpower. All workflow steps are open-source so that you can modify and share them as you like, or create new ones and it integrates with the services you love to use, making it customizable for every case. Our experience with Bitrise CI/CD tool: Visual Studio App Center Microsoft’s is a recently released upgrade of that groups together multiple services commonly used by mobile developers into a single integrated product. You can build, test, distribute and monitor your mobile apps. It allows you to create an installable app package automatically with every push to your repository. Visual Studio App Center supports GitHub or Git repos on Bitbucket and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) with no additional build hardware required. Visual Studio App Center HockeyApp Top features: Cool UI and UX Flawless virtual machines SDK for diagnostic & analytics Automated UI tests on more than 400 unique device configurations Open-sourced SDKs and APIs GitHub, Bitbucket, Visual Studio Team Services, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, Apple’s App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Intune, Cocoapods Integrations: Quora, Fox Sports, Highrise, Good Food, FreshDirect, Ring Clients: Starting from +$40/month per build concurrency Pricing: Our experience with Visual Studio App Center CI/CD tool: On a first glance, the configuration process is easy and automatic, but this might turn into a disadvantage for more complex apps as some critical options are missing. For example, it’s not possible to change the target configuration for iOS build. Furthermore, for each project and workflow, one has to set up different projects from zero. It’s also missing Xcode beta versions. All this gives an impression that Visual Studio App Center is not the best solution for big projects…yet. Wrap-up If you’re looking for Jenkins alternatives, then you have already made the first step towards hassle-free mobile app development. Sometimes free just comes with an insanely high cost. Our aim with this article was to dig into top CI/CD tools and give an extensive overview of Jenkins alternatives on the market. Take a look at the graph below for a summary of our results. As mentioned above, every project is different and has unique needs. Arm your developers with the best tools so they can build five-star projects faster! Let us know about your experiences with Jenkins alternatives — leave your comments below! Disclaimer: Best Jenkins alternatives were taken for a spin by mobile app experts from Nevercode.io .

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The phrase “Move fast and break things” was famously coined by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But why do people keep saying it? I’ve seen this quote regurgitated by software engineers with increasing frequency of late. And it’s almost become an excuse for lazy developers to somehow justify it’s absolutely fine to have bugs in their code. Now to be clear, , that’s a fact. ALL software has bugs It’s part and parcel of building applications. More so when you have several, hundreds or even thousands of people contributing to a codebase. The problem is, . this ‘motto’ died years ago At the company’s F8 conference in 2014, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced a new motto: “Move fast with stable infrastructure.” It “may not be quite as catchy as ‘move fast and break things,’” Zuckerberg said. “But it’s how we operate now.” “As developers, moving quickly was so important, we would even tolerate a few bugs to do it.” Now that Facebook has over 2 Billion users and a whole heap of advertising revenue to protect, breaking a few small things could have massive implications. Today’s software engineering landscape is very different to the one we all knew several years ago when this phrase was first created. The software engineering landscape has changed Should a severe bug affect end users negatively, every company employee from the receptionist to the CEO, is not going to be pleased about it. The company brand is being tainted by problems you coded and then released into user’s hands. Yet some developers believe it’s all justifiable, because they are shipping code at a rapid speed, showing great ‘innovation’ and somehow breaking things along the way is acceptable. No, it isn’t. Not anymore. “I’m sorry. I was only ‘moving fast and breaking things’, sir” The ability to speedily deliver software applications on a massive scale, while also maintaining consistently reliable user experiences is well within reach for every company. Choosing between speed and quality is no longer necessary. These days, you can move fast and fix things too. You just can’t fix what you can’t see The answer to increased software quality is not to simply write more unit tests. It takes a change in mindset and attitude culturally within a software development team. Bug tracking and resolution used to be an incredibly manual and unforgiving task. That’s probably why most developers see it as a huge pain in the ass. Not only to have users report the problems they experience themselves, but to also log them all individually into a bug tracking tool. Allocating developer time to reproduce and fix them, with limited technical details. Ugh. That’s where modern, dedicated, can ensure developers get a real time view into production errors and crashes their users are experiencing, and then have enough details to reproduce them in minutes. error tracking tools is just one example, but there are many useful tools available to software engineering teams that keep a watchful eye on your applications in production, . Raygun then simply tell you when to pay attention Developers are no longer blind to issues after code goes out the door into user’s hands. If you do break things, it’ll quickly be discovered before impacting end users. Debugging issues and fixing them is easier than ever I’m sure you don’t code bugs into your applications intentionally, but there’s a lot to be said for being able to debug them as quickly as you write them. During development and testing, you might be used to having things like consistent operating systems, devices, browsers and their respective versions on hand, plus be able to access full stack traces on each unhandled exception. It’s relatively easy to spot bugs. None of this information is available to you and many bugs might happen in production. Once in production, everything goes dark. only Without a monitoring tool that can collect these details, you’re simply flying blind. With proper monitoring in place, errors, crashes and performance problems can be detected and delivered into team workflows automatically. A self populating to-do list if you will of things you can do to improve your software. Right down to the exact line of code an issue occurs on. Move fast, but fix your damn code, seriously It’s actually very easy to move fast and break things when it comes to software development. Anyone can do it. To be you need to care about your code quality and the impact you have on the users of your software. a great developer It’s easy to shrug off problems with a ‘move fast and break things’ mentality. But we build software for our , and sometimes forget they are real . users people They are human beings that get frustrated and angry when they can’t operate your software the way they need to. In today’s modern development environment there is no need for companies to be exposing their users to undetected bugs. The . tools are available So, move fast. Move as fast as you like. But take pride in fixing things. Rather than breaking them.

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I've always been fascinated by the interplay of artificial intelligence and programming. More specifically, I've been intrigued by how we can leverage AI to make learning new frameworks and languages a more streamlined, efficient process. Recently, I embarked on a journey to do exactly that using OpenAI's ChatGPT, and the @playwright/test framework became my field of play. Playwright is a widely-used testing tool that helps developers write reliable end-to-end tests for web applications. However, its vastness and dynamism, while being strengths, can sometimes make it challenging to fully grasp, especially for those new to the framework. But what if you could simply ask your questions and get instant, accurate responses based on the latest documentation? That's exactly the experience I've aimed to create with my AI-based Playwright guide. I've created a question-answering bot using ChatGPT, hosted on . But this is not your average chatbot. This bot is a Large Language Model (LLM), painstakingly trained on the entire documentation of Playwright. From the simplest questions to the most complex queries, this bot leverages the vastness of its training to provide detailed, accurate responses. https://ray.run/ask To ensure the most up-to-date responses, I've trained the model using the latest version of the Playwright documentation (v1.34.3). For now, the bot focuses on Playwright's JavaScript implementation. It can answer questions on this front with a remarkable level of precision. However, I am looking forward to expanding its horizons to other programming languages in future versions. Furthermore, to ensure the utmost quality of responses, I manually review all questions posed to the bot. I then edit and post these queries along with their answers on , creating a continuously growing repository of information. This allows other learners to benefit from the questions you ask, fostering a community of shared learning. https://ray.run/questions If you're in the process of learning Playwright, I invite you to give it a try. Ask the bot your questions, and let it guide you through the complexities of Playwright with ease. This is not just an AI bot answering questions—it's an ever-evolving knowledge tool. I am excited to see how this initiative will not only simplify individual learning but also contribute to shared growth in the developer community. Join me on this journey, and let's redefine the way we learn programming frameworks, together.

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