Oracle Code : London

 

As usual with early starts, I had a terrible nights sleep, worrying I would sleep through my alarm. 🙂 I’ve been quite nervous about this event ever since I found out I got accepted. I’m pretty comfortable in front of your typical Oracle crowd, but having no idea about the makeup of this audience freaked me out. My feeling was if the crowd was made up of Oracle techies looking to find out about different stuff I should fit in OK. If it was a bunch of non-Oracle people looking to see what Oracle was offering in this space my session would not go down well at all. Time would tell…

I got a taxi to the station, grabbed a coffee and got on the train. I had a seat with a table and a power socket. For ÂŁ5 I got 24 hours of internet, which made the journey far more productive. When I got to Euston Station it was a quick tube ride to Moorgate Station, then a walk round the corner to CodeNode London. After registration and a few quick hellos it was down to business.

First up was Adam Bien with “Enterprise Java.next: A Slideless Keynote”. The session was a live demo of using Java EE to code microservices that are built and deployed using Docker. Live demos of anything to do with Docker are always fun to watch as things happen so quickly. 🙂

Next up was Deepak Patil with “Harnessing the Power of Cloud to Develop Next Gen Killer Apps”. This session was a description of the infrastructure that underpins Oracle Cloud, with a guest spot by Mark Shuttleworth of Cononical. I asked the question on Twitter whether this meant Oracle would start to support their products on Ubuntu. I did not get an answer. 🙂

After that session the conference was split into multiple tracks and I went to see Jeff Richmond with “Move Data Between Apache Hadoop and Oracle Database for Customer 360 Analytics”. This session covered quite a bit of ground in a single session, including talk of Oracle Big Data SQL and a bunch of Oracle Cloud Services.

Next I went to see Davide Fiorentino with “A Practical Guide to Docker and Service Deployments”. As the name suggests, this was an overview session about Docker, giving an idea of how and why you would use it.

After lunch it was me with “Make the RDBMS Relevant Again with RESTful Web Services and JSON“. As I said earlier I was really nervous about this because I didn’t know if I would be a good fit for the audience, or even if anyone would show up. The room was really busy and a quick straw poll at the start alleviated my nerves. There was a strong contingent of existing Oracle developers in the room, who were looking for “what comes next”, and my session seemed to go down pretty well. That was a really welcome surprise. 🙂

[silly aside] I keep mentioning we are doing an Oracle Cloud Apps implementation at work and I am nothing to do with the project. For anyone that doubts this, one of the questions at the end of my session was by someone who is working on that project, who I don’t know. 🙂 When I finished, two guys came up and introduced themselves. Turns out they are working on our on-prem WebCentre Content implementation. You gotta laugh! I’m sure our paths will cross how we have been introduced.[/silly aside]

Next up was Lucas Jellema with “Event Bus as Backbone for Decoupled Microservice Choreography”. I really liked the ground work Lucas put in before he launched into the demos. The term “microservice” is often used in a rather random manner, with many people describing what they are doing as microservices, when they really aren’t. Lucas did a top-notch job of describing what a microservice is and some of the basic “rules” which it should probably conform to. He then did a rather ambitious demo made up of a bunch of microservices running on his laptop and the cloud, all interacting with each other using an event bus in each location that were being synced, and it worked. I should have expected nothing less. 🙂

I missed the next session as I was chatting to a few people, including some of those guys that I “almost” work with. 🙂

Next up was Dan Mcghan with “Making RESTful Web Services the Easy Way with Node.js”. This was how the cool kids do what I do with PL/SQL and ORDS. 🙂 The combination of Node.js and the Oracle Driver for Node seems like a pretty good combo for this type of thing.

That was the last session of the day for me. We all piled downstairs for pizza, drinks and more chatting. Pretty soon it was time to leave. 🙂

Big thanks to the organisers of Oracle Code for letting me come to play. Not only was it fun to present, but I got to see and learn a lot of really useful stuff! Thanks also to the Oracle ACE Program for letting me fly the flag. I gave you a shout out in my session! Thanks to all the attendees that came to support the event, and to everyone that came to my session and came and chatted to me during the day. These events can’t happen unless you turn up! 🙂

The journey was pretty straight forward. Round the corner to Moorgate, tube to Euston, train to Birmingham and taxi home! Happy days!

It all happens again in Prague next Friday! 🙂

Cheers

Tim…

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DBA, Developer, Author, Trainer.

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