Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

As the Oracle Code tour makes its way around the world --- San Francisco, Austin, New York City, Washington DC, Toronto, London, Berlin, Prague, Moscow, Brussels, New Delhi, and Tokyo completed, Atlanta, Sao, Paolo, Mexico City, Rishon LeZion, Sydney, Beijing, Bangalore, and Seoul still to come -- the microservices drumbeat continues. Microservice development is a key theme across all of the Oracle Code events, and session speakers at the various events have come at...

Sure, you can read through page after page of documentation. But why bother when you can get useful technical tips in 2-minute video chunks? Here's this week's list of the most-watched Tech Tip videos. And if you have a tip of your own to share, let's make it happen. Contact me: bob.rhubart@oracle.com 1 Running WebLogic Applications on Docker using the OCCS | Craig Barr May 12, 2017Last week: #75th Top 10 appearance 2 New Features in Oracle Database 12.2 | Chris SaxonFebruary 22,...

"How do I get started on containers?" Ashutosh Tripathi hears that question a lot. "Not many people are doing these kind of things today in the production environment or even on a pilot basis, except for a few startups," he says. "One of the main reasons I see that enterprises are not using containers or Node.JS types of things is because they have monolithic applications built over a period of years, and it takes time to re-architect those applications." As he explains, "the...

This week Oracle ACE Director Danilo Scheidel and ACE Sven Bernhardt jump to #1 for the first time since their tip debuted in Oct 2016. ACE Robert van Molken makes his 3rd consecutive Top 10 appearance, and coming in at #3, familiar face Chris Saxon's tip on new Database 12.2 features marks 15 consecutive weeks in the Top 10. Congrats to all of those who made it into this week's most-watched list. Where's your 2 Minute Tech Tip? Contact me: bob.rhubart@oracle.com   1 Integration,...

What is distributed stream processing and why does it matter? "Java 8 came out with these really amazing language enhancements for Java developers," including the addition of streams, explains Oracle Cloud Engineering Group architect Brian Oliver. "Basically it lets you very elegantly describe declaratively what you want and how you want to process some data structures. So we can take a set or a map or a list that contains application data and you can say, well, I want to...

Chatbots represent an enormous opportunity for developers. But while aspects of chatbot development will be quite familiar, there are key differences that will require a shift in thinking, according to Joe Huang, product manager for Oracle's Mobile and Bot platforms. "Traditionally, when we talk about application development, you're thinking about how to design the user interface, how to make the application easier to use," Joe says. "With chatbots, it's both different and...

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but what about two minutes of video? You could count the words used in each of these tips, but why not just watch? 1 Running WebLogic Applications on Docker using OCCS | Craig Barr Published on May 12, 2017Last week: #33rd Top 10 appearance 2 Who Needs Microservices Anyway? | Reza Rahman Published on Apr 21, 2017Last week: #15th Top 10 appearance 3 When to Use Oracle SOA Cloud Service | Robert van Molken Published on Dec 1, 2016Last week: #41...

In 2016 jpro technologies AG came away from JavaOne in San Francisco having won the Duke's Choice Technology Award. What's jpro? "It's a tool with which you can run Java programs in the browser without the Java plugin," explains jpro CEO Hans-Henry Sandbaek. "People are writing web applications using several different frameworks, several different languages, cross compilers, and everything is very complex." In this video interview recorded at Oracle Code Washington DC,...

Among the more than 220 Tech Tips available on the ArchBeat YouTube Channel, these 10 attracted the most eyeballs for the week of May 15-21, 2017. The newest tip on the list is from Craig Barr, in at the #3 position. The oldest tip this week is Oracle ACE Director Debra Lilley's 2015 tip on Paas4SaaS. Also noteworthy, this week Oracle ACE Atul Kumar's EBS integration tip makes its 59th Top 10 appearance. Give in to the urge to do a 2 Minute Tech Tip.  Contact me: bob.rhubart@ora...