Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Chatbots are the fastest growing market in mobile application development and extends mobile opportunities to the conversational channel. Oracle Digital Assistant provides the platform and tools to easily build AI-powered assistants that connect to your backend applications. A digital assistant uses artificial intelligence for natural language processing and understanding, to automate engagements with conversational interfaces that respond instantly, improve user...

Microservices are inherently more complex because they are distributed and shared less, and therefore, require a better foundation. It’s a bit controversial to say that microservices are not simple given how much is said about using them to simplify and accelerate software delivery. So can this statement even be made? It is, in Chris Richardson’s excellent new book, “Microservice Patterns” (here) and indirectly in Eric Evan’s “Domain-Driven Design” (here). Martin Fowler also...

Oracle introduced the new version of Visual Builder Cloud Service. This version is not just aimed at the Citizen Developer, in the end an experienced JavaScript can do nice things with it. In this blog I will have a look at 5 of the 6 main building blocks you build a VBCS applications with: REST service connections Flows and Pages Variables Action Chains UI Components Putting all of this in one blog is a lot, so this is a lengthy one. The final result can be found here. With VBCS...

After having written this article explaining a variety of consensus mechanisms for Blockchain available today, I have received hundreds of comments and positive feedback from those were struggling to understand what makes cryptocurrencies and blockchain securely working in a decentralized way, after having reading my article and thus have clearly understood the foundation supporting Blockchain implementations (thanks for all my readers by the way). However, there are others...

We are happy to announce the availability of Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS) - Oracle's visual low-code development platform for JavaScript based applications with built-in autonomous capabilities. Over the past couple of years, the visual development approach of VBCS has made it a very attractive solution to citizen developers who leveraged the no-code required nature of the platform to build their custom applications. Many professional developers also expressed...

Want to present your PaaS customer success at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 in San Francisco? Submit your paper here until March 13th 2019. For additional call for papers please visit the wiki here.   PaaS Partner Community For regular information on Oracle PaaS become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twi...

Want to present your PaaS customer success at Oracle Code One in San Francisco? Submit your paper here until March 13th 2019. For additional call for papers please visit the wiki here.   Developer Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Fa...

The conference for Oracle PaaS & SaaS Partners The Oracle emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum is a one week conference for cutting-edge software consultants, engineers and enterprise-level professionals. The #PaaSForum brings together partners who innovate SaaS and the world’s leading Oracle PaaS experts in the fields of integration, API management, process management, microservices & serverless, machine learning, digital assistant, content management and Blockchain. Speakers...

For small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), developing engaging interfaces for your applications is a key step in the way to getting customers to adopt your solution. While new technologies are constantly providing new ways for growing companies to create better interfaces, developers sometimes struggle to keep up to speed with the latest emerging technology. In many SMBs with limited IT resources, developers can become a bottleneck for as they try to produce new applications at...