Duke's Corner

Blockchain originally gained attention thanks to its connection to Bitcoin. But blockchain has emerged from under the crypto-currency's shadow to become a powerful trend in enterprise IT -- and something that should be on every developer's radar. For this program we've assembled a panel of Blockchain experts to discuss the technology's impact, examine some use cases, and offer suggestions for developers who want to learn more in order to take advantage of the opportunities blockchain represents. This program was recorded on Thursday November, 9, 2017. The Panelists Listed alphabetically Lonneke DikmansChief Product Officer, eProseed, Utrecht, NL John KingTech Enablement Specialist/Speaker/Trainer/Course Developer, King Training Resources, Scottsdale, AZ Robert van MölkenSenior Integration / Cloud Specialist, AMIS, Utrecht, NL Arturo ViverosSOA/Cloud Architect, Sysco AS, Oslo, NO

Forget the hype! Which technologies made a genuine difference in the work of software developers over the past year? For this podcast we gathered five highly respected developers in a tiny hotel room in San Francisco, tossed in a couple of microphones, and let the conversation happen. The panelists for this podcast are busy, working developers with stellar reputations: (Listed alphabetically) Lonneke Dikmans, Chief Product Officer at eProseed. Utrecht, NL Lucas Jellema, Chief Technical Officer at AMIS Services. Rotterdam, NL Frank Munz, software architect and Cloud Evangelist at Munz and More. Munich, DE Pratik Patel, Chief Technical Officer at Triplingo and president of the Atlanta Java Users Group. Atlanta, US Chris Richardson, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Eventuate Incorporated. San Francisco, US This wide-ranging conversation spans containers, microservices, PaaS, IoT, machine learning, and much, much more. Listen!

The previous podcast featured a discussion of chatbot development with a panel of developers who were part of a program that provided early access to the Oracle Intelligent Bots platform available within the Mobile Cloud Service. In this podcast we continue the discussion of chatbot development with an entirely new panel of developers who also had the opportunity to work with that same Intelligent Bots beta release. Oracle ACE Director Mia Urman is Chief Executive Officer of AuraPlayer Limited. She's based in Brookline, Massachusetts. Peter Crew is Director at SDS Group, and Chief Technical Officer with MagiaCX Solutions, in Perth, Australia And Christoph Ruepprich is Infrastructure Senior Principal with Accenture Enkitec Group. He's based in Dallas, TX In this program Mia, Peter, and Christoph compare notes on the particular challenges that defined their chatbot development experiences, and discuss what they did to meet those challenges.

Chabot development comes with a unique set of requirements and considerations that may prove challenging to those making their first excursion into this new breed of services. This podcast features a panel of developers who have been there, done that, and are willing to talk about it.

Are Microservices and APIs Becoming SOA 2.0? Are monolithic applications an anti-pattern? Experts Chris Richardson, Luis Weir, Phil Wilkins, and Boris Scholl address these and other questions in this roundtable discussion.

Mark Heckler, Pratik Patel, Sean Phillips, Heather VanCura, and Johan Vos discuss how they got from their earliest coding experiments to stellar IT careers; Stephanie Xu shares a college student's perspective.

Maurice Naftalin discusses his Raspberry Pi-powered virtual doorman and what scares him about IoT devices; Sean Phillips explains how JavaFx will help astronauts navigate the far reaches of the solar system.

Microservices are hot, but is it the right approach for your project? A experts Chris Richardson, Adam Bien, Reza Rahman, and Karthik Gaekwad share insight on what goes into a successful microservices project in the real world.

The Cloud Integration conversation continues as Matt Wright and Arun Pareek share the technical details of the hackathon entry they built that combined 9 different PaaS cloud services into a mobile medical tracking solution.

The challenge: integrate 10 Oracle Cloud Services into a functioning demo in one hour, and do it in front of a live audience. Members of the team talk tech and tactics.

Beyond the buzz, what impact is IoT having in the real world? How is it changing enterprise IT? A panel of experts shares their experience and insight.

Software architects and developers who moonlight as authors discuss what goes into researching, writing, and publishing tech books, and talk about the tech titles that influence their work.

A conversation that started at OOW16 grew into a community group focused on exploring and mastering how modern software architecture - including micro services and APIs - can serve the evolving needs of today's enterprises. Group members discuss the issues and technologies in this podcast.

What dev tool is the best choice for extending Oracle E-Business Suite applications into the cloud or mobile? It depends. This panel discussion will help you sort it out.

What constitutes a real cloud solution? What does it take to build one? Recorded during Oracle OpenWorld 2016, this wide-ranging conversation features a panel of cloud experts drawn from the OTN community.

A panel of Oracle Middleware product managers discusses the current state of several middleware products in the lead-up to Oracle OpenWorld, and also highlights key OOW16 sessions, labs, and demos.

The OTN ArchBeat Podcast goes deep inside Oracle HQ for a conversation with Vikas Anand (Senior Director, Product Management, SOA Suite/Integration Cloud Service, Oracle) and Ram Menon (Product Manager, Oracle Integration Cloud Service).

What happens when you jam eight experts in Oracle ADF, MAF, Forms and other dev tools into a hotel room and toss in a live microphone? Listen and learn.

Is there a need for performance tuning in the cloud? How does it differ from performance tuning in a non-cloud architecture? Listen in a panel of experts discusses these and other questions.

Software engineering and civil engineering have little in common. But should software engineers be more like their civil counterparts? A panel of software development experts explores the issues.

Four panelists, representing Oracle user groups from around the globe, discuss how and why they got involved, and how their participation evolved from newbie member to user group leader.

The editor and authors of "Oracle Essbase Application Development: Hybrid Techniques and Practices" discuss the evolving Essbase app development landscape.

The authors of "Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator's Guide" (2015, Packt Publishing) discuss the role, the technology, and the challenges.

A panel of Oracle Data Integrator experts compares notes on what they consider the most important features in ODI 12.2.1.

The ODI panelists share their insight into the challenges of launching a Big Data project.

The panel discusses workarounds for ODI integration with Hyperion Financial Management.

The panelists compare notes on the types of ODI projects they're seeing from their clients.

The panelists share their thoughts on the confluence of cloud computing and Oracle Data Integrator.

The opinions of the panelists vary in this discussion of the most important move you can make to insure your success as a cloud architect.

How is the expansion of cloud computing driving the evolution of IT skills? What skills are hot?

A panel of six architects with extensive cloud computing experience discuss the skills and qualifications the define the emerging role of the cloud architect.

What "soft skills" will cloud architects require? How will the commodification of the cloud affect the market for IT skills?

As cloud computing grows, the job market will split between cloud providers and cloud consumers. Where you land will depend on your specific skills.

Many mission-critical applications built on Oracle Forms are badly in need of modernization. What are the options?

A panel of experts discusses use cases illustrating modernization strategies for Oracle Forms applications.

The panel discusses mobile and other factors driving the need for the modernization of Oracle Forms applications.

A discussion of the factors affecting decisions around the selection of a strategy for modernizing Oracle Forms applications.

The authors of "Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c" discuss their book in the context of the current enterprise environment.

In the design of process-driven architectures, where are organizations getting it wrong? Where are they getting it right? A panel of experts compares notes.

A panel of experts discusses the most common questions they get from their clients.

A panel of experts discusses the most common questions they get from their clients.

The authors of "Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c" talk about what they learned in writing the book.

APIs have been around forever. So why has API Management become so important? The authors of "Oracle API Management 12c Implementation" explain.

Don't confuse API management with service management. The authors of "Oracle API Management 12c Implementation" discuss the differences.

What API developers need to know in order to take advantage of the growing market for APIs.

The authors of "Oracle API Management 12c Implementation" talk about what they learned in writing the book.

Take a seat at the virtual table as a panel of experts talks about how organizations are meeting some of the biggest BPM challenges.

The expert panel panel shares insight into the Oracle BPM features they find the most useful, how those features are being use to deal with real-world BPM problems.

How does the new Oracle Process Cloud Service compare to Oracle BPM? The panelists talk it out.

What's the one thing you should know before starting your first Oracle BPM project? Advice you can use from a panel of experts.