20 Friday Oct 2017
Posted in APIs, General, OMESA, Technology
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APIs, Archbeat, Arturo Viveros, Bob Rhubart, Dev Live, Luis Weir, OMESA, OMESA.io, OOW17, video
If you like seeing or hearing people like Arturo Viveros, Luis Weir and myself (not for me :-0 ) discussing OMESA.io (Open Modern Enterprise Software Architecture) and APIs then you’ll like the following video, recorded with Bob Rhubart of Oracle Developer Community ArchBeat fame at Oracle Open World 2017.
13 Friday Oct 2017
Posted in General, Oracle, Technology
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Proud to have been part of the Capgemini team who picked up some Glassware last night at ther UK Oracle User Group Partner of the Year Awards …
Gold – Business Transformation
Silver – Middleware
10 Tuesday Oct 2017
Posted in General, Oracle, Technology
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"Open API", apiary, apiary.io, APIBlueprint, editor, ODC, Swagger
This post is my contribution to the Oracle Developer Community (ODC) Appreciation Day. The idea of the event is best explained by Oracle Base – go here.
The Apiary Editor has to count as a pretty new entry into the possible features that could be considered with Apiary only coming into the Oracle family in the last year. Apiary as a solution provides a platform by which modern REST based APIs can be designed, documented and simulated. Apiary supports the API First design philosophy (more here) using API Blueprint notation or Swagger (now known as Open API).
The feature I want to focus on is the Apiary Editor itself (shown below), particularly when working with the API Blueprint. The beauty of the solution is that as the documentation or API syntax is edited in the editing side (left) the API definition/documentation immediately appears on the presentation side of the editor (right) making it easy both see the technical specificastion and how the information is initially presented to a potential API user. This makes it really easy to understand the clarity of what is being communicated which is one of the important aspects of an API definition and API first.
Whilst Agile development states ‘prefer working code over documentation’ this provides agility as you can develop the API definition and allow people to develop against the contract we can still easily deliver quality API descriptions with sufficient information to make it understandable to a 3rd party.
05 Thursday Oct 2017
Posted in API Platform CS, General, ICS, Oracle
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API, API Platform, APIP, conference, ICS, OOW, OOW17, Oracle, presentations
With Oracle Open World 2017 over the ICS presentation is available at – Oracle integration cloud service (ICS) best practices learned from the field (OOW17)
We saw a lot of exciting new features and capabilities coming from Oracle in the ICS space. So keep an eye on the site as we publish new articles.
The API Platform presentation that was co-presented with Luis Weir is here…
12 Wednesday Jul 2017
Posted in chatbots
I have been fortunate to be supporting and occasionally contributing to a series of blogs on Chatbots being written by Leon Smiers, Capgemini Oracle Chatbot SME (and also Oracle Ace). The blog posts are:
I’ve been talking with Leon about what next in the blog series, and we can expect to see some more exciting blog posts in the series.
Chatbot Maturity Model
12 Wednesday Jul 2017
Posted in General, Oracle, Technology
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conference, microservice, Oracle, planning, Presentation, SOA, Tech17, UKOUG
As part of the UKOUG SIG committee for middleware I have had the opportunity to contribute to the planning of the conference in December (Tech17). The agenda looks really exciting with a range a high class submissions covering on-premises to cloud, from micro to monolith, API to application, source to SOA.
Presenters go from newbies to world class names, not to mention key Oracle product managers.
Here are a couple of tweets from the planning day …
03 Monday Jul 2017
Posted in chatbots, Cloud, General, Oracle, Technology
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API, article, blog, chatbots, integration, Leon Smiers, Luis Weir, Oracle, OTN, registries
So it has been a busy week in terms of seeing articles published that I’ve at least contributed to. It’s funny the gap between writing and publishing can be several weeks. So whilst we’re thinking about new things we see the twitter pickup etc or work several weeks old.
Anyway, first up was a contribution to Leon Smiers‘ blog on integrating chatbots. The latest in a series of excellent blog posts looking at the capabilities a chatbot solution needs etc. The latest post is about integration, hence my contribution. My contributions to the blog series go back to the conversations Leon and I had whilst at the Oracle Partner event earlier this year. Since then, I have helped Leon by providing a critical eye and offering suggestions.
The big event, has been to have an article published on Oracle Technology Network(OTN). This is a bit of an honour as we where invited to write. My piece can be found at here. It is actually a part of a pair of articles written for OTN. With article was written by Luis Weir, and is the parent article about API management.
My article came about as a result several discussions with Luis whilst travelling to and from a client about the relationship between between microservice registries, load balancers and API Gateways. Particularly as API Gateways have a natural relationship with microservices. I’ll say no more, go read the article.
31 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in General, mindmap, Technology
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I have relocated my mindmaps to a new location – WiseMapping which presents the maps in a far more consumable manner than XMind. I’ve setup the links to now bounce through bitly so if things move again the links wont break. The maps available can be found using the following links:
21 Friday Apr 2017
Posted in General, Oracle, Technology
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Ace, Adam Bien, code, conference, event, Java One, London, Lucas Jemella, Luis Weir, OOW, Oracle, presenting, rockstar, Sebastian Daschner, Tim Hall
My colleague & boss Ace Director Luis Weir and I were invited to present at Thursday 20th’s Oracle Code London.
The request to present came late as we where needed to cover someone who had to cancel (not that we aren’t grateful for the opportunity). This did mean getting the presentation together was a little bit of a scramble, unfortunately I missed a couple of sessions as I needed to assemble an environment, work out how I wanted to explain the point Luis’ slides where communicating as this was the first time presenting with Luis as a double act. Add to that address the day to day work demands.
Despite these challenges, I think the presentation went very smoothly (and we’re looking forward to receiving the feedback). The slides can be found here …
I did catch a few presentations, including the keynote by Adam Bien, Tim Hall‘s presentation on exposing databases using REST services, Lucas Jemella‘s microservices and eventing backbone and finally CQRS by Sebastian Daschner. All presentations where all top notch, loaded with useful information. I’ve been fortunate to see both Lucas and Tim presenting before so knew I would in for a really good presentations. So if you ever want to know about Oracle DB stuff with practical honest insights I’d recommend looking Tim up. Like wise in the middleware space for Lucas.
Seeing the presentations and different presenting styles was interesting. Those presenters with a Java Rockstar background vs those from an Oracle Ace background. The Java guys taking a very minimalist (if any) slides and all code / demo – but blink and you’ll miss it, where as the Ace community (of which I am fortunate enough to be a member) with slides that are often visually very strong and still supported by demos.
Whilst I’ve attended Oracle Open World, I’ve not yet seen the parrallel Java One conference in San Francisco. That said, the feel of the day’s event (and presumably the goal) is what I’d expect Java One to be like. I have in the past attended similar RedHat events, whilst the venue has a similar feel (not unsurprising as both have used SkillsMatter venues), what was different between the Oracle and RedHat events was that the atmosphere felt a lot friendlier and communial at Oracle Code. This maybe down in part to the fact that I know more of the people both Aces and Oracle employees, although that can’t be the only reason as when I was involved in the RedHat environment I had known senior people within the organisation and encountered presenters.
My last observation, more technical is the fact that JavaEE was mentioned a lot more than I’d expected, even those much maligned EJBs got a mention. Is JavaEE making a reassurgence?
So, if you get a chance to attend OracleCode – as an architect or developer I’d recommend that you take the opportunity. Whilst Devox maybe bigger with the really big name speakers, the day was both informative, engaging and rewarding.
25-04-17 UPDATE: Oracle have just made all the OracleCode London sessions available on YouTube here, and our session specifically here.
26 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Cloud, General, Technology
I recently along with several colleagues presented at the UKOUG event called Journey to the Cloud. I thought I’d share the slides from the event. These reflect the genera technical strategic thinking and factors that need to be taken on board when adopting a cloud approach. Although these slides focus on an Oracle ecosystem, they could be easily adapted to any contentxt.
