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More Free Oracle Cloud than you might know

04 Monday Nov 2019

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CloudEvents, CNCF, events, free, Functions, Notifications, Oracle

free-750x536The news about Oracle offering some free cloud services ‘for life’ is making an impact.  But, the free services don’t end there. The pricing of some other native cloud services includes some free bands. So it’s worth keeping an eye on the fine print. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see limited capacity access in other areas.

Oracle Functions – whilst the core of this service is built on the open-source Fn Project (also largely driven by Oracle) the managed service has a free tier allowing up to 2 million invocations that can consume 400, 000 gigabytes of memory per second use (details can be seen here). Plenty enough to experiment with the concepts behind Serverless aka FaaS capabilities.

Oracle Notifications whilst focussed on the technical side of gathering key event data from OCI and its services, as the document states “sending notifications to numerous interested parties, or even synchronizing the moving parts of a distributed application” – this obviously means a service with characteristics a bit like AWS’ SNS. Like SNS it can be hooked up to email and other HTTPS services using Oracle Events which also has free use. Events is particularly interesting as it is bases the event structure on the CNCF CloudEvents spec. There is an excellent illustration of such a use case in the Oracle blogs here.

It will be interesting to see if we a similar trend with other Oracle cloud-native services. A new take on the now-defunct Application Container Cloud Service (ACCS) would be an ideal vehicle – whether there is sufficient demand for such a capability is not clear (it would in effect be an always live service like a Kubernetes solution, but the simpler, smaller footprint more like Functions in a multi-tenant environment. At the same time, it doesn’t have potential latency of a Function being activated).

eBook(lets) from O’Reilly

27 Tuesday Sep 2016

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architecture, Big Data, booklet, books, creative commons, Design, development, ebook, ebooks, free, open books, oreilly, vJUG

I received an email through the virtual Java User Group highlighting the availability of a couple of eBooks around Java published by O’Reilly. The details are below. The books are more booklets (nothing wrong with that). The key difference being that they are shorter and focused on one or two focused subjects (in this case Java 8’s Lambda’s & Streams) which is great because I don’t want a whole Java book again, I just want to get a handle on the key changes and language innovations. It is worth highlighting that these aren’t just ‘free chapters’ which is what you see happen sometimes as the goal of the book is described, doesn’t depend on prior chapters to work the illustrated material and structured with the appropriate cover material contents, index etc so works as a discrete entity.

This approach seems to be coming more common at O’Reilly at least as a marketing device, and we have seen this being done with the Dummies brand where the booklets have then been printed as conference give aways.

Some may argue that this is a reflection of our ever shortening attention span with books. This maybe the case for some, but I suspect it is more about providing some that is more digestible than a ‘free chapter’, but more importantly reflects the recognition that for books that are providing guides (as opposed to reference books – which I’d include patterns books) people don’t want to buy a latest edition of a book where the 1st chapters are exactly the same as the previous edition of the book and that the only significant change is a new section on Lambdas for example.

Any way the latest book details received are:

Introducing Java 8
by Raoul-Gabriel Urma
Offers a practical tutorial to some of the core Java 8 features and gets you programming quickly with Java 8.
Object Oriented vs Functional Programming
by Richard Warburton
Explains the similarities and differences between functional programming and object oriented programming with Java focused examples.

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@RichardWarburto

The other book(lets) that have drawn my attention to the trend include:

  • Static Site Generators
  • Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures
  • Software Architecture Patterns
  • Little Book of HTML/CSS Coding Guidelines
  • Java the Legend – history of Java
  • Designing Great Web APIs
  • Modern Java Script
  • Hadoop with Python
  • Release Engineering How Google Builds and Delivers Software
  • Functional Programming in Python
  • 20 Python Libraries You Aren’t Using (But Should)
  • Monitoring Distributed Systems
  • Little Book of HTML/CSS Frameworks

In addition to these Book(let)s O’Reilly offer a range of ‘reports’ such as:

  • Mapping Big Data, Evaluating Machine Learning Models, Data Driven  (the full range can be seen at Free Data Reports)
  • Open by Design
  • Design for Voice Interfaces (Siri, Cortana etc)

 

In addition O’Reilly have a page on ‘Open Books’ (here) – covering significant texts O’Reilly have had some involvement in but published under licenses such as Create Commons.

 

  • [18-01-16 Update] New booklet added for Modern Java Script
  • [13-03-16 Update] New booklet Continuous Delivery With Windows and Dot Net
  • [14-03-16 Update] New booklet Modern Java EE Design Patterns
  • [13-08-16 Update] New booklet Release Engineering How Google Builds and Delivers Software and Functional Programming in Python
  • [16-09-16 Update] new booklet
    • 20 Python Libraries You Aren’t Using (But Should)
  • [19-09-16 Update] New Booklet Monitoring Distributed Systems
  • [28-09-16]New Booklet Little Book of HTML/CSS Frameworks

Packt go free with Oracle again for next 24 hours

25 Tuesday Aug 2015

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Packt have made another Oracle book available for free today as part of their Free Learning initiative. For the next 24 hours you can get a book on Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook from https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

Packt Java EE with Eclipse 2nd Edition

19 Wednesday Aug 2015

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Might be a little early for Packt, but I have completed reviewing the 2nd Edition of Java EE with Eclipse for Packt now.  So the book should be available in the next couple of months.

On the subject of Packt, the Free Learning scheme they are running continues. I’ve seen a couple of books repair since the start of the promotion. But for main part each day is new and different and covers a wide range of things from JQuery and Node, to Hadoop and into Drupal and WordPress. So worth checking back on a daily basis.

All of this means time to do some more Oracle writing.

Latest Packt Publishing promotion

05 Tuesday May 2015

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Packt are repeating the promotion that they ran earlier in the year where each day they give away a free ebook. The books so far are (at least from my perspective) a little niche – developing for Kinect for example. Go check it out each day until the 17th you might see something that works for you.

Oracle Press – Free EBooks

05 Thursday Mar 2015

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So Oracle Press have been celebrating 20 years of publications.  As part of that celebration they have over the year offered a number of eBooks for free.  The UKOCN site have pulled a list of these free books together along with relevant links for request the ebooks – go checkout http://www.ukocn.com/article/oracle-press-free-copies – if this link doesn’t work (UKOCN maybe preventing deep links) then go to http://www.ukocn.com/ and visit articles, and you should see an article called “ORACLE PRESS FREE COPIES!”. at the time of writing this post this is on the homepage of listed articles.

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Packt Book Promo to 5th March

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

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Packt are running a promotion for those on their mailing list – a bit like the Christmas promotion, free ebook each day, until 5th March. Check it out here. So best sign up to the emails!

Oracle Free EBook on Enterprise Mobility

26 Monday Jan 2015

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ebook, enterprise, free, mobile, Oracle

Oracle a free Ebook about enterprise Mobility – it can be downloaded from https://blogs.oracle.com/imc/entry/free_oracle_special_edition_ebook1  The book focuses on the following areas:

  • Mobile Trends and Concepts
  • Mobile Architectures, Integration, Scalability, and Security
  • Exploring the Oracle Mobile Platform

Oracle NoSQL – free EBook

06 Friday Jun 2014

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Oracle Press are currently offering a free eBook copy of Getting Started with Oracle NoSQL Database, all you need do is register at http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/ebookdownloads/NoSQL/ to get the book.  I don’t know how long the offer will last, so I’d suggest getting it quickly.

Coldplay side-project Apparatjik announce free EP details | News | NME.COM

04 Friday Jun 2010

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Apparatjik, the side-project of Coldplay’s Guy Berryman have announced details of a free EP.

Called ‘4 Can Keep A Secret If 3 Of Them Are Dead’, the 3-track digital release is the combined work of Berryman, A-Ha’s Magne Furuholmen, Mew’s Jonas Bjerre and Martin Terefe.

Including the songs ‘Antlers’, ‘Look Kids (Premix AA) Diskjokke A’ and ‘4 Can Keep A Secret If 3 Of Them Are Dead’, the EP is available to download from the group’s website EyeOnCommittee.com.

Meanwhile, the band’s debut album ‘We Are Here’ will re-released in both standard and deluxe formats on June 15.

via Coldplay side-project Apparatjik announce free EP details | News | NME.COM.

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