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More Free Oracle Cloud than you might know

04 Monday Nov 2019

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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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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:

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

http://insightfullogic.com
@RichardWarburto

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

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

 

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.

 

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.

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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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.