Oracle Cloud World 2022

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I had the opportunity to attend Oracle Cloud World (October 17th to October 20th). It was a great experience, as always. 

I've been attending Oracle Open World (now Cloud World) for quite some time; my first Open World was back in 2003, I attended it as part of the demo booths for something called Oracle Collaboration Suite. It has passed almost 20 years. Also, my first JAVA ONE was back in 2001 while I was working for Hewlett Packard when they used to have something called Total e-Server (an application server that HP acquired from a company called Bluestone). I have a lot of fun stories about Open World, both with my company (SPS) and also when I was an Oracle employee (from 2002 to 2010). 

Also, as part of the Oracle ACE program, I've been attending the ACE dinner for quite some time. Even before being an ACE, when I worked for Oracle, I managed to enter those parties and have fun with the community. Then, since 2012 when I joined the program, I've been attending it and participating in multiple activities, I am very grateful to be part of such an amazing community.

This year's Cloud World was special because the last Oracle in-person event that I attended was back in 2019. I had almost 3 years since that, so I had a lot of thoughts about how the event will unfold and how similar it might be to the previous ones. I had some concerns about it, I actually mentioned to some of my JAVA friends that I had the opportunity to talk with during the event, that I had some worries about it. But I was obviously wrong, the event was a blast and as fun as always.



I also was very surprised by what Oracle presented in terms of Cloud Innovation. I strongly recommend you read about Oracle Alloy.  Taken from here https://www.oracle.com/cloud/alloy/:

"Oracle Alloy is a complete cloud infrastructure platform that enables partners to become cloud providers and offer a full range of cloud services to expand their businesses. Partners control the commercial and customer experience of Oracle Alloy and can customize and extend it to address their specific market needs. Partners can operate Oracle Alloy independently in their own data centers and fully control its operations to better fulfill customer and regulatory requirements."

Oracle is now in a position to innovate and is no longer another player trying to catch up with the rest of the providers. Oracle is innovating, and is actually recognized as a visionary by Gartner:


A visionary for Cloud Infrastructure is quite an achievement by Oracle, taking into account that they are already in the 2nd generation, and their first effort was not quite at the level of the rest of the providers. And I think part of that recognition is because of those announcements and releases such as Oracle Alloy. And also about the high support that Oracle is giving for a lot of open-source initiatives and the very large Cloud Native offering they have.

I also identified the multi-cloud openness that Oracle is promoting. And Oracle is right; customers have the option to use any cloud and any service that better fits their needs. We live in an era of the internet of the clouds,  and that pretty much means that companies are relying on different providers. And again, that is good, that openness needs to be promoted not only by Oracle but by all the vendors.

Larry Ellison was very clear in terms of offering solutions and development around Health Care technologies and applications. I understand it as part of what Oracle can offer to have a better world, a better way to identify diseases, and ultimately to help on finding a cure for them.

The NVIDIA services incorporation into OCI is also something to highlight. NVIDIA offers a lot of AIs that can serve many industries, in particular in Healthcare which happens to be one of Oracle's top objectives in the future.

I am from Mexico, and during the first day's keynote by Safra Catz, a Mexican company (Grupo Bimbo) was part of it. Raúl Obregón (CIO and CTO, Grupo Bimbo) shared with the audience how Oracle is a key part of their digital transformation and their transformation in general as a company. And how Oracle Tech and Applications are making a difference for Bimbo's organization.

My background is related to Integration, API Management, Services exposure, etc. I have had a long relationship with Oracle's integration tools, from the very beginning (back in 2002). I was invited for a couple of roundtables with Oracle Product Managers that are the ones who define the strategy in this regard and I was very pleased with what they presented. I really like their approach to automation. Automation through experiences (conversational UIs), processes, and data. They presented a demo about automation for Human Resources and through it, they've incorporated the term: digital employee. Those digital employees can support different tasks for different workforces within an organization and automate work that persons need to perform through different UIS, processes and applications. 

I have created very good relationships with many members of the Oracle community. People from around the world that has been very kind with me in many ocassions. People that I consider not only colleagues but friends. Friendship is they key for communities, from any kind. And I can say that the thing that I enjoyed the most during Oracle Cloud World, was to hang out with them one more time. I am not going to mention names because there are a lot and I do not want to take the risk to omit one of their names. But you know to whom I am referring to.


I need to  mention Jennifer Nicholson who is our leader for the Oracle ACE community. She has always supported me and trusted me. I appreciate all her support and I will continue working with the community. I am already looking forward for Cloud World 2023.

Thank u, Oracle!

#DanielBozzoloDay

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Es triste estar escribiendo sobre la muerte de un muy buen amigo como lo fue Daniel Bozzolo para mi. 
Para la comunidad de Oracle en español, y en general para la comunidad es una pérdida invaluable. 

No solo por el aporte técnico/tecnológico que él siempre nos entregó, sino por la persona. 

El falleció el pasado viernes 24 de Septiembre (2021).

Si algo logré en todos esos años de Tours por Latinoamérica, fue el crecer mi círculo de amistades y en el caso de Dani, se volvió un amigo especial. 

Recuerdo aquella mañana de domingo de un Agosto de hace algunos años atrás, cuando los líderes del grupo de Usuarios de Uruguay fueron a recogernos a varios de nosotros que veníamos como parte del OTN Tour, al aeropuerto internacional de Carrasco (Montevideo). 
A mi me tocó irme con el Dani. Fue un viaje muy ameno dónde él me contaba datos curiosos de la ciudad, y yo le hacía preguntas de política, entre otras cosas. 

Desde ese día me gustaba mucho platicar con él; era un tipo muy fácil de tratar y siempre con buenos ánimos. Nunca enojado, ni enfadado por nada. Al contrario, siempre buscando que pasáramos un buen rato. 

También recuerdo que me regalaba siempre recuerdos de su país, en particular dulce de leche y unas masitas muy ricas.

En fin, son detalles que recuerdo con mucho cariño. Igualmente cruzábamos el río juntos en el Buquebús, llevándonos a Buenos Aires y allí igualmente con Edel y Nelson nos juntábamos siempre para platicar o compartíamos el desayuno. 

La industria de la tecnología ha provocado que existan muchas oportunidades para conocer gente de prácticamente todas partes del mundo; dónde, indudablemente, todos hablamos un mismo lenguaje técnico y por eso nos podemos entender bien. 

Pero hacer amigos es otra cosa. El realmente poder establecer una relación de amistad, es algo diferente. Y en lo personal, eso tuve con Dani, una relación de amistad. Incluso, tecnológicamente nos dedicamos a diferentes cosas; él por el lado del mundo de Oracle APEX y yo del lado de sistemas distribuidos, APIs, etc. 

Hemos decidido hacerle un homenaje a nuestro amigo y colega, todos sumándonos el día 25 de Octubre de 2021 y recordándolo de diferentes maneras: 

  1. Un tuit 
  2. Un blog post 
  3. Un artículo en Linkedin 
  4. Una publicación en Facebook 
  5. O bien de la manera que tú consideres a través de algún medio digital. 

Todas las publicaciones estarán etiquetadas con: #DanielBozzoloDay. 

De esa manera haremos notar la presencia y relevancia de Dani en nuestras vidas, tanto en lo profesional como en la amistad. -

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It is sad to be writing about the death of a very good friend like Daniel Bozzolo was for me. 
For the Oracle in Spanish community, and in general for the community, it is an invaluable loss. 

Not only for the technical / technological contribution that he always gave us, but for the person. 
He died last Friday, September 24th (2021). If I achieved something in all those years of Tours in Latin America, it was to grow my circle of friends and in the case of Dani, he became a special one. 

I remember that Sunday morning in August a few years ago, when the leaders of the Uruguay Users group went to pick up several of us who were coming as part of the OTN Tour, at the Carrasco International Airport (Montevideo). I chose to go with Dani. It was a very enjoyable trip where he told me curious facts about the city, and I asked him questions about politics, among other things. 

From that day on I really liked talking with him; he was a very easy-going guy and always in good spirits. Never angry about anything. On the contrary, always looking for us to have a good time. I also remember that he always gave me souvenirs from his country, especially dulce de leche and some very delicious masitas . In short, those are details that I remember with great affection. 

We also crossed the river together on the Buquebus, taking us to Buenos Aires and there likewise with Edel and Nelson we always got together to talk or share breakfast. 

The technology industry has created many opportunities to meet people from virtually all parts of the world; where, undoubtedly, everyone speaks the same technical language and that is why we can understand each other well. But making friends is something else. 

Being able to really establish a friendly relationship is something different. And personally, that's what I had with Dani, a true friendship relationship. 

Technologically we even dedicate ourselves to different things; him on the side of the Oracle APEX world and I on the side of distributed systems, APIs, etc. 

We have decided to pay tribute to our friend and colleague, all joining us on October 25th, 2021 and remembering it in different ways: 

  1. A tweet 
  2. A blog post 
  3. An article on Linkedin 
  4. A post on Facebook 
  5. Or in the way that you consider through some digital medium. 

All posts will be tagged with: #DanielBozzoloDay. 
In this way, we will make the presence and relevance of Dani noticeable in our lives, both professionally and in friendship. 

Gracias/ Thanks Dani.

Monitoreo y gestión de tus funciones de fn project.

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En el post anterior vimos cómo desplegar la consola web (Functions UI) del proyecto fn project, en donde, entre otras cosas podemos:

1. Tener acceso al listado de APIs que nos ofrece la plataforma. APIs para obtener las aplicaciones desplegadas, borrarlas, actualizarlas. Algunas otras para listar las rutas. Otras mas para obtener los logs, etc
2. Tienes acceso al listado de aplicaciones y puedes probar las funciones que estén adentro de ella
3. Tienes acceso  un dashboard que te permite saber:
     a) Hay funciones encoladas
     b) Cuántas funciones han sido ejecutadas exitosamente
     c) Cuántas estásn ejecución o bien están fallidas

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Consola Web para fn project. Serverless architecture.

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En el artículo anterior (http://oracleradio.blogspot.mx/2017/12/primer-contacto-con-fn-project.html) vimos cómo ambientar tu máquina para hacer uso del proyecto Fn Project, que está enfocado a ofrecer una plataforma Serverless.

Lo único que hicimos en el artículo pasado fue desplegar una función muy simple . Ahora vamos a ver cómo desplegar una interface gráfica para gestionar tus funciones.

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A first glimpse to the Oracle Intelligent Bot Cloud Service

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Quick Look at Oracle's Cloud Chatbots Platform

Chatbots have become an important platform to interact with our users using a well known tool: chat.

We are not only talking about making this type of platform available in channels like Facebook, what we really want is the automatization of tasks so users can use it with confidence. We want this tool to become a transactional tool not only informative. In the future it might be predictive and have interactions with backend systems and API’s.
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Oracle Developer Champion

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Oracle Developr Champion is a new advocacy program created by Oracle. I had the honor to be nominated to become a part of it. That happened last June 29th. It was funny, since I was at Oracle Code Mexico and I was actually talking with friends and colleagues about it. I was sharing my impression about the relevance of the program, about how cool would it be to participate on it. And about 30 minutes later I received an email from our great leader Jennifer Nicholson with my nomination. It was a great day for me.

I've been part of the Oracle ACE program since 2011. But I've been in touch with the program since 2006 or so. I used to work for Oracle and since my days in the company I was already nominating people to become part of it. Some of my nominations made it through and are very important members of the program. Then when I started my own company, one of my first goals was to be part of the ACEs and I remember how I got rejected in my first try. It was tough but that made me understand that the programs are for sharing your knowledge, to share with the community, to be humble and share your time, knowledge and life with the rest of the people. So I basically took that as a lesson and started to contribute more & more with the community. 

After that I continued to promote and nominate people to join the program and at least two more persons that I nominated are part of it.  My compromise with the program has always been there and it will remain so.

Now I have the honor to be part of the Developer Champions, people like: Lucas Jellema, Robert Van Mollken, Frank Munz and many other very talented people are already in the group. I just can be happy about it, I will learn a lot from them and I will continue with my passion and compromise to share my experience, time and knowledge with the community.

I am focus on API Management, Chatbots, DevOps and IoT. I will do my best to create content around it. To create videos, articles, blogs entries, participate on events to talk about those topics.

My agenda is already full of activites that I am going to do to collaborate with the program. I am excited that I will be a reviewer for a brand new book by my friends Luis Weir and Phil Wilkins, which is about API Management.

I am already figuring out an outline from an upcoming book that hopefully can be accepted so I can start writing again. Back in 2015 I wrote a book together with Luis Weir and A. Viveros and now I am really looking forward to write a new one with other colleagues.

I have more than 10 years writing in this blog. 10 years about writing Oracle stuff, I just can't ask for a better time to keep writing, and the fact to have been nominated as a Developer Champion has motivated me to continue doing it with even more passion.

Information about the program can be found here: https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/new-developer-champion-program

Follow us in Twitter @dev_champions

I thank all the people who has been following me and that believed in the idea of nominating me to the program. I really appreciate your help and support. I will do my best to support your confidence on me.

I thank God for continue blessing me all the days in my life.

Thank you.


10 años de Oracle Radio

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Oracle Radio empezó en Febrero de 2017 en compañía de mi pana Juan Camilo Ruiz. Él fue el de la idea originalmente. Le digo pana, porque así me empezó a decir recién nos conocimos y posteriormente así yo también me refería a él y finalmente después de trabajar en algunas ocasiones juntos, nos hicimos buenos amigos.

A Juan siempre le gustó ADF, la verdad es que no sé por qué, pero pues él era muy feliz haciendo cosas del tema. Fue cuando me dijo:

"Pana, es momento de escribir para la comunidad de habla hispana. Hagamos artículos de Fusion Middleware, yo de ADF y tú de SOA".

Me pareció muy buena idea y en Febrero de 2007, escribimos nuestros primeros posts. Nos pusimos una meta, que consistía en escribir dos artículos por mes. Era ambicioso, pero de alguna manera lo intentamos.

Así seguimos algunos meses; después cumplimos el año.
Juan renovaba el blog constantemente, me refiero a ponerle mas colores, hacerle una versión para equipos móviles, etc.

Los artículos empezaban a ser mas leídos; nos buscaban de varios lados, ya sea pregúntandonos directo en el blog o envíandonos correos. Digamos que tuvimos éxito.

Así seguimos un buen rato; pasó el 2010  y yo renuncié a Oracle Corp. Juan después hizo lo mismo un par de años después; sin embargo él siguió otro camino y me quedé yo solo haciendo el blog.

La realidad es que han sido 10 años muy buenos de usar este medio para compartir mi experiencia con problemas (sobre todo) relacionados a la tecnología de Oracle. Han sido 10 años de crecimiento en cuanto a cómo escribir una entrada de un blog; de incluso incorporar entradas en inglés; de influir de cierta forma a que otras personas crearan su propio blog. De apredender de muchos errores y compartirlos con los demás.

Me siento satisfecho con cumplir 10 años y tener ánimos de seguir adelante compartiendo experiencias. Yo no lo hago para presumir mi conocimiento, o para cumplir con ciertas actividades que tengo que realizar como Oracle ACE. Yo lo hago por lo siguiente:


  1. Me gusta la tecnología y este es un medio para compartir ese gusto
  2. Llevo tiempo trabajando con Oracle (15 años), así que algo debo saber o haber vivido que pueda compartir con la audiencia
  3. Me gusta escribir
  4. En 2007 no había muchos blogs en español; este fue uno de los primeros y sobre todo de los temas que hablábamos. Por lo que siento que he contribuido con la gente que habla español y que quiere leer en su propio idioma sobre tecnología de Oracle
  5. La tecnología avanza todos los días, sobre todo en los últimos 24 meses ha sido un cambio constante e innovación sin parar por parte de Oracle. Por lo que me debo mantener al día, y esta es una forma de hacerlo.
  6. Es una forma de invertir mi tiempo libre

A los que han leído mis posts, les agradezco. Seguiré manteniendo este blog, no tiene por qué parar. Si bien he hecho un espacio al cumplir 10 años, no hay ningún plan para dejar de hacerlo. Al contrario, mas que nunca debo seguir con este objetivo de compartir con la comunidad.

Gracias por leer este blog. Seguiré trabajando para poder tener información útil para la comunidad.

¡Gracias!

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