Oracle CODE Mexico City 2017

A fortnight ago I was travelling to Mexico City / Santa Fe to speak at the Oracle CODE event. It was a huge event, relaxed atmosphere and everybody seemed to have a great time learning new tech. Gossip was spreading that over 2000 people signed up for it.

Myself, I did a live-hacking session, explaining the reasoning from building an ‘artesania’ Docker Swarm cluster to moving to Oracle Container Cloud Service (OCCS) and Wercker. This included a complete CI/CD workflow: based on a simple git commit for a Spring Boot application, building a new Docker image that will be stored on Docker hub, and then pushed to OCCS . Yes, live on stage 🙂 and live in the cloud.

Maybe the biggest impact on my session had the Mexico vs. Germany football match that just ended a few minutes before my presentation. After Mexico not winning 1:4 against GER there were still some 100 people in the mood to attend my live hacking session. Many of those showed up afterwards to say hello and ask advanced questions which was a pleasant surprise!

This is part of the group. Can you spot Mini, the cluster?  🙂

Even after walking out of my session and hanging around in the foyer, I got heaps of questions from people asking me about clustering Docker containers, the reasoning and difficulty of building a Raspberry Pi based Docker cluster, how OCCS differs to all of this and why and how Oracle is involved in Docker.

Have you been there? Something worth to repeat? Share your opinion about the event as a comment.

 

Cloud, Microservices and Container Workshop in South Africa!

Lot’s of people are talking about these topics nowadays. Heaps of slides and samples are available for download, lots of presentations can simply be streamed from youtube.

In Johannesburg we were working with these solutions hands-on: I delivered a 3 day Cloud, Microservices and Containers workshop on behalf of Oracle.

Find attached some impressions from the smart and fun group of devs and architects I was working with.

 

 

Next Stop: SOALatam Conference Lima / Peru

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Just back from Oracle Open Word 2015 in San Francisco, it’s a great honor for me that my presentation Docker Containers: A Thorough and Critical Overview was accepted for the the SOALatam conference in Lima. This is an independent conference but many examples and the demos will be based on Oracle Fusion Middleware or WebLogic. We cover key topics such as Security, Docker tools, Docker in public Clouds (Amazon, Google, Oracle).

Most presentation will be in Spanish, I will the only non-latino speaker apart from Thomas Erl.

I am looking forward to a world class conference in Lima and to meeting friends such as Tabata Jessica Pérez as well as Rolando Carrasco and Arturo Viveros from the SOA myth buster team. Thomas Erl is the keynote speaker and it’s also a good opportunity to win a top notch computer science text book 🙂

Heaps of reasons for a trip to Lima. CU there!

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