Best selling SOA author Thomas Erl and Oracle senior product managers Tim Hall and Demed L'Her discuss the SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Symposium and the forces that are shaping the role of the IT architect.

The role of the IT architect is one of the most misunderstood and maligned roles in IT, yet there is growing interest in training and certification to fill that role. Best selling SOA author Thomas Erl and Oracle Senior product managers Tim Hall and Demed L'Her discuss the dissing and the dichotomy.

Best selling SOA author Thomas Erl talks about the latest titles in his Prentice Hall Service Technology Series of books.

Experts Eric Stephens and Tim Hall discussion why it's important to revived the dormant conversation about IT governance.

Balancing functional, technical, operational requirements to meet the challenge of defining appropriate governance "guardrails."

Bringing IT architecture out of the ivory tower to make governance a less intimidating, more collaborative process.

The expert panel at OTN Architect Day in Los Angeles responds to an audience question about cloud security and auditing.

Panelists Tim Hall, Peter Belknap, and Robert Wunderlich discuss why DevOps matters and how it changes development methodologies and organizational structure.

Panelists Tim Hall, Peter Belknap, and Robert Wunderlich discuss DevOps and where it fits with cloud computing and other evolutionary changes in enteprise IT.

Panelists Tim Hall, Peter Belknap, and Robert Wunderlich discuss DevOps-friendly technologies and the impact of DevOps on communication and governance.

A panel of Oracle ADF Mobile experts discusses the relative merits of the Web, Native, and Hybrid mobile architectures.

The panel of Oracle ADF Mobile experts discusses the challenges of designing and developing mobile apps for the enterprise.

The panel of Oracle ADF Mobile experts looks at the most important considerations for architects and developers as we move into the future of mobile applications for the enterprise.

DevOps and cloud computing are changing the IT industry -- and changing IT roles. A panel of experts discusses what's happening and how it might affect your job.

Automation and innovation had a huge impact on the manufacturing jobs of years gone by. Is something similar happening to some IT jobs?

In 2003 Nicholas Carr said "IT doesn't matter." In 2013 and beyond, what IT roles will matter? Staying relevant may mean stepping out of your comfort zone.

A community panel of Oracle Data Integrator experts discusses ODI's flexibility as it relates to meeting the challenges of data warehousing.

A panel of data warehousing experts and community leaders discusses how data warehousing is changing -- and the forces driving that change.

Four ODI experts discuss the core skills for effective data integration and what they've done to keep their skills relevant.

Two Java evangelists and two product managers sit down for a wide-ranging roundtable discussion.

The panel discusses the development gap and the need to adapt existing developer skills for evolving business requirements.

The panel looks at the forces shaping mobile app development and discusses how Java developers can take advantage.

Architects from Verizon Telematics and Sascar describe the nuts and bolts of their respective Internet of Things solutions in this roundtable discussion.

Meeting Internet of Things challenges: massive data streams, security and privacy issues, evolving standards and protocols.

Mobile devices as gateways in M2M communication, emerging solutions to security challenges, and the bright future for the Internet of Things.

What is the relationship between SOA and Cloud Computing? How is that relationship changing? Is the Cloud changing SOA?

What effect does the ease of acquiring services in the cloud have on the existence of development silos? What role can SOA principles play?

Many services are poorly architected, say these experts. Don't worry, they have a plan.

Docker 4X5. Part one of this four-part discussion by five experts looks at Docker basics.

Is Docker ready for prime time? An expert panel discusses the pros and cons, and the importance of the ecosystem around Docker containers.

The panel discusses how combining containers like Docker with continuous delivery pipelines provides the ability to deliver small, incremental changes into production.

The panel discussion concludes with a look at the artefacts within a Docker container.

What's the one thing you should know before starting your first Oracle BPM project? Advice you can use from a panel of experts.

How does the new Oracle Process Cloud Service compare to Oracle BPM? The panelists talk it out.

The expert panel panel shares insight into the Oracle BPM features they find the most useful, how those features are being use to deal with real-world BPM problems.

Take a seat at the virtual table as a panel of experts talks about how organizations are meeting some of the biggest BPM challenges.

What happens when you jam eight experts in Oracle ADF, MAF, Forms and other dev tools into a hotel room and toss in a live microphone? Listen and learn.

The OTN ArchBeat Podcast goes deep inside Oracle HQ for a conversation with Vikas Anand (Senior Director, Product Management, SOA Suite/Integration Cloud Service, Oracle) and Ram Menon (Product Manager, Oracle Integration Cloud Service).

A panel of Oracle Middleware product managers discusses the current state of several middleware products in the lead-up to Oracle OpenWorld, and also highlights key OOW16 sessions, labs, and demos.

Software architects and developers who moonlight as authors discuss what goes into researching, writing, and publishing tech books, and talk about the tech titles that influence their work.

Beyond the buzz, what impact is IoT having in the real world? How is it changing enterprise IT? A panel of experts shares their experience and insight.

Maurice Naftalin discusses his Raspberry Pi-powered virtual doorman and what scares him about IoT devices; Sean Phillips explains how JavaFx will help astronauts navigate the far reaches of the solar system.

Are Microservices and APIs Becoming SOA 2.0? Are monolithic applications an anti-pattern? Experts Chris Richardson, Luis Weir, Phil Wilkins, and Boris Scholl address these and other questions in this roundtable discussion.

Chabot development comes with a unique set of requirements and considerations that may prove challenging to those making their first excursion into this new breed of services. This podcast features a panel of developers who have been there, done that, and are willing to talk about it.

The previous podcast featured a discussion of chatbot development with a panel of developers who were part of a program that provided early access to the Oracle Intelligent Bots platform available within the Mobile Cloud Service. In this podcast we continue the discussion of chatbot development with an entirely new panel of developers who also had the opportunity to work with that same Intelligent Bots beta release.

• Oracle ACE Director Mia Urman is Chief Executive Officer of AuraPlayer Limited. She’s based in Brookline, Massachusetts.
• Peter Crew is Director at SDS Group, and Chief Technical Officer with MagiaCX Solutions, in Perth, Australia
• And Christoph Ruepprich is Infrastructure Senior Principal with Accenture Enkitec Group. He’s based in Dallas, TX

In this program Mia, Peter, and Christoph compare notes on the particular challenges that defined their chatbot development experiences, and discuss what they did to meet those challenges.

IT professionals Natalie Delemar (Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young, President, Board of Directors, ODTUG), Heli Helskyaho (CEO at Miracle Finland), Michelle Malcher (Security Architect at Extreme Scale Solutions), and Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman (Technical Intelligence Manager for the Office of CTO at Delphix, President, Board Of Directors, Denver SQL Server User Group) join panel organizer and moderator Laura Ramsey to share insight on what motivated them in their IT careers, and how they lend their expertise and energy in driving momentum in the effort to draw more women into technology.

The Panelists

• Natalie Delamar, Senior Consultant with Ernst & Young, and a former president of ODTUG, the Oracle Developer Tools User Group
• Oracle ACE Director Heli Helskyaho, CEO with Miracle Finland, and an Ambassador for EMEA Oracle Usergroups Community
• Oracle ACE Director Michelle Malcher, Security Architect at Extreme Scale Solutions and a former president of the Independent Oracle Users Group
• Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman, President Of The Board Of Directors of the Denver SQL Server User Group, and Technical Intelligence Manager for the Office of CTO at Delphix
• Laura Ramsey, Manager, Database Technology and Developer Communities, Oracle America

There is little in our lives that does not rely on software. That has been the reality for quite some time, and it will be even more true as self-driving cars and similar technologies become an even greater part of our lives. But as our reliance on software grows, so does the potential for disaster as software becomes increasingly complex.

In September 2017 The Atlantic magazine featured “The Coming Software Apocalypse,” an article by James Somers, that offers a fascinating and sobering look at how rampant code complexity has caused massive failures in critical software systems, like the 2014 incident that left the entire state of Washington without 911 emergency call-in services until the problem was traced to software running on a server in Colorado.

One of the people interviewed in that Atlantic article was Chris Newcombe, an expert in dealing with software complexity. Chris, an architect on the Oracle Bare Metal infrastructure as a service team,  is one of the panelists for the discussion you are about to hear. Chris is joined by Java Champion and microservices expert Chris Richardson, Java Champion Adam Bein, and Oracle ACE Director and Developer Champion Lucas Jellema. The conversation focuses on what developers can do to combat complexity.

Meet-ups, offer a fantastic alternative to big developer conferences. They’re easily accessible local events, generally lasting a couple of hours. Meet-ups offer a more human scale, are far less crowded than big conferences, with a far more casual, informal atmosphere that can be much more conducive to learning through Q&A and hands-on activities. In this program you’ll meet four people who have organized and continue to manage local developer meet-ups. You’ll hear first-hand what they learned about what works and what doesn’t in finding venues, developing content, and creating an atmosphere that keeps developers coming back for more.

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Andy Bell, Sander Rensen, Phil Wilkins, and Luis Weir are the authors of Implementing Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, now available from Packt Publishing, and as you'll hear in this podcast, they bring considerable insight and expertise to this discussion of what's happening in API management. The conversation goes beyond the current state of API management to delve into architectural implications, API design, and how working in SOA may have left you with some bad habits.

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Microservices are a hot topic. But that's exactly the wrong reason to dive into designing and implementing microservices. Before you do that, check out what this panel of experts has to say about what makes microservices a wise choice.

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