Two architects, Dr. Helen Sun of Oracle, and Dr. Karine Ishkhanova with TFA Wise Applications, Inc., describe their career paths and what drew them to the their respective roles.

Dr. Helen Sun of Oracle, and Dr. Karine Ishkhanova with TFA Wise Applications, Inc., discuss the role of gender in IT and offer career advice to women interested in IT architect careers.

Pete Farkas, Deepak Arora, and Derek Sharpe talk about the mission and focus of Oracle's Fusion Middleware A-Team.

Pete Farkas, Deepak Arora, and Derek Sharpe discuss the most common problems Oracle Fusion Middleware A-Team members encounter in the field.

Pete Farkas, Deepak Arora, and Derek Sharpe describe the interaction between Oracle Fusion Middleware A-Team and product teams, and the hazards of field assignments.

A conversation with the Oracle Weblogic Server product management team about community involvement in WebLogic's evolution.

A discussion of the relationship between Oracle Weblogic 12c and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder.

A conversation about Oracle WebLogic 12c's role in the evolution of Oracle Fusion Middleware, plus a quick overview of product information resources.

The community panel closes out the discussion with a look at the interplay between developers and architects, and the evolving nature of both roles.

Recorded live at OTN Architect Day in Los Angeles, a panel of experts responds to an audience question about what happens to traditional IT roles in a Cloud environment.

Three members of the Oracle ACE program and the program manager talk about who becomes an ACE -- and why.

Program members Debra Lilley, Alex Gorbachev, and Tim Hall talk about the professional value of Oracle ACE Director status.

Program members Debra Lilley, Alex Gorbachev, and Tim Hall discuss the personal and social aspects of being an Oracle ACE Director, and what the role requires.

Forget the hype! A panel of working architects share their insight into the trends and technologies that will have the greatest impact on their work in 2013.

The panel of working architects discusses the trends, technologies, and other aspects of enterprise IT that will lose steam in 2013.

The panel of working architects discusses how the evolution of enterprise IT is profoundly reshaping the IT architecture profession.

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.

SOA technology and tools are mature, says this panel of experts, but some organizations still lack the maturity to take advantage of industrialized SOA.

Human nature and a lack of trust among stakeholders can thwart successful SOA. Can a marketplace approach and social tools improve the situation? A roundtable discussion.

Do SOA stakeholders recognize the problems caused by poor communication among siloed service development teams? A panel of experts shares their insight.

Understanding the difference between technologies that disrupt and technologies that sustain innovation, and acting on that knowledge.

The past as a bridge to the future: the increasing importance of service orientation in cloud-based, highly mobile world.

Rolling with the changes: think big, start small, and learn fast in order to turn trends into professional evolution.

Oracle ACE Directors Debra Lilley and Jonathan Lewis and Oracle ACE Kashif Manzoor preview two very special sessions being presented as part of Oracle User Group Forum at Oracle OpenWorld 2014.

The panelists share their thoughts on the confluence of cloud computing and Oracle Data Integrator.

The panelists compare notes on the types of ODI projects they're seeing from their clients.

The panel discusses workarounds for ODI integration with Hyperion Financial Management.

The ODI panelists share their insight into the challenges of launching a Big Data project.

A panel of Oracle Data Integrator experts compares notes on what they consider the most important features in ODI 12.2.1.

Software engineering and civil engineering have little in common. But should software engineers be more like their civil counterparts? A panel of software development experts explores the issues.

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.

A conversation that started at OOW16 grew into a community group focused on exploring and mastering how modern software architecture - including micro services and APIs - can serve the evolving needs of today's enterprises. Group members discuss the issues and technologies in this podcast.

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.

Forget the hype! Which technologies made a genuine difference in the work of software developers over the past year? For this podcast we gathered five highly respected developers in a tiny hotel room in San Francisco, tossed in a couple of microphones, and let the conversation happen.

The panelists for this podcast are busy, working developers with stellar reputations:

(Listed alphabetically)

• Lonneke Dikmans, Chief Product Officer at eProseed. Utrecht, NL
• Lucas Jellema, Chief Technical Officer at AMIS Services. Rotterdam, NL
• Frank Munz, software architect and Cloud Evangelist at Munz and More. Munich, DE
• Pratik Patel, Chief Technical Officer at Triplingo and president of the Atlanta Java Users Group. Atlanta, US
• Chris Richardson, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Eventuate Incorporated. San Francisco, US

This wide-ranging conversation spans containers, microservices, PaaS, IoT, machine learning, and much, much more. Listen!

The first Oracle Developer Podcast for 2018 brings together a panel of experts whose specialties cover a broad spectrum, including cloud computing, big data, security, open source, agile, domain driven design, Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Internet of Things, and more. The thread that connects these five people is that they are part of the small army of experts that will be presenting at the 2018 Jfokus Developers Conference. February 5-7, 2018 in Stockholm.

In this freewheeling discussion the panelists talk about the trends and technologies that have captured their interest, the work that consumes most of their time, and the issues that concern them as IT professionals. Then, to wrap things up, you'll get a quick preview of their respective sessions at Jfokus.

• Jesse Anderson: Data Engineer, Creative Engineer and Managing Director of Big Data Institute.
• Benjamin Cabé: IoT Program Manager and an Evangelist with the  Eclipse Foundation.
• Kevlin Henney: Consultant, programmer, speaker, trainer, writer and owner of Curbralan.
• Siren Hofvander: Chief Security Officer with Min Doktor, a digital healthcare provider in Sweden.
• Dan Bergh Johnsson: Agile aficionado, Domain Driven Design enthusiast, and code quality craftsman with Omegapoint.

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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

DevOps is a hot topic, but is that heat driving adoption? Are organizations on the adoption path making headway in the cultural and technological changes necessary for DevOps success? A panel of DevOps experts discusses these and other issues in this freewheeling conversation.

• Nicole Forsgen, Founder and CEO, DevOps Research and Assessment LLC, Beaverton, OR
• Leonid Igolnik, Product Development Executive, Startup Mentor and Advisor, Sand Hill Angels, San Francisco Bay Area.
• Alena Prokharchyk, Principal Software Engineer, Rancher Labs, Cupertino, CA
• Baruch Sadogursky, Developer Advocate, JFrog, Cupertino, CA
• Shay Shmeltzer, Director of Product Management, Oracle Cloud Development Tools, Redwood Shores, CA
• Kelly Shortridge, Product Manager at SecurityScorecard, NYC

• Combating Complexity An article in the September 2017 edition of the Atlantic warned of The Coming Software Apocalypse. Oracle's Chris Newcombe was interviewed for that article. In this podcast Chris joins Chris Richardson, Adam Bien, and Lucas Jellema to discuss heading off catastophic software failures.
• AI Beyond ChatbotsHow is Artificial Intelligence being applied to modern applications? What are the options and capabilities? What patterns are emerging in the application of AI? A panel of experts provides the answers to these and other questions.

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.

You’ve heard the term API monetization, but do you really understand what it means? More importantly, do you understand what API monetization means for developers? In this podcast you’ll learn why API monetization is about more than money, and why developers should care.

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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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The good news is that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts 24% growth in software developer jobs through 2026. That’s well above average. The outlook for database administrators certainly isn’t bleak, but with projected job growth of 11% to 2026, that’s less than half the growth projected for developers. Job growth for system administrators, at 6% through 2016, is considered average by the BLS. So while the news is positive all around, developers certainly have an advantage. But there is another story behind those numbers. Powerful forces are driving change in long-established IT roles. This podcast examines the trends and technologies behind this evolution, and looks at what roles may emerge in the future.

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American inventor Thomas Edison, once said, “Hell, there are no rules here. We're trying to accomplish something.” What we hope to accomplish with this episode of the Groundbreaker Podcast is an exploration of the idea that the evolution in today’s architectures makes it advantageous, perhaps even necessary, to challenge some long-established concepts that have achieved “golden rule” status as they apply to the use of databases.

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Are you familiar with Project Helidon? It’s an open source Java microservices framework introduced by Oracle in September of 2018.  As Helidon project lead Dmitry Kornilov explains in his article Helidon Takes Flight, "It’s possible to build microservices using Java EE, but it’s better to have a framework designed from the ground up for building microservices." In this program we’ll dig into Project Helidon with a panel that consists of two people who are actively engaged in the project, and two community leaders who have used Helidon in development projects, and have also organized Helidon-focused Meet-Ups.

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It’s one of the immutable rules of Information Technology: everything changes all the time. Amid all that paradigm shifting and envelope pushing, does enterprise integration get a pass? Of course not! Conversations about Integration once involved terms like “service oriented architecture” and “enterprise service bus.” But times and the vocabulary have changed, and those conversations -- like the one you are about to hear -- now involve a new vocabulary: containers, serverless, REST, APIs. The people doing the talking in this program are experienced architects with plenty to say about changing views on enterprise integration.

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Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast #368 features a conversation with the winners of the 2019 Oracle Groundbreaker Awards. The discussion covers their career journeys, their thoughts on where software development is today, and on where it’s going tomorrow.

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Can software save the world? In this program you’ll meet a group of people who believe the answer is a resounding yes, key members of a group of software developers and IT professionals behind For All a Beautiful Earth, a non-profit organization also known by the acronym FABE. The developers at FABE have produced a mobile app that allows you to set goals and manage activities for reducing your personal impact on the environment. Click play to learn more about FABE and its mission from key members of the team.

In a 5-month period beginning in late 2018, two Boeing 737 Max aircraft crashed in similar circumstances, killing 343 people. Investigators determined that in each case the crash was caused by problems with flight control software unique to that aircraft model. All 737 Max aircraft were subsequently grounded, where they remain, and the story remains in the news. This podcast, a rebroadcast of a show published on March 21, 2018, looks at the increasing complexity in software, and at what can be done to reduce that complexity and increase safety.