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PaaS (Process & Integration) Partner Community Newsletter April 2018

April 27, 2018 Leave a comment

Dear PaaS Partner Community,

Hands-on training material and presentations from the PaaS Partner Community Forum 2018 is available at the community workspace (membership required). Please use this material to update your team and customers on the latest Oracle PaaS services including blockchain, machine learning and the microservices architectures. Congratulations to all partners for your PaaS customer success, congratulations to the PaaS Partner Community Awards 2018 winners.

For SaaS partners who implement HCM, CX and ERP cloud services we offer free hands-on bootcamps in Utrecht and Warsaw. Or attend one of the upcoming Oracle developer meetups across Europe.

Oracle API Platform cloud service continues to evolve, the latest version supports plans. Setup Oracle API Gateway on OCI-Classic and get your fee trial here. Thanks to the community for sharing all the Integration articles: Teaching How to use Terraform to automate Provisioning of Oracle API Platform & Continuous Integration with Apiary, Dredd, and Wercker & Continued Evolution of OIC and this site & Oracle Integration Cloud: Customer Managed & Patching & AVIO Releases an ICS Maven Plugin & Extending analytics for Integration cloud using Elastic stack & Creating REST APIs with Oracle Service Bus & SOA Skills Have Value in a Microservice World & Automate SOA Installation Using FlexDeploy & Oracle SOA Suite 12c – Purge

Thanks to Richard Olrichs & Marcel van de Glind & Marc Kuijpers for the latest process cloud service article about the mobile app. And Jan Kettenis for the tips and work-around for no Script Activity.

In our innovation and architecture section Robert van Mölken describes how to build a practical blockchain. Besides the User Experience Updates we promote the Tech Experience 2018, June 2018 in the Netherlands.

For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware & PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The April edition highlights hands-on training material and presentations from the community forum, the annual community award winners and an OPN slack channel. This month’s community webcast will be an API Platform cloud service, please join our monthly PaaS Partner Community Webcast – April 17^th 2018.

Want to publish your best practice article & news in the next community newsletter? Please feel free to send it via Twitter @soaCommunity #PaaSCommunity!

To read the newsletter please visit www.tinyurl.com/PaaSNewsApril2018 (OPN Account required)

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Jürgen Kress

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API Platform Cloud Service REST API scripts and REPL using Python by Shreenidhi Raghuram

April 26, 2018 Leave a comment

Introduction

This blog introduces a few useful Python scripts written to repeatedly perform common administrative tasks and development operations on an API Platform Cloud Service instance.

The scripts are written in Python and can be executed on all Python 3.6+ supported platforms

Why

These scripts are written keeping in mind a few real life use cases, such as –

Migration of API Platform artifacts between different API server environments
Export of API Platform artifacts for source control

The scripts require familiarity with API Platform Cloud Service. Knowledge of Python programming language is not essential to execute the scripts and the interactive REPL, but will come in handy to customize or extend the functionality of the scripts to suite any specific needs.

Prerequisites

The scripts require Python version 3.6+ and ‘requests’ and ‘tabulate’ modules installed.

The API Platform Cloud Service (APIPCS) REST API documentation is available here http://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/api-platform-cloud

The python scripts zip pack can be downloaded FROM here.

Extract the zip archive. All python scripts are found within the apip-rest-python directory.

Usage information: Use ‘—help’ to get the usage of every script

For example, python listapis.py –help. Read the complete article here.

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Tech Experience 2018, June 7 & 8 at the Rijtuigenloods – “The Cloud is Next”

April 25, 2018 Leave a comment

Because of great success of last year’s conference, NL Oracle User Group has decided to organise the Tech Experience again in 2018; the one and only event covering the entire Oracle Technology Stack.

Previously, the conference existed as two separate events: Fusion Middleware Experience and DBA day. Last year Tech Experience was first organised which resulted in many positive reactions.

The program is available (subject to changes), and we present the already confirmed keynote speakers; Amit Zavery & Penny Avril.

Tech Experience 2018 will again take place at the industrial Rijtuigenloods (a former car workshop) in Amersfoort. The organisation comitee is, as we speak, looking at over 150 submitted papers, so a full program can be expected again combining client presentations and technical presentations by very interesting speakers, including ACEs & ACE Directors. The conference will cover many subjects, such as the Internet of Things, Database-as-a-Service, Chatbots, Javascript/Angular, Blockchain, Cloud Services, etc.

Each one of these subjects have sessions related to them, from DBA to Cloud and everything in between. Besides that, we are also planning to prepare a few hands on labs, in which you can try out the new Cloud products yourself! Like last year, the tickets are “all-inclusive”, meaning that besides participation in the conference a lunch will be included, you can participate in the evening program and parking is free. Make sure you’ll be there! For details please visit the registration page here.

For additional training please see the community training calendar (free membership required).

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Integrate and Extend SaaS hands-on trainings May 2018 in Utrecht and Warsaw

April 24, 2018 Leave a comment

For SaaS partners we offer two days hands-on trainings to extend and integrate SaaS with Oracle PaaS:

In case you can’t attend watch thee Partner Overview Webcast on-demand here and get the partner resource kit here.

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PaaS Partner YouTube Update April 2018

April 23, 2018 Leave a comment

The April edition of the PaaS & Middleware Partner Update contains four topics:

• Presentations PaaS Forum 2018

• PaaS Partner Community Awards 2108

• Slack Oracle Partner Network

• PaaS Community Webcast Oracle API Management

For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Thanks for your likes and sharing the video on YouTube and LinkedIn. For the latest SOA & BPM Partner Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required).

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Are You Ready for Microservices?

April 22, 2018 Leave a comment

Oracle ACE Rolanda Carrassco, co-owner and principal SOA Architect at S&P Solutions joins his colleague, SOA Architect Leonardo Gonzalez, to pose two questions that might help you decide if your organization is ready for microservices. Watch the video here.

More from Rolando Carrasco

Cloud Integration in HR | Carrasco and Viveros [Video]

Podcast Show Notes: Building a Real Cloud Solution

Podcast Show Notes: Oracle API Management Implementation

Integrate Your HR System with a Talent Management System in the Cloud

SOA Cloud Service in a Nutshell [Article]

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A Quick Word About Modern Software Architecture by Francisco Arturo Viveros

April 21, 2018 Leave a comment

Designing effective software has always been a challenging endeavour, but "challenging" has taken on a whole new meaning lately with all the options, trends and influences flying around the IT landscape. Modernization has bred concepts such as Digital Transformation, Cloud Computing, Web APIs, IoT, Serverless, etc., which are proving to be much more than just buzzwords and are consistently altering both the business and the technical side of what we understand as Software Architecture.

From the perspective of a solution architect, many things have actually changed in just a few years. And "Change" is indeed the keyword here, as the ability to enable, manage, leverage and generally deal with it, has become a critical asset to thrive in this particular role. Also, with so much in our plates, we need to stay level-headed even as we mix it up in the search for the scalable, flexible and cost-effective solutions demanded by a hyper-competitive market.

But what do we really mean when we apply the term "Modern" to Software Architecture?; which qualities, attributes or else need to be there for a system to be labeled as "Modern"?. As always, there’s no silver bullet, panache or manifest which will let us achieve all of our goals and solve all of our problems. However, there are plenty of building blocks which in the right configuration can sketch out interesting paths towards innovation, modernization and beyond. There’s also no textbook definition which can suffice in this regard, for at the end of the day, the concept of a "Modern" Architecture can be much better understood under the light of our day-to-day reality and the ever evolving relationship between information systems and human society. Read the complete article here.

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3rd-Generation API Management: From Proxies to Micro-Gateways by Oracle ACE Director Luis Weir

April 20, 2018 Leave a comment

Businesses today understand that, in order to remain competitive in a market dominated by digital disruptors [i], they must innovate and gain business agility and speed. To this end, organizations of all sizes are adopting cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)[ii] not only as the means to reduce TCO, but also as a vehicle to achieve digital transformation and customer centricity.

However, moving to cloud does not mean one cloud. Research suggests that organizations are opting for multi-cloud strategies [iii] as opposed to putting all their eggs in a single cloud vendor’s basket. This best-of-breed approach to cloud adoption means that on-premises monolithic system(s)[iv] (e.g., an ERP) and other on-premises applications are re-implemented in the cloud as discrete SaaS applications and integrated or extended with PaaS.

For those on-premises applications that either don’t have a cloud equivalent or simply don’t address the desired requirements, many organizations are also opting for application development in the cloud.[v] Microservices architectures [vi] have become predominant as an architectural style for implementing such cloud-native applications. To do this, a monolith is broken down into smaller pieces — each representing a business capability — and then implemented as a fully decoupled service (microservice),[vii] typically in PaaS.

As cloud adoption continues, information inevitably becomes more and more federated, not only across many different SaaS and PaaS applications (from different vendors), but also across many on-premises systems.

In order to achieve digital transformation, an organization must first either adapt or enhance its existing (on-premises) IT systems or attempt to replace them with modern ones (probably in the cloud), so products and services can be offered digitally via multiple channels (web, mobile apps, kiosks, partner online stores, bots, etc.).

Digital transformation makes co-workers more productive by enabling them to execute business processes whilst on the move through a seamless journey delivered by different device interactions.

It also enhances an organization’s partner ecosystem by giving them on-demand access to relevant business data and providing the means to execute business transactions electronically.

However, none of the above are possible if access to core business information assets is not availableÑand with information becoming federated, access can be a big problem.

Integration platform as a service (iPaaS)[viii] solutions address this issue. Their selling point is their ability to connect to any cloud and/or on-premises system and deliver the access required. A robust iPaaS platform should be capable of connecting to any cloud and/or on-premises application to deliver seamless access to information via RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (otherwise known as Web APIs [ix]).

The use of APIs as the means to deliver standard, consistent and secured access to information enables multi-channel applications to consume the assets they need when they need them. Read the complete article here.

For more information please visit https://www.capgemini.com/oracle and attend the

API Event April 26th 2018 in London www.tinyurl.com/CapgeminiOracle.

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