I’ll keep this one short as we have done a specific writeup about this event. If you hasn’t seen it – check out this previous article #BuildWithAI – A Hackathon Experience. The winners have been announced and published … Here’s a quick summary of who won what.
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Kiron – A #VisFSG Project
Over the past couple of weeks, there’s been another Viz for Social Good project that was running. For this project, the supporter was Kiron Open Higher Education (https://kiron.ngo/en/) – an organisation that is providing a learning platform for refugees and underserved communities in the Middle East.
The project was to put a spotlight on refugees and immigrants and was linked to the virtual refugee conference called Amplify Now (https://virtualrefugeeconference.com/). Submitted projects went into the running to be featured at the conference itself.
So what’s my take on this?
Connecting Jupyter Notebook to Oracle Autonomous Database
Jupyter Notebook is an open source web application for Machine Learning and Data Exploration.
In this post I will show you how to connect a Jupyter Notebook to Oracle Autonomous Database and explore the data using Python.
The assumption is we already have a Jupyter notebook sandbox running on Oracle Cloud compute instance.
Prerequisites:
- A Jupyter notebook sandbox on Oracle Compute Instance. (Check out the documentation)
- Assumption that you have already installed Oracle Instant Client on your instance
- Python 3.6
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Oracle Integration Cloud Autonomous Transaction Processing Adapter Configuration !!!
Oracle’s two major ground breaking innovation last year were Autonomous Data warehouse (ADW) and Autonomous Database Transaction processing (ATP) both are database offering suitable for different workload and are self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing in nature. If you want to read more about these services then please go through above links.
ADW/ATP both can be quickly provisioned on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it’s take less than 5 minute to spin ADW/ATP instance and database is ready to connect.
User can use Oracle SQL Developer to connect to ADW/ATP database as long as they are supported version. These DBaaS services also offers out-of-box browser based SQL Developer tool which can be used to run any kind of SQL statements.
Here is sample snap of browser based SQL Developer capabilities –
Once user has Database ready, obviously there could be requirement to access data residing inside ADW/ATP instances.
Fortunately, Oracle Integration Cloud provide Adapter for connecting ADW/ATP instance, click here to know more about ATP Adapter capabilities –
In this blog I will be covering simple steps how you can connect to ADW/ATP instances using OIC Autonomous Transaction Processing Adapter (ATP) Adapter.
I made assumption that ADW/ATP instance already exists. if you not sure how to create ADW/ATP instance then refer this blog which was written by my colleague who already explained how to create ADW/ATP database instance and connect from SQL developer.
So, let move forward. Login to your Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) home page >> Integration >> Connection >> Create >> search for “Oracle ATP” >> select the same
Enabling REST APIs to consume data from Oracle Autonomous Databases (ADW/ATP)
In a previous blog, I showed how to develop microservices to connect to Autonomous Databases and consume data (read/write) via REST APIs. Although I still highly recommend that approach, the reality is that there is an easier way to do it using Oracle REST Data Services modules that come included with any Oracle Autonomous Database (ADW/ATP).
This way you simply have to:
- Configure the API endpoint (Method + URL) that you want to expose as a REST API
- Define the underlying SQL statement that will serve to your endpoint (i.e. SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE statements or a more complex PL/SQL script)
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Define the security mechanism to properly protect your APIs
That’s pretty much it, this should be a very quick, yet powerful alternative to building your own microservices to consume data from Autonomous DBs.
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Why we must cede to our robot overlords (to do the dull stuff)
Can I get a show of hands – whose spine shudders at the sound of their own phone ringing? If your hand is up, chances are a component of your role (or role in days gone by… the scarring can be permanent) involves operations. Day or night, it’s that dread associated with wondering “What now?”. A few years back, enterprise started outsourcing the problem of supporting key business systems to 3rd party services, and while this reduced the quantityof calls, it only served to increase the quality – now when the phone rings at 3am, you know things are bad. Real bad.
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In November 2018, I had the privilege to attend the Australian Oracle User Group national conference “#AUSOUG Connect” in Melbourne. My role was to have video interviews with as many of the speakers and exhibitors at the conference. Overall, 10 interviews over the course of the day, 90 mins of real footage, 34 short clips to share and plenty of hours reviewing and post-editing to capture the best parts.
Teaching How to Invoke REST APIs from Oracle Visual Builder Web/Mobile Apps
In this blog, I am going to show you how to build a nice and simple UI with data coming from invoking REST APIs. All without code, but in just a few clicks.
I consider myself a good backend developer, good at making things functional, but I really struggle every time I need to produce nice UIs. However, using Oracle Visual Builder, I feel like I don’t have to be a UI developer or designer, I can very easily produce nice and friendly mobile UIs that consume my backend REST APIs. If you are like me, a backend programmer who loves API-first design approach, I’m sure that you will find this blog not only informative, but also refreshing.
This is a quick view of what we are going to achieve in this article:
- First, we are going to auto-create Service controls in Oracle Visual Builder by pointing to existing REST APIs.
- Then, we are going to use the out-of-the box widgets and components to build a simple, yet powerful UI that consumes such APIs.
- Finally, we are going to publish the UI and test it across different media, e.g. Web on a laptop, mobile, tablets, etc.
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Teaching How to Invoke Gen2 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) resources via REST APIs
I am thrilled with the Oracle’s Gen2 Cloud Infrastructure architecture, where Oracle completely separates the Cloud Control Computers from the User Code, so that no threats can enter from outside the cloud and no threats can spread from within tenants.
Obviously with more security, there comes more coordination, especially at the moment of invoking OCI resources APIs. Luckily, Oracle did a good job at providing a simple to use CLI and SDK (see here for more information).
For the purpose of this blog, I built a simple NodeJS application that helps demystify the security aspect of invoking OCI APIs. Check this link for examples of running similar code across other Programming Languages.
My NodeJS application manages OCI resources in order to:
- List ADW instances
- Stop an ADW instance
- Start an ADW instance
I started this NodeJS application to list, start and stop ADW resources. However, I designed this application to easily extend it to invoke any other type of OCI resources.
I containerised this application with Docker, to make it easier to ship and run.
This is a picture of the moving parts:
Teaching How to Increase Value from your Data
Databases and Data Warehouses have been around for a long time and they bring multiple benefits to business, but these also come at a cost. Some of the associated challenges include:
- Complex and Expensive to provision and secure
- Inability to manage data and user growth
- Costly to maintain
In this post, I will provide some resources on how Oracle Autonomous Database and Data Warehouse aim at easing these challenges and increase the speed at which you can innovate and the value you can get from your data.
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