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.
Category: App Dev
Visual Builder Cloud Service – Dynamic Elements
I’ve been using VBCS for awhile now and it has really evolved over the past nine months. I guess that’s one of the wonderful things about these PaaS offerings from Oracle; we don’t have to wait so long for new features and capabilities.
One thing I wanted to do, but it isn’t directly supported in VBCS yet, is to have dynamic displays. I’ve done quite a bit of programming in native JavaScript and Oracle JET where I’ve used web sockets to make my graphs and gauges change automatically without the need for a refresh button.
Well, I figured out a way to do this in VBCS. Now I will admit right away, this is pretty ugly, so if you are a software development purist, please turn off your TV now!
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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:
Oracle Digital Assistant Hands-On: Build your Digital Assitant under 2 hours
As we roll out the Oracle Digital Assitant workshop across Australia and New Zeland over the course of the next few weeks, below are the instructions for the participants interested to try out the platform and build a Digital Assistant.
- If you have registered for the event, you would get an email to set up the password for your Oracle cloud account on the day of the workshop.
- Once you set up the password access Digital Assistant UI to start building your first Digital Assistant.
- Download the hands-on lab material from here that has detailed instructions on how to design and deploy a Digital Assistant.
Here are some interesting links that can compliment your learning process of the Oracle Digital Assitant or if you would like to re-visit them later.
Oracle Digital Assistant Channel: This playlist is dedicated to covering all the major features of Oracle Digital Assitant. You can watch in sequence for an end-to-end insight into Oracle Intelligent Bots, or dip into any video to learn about that features.
Additional Blogs that might help you in your Oracle Digital Assistant learning journey
Boring FAQ to engaging Digital Assitant under 5 mins
Autonomous Digital Assistant to Human Agent seamless Handoff
Oracle Autonomous Digital Assistant: The new incarnation for conversation interfaces
Provisioning Autonomous Oracle Digital Assistant
Entities and Intents: crawling through Natural Language Processing
What if in the middle of the conversation the user changes mind?
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Autonomous Digital Assistant to Human Agent seamless Handoff
In earlier articles, I discussed Autonomous Digital Assistant, provisioning a Digital Assistant, building skills and making it multi-lingual. In this post, I would like to take the discussion forward to address certain scenarios where there is a need for Human Intervention when the Bot cannot handle the conversation and instead redirect the chat to a human agent.
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Provisioning Autonomous Oracle Digital Assistant
In the last post, we talked briefly about the Oracle Digital Assistant. In this post, I would like to walk you through the provisioning process of the Autonomous Oracle Digital Assistant.
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Oracle Autonomous Digital Assistant: The new incarnation for conversation interfaces
If you are following the Oracle Autonomous Mobile and Chatbot Platform announcements you would have now realised that we have announced the availability of the Oracle Digital Assistant platform as a new SKU under the PaaS offerings.
In this post, I will delve deeper into the Oracle Digital Assistant offering and answer what I anticipate will be common questions about the changes.
