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Inspiring Builders: Part 1: Jim Grisanzio and Chris Bensen from Oracle Developer Relations talk about how they engage developers via demos and experiences online and at conferences. This in depth conversation is part one of a two part series on inspiring developers to build real things.  Jim Grisanzio on Twitter @jimgris Chris Bensen on Twitter @chrisbensen YouTube: Chris Bensen: Inspiring Develop...

Hackmakers: Part 4: Jim Grisanzio talks with Amanda Bennett, Tamara Orth, and Alistair Hofert, about their experiences being mentors at the Hackmakers World Innovation Day Hackathon in April 2021. The conversation ranged from what tools and platforms were used, what projects were worked, who the participants were, and the overall passion everyone brought to the event. Oracle and other organization...

Hackmakers: Part 3: Jim Grisanzio talks with Steve Nouri about his experiences participating at the Hackmakers World Innovation Day​ Hackathon in April 2021. Steve is head of Data Science at ACS and also the Chair of Hackmakers. Steve loves participating in technical communities and hackathons and he talks about the value for developers in getting involved in these events. Oracle and other organiz...

Jim Grisanzio talks with Rex Wang, VP for Developer Marketing, and Alok Sanghavi, Product Manager, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, about the latest news and new services offered in Oracle Cloud Free Tier. See  http://oracle.com/free . Video on YouTube Rex Wang on Twitter @wrecks47 Alok Sanghavi on Twitter @aloksanghavi78 Podcast Host: Jim Grisanzio, Oracle Developer Relations https://twitter.com/jimg...

Hackmakers: Part 2: Jim Grisanzio talks with Jason Lowe about his experiences participating at the Hackmakers World Innovation Day​ Hackathon in April 2021. Jason spoke about the people, skills, and software technologies that Oracle contributed to the event and some of history and upcoming hackathons as well. Developers and non-developers alike came together to work on projects to help support the...

Hackmakers: Part 1 : Jim Grisanzio talks with Franco Ucci, Sr. Director for Oracle Cloud Platform Strategy for Australia and New Zealand. Franco outlines Oracle's involvement in the Hackmakers World Innovation Day Global Hackathon in April 2021, where thousands of developers came together to build solutions to help people. This is part one of a multipart series about this major developer event. Fr...

Jim Grisanzio talks with Sandesh Rao about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, the latest technologies from Oracle in the AIOps space, how Sandesh manages teams, how he deals with change, and how industry trends are changing everything. Sandesh Rao, Oracle VP, AIOps Podcast Host: Jim Grisanzio, Oracle Developer Relations https://twitter.com/jimgris https://developer.oracle.com/team/  

Jim Grisanzio talks with Jeff Smith about some interesting features that have been emerging in the Oracle Database recently, such as an integrated development environment in the console for rapidly building RESTful Web Services. And many other tools for developers, of course. The two also talk about how much Jeff and his colleagues interact with the developer community, which is substantial. Jeff'...

In this episode Jim Grisanzio talks with Dmitry Alexandrov about his session at Jfokus 2021 . Dmitry is a well known speaker at Java conferences globally, and at this month's Jfokus he ran a live coding session on Project Helidon , which is a collection of Java libraries for writing microservices. Dmitry covered the performance improvements and new features in Helidon 2.1. See his session abstract...

Javed Mohammed talks with Serial Entrepreneur Bob Quillin. Predicting the future isn't everyone's cup of tea. In the absence of having a magical crystal ball, it requires amongst other things, experience, vision, creativity, good judgement, recognizing patterns beyond the obvious and a track record. When I think of making predictions, or forecasting the future, I am thinking of people who can dete...

Javed Mohammed from the Oracle Groundbreakers Developer Marketing Team speaks with three veterans helping to combat Covid. Oracle's COVID-19 therapeutic learning system is not just another APEX application  but it is also an Oracle cloud story, and it's a human-technology story.  This application is used by patients to enter their health status as well as clinicians and physicians to track the eff...

Jim Grisanzio from the Oracle Developer Relations Team talks with Simerjeet Singh in this extensive conversation about how to deal with the massive change we are all experiencing in 2020. Simerjeet is a noted motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and performance coach in India, and he was the keynote speaker at last year's Oracle Groundbreakers Sangam 19 Conference in Hyderabad, which is the annual...

In this conversation Oracle Community Manager Javed Mohammed speaks with three AI-ML experts. Autonomous technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are on the tip of every tongue in tech. But what is the difference between AI and ML? What are interesting use cases? What is "under the hood" of AI/ML and the algorithms that power ML models? We have three Subject Matt...

Jim Grisanzio talks with Oracle Sr. Product Manager Avi Miller on a variety of Open Source projects at the company, some history about Oracle's involvement in the Linux community, how people can contribute to FOSS projects generally -- and a bit of Legos development at the end.  Avi Miller (Twitter) Jim Grisanzio (Twitter) Video on YouTube Blog 1 Blog 2   Podcast Host: Jim Grisanzio, Oracle Develo...

Community Manager Javed Mohammed takes the baton from Bob Rhubart for the Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast. Community Manager Bob Rhubart, host of the Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast, is calling it a day, as he retires from Oracle. Bob is one of a kind and anyone who knows him can verify that. Smart, helpful, generous, friendly, are just a few of the many words that describe him.   In this interview Bo...

If you listened to our previous episode -- and of course you did! -- you heard a panel discussion of the ins and outs of low code development. In this episode we expand on that initial conversation to bring you a discussion that compares and contrasts low code with cloud native development.  Returning for this discussion is Joel Kallman, who heads the Oracle development team behind Oracle APEX. Jo...

The term "low code" has been around since it was coined by a Forrester Research analyst in 2014. The concept was originally intended to allow so-called "citizen developers" -- those whose business acumen exceeds their coding skill -- to develop applications. But in the ensuing years low code platforms such as Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle Visual Builder have found fans among experie...

Groundbreaker Podcast associate producer Javed Mohammed [ @JavedMohammed ] first encountered Dr. Hulme in January 2020 at Oracle OpenWorld Middle East in Dubai, where Dr. Hulme, a featured speaker, delivered a session on "AI and the Future of Business" as part of the Transformational Technologies track. "I was so impressed with his vision and his unconventional thinking," Javed says. This program,...

Community Managers Bob Rhubart and Javed Mohammed share the best of 25 years of Java. May 23, 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the first appearance of the Java programming language, as designed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. Despite the emergence of a number of competing languages over the years, Java, under Oracle's stewardship since 2010, remains one of the most widely used languages in...

Already enjoying wide adoption, digital assistants are destined to become even more prevalent.  As the use of digital assistants expands, so do the opportunities for developers with the necessary skills. In this program you'll meet three people among the vanguard of those developing digital assistants. Oracle ACE Director Mia Urman, Founder and CEO of AuraPlayer, was deeply involved in the develop...

On March 8, 2020 people around the world celebrated International Women's Day , the theme of which was expressed in the hashtag #EachforEqual. In keeping with that cause the podcast we bring you today features a panel discussion on building a diverse team. The panel includes three IT executives who remain very hands-on in software development, and are directly involved in helping their respective...

In this Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast Extra guest host Alexa Weber Morales interviews Oracle Database master product manager Maria Colgan about new product features that allow developers, data scientists, and non-traditional database users to help themselves. See the complete show notes.

Popular culture abounds with examples of artificial intelligence gone awry. From HAL 9000's emotionless apology to a distressed astronaut, to the various incarnations of the Terminator, to the Matrix series' disturbing vision of humans as batteries, it's easy to see why people may be a bit leery of the idea of thinking machines. This program brings together a group of software developers to discus...

Bob Quillin, Vice President of Oracle Cloud Developer Relations, joins guest host Javed Mohammed to explain his tech predictions for 2020, which cover the cloud, open source, Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more.   See the complete show notes.

Kelsey Hightower is a developer advocate, an open source aficionado, and a widely recognized expert on Kubernetes. He is the creator of the open source tutorial Kubernetes The Hard Way , available on Github , and he is a co-author of Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive Into the Future of Infrastructure , the second edition of which is now available from O'Reilly Media. In this program his conversatio...