Let Your Coders Code

Developers want to create things, but instead they’re spending too much time lately on work like IT operations, deploying containers, and orchestrating clusters. Developers need to collaborate effectively with ops engineers, not become sysadmins themselves. Oracle has just recently open sourced two projects to help with that goal by making the Kubernetes container orchestration tool more practical for multicloud, large-scale use cases. 

Here are seven big ideas behind Oracle’s latest contributions to container-native technology, which should help developers get back to doing what they love, and help companies embrace containers and serverless environments that are enterprise-ready.

—Alexa Weber Morales, Oracle director of developer content

Don’t Let the Cloud Lead to an Unconnected Organization

Moving to the cloud should let IT reduce the chaos that comes from a legacy of multiple disconnected systems. But organizations need strong, centralized leadership to make sure connections happen, says Chuck Hollis, senior VP of converged infrastructure at Oracle. His advice.

Santa Could Really Use Blockchain for His Supply Chain

Santa uses blockchain, a digital ledger technology that records transactions chronologically and publicly, to track the status of children suddenly added to or removed from the Naughty List. Other ways blockchain works for Santa, and you.

Seven IT Skills That Future-Proof Your Resume

One growing technology area IT workers should master: Networks. “Network technology is undergoing major disruption as cloud computing takes hold in enterprises,” says Subramanian Iyer of Oracle Insight, who says new roles will involve software-defined network controllers, OpenFlow, northbound/southbound APIs, compute technologies, hypervisors and more. The other six skills.

Building Browser-Based UIs with Oracle JET

Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (Oracle JET) helps JavaScript developers build pure client-side user interfaces that consume and interact with web services such as REST and WebSocket. Oracle has used Oracle JET as the foundation for more than 70 percent of its cloud service offerings. Get a look inside Oracle’s open source JavaScript toolkit.

Chatbots Are Coming: Six Best Practices to Impress Your Customers

Chatbots are being used at times as the first line of defense in online customer service. But if you’re thinking of chatbots as just an automated way to help call center reps, you’re thinking way too small. Six pitfalls.