Oracle ChatOps: How To Build A Restful Service To Interact With Oracle Databases
February 18, 1:00 - 2:00 PM
ChatOps is an automation model connecting users and tools to processes through messaging apps. It leverages the simplicity and familiarity of chat to empower users to interact directly with apps and databases, retrieving information, and performing work in real-time. Done right, ChatOps is a safe, agile way to minimize or eliminate tedious, repetitive operational tasks and reduce workloads. Virtually anything can be automated or called via ChatOps through simple commands from self-service password resets, to initiating reporting cycles, to running ad hoc refreshes of development environments all without granting end-users access to a database or application. This session will cover connecting Oracle databases in the cloud or on-premises to chat services via REST considerations for building database APIs to handle ChatOps interactions methods for securing communications between the database and application practical examples of ChatOps integrations.
An Initiation To Containers For Database Professionals Or “How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Docker”
February 20, 8:30 - 10:45 AM
The developer community has embraced containers, but acceptance and adoption by DBAs are more tepid. That’s understandable--why would anyone want a database that’s stateless and immutable?! I started using Docker under duress and had no idea what I was doing. Since then, I’ve learned that Docker elegantly addresses many situations faced by DBAs. This session is a crash course in Docker covering the terminology, concepts, skills, and practical examples needed to begin using containers to support databases.