Knowledge Resources from Oracle
Originally published at http://blog.mp3monster.org on April 5, 2022.
Before joining Oracle I used to typically refer to a couple of key resources from Oracle — docs.oracle.com, and occasionally developer.oracle.com and ateam-oracle.com. We’d obviously use cloud.oracle.com and the main oracle.com to be able to reference published stats, success references etc. Now I’m part of the company and working in the OCI product team with an outbound side of things, I needed to gem up on all the assets that exist. So that we can help contribute, and ensure that they are up to date etc. In doing so, the number of resources available is so much more than I’d realized.
Upon reflection, this may have been from the fact we didn’t drill down deeply enough, also in part that Capgemini has its own approaches and strategies as well.
This in part is linked to the organizational structures e.g. OCI Product Management’s outbound work overlaps with the Marketing Developer Relations, for example, something that is inevitable in an organization that provides such a diverse portfolio of products.
For my own benefit, and for others to exploit, the following table summarises the different areas of information. The nature of the content and — where content overlaps or is presented in different ways.
oracle.com
This is the commercial side of the Oracle content. But includes a landing page for a lot of Oracle knowledge/documentation.
Oracle blogs primarily from Oracle staff covering different parts of the organization, covering employment diversity through to each of the major product families, domain verticals such as Retail, Hospitality. The blogs are broken into groups, so it’s worth bookmarking the product groups of interest, for example, Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Java Magazine.
In addition to the product spaces, there are blogs that come from teams such as the A-Team
The team who are the ‘gurus’ of product application. These cover a range of domains — structured in a similar way to blogs.oracle.com with different posts. These posts represent patterns and solutions to problems encountered by the team. How to, or not to implement things.
This can overlap with some blogs in so far as both product blogs and A-Team blogs may address how to leverage product features.
Developer relations lead, which covers not only Oracle products but also the application of open source. By its very name, there is a strong emphasis on coding (rather than low-code) covering not just Java, but .Net languages such as C#, Node, JavaScript and so on.
There is some content overlap here with the Architectural Center, where Architecture Centre provides reference solutions.
This is the Architecture Center which provides reference solutions. But these aren’t exclusive to the SaaS products (which would be easy to interpret). A lot of examples cover deploying and running open-source solutions on IaaS, for example, Drupal, WordPress, and Magento to name just a couple. A lot of these are backed up with scripts, Terraform, and code to achieve the deployment and configuration.
In addition to this, there are use cases of what customers have deployed into production (known as built and deployed).
This contains a lot of free tutorials and labs that can be taken a run to implement different things, from deploying a Python with Flask solution on Kubernetes to Creating USB Installation Media for Oracle Linux with Fedora Media Writer. As you can see from these examples, the tutorials cover both Oracle products and open source.
These resources interlink with the Architecture Centre and can overlap with developer.oracle.com.
Primarily for the formal Oracle certification resources, but there are some free training resources here as well.
Helidon, Fn and other source projects
A number of Oracle open source projects have their own independent web resources as well. Helidon includes additional technical resources.
The ones we know of are:
Helidon, Fn, Verrrazano, GraalVM, Apiary
Java (OpenJDK and Oracle JDK)
Oracle propel not just their main JDK /JRE which has license constraints, but also Open JDK. With this comes a dedicated Developer zone as dev.java.
