Another Taste of India– ODevCYatra 2018

_{July 2018 saw another edition of the Oracle Developers’ tour through India, called Yatra. In just over two weeks, seven cities participated in this tour – with each city hosting a one day mini-conference (three of four parallel tracks).}

Organized by many volunteers from the local chapters of the All India Oracle User Group, coordinated by Sai Penumuru Janakiram – who did a really tremendous job – this was another great experience. The Oracle ACE Program/Oracle Developer Community were proud sponsors of the event.

I estimate that in the range of 2000 attendees – perhaps many more? – attended across these seven locations. The range of speakers, topics and sessions was fairly broad – from Exadata to KSQL and from Machine Learning to Buffer Cache Internals. Most speakers are in this picture from the initiation ceremony in Hyderabad:

Many pictures for all of the seven sites can be downloaded from http://odevcyatra.in/downloads/2018-odevc/ . This address also hosts the presentations from all sessions. The Tweet Thread for the ODevCYatra: https://twitter.com/hashtag/odevcyatra?src=hash&lang=en 

My personal best memory is probably from this session on Machine Learning, also in Hyderabad – with standing room only:

The three different presentations I presented in three different cities can be checked on SlideShare:

* 50 Shades of Data – how, when and why Big,Relational,NoSQL,Elastic,Graph,Event (ODevC Yatra 2018, July, Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai – https://www.slideshare.net/lucasjellema/50-shades-of-data-how-when-and-why-bigrelationalnosqlelasticgraphevent-odevc-yatra-2018-july-hyderabad-pune-and-mumbai 

* The Art of Intelligence – Introduction Machine Learning for Oracle professionals – https://www.slideshare.net/lucasjellema/the-art-of-intelligence-introduction-machine-learning-for-oracle-professionals-odevcyatra-2018-hyderabad-pune-mumbai-109726978

* Intro to Docker Containers and the Oracle Platform – Database, WebLogic &Cloud – https://www.slideshare.net/lucasjellema/intro-to-docker-containers-and-the-oracle-platform-database-weblogic-cloud-odevc-yatra-2018-july-pune-and-mumbai