One of the session at CodeOne 2018 discussed an upcoming feature for Oracle Database – supported in Release 12.2 and up – that would allow developers to consume Kafka events directly from SQL and PL/SQL and – at a late stage – also publish events from within the database straight […]
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Reflections after Oracle OpenWorld 2015 – Mobility and Internet of Things
Internet of Things continues to be of great potential interest – with tens of billions connected devices to sense and record and report and actuate when necessary. Cars, running shoes, trees, animal wild life, home appliances, kiosks and vending machines, cash registers and other point of sales equipment, thermostats, medical […]
Java 8 – Collection enhancements leveraging Lambda Expressions – or: How Java emulates SQL
Part of the evolution of Java in release 8 consists of Lambda expressions. These ‘functional expressions treated as variables’ introduce a powerful Inversion of Control in Java – allowing a clear and elegant distinction between the what [should be done] and how [should it be done]. The Collection APIs have […]