by Gianni Ceresa | 26 March 2020 | Cloud, Infrastructure
End of February I attended Analytics and Data Summit 2020 in Santa Clara where I presented 2 sessions and a hands-on lab. Delivering a hands-on lab is a double challenge: content and environment. Not only you have to prepare the content, including the lab with all the...
by Gianni Ceresa | 17 February 2020 | Cloud, Under the hood
Earlier this week Oracle released a new cloud service: Oracle Cloud Data Science Platform. A new service making it quick and easy for data science teams to collaboratively build and deploy powerful machine learning models, leveraging assets from its acquisition of...
by Gianni Ceresa | 6 January 2020 | Cloud, Infrastructure
I wrote about setting up a JupyterLab sandbox in an Oracle Cloud Compute Instance not long ago. Now that I have it, I obviously want to use it for some experiments with Machine Learning and graphs. For that I often use an Oracle database as source for my data, and...
by Gianni Ceresa | 23 December 2019 | Cloud, Infrastructure
Few weeks ago I was writing about my own sandbox setup, which I run at home. But hey, we are in 2019! Why not run it in the cloud? The main reason was I didn’t need much power (CPU or memory) for my sandboxes and therefore my small host at home was more than...