by Gianni Ceresa | 11 May 2020 | Cloud, Infrastructure
I already wrote about Jupyter and JupyterLab which is my standard sandbox environment nowadays. There is even a blog post about how to install JupyterLab in an OCI Compute instance. But, JupyterLab is a single-user environment: how can you have the same for multiple...
by Gianni Ceresa | 6 April 2020 | Graphs, Hacks
Earlier this year, at end of January, the Oracle Graph Server and Client 20.1.0 has been released. This version represents a major change in packaging and delivery of the Oracle Property Graph product. For the first time Property Graph is available as a unique version...
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 | 1 February 2020 | Infrastructure
More than 4 longs years ago OBIEE 12c was released. After then nothing much happened, and there were even some (fake) rumours it was the end of the development of the product. The future was Oracle Analytics Cloud. But Friday 31st January 2020 something new finally...
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...
by Gianni Ceresa | 5 December 2019 | Graphs
It is some years that I’m exploring the graph world, mainly using Oracle solutions. This means PGX for property graphs, and either the standalone OTN version or the one packaged with the Oracle Database (there is also the big data one, but never really needed it so...
by Gianni Ceresa | 16 October 2019 | Graphs, Infrastructure, Quick tips
I’m not sure why somebody would be interested in my own sandbox environment. Not because it isn’t fairly classic or absolutely generic, but mainly because I believe a sandbox is extremely personal. A sandbox is like a custom-made suit: it’s very...
