Title: DevOps at Scale; Greek Tragedy in Three Acts
Speakers: Maria Kaval and Shaun Smith

See my live blog table of contents from Oracle Cloud

Started by talking about 6 trends

Serverless functions

• Spins up when funtion calls
• Goes away after
• Like Cinderella’s carriage – but with a server. Only there for a short time

DevOps -> NoOps

• Taking work of ops away from you
• As developer, just want to write your code
• Less emphasis on memory management and such

Open Source

• Oracle cloud based on open source
• Not focused on profit

Chatbots

• Teens like testing and emojis
• Adults like to text too; good interface
• With chatbots, don’t know if talking to human or bot

Blockchain

• More than just bitcoin
• Ledgers build trust

Machine Learning

• Now have proessing/compute power to enable machine learning

Use case – selling and buying a car

• The chatbot asks basic info and calls serverless functions to look up value
• Showed Oracle bot builder service – set up intents (phrases that represent what you want to do), train bot (ex: linguistics, machine learning)
• Test bot by trying a chat in the config screen
• Artificial intelligence integration trains bot

Serverless Functions

• Serverless is a category
• There are still servers; you just don’t have them. Instead the cloud provider does
• Economics – only pay when service is being used – so only when called vs standing service
• Agility – small amounts of code. So easier to write/debug/etc
• Reliability – in cloud
• Innovation – easier to try things out since easy to deploy

Fn

• http://fnproject.io
• Sample commands – init, run, test, deploy, call
• Flow UI lets you watch as code runs. Looks like a sequence diagram except live; shows how long took, etc