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Why Install Oracle 21c on OL8 via RPM?

Far too often in home lab situations, where there’s some interesting idea to be explored, efforts get derailed as a result of sinking too much time into the environment setup particularly when something like Oracle Database is involved. Maybe the the initial idea is to play with data migration or to investigate some new feature or just to brush up on skills, but whatever the scenario there’s a need for an environment and then, just like that, a week has passed and you’re just about ready having hunted down all the obscure errors and issues thrown up as the setup has progressed, when you get distracted by something else as the idea you wanted to work on has been crushed by the weight of getting things ready.

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How to Deploy Hubot

Finding a good excuse to learn a new technology is something I’ve been interested in for a while particularly as the pace of change and technology adoption only ever seems to be increasing. Knowing that the IT world is in an ongoing state of flux, finding an engaging way to learn about the tech that technologists are expected to know is more than idle curiosity, it’s essential for career success.

Revisiting Chatbots, a topic I encountered through a Wired article from summer 2015, I discovered that getting a chatbot up and running, and more importantly, useful and usable, involved a wide variety of different technologies. As the article was heaped so much praise on Github’s bot, I decided to try it out with a view to having it do some useful tasks around AWS administration, one of the two challenges that had been put up to our 2016 interns.

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