* Welcome Stephen Morris

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

This week, we're delighted to have Stephen Morris helping to answer questions about the new book Resilient Oracle PL/SQL: Building Resilient Database Solutions for Continuous Operation.
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The promotion starts Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 and will end on Friday, June 2nd, 2023

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, O'Reilly.


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[Stephen Morris]

Some talking points from my book

Question: True or false? Even trillion dollar organizations are struggling with creating and maintaining resilient systems.
Answer: True.

The main principles in this book are language-agnostic, i.e., they apply to languages other than PL/SQL.

Here is the roadmap of the book:
1) PL/SQL toolbox
2) Resilient techniques applied to PL/SQL
3) Feature-based resilient development

A requirements orientation is used throughout the book:
What versus how

The Scale of Resilience:
11 items

Surprising finding in relation to resilience #1
There is a big need for horizontal communication, i.e., true DevOps. This is illustrated by the worked example where the database platform becomes unstable and logging fails

Surprising finding in relation to resilience #2
Resilient systems may have less code than expected