☁️ Cloud Study Weekly - December 20, 2021 🗞

Oracle Cloud (OCI) is on the rise 📈 Vacation for community events 🏖 Last minute Google Cloud & Azure exam vouchers 🎓 and more…

Hey there! 👋

Congratulations with the beginning of the holiday season! There won’t be many community events during this week. Use this time to concentrate on your family matters and complete the things that you wanted to leave in 2021.

In this issue of the Cloud Study Weekly newsletter you’ll find:

1. 🔜 Upcoming Community Events

2. ⌛ Past Community Events

3. 🤝 Conferences to Attend

4. 💸 Goodies & Discounts

5. 📰 Tech News

If you have any suggestions or want to share newsworthy updates in the upcoming newsletter - let us know (just reply to this email).

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Upcoming Community Events 🔜

• Cloud Community Call on Twitter Spaces

  📅 Sunday, December 26, 2021.

All upcoming community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.

Past Community Events ⌛

• Cloud native DevOps security (free webinar)

  📅 Tuesday, December 14, 2021. 🎥 Recording available.

• Automating GitOps and Continuous Delivery With DigitalOcean Kubernetes

  📅 Wednesday, December 15, 2021. 🎥 Recording available.

• NoSQL Workshop - Introduction to Apache Cassandra + Free Certification!

  📅 Wednesday, December 15, 2021. 🎥 Recording available.

• ✨EXCLUSIVE✨: From Housekeeping to Data Engineer - My Journey to Find My Passion

  📅 Thursday, December 16, 2021. 🎥 Recording and 📄 slides available.

• Introduction to Kubeflow (free webinar + free certification)

  📅 Thursday, December 16, 2021. 🎥 Recording available.

• Cloud Community Call on Twitter Spaces

  📅 Sunday, December 19, 2021.

All past community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.

Conferences to Attend 🤝

• The ExtremeJS Online Conf
  Location and date: Online・December 23
  Topics: JavaScript

Find further conferences & summits in our tech events repository.

Goodies & Discounts 💸

💰 Last minute FREE Google Cloud & Azure vouchers for 2021 exams!

Our community member Antariksh Pratham is graciously offering a limited contingent of FREE Google Cloud (associate & professional levels) and Azure exam vouchers. The caveat is that the vouchers are only valid till the end of December 2021!!! If you are in the ongoing exam preparation process and confident that you can attend and pass the exam then fill out this request form ASAP and to speed it up get in touch with Antariksh via Twitter’s direct messaging (follow him too!).

Antariksh has recently launched a Google Cloud Twitter Community. To get an invite follow Antariksh on Twitter and send him a direct message there: https://twitter.com/APratham

Tech News 📰

• The Top Five Providers of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
  Here’s an overview of the top five market providers of IaaS (ranking based on Gartner report).

• Edge computing keeps moving forward, but no standards yet
  Unless something changes, there's a limit to how far edge computing can go.

• 2 Cloud Computing Predictions You Won’t Hear Anywhere Else
  Every December there are obvious forecasts mostly from PR firms. It’s time for some targeted predictions about governance and cloudops as we enter a new year.

• Disney parks were already facing heat from fans. Then an AWS outage came along
  As Disney increasingly leans on apps for almost every facet of guest experience, tech problems have a wide-reaching impact on expensive days in the theme parks.

• Oracle Could Spend $30B Buying AWS Partner Cerner: Report
  Oracle could spend $30B on Cerner, an acquisition that could boost Oracle partners’ health care and electronic medical record (EMR) offerings.

• 'The cloud' may be great but it's also horribly broken
  One failure shouldn't be able to break so much of the internet.

• The VMware Certifications in Demand for Jobs Paying Over $100,000
  Tech firms are desperate for talent amid a shortage of labor, and an IT certification can help candidates get hired.

• OpenAI begins allowing customers to fine-tune GPT-3

  OpenAI has launched a new capability that allows users of the OpenAI API to fine-tune GPT-3 models for specific use cases.

• Larry Ellison Unveils Next Big Oracle Thing: ERP Plus Industry Clouds

  On Oracle's earnings call, Ellison described a "plan to add major new capabilities to our cloud ERP system,” in 3 specific industry clouds.

• Oracle expands cloud cover with data centers in Sweden, Italy

  Oracle said it has opened its first cloud region in the Nordics in Stockholm, along with one in Milan, Italy, as the pandemic increased demand for cloud computing tools from private- and public-sector organizations.

• Verizon and Google Cloud to collaborate to deliver 5G mobile edge computing

  Verizon and Google Cloud are working together to bring the power of the cloud closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of Verizon's network.

• Wipro Selects Oracle Cloud to Help Speed Digitalization of Air Cargo Processes

  Oracle announced that Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to power its next-generation Cargo Reservations, Operations, Accounting and Management Information System (CROAMIS) Application suite.

• The data that shows Boomers are to blame for the labor shortage

  One of the more insidious myths making the rounds this year was that young people didn't want to work because they were getting by just fine on government aid. The numbers don't back it up.

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