Oracle Magazine, July/August 2018
ORACLE DEVELOPER CHAMPION ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2018 35 A 2001 graduate of the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México Carrasco got his first full time job with HP in Mexico where he discovered his aptitude for Java and middleware In 2002 Carrasco began an eight year stint with Oracle where he focused on application servers eventually becoming Latin America regional principal product manager for Oracle Fusion Middleware But transformation never stands still and in 2010 Carrasco took a big leap I realized there was an opportunity for consulting services in the Latin American market because I was covering the whole region So I started a company S P Solutions based in Mexico City now has 35 employees I think 70 of our projects are based on SOA or Oracle SOA Suite onpremises Carrasco says Its been good but I think its going to change in the coming years In preparing for that change Carrasco devotes about 30 of his time to acclimating to what he sees as the future of IT We are preparing for multiple things One is microservices Everybodys engaging with how to model design and architect a solution from a microservices perspective he explains Containers are also on the agenda as the new backend and platform technology These days nearly half of Carrascos time is spent on APIs Because of my knowledge around SOA my natural next step was API management he says Most of our SOA projects now are publishing APIs because most of those projects also have applications in the cloud that need to connect to on premises back ends We are doing that through APIs Its been a natural thing Carrasco expects to be working with APIs well into the future APIs are one of the pillars of digital transformation he explains Everyone is going to be trying to publish something for someone and thats all about APIs Regardless of whats being developed Carrasco still enjoys coding Most of that coding is in Java though he is also taking steps to learn Go driven by his RECOGNIZE The Oracle Developer Champion program recognizes modern expert developers who blog write articles and present on topics such as containers microservices SQL NoSQL open source technologies machine learning and chatbots Learn more and follow the Oracle Developer Champions
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