Oracle Magazine, September/October 2018
ORACLE DEVELOPER CHAMPION ORACLE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2018 23 data systems transforming them and doing all of that in as serverless a way as possible As the IT ecosystem evolves so do Rosts interests I find it hard to do something that Im not passionate about and Ive been passionate about Oracle Database for a long time he explains What I find fascinating now is real time streaming analytics things like Kafka KSQL Spark Streaming and Apache Beam You have huge volumes of data coming and you want to make sense of them as fast as possible As his expertise grows within the ever expanding IT universe Rost offers this career advice If you want to have a job in IT I think its important to have product knowledge Its hard to get hired if you say I know a lot about relational databases That might be true and you might have studied relational databases and you might have studied a lot of theory and you might even know SQL That knowledge and experience has great value Rost says but knowledge and experience with specific products is key For getting a job it is still important to know products Rost explains Get exposure to them and do as many internships and co op things and projects as you can because thats really valuable real life real world experience But youll have to get your own piñata Oracle Architect Community Manager Bob Rhubart is the host engineer producer of the Oracle Developer Podcast series and produces the 2 Minute Tech Tip video series PHOTOGRAPHY BY JORGE CAMAROTTI STUDIO AT GETTY IMAGES FOR ORACLE NEXT STEPS LEARN more about Oracle Developer Champions
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