Tips and tricks for setting up cloud for your classroom

In this episode Tyra Peirce speaks with Oracle Principal Architect and adjunct professor Victor Statchura about teaching cloud computing in the classroom, and some of the specific things that faculty should think about when they embark on teaching students in the cloud.

 

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Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders. Of the Future. Let's get started. Welcome to Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy helps prepare our next generation's workforce.
 
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I'm your host here appears in this episode. I'm joined by Oracle Principal Solution architect and adjunct University of Buffalo instructor Victor Stachura. In this episode, Victor and I speak about setting up cloud software and how it differs from setting up on premise software. Welcome, Victor. Thanks, Tyra. Glad to be here. So, to start off, can you give me a little bit about your background, your role at Oracle and the class you teach at University of Buffalo?
 
00;01;06;13 - 00;01;30;10
Sure, I can do that. I've got a long history, which means I've got a lot of experience. I've been working for a long time. I've been with Oracle for about just over three years. I've been teaching at the University of Buffalo for over ten years. I'm always in an adjunct role. Right now, I'm a principal solution architect, so I'm in a pre-sale’s tactical role.
 
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Prior to that, at other companies, I was director of Enterprise architecture, software engineer, presales consultant, all kinds of different things. So, the courses I teach one is called Enterprise Models, which is basically a consulting solution architect type course, and the other one, which is more applicable to this podcast was called Big Data Technologies. So, students learned about concepts of big data, and they were hands on with Hadoop.
 
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So, for someone who's interested in using cloud in their classroom, what is a key difference between cloud and on prem software? Well, when I started this course and I've been working with Oracle University, I was very excited to find out that they offer OCI credits to students. I was very concerned about installing Hadoop on each student's laptop because they all don't have laptops.
 
00;02;28;02 - 00;02;52;26
Some have Windows, different operating systems, some have, you know, Mac, you know, laptops. Some are using tablets. Some are using their phone. So, the previous instructor had a lot of problems with all the students and all the devices and trying to get software loaded up saying, great, let's use OCI. Everyone's working off from the same platform no matter what device they have.
 
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They can access the cloud, and they can go from there. So that was really kind of the idea and the genesis of this whole thing. I wanted to eliminate a whole boatload of problems installing in different devices. So, what are some particular things that you think about when you set up a cloud environment, particularly for the classroom? Yeah, that's a really good question because these students, they were undergraduates, so they had very limited cloud experience.
 
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I think there's a lot of people in industry, even to this day, even though cloud is a multibillion-dollar business for us and other companies, all they know is the marketing literature. I get out a credit card. I can go create an account. I go spin up a compute instance. I c