Cox Automotive is saving $4.5 million annually with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Find out how big companies can work with their suppliers to make big reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Developers do coding sprints alongside Oracle engineers. Also: Kubernetes spawns developer productivity—and jobs.
Cox Automotive, with brands including Kelley Blue Book and Manheim, is consolidating on a multicloud architecture after more than 25 acquisitions. The company is saving $4.5 million annually using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to run back-office operations.
Big companies can use their clout with suppliers to help reduce carbon emissions related to supply chains, which currently account for as much as 80% of the world’s carbon emissions, says Oracle Chief Sustainability Officer Jon Chorley. Oracle leads by example by reducing energy consumption in the data centers that power Oracle Cloud.
Enabling developer productivity was a hot topic at KubeCon, a premier Kubernetes developer conference. And it was a great place for job-hunting, as big brands were on the scene to recruit for thousands of technical positions.
The Oracle Code Innovate event puts developers side-by-side with Oracle engineers to work on projects together in three-day coding sprints. “We’re hands on keyboard for true co-development,” says Oracle’s Chip Baber, who runs the event.
Java Champion Ben Evans teaches the practical fundamentals of using the Path API to handle file-system-specific extensions for tasks such as granting reading permission, filtering, copying, and deleting files.
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