Bio

Kuassi Mensah is Director of Product Management with Oracle server technologies. His day job and/or interests include: Architecture, Cloud, Databases, Java and JVM languages, Reactive programing (Reactive streaming with RDBMS), Micro-services (Docker, Kubernetes) and RDBMS, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark (exposure to Apache Flink and Apache Beam). More specifically: (i) Java programming Oracle autonomous database Cloud services: JDBC, Connection pools, stored procedures, Performance, Scalability, Zero Downtime, Web Services: stored procedures as Web service provider, Calling out Web Services from within the database using JAX-WS client (ii) In-database processing using JVM languages (JACL, Groovy, Scala, Jython, JRuby, etc) (iii) Reactive Programming and asynchronous database access (iv) Micro services, Containers (Docker, Kubernetes): data and transaction patterns (v) Turning RDBMS database tables into Hadoop Datasource (vi) In-Database Container for Hadoop (in-database processing using Hadoop) (vii) Looking into turning RDBMS tables into Spark datasources (i.e., Spark connector) Career summary: Joined Oracle in France, set up the center of Expertise, a sales consulting unit specializing in system performance, application architecture, and Java then moved to Oracle HQ and have since been involved in many technologies (as described above).. Mr Mensah holds a MS in Computer Sciences from the Programming Institute of University of Paris VI. Author ''Programming the Oracle Database with Java and Web Services''; has published several articles and frequent speaker at industry events. Patent - EFFICIENT CONNECTION MANAGEMENT IN A MASSIVELY PARALLEL OR DISTRIBUTED DATABASE ENVIRONMENT Blog: http://db360.blogspot.com -- Twitter handle: @kmensah