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Issue #280 – 27th January 2021

"This week we bring you news of AWS taking down Slack, the PeopleSoft Innovation Summit, OCI, Handling Errors in Integration Broker, Gaming the Lottery, Machine Learning, the spat between AWS and Elastic, merging PDFs and a 6 tonne potato."
Corrina, Editor
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NEWS AND LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Slack Outage was AWS Error 

The hours-long outage that kicked off the 2021 working year for Slack customers was the result of a cascading series of problems initially caused by network scaling issues at AWS. 
EVENTS

PeopleSoft Innovation Summit 

Appsian's PeopleSoft Innovation Summit is a free virtual event running on Weds 17th and Thurs 18th February packed with quality sessions and speakers - including Version 1's own Robert Swailes talking about the PeopleSoft Push Notification Framework. Check out the agenda above and make sure you register.

PeopleSoft Reconnect 2021

The place to get all your Oracle PeopleSoft information - Product strategy, roadmaps, new feature demos and more. Quest PeopleSoft Reconnect Envision event will be held virtually from 26th-29th April. A great chance to meet with thousands of other PeopleSoft community members.
NEW RELEASES

PeopleSoft HCM Image #37

The latest Update Image for PeopleSoft HCM was released in the last week. Image 37 contains numerous enhancements including Recruiting Chatbots and SMS Text messaging, new features in Page & Field Configurator, and  Health & Safety Kibana analytics. We featured the image highlights video last week, if you missed it you can find it here.
TECHNICAL

Are you new to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 

Looking for a good overview of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure? OCI is a natural home for PeopleSoft customers and Parvez Syed Mohamed, Director Product Management, Oracle guides us through OCI's comprehensive and feature rich world.  He links to content that will keep you busy through many a coffee break - so get brewing and get learning.  

Integration Broker OnError Method

Jim shares some tips on Integration Broker handler App Classes and throwing exceptions when using REST calls.
READING

The Man Who Gamed the Lottery 

In 1992, the Virginia State Lottery machine spat out 6 winning numbers on live television. In the coming days, officials would find out that one “person” had secured not only the $27,036,142 jackpot, but 6 second prizes, 132 third prizes, and 135k minor prizes collectively worth another $900k. This is the story of the mathematical savant who “gamed” the lottery not just once, but 14 times.

Time to Learn about Learning

PeopleSoft is embracing Ai and Machine Learning. There is now a menu in PeopleTools 8.58 for Machine Learning. It is only a matter of time before PeopleSoft is telling you how to run your business! But before PeopleSoft becomes self aware, check out some useful Oracle information on the subject and register for Oracle's upcoming webinar on the AI and ML.

Amazon Forks Elastic, Kibana 

To prevent AWS using Elasticsearch and Kibana for free without collaborating with Elastic, the products have been moved away from the Apache Open Source licence and are instead using the non-open-source Server Side Public License (SSPL). AWS have responded by simply forking the Elasticsearch and Kibana codelines and leaving them open source. There's another viewpoint on Elastic's move here.
LISTENING

PSAdmin #273 – SAML2 and SSO 

This week on the podcast, Kyle shares some upcoming changes to psadmin_plus, testing strategies for PeopleTools Patches, and Dan discusses how SAML2 works for PeopleSoft Single Sign-On.
WATCHING

Merging BIP PDFs with PeopleCode 

More coding examples on the PeopleSoft BI Publisher reporting tool from Randy Groncki on his PeopleTools Tech Tips blog.  Something for you PeopleCode developers out there. We like what Randy's sharing with the community.
AND FINALLY

The 6 Tonne Potato Airbnb 

The pandemic forced people to cancel travel plans and stay at home for months in 2020. Some people took that time to fantasise about future vacations they could take and discovered unique and quirky destinations. Is staying in a 28-foot-long, 6 tonne one-bedroom mini hotel in Idaho on your 2021 holiday bucket list?
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