Oracle Code Assist is now available in beta to
help boost developer velocity
OCI Kubernetes Engine enhancements help
organizations train and deploy AI models at scale
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VEGAS, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
CloudWorld -- Oracle today announced new capabilities to help
customers accelerate the development of applications and deployment
on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle Code Assist, an AI
code companion to help increase developer velocity, is now
available through the Oracle Beta Program. The new capabilities
will help developers boost productivity in addressing daily tasks
within the software development lifecycle. In addition, new
enhancements to OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) optimize training,
deploying, and managing AI workloads at scale.
Deployed as a plugin for JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA or Microsoft
Visual Studio Code, Oracle Code Assist will provide developers with
intelligent suggestions to help them build and optimize
applications written in modern programming languages, including
Java, Python, JavaScript, SuiteScript, Rust, Ruby, Go, PL/SQL, C#,
and C.
"These new capabilities turbocharge application development,
empowering developers to leverage AI to help reduce the time spent
on mundane tasks that are inherent to software development," said
Sudha Raghavan, senior vice
president, Developer Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
"Thousands of Oracle engineers are using Oracle Code Assist in
their daily work to create boilerplate code, build and run unit
tests, generate documentation, and receive answers to coding
questions."
Key aspects of Oracle Code Assist include:
- Java optimization: Helps developers build new Java
applications and assists in updating legacy applications to enhance
application resilience, performance, and security. This is
available in the Oracle Code Assist beta.
- NetSuite SuiteScript optimization: Enables developers to
build extensions and customizations with NetSuite SuiteScript.
Oracle Code Assist is planned to be available to NetSuite customers
within the next year.
Newly announced capabilities for OKE simplify the deployment and
management of AI workloads and other cloud native application
deployments on OCI, including:
- Ubuntu support: Helps MLOps teams simplify the
deployment and streamline the management of AI workloads. With
support for Ubuntu images for containers now included, developers
can deploy a GPU-based workload directly as an Ubuntu image rather
than refactor it into a different OS image.
- Oracle Cloud Guard Container Security enhancements:
Helps developers identify security problems and develop faster
remediation methods by extending monitoring capabilities to
identify problems down to the container level. This provides a
secure and governed container runtime environment by automating the
enforcement of security policies.
- OCI Logging Analytics integration: Helps developers
improve usability and provides better observability by enabling
Logging Analytics for OKE workloads.
- Node health checks and cycling: Will help cluster
operators to ensure worker nodes are healthy and updated by
providing data to monitor cluster health and more options to take
actions on nodes based on that data.
Customers Innovate with Application Development on
OCI
Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a leading global
provider of consulting services and system solutions, relies on OCI
and Oracle Alloy to host the managed cloud solutions it provides to
hundreds of financial services organizations in Japan.
"At NRI, Java is our programming language of choice for
application development, and we have thousands of Java applications
in production," said Takahiko Inaba,
managing director, head of AI, NRI. "We're looking forward to using
Oracle Code Assist and its Java optimization to accelerate our
ability to update legacy applications and build new applications
faster."
Inworld is a leading AI platform for games that allows
developers to add gameplay mechanics, AI agents, and dynamic
narratives and worlds that evolve with each action. Due to rapid
growth, the company needed a way to connect its models to a
scalable development, testing, and training backbone.
"Previously, our development teams were spending a lot of
resources managing the daily operations necessary for our machine
learning models, which include speech recognition, contextual
awareness, and speech synthesis. After our demands grew 100x
overnight from a viral streamer, we sought a managed solution and
migrated to OCI," said Igor
Poletaev, vice president of artificial intelligence,
Inworld. "We use OCI Kubernetes Engine to orchestrate our GPU
workloads, allowing us to sleep well at night. These new
capabilities will simplify our work with GPUs, allowing us to train
and deploy our AI workloads at scale. Now we think about business
problems, not infrastructure problems."
8x8 is a communications solutions provider that is used by more
than three million business users at 55,000+ midsize and enterprise
organizations. It began utilizing OCI Kubernetes Engine and OCI
Functions to manage its over 300 Kubernetes microservices and is
using OCI Logging Analytics to get real-time, end-to-end visibility
across its cloud-native environment.
"With OCI's global footprint and excellent compute and network
performance, we can continuously deliver the best quality of
service to our customers worldwide on a single platform," said
Mehdi Salour, senior vice president,
global network and DevOps, 8x8. "Using OCI Kubernetes Engine and
OCI Logging Analytics, we have significantly reduced the daily
management complexities for our DevOps teams and enabled them to
focus their time on delivering new solutions to enhance our
platform."
GeneDx is a pioneering force in medical genetics, offering
industry-leading exome and genome testing fueled by one of the
world's largest rare disease data sets. GeneDx migrated its core
platforms to OCI to optimize its cloud infrastructure, which has
enabled it to increase efficiency and drive significant cost
savings.
"Managing critical pipelines across three different clouds added
complexity and increased costs, leading us to consolidate onto
OCI," said Neil Davis, head of engineering, GeneDx. "OCI's
services map very closely to those used on our previous cloud
platforms, providing a straightforward migration path. For most of
our Kubernetes services, using OCI Kubernetes Engine was as simple
as deploying a Helm chart and switching the DNS. Leveraging OCI
Kubernetes Engine has helped reduce the operational burden on our
development teams, which has allowed them to focus on scaling our
operations and enhancing our patient experience."
Additional Resources
- Read the Oracle Code Assist CloudWorld blog
- Read the OCI Kubernetes Engine CloudWorld blog
- Apply to be a beta tester for Oracle Code Assist
- Learn more about Oracle Code Assist
- Learn how to add AI to your applications with Oracle's AI
Solutions Hub
- Learn more about Oracle Application Development
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