Preface

“This—is now my way: where is yours?”

Thus I answered those who asked me “the way.”

For the way—does not exist!

Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra—Friedrich Nietzsche

I’ve been working with the Oracle database, at Oracle, for more than 15 years now but for the last six years, I have been serving as group product manager within the Java and Web services products group, part of Oracle’s server technologies development organization. Like Janus, the Roman god, I have to face two opposite directions: (1) the development organization, to represent customer interest (e.g., requirements, application design choices) and (2) customers, to represent the development organization (e.g., features, implementation design choices). Working closer to both ...

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