Oracle Labs Apps

Designing, building and operating modern apps running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Project Overview

The Oracle Labs Apps team is in charge of designing, building and operating apps that follow the principles of modern app development. Such apps need to adhere to high standards in terms of security, compliance, availability, and more. Some applications we currently develop and operate are: 

• Oracle Contributor Agreement Signing Service (OCASS)
  • Enables contributors to Oracle-sponsored open-source projects to sign the Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA), a document which gives Oracle and the contributor joint copyright interests in the contributed code.
  • OCASS allows the OCA to be signed electronically via DocuSign (if electronic signature is possible in that country).
  • Oracle-internal OCA reviewers evaluate each OCA and approve or reject it.
  • There are two types of OCAs: The Company OCA is signed by the employer of a contributor if the employer claims all IP that is created by the contributor. If this is not the case, the contributor may sign an Individual OCA.
• GitHub Compliance Audit Service (GCAS)
  • ​​​​​​​Runs regular and on-demand audits on all Oracle open-source repositories and verifies their compliance in terms of documentation, security, and more. 
• Third Party License Tracking Application (TPLTA)
  • An application to track and approve the usage of third-party software, datasets and APIs.
• Archivist
  • Internal tool to upload, review, approve and publish documents that are shared outside of Oracle (e.g., research papers, internship postings, presentations)
• Oracle Labs website
  • The website you are currently on :)
  • Represents Oracle Labs to the world
  • Needs to be up-to-date with latest employee information, projects, locations, news, and more
  • Integration with Archivist to display projects' research publications
• Oracle Labs Level Up (OLup)
  • Internal tool for productivity improvements
  • Current focus on progress tracking and aggregating in weekly team reports
  • Jira integration to pull in tickets that were worked on in a given week
  • More productivity tools coming
• Platform for Evaluating Disparate Research Opportunities (PEDRO)
  • Internal tool for organizing research collaborations, for example with universities

Our responsibilities lie in

• Development: Adding new functionality and fixing bugs
• SRE: Ensuring availability and scalability
• Maintenance: Applying security patches and updating third-party dependencies
• Support: Responding to support questions or forwarding them to the responsible team

Principal Investigator