0 Using bindings to connect Azure Functions to Azure Queue Storage
Recently I started working in the Azure Cloud and I would like to share an example I worked on that…
0 Edge Computing with Azure IoT Reference Architecture
This blog will explain what Edge Computing is and why we need this. We also explain the broader concept of Fog Computing.
0 Set Terraform Resource properties from an element in a list retrieved by a Data Source – using a local value
Terraform is a platform for implementing Infrastructure as Code. Terraform defines a syntax for describing resources and provides an engine…
0 Secure browsing using a local SOCKS proxy server (on desktop or mobile) and an always free OCI compute instance as SSH server
Oracle provides several services as ‘always free’. In contrast to Azure and Amazon, these include compute instances which remain ‘forever’…
0 Using PXE to deploy a DNS server
Last week, I published a blog about implementing a PXE server [1]. Today I’ll show how kickstart/anaconda files can be…
0 Oracle Database – more value for money and more value for free
Oracle is not known for low prices or free products. However, when it comes to the Oracle Database there are…
0 Use OCI Monitoring, Alarms and Notifications for Your Own Custom and Functional Metrics
In earlier articles, I have discussed features in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for monitoring metrics published by virtually all OCI services.…
0 Welcoming the Data Catalog Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Data is really important to any organization. Data tells us what the organization is doing, and where it is going.…
1 Deploying CentOS 8 using PXE
What is PXE? PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) is a method of deploying an operating system to a computer over the…
0 Run Always Free Docker Container on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
In this article, I want to show how you can very quickly run a Docker container for free on Oracle…
0 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Resource Monitoring – Alarm triggers Notification when Metrics satisfy Condition
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gathers metrics from all OCI resources. These metrics can be visualized and analyzed with the Metrics Explorer.…
0 HTTP benchmarking using wrk. Parsing output to CSV or JSON using Python
wrk is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool. Using a simple CLI interface you can put simple load on HTTP services and…
2 jq – Linux command line tool for interpreting and manipulating JSON documents
I am not the first to discover jq, or even to write about it. However, jq was such a valuable…
0 Trying out Project Fn handson – using only your browser
Project Fn is an open source framework for creating and running serverless functions. Project Fn produces a Docker container image…
0 Further customizing a Grafana Custom Plugin in React
In my previous blog I created a custom plugin for Grafana with React and more specifically the Material UI TreeView.…
0 Rapidly spinning up a VM with Ubuntu and k3s (with the Kubernetes Dashboard) on my Windows laptop using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
In November of last year, my colleague Lucas Jellema, wrote an article with the title “Ultra fast, ultra small Kubernetes…
0 Somewhat Stateful Serverless Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Implementing a DIY Cache
We call them serverless and we consider them stateless. Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (and on other cloud platforms). Of…
1 JavaScript: Mapping and Wrapping Classic Callback Functions to Promises and Async / Await
Callback functions used to be very common in JavaScript and Node applications. Out of necessity. And with Callback functions came…
0 Asynchronous Function Calls through API Gateway on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
In a recent article, I described how serverless Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can invoke each other: synchronously and asynchronously.…
2 OCI Serverless Functions invoking other Functions – synchronous and asynchronously through API Gateway and Streaming
OCI allows for cloud native application development, using facilities such as serverless functions, a light weight API gateway, a streaming…
0 Using OCI Monitoring Healthchecks to Schedule execution of Serverless Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Execution of scheduled jobs based on a time schedule is a frequent requirement. Jobs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are often…
0 Oracle Cloud Streaming Service – Scalable, Reliable, Kafka-like Event service on OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the Streaming service. This service is easily described as a Kafka-like fully managed event platform for…