0 Oracle’s extended support – when is it free of charge
It’s such a simple, basic and old question I got from a colleague: “Do you have to pay for extended…
0 Presenting at ODevCYatra 2018 in Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai (11, 13 and 14 July)
In 2013 I have participated in the OTN Yatra – a conference tour of six cities in India (). This…
0 Quickly setup a persistent React application
After having recently picked up the React framework, I figured I’d share how I quickly setup my projects to implement…
0 Oracle Service Bus 12.2.1.1.0: Service Exploring via WebLogic Server MBeans with JMX
In a previous article I talked about an OSBServiceExplorer tool to explore the services (proxy and business) within the OSB…
0 Running Istio on Oracle Kubernetes Engine–the managed Kubernetes Cloud Service
In a recent post, I introduced the managed Oracle Cloud Service for Kubernetes, the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE): https://technology.amis.nl/2018/05/25/first-steps-with-oracle-kubernetes-engine-the-managed-kubernetes-cloud-service/. A…
2 First steps with Oracle Kubernetes Engine–the managed Kubernetes Cloud Service
Oracle recently (May 2018) launched its Managed Kubernetes Cloud Service (OKE – Oracle Kubernetes Engine) – see for example this…
0 5 main building blocks of the new Visual Builder Cloud Service
In may 2018 Oracle introduced the new version of Visual Builder Cloud Service. This version is not just aimed at…
0 Running Kafka, KSQL and the Confluent Open Source Platform 4.x using Docker Compose on a Windows machine
For conducting some experiments and preparing several demonstrations I needed a locally running Kafka Cluster (of a recent release) in…
0 ADF Performance Tuning: Manage Your Fetched Data
In this blog I want to stress how important it is to manage the data that you fetch and load…
0 Simple CQRS – Tweets to Apache Kafka to Elastic Search Index using a little Node code
Put simply – CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is an architecture pattern that recognizes the fact that it may be…
0 Rapidly spinning up a VM with Ubuntu and Docker–on my Windows machine using Vagrant and VirtualBox
I have a Windows laptop. And of course I want to work with Docker containers. Using the Docker Quickstart Terminal…
1 SOA Suite 12c in Docker containers. Only a couple of commands, no installers, no third party scripts
For developers, installing a full blown local SOA Suite environment has never been a favorite (except for a select few).…
0 Java SE licensing
There are several good blogs about this subject (like this one), and I never paid much attention to Java and…
2 Get going with KSQL on Kubernetes
This article describes how to quickly get going with KSQL on Kubernetes. KSQL is Confuent’s ‘continuous streaming query language’. It…
0 ADF Performance Monitor – Major New Version 7.0
We are very happy to announce that a major new version 7.0 of the ADF Performance Monitor will be available…
0 Using Java Management Extensions within Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c
The answer to using Java Management Extensions(JMX) within Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is using Metric Extensions. Metric extensions provide…
0 Oracle API Platform Cloud Service: using the Developer Portal for discovering APIs via the API Catalog and subscribing applications to APIs
At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camps VII 2017 in Lisbon last year, at the end of august, I attended…
8 15 Minutes to get a Kafka Cluster running on Kubernetes – and start producing and consuming from a Node application
For workshop I will present on microservices and communication patterns I need attendees to have their own local Kafka Cluster.…
0 Remote and Programmatic Manipulation of Docker Containers from a Node application using Dockerode
In previous articles, I have talked about using Docker Containers in smart testing strategies by creating a container image that…
0 Quickly spinning up Docker Containers with baseline Oracle Database Setup – for performing automated tests
Here is a procedure for running an Oracle Database, preparing a baseline in objects (tables, stored procedures) and data, creating…