0 Changing views on integration – from Enterprise Service Bus to API Gateway, Serverless and iPaaS
If your tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Many of us have seen situations where this…
0 ADF Performance Monitor brings performance improvements and Insight at Intris
Intris is the leading Belgian provider of freight forwarding, customs and warehousing management solutions. Headquartered in Antwerp, Intris provides its…
0 Devoxx Belgium 2018, From Developers For Developers
Last November, I attended the Devoxx Belgium 2018 event. In this article I gathered some practical information about the event,…
1 Expose Docker Container services on the Internet using the ngrok docker image
The challenge: you are running a service, API or web application in a Docker container, locally on your laptop or…
0 Don’t ask what you can do for documentation – ask what documentation can do for you! (a top down perspective on documentation)
How much documentation is enough documentation? What are the requirements in the definition of done regarding documentation? Cannot simply all…
0 Finding the shortest path from Country A to Country B – using Neo4J and Node
Graph Databases are good at recording nodes and edges – and even more at performing queries that traverse the edges.…
0 Weblogic 12c – Monitoring JVM Performance Metrics Using OEM and Java Mission Control
For Weblogic administrators and application devolopers, it may be desirable to view the JVM metrics from a managed server in…
2 JVM performance: OpenJ9 uses least memory. GraalVM most. OpenJDK distributions differ
In a previous blog post I created a setup to compare JVM performance of several JVMs. I received some valuable…
0 ADF Performance Monitor – New Whitepaper Published
We are happy to announce that we have a new whitepaper on the ADF Performance Monitor. This blog publishes a…
0 Session Catalog for Oracle OpenWorld & CodeOne 2018 in JSON files
The Oracle OpenWorld and CodeOne 2018 conferences took place in the last week of October 2018. Together, over 1500 sessions…
0 First steps with Oracle Self Service Integration Cloud
An important part of enabling optimal use of SaaS applications is integrating various functions in said applications. Events in one…
5 Comparing JVM performance; Zulu OpenJDK, OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, GraalVM CE
There are many different choices for a JVM for your Java application. Which would be the best to use? This…
0 Internet Intelligence – Checking on the accessibility of your web application from Anywhere in the world – for free with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
A valuable capability that organizations using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure have available is internet intelligence. This capability allows you to monitor…
0 Building a Conference Session Recommendation engine using Neo4J Graph Database
This article describes a use case for which a traditional SQL-powered relational database approach can provide a solution – but…
0 CQRS through Twitter – more fun than meaning
As part of my 50 Shades of Data presentation, I talk about CQRS – Command Query Responsibility Segregation. The idea…
2 Querying connected data in Graph databases with Neo4j
TL;DR; · Graph databases are ideal for query use cases with data with complex relationships and layers of connections ·…
0 From locally running Node application to Cloud based Kubernetes Deployment
In this article I will discuss the steps I had to go through in order to take my locally running…
0 Oracle SaaS – Business Applications in the Cloud – as of Oracle OpenWorld 2018
Oracle has two main pillars on which its (future) business rests – dixit Larry Ellison: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (including the…
0 Monitoring Spring Boot applications with Prometheus and Grafana
In order to compare the performance of different JDKs for reactive Spring Boot services, I made a setup in which…
2 Oracle APEX: the low-code and low-cost application middle tier
Oracle APEX is a low code application development framework. It can be used free of charge – either as part…