For training and demo purposes, on my windows laptop, I needed an environment with a guest Operating System, Docker and…
Earlier this month, Oracle announced the availability of the latest Exadata machine, the X8-2. As well as the option to…
A while ago I was reviewing the metric extensions of our Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13.2.0.0, we use to administer…
Oracle Database 18c XE (eXpress Edition) is the free community edition of the enterprise edition of Oracle Database. Oracle Database…
When you want to upgrade a 11.2 database to 12.1 on a (linux) server with 12.2 databases, you get a…
Application errors are often hard to retrieve, or take a lot of time to resolve. When you are suffering from…
All too often I found myself editing Kubernetes resource definitions in the Kubernetes Dashboard. Modifying for example the type of…
I frequently want to demonstrate the working of Apache Kafka and/or provide colleagues and other audiences with an environment for…
HashiCorp Vagrant is a great tool to quickly get up and running with a development environment. In this blog post…
Recently I was analyzing and troubleshooting the performance of an ADF application. Much was already improved before I came. Due…
This article highlights a use case implementation I recently implemented (for a demo session) leveraging Oracle Functions as well…
Oracle Functions is currently in limited preview and is expected to soon reach wider availability. Rolando Carrasco did this write…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage is a public cloud service for storing data to which you need fast, immediate, and…
In my last article I described how two versions of a RESTful Web Service Spring Boot application were used in…
Apache Drill is a schema-free SQL query engine. Drill supports a variety of NoSQL databases and file systems, including HBase,…
Three services have been deployed to my Kubernetes cluster running on a public cloud environment. These services expose port for…
In a previous article, I talked about an environment, I prepared on my Windows laptop, with a guest Operating System,…
At our offices, we suspect that rooms are being booked but go unused when the booker claimed to need it.…
Filesystem events are useful to monitor. They can indicate a security breach. They can also help understanding how a complex…
In a previous article, I talked about an environment, I prepared on my Windows laptop, with a guest Operating System,…