Category: Architecture
You might have wondered in the second blog of this series , why I mentioned the possibility that the Task Scheduler didn’t start after a reboot in the “on-premise” …
Introduction If you follow along in this blog series , I can imagine that if you deployed the CloudFormation scripts, that you think “wow, how does it work”. In …
Introduction In the previous two blogs , I showed that it is is possible to implement a Windows Failover Cluster in AWS. In this blog, I will explain the …
Introduction In this series, I will look at the migration from on-premise Windows Failover Clusters to AWS. What is the difference in recovery times between the application on-premise, the …
The OWASP Foundation plays an important role in helping to improve security of software worldwide. They have created a popular and well-known awareness document called the ‘OWASP Top 10‘. …
Anchore Engine is a popular open source tool for container image inspection and vulnerability scanning. It is easily integrated in a Kubernetes environment as an admission controller or in …
Alleen al dit jaar zijn er meer dan 70 'adviezen' geformuleerd door het Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum. Ondanks deze adviezen lezen we met enige regelmaat over grote IT-hacks en …
Applications nowadays, are usually deployed inside containers. A container consists of libraries and tools which allow the application to run inside. Since there can be exploitable vulnerabilities, it is …
Introduction In the last six blogs , I showed you an application that used AWS to process the sales from a cashing machine. This series continues with tests for …
Introduction You might have noticed that we skipped the API Gateway up to now . I will write two blogs about the API Gateway. In this one, we follow …
Introduction I have to admit: I love serverless. Serverless computing is using the cloud as it is supposed to be used: it scales up when you need more capacity, …
Unlike most of our posts this post will contain almost no code or examples. But it hopefully will help somebody who ends up to be in the same situation …
Yesterday I published a blog about AWS policies. We used the IAM wizard to create a policy. When you try to use this policy with the users we created, …
Today, I’ll explain how to install and use oVirt: a nice virtualization tool for Linux, which is based on KVM. I installed the current production version 4.3.8 on a …
Oracle provides several services as ‘always free’. In contrast to Azure and Amazon, these include compute instances which remain ‘forever’ free to use. Although there are some limitations on …
There are different ways to create data services. The choice for a specific technology to use, depends on several factors inside the organisation which wishes to realize these services. …
Many organizations collaborate in one or more ecosystems: groups of organizations that work together in vertical chain or share common interests sometimes even despite being competitors. Examples are research …
In IoT, we bridge the gap between the physical world and the enterprise IT systems to unlock the data and create real business value.
If your tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Many of us have seen situations where this tunnel vision over time took hold. And for many …
OAuth2 is a popular authentication framework. As a service provider it is thus common to provide support for OAuth2. How can you do this on a plain WebLogic Server …
There are numerous occasions that I was limited in my work because of connectivity which could not be trusted. For example; I could not download large installers due to …
OpenSSL “OpenSSL is a software library for applications that secure communications over computer networks against eavesdropping or need to identify the party at the other end. It is widely …
In order to quickly develop microservices, Spring Boot is a common choice. Why should I be interested in Spring Boot? In this blog post I’ll give you some reasons …
Keystores and the keys within can be used for security on the transport layer and application layer in Oracle SOA Suite and WebLogic Server. Keystores hold private keys (identity) …
In a previous blog I have explained which what cipher suites are, the role they play in establishing SSL connections and have provided some suggestions on how you can …
The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about getting in-depth insight about your customers. It is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as “connected devices” and …
In this sequel of part one I will show how you can upload your own (Oracle) Linux 7 image in the IAAS Cloud of Oracle. This post will use …
How it works in a simple view Several implementations are done with 2 way ssl certificates, but still wondering how it works? Let’s try to explain. Two-way ssl means …
I always like to know what is installed in the servers that I need to use for databases or Weblogic installs. Whether it is in the Oracle Cloud or …
For SSL/TLS connections, cipher suites determine for a major part how secure the connection will be. A cipher suite is a named combination of authentication, encryption, message authentication code …
Thursday June 1st – yet another community event at AMIS. This one dedicated to Microservices. What are microservices, why do we think they are interesting? How are they different? …
At a recent customer install, I was faced with configuring Oracle Traffic Director (OTD) 12.2.1.2.0 Webgate with Oracle Access Manager. Deploying Webgate on OD 12c is very well described …
Overview Oracle is embracing Docker – just like many other companies – as the de-facto standard in Container technologies. It has resulted in the certification of various Oracle products …
Introduction In my previous blog I’ve explained what a Canonical Data Model (CDM) is and why you should use it. This blog is about how to do this. I …
This blog is about XML namespace standards. Primary for using them in a Canonical Data Model (CDM), but also interesting for anyone who has to define XML data by …
Introduction This blogpost is part III, the last part of a trilogy on how to create and use a Canonical Data Model (CDM). The first blogpost contains part I …
More and more enterprises are using Single-Sign-On (SSO) for there on-premise applications today, but what if they want to use SSO for there cloud applications as well? This blog …
Harry Dragstra
January 24, 2017
AMIS, Cyber Security, Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, DevOps, Engineered Systems, ExaData, ODA, Oracle, Oracle 12, PL/SQL, SQL
Creating or modifying an Oracle Database user password can be done by using any standard password generator you can find on the WEB. But I wanted a password to …
Undeniably, microservices is an extremely hot term. A bandwagon almost every product team at Oracle seems eager to be jumping on to. It is hard to give a concise …
The backdrop for Oracle OpenWorld 2016 – or indeed all IT conferences – is the constant evolution in IT. On many levels – from hardware to philosophy – the …
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