Author: Lucas Jellema
I started web development in the ’90s. Plain HTML and JavaScript, some images and perhaps a little bit of CSS. Static websites. I have made quite a journey since …
Dit is een verhaal over mijn ervaringen als klant van een leasemaatschappij. Of misschien als belanghebbende (want mijn werkgever is de klant). Een verhaal op twee niveaus: de klantervaring …
Platys is a tool created by Guido Schmutz, architect and data specialist at Accenture and frequent teacher at various universities. In order to be able to quickly create an …
That is a long title. In this article, I introduce a Gitpod workspace (cloud based ephemeral development environment) in which you can try out NocoDB – an open source …
Click on a button- or this link. Wait about four to five minutes. You will have access to a free cloud based environment with a three-broker-node Apache Kafka Cluster, …
The core Formula One data could be represented in a graph like this: Drivers compete in races that are hosted on circuits. A result is achieved by the driver …
I bet you are used to relational data structures that you query using SQL. And so do I. And there is nothing in terms of data that a good …
My fellow Oracle ACE Directors and former AMIS-colleagues Patrick Barel and Alex Nuijten have co-authored an impressive book: The book discusses many of the wonders of SQL and PL/SQL …
In an earlier article, I showed how to quickly get going with an Oracle Database 23c Free instance in a Gitpod workspace – cloud based, ephemeral, quick start, zero …
This should surprise if not baffle you. Session 1 inserts a record and commits it. Session 1 performs an update on this record. And does not yet commit its …
A new major Oracle Database release is a special occasion. I joined Oracle in May 1994 just after the Oracle7 release (December 1993) although I worked with Oracle6 for …
Op maandag 20 maart vindt weer een Code Café plaats waarin we tools en technologie bespreken en uitproberen. Tussen 17 en 20.30 staan drie onderwerpen op de agenda, eten …
I am not normally a cynic. I trust people’s good intentions. However, I am a little suspicious when an argument in favor or against a specific way of doing …
I have written about Steampipe before. And I have stated how much I like this idea of using SQL to access data on cloud resources (and many other types …
In addition to the OCI Console, there are many ways to inspect the status of Oracle Cloud resources – including the OCI CLI, Terraform, Grafana OCI Plugin, REST API, …
Apache Superset is an open source end user tool for analyzing and visualizing data. Dozens of chart types are available out of the box, dashboards can be created, finetuned …
Apache Superset is an open source platform for data exploration and visualization. It can be described as an open, free alternative for Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik and Oracle Analytics …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps is a service I have written about on several occasions. The OCI DevOps service provides an Artifact Repository, Git Code repositories, Build Pipelines and Deployment …
Triggered by an assignment my son had to do for one of his university courses – and given the fairly light weight laptop we have him work with – …
ChatGPT is a bit of a “tongue twister” so I will speak of Cheppy. AMIS has a long history of spotting, exploring, embracing and rolling out new concepts and …
The best solution may not be the best solution. Depending on the scope in which you consider the alternatives, you may arrive at the wrong conclusion. Consider only the …
Go – sometimes Golang because internet searching for just “go” is quite impossible – is a popular programming language. It was initially launched in 2012 and as been gaining …
OCI Functions are powerful components in a cloud native world. Triggered by events and direct requests, these functions are engaged to perform a specific task. Which could be almost …
“Can we let go of that office building?” (we pay rent, utilities, furniture – is that still necessary or justified) “Well, I believe Chris is still making use of …
Some of the data used by Terraform to create cloud resources is sensitive and should not be stored in plain text in source code repositories. Examples are passwords, client …
This article describes how a Terraform plan can read configuration data at plan and application time from local or remote JSON documents to provide dynamic, easily and centrally maintainable …
Terraform is used for automated provisioning of resource on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Resources are defined in HCL – the DSL used in Terraform for describing infrastructure – and these …
Terraform is the tool of choice for automated provisioning of cloud resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (IaC). In two recent articles, I have demonstrated how to create a plan …
The creation of cloud resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is ideally done as Infra as Code using Terraform (plans). No hands need to touch the console, no permissions need …
The creation of cloud resources on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is ideally done as Infra as Code using Terraform (plans). No hands need to touch the console, no permissions need …
Messages published to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Queue may not immediately be intended for consumption. It is a not uncommon requirement to make messages available for consumption only …
I should have been aware of it – but I was not. The generic OCI CLI Raw Request option – the uniform approach to any OCI resource query or …
In an earlier article, I have explored the promise of OCI Queue – a managed queue service launched in December 2022. In this article I will show my first …
The new OCI Queue Service provides a straightforward offering: publish messages into a persisted store and allow consumers to retrieve these messages from that store – the oldest message …
Container Instances on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are VM based environments that can be leveraged as “serverless” container runtimes. Once a container instance has been defined – which is a …
Over the last few days, in this pre-Holiday season period, Oracle has released a number of interesting new services and updates to existing services. I plan on exploring them …
I recently tried to get Unified Auditing going for Oracle Database XE. I could not really find instructions – not even through ChatGPT – and finally reached out to …
GitHub Copilot helped me write a Java application to process a CSV file. Not a hard task – though one that in Java always feels much harder than in …
A Service Mesh can provide many facilities regarding traffic management between microservices – from simple routing and load balancing, producing telemetry to applying complex routing logic and security policies. …
Backstage is the Developer Portal Platform that has come out of Spotify and now lives under the CNCF (Cloud Native Compute Foundation) umbrella where it is one of the …