Author: Lucas Jellema
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 …
Recently the OpenTelemetry project launched a demo application that demonstrates many aspects of instrumentation, metrics and trace gathering, providing insight across multi-service, multi-technology application stacks and in general how …
I have prepared a Gitpod wokspace definition that allows me to start a fresh development environment with the latest release of Dapr (dapr.io) installed as well as supporting containers …
Gidpod provides ephemeral development environments. Run a Gitpod workspace and get a clean environment with precisely those components that have been configured for the use case or context you …
Two colleagues wanted to try out Kubernetes and more specifically deployment of an application on Kubernetes that was not entirely trivial. One that consists of at least two Pods …
A conference such as Devoxx is a great opportunity to get inspired into trying out tools and technologies that may not or only be vaguely be known as they …
End of day two. So many topics already were presented, demonstrated, discussed, tried out to and by me. This article is just a very brief overview of what caught …
This article describes how you can run your very own Oracle Database from your browser using Gitpod. With a free account (50 hours Gitpod use per month), you can …
The challenge was as follows: provide a handson workshop environment – consisting of nothing more than a browser connected to our office’s Wifi network – for visitors to the …
Gitpod.io is a SaaS for software developers (that can also be used in self-hosted mode on Kubernetes). Gitpod makes workspaces available – typically based on a Git repository – …
Based on the fascinating Twitter thread by Philipp Salvisberg covering the presentation by Gerald Venzl at DOAG 2022 I would like to mention a few of the features that …
There are two public cloud. AWS and Azure. That is not actually the case – but that is how sometimes it may seem. A third cloud is frequently listed …
For the Open Day we organize shortly for our family, friends, neighbours and other interested parties, my colleagues create a custom web application to support our QR Scavenger Hunt …
Running “docker compose” in a VM on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is perhaps not the ideal way to go – which probably would be OKE (Kubernetes) in order to benefit …
My challenge: replicate changes from database A to database B, once per day. The tables involved are pretty big (100M records). I really would not want to process them …
Front end development can be an art. An almost pixel by pixel design, a careful crafting UX or even CX. And there is a time and place and technology …
This article shows you can quickly get started with a free, managed PostgreSQL database with a table full of country data (using ElephantSQL). ElephantSQL is a hosted, managed PostgreSQL …
Supabase provides a cloud based backend service to web applications. That means that any (static) web application can use Supabase for user authentication and data persistence. Supabase provides a …
In our daily work we are dealing with data from many sources. Data in CSV files, from Cloud APIs, in mail servers, configuration files, Terraform plans, in logging systems, …
How hard can it be – to create the smallest possible container image to run a Go application? It is not hard to create a container image that contains …
