0 Oracle Database: Write arbitrary log messages to the syslog from PL/SQL
Syslog is a standard for message logging, often employed in *NIX environments. It allows separation of the software that generates messages,…
Author Maarten Smeets
Maarten Smeets
Maarten is a software architect and Oracle ACE. Over the past years he has worked for numerous customers in the Netherlands in developer, analyst and architect roles on topics like software delivery, performance, security and other integration related challenges. Maarten is passionate about his job and likes to share his knowledge through publications, frequent blogging and presentations.
0 Calling an Oracle DB stored procedure from Spring Boot using Apache Camel
There are different ways to create data services. The choice for a specific technology to use, depends on several factors…
0 Microservice framework startup time on different JVMs (AOT and JIT)
When developing microservices, a fast startup time is useful. It can for example reduce the amount of time a rolling…
0 Apache Camel and Spring Boot: Calling multiple services in parallel and merging results
Sometimes you have multiple services you want to call at the same time and merge their results when they’re all…
0 A transparent Spring Boot REST service to expose Oracle Database logic
Sometimes you have an Oracle database which contains a lot of logic and you want to expose specific logic as…
0 Graceful shutdown of forked workers in Python and JavaScript running in Docker containers
You might encounter a situation where you want to fork a script during execution. For example if the amount of…
0 Performance! 3 reasons to stick to Java 8 for the moment
It is a smart thing to move to newer versions of Java! Support such as security updates and new features…
0 6 tips to make your life with Vagrant even better!
HashiCorp Vagrant is a great tool to quickly get up and running with a development environment. In this blog post…
0 Filesystem events to Elasticsearch / Kibana through Kafka Connect / Kafka
Filesystem events are useful to monitor. They can indicate a security breach. They can also help understanding how a complex…
0 Minikube on KVM on Linux Mint 19.1
In a previous blog post I wrote about running Minikube on Windows. I ended with the suggestion that getting Minikube…
0 Minikube on Windows. Hyper-V vs Vagrant/VirtualBox
Kubernetes is a system for running and coordinating containerized applications across a cluster of machines. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes…
3 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…
7 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 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…
0 Running Reactive Spring Boot on GraalVM in Docker
GraalVM is an open source polyglot VM which makes it easy to mix and match different languages such as Java,…
2 Securing Oracle Service Bus REST services with OAuth2 client credentials flow (without using additional products)
OAuth2 is a popular authentication framework. As a service provider it is thus common to provide support for OAuth2. How…
0 Docker host and bridged networking. Running library/httpd on different ports
Docker provides different networking options. When using the Docker host networking, you don’t have the option to create port mappings.…
0 Running Spring Tool Suite and other GUI applications from a Docker container
Running an application within a Docker container helps in isolating the application from the host OS. Running GUI applications like…
3 Automate the installation of Oracle JDK 8 and 10 on RHEL and Debian derivatives
Automating the Oracle JDK installation on RHEL derivatives (such as CentOS, Oracle Linux) and Debian derivatives (such as Mint, Ubuntu)…
5 VirtualBox networking explained
VirtualBox networking is extremely flexible. With this flexibility comes the challenge of making the correct choices. In this blog, the…