Kafka is not dead, it’s just in a different packaging
‘Kafka is dead’ is a statement that is circulating more and more often. Critics point to a lack of innovation, the complexity of the product and the emergence of …
Tag: cloud
The cloud is temporarily full (well, this region anyway)
It is tempting to consider the cloud a limitless of resources that are always available to us to provision our services from. However, that is of course too simplistic. …
No Install, free polyglot Apache Kafka environment in ephemeral development environment with Node, Java, Python and Go
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, …
Quick start with free managed PostgreSQL database on ElephantSQL
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 …
Is RHCSA still relevant when you use the cloud?
Last week I passed for my RHCSA exam (EX200) . While I was studying for the exam, I asked myself which parts of this exam are still relevant when …
Steampipe–analyze data from cloud, file, platform, IaC using SQL queries
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, …
Getting started (again) with Kubernetes on Oracle Cloud
For many of my recent activities, I have not worked with or even on (knowingly at least) Kubernetes. So for many months I have not touched my OKE cluster …
Serverless Distributed Multi User Browser Session Synchronization
Assume a browser based (or desktop electron) stand alone, client side only application. Multiple users are working with that application at the same time, on their own laptops and …
What if companies say: “help me move away from Oracle”?
I hear this aspiration from a growing number of organizations. Sometimes as a quite literal question. This however is merely half of a wish. Apparently, organizations want to quite …
The Six-part REAL Oracle Cloud platform Webinar Series – Cloud Native Live Demo and Hands-On Oracle Developer Meetup sessions – kicking off June 10th 2020
Attend this series of six live webinars to get going with cloud native application development on the Oracle Cloud platform, created and presented by REAL specialists. The Red Expert …
A Quick how-to RMAN backup to OCI Object Storage
This is a quick how-to article on setting up RMAN to backup to Object Storage on OCI. This is applicable when you build your on Oracle database on an …
Deploy Angular and Node.js webapp in Azure Pipelines (part 5)
In the previous article I explained how to set up multiple environments for Azure Pipelines. In this article I will explain how you can deploy the artifacts to the …
On-premise VM’s and Azure Pipelines: Set up with multiple stages in Azure Pipelines (part 4)
In the previous article we discussed how we can build a pipeline and at some tests to it. In this article we’re going to discuss how we can set …
Add tests for Angular and Node.js webapp in Azure Pipelines (part 3)
In the previous article I showed how to build a webapp in the Azure pipeline. In this article I will explain to you how you run tests in your …
Azure Pipeline: Build Angular and Node.js webapp (part 2)
In the previous article, we discussed how we can set up a pipeline with multiple stages in Azure Pipelines. In this article we will discuss how we can build …
A Free Apache Kafka Cloud Service – and how to quickly get started with it
Last week I presented on Apache Kafka – twice. Once to a group of over 100 students, once to 30+ colleagues. In both instances, I invited attendees to partake …
Azure Pipelines: Using and set up a webapp (part 1)
This will be the first part 5 part series about Azure Pipelines. In this first part I will explain to you how to set up your Azure Pipeline so …
Azure Pipelines: How to build and test an Angular and Node.js webapp and deploy it to on-premise VM’s using multiple stages (YAML) – Overview
What is Azure Pipelines? Azure pipelines is a free continuous integration/continuous delivery tool from Azure Devops (Microsoft). Not only can it deploy to the azure cloud, it can also …
Getting started with NoSQL Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
This morning I discovered a new entry in the menu on my Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Tenancy (on Ashburn, USA): the NoSQL Database service had been added overnight. The service …
My Quick Start with Oracle Functions in Fresh OCI Tenancy
This article is fairly rough log of the steps I went through to get going on Oracle Cloud Serverless Functions. It is mainly intended to provide a note to …
My first steps with Oracle Cloud API Gateway – the stock response
The API Gateway service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure went live very recently – read my overview article of what API Gateway entails. In brief: API Gateway is a reverse …
Introducing Oracle Cloud API Gateway – the light weight public or private router to public and private OCI endpoints
Two days ago, the API Gateway service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure went live – read the announcement. This is a crucial component for many applications and in many solution …
Highlights from Oracle OpenWorld 2019 – Larry Ellison’s Key-Notes
This article gives some brief and key insights in Larry Ellison’s keynote presentation on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at Oracle OpenWorld 2019. Note the new mission statement for Oracle: Our …
Creating a Katacoda scenario – A Tailor Made On Line Tutorial Environment – for example for Jupyter Notebook
Learn new technologies using real environments – right in your browser. Katacoda is an online platform that offers hundreds of scenarios and sandbox environments to learn about and play …
First steps with Oracle Analytics Cloud – Gather, Explore, Wrangle, Visualize
Data analytics is what turns data into business value. Oracle has a long history in Data Analytics – from Oracle Discoverer and its predecessors such as Data Browser through …
From locally running Node application to Cloud based Kubernetes Deployment
In this article I will discuss the steps I had to go through in order to take my locally running Node application – with various hard coded and sometimes …
Get going quickly with Command Line Interface for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Docker container
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is Oracle’s second generation infrastructure as a service offering – that support many components including compute nodes, networks, storage, Kubernetes clusters and Database as a Service. …
Running Istio on Oracle Kubernetes Engine–the managed Kubernetes Cloud Service
In a recent post, I introduced the managed Oracle Cloud Service for Kubernetes, the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE): https://technology.amis.nl/2018/05/25/first-steps-with-oracle-kubernetes-engine-the-managed-kubernetes-cloud-service/. A logical next step when working with Kubernetes in somewhat …
First steps with Oracle Kubernetes Engine–the managed Kubernetes Cloud Service
Oracle recently (May 2018) launched its Managed Kubernetes Cloud Service (OKE – Oracle Kubernetes Engine) – see for example this announcement: https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/kubecon-europe-2018-oracle-open-serverless-standards-fn-project-and-kubernetes. Yesterday I got my self a new …
5 main building blocks of the new Visual Builder Cloud Service
In may 2018 Oracle introduced the new version of Visual Builder Cloud Service. This version is not just aimed at the Citizen Developer, in the end an experienced JavaScript …
Simple CQRS – Tweets to Apache Kafka to Elastic Search Index using a little Node code
Put simply – CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is an architecture pattern that recognizes the fact that it may be wise to separate the database that processes data manipulations …
How to install the Oracle Integration Cloud on premises connectivity agent (18.1.3)
Recapitulation on how to install the Oracle Integration Cloud on premises connectivity agent Recently (april 2018) I gained access to the new Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), version 18.1.3.180112.1616-762, and …
Oracle JET Web Applications – Automating Build, Package and Deploy (to Application Container Cloud) using a Docker Container
The essential message of this article is the automation for Oracle JET application of the flow from source code commit to a running application on Oracle Application Container Cloud, …
Getting started with Spring Boot microservices. Why and how.
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 …
Oracle Managed Kubernetes Cloud– First Steps with Automated Deployment using Wercker Pipelines
Oracle announced a managed Kubernetes Cloud service during Oracle OpenWorld 2017. This week, I had an opportunity to work with this new container native cloud offering. It is quite …
Prepare and link bind Oracle Database Cloud, Application Container Cloud, Application Container Cache and Event Hub
A fairly common combination of Oracle Public Cloud services that I use together – for example for the implementation of microservices – is DBaaS, Application Container Cloud, Application Cache …
ODC Appreciation Day : Timeline component in Oracle JET, Data Visualization Cloud, APEX and ADF DVT: #ThanksODC
Here is my entry for the Oracle Developer Community ODC Appreciation Day (#ThanksODC). It is quite hard to make a choice for a feature to write about. So many …
Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Strategy Day– Directions for User Experience
Today – Wednesday 27th of September – saw close to 50 people gathering for the OAUX (Oracle Applications User Experience) Strategy Day. Some attendees joined from remote locations on …
Setting up Oracle Event Hub (Apache Kafka) Cloud Service and Pub & Sub from local Node Kafka client
Oracle offers an Event Bus Cloud Service – an enterprise grade Apache Kafka instance – with large numbers of partitions and topics, (retained) messages and distributed nodes. Setting up …
Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Review sessie op 31 oktober 2017 – met aandacht voor ….
Van 2 tot 5 oktober vindt in San Francisco Oracle OpenWorld 2017 plaats. In deze week zal de nabije – en verdere – toekomst van Oracle duidelijk worden gemaakt. …