This article describes – in two installments – how events are used to communicate a change in a data record owned by the Customer microservice to consumers such as the Order microservice that has some details about the modified customer in its bound context. The first installment described the implementation […]
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Oracle Cloud Stack – quick provisioning of stack of co-configured PaaS services: one minute for JCS, DBaaS and Storage Cloud
Some of my recent experiences with the Oracle Cloud left me less than wildly enthusiastic. Actions seemed to take long in a non-responsive, non-intuitive UI and I was required to go through too many configuration steps to get various cloud services to work together. Getting a free month trial seemed […]
The state of the flagship as per Oracle OpenWorld 2016 – Oracle Database 12c Release 2, Exadata Express Cloud Service, SQL and PL/SQL
The new 12cR2 release of Oracle Database had already been announced and discussed at length over the past year. And now it is finally available. And only as cloud service for now. Initially through the Exadata Express Cloud Service – which consists of a single PDB in a multitenant CDB, […]
Oracle Cloud – DBaaS instance down for no apparent reason – (how archive log mode and storage shortage forced the instance to its knees)
My Oracle Public Cloud DBaaS instance did not respond. On closer investigation, it turned out to be down. Mounting the database ended with an ORA-3113 End of Communication Channel. Investigation of the startup log and the database alerts indicated that no new archive log files could be created. The DBaaS […]
Starting out with Oracle SOA CS – my first steps on a fairly advanced PaaS service
One of the platform offerings in the Oracle Public Cloud is the SOA Cloud Service. This service offers various flavors of SOA Suite 12c (Service Bus, SOA Suite, Technology Adapters) and API Manager 12c, automatically provisioned on the cloud. This service builds on top of a pre-existing DBaaS instance and […]
Developing for and Deploying an ADF Web Application to the Oracle Public Cloud (DBaaS and JCS)
In several recent articles, I have discussed first steps with Oracle Public Cloud Services: First steps with Database (DBaaS) in the Oracle Public Cloud Opening ports for access to DBaaS instance from the public internet (and from on premises laptops!) Getting started with Java Cloud Service (JCS) on the Oracle […]
Create JDBC Data Source or JDBC URL database connection to an Oracle Pluggable Database
JDBC URLs used in JDBC database connections in IDEs like JDeveloper and in JDBC Data Source definitions in Java EE servers such as WebLogic Server will typically use the Oracle Database SID as the name of the database. As Tim Hall writes, the syntax for the JDBC URL is as […]
Granting access to the DBaaS instance – enabling network security rules to open ports on the Cloud Compute Node
After a database instance is provisioned in the DBaaS cloud service, it is not automatically accessible from services outside the identity domain. Various processes and applications running as part of the database instance can be accessed through specific ports – such as 1521 [the default] for SQL*Net access and 5500 […]
Getting started with the Oracle DB as a Service (DBaaS) Cloud Service
In this article I will tell you how to get up and running with the Oracle Database as a Service Cloud offering. How in 30 minutes of your own time – and up to one hour background processing time – you will have an Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.2) instance running […]
Oracle Cloud demystified: Open World 2014 Overview of Cloud offerings
The central theme of Oracle Open World 2014 has certainly been the Cloud. Downtown San Francisco was laced with banners about Oracle and Cloud. The difference compared to last year is that now there is a huge amount of real cloud products available (or soon to be launched). Where the […]