Scheduling Function Execution in Oracle Cloud
Scheduling Functions in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has arrived. In May 2024, the Resource Scheduler was announced. I tweeted (X-ed) at that time that I was a little disappointed that …
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Marrying Fn Functions to Dapr.io–leverage the power of the proxy
Project Fn provides a framework for creating and running serverless functions. It is the foundation for the Functions service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Dapr.io is an open source project …
OCI DevOps–Free Automated Cloud Native Application Deployment to Oracle Cloud
Deployment is a term used frequently and often casually in software engineering. A term that for a long time was a bit cryptic to me. What exactly is deployment …
Automated Unit Testing of Javascript Fn Functions using Jest
Crucial pieces of functionality in cloud native applications is implemented in Functions. In the case of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure specifically, the Functions framework is typically Project Fn and the …
Example of OCI Function as Resource Principal [enabled] to invoke OCI services
Resource Principal is an OCI resource that through its membership of a Dynamic Group and permissions granted through policies to the Dynamic Group is given access to OCI resources …
Reading Query Parameters in GET requests to Project Fn Functions (and Oracle Functions as a Service)
TLDR: query parameters can be retrieved from the Fn-Http-Request-Url header in the ctx parameter passed by Fn to the Node function handling the request; using url.parse() on that header …
Trying out Project Fn handson – using only your browser
Project Fn is an open source framework for creating and running serverless functions. Project Fn produces a Docker container image for each function. This container has a runtime (for …
Somewhat Stateful Serverless Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Implementing a DIY Cache
We call them serverless and we consider them stateless. Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (and on other cloud platforms). Of course they are neither. They run on servers. And …
Asynchronous Function Calls through API Gateway on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
In a recent article, I described how serverless Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can invoke each other: synchronously and asynchronously. Although asynchronous calls are the desired state, such calls …
OCI Serverless Functions invoking other Functions – synchronous and asynchronously through API Gateway and Streaming
OCI allows for cloud native application development, using facilities such as serverless functions, a light weight API gateway, a streaming service for asynchronous communication based on event messaging and …
Using OCI Monitoring Healthchecks to Schedule execution of Serverless Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Execution of scheduled jobs based on a time schedule is a frequent requirement. Jobs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are often implemented using cloud native, serverless Functions – that can …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Functions and Project Fn – Retrieving Headers, Query Parameters and other HTTP Request elements
Functions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are implemented using Project Fn. A function runs in Docker container. This container has a runtime (for example for Java, Go, Python, Node) and …
Oracle Cloud Serverless Functions unleashed: exposing OCI Functions through API Gateway
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway makes it possible to expose OCI Functions on public endpoints that do not require complex signed HTTP requests. Any function that should be easily …
Scheduling Oracle Cloud Function execution
Functions on Oracle Cloud are an important element in any cloud native application architectures. Functions are typically small, well contained and fairly independent pieces of logic to carry out …
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 …
Invoke an Oracle Function on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from a Node application
Oracle Functions is currently in limited preview and is expected to soon reach wider availability. Rolando Carrasco did this write up on Medium about his first experiences with Oracle …
Serverless Computing – Function as a Service (FaaS) – with Azure Functions – first small steps with a Node/JavaScript function
If your application does not have internal state – and sometimes it is handling peak loads of requests while at other times it is not doing any work at …
Oracle Functions – Serverless architecture on the Oracle PaaS Cloud
One of the interesting tidbits, somewhat hidden away in Thomas Kurian’s keynote presentation last week at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, is a new member of the Oracle PaaS Cloud Services …