Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gathers metrics from all OCI resources. These metrics can be visualized and analyzed with the Metrics Explorer. And Alarms can be defined with rules evaluating the metrics that publish to a Notification Topic to signal a situation of interest. Subscriptions can be defined on these Notification Topics, […]
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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 currently are possible only with quite a bit of hassle – using a Stream for queuing asynchronous requests and a Listener […]
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 built-in monitoring. In previous articles, I have gone over several aspects of serverless functions and API Gateways to create and expose […]
Publish Oracle Function for Reading and Writing Object Storage Files through OCI API Gateway
The objective for this article is to show you how to get to the point where two routes are available on an API Gateway on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that allow easy writing to a file on Object Storage and easy retrieval of such as file. Writing files is obviously useful […]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Leveraging API Gateway as Read Only Cache from serverless Function
This article demonstrates a set up that is probably mainly of theoretical interest or maybe useful in demonstrations. I describe how we can invoke an OCI serverless Function through the API Gateway and ask the serverless function for values that are read from a [read only] cache. This cache is […]
Oracle Cloud API Gateway – Using an Authorizer Function for Client Secret Authorization on API Access
The objective in this article: create a simple Authorizer Function that checks the Client Secret passed in API calls and allows and denies requests based on whether the correct Client Secret is included. The Authorizer Function does a little more than simply accept or deny: in case of accept it […]
Oracle Integration Cloud pricing explained – OCI vs Classic
Last week at AMIS we had the task of estimating costs of a proposed iPaaS solution for one of our customers that runs on a fully managed cloud. As AMIS is mainly an Oracle partner we looked at how competitive we could make the pricing of the solution using Oracle […]
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 mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities. Autonomous was the key word of […]
Monitoring Oracle Database using Prometheus
Prometheus is a very popular framework for gathering metrics from a plethora of runtime components, recording, analyzing, visualizing them and making them available for companion technologies such as Grafana. Prometheus harvests information from ‘exporters’ – processes that expose an HTTP endpoint where Prometheus can scrape metrics in a format that […]
Newly released: Oracle Exadata X8-2 – bigger disks for saving money, expanding capacity
Earlier this month, Oracle announced the availability of the latest Exadata machine, the X8-2. As well as the option to swap in big 14 TB disks in older versions of Exadata that were shipped with far smaller disks, allowing these older systems to substantially increase there capacity. Our AMIS resident […]
Extremely convenient way to run free Oracle Database 18c on your laptop – or anywhere else – using Vagrant & Virtual Box
Oracle Database 18c XE (eXpress Edition) is the free community edition of the enterprise edition of Oracle Database. Oracle Database XE has almost all features of Oracle Database; however, it is limited in non-functional terms (2 CPUs, 2 GB memory, 12 GB data volume). Oracle is generous in the terms […]
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 Functions. Oracle Functions is a managed PaaS service, based on Project Fn. It supports a serverless architecture with light weight functions […]
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 OBI EE and Endeca to several cloud services. Oracle Analytics Cloud is the strategic offering to adopt going forward – not […]
Create OKE Kubernetes Cluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – including Service Request to increase limit
Anyone with a trial account for Oracle Cloud can use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to get herself a three-node Kubernetes Cluster instance, running on Oracle’s managed Kubernetes Engine Cloud Service called OKE. Unfortunately, the default resource limits on the trial account are such that the creation of the cluster will […]
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. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can be administered through a GUI – a browser based console – as well as through a REST […]
Another Taste of India– ODevCYatra 2018
July 2018 saw another edition of the Oracle Developers’ tour through India, called Yatra. In just over two weeks, seven cities participated in this tour – with each city hosting a one day mini-conference (three of four parallel tracks). Organized by many volunteers from the local chapters of the All […]
Oracle’s extended support – when is it free of charge
It’s such a simple, basic and old question I got from a colleague: “Do you have to pay for extended support?”. And if so, how much I have to pay for it. So basic and yet… always have to check again the waived support, what prices and where to find […]
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 challenging situations, for example with microservice style architectures and deployments, is the use of Istio – to configure, monitor and manage […]
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 free cloud trial on the Oracle Public Cloud (https://cloud.oracle.com/tryit). Subsequently, I created a Kubernetes cluster and deployed my first pod on […]
How to fix Dataguard FAL server issues
One of my clients had an issue with their Dataguard setup, after having to move tables and rebuild indexes the transport to their standby databases failed. The standby databases complained about not being able to fetch archivelogs from the primary database. In this short blog I will explain what happened […]