AMIS, Data Driven Blog – Oracle & Microsoft Azure
Getting value from IoT, Integration and Data Analytics
In this blog I will demo how to create a GitPod workspace containing a PostgreSQL database and database tools in VSCode. Lucas Jellema recently created a GitPod workspace with an Oracle Database, and as we’re also increasingly interested in PostgreSQL I wanted to recreate this experiment but now with PostgreSQL. […]
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0 Backstage is the Developer Portal Platform that has come out of Spotify and now lives under the CNCF (Cloud Native Compute Foundation) umbrella where it is one of the most popular and active projects. Backstage provides a framework an starting point for what typically evolves into your highly customised developer […]
0 0 Internet of Things (IoT) is for many technology-enthusiast the single most important thing that has ever happened. The impact of this technology on our lives is growing close to mythical proportions. Working in this industry for years, made me encounter some of the myths and irrational expectations of IoT. Some […]
0 0 There are several cases where you might want to use Azure Log Analytics to monitor your NiFi instances. An obvious one is when NiFi is running in Azure. Azure Log Analytics can also be used as single monitoring/alerting solution for multiple applications making operations easier by providing a single interface […]
0 0 For a TypeScript training, I needed an environment with Visual Studio Code and Node.js (a JavaScript runtime). On my Windows laptop, I wanted to create an environment with Ubuntu as guest Operating System, Visual Studio Code and Node.js available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. In my previous article, I shared […]
0 0 Introduction Oracle database Standard Edition (SE) has the main features of a RDBMS database and cost significantly less than Oracle Enterprise Edition (EE). Migrating a database from Oracle Enterprise Edition to Standard Edition can be a consideration ifthe Enterprise Edition options or features are not used (or not required) in […]
0 0 In January 2022 there was a blog published on the Microsoft Tech Community that demonstrates how to integrate Azure API Management with Logic Apps (Standard). As mentioned in that blog, the functionality to import workflows in Logic Apps (Standard) is not yet available in API Management, only Logic Apps running […]
0 0 For a TypeScript training, I needed an environment with Visual Studio Code and Node.js (a JavaScript runtime). On my Windows laptop, I wanted to create an environment with Ubuntu as guest Operating System, Visual Studio Code and Node.js available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. In this article, I will share […]
0 0 After upgrading to Oracle 12c, 19c, database connections take a long time (10 sec or more), before the connections are established. The connection time was less than 0.5 sec in 11g. This is caused by a setting in the used Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure service names for the database. The AQ […]
0 0 Often, I use a Linux shell script that executes several commands. Sometimes you don’t want to wait for a command to end and you want the next command to immediately run after the previous one is started. In my previous article I mentioned such a situation, with regard to preparing […]
0 0 When you import a new process group or upgrade an existing one, missing parameters contexts and parameters will automatically be added. The new parameters will be filled with values from the environment where the process group was committed to the Registry (except sensitive parameter values). This is usually a development […]
0 0 Jolt is a Java library which can be used to transform JSON to JSON. A Jolt transformation specification itself is also a JSON file. You can use it in products such as Apache NiFi and Apache Camel. In this blog post I’ll describe my first experiences with Jolt transformations. For […]
0 0 Apache NiFi is a powerful open source integration product. A challenge you might encounter when integrating systems is that one system can produce JSON messages and the other has a SOAP API available. In this blog post I’ll show how you can use NiFi to convert JSON input to a […]
0 0 Apache NiFi has a powerful web-based interface which provides a seamless experience between design, control, feedback, and monitoring. Sometimes however, you want to automate tasks instead of doing them manually using the UI. This does not only allow you to perform the tasks a lot quicker but it also helps […]
0 0 How to be prepared for a black swan scenario?
0 0 Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It has a powerful UI which can be used for both development and operations. In addition, the NiFi Registry is available to make promoting software from one environment to the next, easy. In order […]
0 0 Today is PI Day. March 14 or: 3-14 in the US. Of course it can be March 14th 2015 – 3-14-15 – only once but for some reason March 14 is baptized PI Day and is not unlike April Fool’s day the international day for nerdi stuff. You may want […]
0 0 I’ve used Vagrant since 2015 in combination with Virtualbox for creating development machines. Recently however I’m experiencing more issues with Virtualbox. For example CPUs getting stuck when assigning multiple CPUs to a VM and issues with auto adjusting the guest resolution when resizing the VM window. These annoyances drove me […]
0 0 Previously I wrote about generating random data which conforms to an AVRO schema (here). In a recent use-case, I encountered the situation where there were several separate schema files containing different AVRO types. The message used types from those different files. For the generation of random data, I first needed […]
0 0 AVRO schema are often used to serialize JSON data into a compact binary format in order to for example transport it efficiently over Kafka. When you want to validate your JSON against an AVRO schema in Java, you will encounter some challenges. The JSON which is required to allow validation […]
0 0 Recently I was designing an AVRO schema and wanted to test how data would look like which conformed to this schema. I developed some Java code to generate sample data. This of course also has uses in more elaborate tests which require generation of random events. Because AVRO is not […]
0 0 Apache NiFi can be used to expose various flavors of webservices. Using NiFi in such a way provides benefits like quick development using a GUI and of course data provenance. You know who called you with which data and where the data went. The NiFi is very scalable, delivery can […]
0 0 Dapr is a runtime framework for distributed applications as well as a personal assistant with many generic qualities relevant to any application. Through Dapr, applications can easily benefit from configuration and secret management, from interacting with dozens of external technologies in both inbound and outbound direction, from having messages received […]
0 0 Vagrant can be used to quickly create development environments in for example VirtualBox, VMWare or Hyper-V. I decided to use Vagrant to create a quick Apache NiFi development environment. For Apache NiFi development, you also often require input/output for which Kafka can be used, the NiFi Registry to manage shared […]
0 0 One of the most exciting frameworks I have ran into into recent years is Dapr (dapr.io) – distributed application runtime. Dapr is a cross technology runtime framework that supports applications in many and The Dapr docs describe how to install Dapr locally and on a Kubernetes cluster. The documentation explicitly […]
0 0 I recently started a GitHub repo with Terraform plans for the creation of what I call OCI Composites – combinations of resources that will frequently be used together and that will have to be created through Infrastructure as Code. My first entry in this repository was the composite of Function, […]
0 0 Your customer has a specific challenge and wants to have it solved by means of software. They ask you as a software/solution architect to advise them on this topic and they want to be able to choose a solution based on your advise by the end of next week (we’re […]
0 0 or Publishing a cleanup script for Oracle 12c+ At the moment I’m just for fun collecting Linux scripts from my direct colleagues. And while I was busy to think up a wiki page for internal use, for a moment I felt like Uncle Scrooge, gathering riches from other minds. Which, […]
0 0 In this blog I will explain how to generate static HTML pages from your projects Pydoc (docstring) comments with Sphinx. Then we are going to host it in an Azure Web App so that everyone in your team is able to access it. Because we use a Storage Mount, when […]
0 0 preparation for migrating data to Oracle Virtual Private Database Introduction Recently I was part of a team involved in the preparation of migration data belonging to multiple business units into a single Oracle 19c database with Virtual Private Database (VPD). The VPD solution is used for the virtual separation […]
0 0 Since we provide support for several clients in OCI, we regularly need to login into different OCI-tenancies. How nice would it be to have Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality between these different customer environments. Just 1 credential for all environments, granting and revoking access a lot easier. Also no need to […]
0 0 Just like in 2017, blockchain has been all the craze this year. With Bitcoin reaching prices over three times higher than the previous all-time high, everybody has been talking about cryptocurrency and blockchains. And one of the blockchains that has been taking the spotlight is Ethereum. That is why in […]
0 0 Are you unable to pinpoint frustrating blind spots and recurring problems in your ADF application? This video gives a quick introduction of the features of the ADF Performance Monitor, an advanced monitor specifically designed for Oracle ADF applications.
0 0 IT environments tend to become more and more Complex. When planning for new or additions and changes to existing (IT) environments, the necessity to invest in decent preparation and high level design isn’t challenged. Not challenged because alignment with the long term business goals is key in many organizations. In […]
0 0 Syslog is a standard for message logging, often employed in *NIX environments. It allows separation of the software that generates messages, the system that stores them, and the software that reports and analyzes them. Each message is labeled with a facility code, indicating the software type generating the message, and assigned […]
0 0 Intris is the leading Belgian provider of freight forwarding, customs and warehousing management solutions. Headquartered in Antwerp, Intris provides its integrated software and cloud-based solutions to logistics services providers in Belgium and the Netherlands. Ben Rombouts is Chief Operating Officer at Intris. Recently he has written a detailed review on […]
0 0 In my previous post I showed the steps you have to take to create your first ADF REST resource. You can find it here: First steps with REST services on ADF Business Components. I will continue my exploration in the world of ADF REST. We are now going to configure […]
0 0 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 can do nice things with it. In this blog I will have a look at 5 of the 6 main building […]
0 0 In this blog I want to stress how important it is to manage the data that you fetch and load into your ADF application. I blogged on this subject earlier. It is still underestimated in my opinion. Recently I was involved in troubleshooting the performance in two different ADF projects. They […]
0 0 It is not always easy to troubleshoot ADF performance problems – it is often complicated. Many parts needs to be measured, analyzed and considered. While looking for performance problems at the usual suspects (ADF application, database, network), the real problem can also be found in the often overlooked browser load […]
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