Cloud Deck: Automating and Retrieving Info From Your Cloud Tenancy With a Simple Microcontroller
Last month, I discovered a really cool project called Stream Cheap that is an inexpensive, DIY version of the wildly popular Stream Deck...
Can You Invoke OCI REST APIs Directly from an Arduino (ESP-32)?
Recently I had a flash of inspiration to build a standalone project on a microcontroller that would invoke OCI APIs directly from the device. I’ve played...
Authenticating Users with Oracle IDCS via OpenId Connect and Micronaut
Security is the most important aspect of your web application. Fortunately, there are tools available to help make life much easier when dealing with things...
Archiving Stream Data To Object Storage With Service Connectors
Last year, we launched the Service Connector Hub for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. If I’m being honest, I really didn’t pay much attention when the service...
Sending Push Notifications from Oracle Notification Service with Oracle Functions and Pushover
The Oracle Notification Service is an extraordinary service. I’ve blogged about it in the past (see the Complete Guide to the Oracle Notification Service...
Adding Tracing to Your Distributed Cloud Native Microservices
When adopting cloud-native technologies and certain architectures such as the microservice pattern, observability and monitoring become a huge need and...
Project GreenThumb Part 5 - The Front-End, Build Pipeline, Push Notifications and Overall Progress
In this short blog series, I introduced you to Project GreenThumb, a project that I created to automate and monitor the process of growing seedlings with...
Collect and Analyze Application and Server Metric Data with Micronaut's Support for OCI Monitoring
The Micronaut team over in Oracle Labs have been hard at work on a number of impressive features and framework improvements and they’re moving so fast ...
Project GreenThumb Part 4 - Reporting Queries and WebSockets
In the last post in this series, we looked at the database schema behind the scenes, how I created the Micronaut application and consumed the sensor readings...
Project GreenThumb Part 3 - Consuming and Persisting the Sensor Data in the Cloud
In my last post, we looked at how the Arduino code reads from the attached sensors and publishes those readings to a message queue running in the cloud...