Create & Host Your Own Dedicated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Server for Free (Forever!)
Video games have been around for about 50 years, becoming mainstream and more popular as the years and decades have passed since the 1970s. My first experience...
Message Driven Microservices & Monoliths with Micronaut - Part 1: Installing Kafka & Sending Your First Message
One of the biggest challenges that developers face when working in a microservice environment is ensuring data consistency. Distributed services must be...
Launching Your Own Free Private VPN In The Oracle Cloud
I was watching a video on YouTube recently when I saw an ad for a VPN service. I was just about to click ’Skip Ads’ when I realized that it would be possible...
I Said Goodbye To My Dad Today
I said Goodbye to my Dad today. It was the last time I will ever see him alive. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.I stood in Dad...
Announcing Micronaut 2.1
I’m happy to announce the release of Micronaut 2.1, which brings a handful of new features, bug fixes and upgrades to existing features. Let’s take a quick...
Tracking & Analyzing Water Usage Data in the Cloud with a Flow Sensor, Microcontroller & Autonomous DB
This past summer, I was lucky enough to get spend some virtual time with some of the awesome interns here at Oracle. It makes me happy to see so many college...
Announcing the Micronaut Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Module for Simple SDK Integration and Performant Serverless Functions
If you are a member or follower of the Java community, then you likely saw this news a few months ago: This is huge news. If you've read my blogs ...
Reliably Requesting REST Results Right From Your SQL Scripts
I recently blogged a comprehensive guide to invoking serverless functions in the Oracle Cloud. I was quite sure that I had included every possible method...
Launch & Persist JSON Documents In The Cloud In 10 Minutes Or Less With Autonomous JSON Database
This morning at the Developer Live event, our Executive Vice President Juan Loaiza announced the launch of Autonomous JSON Database (AJD). This is...
Instance and Resource Principal Authentication With The OCI TypeScript/JavaScript SDK
In June, we launched the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) SDK for TypeScript & JavaScript to enable you to work with all of your favorite cloud...
The Complete Guide To Invoking Serverless Oracle Functions
I have blogged quite a bit about serverless Oracle Functions here on this blog, including several various examples about function invocation. But, I've...
Building Cross Platform Native Images With GraalVM
A few weeks ago, I blogged about a utility that I created that helps you debug your serverless functions in the Oracle Cloud. The code behind that project...