Querying Autonomous Database from an Oracle Function (The Quick, Easy & Completely Secure Way)
I've written many blog posts about connecting to an Autonomous DB instance in the past. Best practices evolve as tools, services, and frameworks become...
Sending Email With OCI Email Delivery From Micronaut
Email delivery is a critical function of most web applications in the world today. I've managed an email server in the past - and trust me - it's not fun...
Brain to the Cloud - Part III - Examining the Relationship Between Brain Activity and Video Game Performance
In my last post, we looked at the technical aspects of my Brain to the Cloud project including much of the code that was used to collect and analyze the...
Brain to the Cloud - Part II - How I Uploaded My Brain to the Cloud
In my last post, we went over the inspiration, objectives, and architecture for my Brain to the Cloud project. In this post, we'll look in-depth at the...
The Numbers Don't Lie: Camping in Call of Duty Works
I've been a console gamer for a long, long time. Yeah, I know about the jokes - and I've heard them all. Console's suck; real gamers use PCs. Whatever,...
Brain to the Cloud - Part I - Project Intro and Architectural Overview
A few months back, I read a really excellent (but pretty old) blog post that explained how to hack a toy called a Mind Flex to extract and analyze the ...
Using Mongo APIs with Micronaut Data to Persist and Query Data with Autonomous DB
A bit of exciting news dropped that you may have missed. We announced the release of the Oracle Database API for MongoDB, which gives developers the ability...
Building Messaging Bridges with Node-RED
Over the last few posts, we've looked in detail at Oracle Advanced Queuing. Most recently we looked at "bridges" - or applications that helped us broker...
Bridging MQTT and Oracle Streaming Service (OSS) with Node.js
Recently, we've been taking a dive into messaging. In the last post, we talked about creating a messaging "bridge" so that we could consume an incoming...
Creating an MQTT to Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ) Bridge in Node
In my last post, we looked at how to use the Node oracledb module to produce (enqueue) and consume (dequeue) messages from an Oracle Advanced Queuing (...
Running Database Queries With REST via a Database Tools Connection (IE: The Super Easy Way)
I recently blogged about a brand-new service in the Oracle Cloud - Database Tools. It's a safe, secure way to store your database credentials in the...
Producing and Consuming Messages in Node.JS with Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ)
If you've been following my blog posts lately, you may have noticed that I've been focusing a bit on messaging. We talked a while back about using Oracle...