Adventures in CI/CD [#5]: Deploying A Microservice To The Oracle Cloud With GitHub Actions [Gradle Plugin Edition]

We’ve made it to post number five in this series, and I have to say that I’m having more fun than I should be allowed to have playing around with CI/CD...

Adventures in CI/CD [#4]: Deploying A Microservice To The Oracle Cloud With GitHub Actions [OCI CLI Edition]

Welcome back to this fun series where we dive deep into the always exciting world of CI/CD. We’ve made it to step 4 in this series which is where we finally...

Adventures in CI/CD [#3]: Running Tests & Publishing Test Reports

Thanks for joining me back in this series about CI/CD with GitHub Actions where we’re learning how to build, test, publish and deploy our microservices...

Adventures in CI/CD [#2]: Building & Publishing A JAR

Welcome back to this journey down the path to CI/CD enlightenment. In our last post, we created a Java microservice application, added our source code ...

Adventures In CI/CD [#1]: Intro & Getting Started With GitHub Actions

One of the topics that I have been meaning to spend some time and attention this year is CI/CD. It’s a topic that many developers are often interested ...

Adventures in CI/CD [#7]: Testing The Persistence Tier With Testcontainers

Great to have you back for another existing episode in our saga about the joys of cloud deployments with CI/CD. So far, here’s what we’ve gone over: ...

Simple Serverless Logging For Oracle Functions

Working with serverless functions represents a new way of thinking for many developers. Dealing with stateless functions, for example, can be a challenge...

Fighting Diabetes With Technology - How I Built An App To Count Carbs And Calculate Insulin Doses

I'd like to tell you a story about my daughter Ava. She’s a typical 13-year-old girl for the most part – she’s smart, very mature and organized - involved...

Stand Up A Free Blog In 15 Minutes With Ghost In The Oracle Cloud

Back in September we announced a new "always free" tier for Oracle Cloud that gives developers and students a completely free way to try out the Oracle...

Blast Off To The Cloud: Free Team Chat With Rocket.Chat In The Oracle Cloud

Just about every single company these days uses some sort of chat application for team-based communications. And it's not just our workplaces. Conferences...