Cloud Cost Cutting: Autoscaling Your Dev/QA Environments

I've worked on many software projects over the last 16 years, and one thing that each of those projects had in common was the existence of an environment...

Oracle Functions - Connecting To An ATP Database Revisited

Last August, I blogged about how to connect up your Oracle Function serverless functions to your Autonomous DB instance. Since that post was published ...

Getting Started With RabbitMQ In The Oracle Cloud

In this post I'm going to walk you through the steps that it takes to get RabbitMQ up and running for lightweight messaging in the Oracle Cloud. You're...

Manage Your Compute Instances Like A Pro With The OS Management Service On The Oracle Cloud

In this post we're going to take a comprehensive look at a brand new feature in the Oracle Cloud - the OS Management Service (OSMS). It may not sound terribly...

Publishing To Object Storage From Oracle Streaming Service

In my last post about Oracle Streaming Service (OSS) we looked at how to use the Kafka Connect compatibility feature of OSS to publish changes from...

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...

Using Kafka Connect With Oracle Streaming Service And Autonomous DB

Whether you are using a framework like Micronaut to consume and produce messages or using the Kafka SDK itself, Oracle Streaming Service (OSS) ...

Backing Up Your Always Free VMs In The Oracle Cloud

I have blogged quite a bit lately about the always free tier on the Oracle Cloud, and if you haven't signed up for your free account yet you should definitely...

Creating Your First API Gateway In The Oracle Cloud

Microservices and serverless are more popular than ever with teams around the globe adopting these patterns and architectures at an extremely high rate...

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...

Install & Run Discourse For Free In The Oracle Cloud

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to install and configure an instance of Discourse in a completely free VM in the Oracle Cloud. If you are not...