Free SSL Certificates In The Oracle Cloud Using CertBot And Let's Encrypt

If you're deploying your web site or application on the Oracle Cloud, chances are pretty high that you're going to be using HTTPS to secure your connections...

Installing Node-RED In An Always Free VM On Oracle Cloud

Last month at Oracle Open World we announced a very exciting "always free" tier for Oracle Cloud. I recently blogged about how you could use an "always...

Migrate Your Kafka Workloads To Oracle Cloud Streaming

Migrating your applications and workloads from one hosting environment to another can be a very painful process. I've had to manage migrations many times...

How To Setup And Run A Free Minecraft Server In The Cloud

In this article we'll take a look at how you can create an "always free" virtual machine and use it to run a Minecraft Server. Before we get started, you'll...

Launching Your First Free Autonomous DB Instance

You're a developer, which means you have roughly 4.3 conversations each week with friends and family about building an application for a club, sports league...

Oracle Functions: Using Key Management To Encrypt And Decrypt Configuration Variables

I've covered quite a few different topics related to Oracle Functions recently on this blog, but today I'll cover what probably should have been the first...

Oracle Functions: An Easier Way To Talk To Your Autonomous Database

  Last week I posted about connecting your Oracle Functions to your Autonomous DB instance to query and persist data. That post involved creating...

Oracle Functions - Invoking Functions With The OCI SDK

In my last few posts we took a look at how to create serverless functions which interact with an Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) instance - first...

Oracle Functions - Connecting To An ATP Database

. Attention!!!  This process in the blog post below has been superseded by the information contained in a newer blog post. If you are trying to connect...

Creating A Microservice With Node & SODA - JSON Document Storage In Autonomous DB

We've been on a long and interesting journey with microservices in this blog series and have covered a lot of topics. In this post we'll take a look at...

Microservices The Easy Way With ORDS And Micronaut - Part 3

We've come to the final part of this portion of this blog series where we focus on microservices with ORDS and Micronaut. In this post we'll look at deploying...

Microservices The Easy Way With ORDS And Micronaut - Part 2

In our last post, we exposed our user table with a complete set of REST endpoints that can be used for CRUD operations. The good news is, from this point...