Complete Developers Guide To The Oracle Notification Service

When you compile a list of your favorite features in the cloud, I'd be willing to bet that notifications aren't typically cracking the "top 10" of many...

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: ...

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) ...

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...

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...