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...

Creating An ATP Instance With The OCI Service Broker

We recently announced the release of the OCI Service Broker for Kubernetes, an implementation of the Open Service Broker API that streamlines...

Deploying A Micronaut Microservice To The Cloud

So you've finally done it. You created a shiny new microservice. You've written tests that pass, ran it locally and everything works great. Now it's time...