Oracle Functions suffer from one of the minor issues of having a container based platform that will spin down the container after some time of running idle. The next time the function is called, the container will be spun up again, taking some seconds time to do so. This is Read more…
This is the second part of my series covering aspects of Oracle Functions. To get an understanding of the environment we are working in, i recommend reading part 1 first if you haven’t done so already. In this post i will cover a simple serverless function written in Go that Read more…
Sometimes you just want to get a simple, static website up and running without much hassle. Be it the microsite to tell about your latest achievements or some error page explaining why your whole production site went down. So it’s about firing up your favourite editor, write some html and Read more…
I’ve been pretty busy lately, doing certifications for OCI and Azure and having to deal with daily business, so there was no post on this blog for quite some time. As you might have guessed, i had as well spent some time digging into the Oracle serverless offering which is Read more…
When playing around with Oracle Functions and fnproject i pretty soon encountered some build problems for my function written in Go. It simply didn’t play well with some newer Go modules i was using. To understand what was happening here, you need to understand how serverless functions in fnproject are Read more…
Unikernels have been discussed for some time as alternatives to full blown virtual machines or containers in cloud environments. In this post i will take a look at running a simple microservice on a unikernel in Oracle OCI.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have some low-code app built with APEX that integrates nicely with your Azure AD for authentication? Actually it is pretty easy to do so, i will show you the simple steps to get it done.
I will show how to establish routing that will let a client on Azure access an Autonomous Database (or in fact any other OCI Service) without leaving the Azure and OCI networks. This will increase performance, security and reliability of this connection.
The interconnect between Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud seems to be a hot topic lately. I often hear of the scenario to run an Oracle database on OCI and some applications on Azure, which is interesting to companies moving to the cloud. But one of the major concerns always seem Read more…
One situation i experienced recently with OCI was the lack of support for hybrid DNS. A typical use case for this is the use of private DNS zones for giving nicer names to the servers in you private network never meant to be visible to the world, therefore not supposed Read more…
