Analysis Cloud Doomsday: When Europe’s Digital Sky Falls Max Jahn, May 26, 2025May 26, 2025 Dr. Elena Rossi is performing emergency surgery at Milan’s Ospedale San Raffaele when her medical imaging system freezes mid-operation. At that same moment, 847 kilometers away in Frankfurt, Deutsche Bank’s trading floor watches in horror as their real-time payment systems crash during the morning rush. In Amsterdam, air traffic controllers… Continue Reading
Cloud Cloud Revolution in the Banking Sector: If Even Traditional Banks Master the SaaS Transformation – Why Not All Companies? Max Jahn, February 27, 2025February 27, 2025 Today there was a truly exciting press release: The Austrian AuRep will use Nasdaq’s AxiomSL platform in the future – a SaaS solution for bank regulatory reporting. From my experience in regulatory reporting projects, I find this current development in Austria remarkable. While many banks already use cloud solutions for… Continue Reading
Analysis Do constrained vCPU Virtual Machines really solve your Oracle DB licensing troubles in the cloud? Max Jahn, November 24, 2024November 24, 2024 Oracle licensing outside of OCI presents significant challenges, including confusing vCPU licensing, potential discrepancies in cloud provider agreements, and the undeniable need for clearer communication from Oracle, AWS and Microsoft. Continue Reading
Analysis The Oracle Cloud Database Conundrum Max Jahn, September 26, 2022March 29, 2023 Oracle has a long track record as a provider of world-class relational database management systems (RDBMS). But it’s notoriously difficult for enterprises to move these databases to the cloud. I’ll take a look at the reasons for this and some recent developments that could be the solution in many cases. Continue Reading
Analysis A brief look at Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) Max Jahn, September 20, 2022November 13, 2024 In the past, I have written several posts about the interconnect between Oracle Cloud (OCI) and Microsoft Azure. Usually, this interconnect is used to host databases in OCI. However, Azure is used to run applications and other components. While it could be a good solution for some businesses, it had several drawbacks for companies who wanted to run Oracle databases in the cloud without having to manage multi-cloud environments. In a new PaaS-style approach to running databases in OCI and hiding much of the interconnect complexity from Azure users, Oracle has released Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA). In my post, I will take a brief look at this solution. Continue Reading
Cloud Patching Compute Instance Fleets with Oracle Cloud (OCI) OS Management Max Jahn, December 7, 2020July 18, 2024 An annoying thing when you cannot have immutable infrastructure is that you need to patch and update your compute instances from time to time. In the worst case this needs to be done manually, a painful and error-prone process. Of course there are tools to do that in a more sensible way, one of them being the OS Management tooling that is available for free in Oracle Cloud. This post shows how to do so using OCI CLI. Continue Reading
Cloud Why I implemented a Serverless Function in COBOL. Max Jahn, November 12, 2020November 12, 2023 Serverless Functions are usually associated with programming languages like JavaScript, Python, Go or even plain old Java. But sometimes there is this one procedure, this one application that you need to run once or twice a week for recalculating those old contracts that would be a perfect fit for a… Continue Reading
Cloud Cloud Automation: Autoregistering Virtual Machines with Private DNS Zones in Oracle OCI using Serverless Functions Max Jahn, October 4, 2020March 29, 2023 This post describes how to use cloud events and serverless in Oracle Cloud functions to keeping the records of a private DNS Zone up to date. Continue Reading
Cloud Fun with Go Functions: Flexible Oracle Functions Logging to Syslog Max Jahn, September 20, 2020March 29, 2023 Oracle recently added a new logging service to their offering. This logging service supports both custom and service logs. The former is your classic “agent-sends-log-to-logserver” type of log service. The latter will finally give access to logs coming from services such as Load Balancers, API Gateways, Events or Functions. While… Continue Reading
Cloud Working with public/private/hybrid DNS in Oracle OCI Max Jahn, September 16, 2020November 12, 2023 Interestingly, one of my posts on this blog getting most attention is covering the use of dnsmasq for using hybrid DNS on OCI. Since there is quite a lot of interesting things around DNS on OCI, i decided to prepare another post, giving some overview and then show approaches for… Continue Reading