Recent Posts by Jürgen Kress

The Oracle WebLogic Deploy Tooling (WDT) makes the automation of WebLogic Server domain provisioning and applications deployment easy. Instead of writing WLST scripts that need to be maintained, WDT creates a declarative, metadata model that describes the domain, applications, and the resources used by the applications.  This metadata model makes it easy to provision, deploy, and perform domain lifecycle operations in a repeatable fashion, which makes it perfect for the...

To help customers take advantage of its growing ecosystem of partner applications and solutions, Oracle today announced the inclusion of the Oracle Cloud Marketplace within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console. The Oracle Cloud Marketplace is an online store for thousands of Oracle and partner-built business applications and services, including FireEye, HighJump, and ICS Financial Systems. As part of this announcement, Oracle is delivering new ‘click to launch’...

Capturing logs in Kubernetes Do you ever wonder how to capture logs for a container native solution running on Kubernetes? Containers are frequently created, deleted, and crash, pods fail, and nodes die, which makes it a challenge to preserve log data for future analysis. Application and system logs are critical to diagnosing and addressing problems impacting the health of your cluster, but there is a good chance you will run into hairy problems associated with the dynamic...

· Larry Ellison—Two Strategic Products Will Determine Oracle’s Future → Cloud-based ERP and Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Service will determine our future. · Oracle’s Startup Program Evolving, Building on Two Years of Strong Success → We are unifying our programs into one called Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem. · How Do Our Customers Measure the Value of Oracle Cloud? → Oracle is bringing value to our customers' conversations to maximize their investments. · Is Blockchain...

Kubernetes becomes the defacto standard if it comes to managing and scaling your container platform, where you might consider that containers are the next gen infrastructure platforms as a follow up on virtual machines, where every process application or infrastructure component can run in a docker container, autonomous, lightweight and independent, as an application, or a piece of runtime platform software ( such as a Java JDK ) However,  in the greater whole dockercontainers...

Telecommunications might not be the first area you think of when it comes to blockchain. But the technology could play a significant role, particularly in roaming—the handoff of a call or a data session from one network provider to another, which generates a lot of data. Blockchain could validate the accuracy of the files being transitioned through the system, curbing redundant work and adding a bit more trust to the existing process. For more information get the blockchain...

The Fn Project has been incubating for 2 years now — some may say it’s time to hatch — and in that time, we have gone back and forth on various APIs and learned some things we don’t like and some things we like even less than the things we don’t like. As is inevitable for any piece of software that manages to enslave a few programmers for long enough, we have begun cutting over to our v2 API. In this post, we’ll go over some of the things that tormented us — and possibly...

Dear PaaS Partner Community Want to increase the Oracle PaaS business? Create new service offerings and solutions for the Cloud? Attend the PaaS Overview Webcast July 2nd 2019. Martijn Vlek, Vice President Sales Cloud Native & Integration will present the latest PaaS sales plays, kits and how to get access to the Oracle Cloud platform. Registration for the ninth edition of the PaaS Summer Camp is open. The training takes place August 26th-30th 2019 in Lisbon Portugal. The...

  A critical value proposition for Platform as a Service is to accelerate and amplify business impact. This award honors customers for their leading-edge solutions using Oracle Cloud Platform to deliver business value. Oracle honors winners for the uniqueness of their business case, business benefits, level of impact relative to the size of the organization, complexity and magnitude of the implementation, and the originality of the architecture Please submit your nomination...