Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

This is Part 2 of the blog series (The first part of the series can be accessed here). The aim of the blog post is to provide useful tips, which will enable the installation of the on premise Gateway for Oracle API Platform Cloud Services. If you want to know more about the product, then you can refer here. The following tips are based on some of the scenarios, we have observed in production. If you find yourself in a situation where the "configure" or the "start"actions are...

Dear PaaS Partner Community Thanks for spending the week at Oracle OpenWorld and Code One in San Francisco. In case you could not attend the conferences here in this newsletter you get a latest information. Watch the keynotes and general sessions are available as on-demand webcasts here. For an excellent PaaS overview we recommend the Oracle Cloud Platform Strategy and Roadmap by Amit Zavery. Presentations are available via the sessions catalog here. Congratulations to all...

In one of my previous posts I described how to create a Docker container serving as a builder machine for ADF applications. Here I am going to show how to use this container as a function on Fn platform.First of all let's update the container so that it meets requirements of a function, meaning that it can be invoked as a runnable binary accepting some arguments. In an empty folder I have created a Dockerfile (just a simple text file with this name) with the following...

This blog post assumes some prior knowledge of API Platform Cloud Service and pertains to the on premise gateway installation steps. Here we try to list down 3 useful tips (applicable for 18.1.3+), arranged in no particular order:. Before installing the gateway, make sure you have the correct values for "listenIpAddress" and "publishAddress".  This can be done by the following checklist (Linux only): Does the command "hostname -f" return a valid value ? Does the command...

I have a cluster of Raspberry Pi for my pet-projects and believe that serverless is very good for home automation. Couple months ago I started to use Fn Project. But currently we can’t use standard way to install it on computers with arm32 architecture. Next I’ll explain some custom steps to run Fn on your Raspberry Pi and call Java function. Step 1: Prepare environment As you might know Fn consists of several components. To run Java-function we’ll use following: Fn Server; Comman...

  As APIs become more pervasive within our solutions we see the arrival of not just design and cataloging tools such as Apiary, Apigee and others but also the arrival of gateways. The gateways provide execution of operations including validation, accounting (moneytization), routing, and other controls such as throttled checks that would often not occur until the first contact with a service bus. For example initial routing based on the API call, fine grained authentication and...

One of our main objectives with the Fn Project is to have a very easy and elegant user experience. From your first touch with our quickstart to building and deploying complex applications, we want to make the experience drop dead simple. Deploying a single function has always been easy — fn deploy — and now you can deploy an app consisting of any number of functions almost as easily. First, make an app.yaml file and put it in the root directory of your application, eg: name:...

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Oracle’s API Platform (API-P) product avoids the use of external configuration management. If you want to better understand why, then checkout our forthcoming book as it goes into detail about why this is the case (it can be pre-release version of the book can be obtained here). In a previous blog I wrote about and illustrated the use of the API-P’s own APIs so that it was possible to see what API iterations had been deployed to API Gateways. In this blog I want to explore the...