Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Oracle and HashiCorp are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Oracle Cloud Platform Terraform provider. Oracle Cloud Platform Terraform Provider The initial release of the Oracle Cloud Platform Terraform provider supports the creation and lifecycle management of Oracle Database Cloud Service and Oracle Java Cloud Service instances. With the availability of the Oracle Cloud Platform services support, Terraform’s “infrastructure-as-code” configurations can now be...

  We recently released API Platform Cloud service 18.1.5 and with that we are introducing phase 1 of plans!  To be fully transparent, we've had plans built into the service from day 1, but this marks a step in making the feature available. What are plans you may ask? Plans provide the measured access to one or more APIs serving as the foundation for monetization. Plans define limits at the subscriber level that stretches across APIs. To explain this further, let's use the example...

For  workshop I will present on microservices and communication patterns I need attendees to have their own local Kafka Cluster. I have found a way to have them up and running in virtually no time at all. Thanks to the combination of: Kubernetes Minikube The Yolean/kubernetes-kafka GitHub Repo with Kubernetes yaml files that creates all we need (including Kafka Manager) Prerequisites: Minikube and Kubectl are installed The Minikube cluster is running (minikube start) In my case the...

Implementing Oracle API Platform Cloud Service moves from theory to practice using the newest Oracle API management platform. This critical new platform for Oracle developers allows you to interface the complex array of services your clients expect in the modern world. First, you'll learn about Oracle’s new platform and get an overview of it, then you'll see a use case showing the functionality and use of this new platform for Oracle customers. Next, you’ll see the power of...

  Open serverless project Fn adds support for broader serverless standardization with CNCF CloudEvents, serverless framework support, and OpenCensus for tracing and metrics. Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes tackles toughest real-world governance, scale, and management challenges facing K8s users today Today at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018, Oracle announced new support for several open serverless standards on its open Fn Project and a set of critical new Oracle...

  My introductory post on SSI covered the basic features: The Features list above alludes to the main differences between SSI and OIC. Let's look at some of them -Personal Account: In SSI you connect to your SaaS app, say Sales Cloud, using your own credentials. This will allow you to see your customers etc. In OIC, the Sales Cloud connections credentials are usually those of a generic "integration" user.In other words, SSI for LOB, ad-hoc integrations, OIC for enterprise...

Introduction to SSI So what is Self-Service Integration - SSI? SSI is light weight integration service, that works on a simple trigger and action paradigm. It is targeted at line of business folks - simple to use, yet very effective. These people use a wide range of cloud apps to accomplish their daily tasks. For example, a marketing specialist may use tools such as Survey Monkey to collect customer responses, he or she may also use Eventbrite to organize, yes, you got it,...

Introduction It wasn’t that many years ago that service-oriented architecture (SOA) was the hot, new, bleeding edge enterprise computing paradigm. Most organizations and vendors jumped on that bandwagon and everything became “service-oriented”. Organizations and vendors both made great claims about how SOA would revolutionize the way applications were built, the amount of reuse that would be achieved, and how application time to market would be greatly reduced. In addition,...

  Your best employees make the time to do a great job by mastering the enterprise apps they use every day along with best-of-breed cloud apps that help them perform better and faster. Oracle Self-Service Integration Cloud Service (SSI) is for them, and for everyone else who wants to be like them. Through its easy-to-use interface and rich library of ready-to-use recipes, SSI makes it easier than ever to work smarter with modern cloud apps. Watch the on-demand webcast here. PaaS...