Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Rapid cloud adoption, mobile devices, and AI technologies are rapidly changing the way customers interact with businesses. And organizations are quickly assembling ad-hoc solutions to meet these challenges. The result is a tangled mess of hardwired enterprise systems that can no longer support business needs. Modern applications and data infrastructures are needed to enable mission-critical business systems to work with big data systems. Cloud-agnostic integration platforms...

In this post I am going to walk through setting up and using WebLogic on OpenShift, using the Oracle WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator. My starting point is the OpenShift Container Platform server that I set up on OCI in this earlier post. I am going to use the operator to manage my domains in OpenShift. The operator pattern is common in Kubernetes for managing complex software products that have special lifecycle requirements, different to the base assumptions made by...

Recently, Daryl Eicher, Oracle Director of Product Marketing for Oracle Integration, sat down for a webcast with Aneri Shah, Wells Fargo Senior Vice President, ERP Strategist to explore the business and technical considerations that make ERP integration and automation work for agile finance and supply chain management leaders. Read on for a deep dive into their conversation to learn about Wells Fargo's best practices for cloud ERP integration along with several other customer...

We have just made our 2.0 Release Candidate 2 of the Oracle WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator available for early adopters. The 2.0 release adds some significant new features including: Support for burning your WebLogic domain into the Docker image, in addition to supporting the domain being on persistent storage, The operator is now installed using Helm charts, replacing the earlier scripts, You can override domain configuration using configuration override templates, Load...

Application interfaces are as old as the origins of distributed computing and can be traced back to the late 1960's when the first request-response style protocols were conceived.  For example, according to this research, it wasn't until the late 1980's when the first popular release of RPC (described below) was introduced by SUN Microsystems (later acquired by Oracle), that internet-based interface protocols gained wide popularity and adoption. This is perhaps why the term Ap...

We are excited to announce the release of version 2.0 of the WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator. The operator uses a common set of Kubernetes APIs to provide an improved user experience when automating operations such as: provisioning, lifecycle management, application versioning, product patching, scaling, and security.  This version of the operator evolves WebLogic to run more natively in cloud neutral infrastructures.  It adds support for WebLogic domain configurations...

A collection of in-depth conversations with leading developer advocates that reveal the world of developer relations today What exactly is a developer advocate, and how do they connect developers and companies around the world? Why is the area of developer relations set to explode? Can anybody with a passion for tech become a developer advocate? What are the keys to success on a global scale? How does a developer advocate maintain authenticity when balancing the needs of their...

Dear PaaS Partner Community, An Oracle OpenWorld 2019 marketing kit (community membership required) is available, your opportunity to update your customer base on the latest Oracle Cloud Platform services. You can promote, free of charge, your events via the Oracle.com website. Conference rooms at the Oracle customer visitor centers across the world are available via your Oracle partner manager. For all consultants we offer a free on-demand Oracle integration training includi...

This post explains how Fn users can use GraalVM and the benefits GraalVM and its Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compiler bring to Serverless Java functions. Introduction Fn Project is an open-source, container-native, polyglot FaaS (Function as a Service) platform. Fn is open-source, one can run Fn on-premises and/or in the cloud; running Fn on a laptop is also convenient for experimentation and development. Fn is container-native as it leverages Docker. In a nutshell, serverless functions...