Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  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:...

  The November edition of the PaaS & Middleware Partner Update contains three topics: • Highlights Oracle OpenWorld and Code One • Oracle Developer Meetups across Europe • PaaS Community Oracle Integration Cloud Update For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Thanks for your likes and sharing the video on YouTube and LinkedIn. For the latest PaaS Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required). Blog Twitter L...

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...

Microservices have taken the development world by storm! The promises of resilience, almost infinite scalability, development independence seem almost too good to be true. The problem is that all this comes with a price... a steep price.Listen to the stories and experiences behind a small team of developers and architects which set their goals on trying this new development architecture pattern, with our own José Carlos Rodrigues as one of the members, one of the very few...

Watch this 17 minutes video during which Ian Reed, Sr. Director of Partner Enablement, OSPA, hosts Ed Zou, Vice President, Product Management at Oracle, as he takes you on a journey into the Oracle platform story, a holistic view of the Oracle’s whole cloud platform. Watch the video here.   PaaS Partner Community For regular information on Oracle PaaS become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account...

How to easily write and maintain functions in a cloud-agnostic way Although the term serverless computing will not win the award for the clearest terminology, it is one of the recent buzzwords in IT. It is more than a buzzword, though, and it is a very relevant concept for developers writing software that is intended for use in production in cloud environments. From On-Premises Monoliths to Serverless Functions One of the main reasons why companies are moving their operations...

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The technologies of tomorrow have the potential to change the world for the better, whether it’s via planet-scale apps scheduled with Kubernetes Federation or blockchain-based trust with Hyperledger. These two examples are both enabled by open source software (OSS)—but OSS is only one facet of Oracle’s commitment to being open. “When we say Oracle is open, we don’t just mean open source. We mean that we support non-Oracle technologies as well as the ability to work in an...