Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

In a previous blog, I explained how to provision a new Kubernetes environment locally on physical or virtual machines, as well as remotely in the Oracle Public Cloud. In this workshop, I am going to show how to get started by deploying and running a Hello World NodeJS application into it. There are a few moving parts involved in this exercise: · Using an Ubuntu Vagrant box, I’ll ask you to git clone a “Hello World NodeJS App”. It will come with its Dockerfile to be easily...

In a previous blog I discussed a work-around for not having a Script activity in Oracle Integration Cloud's Process Builder. In this blog I will discuss another work-around which is actually not a work-around, but the real thing: the Data Mapper! As you can read in a previous blog about the matter, not having the equivalent of the Script activity of the on-premise BPM Suite, was an omission that we often had to find a work-around for. The one I used was the Business Rule...

Join Link Consulting and Oracle for a Developer Meetup in Lisbon. Schedule: Thursday, February 28, 2019 Every now and then there’s a paradigm change in how we interact with computers. Chatbots have already conquered their own market place but, as usual, technology never ceases to amaze us!Unlike a simple chatbot, a Virtual Digital Assistant can be equipped with multiple skills covering a wide set of domains and scenarios all from one conversational interface. There’s no need...

API Gateways deliver critical runtime capabilities in enterprise-wide API management infrastructures. However, such runtime capabilities must also be complemented with other design-time and governance capabilities in support of activities such as APIs lifecycle management, API design, policy definition and implementation, deployment, retirement, monitoring, and so on.The aforementioned design-time/governance capabilities, are often offered by different API management vendors...

  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...

The last week or two I have been working on a new API Platform utility to add to my existing tools (see here). This tool addresses the question of generating documentation.  Much as been said about API documentation and the quality of it, check out these articles : https://nordicapis.com/the-easiest-ways-to-generate-api-documentation/ https://dzone.com/articles/best-practices-in-api-documentation If you look at these articles and others, there are some common themes, which...

We introduced our new Build Engine in Oracle Developer Cloud in our April release. This new build engine now comes with the capability to define build pipelines visually. Read more about it in my previous blog. In this blog we will delve deeper into some of the functionalities of Build Pipeline feature of the new CI Engine in Oracle Developer Cloud. Auto Start Auto Start is an option given to the user while creating a build pipeline on Oracle Developer Cloud Service. The below...

A great API Management solution supports agile API development, and also makes it easy to keep an eye on KPIs covering every aspect of the API lifecycle. True hybrid API deployment – in the Cloud or on-premises – means that your API solution is modern and adaptable, all while employing the most up-to-date security protocols. Get started with API Platform Cloud Service: Creating an Oracle API Platform Cloud Service (CS) Instance Service Account in Oracle API Cloud Service(CS) Cre...

In a recent post, I introduced the managed Oracle Cloud Service for Kubernetes, the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). A logical next step when working with Kubernetes in somewhat challenging situations, for example with microservice style architectures and deployments, is the use of Istio – to configure, monitor and manage the so called service mesh. Istio – https://istio.io – is brand new – not even Beta yet, although a first production release is foreseen for Q3 2018. It...