Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Big day. We announce our brand new product - Katana. Today is first release, which is called 18.1. While working with many enterprise customers we saw a need for a product which would help to integrate machine learning into business applications in more seamless and flexible way. Primary area for machine learning application in enterprise - business automation Katana offers and will continue to evolve in the following areas:1. Collection of machine learning models tailored for...

In this series, we're taking a look at how microservice applications are built.  In part 1 we learned about the new open source framework from Oracle called Helidon and learned how it can be used with both Java and Groovy in either a functional, reactive style or a more traditional Microprofile manner.  Part 2 acknowledged that some dev teams have different strengths and preferences and that one team in our fictional scenario used NodeJS with the ExpressJS framework to...

  Nobody can deny, that when used correctly, RPA has the potential of providing a great ROI. Specially in situations where we are trying to automate manual no value added tasks as well as used as a mechanism to integrate with systems of information that do not have headless way (for example no APIs or Adapters if you are using an integration broker tool) to interact with them. I would like to start this article with a simple example. Imagine for a second, an approval business...

  I’d like to continue writing about new features of the Fn Project. This time I will tell you more about what is going on with Fn Project development and why you should keep an eye on it constantly Say goodbye to v1! As a team, we are committed to delivering a high-quality open source project. We spend a year since our first announcement on making Fn the best open source FaaS platform. So, what is this all about? Today, we will look at some important underlying changes related...

Hello, my name is Pinkesh Valdria, and I'm a Solutions Architect working on Big Data for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.  This post is a follow-up to our post about deploying Confluent on Oracle Cloud InfrastructureCompute instances. Now you can use Terraform automation to deploy Confluent Platform using Helm charts on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes.  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container...

Since a few days the Certification Matrix for Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c Release 2 (12.2.1.x) was updated within Oracle Technology Network, now Oracle 18c (18.1 on Exadata and 18.3 on On-Premise) is certified and supported as Target Database for RCU (Repository Creation Utility and as Application Datasource. Certification Matrix for Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2.0 Read the complete article here.   PaaS Partner Community For regular information on Oracle PaaS become a member in...

At my current customer we use queues a lot. They're JMS queues, but in stead of Weblogic JMS, they're served by the Oracle database. This is not new, in fact the Oracle database supports this since 8i through Advanced Queueing. Advanced Queueing is Oracle's Queueing implementation based on tables and views. That means you can query the queue table to get to the content of the queue. But you might know this already. What I find few people know is that you shouldn't query...

Overview of Scenarios This document describes how applications that are built on Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) can continue operating even if an entire geographic region of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is lost. A basic knowledge of OCI is assumed. Each scenario builds upon the previous ones, describing the incremental design differences that arise in more challenging scenarios. Scenarios start with a simple active-passive stateless application, and then add the...

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