Recent Posts by Randy Stafford

Oracle Coherence Product Development is very pleased to announce the release of Oracle Coherence version 14.1.1. Part of Oracle's Enterprise Cloud Native Java portfolio, which also includes Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1, Coherence 14.1.1 brings significant new features to market, representing many man-years of engineering effort. This release of Oracle Coherence is fully compatible with popular container and orchestration ecosystems certified with Coherence since 2016, for...

Videos covering new Coherence 12.2.1.4 features, and the 2.0 release of Coherence Operator  for Kubernetes, have been uploaded to the Oracle Coherence channel on YouTube. In these videos you'll see members of the Coherence engineering team describe and demonstrate the cool new features of Coherence 12.2.1.4 and Coherence Operator 2.0. A listing of these videos is as follows: * Coherence 12.2.1.4 "Management Over REST" feature * Coherence 12.2.1.4 "View Caches" feature * Coherence...

Oracle Coherence Product Development is pleased to announce the release of Coherence Operator 2.0 into general availability. Coherence Operator is a Kubernetes Operator for Coherence clusters: a Coherence-specific controller extending the Kubernetes API to create, configure, and manage Coherence deployments. The 2.0 release of Coherence Operator introduces a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD) for Coherence clusters.  The CRD allows users to define the expected...

Oracle Coherence Product Development is excited to announce the availability of Coherence Cloud Edition on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace. With this offering, customers can provision dedicated infrastructure and running Coherence clusters on OCI in a matter of minutes, selecting from a menu of resources and providing configuration parameters through a wizard interface.  Afterward, customers securely shell into the provisioned machines and manage the Coherence...

Oracle Coherence Product Development is pleased to announce the release of Oracle Coherence 12.2.1.4.0 into general availability. Oracle Coherence 12.2.1.4.0 is now available for downloading at https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/coherence-downloads.html, and its documentation is online at https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/fusion-middleware/coherence/12.2.1.4/index.html. Important new features in Oracle Coherence 12.2.1.4.0 include the following: Docker and...

Oracle OpenWorld is a week away, and Coherence will have strong representation at the conference.  The program guide for Coherence at OpenWorld highlights the following sessions: Oracle Coherence Product Update: The State of the Enterprise in the Cloud Era Oracle Coherence Customer Success Stories Operating Oracle Coherence Microservices with Kubernetes on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ask the Experts: Improving Business Experiences with Oracle Coherence And a hands-on lab, Using...

Oracle Coherence Product Development is pleased to announce the release of Coherence Operator 1.0 into general availability. Coherence Operator is a Kubernetes Operator for Coherence clusters: a Coherence-specific controller extending the Kubernetes API to create, configure, and manage Coherence deployments. Coherence's ability to provide a shared cache, and its inherent dynamic scalability, align naturally with Kubernetes-based deployments of microservices architectures. With...

Earlier this month, Franco Ucci’s syndicated content stream “Digital Impact Radio” featured an interview with Oracle Coherence Product Manager Randy Stafford.  Mr. Ucci is Senior Director of Cloud Platform Strategy with Oracle Australia / New Zealand. The interview covered general topics like what Coherence is, and how organizations are using it, and more specific topics like the use of Coherence in microservices architectures and intelligent systems. The 19-minute conversation...