Recent Posts by Sherwood Zern

This post was written in collaboration with guest contributor Jeff Engel, Cloud Alliance Architect, Check Point. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues to embrace open source technologies and the developer communities that support them. With the rapid adoption of cloud native technologies and DevOps methodologies, many organizations have said that they want an open cloud that avoids vendor lock-in and allows them to run what they want, whether the cloud provider builds it...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continues to embrace open source technologies and the developer communities that support them. With the rapid adoption of cloud native technologies and DevOps methodologies, we've heard from many organizations that they want an open cloud that avoids vendor lock-in and allows them to run what they want, whether or not it's built by the cloud provider. As part of Oracle's continuing commitment to open standards and supporting a broad and varied...

I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of the unprecedented growth of developer services and tools that are now available for cloud application development. Five years ago, I don’t think any of us would have imagined how quickly cloud application development has taken hold. This modern way of development software is often referred to as cloud native. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) defines it as using an open source software stack to be containerized, where...

I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of the unprecedented growth of developer services and tools that are now available for cloud application development. If I think back 5 years, I don’t think any of us would have imagined how quickly cloud application development has taken hold. This modern way of developing software is often referred to as cloud native. What is cloud-native? As one point of reference, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) defines it to mean using an...

Applications deployed in application servers are provided a security framework with authentication, authorization, credential mappers, auditing, and other security plug-ins. Many of the large, monolithic applications, such as HCM and ERP also contain security components embedded within these applications. These security components provide authentication, as well as, role-based access control policies. A microservice architecture also has these same security requirements. ...

Introduction Many organizations today are choosing to deploy their applications using a microservice architecture, so what exactly is a microservice architecture? Microservices - also known as the microservice architecture - is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services, which implement business capabilities. The microservice architecture enables the continuous delivery/deployment of large, complex applications. (Chris...

Introduction It wasn’t that many years ago that service-oriented architecture (SOA) was the hot, new, bleeding edge enterprise computing paradigm. Most organizations and vendors jumped on that bandwagon and everything became “service-oriented”. Organizations and vendors both made great claims about how SOA would revolutionize the way applications were built, the amount of reuse that would be achieved, and how application time to market would be greatly reduced. In addition,...

Introduction In a previous article I discussed the use of the Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) to poll for files, on a scheduled basis, to read from MFT.  In that article we discussed how to process many files that have been posted to the SFTP server.  At the end of that article I mentioned the use of the push pattern for file processing. This article will cover how to implement that push pattern with Managed-File Transfer (MFT) and the Integration Cloud Service (ICS).  We’ll...

Introduction The Oracle A-Team is often asked to help customers identify a myriad of JVM and SOA application issues.  Without fail, the customer will be asked for data regarding their application.  This is not application data, but rather data about the running application from the JVM’s perspective. The data we ask for normally includes Java thread dumps, garbage collection logs, Java heap dumps, and also Java Flight recordings; one of the “new” favorites. Once this...