Oracle Backends for Microservices and Mobile Apps on OCI Marketplace

Oracle today released a developer preview of two new Backend platforms on the OCI Marketplace, which can be provisioned with a single click on OCI, on-premises, or on any other cloud infrastructure. Both platforms run with Kubernetes, application containers, and auto-scale both the app and the database platform components. These services are customer managed with available developer support through email in this early preview.

The first platform is the Oracle Backend for Spring Boot, allowing Java developers using Spring Boot to provision and deploy a dev/test/prod backend with a single click to run their applications. Working in Visual Studio Code, with VS extensions, Spring Config, and Command Line Interface (CLI), applications can be built and deployed very easily taking advantage of the data and apps services of the converged Oracle Database. This unifies developers, DevOps, and Data engineers/DBAs to build, deploy, monitor, tune modern enterprise applications at scale very easily.

The second platform is the Oracle Backend for Parse Platform  which helps build modern mobile applications using the Parse platform APIs, using a variety of developer SDKs to build Android and iOS mobile apps. An Oracle Database adapter is written to take advantage of the app and data services in the converged Oracle Database, which adds to Parse's available MongoDB and Postgres database adapters. In addition, the platform emulates Google Firebase APIs in a proof-of-concept demo, with a sample app that runs on Google Firebase on Google Cloud, and with a minimal change to include a "parsef" emulation library, runs the same app on Oracle MBaaS platform.

Enterprises tend to intermingle web-first and mobile-first applications, so yet another kind of convergence is emerging with both Java and Javascript backends, and web and mobile front-ends with JavaScript. The availabilty of a provisioned backend platform unifies developers, architects, DevOps, and DBAs like never before, and this simplifies the end-to-end lifecycle of modern enterprise applications, observed Wei Hu, SVP Engineering for Emerging Tech and High Availability in the Oracle Database development team.

To get started with these two Backend platforms from the OCI marketplace please follow the quickstart guides below

https://bit.ly/oraclespringboot

https://bit.ly/oraclembaas

For questions and feedback send email to obaas_ww@oracle.com  The team looks forward to hearing from you, and helping you to maximize productivity with your microservices and mobile development efforts.

Read more about modern application development with Oracle Database at

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/application-development.html