Project Fn provides a framework for creating and running serverless functions. It is the foundation for the Functions service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Dapr.io is an open source project that provides a powerful personal assistant for any application and a distributed application runtime that especially shines with microservices. Some aspects…

Today is PI Day. March 14 or: 3–14 in the US. Of course it can be March 14th 2015–3–14–15 — only once but for some reason March 14 is baptized PI Day and is not unlike April Fool’s day the international day for nerdi stuff. You may want to check…

In this article, I want to walk you through connecting a Go app to a local Oracle Database and to Autonomous Database on OCI (both on-prem and autonomous, with and without Oracle Client libraries). That’s sounds like a lot, but I promise it’s easier than it sounds. One application uses…

Dapr is a runtime framework for distributed applications. Dapr also provides a personal assistant to any application and environment that offers standardized access to different facilities (state, secrets, configuration, pub/sub, actors) and technologies. Simply by using Dapr we can leverage a large number of Dapr components that through the Dapr…

I have worked quite a bit in Oracle Cloud, starting back in 2015. I have used many different OCI services — such as Integration, Streaming, Functions, OKE, API Gateway, Object Storage, DBaaS and several more. However, for some reason I have almost complete avoided the almost simplest service of all…

Surely I would never be so stupid as to commit a file that contains sensitive information — say my Oracle Cloud account’s private key. And even if I did, I would not push that change to a public git repo on GitHub, would I? It turns out that I did…

I have used many open source products in my professional life. I have not studied the sources of many of these products and projects. My main contributions to the open source community consisted of presentations (many dozens) and articles (many 100s) in which I have spread the word. I have…

Dapr is a runtime framework for distributed applications and a personal assistant with many generic qualities relevant to any application. Through Dapr, applications can easily benefit from configuration and secret management, from interacting with dozens of external technologies in both inbound and outbound direction, from having messages received and sent…

I’m still fairly new at working with Go. I have the goal of working with, and perhaps even on, several open source projects that use Go as their implementation language. It seems like the number of open source projects using Go is increasing rapidly. It also seems like I need…