Tech Content creator toolkit: the cheat sheet

Intro Some of you are probably at a stage where daily work isn’t enough, and interacting with the tech community is the fulfilling mission you’ve been waiting for. But in order to do so, you need to level up your game. Whether your goal is to be a blogger, speaker, podcaster, or social media maverick, …

OCI FortiGate HA Cluster – Reference Architecture: Code review & Fixes

Intro OCI Quick Start repositories on GitHub are collections of Terraform scripts and configurations provided by Oracle. These repositories are designed to help organizations quickly deploy common infrastructure setups on the OCI Platform. Each Quick Start focuses on a specific use case or workload, simplifying the process of provisioning on OCI using Terraformβ€”a sort of …

Cloud Showdown: Bare Metal vs. VMs in OCI – Pros & Cons

Intro The migration journey to the cloud for a business comes in different shapes and colors. Today, we’ll explore a quick comparison between Bare metal and VM platforms, which are two IaaS compute options available in Oracle Cloud infrastructure. Although specific to OCI, you might find similar benefits and trade-offs in other Cloud platforms. In …

Farewell to ClickOps: OCI CLI seamless Data Guard Replication for ExaC@C

Intro Since the very beginning, everyone got introduced to  Cloud services through the console as it’s very quick. But the cloud CLI tooling provides a stronger, yet user-friendly way to automate tasks, often covering features not even available in the console. Moreover, DBAs often assume that the CLI is primarily designed for managing compute-based services, …

Top picks for Cloud Native sessions at Oracle Cloud World 2023

Blabla free post: This is just some of my (personal) top Oracle Cloud World 2023 sessions I will have the chance to attend and speak at this September. Some of you may agree that there is no way to make a list that fits everyone but for those who are into Cloud native,IT Ops, and database …