Architect - Chronicles of Technology

Ghost: Building an Instance

I publish journal notes of my cost-effective blog engineering challenge. This time I'll walk you through the cornerstone of my design - compute instance. Bear with me for a few

GCP

Ghost: Architecting a Test Site

My previous topic described preparation steps for my new pet project - a test site in the Google Cloud. This post describes the design stage with my train of thought

OHS

Maintaining Oracle HTTP instances

The Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) is essential to any large Oracle Fusion Middleware environment. And despite the most common description for that product being "Apache HTTP server with custom modules," it's not as simple as it sounds. Let's walk around and take a look at how it's made.

OCI

Oracle OCI: It has queues!

Oracle OCI and Amazon AWS are similar and different at the same time. Yes, at the very basic, they offer you the same services - cloud infrastructure to run your workload, but AWS always dominated by the broad set of tools, features, and capabilities if you compare them by dozens.

AWS

AWS API Gateway: Stage Variables

AWS API Gateway allows you to deploy the same API for different stages. It separates deployments of the same code for different environments, enabling "code once" principles. But you already see where the trap is.

AWS

When specialty beats functionality

While back I wrote a short piece about Pandoc. My excitement about it stands true, yet it's a last-century utility you don't want or can't use in cloud-native applications. Well, I found a new one - WKHTMLTOx

Oracle HTTP Server

Standalone Oracle HTTP Server: Deployment Options

In one of my previous posts, I mentioned multiple Oracle HTTP server deployment options. Let me do a small "show & tell" to explain how I pick the configuration.

Ansible

Ansible and Git Submodules

Let's discuss a problem I faced, moving from Ansible to the Ansible Tower. The problem is how to maintain multiple inventories scattered all over new projects effectively.

Certification

What you need to pass the OCI Architect Associate certification exam

In March 2020, Oracle announced free access to online learning content and certifications to a broad array of Oracle Cloud certifications for about 2 months (details here [https://www.oracle.