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Oracle Backend for Spring Boot (and Parse Platform) introductory video plublished!

Mark Nelson — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:03:20 +0000

We just published a short YouTube video that introduces the Oracle Backend for Spring Boot (and Parse Platform) which makes it super easy to develop, run and manage Spring Boot microservices and mobile applications leveraging all the power of Oracle’s converged database.

I hope you can check it out!

Session catalog for DevLive Level Up 2023 released!

Mark Nelson — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:53:48 +0000

Hi again! In this earlier post, I mentioned that I am speaking at Level Up 2023. The session catalog has just been released on the event website. You can find my sessions in this stream:

Data strategies for developers – Sessions at a glance

I hope to see some of you there!

I’m speaking at Level Up 2023

Mark Nelson — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 20:03:00 +0000

Hi! I am going to be speaking at the Level Up 2023 event at Oracle Redwood Shores in March. I will talking about our new Developer Previews for both Oracle Backend for Spring Boot and Oracle Backend for Parse Platform, and running a hands on lab where we will use those to build a “Cloud Banking” application in Spring Boot complete with a web and mobile front end user interface. In the lab we’ll explore topics like service discovery, external configuration, workflow, API management, fault tolerance and observability.

If you’re in the Bay Area and you’d like to attend in person – or if you’d like to attend from anywhere digitally – you can find more information and register here:

https://developer.oracle.com/community/events/devlive-level-up-march-2023.html

Two new Backend as a Service offerings live now!

Mark Nelson — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:56:09 +0000

Hi everyone!

For the last few months I have been working on two projects which have just gone live with their first “Developer Preview” releases.

If you’d like to check them out and see what I have been up to, have a look at:

It’s been a lot of fun working on these, and I am really happy to be able to tell you about them at last!

The Oracle Mobile Backend as a Service offering is built on top of Parse and lets you easily build mobile and web apps using any of the Parse SDKs and have all your data stored in an Oracle Autonomous Database in JSON collections. It also includes the Parse Dashboard for managing your applicaiton data. Its easy to install from OCI Marketplace and once the install is done, you can start hitting those APIs and building your apps right away!

The Oracle Backend as a Serivce for Spring Cloud lets you easily install a comprehensive runtime environment for Spring Boot applications including a Kubernetes (OKE) cluster, Spring Config Server (with the config data in Oracle Autonomous Database), Spring Eureka Service Registry, APISIX API Gateway and Dashboard, Netflix Conductor, Spring Admin Dashboard, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger and Open Telemetry. You can build apps using Spring Data with JPA or JDBC access to the Oracle Autonomous Database. We have included a sample custom Spring component for using Oracle Transactional Event Queueing. There’s a CLI to manage deploying apps into the environment, managing configuration and database schema for services. We also included a set of sample applications that demonstrate how to use the platform – these include service discovery, fault tolerance, distributed tracing and so on.

As “Developer Preview” implies – there’s much more to come in this space!

I am planning to write more blog posts really soon to demonstrate how to use both of these offerings. I hope you’ll check them out!