New Names For Oracle Cloud Services (was: Bare Metal)

Oracle cloud is moving even more towards the generic cloud model that I described in 2011. What used to go with the name “Bare Metal” becomes the new norm now. This is good news: In addition to the regions and availability zones that you already know from AWS, the new stack will provide a flat, non-blocking network and NVMe storage.

The Bare Metal Cloud Services user interface was updated to reflect the new name, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Also on September 26th, the Oracle Public Cloud user interface will be updated to reflect the new name, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

Oracle Cloud Service Names. Old Name. New Name. Classic.

Show EC2 Instances across all Regions

A note to myself (might be useful to you as well):

for region in `aws ec2 describe-regions --output text | cut -f3`
do
     echo -e "\nListing Instances in region:'$region'..."
     aws ec2 describe-instances --region $region
done

Originally from Stackoverflow

Cloud, Microservices and Container Workshop in South Africa!

Lot’s of people are talking about these topics nowadays. Heaps of slides and samples are available for download, lots of presentations can simply be streamed from youtube.

In Johannesburg we were working with these solutions hands-on: I delivered a 3 day Cloud, Microservices and Containers workshop on behalf of Oracle.

Find attached some impressions from the smart and fun group of devs and architects I was working with.

 

 

The 2016 Leap Second in the Cloud: It’s spread out for Oracle DBs on RDS

The 27th leap second will be officially applied December 31, 2016 at 23:59:60 UTC. For Oracle DB instances on RDS the following applies:

  • RDS will spread out the leap second equally in the 24h surrounding the timestamp above.
  • After this period RDS time will be in sync with  Cordinated Universal Time.
  • This applies for Oracle DB instances with versions 11.2.0.2, 11.2.0.3, and 12.1.0.1. They will follow AWS Adjusted Time that is applied to RDS.

APIs, and Clouds: Please Explain the Joke!

Some people have asked what the sentence on my laptop sticker means. I was gifting some of these stickers at the OTN Tour Latam 2016. Maybe it is a bit of a academic / nerdy joke. So let me explain.

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The Posh (and boring)

Once upon a time there were people rich in money but poor in humor driving around in their second cars (typically a small Mercedes, a small BMW or a small Audi) with a sticker on it saying that their first car is a huge Mercedes, Porsche or Bentley. Let’s not waste too much time talking about these people here.

Australia

The cooll stuff as often started in Down Under. Some people with a lifestyle instead of a job came up with a cool car sticker, that basically said it is much nicer to have a small boat and go to the sea for diving than wasting money on a second car. E.g. see here for a rather fun version.

Google

Then (to the best of my knowledge) Google made fun out of it, riding the cloud computing wave with a sticker that said “My other Computer is a Data Center“. Meaning that if you use the cloud you can have a whole data center.

Cloud Computing and APIs

Let’s get a bit more specific: What I pointed out half decade ago (yes, that time when everybody was just laughing about that topic) in my Cloud Computing book is the following: The true beauty of cloud computing is not that you access a compute instance in somebody else’s data center – this is what you could simply get by outsourcing. Guys, it’s more that your whole data center is software. Your whole data center is an API!

With cloud computing the difference of placing a cloud instance in Sydney or Frankfurt is just one single parameter in an API call – that comes at no extra cost. Same for placing it in datacenter 1 in Frankfurt or datacenter 2. So you get geo-redundancy for free! Now go and try this at home.

Also there is no difference in using 100 instances for 1h or using 1 instance for 100h. So you have a massively parallel, distributed supercomputer at your fingertips for a few pennies. Try this in your DC.

I guess now you get an idea what sticker means and why it says API. At the end it is all about APIs. And we haven’t even started to talk about the possibilities of PaaS, SaaS, HaaS, or API Management 🙂 Btw, sometimes I think most marketing people do a really bad job causing FUD instead of promoting tech.

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Let me know if you spot more of these stickers out there and send me pics :-)!