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How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 2

March 14, 2019

Welcome back to the 2nd part! Last time, we set up the tools that allowed managing the blog as a...

March 13, 2019

I remember when I started blogging in 2008. It was a nice learning experience, and it was...

November 20, 2018

I've been looking into how Vagrant and/or Docker can be used to improve the life of DBAs and maybe...

June 26, 2018

I was using SLOB to compare the throughput between 12.1 and 12.2 databases, and was surprised to...

May 26, 2017

Password rotation is not the most exciting task in the world, and that's exactly why it's a perfect...

December 30, 2016

I published a blog post called " Investigating IO Performance on Amazon RDS for Oracle" recently,...

December 13, 2016

I've recently been involved in quite a few database migrations to Oracle RDS. One thing that I had...

July 7, 2016

A while ago I created a Bash script called getMOSPatch.sh. It's purpose was to allow downloading...

April 19, 2016

Once upon a time I wrote about the Internal Workflow of an E-Business Suite Concurrent Manager...

December 17, 2015

Oracle Smart Flash Cache (OSFC) is a nice feature that was introduced in Oracle 11g Release 2. As...