Oracle SaaS | Analysing the Structure and Morphology of the REST API Methods


Oracle SaaS API's have a structure that is equal for all the "business entities" across the different modules (Finance, Loyalty, Supply Chain, …) such as invoices, expenses, loyalty transactions and so on. Let's analyze the pattern. In this episode, we are focusing on the "Get all xxx" methods because it conforms a pattern that we'll … Continue reading Oracle SaaS | Analysing the Structure and Morphology of the REST API Methods →

Near Real Time Data Driven SaaS Integration with Streaming | Part 2: Extracting/Publishing Data Changes to Streaming Topics


As we mentioned in a previous post, the idea here is to develop a construct that seeks for changes in the SaaS data system and publishes those changes to a stream for later consumption from other systems over there. Indeed, as we see in the diagram, there is a block in which we are executing a program … Continue reading Near Real Time Data Driven SaaS Integration with Streaming | Part 2: Extracting/Publishing Data Changes to Streaming Topics →

Oracle Integration Cloud | Integrating Applications Through Robotics Process Automation


Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is a technology that allows to automate the human-machine dialog. How many of you have seen end users working with several User Interface apps "at the same time"? The lack of integration between our systems and apps is because several reasons, such as failed IT implementations, niche, legacy or obsolete solutions, … Continue reading Oracle Integration Cloud | Integrating Applications Through Robotics Process Automation →

Near Real Time Data Driven SaaS Integration with Streaming | Part 1: Overview


File based approaches File-based data exchange comfort a large percentage of the integrations between SaaS and other ERP solutions in the past and today. The approach is robust and allows a large number of transactions to be executed in batch without affecting the online systems, but it has an inconvenience: the information is not updated … Continue reading Near Real Time Data Driven SaaS Integration with Streaming | Part 1: Overview →

“Kool” Kubernetes Client Tools


When working with k8s, you typically have several clusters and a bunch of namespaces per cluster, the following tools can help you manage the stuff with easy. kubectx + kubens kubectx allows you to change the context between different k8s clusters kubens allows you to change between different namespaces in the current cluster context brew … Continue reading “Kool” Kubernetes Client Tools →

Set Up an Ingress Controller in OKE Cluster


Here a recipe to create a ingresscontroller. Step 1: setting up the nginx ingress controller kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/master/deploy/static/mandatory.yaml Step 2: exposing the ingress as a service of type LoadBalancer (as a public IP) kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/javiermugueta/rawcontent/master/cloud-generic.yaml Step 3: Execute this command several times until the external-ip appears as non <pending>, grab the IP … Continue reading Set Up an Ingress Controller in OKE Cluster →

Oracle SaaS Stories: Creating a Custom App Extension with Visual Builder | Part Three: Filtering Data


Next step after what we posted here is how to implement a mechanism to filter results. Taking a look to the REST APIs we can notice that the query parameter q is the one that can help us to implement what we are pretending: So the q parameter works as a field1<operator1>value1;fieldn<operatorn>valuen expression that can … Continue reading Oracle SaaS Stories: Creating a Custom App Extension with Visual Builder | Part Three: Filtering Data →

Oracle SaaS Stories: Creating a Custom App Extension with Visual Builder | Part Two: Results Pagination


In this episode we are explaining how to list data results in a table located on a page. This is the typical use case in which we want to show business data to the user according to certain criteria. For now what we want to demonstrate is how to show results in paginated mode. The … Continue reading Oracle SaaS Stories: Creating a Custom App Extension with Visual Builder | Part Two: Results Pagination →

Oracle SaaS Stories: Creating a Custom App Extension with Visual Builder | Part One: Connect Visual Builder to Fusion SaaS API Service Catalog


Visual Builder Cloud Service (aka VBCS), one of the 3 legs of Oracle Integration Cloud (aka OIC), is a low code development environment that is one of the main mechanisms for extending Oracle Fusion SaaS Apps. In this episode we are connecting VBCS to a SaaS instance, so we can get the different endpoints provided … Continue reading Oracle SaaS Stories: Creating a Custom App Extension with Visual Builder | Part One: Connect Visual Builder to Fusion SaaS API Service Catalog →