Two new Backend as a Service offerings live now!

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:

• Oracle Mobile Backend as a Service
• Oracle Backend as a Service for Spring Cloud

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!