Wednesday, August 23, 2017

R and the Oracle database: Using dplyr / dbplyr with ROracle in Windows 10

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R uses data extensively. Data often resides in a database. In this blog I will describe installing and using dplyr, dbplyr and ROracle on Wi...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service integration options

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Oracle Mobile Cloud Service has a lot of options which allows it to integrate with other services and systems. Since it runs JavaScript on N...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) and Integration Cloud Service (ICS): How secure is your TLS connection?

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In a previous blog I have explained which what cipher suites are, the role they play in establishing SSL connections and have provided some...
Monday, July 3, 2017

SSL/TLS: How to choose your cipher suite

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For SSL/TLS connections, cipher suites determine for a major part how secure the connection will be. A cipher suite is a named combination o...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Oracle SOA Suite: Want performance? Don't log so much and clean up your database!

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The Oracle SOA Suite infrastructure, especially composites, use the database intensively. Not only are the process definitions stored in the...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

Oracle SOA Suite: Two-way SSL with TLS1.2 made easy (slightly less complicated)

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Transport layer security is not an easy topic. Many blogs have been written about this already. Surprisingly though, I did not find a single...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

R: Utilizing multiple CPUs

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R is a great piece of software to perform statistical analyses. Computing power can however be a limitation. R by default uses only a single...