Category Archives: General Info

Pi Day 2022

By | March 3, 2022

Pi (3.14) day is coming! And I am working on a real nice, very fitting surprise for all you Raspberry Pi & OCI fans out there. I will release this project of course on Pi Day it self! Maybe plan a live youtube/twitch stream. Never done that before, but hey let’s go crazy šŸ™‚ Oracleā€¦ Read More »

Documented: OCI Pricelist API

By | July 30, 2021

UPDATED: Oracle now has an official way to query the list pricing of services. This can be done using this url: You can query all services or one specific SKU and can specify the currency you want to result in. See the official documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/GSG/Tasks/signingup_topic-Estimating_Costs.htm#accessing_list_pricing

A new year and some great new Resources for OCI

By | January 17, 2020

It is clear, the Oracle Cloud is attracting more and more users. With that the community of blogs, youtube channels and github repos is growing with OCI related content! I wanted to highlight 3 new blogs, if you are into OCI, for sure to check these out: Alexā€™s Seriously pretty looking Cloudness blog with great info OCIā€¦ Read More »

Major new OCI features!

By | March 3, 2019

Wow!! It must have been a busy week for the OCI developers. The last week of February was full of new feature updates to the OCI platform. Let’s have a look at some of this goodness šŸ™‚ Performance Metrics On your Instances (VMs and baremetal) you now have full performance metrics available in the cloudā€¦ Read More »

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate Exam (1Z0-932)

By | September 14, 2018

Whoop whoop! I just passed the OCI Associate Exam. While I have reasonable hands-on experience with OCI, for preparationĀ  I read the study guide and did the test exam. You can find the preparation documents here: https://education.oracle.com/product/pexam_1Z0-932 Ā I guess I had 57 correct and 13 not correct šŸ™ . Currently the study guide mainly coversā€¦ Read More »

Oracle Paas chosen as #1 by techradar.com

By | September 7, 2018

Sure the Oracle Cloud was not first to market, but in the past few years it has made some huge steps šŸ™‚ And this is now starting to show off. While sure not perfect, some issues with support mentioned, the Oracle PaaS portfolio did come out on top, passing AWS, Google, Azure and Salesforce! Readā€¦ Read More »

Hello world!

By | September 4, 2018

Welcome to the Oracle Cloud Blog! My Name is Richard Garsthagen, I work for Oracle, but all things published here are my own opinions and views. I love technology and to share cool stuff around technology. Before I worked for Oracle I was employed by VMware and run for many years a virtualization blog calledā€¦ Read More »