Scott Stroz talks about “ColdFusion Oracle Cloud Migration with MySQL (from VPS)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

“…And the difference between Oracle clouds version of the manage the managed MySQL database is that in Oracle Cloud, it's Enterprise Edition. So if you are using MySQL heatwave in Oracle Cloud, you're actually using Enterprise Edition”.

https://youtu.be/g9fce9kEeq8

Show notes

What is Oracle Cloud?

Oracle cloud services like AWS, GCP, Azure etc

Servers, Storage, MySQL, AI etc

OCI = Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

How does it differ from AWS, GCP, Azure etc?

Robust always free tier, not CC required

Startups, open source or personal projects

Oracle is the steward behind MySQL community edition 

MySQL Heatwave is cloud version of MySQL

Compare AzureSQL etc

Managed db

Enterprise edition performance boosts and more security

The latest

MySQL

New features - Ben Nadel posts

Open Source version and closed source versions

Caught up with MS-SQL Server

MariaDB fork

Original MySQL dev lead developer/CTO is Michael "Monty" Widenius

SQL Server is a 'fork' of Sybase

Docker images

Auto Tuning and DBA

AI and ML

Oracle The Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) provides a holistic tuning solution.

Why cloud hosting?

Ease - no server management, no hardware management

Fast upscale of memory, disk, CPU

Fast scaling of extra servers and spin down too

Ditto failover

CapEx vs OpEx

Small and Enterprise good, Medium less

37 signals posts on cloud vs inhouse

Regions - data centers 

Patching and security 

Very hard to hack MySQL cloud

Point in time recovery

Easier Disaster Recovery

Pre-problem detection

Why use Oracle Cloud?

Always free tier - 4 VMs, ARM CPU

Lucee issue on ARM? Fixed with CommandBox

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ 

Two Oracle Autonomous Databases with powerful tools like Oracle APEX and Oracle SQL Developer

Two AMD Compute VMs

Up to 4 instances of ARM Ampere A1 Compute with 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month

Block, Object, and Archive Storage; Load Balancer and data egress; Monitoring and Notifications

Moved from VPS at HostMedia in Europe

Lucee on MySQL

Issues with migration that you solved

Set up MySQL instance (VM)

Now would just use HeatWave MySQL

Update Datasource in CF Admin

Use CommandBox to launch Lucee

Paramedic experience and development skills

Transferring skills from other careers to developing

Deal with high stress - stay calm, calm others in chaos

Troubleshooting skills - differential diagnosis - keep checking for evidence is true

Intuition on what to do or not to do

Layers of bugs

New keynote

Learning from your mistakes or other people’s mistake

Code reviews

Opportunity to learn

Rotate reviewers 

Think bigger picture 

Code reuse

Open source

Time to go, time to stay

Why are you proud to use CF?

Ortus tools and packages

Node packages

CF community 

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

 

Mentioned in this episode

Oracle Cloud

Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks  - new podcast, link coming soon

CF Hour

Dave Ferguson, Scott Stroz and Matt Gifford

CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery with Jorge Reyes

From near death to better biz leader with Brie Moreau

Forgebox

ITB article 

CF Summit article

Listen to the Audio

Bio

Scott Stroz

Developer Advocate for MySQL

20+ Years as Software Developer/Architect

2 Years as Assistant Network Administrator

2 Years as Operations Manager for large Mobile Health System

14 years as a Paramedic.

Specialties:

Web application development with Groovy/Grails, Angular, Vue.js, Micronaut.

Links

Scott Stroz | LinkedIn

[email protected] 

http://www.oracle.com

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:01

Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to be talking about moving your ColdFusion dye into the cloud with Oracle Cloud Migration with Scotts froze, and got it joining us from exotic West Virginia, in the United States of America. And you may not know, Scott, he's been doing cold fusion stuff for years. And he's got some he used to run the CFR podcast with with it, Dave, or who are you running that with? Dave Ferguson? Dave Ferguson? Yeah. And he's the developer advocate for my sequel, which many of the listeners will be using for their database? If they're not still on the dark side with SQL Server? So that was a joke. You said that not me. Yes.

We have complete freedom in this podcast, though.

So and he also has been doing software development for you said 20 plus years. I'm sure you in your bio, I'm sure you've been doing for 25 years.

Scott Stroz 1:00

Not quite, not quite. Also done network administration being an operations manager. And he is also a paramedic. So November's eto, former paramedic, oh, former. I stopped being a paramedic a long time ago. You did. Oh, that's certified anymore.

Michaela Light 1:20

Okay. And as well as cold fusion. You also do things with Groovy and Grails Angular view. Micronauts. I think you'd mentioned Python and all kinds of other Sonos. Yeah, node. So yeah, lots of cool stuff. Lots of experience. This man has. Welcome to the show. Thanks. It's great to be here. So I think we should start with the So speak elephant in the room. What is this Oracle cloud thing? Because I've never heard of it until you mentioned it to me.

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Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.

 

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