Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for the latest updates from the Spring Ecosystem. In this episode, Dan and DaShaun are joined by Mark Nelson and Anders Swanson from Oracle to discuss Spring Cloud Oracle. At the end of this episode, you will understand how Spring Cloud Oracle simplifies integration with Oracle Database and OCI services, including UCP, vector databases, and more. You can participate in our live stream to ask questions or catch the replay on your preferred podcast platform.

Show Notes:

1. Introduction to Spring Cloud Oracle and its purpose
2. Overview of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) free tier
3. Discussion on Universal Connection Pool (UCP) vs HikariCP
4. Oracle's vector database support and Spring AI integration
5. Oracle's in-database message broker and Spring Cloud Stream binder
6. Virtual threads support in Java 21
7. Server-side connection pooling for microservices
8. JSON collections and relational duality views in Oracle Database
9. Observability features in OCI
10. Upcoming OpenTelemetry support for distributed tracing
11. Spring CLI and project templates for Oracle Cloud
12. Test container support for Oracle Database
13. Upcoming open-rewrite recipes for HikariCP to UCP migration

Resources:

• Oracle Cloud free tier: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ 
• Spring Cloud Oracle GitHub: https://github.com/oracle/spring-cloud-oracle

Key Takeaways:

• Spring Cloud Oracle simplifies integration between Spring applications and Oracle Database/OCI services
• Oracle offers a generous free tier for developers to explore and test OCI services
• Upcoming features include improved observability, distributed tracing, and migration tools