Blog - Tag: OCI

How to Secure Your OCI Always Free Tier Network: A Practical Guide

HeatWave Query Engine Internals — Joins, Aggregations, Hashing & Vectorization

HeatWave is designed for analytics at massive scale. Its performance comes from a combination of vectorized SQL operations, parallel execution, and distributed joins. Let’s explore the internals.

Understanding HeatWave In-Memory Storage — Compression, Encoding & Columnar Magic

HeatWave does not simply copy InnoDB tables into memory. It restructures them using columnar storage optimized for analytical workloads. This article explains exactly how that process works.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting with OCI Observability and Logging

When your apps slow down or behave unexpectedly, you need visibility. OCI’s Observability and Management platform centralizes metrics, logs, and alerts to help you stay ahead of performance issues.

Automating Infrastructure: OCI CLI and Terraform for Beginners

Manual setup is fine for a single instance — but when you’re managing multiple networks, compute nodes, and databases, automation becomes essential. OCI provides powerful tools like the Command Line Interface (CLI) and Terraform to simplify and replicate deployments. OCI CLI – Your Command-Line Control Center The OCI CLI lets you interact with your environment using scripts or terminal commands.

Securing Your Cloud: OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM) Deep Dive

Understanding OCI Storage: Block, Object, and File Explained

In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), storage is more than just a place to hold data — it defines how your workloads perform, scale, and recover. Whether you’re hosting web apps, running analytics, or storing backups, choosing the right storage type is key to balancing performance, cost, and reliability. The Three Main Types of OCI Storage OCI offers three distinct storage classes: Block Storage, Object Storage, and File Storage. Each fits a specific use case.

Oracle Cloud Always Free Tier: What’s Included and How to Use It

Build real workloads at zero cost. This guide details OCI’s Always Free resources—compute, storage, networking, databases—and practical ways for developers and small businesses to use them.

Load Balancers in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Distribute traffic, improve uptime, and scale easily with OCI load balancers. Learn the differences between HTTP(S) Load Balancer (Layer 7) and Network Load Balancer (Layer 4), and how to configure each.

Virtual Servers in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

After your network is ready, provision compute. This guide explains OCI virtual machines (VMs), shape selection, networking, and step-by-step creation via Console and CLI.