base 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:

Introduction to Spring Cloud Oracle and its purpose
Overview of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) free tier
Discussion on Universal Connection Pool (UCP) vs HikariCP
Oracle's vector database support and Spring AI integration
Oracle's in-database message broker and Spring Cloud Stream binder
Virtual threads support in Java 21
Server-side connection pooling for microservices
JSON collections and relational duality views in Oracle Database
Observability features in OCI
Upcoming OpenTelemetry support for distributed tracing
Spring CLI and project templates for Oracle Cloud
Test container support for Oracle Database
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

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