Why is personal information identification a big deal? Personal Information Identification (PII) is crucial for maintaining privacy, complying with regulations, mitigating risks, ensuring data quality, and enabling trust between organisations and their customers. In recent years, numerous organisations worldwide have encountered legal issues due to breaches of PII. Notable incidents

In my previous blog post I wrote about deploying R Studio in a container on OCI. If you remember, I mentioned that the terraform template in OCI creates a compute instance with a docker container running R version 4.1.1, released on 2021/08/10. The terraform template can

About OCI Data Flow Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Flow is a managed service for running Apache Spark applications, promising simplified infrastructure management, development, and deployment. Initial impressions suggest it delivers on this promise, showcasing an elegant approach to certain tasks. To assess OCI Data Flow's capabilities, a

You look like someone who needs a Data Solution, one that fulfils your data needs you haven't even thought up yet to ensure that your Mogwai - I mean stakeholders remain fun and happy and don't turn into angry data deprived Gremlins. There are many choices

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a suite of integration tools comprising of Data Quality, Oracle Streams, GoldenGate, Data Integrator classic and Data Integrator Web Edition (which is also named Data Tranforms) all of which have capabilities that make ETL and ELT work far simpler and quicker, as it is designed to

Here is a little script I knocked together to make it easier and quicker to connect to an Oracle OCI SSH Bastion service. Why use GUI when you can script it? First, the script checks if you already have an active bastion session, titled after your OS user. If not,

In the world of distributed systems and microservices, message queues play a vital role in enabling reliable communication between components. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers a robust and scalable message queuing service that simplifies the process of building event-driven architectures. The OCI Queue Service introduces a simple concept: publish messages