In September I was not able to provide a technical blog post. But that doesn’t mean I was lazy the whole time. There are some updates to the blog and my person.

Hugo vs. Jekyll

As you might have already noticed, my blog is quite small in footprint and probably renders very fast on your client. This may be due to the fact that I use a static website generator. In the past this was Jekyll. I was quite happy with that in general, but not with the fact that maintaining it’s runtime environment might cause some hassle if your’e not used to use Ruby everyday. It’s not that I’m not able to handle it, but managing all that dependency stuff and keeping an ruby env up to date is just nothing that I want to do if I just want to create a nice little blog.

Now there comes Hugo. I became aware of it during my journey of getting more into the GO language. Hugo practially does the same as Jekyll, but simply as a compiled binary managed by the go environment. No environment management by some 3rd party environment manager, no package management by some 3rd party package manager etc. It just seems to be a more directly usable and many more features are included by default (like EXIF handling for photographs). For you as a reader there’s not much into it, but for me it’s easier to manage this blog. One thing is still missing and that’s comments. I’m still sorting out on how to do that and until it’s ready, you may contact me via LinkedIn or Bluesky.

Approved talks in Nürnberg

As I already predicted in July both of my talks were accepted and I’m happy to be on stage on Tuesday and Thursday during DOAG conference. My first presentation will be about my and others way from an ordinary Oracle DBA to one of my more recent roles as an Cloud Architect. The second one will be a bit more technically and should give everyone a glimpse on how to implement transport layer security (TLS) for your database.

I’m an ACE!

Last, but not least. I already tried to become on in Oracles last fiscal year, but it just was too early. Now it was finally approved and I’m officially listed as an ACE Associate. Thank’s to my colleague Marco DBA from Robotron and to Martin DBA from Oracle for nominating. I’m very proud to be part of that incredible community.

That’s all for now, working on new articles now ;-).