Author Archives: Ajitabh
Adding Custom Python Packages for AWS Lambda Functions
Python is a popular language along with Javascript (NodeJS) for writing AWS lambda functions. Lambda function written in Python support the core modules, so one may choose to use the http.client instead of much simpler requests. However, if the function … Continue reading
Get Oracle XE-ORDS-APEX Up and Running Quickly with Ansible
Oracle APEX is a rapid application development tool and from what I have seen its quite powerful. Clubed together with ORDS, it is a powerful tool to develop enterprise applications which are highly scalable.
I wrote an ansible playbook, which will quickly setup the entire stack. Read to find more. Continue reading
Upgrading Raspbian 8 (Jessie) to Raspbian 9 (Stretch)
I decided to upgrade my oldest Raspberry Pi to the latest Raspbian. Since I was two releases behind, I decided to do it step-by-step. Today I updated from 8 – 9. I plan. to perform similar steps to upgrade 9 … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi – rsyslog fixes on Raspbian 8 (Jessie)
One of my Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2) is running quite old versio of Rasbian – although fully updated and patched. Today while checking the syslog on my raspberry pi, I noticed the following error which was … Continue reading
Using Wrap Utility to Hide the SQL Code in Oracle
At times we may need to encrypt sensitive information in certain columns in Oracle Database. Oracle provides a DBMS_CRYPTO package for the purpose. More details about this package can be found in Oracle Documentation here. The approach I followed is … Continue reading