ARM

Building multi-architecture images with GitLab CI/CD

Building multi-architecture images become more and more useful. Indeed, many recent computers use ARM processors architecture. Examples include MacBooks using M(x) processors, and Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Graviton processors. However, the diversification of processor architectures adds(…)

Oracle Database on Apple Silicon with Virtualbox 7.1

I blogged in the past about running an Oracle database for testing purposes on Apple Silicon. Initially with emulated Intel code here and then (when Oracle released its 19c database software for ARM) with UTM as a wrapper(…)

Building a transportable Oracle Sandbox environment for an Apple Silicon Laptop (MacBook with M1- or M2-processor)

Since Apple released their Apple Silicon Laptops based on the ARM processor architecture, it became difficult for Consultants with such a device to run their Oracle Sandbox environment, because the main Oracle products are running on the Intel architecture.

Running Intel x86-64 VMs with an Oracle DB on Apple Silicon (ARM)

For testing purposes many IT-people traditionally use Virtual Machines (VMs) on their Laptops (often on Oracle Virtualbox). Since Apple moved to its own processor type (Apple Silicon, i.e. ARM architecture), it’s no longer possible to run VMs based on(…)

PostgreSQL on Oracle free tier ARM

By Franck Pachot . This follows the previous post about the Oracle Cloud ARM compute shape just announced on May 25th. The processor is ARM v8.2 with LSE (atomic instructions) and PostgreSQL can benefit from it (see(…)

An always free 4 vCPU 3.0 GHz 24 GB RAM on OCI

By Franck Pachot . Oracle Cloud free tier is already outstanding since OOW19 with two VMs and two databases that you can leave always running without any risk of being billed or seeing them stopped. I(…)

PostgreSQL on AWS Graviton2: CFLAGS

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I’ve compiled PostgreSQL with GCC 7 and GCC 11 with the default options and checked that the ARM v8.2 features were used. However it may not be so simple:(…)