microservices

Production-ready GoldenGate REST client in Python

Updated in June 2026, based on the latest version of the client. In this blog, I provide GoldenGate administrators with a fully working, production-ready Python client to efficiently handle GoldenGate REST API calls. From extract creation to user(…)

GoldenGate REST API basics with Python

Oracle GoldenGate REST API has been around for quite some time now, but I’ve yet to see it used in practice at customers. Every time I tried to introduce it, it was some sort of novelty. Mainly because DBAs(…)

Upgrade GoldenGate from Classic to Microservices Architecture before it’s too late !

With GoldenGate 19c and 21c Premier Support coming to an end in April 2026, time is ticking for many clients with old installations of GoldenGate. Fortunately, Oracle provides a Migration utility (patch 37274898 / KB100447(…)

Planning GoldenGate 23ai migration before support expires

At the moment, three versions of GoldenGate are still under Premier Support, but this will very soon change, with GoldenGate 19c and 21c coming out of Premier Support in April this year ! I give below the official Oracle(…)

GoldenGate 26ai Installation: Graphic and Silent Mode Comparison for Automation

26ai update: This article was originally written for 23ai. But not much changes when setting up GoldenGate 26ai. Just adapt the responseFileVersion when doing the silent installation, and that’s it ! As instructed in this(…)

Are You Afraid of the Word DevOps? – Part 2

In my previous blog post, we started to explore how to increase the Time-to-Market (TTM) of your simple application. We improved it and to go further we will now leverage containerization. As in part 1,(…)