Since having placed some more focus on the ORDS image we've been getting lots of great feedback. Here is one example, Martin had some really great observations/thoughts on how we could improve the developer's debugging experience when working with our ORDS container. Thanks @martindba.bsky.social 😃

Quoting oneself: cool or cringe? "Eventually...we'll all need to become "prompt engineers." And as you'll see [there], you actually have to know what you are doing to be able to ask the right questions and to challenge an LLM's assumptions." followthecoffee.com/from-one-api... #apis #LLM #ords

Coming to you live from 35000ft, somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. An ORDS and GraphQL tutorial: using Maven to build the polyglot and js dependencies for GraalVM 21: followthecoffee.com/ords-and-gra... #graalvm #oracle #database #maven #jdk #ords #oraclerest

ORDS 25.2 is now available for download! Download directly from www.oracle.com/database/tec... And review the Release Notes too www.oracle.com/tools/ords/o... I'm following up with a blog with some examples, so stay tuned! #newrelease #productupdate #ords #oracledatabase #newordswhodis #plsql #rest

I have a poll going for showing how to perform a legacy ORDS install/migration. I can set up a podman 23ai container with a legacy ORDS install and show you how to migrate to the latest ORDS version. Please read the details and vote. Would this be helpful? www.linkedin.com/posts/chrish...

This united-codes site is really pretty, I am excited to see it grow :)

FYI to all, the ORDS team just published a new patch, 25.1.1. Now available for download here: www.oracle.com/database/sql... Two small bug fixes, and an update to our Jetty library. Happy Friday 😍 #oraclerest #oracledatabase #restapi #apidevelopment #jdk17 #jdk21 #graalvm #newupdate #bugfix

New Oracle blogs are live! With a two-part tutorial showing you how to create custom claims in your Identity Domain, include them in a JSON Web Token, and use it to access ORDS OAuth2.0 protected resources. Part One is here: blogs.oracle.com/database/pos... #wednesday #oracle #restapis #oraclerest

Sneak peek of an upcoming blog post. A super simple single page web app, exploring using JSON Web tokens with ORDS protected resources. This time using Roles-Based Access Control (RBAC). 😁😎

The ORDS team has a brand-spanking new customer reference. Note only did Sphere just launch their new site, but they JUST presented at CloudWorld Miami too, check out the press release here: www.oracle.com/news/announc... If you are interested in attending as a speaker, drop me a DM, let's chat.

ORDS 25.1 is now available for download: www.oracle.com/database/sql... And of course, you can check out the release highlights too: followthecoffee.com/ords-25-1-re... Give it a spin 😍 #newrelease #ords #oracledatabase #oraclerest #productupdate

I shouldn’t be this excited about flame-graphs. But I am. What does that say about me? I’m getting some rad retro vibes with this color palette 😍

Oh, Rockauto.com is another of this “dated” feeling websites, but it feels super fast, and no nonsense! I will take a 2000’s-era looking site over a newer slow-ass “responsive” site any day.

Anybody who is doing front-end development would really appreciate this video youtu.be/-Ln-8QM8KhQ?... I like the idea of doing more server-side rendering too. I might have to dip my toes into the MLE/JS stuff.

Another quick heuristic for investigating connectivity, latency, and response times. Also, a good opportunity to learn more about ORDS and cURL 😍 Two options: 1: followthecoffee.com/troubleshoot... 2: chrishoina.medium.com/troubleshoot... #wednesday #learning #oraclerest #apis #troubleshooting

Just a quick ORDS + JWTs PSA. This applies to Oracle's Identity and Access Management provided JWTs. Maybe you've experienced this "error=invalid_token" error too? Here is how to resolve it: followthecoffee.com/401-unauthor... #troubleshooting #oracle #restapis #oraclerest #apidevelopment #jwts

With this job, I learn and/or discover stuff on a daily basis. Seriously, it's insane. If you are bored with tech, it's surely your own doing! 🤪 My favorite times, however, are these "too-clever-for-our-own-good" solutions we come up with. Here is a fun one: followthecoffee.com/example-an-o...

My girlfriend just asked me what I'm working on right now. And I responded with, "currently counducting an audit and subseqent culling of these inactive but open threads of this core application I'm using." Which is just a fancy way of saying, "closing out tabs in safari." #bethechange #hero #pm

I just added a go module to the directory, cleaned up some of the code, and added some comments too! Check it out :)

I think I might actually love Go 😍. @thatjeffsmith.com invited me along to an in-person customer presentation yesterday and while we were there one of the attendees asked if we had any ORDS + Go examples. Well, we didn't then...but WE DO NOW! #ords #oracle #go followthecoffee.com/a-simple-ord...

New post! Using a PAR to copy your IOT data to an Oracle Database, via a secured REST API, and a bit of python www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2025...

Using the http[dot]client library was pretty dope. It was like a leaner, silent way of serving up the files to ORDS. Learned something new today @thatjeffsmith.com www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2025... 😀 Might have to try that on my next POC 😬

Quick PSA post followthecoffee.com/503-service-... What does it all mean?! #ords #oraclerest #oracledatabase #connectionpools #troubleshooting

PARdon me sir...Would you have any pre-authenticated ORDS endpoints available?

Thank you for letting me pontificate 🤣! Serioulsy though, good time. Good questions. Looking forward to the next one 🙌

In an effort to make your lives easier, I HAND CODED the Table of Contents by hand too 😭! So, if you like this, please let me know! I'll keep doing it. Side note...if you know of a good plug-in or git repo for automating this, let me know!

Finally done ✅! A full tutorial of how to set up ORDS to accept JSON Web Tokens from OCI Identity Access Management for accesing your protected resources/APIs. Let me know what you'd like to see next! followthecoffee.com/configuring-... #oracle #oci #apis #jwt #JWTs #OAuth #OAuth2.0 #Postman #API

This is lame. I'm a terrible SO citizen...how about somebody help me out and post a link to this on StackOverflow stackoverflow.com/questions/79... I'll reply with the links I've mentioned in my would-be post. #littlefriday #thursday #oraclerest #stackoverflow #banned #permabanned

I’m constantly “context switching” in tools. It’s extremely annoying 🤬. Here’s a small win though. I was able to set my doc-root property in ORDS and then add our install and dev guides to my config folder. So, now I can just visit /install.pdf or /dev.pdf and CTRL+F till my heart’s content 😍!

Who else has their webhooks pointing to ORDS endpoints? Any pointers for Luigi? Let’s help a fratello out. Link to forum post forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/... #oraclerest #ords #apis #apiintegration #oracledatabase

An internal discussion, over parallelism, that seems to be popping up more and more lately. Could be observer bias though 🤪😂...a quick 3 min read on TP and URGENT service levels in Oracle ATP and ADB. Thanks for the reminder Connor connor-mcdonald.com/2023/02/21/a...

Webhooks can be finicky…here is how we helped a customer interrogate theirs using ORDS Implicit Bind Parameters followthecoffee.com/ords-as-a-jo... #oracle #ords #oraclerest #apiintegration #apidevelopment

Thanks for the reminder Peter 😄. A friendly reminder, be sure to review the most current ORDS support/lifecycle policy. www.oracle.com/tools/ords/s... As an example, we're still seeing a lot of ORDS 21.4 out there (we get it, it takes time)! Let's ring in the new year with a new version of ORDS 😍

What you've been waiting for... an ORDS new release blog...feast your eyes on this 😵 followthecoffee.com/ords-24-4-re... #thursday #releaseday #newrelease #productupdate #ords #oracledatabase

Hey, when you are troubleshooting database connectivity issues, do you ever use telnet? I was just reviewing a support case, and this seems like a really clean way of isolating one of many variables. Here I’m interrogating an Oracle 23ai @podmanio.bsky.social container. #troubleshooting #database

Observed a new ORDS use case while on a support call yesterday. (Hopefully) helped one of our customers by recreating their workflow and diagnosing some of their API woes. I’d never heard of @jotform.bsky.social or Pipedream. Anybody else doing something like this?? #apiintegration #apis #oracle

In the process of updating the implicit bind parameters section of the ORDS dev guide, I noticed we don’t specifically call out automatic binds of POST data. There are certain conditions/scenarios, but check out the details and examples below. A version of this will make it into the OFFICIAL docs.

Blog post wasn’t on my to-do list today. But I had no choice, I genuinely though there was some content worth sharing: followthecoffee.com/an-ords-get-... Stay tuned for more on ORDS pre-hooks. #wednesday #blog #oracle #ords #plsql

I feel your pain on this 😢

You gotta read this. It is REALLY easy to understand how Vectors in 23ai work. The ending is pretty cool, showing how it "just works." 😀

FYI: ORDS 24.3.1 is out now, download the latest here: www.oracle.com/database/sql... This one is a modest patch, we've got a major one planned for the new year 😀. Release notes here too: www.oracle.com/tools/ords/o... #friday #newrelease #ords #oracle #oracledatabase #updates #friyay

And another one: followthecoffee.com/ords-standal... Some more ORDS and Jetty goodies. A follow-up to last week's post. Stay tuned for all things preHooks! That's coming up this week :) #GetOutTheVote #Vote #getoutandvote #mondaymagic #Mondaymotivaion #oracle

Learn yourself something about ORDS and configuring access logs when in Standalone mode: followthecoffee.com/ords-standalon…#thursdaya#blogo#oraclerests#ordsd#oracledatabases#oracleapisi#oraclecloudu#ocici

I STILL wasn't a fan of how I was displaying the actions and validation. So, I added a bit more context. Fingers crossed SOME version of this gets added! Check out the updates here: followthecoffee.com/ords-configu...

A new take on ORDS documentation. What do you think of these proposed changes? In the final draft, some may be included. I really like the references and flow, what about you? Latest post: followthecoffee.com/ords-configu... #saturdayfun #rtfm #docs #documentation #oracleAPIs #rest

Good day! I've updated my latest ORDS Release Notes blog with a new MongoDB API article from the team. Thanks, Hermann! Check it: medium.com/oracledevs/w... And for reference, the original post: followthecoffee.com/ords-24-3-re... #friday #weekendfun #mongodb #oracledatabase

I really, really tried my best to not be a sarcastic idiot in this one. I failed but kept it to a minimum. Learn how to configure ORDS for protecting with Microsoft Entra-derived JWTs: followthecoffee.com/ords-apis-an...

Release notes here: oracle.com/tools/ords/o... FYI: I'll be posting a more in-depth release blog (like last time) shortly. Stay tuned! #MondayVibes #MondayMood #newreleases

ORDS 24.3 is now available 😍. It took me 11 seconds to upgrade! What are you waiting for? Details here: oracle.com/database/sql... #releaseday #Mondaymotivation #oracledatabase

Update...I'm now in the 9/13 emails...