Blog Posts

Oracle often announces new features for OCI Functions in blog posts, which can include useful information and usecases. The following list includes some of the blog posts that announced new OCI Functions features:

• Announcing Functions image signing and scanning
• Announcing distributed tracing for Oracle Function
• Announcing longer-running functions, increased limits, improved logging, and log triggers for Oracle Functions
• Announcing Functions Samples Repository and Quick Start with Cloud Shell
• Announcing Notifications Triggers for Serverless Functions
• Announcing Oracle Functions

Oracle often publishes blog posts describing innovative and interesting ways to use OCI Functions. The following sections list some of the Oracle blog posts relevant to OCI Functions, sorted by date with the most recently published blog post listed first.

2024 Blog Posts

Title	Publication date
Protecting OCI Generative AI Endpoints with Web Application Firewall	August 21, 2024
Event Driven Integrations with OIC	June 21, 2024
Streamline your billing: Automated cost reports with OCI Functions	June 17, 2024
Seamless PDF Generation with Oracle APEX and OCI Document Generator	June 14, 2024
Extending Oracle Fusion SaaS with OCI - Security	May 30, 2024
How to update user capabilities for users provisioned into OCI IAM using Functions	May 20, 2024
Automatically Rotate OCI Secrets using a Custom Function	May 2, 2024
Empowering OCI IAM - Seamless Event-Based Integration via OCI Events Service (Part 1)	March 28, 2024
De-mystifying Oauth using JWT user assertion in OIC	January 29, 2024

2023 Blog Posts

Title	Publication date
Leverage OCI Functions to notify Live Feed Table in a Autonomous Database Private Endpoint	December 13, 2023
Creating LLM powered applications using OCI Generative AI	October 27, 2023
Invoke Cloud Functions via SQL in Autonomous Database with User Defined Functions (UDFs)	October 4, 2023
Brokering OCI IAM Short-Lived Session Tokens for Multi-Cloud Applications	September 18, 2023
Oracle Fusion Analytics Event Notifications with OCI Functions	August 3, 2023
Completely cleaning up the contents of an OCI compartment	July 10, 2023
Extending Oracle Fusion SaaS with Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities	May 26, 2023
OCI Functions versus AWS Lambda: Comparing cost and value	March 28, 2023
How prebuilt functions make enforcing budgets easier	March 28, 2023
Using OCI Document Understanding SDK in OCI Python Functions for document classification and key-value extraction	January 31, 2023
Using OCI Document Understanding SDK in OCI Python Functions for document classification and key-value extraction	January 31, 2023
Automated document classification and key-value extraction using OCI Document Understanding and OCI Data Labeling service	January 27, 2023

2022 Blog Posts

Title	Publication date
Make Rich Data Even Richer – Use Functions for Custom Data Enrichment in Oracle Analytics Cloud	September 22, 2022
Using Azure OAuth2 tokens to authenticate to Autonomous Database for end-to-end application identity propagation	August 26, 2022
Automated Business Document Processing using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vision	July 27, 2022
Data Synchronization using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI) Cloud Native Services and Autonomous JSON DB Pattern	May 6, 2022
Data Synchronization using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI) Cloud Native Services - Streaming Pattern	May 4, 2022
Using Oracle Functions with Email Notifications in Fusion Analytics OAC	April 29, 2022
Using Oracle Functions with Email Notifications in Fusion Analytics OAC	April 29, 2022
Identity Propagation to ORDS for a VBCS Fusion SaaS Extension	April 21, 2022
Using OCI DI and Functions for Fusion SaaS data load	April 4, 2022
A JIT pattern for migrating users (with their passwords) into OCI IAM from different Identity Management Systems using OCI Functions and API Gateway	March 3, 2022
Creating a JWT Token for an Assertion Grant Type Flow	February 23, 2022

2021 Blog Posts

Title	Publication date
Using Data Integration, Functions, and AI to perform Named Entity Recognition	September 30, 2021
Go cloud-native with Oracle HCM cloud integrations	August 3, 2021
Authenticating Oracle Integration flows using OAuth token from 3rd party provider	July 29, 2021
Using Terraform to manage an Oracle Functions application	July 23, 2021
A Simple Guide to Managing OCI Alarms in ServiceNow	July 23, 2021
Working with Oracle Functions and tag defaults	June 11, 2021
Security Log Consolidation in CIS OCI Landing Zone	June 9, 2021
Creating a web site with Object Storage, Functions, and the API Gateway	May 17, 2021
OCI Serverless Functions Tracing with APM	May 5, 2021
Make DNS Dynamic with Oracle Cloud	April 28, 2021

2020 Blog Posts

Title	Publication date
Loading Data into Oracle Fusion SaaS - Serverless Style!	December 2, 2020
Integrate Oracle Cloud Guard with External Systems Using OCI Events and Functions	October 7, 2020
Push Cloud Guard Problems to Splunk HEC with OCI SDK	October 7, 2020
Handling different HTTP methods in Oracle Fn	July 27, 2020
How to Implement an OCI API Gateway Authorization Fn in Node.js that Accesses OCI Resources	June 11, 2020
Automating IT Operations with Oracle Functions	March 16, 2020
End-to-End Security using OCI WAF, OCI API Gateway and OCI Functions	February 19, 2020
Extending Oracle Blockchain Events with OCI - Part 1 (Introduction)	February 19, 2020
Some Hints and Tips when using Oracle Functions	January 27, 2020
Secure storage of confidential configuration data in Oracle Functions using Oracle OCI Key Management Services	January 27, 2020

2019 Blog Posts

Title	Publication date
Little Known Ways to Do OCI Governance using Events and Functions	December 2, 2019