This is fine as a technical exercise, but trusting Oracle is a very bad idea for numerous reasons if your data is not mirrored or backed up elsewhere.
How come? Have you had a bad experience with Oracle?
I take it you've never worked with Oracle.
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#22I can’t even register an account at Oracle.
I’ve tried many things and their 3rd party check refuses to consider me a good actor.
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#23Note that Oracle free instances may be deleted at any time for no reason.
"may" is that English word that non-natives learn too late that it actually means "will". I remember when I first moved to England and my boss told me I may work on x and I thought that it is optional so I did something else.
I regularly use may in a way that doesn’t mean “will”. Sorry that you had a bad experience or whatever.
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#24for anyone else that does not see the expected blog page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241006115043/https://blog.toma...
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#25Note that Oracle free instances may be deleted at any time for no reason.
"may" is that English word that non-natives learn too late that it actually means "will". I remember when I first moved to England and my boss told me I may work on x and I thought that it is optional so I did something else.
I think that's a British thing (I also worked in the UK for a while and got confused by this).
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#26Seems like a lot of work (and risk) to avoid paying someone ~ $5 or less / month.
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#27I can’t even register an account at Oracle. I’ve tried many things and their 3rd party check refuses to consider me a good actor.
I contacted them by email and was eventually able to create an account. Had to contact them again at another point where their system once again checks for something with a credit card and again rejected me. I can't remember exactly for what.
It worked eventually and I use the free tier server for small things, but of course it means I can't ever consider using their service for anything serious.
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#28This is fine as a technical exercise, but trusting Oracle is a very bad idea for numerous reasons if your data is not mirrored or backed up elsewhere.
How come? Have you had a bad experience with Oracle?
Sudden suspensions with no chance to appeal or explanation, regardless if you were a paying customer or just a free tier user. It's ridiculous.
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#29Is anyone still using Docker? I am, simply because I haven't "updated" my stack in a few years. But are there any remaining arguments for using Docker instead of Podman (sudo-less docker alternative)?
I still use Docker, any particular reason why I should switch to Posman except it being daemonless?
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#30This is fine as a technical exercise, but trusting Oracle is a very bad idea for numerous reasons if your data is not mirrored or backed up elsewhere.
Trusting any single actor with your data is a bad idea, no matter if it's Oracle, Cloudflare or $CurrentInternetDarling.
Different levels of trust can be placed in different providers for different types of data. Oracle is however at the bottom of the list with regard to trust.