Author Archives: George Valentin Voina

#Oracle: ORA-02298: cannot validate "key" – parent keys not found

By | December 17, 2019

When trying to add a foreign key to a table sometimes the error ORA-02298 is thrown. Let’s have two tables a MyTable and a MyTableHistory connected by a historyid column from MyTable that points to the id column from MyTableHistory Try then to add add foreign key like: If we are in the case of… Read More: #Oracle: ORA-02298: cannot validate "key" – parent keys not found »

Use #ELK stack to monitor #JBOSS application server

By | December 13, 2019

The ELK (ElasticSearch+LogStash +Kibana ) stack is maybe the best method to monitor your environment in a simple visually applying way. My task was to monitor the parameters of a Jboss/Wildfly application server where my enterprise application is hosted. There are several guides that describe how to deploy the basic stack, I am not going… Read More: Use #ELK stack to monitor #JBOSS application server »

Migrating a #PostgreSQL database to a diferent PostgreSQL version or to a restrictive Postgres instance of cloud providers like #AWS-RDS

By | December 11, 2019

There are instances when one needs to migrate data from a Postgres database to a different PostgreSQL database version or even worse to a restrictive PostgreSQL instance of cloud providers like #AWS-RDS. When migrating to a different version of Postgres after you used to run on a frozen production version for long time it may… Read More: Migrating a #PostgreSQL database to a diferent PostgreSQL version or… »

#OpenSSH private keys with old PEM format

By | December 11, 2019

Starting from openssh 7.8 the default format for private keys has changed from PEM to OpenSSH: That means that private keys generated with the referenced command: (ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096) are no longer generated as PEM format. Lot’s of online services do not accept this format yet CircleCI, GitHub are some of the services… Read More: #OpenSSH private keys with old PEM format »

Things worth reading: Some resources about Protocol Buffers in #golang and #gRPC

By | November 1, 2019

Looking around microservice communication protocols I discovered protocol buffers and gRPC as a new alternative to REST with XML or JSON. XML is used in standards like ISO 20022 for financial messages, JSON is widely used by all the new APIs in fintech (Stripe, TransferWise, lots of PSD2 API implementation of banks etc.) Both of… Read More: Things worth reading: Some resources about Protocol Buffers in #golang… »

Banking 2.0 or the online revolution @imaginecurve #fintech #swag

By | May 6, 2020

As a new found collector of challenger bank accounts the new #fintech Curve (@imaginecurve) it was an obvious must have. When I heard about this “magic” proxy card, one card to hold all your other cards, I was in awe. How natural and simple idea that fit my case perfectly. Due to the new found… Read More: Banking 2.0 or the online revolution @imaginecurve #fintech #swag »

Libraries #golang : Inter Planetary File System client

By | October 29, 2019

In all this talk of distributed systems the Interplanetary File System is a fun practical subject. Obviously golang should be part of that. According to Wikipedia: The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file… Read More: Libraries #golang : Inter Planetary File System client »