Justin Biard

Software engineer working on database tools for Oracle Cloud. My family is my life. I like tinkering/technology/art/games in my free time.

(posts are mine)

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

NEW POST ALERT!!!

In honor of all my friends and colleagues sharing knowledge at Kscope26 this week:

Build Tools That Speak to Data in OCI

https://t.co/Ncly6SqY2M

This is a post about bridging the gap between two worlds, data science and relational databases in the cloud.

[krisrice 🏒🍺📷 @krisrice]

The most important thing @OracleAPEX 26.1 shipped this release isn't a feature. It's a text file almost nobody will open. https://t.co/wTtqjSwm7N

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

NEW POST ALERT!

In 2026 the Database Tools team introduced a new data plane that enables many ways of interacting securely with a database in Oracle Cloud over HTTPS.

I wrote about using the new CLI to execute SQL statements here.

https://t.co/WEA8xauTuP

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

It sounds like there is still some work in progress on the LLM-related utility so for now just supporting llms.txt and llms-full.txt blindly / without much evidence to support their existence. It's all automated anyway so low effort to add or remove at this point.

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

On the new blog design, 100%. I'll take it. Posts with images are also not scoring badly, actually but of course take a small hit.

My goal on the new design was "keep it simple", no JS libs, favor CSS and HTML, help the scrapers and LLMs where feasible (a'la GEO).

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

For GEO, every pages is rendered in 2 flavors: HTML and Markdown. Pre-rendering content as markdown should boost LLM accessibility significantly, or for users that want to copy/paste context to prompts.

(i.e. Markdown link under every post)

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

The team is on fire today! Here is a great post shared by my colleague Nikhlesh.

This allows for the real user identity to propagate to the database using OCI Database Tools connections and IAM with Oracle Database (instead of a generic database user.)

https://t.co/vqxPeEgm9N

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

Check out this new tutorial by my colleague Simon, showing off some of our new MCP features including OAuth client registration and Codex setup.

Note, the example is geared for a Linux-ish environment and shows a lot of the command-line interface too!

https://t.co/bOtwiUDoJB

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

I wrote about using IDCS roles to customize end user access to MCP tools using the new Database Tools MCP server in OCI.

If interested, as always, I appreciate your readership and your constructive feedback on the post. Check it out! 👇

https://t.co/sTln3EAu81

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

A zero-install, enterprise-grade, MCP server for the Oracle Database landed in OCI and it is free to use! This intro from @thatjeffsmith and @krisrice does a great job explaining the OCI Database Tools MCP Server at a high level.
https://t.co/bh6UAywSHg

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

@phartenfeller Woah cool. What are options in this space? I had no idea e-ink phones existed.

[krisrice 🏒🍺📷 @krisrice]

AI is only as good as what it knows. For Oracle Database, that's been a problem. Built a library of 100+ practical guides to fix that — covering everything from PL/SQL to ORDS to migrations. Open source, MIT license. https://t.co/LtXjF8UmvT

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

@erikweibust @DThompsonDev @daviddryparry Yes indeed! Look forward to the event.

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

@LawrenceDCodes @MikeBales This... Plus maybe reading a chapter or two.

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

Nobody has all the answers. That's OK. Keep pushing forward. Make the best choices for today that you can.

Like logging in to OCI and learning about DBTools connections and private endpoints. 🤓

https://t.co/mrZq6cR03l

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

Just rolled the credits on Strange Antiquities game. Compelling clue finding mechanics and decent gameplay loop overall.

👍👍

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

@DThompsonDev Congrats brother🎉 🍻

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

@RobotProxyWar For all its many parameters it still feels very one-dimensional. But, there is utility there.

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

Happy Wednesday!

We shipped a new type of OCI resource principal called Database Tools Identity. It gives schemas a way to have distinct resource principals. You can read all about it here or check the documentation linked in the post.

https://t.co/DQ4CoJn3Vs

[Justin Biard @icodealot]

Came to share cloud learnings, stayed to volunteer.

You are looking at the new Vice President of the Web Development and Cloud SIG of @FranklinU 's student ACM chapter. 🫡