Marco Santucci

Fast OCI Instance Status Management from Your Terminal

Post published:15 April 2026
Post category:Cloud DevOps Infrastructure Technology Tutorial

Managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances does not always require opening the web console. With a simple script and the OCI CLI, you can start, stop, reset, and list your instances directly from your terminal in seconds. Prerequisites Before using the script, make sure you have: OCI CLI installed and configured The OCID of the compartment you want to manage The Script Below is a simple script that lets you list instances and perform actions using their names. #!/usr/bin/env bash set…

JuiceFS: a smart, distributed, and free filesystem for the cloud era

Post published:8 April 2026
Post category:AI Cloud Data Management Infrastructure Storage Technology

Working with large files across distributed teams is harder than it sounds. You start with rclone, or a VPN pointing at a NAS, or some ad-hoc sync script: and it works, until it doesn't. Too much data transferred, too much latency, too many "who has the file open?" problems. JuiceFS is a different kind of answer. Not a sync tool, not a gateway, but a genuine POSIX-compliant distributed filesystem built on top of object storage. And once you understand its…

Private AI on Oracle OCI: How to Stop Sending Company Data to Public LLMs

Post published:30 March 2026
Post category:AI Cloud LLM Technology

There is something that bothers me every time I see a company adopting AI tools without thinking too much about what happens to their data. You open ChatGPT, you paste some internal document, you ask for a summary or a rewrite, and that's it. The data left the building. Where it goes, who reads it, if it is used to train future models; these are questions that most people don't ask until it becomes a problem. I work a lot…