Engineering Blog

Field notes from
the Oracle trenches

Real-world patterns, hard-won lessons, and practical guides from 25+ years of Oracle EBS, FMW, and federal platform engineering.

When the Audit Trail Itself Needs Auditing

We built a self-service audit reporting portal on top of Oracle Unified Auditing for a federal EBS environment. Here's what actually happened — including the parts where Oracle's own auditing infrastructure wasn't behaving the way we thought it was.

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Rotating WebLogic Datasource Passwords Without a Restart

How we built a Jython/WLST script for live datasource password rotation with CyberArk integration, ANSI output, and Jython 2.2 compatibility — and why the "simple" approach breaks in surprising ways.

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Building a FedRAMP AU-2 Compliant Audit Log in Python

HMAC hash chains, tamper-evident logging, and what the AU controls actually require versus what people think they require. A practical guide from the UnifiedTree platform build.