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OCI Search with OpenSearch adds new capabilities for AI-ready, scalable, and highly available search workloads
Search is becoming a critical foundation for modern applications, observability platforms, enterprise knowledge systems, and AI-powered discovery experiences. Customers are using OpenSearch not only for traditional keyword search, but also for semantic search, vector search, hybrid retrieval, log analytics, and retrieval-augmented generation.
Designing Active/Standby Disaster Recovery with OCI Streaming with Apache Kafka
Modern applications increasingly depend on event-driven architectures. Kafka is often at the center of that design, carrying business-critical events between services, analytics systems, databases, and operational workflows. That also means Kafka needs a disaster recovery plan. Disaster recovery is more than replication. A production-ready DR plan must cover data replication, topic configuration, consumer offset handling, application cutover, primary-region fencing, validation, and failback.
Kafka Cluster Resizing in OCI Streaming with Apache Kafka: Best Practices, Implications, and Operational Steps
In the previous post, we covered partition resizing: when to increase topic partitions, what happens to existing records, and how partition changes affect producers and consumers. This follow-up focuses on the other side of Kafka scaling: Kafka cluster resizing. In this post, Kafka cluster resizing refers to supported capacity operations such as scaling out the cluster by adding brokers or scaling up supported broker resources.
Partition Count Resizing in OCI Streaming with Apache Kafka: When to Do It, How to Do It, and What to Expect
Apache Kafka is built for scale. Topics can be split into partitions, partitions can be replicated across brokers, and consumer groups can process those partitions in parallel. But one of the most common scaling questions we hear from teams using or evaluating OCI Streaming with Apache Kafka is: “When should I increase my topic partition count, and what happens when I do?” The short answer:increase partitions when you need more parallelism, not simply because you need more infrastructure capacity.
Extending support for OpenSearch v1.2.4 in OCI Search with OpenSearch
Search clusters often sit at the center of applications, dashboards, and operational workflows, so upgrades deserve time and testing. To give customers that runway, OCI Search with OpenSearch is extending support for existing clusters running OpenSearch v1.2.4 through December 2026. This extension follows the OpenSearch project’s end of support for OpenSearch 1.x in May 2025, as described in the OpenSearch Release Schedule and Maintenance Policy.
Delivery up of documents of insolvent companies to liquidators by former solicitors
In Joint and Several Liquidators of Yes! E-Sports Asia Holdings Limited (in Liquidation) v Holman Fenwick Willan (A Firm) [2024] HKCFI 1197, the Court confirmed that solicitors should produce documents of former insolvent clients to liquidators when a request is made under section 286B(1)(d) of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance, Cap 32 (CWUMPO).
Delivery up of documents of insolvent companies to liquidators by former solicitors
View PDF Authored by: Mandy Pang In Joint and Several Liquidators of Yes! E-Sports Asia Holdings Limited (in Liquidation) v Holman Fenwick Willan (A Firm) [2024] HKCFI 1197, the Court confirmed that solicitors should produce documents of former insolvent clients to liquidators when a request is made under section 286B(1)(d) of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance, Cap 32 (CWUMPO).
The Importance of Inclusion of Terms to Limit Bank’s Duty of Care
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Shine Grace Investment Ltd v Citibank, N.A. and Anor [2022] HKCA 1341 is welcome news for banks and illustrates the importance of inclusion of terms to limit the bank’s duties in banking agreements.
SFC disciplined sponsors for inadequate due diligence and disclosure
Hong Kong December 3 2021 In October 2021, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) reprimanded Yi Shun Da Capital Limited (YSD) and Ample Capital Limited (ACL) and fined them HK$3 million and HK$5.5 million respectively, for failing to discharge their duties as sponsors in listing applications in 2016 and 2017. Those disciplinary actions underscore the importance for sponsors to carry out adequate due diligence and make adequate disclosure in listing applications.
Banks not required to act as detectives or fraud detectors | Lexology
Hong Kong April 15 2021 There has been an increasing number of fraud cases, in particular cyber fraud cases, around the world.
A step forward in local legislation to implement reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial and family cases between Hong Kong and Mainland China - Lexology
The Mainland Judgments in Matrimonial and Family Cases (Reciprocal Recognition and Enforcement) Bill (Bill) was introduced into the Legislative Council on 2 December 2020.
Risks taken by shareholders in the shadows - Application of the Duomatic Principle to beneficial owners | Lexology
United Kingdom
November 17 2020 Nowadays, corporate structures are increasingly complex. It is not uncommon for individual owners to put in place arrangements to hide from public view his or her position as ultimate beneficial owner of a corporate entity or otherwise his or her assuming actual control of the corporate entity.
Grey Divorce - hidden battles for protection and succession of family assets | Lexology
Hong Kong
November 13 2020 In recent years, there has been an increasing divorce rate for older couples in long marriages. A “grey divorce” of “silver splitters” can be more than just a relationship breakdown. It may be due to a desire to effect an early distribution of family assets amongst family members of the second or even third generations. Any such distribution of family assets pursuant to court orders during the lifetime of the parties can disrupt estate planning that is already in place.
CFA confirms no pre-existing legal relationship required for one to be an “agent” of another for bribery offences | Lexology
Section 9 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Cap. 201) (POBO) criminalizes corrupt transactions with agents in both public and private sectors. The first question which would come to one’s mind is, who is an “agent”? Under section 2 of the POBO, an “agent” includes “a public servant and any person employed by or acting for another”.
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