Robin Moffatt is a Principal DevEx Engineer and seasoned conference speaker with 15+ years of experience presenting at top events like QCon, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and Strata. He shares insights on developer experience, distributed systems, and cloud technologies through his blog, YouTube, and public talks.
617 articles from this blog
A technical guide detailing the steps and troubleshooting for installing QEMU from source on an AWS EC2 Amazon Linux instance.
A technical guide on mounting VMDK/OVF/OVA virtual disk images on AWS EC2, covering conversion, partition mounting, and LVM setup.
Author announces leaving Rittman Mead after 5 years to join Confluent as a Partner Technology Evangelist for Apache Kafka.
Explores Oracle 12.2's new Property Graph feature for graph analysis within the database, using a practical setup guide.
Rittman Mead's presentations at BIWA Summit 2017 on Oracle analytics, Apache Kafka, and OBIEE performance.
Troubleshooting HBase failures after resuming a suspended VirtualBox VM running the BigDataLite OVA, with analysis of Zookeeper session expiration errors.
A technical guide on using Kibana Timelion's holt function for anomaly detection on system CPU metrics from Metricbeat data.
A technical guide on using Spark Streaming with Python and Kafka to filter and enrich real-time Twitter data for copyright infringement detection.
A technical guide to building a streaming data pipeline using Apache Spark Streaming, Python, and Apache Kafka for real-time processing.
Explores SQL-on-Hadoop engines like Apache Drill for analyzing ETL data processed with Spark on Amazon EMR, focusing on performance and flexibility.
Final summary of a project exploring ETL offload to Apache Spark on AWS EMR, evaluating cost and tech benefits for a cloud-based data platform.
Part 3 of a series on offloading ETL to Spark on Amazon EMR, focusing on running PySpark code on a provisioned EMR cluster.
Part 2 of a guide on developing ETL processes using Apache Spark, Jupyter Notebooks, and Docker on Amazon EMR.
Explores using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR to offload and improve ETL processes, comparing it to traditional Oracle-based solutions.
Explains the importance of source control and automated deployment for OBIEE, detailing the 'why' and 'how' to prevent release issues.
Open-source Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE now available, capturing detailed user interaction data for performance and analytics.
Rittman Mead announces open-source release of key BI/DI tools including a JavaScript API for OBIEE frontends and visual plugins.
Troubleshooting a Kafka Avro console producer error when registering a schema due to a port conflict, with a solution provided.
Troubleshooting guide for resolving Avro serialization errors when integrating Oracle GoldenGate with Kafka Connect.
How to fix a Java IncompatibleClassChangeError when running the Kafka Connect HDFS connector by unsetting the CLASSPATH.
