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
Explains a bug in OBIEE 12c where the 'Add Data Source' option in Answers appears incorrectly and details the proper method for uploading datasets.
Exploring undocumented REST web services in OBIEE 12c for technical insight, focusing on API discovery using sysdig.
A technical guide on using Kibana Timelion to calculate and visualize the difference between current data and data from one week ago.
Troubleshooting guide for OBIEE 12c hanging at startup due to a hidden credential prompt and corrupted boot.properties file.
Explains a misleading OBIEE 12c error when importing a non-existent BAR file and advises reading full error logs.
Troubleshooting an OBIEE Baseline Validation Tool error: 'Parameter directory is not a directory' and its simple solution.
Analyzing OBIEE 12c configuration file management and using sysdig to trace how Enterprise Manager reads settings.
A guide to monitoring Logstash ingest rates using the Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Timelion) instead of external tools like InfluxDB and Grafana.
A tutorial on monitoring Logstash data ingest rates using InfluxDB for storage and Grafana for visualization.
A curated list of expert articles providing advice on writing effective conference abstracts for tech speakers.
A technical exploration of Elastic's Graph tool, demonstrating how to analyze relationships in data like Twitter hashtags using Elasticsearch and Kibana.
A guide on using R and dplyr to denormalize and join datasets for analysis in Kibana/Elasticsearch, using a road accident data example.
Oracle BI security patches released for versions 12.2.1, 11.1.1.9, and 11.1.1.7, with the latter reaching its final patchset.
A technical guide on using an Oracle GoldenGate adaptor to stream data directly into Elasticsearch for real-time search and analytics.
A practical example of using Apache Kafka to decouple data pipelines, enabling flexible data processing and replay capabilities.
Analyzing OBIEE performance issues caused by suboptimal design and using custom dashboards to diagnose and resolve them.
A guide to using Kibana Timelion for time series analysis, covering installation, basic queries, data manipulation, and integrating external data from Quandl.
A technical guide on connecting to Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) using the JDBC driver and the jisql command-line client.
A technical guide on building a read-only IRC client using the Elastic Stack (Logstash, Kibana, Elasticsearch) to log and visualize channel messages.
Troubleshooting the JPS-06514 keystore error during a fresh OBIEE 11.1.1.9 installation, caused by conflicting JDK environment variables.
