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.
625 articles from this blog
A technical guide detailing the installation of Proxmox VE 4 on a server and the setup of ext4 filesystems on multiple hard drives.
A tech enthusiast details setting up a custom Proxmox home server for hosting VMs and containers for various data and analytics tools.
Exploration of OBIEE 12c features, focusing on RESTful APIs, web services, cache behavior, and data set service.
How to enable and list detailed logging sources in OBIEE 12c Presentation Services for troubleshooting and diagnostics.
Explains OBIEE 12c's Extended Subject Areas (XSA) and Data Set Service for user-uploaded data analysis.
Explains changes to the BI Server cache behavior in OBIEE 12c, focusing on the new OBIS_REFRESH_CACHE logic.
Explores undocumented REST web services in OBIEE 12c for downloading RPD files, detailing commands and diagnostic methods.
A technical guide on dynamically naming OBIEE 12c service instance exports using WLST scripts with timestamps and hostnames.
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.
