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
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.
A technical guide on configuring Oracle GoldenGate to replicate data to Kafka and Logstash using BigDataLite 4.4, with troubleshooting tips.
A developer switches from Slideshare to Speakerdeck for hosting presentation slides, citing a cleaner UI and better user experience.
Introduction to the #obihackers IRC channel for discussing Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), ODI, and general tech topics in an informal setting.
A guide to streaming custom system metrics into InfluxDB using bash commands, sed, awk, and curl for monitoring with tools like Grafana.
A history of visualizing OBIEE DMS metrics, from early JMX tools to modern Grafana dashboards.
Explains the importance of metrics for diagnosing OBIEE performance issues and introduces an updated monitoring tool.
A technical analysis of a specific password corruption bug in OBIEE 12c when using online mode for the repository (RPD).
A technical guide on using Linux Control Groups (cgroups) to limit memory usage for specific processes, demonstrated with OBIEE and stress testing.
Explains how to implement Enhanced Usage Tracking in OBIEE to capture detailed user interactions for improving engagement and system value.
Explores using Apache Kafka to create flexible, testable data pipelines, enabling multiple parallel consumers and safe experimentation.
Using Apache Kafka as a transport layer for centralizing and processing application logs with Logstash and ELK stack.
Explores using the BI Server Metadata Web Service in OBIEE 11g for automated tasks like cache management and RPD modifications.
