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
Explores advanced uses of the OBIEE nqcmd command-line tool for BI Server administration, query logging, and performance testing.
Explains how to instrument OBIEE database connections for detailed performance monitoring and diagnostics.
A guide to analyzing Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) runtime performance data using Elasticsearch and Kibana for visualization and trend analysis.
Guide to monitoring OBIEE performance using InfluxDB for time-series data and Grafana for visualization dashboards.
Explores challenges and solutions for concurrent development of OBIEE's RPD metadata model, focusing on source control and DevOps practices.
Guide to monitoring OS metrics across a Linux cluster using colmux and collectl for system administrators.
A guide to using PDSH for executing commands in parallel across a Linux cluster, covering setup and practical examples.
A guide to using SSH keys for password-less authentication and management across a Linux cluster, enabling tools like PDSH and colmux.
Oracle OBIEE SampleApp v406 is now available as a public Amazon EC2 AMI for development and testing in the cloud.
Explains how to audit OBIEE Presentation Catalog activity, like tracking who deleted reports, using custom log filters and Presentation Services logging.
Part 2 of a tutorial on loading data from Hadoop/Hive into Elasticsearch for analysis with Kibana.
Part 3 of a series on visualizing data in Kibana after loading it from Hadoop via Elasticsearch, comparing Kibana 3 and 4.
Introduction to using Kibana and Elasticsearch with Hadoop for visualizing and analyzing big data from web logs, tweets, and blog metadata.
Using the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to monitor and diagnose issues in an OBIEE business intelligence system.
How to use rlwrap with Apache Hive beeline for enhanced command-line editing, including history search and navigation.
Guide on importing a VirtualBox VM (Oracle SampleApp) to AWS EC2, enabling cloud deployment of heavy development environments.
Guide to configuring automatic startup for OBIEE services on the Oracle SampleApp v406 virtual appliance using Linux init.d scripts.
Explores using PhantomCSS for visual regression testing of OBIEE front ends, addressing limitations of traditional tools like Selenium.
Troubleshooting a specific configuration error in Oracle OBIEE's Mobile App Designer (MAD) related to publishing and subscribing to apps.
Extends OBIEE performance monitoring by integrating DMS metrics and nqquery.log data into Graphite and visualizing with Grafana.
