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
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.
A preview of a conference talk on methodical performance analysis and troubleshooting for Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE).
A technical guide on visualizing OBIEE DMS performance metrics using Graphite for monitoring and dashboard creation.
Explores hidden load testing features within OBIEE's nqcmd tool for performance analysis.
Guide to installing obi-metrics-agent, Graphite, and collectl for monitoring OBIEE and system metrics on Linux.
Introduces obi-metrics-agent, an open-source Python tool for collecting and monitoring OBIEE performance metrics from DMS.
How to set the default locale for date formatting in OBIEE 11g to resolve user display issues.
Using Python's SUDS library to interact with OBIEE's SOAP web services for tasks like authentication and checking user permissions.
Explores automated regression testing for OBIEE, focusing on data integrity after RPD changes instead of front-end UI testing.
Introduction to regression testing in OBIEE to ensure system changes don't break existing functionality.
Securely using OBIEE command line tools by encrypting plain-text passwords with GPG and mkfifo to meet security policies.
Guide to monitoring OBIEE performance from an end-user perspective using JMeter scripts integrated into Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.
A technical guide on using Metric Extensions in Oracle EM12c to collect and monitor OBIEE usage tracking data via SQL queries.
