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
A technical guide on integrating custom OBIEE performance monitoring graphs into Oracle Application Server (OAS) using Apache configuration.
A technical guide on using gnuplot to visualize OBIEE performance monitoring data captured from JMX metrics.
A technical guide on using JMX and jmxsh to monitor and collect performance data from OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence) systems.
A technical guide on monitoring OBIEE systems using JMX, shell scripting, and gnuplot for metrics collection and real-time graphing.
Troubleshooting a JavaHost hang in OBIEE 10g causing chart server errors, with diagnostic steps and a restart solution.
Diagnosing and resolving intermittent LDAP authentication failures in OBIEE 10g when connecting to Microsoft Active Directory.
A low-cost method for monitoring OBIEE 10g systems using built-in JMX, jconsole, and custom scripting for data export and visualization.
SQL queries to analyze and identify performance bottlenecks in Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) batch jobs with many tasks.
A reflection on how uneventful days in system development and support can foster a false sense of security and complacency.
A guide to visualizing Oracle database I/O metrics using gnuplot for more accurate performance analysis than standard GUI tools.
Using awk to split a fixed-width file into separate output files based on content in specific columns.
A developer questions when a software issue is labeled a 'design decision' instead of a bug, using an Oracle and Informatica case study.
A developer solves a TortoiseSVN authentication issue caused by using the svn:// protocol instead of https:// for commits.
Explains why average I/O throughput metrics from AWR snapshots can be misleading for capacity planning, using real database examples.
A developer's solution to Oracle's fragmented OBIEE 11g documentation: an offline, searchable PDF collection.
A technical guide on implementing and testing Oracle Database Resource Manager for CPU allocation and performance monitoring in a data warehouse environment.
A technical analysis of how an expired database password caused Informatica to spawn excessive connections, crashing an Oracle server.
Troubleshooting a BI Publisher error when creating Quartz scheduler tables due to insufficient database privileges.
Explores methods for measuring real user response times in OBIEE, comparing simulated tests with actual user activity tracking.
Unix scripts to extract Logical SQL and query performance metrics from OBIEE's NQQuery.log file for testing and analysis.
