Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Five Fusion Middleware developers walk into... That may sound like the introduction to a joke, but in this case, those five Fusion Middleware developers walked into a collaborative project that resulted in the Oracle Service Bus 11g Cookbook, fresh off the presses from Packt Publishing. The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast features a conversation with those five Fusion Middleware experts (three of them members of the Oracle ACE program), in which they talk about why they...

Development Debate Wrap-up; Large Scale Transformations; Creating Architecturewww.oracle.com Featured this week on the OTN Architect homepage, along with an updated events list, links to product downloads, and the usual collection of resources by and for software architects. Webcast: Simplify Oracle RAC Deployment with Oracle VMevent.on24.com Tuesday March 20, 2012 - 9am PT / Noon ET Learn how you can: Deploy an Oracle (RAC) Database environment in minutes with Oracle VM...

Application-Driven Virtualization with Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder | Ronen Kofmanblogs.oracle.com Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder is now GA/ Ronen Kofman shares details. Is it security or privacy or both that we should think about? | Andy Mulhollandwww.capgemini.com"From one direction we see how businesses want to use clouds, mobility, big data and social tools to create new capabilities externally to do business in new interactive ways with customers," says Mulholland....

Are You a Member? | David Hope-Rossblogs.oracle.com Hope-Ross plugs "Are You a Member Yet," the International Oracle User Group's is a quarterly newsletter as a resource for finding the right user group to suit your needs and interests. Planning an IDM Build Out for Fusion Apps Part 1 – Discussion Topics | Brian Eidelmanfusionsecurity.blogspot.comEidelman begins a series of posts on planning an Oracle IDM build out for Fusion Apps with a discussion of several topics that...

Oracle Coherence: First Steps Using Clusters and Basic API Usage | Ricardo Ferreirablogs.oracle.com Ricardo Ferreira shares three videos created to "guide you in the process of creating a data grid cluster, managing data using both Java API and CohQL (Coherence Query Language) to finally test the reliability and fail over features of the product." What role does creativity play in the day-to-day work of IT architects?www.oracle.comGiven its sharp focus on designing practical...

2012 Real World Performance Tour Dateswww.ioug.org Coming to your town: a full day of real world database performance with Tom Kyte, Andrew Holdsworth, and Graham Wood. Rochester, NY - March 8 Los Angeles, CA - April 30 Orange County, CA - May 1 Redwood Shores, CA - May 3 Analytics Without Limits: The Latest on Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and Oracle Business Intelligenceevent.on24.com Webcast Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Time: 9 a.m. PT/12 noon ET Speakers: Balaji...

Each day during the work week I share a variety of links via my social networks. These links point to resources I deem to be of interest to the OTN architect community, typically articles or blog posts by architects, or relevant events. The following list represents the 30 most-clicked links for the past 30 days, listed in descending order of popularity. Book review: Do more with SOA integration | @deltalounge A use case to illustrate how clouds, mobility and big data create...

Seek inspiration for great IT architecture solutions. By Bob Rhubart March/April 2012 A June 2009 Fast Company article listed the 10 most creative people in building architecture. The photos that accompanied the article offer ample evidence that something weird and wonderful is happening in the minds of the people responsible for some of the world’s most wildly imaginative structures. But what about IT architecture? Given its sharp focus on designing practical technological...

New update for NetBeans IDE 7.1.1, with support for GlassFish 3.1.2netbeans.org NetBeans IDE 7.1.1 includes support for GlassFish 3.1.2, TopLink integration, Integration of recent patches, minor performance improvements, and more. SPARC Live Migration in Oracle VM; Enterprise Architecture and Performance; Dev Debate Part 2www.oracle.com This week on the OTN Architect Home Page, along with the usual collection of resources for software architects. Podcast: Development Debateblogs...