Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

I’m not a programmer anymore and neither should you: a pragmatic analysis of our role in business | Isaac Vale "The problem with programming is that it gets too close to the detail," says Vale, "and at that level we fail to see the big picture." Exadata Split Rack Configuration | Andy Colvin Colvin shares notes on "an interesting Exadata installation" in which he participated. Embarcadero Performance Panel - July 28 | Kerry OsborneKaren Morton, Cary MIllsap, and Kerry Osborne...

The latest OTN Archbeat Podcast features an interview with two of the most prominent voices in Service Oriented Architecture. Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 Thomas Erl [LinkedIn | Homepage] is a best-selling IT author and CEO of Arcitura Education Inc. and SOA Systems Inc., and is also involved in SOASchool.com and CloudSchool.com. He is the series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Oriented Computing Series that also bears his name, and, as if that's not...

The Role of Architect vs. The Role of the Software Architect, A Reality Check from Beautiful Architecture "In music composition and software design, the composer (software architect) creates a static description of a piece of music (architecture description and code) that is later performed (executed) many times. In both music and software the design can account for many components interacting to produce the desired result..." — Excerpted from Beautiful Architecture, by...

Oracle x86 Infrastructure - The Optimized Stack: Reducing Total Cost of Ownership through Vertical Integration An Edison Group white paper. Improving Data Quality through Anomaly Detection | Mark Kasunic - SEI Blog "The problem with poor data quality is that it leads to poor decisions," says Kasunic. Why Being Certain Means Being Wrong | Ted Cadsby - Harvard Business Review"A mind that is 'fertilized' by the first satisfying interpretation is closed to the more subtle and...

This week in the Oracle Technology Network Architect Center: Virtual Developer Day: SOA OTN Developer Day: SOA hits Europe this week. Stay in your pajamas. We don't care. You'll still get live Oracle SOA product presentations and demonstrations delivered by Oracle product and technology experts, plus a chance to run your own demo in a hands-on lab. Leveraging Oracle Coherence for Distributed Execution of High Volume TransactionsPaul Cleary's new white paper shows how Oracle...

Making Delivery Options More Accessible to Users | Brent Lowe How to bring delivery to the users vs. having them kick off the process explicitely. Which Linux do you pick for Oracle Installations? | Tim Hall "Many of us don’t work in a world where technology is picked purely on its merits," says Hall. There's No Stopping Zero Downtime | Dain Hansen - Data Integration"Zero Downtime is clearly something much more sophisticated, as it enables a Maximum Availability Architecture,"...

Fusion Applications - What You Need To Know: SOA Rehash | Floyd Teter "You just need to have your brain wrapped around some basic [SOA] concepts to understand what's happening behind the scenes," says Teter. Oracle Unified Directory 11gR1 Released ! | Etienne Remillon Oracle Unified Directory is an all-in-one directory solution with storage, proxy, synchronization and virtualization capabilities. Open Work: Using Social Software To Make Our Work Visible Again | Dion Hinchcliffe"...

Bay Area Coherence Special Interest Group Meeting - July 21 Thursday - July 21st, 2011, 4:30pm - 8:15pm. Speakers include: Reza Shafii (Oracle), Chris Akker (F5), Paul Cleary (Oracle), Alexey Ragozin (Independent Consultant), and Brian Oliver (Oracle). Cloud for winners, going pro in IT architecture, and another chance for a virtual Oracle SOA Suite demo. If you guessed, "What's new this week in the OTN Architect Center?" -- you win! Integrated Load Balancer | The ObservatoryAn...

Communicating Change as Business as Usual | Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe - Harvard Business Review Musselwhite and Ploufe report on "an organizational model promoting change readiness [that] provides a promising new perspective on change." Oracle Fusion Middleware Security: 5 Minutes or less: Kerberos | Chris Johnson Chris Johnson concise explanation of how Kerberos works. The Open Group releases O-ACEML standard, automates compliance configuration | Jim HietalaO-ACEML...