Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Data scaling at Shopzilla volumes | Shopzilla Tech Blog "Like any large scale web site, Shopzilla suffers from the same dilemma – how to scale large amounts of data, and do it fast. There are many different ways of doing this floating around the Internet nowadays. Cassandra, memcached, Hadoop, Oracle Coherence, etc. We chose the Oracle Coherence route at Shopzilla." -- Rob Roland (tags: dataintegration oracle coherence) I am an Architect | Shopzilla Tech Blog Shopzilla's Tim...

Podcast: 2009 -- The Year in Software Architecture Oracle ACE Directors Basheer Khan (CEO, Innowave Technology) and Mark Simpson (SOA Practice Director, Griffiths Waite), along with David Chappell (VP and Chief SOA Technologist, Oracle) and Mans Bhuller (Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Oracle) discuss software architecture in 2009. (tags: otn arch2arch podcast soa cloud oracleace) Todd Biske: Outside the Box » Blog Archive » IT Needs To Be More Advisory "Architecture...

2009 is now a matter of history, and what will happen in 2010 is still anybody's guess. The latest OTN Arch2Arch Podcast brings together a panel of guests from past programs to share their insight about the factors that shaped software architecture over the past year. The panel for this program includes: Basheer Khan: Founder and CEO, Innowave Technology; Oracle ACE DirectorBlog | LinkedIn | Twitter | Oracle Mix Mark Simpson: SOA Practice Director, Griffiths Waite; Oracle ACE...

Ed Scannell: Oracle’s OBIEE dashboard helps Kaleida Health combat the flu TechTarget journalist Ed Scannell describes how Kaleida Health, a Buffalo-based five-hospital network, created its Flu Monitoring Dashboard using Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition. (tags: oracle businessintelligence flu) Roddy Rodstein's Underground Oracle VM Manual Chapter 3: Hard and Soft Partitioning Oracle Technologies with Oracle VM Roddy Rodstein continues his Underground Oracle VM...

Bay Area Coherence SIG (BACSIG) Meeting - January 21, 2010 Mariano Hernandez, senior eCommerce developer from Macys.com will present "Coherence in the Retail Space: A Case Study of Adoption of Coherence at Macys.com. " In addition, Shaun Smith and Doug Clarke from the Oracle TopLink Grid team will be present "TopLink Grid: Scaling JPA Applications with Coherence". (tags: oracle otn BACSIG coherence event) Marc Caltabialto: Database Consolidation - Oracle as a Service (OaaS) Marc...

Bex Huff: Top 10 New Years Resolutions for ECM "A lot of folks are doing end-of-year predictions about what will happen in 2010 in the Enterprise Content Management universe. In general I'm not a huge fan of making predictions on the future of technology... the easiest way to predict the future of technology is to build it. " -- Oracle ACE Director Bex Huffs (tags: oracle otn oracleace enterprise2.0 ecm) John Minkjan: OBIEE PATCHES 10.1.3.4.1 part 2 John Minkjan's updated list of...

Oracle Magazine - Architect Community Column: Snowball Battles Hair Ball Oracle ACEs Basheer Khan (Innowave Technology) and Jordan Braunstein (Rolta TUSC) and Oracle Enterprise Architects Bob Covington and Hamza Jahangir share their thoughts on getting from bad architecture to good architecture in this article in the latest edition of Oracle Magazine. (tags: otn oracle oraclemagazine entarch enterprise architecture framework)

Upper Mismanagement,  Noam Schieber's article in The New Republic,  fixes some of the blame for the decline in American manufacturing on executives with backgrounds in finance. The article is chock-full of stuff that will resonate with enterprise architects and others in IT. For instance: [T]hese executives were frequently numb to the sorts of innovations that enable high-quality production at low cost. And there's this: The new managerial class tended to neglect...

Andrejus Baranovskis: Producing JSR 168 Portlets Directly From ADF Task Flows with Oracle WebCenter 11g Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis illustrates how to expose an ADF Task Flow as a portlet, and then consume that portlet from WebCenter 11g. (tags: otn oracle enterprise2.0 webcenter java)