Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Architect ACE Alex Gorbachev  announced on Friday on his Pythian Group blog that he'll be presenting Under the Hood of Oracle Clusterware at Oracle OpenWorld 2008. According to the OOW site, Alex's session is scheduled for 1:00pm - 2:30pm on Sunday 9/21/08 in Room 2002 in Moscone West. Read Alex's post: Alex Gorbachev at Oracle Open World 2008: Under the Hood of Oracle Clusterware   Technorati Tags: OTN,Oracle,clusterware,OpenWorld,Oracle ACE,architect community

 Yesterday's post dealt with the relationship between architects and developers, and how that relationship can have an impact on the success of development projects.  Today I found a not-so-recent post on Bex Huff's blog that hits on a highly relevant factor. Bex says: A few weeks ago I gave a talk about Communication For Geeks at the Minneapolis MinneBar conference. I strongly believe that the majority of software failures are communication failures, and if geeks want to be...

I ran across UK-based site called Coding the Architecture that includes Mind the gap, an article that explores the relationship between developers and architects, and the perceived role of the architect:   Our industry has a love/hate relationship with the software architect role, with many organisations dismissing it because of their negative experiences of architects that dictate from "ivory towers" and aren't engaged with the actual task of building working software. This...

Given the migration of a sizable herd of BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch bloggers, I thought I'd reuse (that is, steal) an idea from Jake over at AppsLab and set up a game of blog tag as way to introduce those bloggers to the OTN community. Here's how Jake explained his version back in January: [T]he construct is simple, I will throw out eight things you might not know about me, then tag eight other bloggers. They will blog eight not-so-obvious things about themselves, then each tag...

A few days ago I referenced Mary Beijleveld's post on the Approach Alliance blog, in which she offers a high-level explanation of IT architecture by comparing it to building architecture. Rajesh Raheja's recent post on The Official AIA Blog takes the shopworn Lego(tm) metaphor for SOA to task, and in the process provides an excellent drill-down that perfectly complements Mary's post: Let’s put this in the perspective of SOA technologies. The general contractor is a BPEL Proces...

There's architecture, and then there's architecture. A July 23rd post on the AMIS Technology blog offers some spot-on  observations on the role user experience plays in IT architecture that gets beyond commodity to real competitive differentiation and value: Experience economy products put high demands on these non-functional requirements. Many vendors are able to produce MP3 players. These players all do the same; you can play music on them. The functionality of products can...

One of the features of the now month-old Getting Started: Architects page on OTN is the list of more-or-less randomly chosen Oracle ACEs who, in a discussion on an Oracle Mix group, either identified themselves as architects, or were mentioned by other architect ACEs as worthy of the attention.  As a result of that discussion, Dan Norris, Bex Huff, Jason Jones, and Mike van Alst (l-r,  below) have been smiling out from their thumbnail photos for much longer than...

Earlier today an email went out to members of the global BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch community with information on the status of those community Web sites and the migration of resources to the Oracle Technology Network. I've posted that message on wiki.oracle.com and will update the information as the migration proceeds. BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch bloggers who have not yet migrated to new blogs should make every effort to do so now. The clock is ticking...   Technorati Tags: OTN,Oracle,BEA,...

Comparisons between physical architecture and digital architecture are inevitable. But in the first installment of a promised series of posts on the Approach Alliance blog, Mary Beijleveld offers a clear explanation of software architecture and the role of the architect, including this insight:  There is a major difference between ‘building’ architecture and software (system) architecture: A lot of decisions made in construction are hard to change. It is very difficult to go...