Todd Little

Chief Architect, Transaction Processing Products

I'm currently the Chief Architect for a family of transaction processing products at Oracle including Oracle Tuxedo product family, Oracle Blockchain Platform, and the new Oracle Transaction Manager for Microservices (MicroTx).  My main areas of focus are on security, privacy, confidentiality, performance, and scalability.  My job is to provide the technical strategy for these products to ensure they meet customer requirements.

Prior to being acquired by Oracle, I was Chief Architect for BEA Tuxedo at BEA Systems, Inc. While at BEA Systems, I was responsible for defining the technical strategy and direction for the Tuxedo product family. I developed the Tuxedo Control for WebLogic Workshop that greatly simplified the usage of Tuxedo services from Workshop based applications. I also received two patents for methods allowing design patterns in a UML modeling tool to control the generation of software artifacts.

During my nearly 50 years of software architecture and development experience, I have worked on a wide range of software systems and technology and have 44 published patents. At Science Applications International I worked on microcoded plasma display systems and command, control, and communication systems for naval applications. As a senior software consultant at Digital Equipment Corporation, I was the New York Area Regional Tools Consultant and also helped develop a multi-language multi-threaded distributed object oriented runtime environment with concurrent garbage collection.

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Recent Blogs

Oracle Transaction Manager for Microservices (MicroTx) on Azure, AWS, and GCP

This post briefly describes the enhancements made to MicroTx in it's latest patch update version 24.2.2 to support using MicroTx in other vendor's clouds.

MicroTx Video Explainers and Tutorials

Oracle has a number of videos providing valuable information about MicroTx. This blog post provides descriptions and links to those videos. Enjoy!

My MicroTx Related Blog Posts

I'm going to use this post to track the blog posts I've made on MicroTx and issues associated with data consistency.

New Release: Oracle Transaction Manager for Microservices (MicroTx) 24.2.1

Oracle has released new versions of the Transaction Manager for Microservices (MicroTx). With this release a number of new features have been added to the Enterprise Edition and both MicroTx Free and MicroTx Enterprise Edition (MicroTx EE) have been updated with new platform and framework support. Check out what's new in this post.

Where is the Complexity? Part 4

Summary and concluding thoughts on where the complexity is in maintaining data consistency in a microservice based application.

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