rmoff's random ramblings

24 Jul 2026 · Rant

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY

Having clankers churn out content to feed the clankers is a futile game to play. It’s an arms-race to the bottom of a cesspit.

2026

29 Jun 2026 Interesting links - June 2026
Interesting Links
28 May 2026 Interesting links - May 2026
Interesting Links
06 May 2026 AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
Rant
05 May 2026 🏃🚶 The unofficial Current London 2026 Run/Walk 🏃🚶
5k run/walk
01 May 2026 It’s the Smell
Rant
30 Apr 2026 Interesting links - April 2026
Interesting Links
28 Apr 2026 Materialized Tables in Apache Flink
Apache Flink
09 Apr 2026 Kicking the Tyres on Harbor for Agent Evals
AI
27 Mar 2026 Look Ma, I made a JAR! (Building a connector for Kafka Connect without knowing Java)
Kafka Connect
25 Mar 2026 Interesting links - March 2026
Interesting Links
13 Mar 2026 Evaluating Claude’s dbt Skills: Building an Eval from Scratch
AI
11 Mar 2026 Claude Code isn’t going to replace data engineers (yet)
AI
11 Mar 2026 Claude Code in action with dbt
AI
06 Mar 2026 AI will fuck you up if you’re not on board
Rant
27 Feb 2026 Interesting links - February 2026
Interesting Links
20 Feb 2026 Claude the Instructor
Claude Code
19 Feb 2026 Ten years late to the dbt party (DuckDB edition)
dbt
27 Jan 2026 Cosplaying as a webdev with Claude Code in January 2026
AI
27 Jan 2026 Reflections of a Developer on LLMs in January 2026
AI
23 Jan 2026 Interacting with Developers on Reddit
DevRel
20 Jan 2026 Interesting links - January 2026
Interesting Links
14 Jan 2026 Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
S3

2025

18 Dec 2025 A love letter to Raycast ❤️
Raycast
16 Dec 2025 Interesting links - December 2025
Interesting Links
01 Dec 2025 Using Graph Analysis with Neo4j to Spot Astroturfing on Reddit
Property Graph
26 Nov 2025 Interesting links - November 2025
Interesting Links
25 Nov 2025 (AI) Smells on Medium
Blogging
20 Nov 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 6—I’ve been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong
Stumbling into AI
06 Nov 2025 How we built the demo for the Current NOLA Day 2 keynote using Flink and AI
Stumbling into AI
05 Nov 2025 Tech Radar (Nov 2025) - data blips
TechRadar
31 Oct 2025 Interesting links - October 2025
Interesting Links
06 Oct 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 5—Agents
AI
30 Sep 2025 Interesting links - September 2025
Interesting Links
16 Sep 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 4—Terminology Tidy-up (and a little rant)
AI
12 Sep 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 3—RAG
AI
08 Sep 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 2—Models
AI
04 Sep 2025 Stumbling into AI: Part 1—MCP
AI
21 Aug 2025 Interesting links - August 2025
Interesting Links
18 Aug 2025 Kafka to Iceberg - Exploring the Options
Apache Iceberg
22 Jul 2025 Connecting Apache Flink SQL to Confluent Cloud Kafka broker
Apache Flink
18 Jul 2025 Interesting links - July 2025
Interesting Links
14 Jul 2025 Keeping your Data Lakehouse in Order: Table Maintenance in Apache Iceberg
Apache Iceberg
04 Jul 2025 Writing to Apache Iceberg on S3 using Kafka Connect with Glue catalog
Apache Iceberg
27 Jun 2025 Interesting links - June 2025
Interesting Links
24 Jun 2025 Writing to Apache Iceberg on S3 using Flink SQL with Glue catalog
Flink SQL
02 Jun 2025 Digging into Ducklake
DuckDB
23 May 2025 Interesting links - May 2025
Interesting Links
20 May 2025 Exploring Joins and Changelogs in Flink SQL
Flink SQL
02 May 2025 🏃🚶 The unofficial Current London 2025 Run/Walk 🏃🚶
Kafka Summit
25 Apr 2025 It’s Time We Talked About Time: Exploring Watermarks (And More) In Flink SQL
Apache Flink
22 Apr 2025 Interesting links - April 2025
Interesting Links
25 Mar 2025 Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink - Exploring the API
Apache Flink
24 Mar 2025 Interesting links - March 2025
Interesting Links
21 Mar 2025 How to create Carousel posts in LinkedIn…without the bullshit
LinkedIn
20 Mar 2025 Building a data pipeline with DuckDB
DuckDB
19 Mar 2025 Exporting Notebooks from DuckDB UI
DuckDB
14 Mar 2025 Kicking the tyres on the new DuckDB UI
DuckDB
13 Mar 2025 Creating an HTTP Source connector on Confluent Cloud from the CLI
Confluent Cloud
13 Mar 2025 Why is kcat showing the wrong topics?
kcat (kafkacat)
11 Mar 2025 Write more blog articles, not fewer (Don’t leave the scraps on the cutting floor)
Blogging
10 Mar 2025 Data Wrangling with Flink SQL
Flink SQL
06 Mar 2025 Joining two streams of data with Flink SQL
Flink SQL
03 Mar 2025 How to explode nested arrays with Flink SQL
Flink SQL
28 Feb 2025 Exploring UK Environment Agency data in DuckDB and Rill
DuckDB
27 Feb 2025 DuckDB tricks - renaming fields in a SELECT * across tables
DuckDB
03 Feb 2025 Interesting links - February 2025
Interesting links

2024

19 Dec 2024 Checkpoint Chronicle - December 2024
Checkpoint Chronicle
11 Dec 2024 Disabling Vale Linting Selectively in Asciidoc
asciidoc
11 Dec 2024 Exploring Flink CDC
Apache Flink
19 Nov 2024 Streaming Data from Postgres to Snowflake with CDC and Decodable
Postgres
30 Oct 2024 Checkpoint Chronicle - October 2024
Checkpoint Chronicle
15 Oct 2024 Why Do I Need CDC?
CDC
26 Sep 2024 Checkpoint Chronicle - September 2024
Checkpoint Chronicle
19 Sep 2024 Current 2024 Recap
Current
02 Sep 2024 Current 2024 - 5k Fun Run (or Walk)
Kafka Summit
27 Aug 2024 Adventures with Apache Flink and Delta Lake
Apache Flink
14 Aug 2024 Declarative Resource Management for Real-time ETL with Decodable
Decodable
06 Aug 2024 Troubleshooting Flink SQL S3 problems
Apache Flink
30 Jul 2024 How to Migrate from Amazon MSF
Apache Flink
18 Jul 2024 Sending Data to Apache Iceberg from Apache Kafka with Apache Flink
Apache Flink
02 Jul 2024 Decodable vs. Amazon MSF: Getting Started with Flink SQL
Apache Flink
18 Jun 2024 How to get data from Apache Kafka to Apache Iceberg on S3 with Decodable
Apache Kafka
28 May 2024 Checkpoint Chronicle - May 2024
Checkpoint Chronicle
22 May 2024 How I Try To Keep Up With The Data Tech World (A List of Data Blogs)
RSS
03 May 2024 ngrok DNS headaches
ngrok
26 Apr 2024 How to stop AWS CLI clearing the screen
aws
17 Apr 2024 Flink SQL—Misconfiguration, Misunderstanding, and Mishaps
Apache Flink
22 Mar 2024 Checkpoint Chronicle - March 2024
Checkpoint Chronicle
15 Mar 2024 🏃🚶 The unofficial Kafka Summit London 2024 Run/Walk 🏃🚶
Kafka Summit
15 Mar 2024 Apache Flink talks at Kafka Summit London 2024
Kafka Summit
12 Mar 2024 Exploring the Flink SQL Gateway REST API
Apache Flink
27 Feb 2024 Flink SQL and the Joy of JARs
Apache Flink
22 Feb 2024 Checkpoint Chronicle - February 2024
Checkpoint Chronicle
19 Feb 2024 Catalogs in Flink SQL—Hands On
Apache Flink
16 Feb 2024 Catalogs in Flink SQL—A Primer
Apache Flink
17 Jan 2024 Antora Deployment to Cloudflare Across Private Repositories with GitHub Actions
Antora
16 Jan 2024 Hosting on GitHub Pages? Watch out for Subdomain Hijacking
GitHub
03 Jan 2024 1️⃣🐝🏎️🦆 (1BRC in SQL with DuckDB)
DuckDB

2023

19 Dec 2023 Deploying Antora with GitHub Actions and a private GitHub repo
Antora
13 Dec 2023 Checkpoint Chronicle - December 2023
Checkpoint Chronicle
07 Dec 2023 Productivity tools: AI Image Generators
AI
16 Nov 2023 Hugo not detecting changed pages on Mac
Hugo
16 Nov 2023 Learning Apache Flink S01E06: The Flink JDBC Driver
Flink JDBC
14 Nov 2023 Checkpoint Chronicle - November 2023
Checkpoint Chronicle
01 Nov 2023 Using Apache Kafka with ngrok
ngrok
25 Oct 2023 Learning Apache Flink S01E05: Installing PyFlink (with some bumps along the way…)
LAF
10 Oct 2023 Learning Apache Flink S01E04: A [Partial] Exploration of the Flink SQL Client
LAF
05 Oct 2023 Learning Apache Flink S01E03: Running my First Flink Cluster and Application
LAF
04 Oct 2023 cd: string not in pwd
zsh
02 Oct 2023 Learning Apache Flink S01E02: What is Flink?
Apache Flink
29 Sep 2023 Learning Apache Flink S01E01: Where Do I Start?
Apache Flink
21 Sep 2023 An Itch That Just Has to Be Scratched… (Or, Why Am I Joining Decodable?)
Streaming
19 Jul 2023 Blog Writing for Developers
DevRel
23 May 2023 What Does This DevEx Engineer Do?
devrel
03 May 2023 Authoring Wordpress blogs in Markdown (with Google Docs for review)
Markdown
20 Apr 2023 Building Better Docs - Automating Jekyll Builds and Link Checking for PRs
Documentation
05 Apr 2023 Using Delta from pySpark - java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: delta.DefaultSource
PySpark
14 Mar 2023 Quickly Convert CSV to Parquet with DuckDB
DuckDB
03 Mar 2023 Making the move from Alfred to Raycast
Alfred
03 Mar 2023 Aligning mismatched Parquet schemas in DuckDB
DuckDB

2022

09 Dec 2022 Looking Forwards, and Looking Backwards
Career
08 Nov 2022 Data Engineering in 2022: ELT tools
ELT
24 Oct 2022 Data Engineering in 2022: Wrangling the feedback data from Current 22 with dbt
dbt
20 Oct 2022 Data Engineering in 2022: Exploring dbt with DuckDB
Data Engineering
14 Oct 2022 Current 22 - Session Analysis with DuckDB and Jupyter Notebook
DuckDB
02 Oct 2022 Data Engineering in 2022: Architectures & Terminology
Data Engineering
26 Sep 2022 Current 2022 - 5k Fun Run
Kafka Summit
16 Sep 2022 Data Engineering in 2022: Exploring LakeFS with Jupyter and PySpark
Data Engineering
14 Sep 2022 Data Engineering: Resources
Data Engineering
14 Sep 2022 Data Engineering in 2022: Storage and Access
Data Engineering
14 Sep 2022 Stretching my Legs in the Data Engineering Ecosystem in 2022
Data Engineering
12 Sep 2022 Customising the fields shown in Airtable’s Calendar .ics export
Airtable
31 Aug 2022 Inside the Sausage Factory: How we Built the Program for Current 2022
DevRel
31 Aug 2022 ⚡️ Writing an abstract for a lightning talk ⚡️
DevRel
20 Jul 2022 How to Write a Good Tech Conference Abstract - Learn from the Mistakes of Others
DevRel
07 Apr 2022 Remote-First Developer Advocacy
DevRel
07 Apr 2022 Hanging up my Boarding Passes and Jetlag…for now
DevRel
06 Apr 2022 Using GitHub Actions to build automagic Hugo previews of draft articles
Hugo
05 Apr 2022 🏃🚶 The unofficial Kafka Summit London 2022 Run/Walk 🏃🚶
Kafka Summit

2021

29 Jul 2021 My Favourite Tools on the Mac (Setting up a new Mac)
Productivity
29 Jul 2021 Why I use Alfred App (and maybe you should too)
Productivity
01 Apr 2021 A bash script to deploy ksqlDB queries automagically
ksqlDB
26 Mar 2021 Loading CSV data into Confluent Cloud using the FilePulse connector
Confluent Cloud
24 Mar 2021 Connecting to managed ksqlDB in Confluent Cloud with REST and ksqlDB CLI
ksqlDB
19 Mar 2021 Using ksqlDB to process data ingested from ActiveMQ with Kafka Connect
ActiveMQ
12 Mar 2021 Kafka Connect JDBC Sink deep-dive: Working with Primary Keys
Kafka Connect
11 Mar 2021 Kafka Connect - SQLSyntaxErrorException: BLOB/TEXT column … used in key specification without a key length
Kafka Connect
04 Mar 2021 Quick profiling of data in Apache Kafka using kafkacat and visidata
Data
04 Mar 2021 Using Open Sea Map data in Kibana maps
Kibana
26 Feb 2021 Loading delimited data into Kafka - quick & dirty (but effective)
kcat (kafkacat)
17 Feb 2021 📼 ksqlDB HOWTO - A mini video series 📼
ksqlDB
02 Feb 2021 Performing a GROUP BY on data in bash
Data Engineering
13 Jan 2021 Running as root on Docker images that don’t use root
oracle
11 Jan 2021 Running a self-managed Kafka Connect worker for Confluent Cloud
Kafka Connect
06 Jan 2021 Creating topics with Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect
04 Jan 2021 Kafka Connect - Deep Dive into Single Message Transforms
Kafka Connect

2020

23 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 12: Community Transformations
Kafka Connect
22 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 11: Predicate and Filter
Kafka Connect
21 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 10: ReplaceField
Kafka Connect
20 Dec 2020 Scheduling Hugo Builds on GitHub pages with GitHub Actions
Blogging
18 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 9: Cast
Kafka Connect
17 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 8: TimestampConverter
Kafka Connect
16 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 7: TimestampRouter
Kafka Connect
15 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 6: InsertField II
Kafka Connect
14 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 5: MaskField
Kafka Connect
11 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 4: RegExRouter
Kafka Connect
10 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 3: Flatten
Kafka Connect
09 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 2: ValueToKey and ExtractField
Kafka Connect
08 Dec 2020 🎄 Twelve Days of SMT 🎄 - Day 1: InsertField (timestamp)
Kafka Connect
03 Dec 2020 Life as a Developer Advocate, nine months into a pandemic
DevRel
02 Dec 2020 My Workstation - 2020
DevRel
13 Nov 2020 Keynote - Why is Replace Fonts greyed out?
Keynote
03 Nov 2020 Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and Kafka Tombstone messages
Kafka
03 Nov 2020 Streaming Geopoint data from Kafka to Elasticsearch
Kafka Connect
07 Oct 2020 ksqlDB - How to model a variable number of fields in a nested value (STRUCT)
ksqlDB
05 Oct 2020 Streaming XML messages from IBM MQ into Kafka into MongoDB
XML
01 Oct 2020 Ingesting XML data into Kafka - Option 3: Kafka Connect FilePulse connector
XML
01 Oct 2020 Ingesting XML data into Kafka - Option 2: Kafka Connect plus Single Message Transform
XML
01 Oct 2020 Ingesting XML data into Kafka - Option 1: The Dirty Hack
XML
01 Oct 2020 Ingesting XML data into Kafka - Introduction
XML
01 Oct 2020 abcde - Error trying to calculate disc ids without lead-out information
abcde
01 Oct 2020 IBM MQ on Docker - Channel was blocked
IBM MQ
30 Sep 2020 Setting key value when piping from jq to kafkacat
jq
25 Sep 2020 Some of my favourite public data sets
Datasets
23 Sep 2020 📌 🎁 A collection of Kafka-related talks 💝
Apache Kafka
18 Sep 2020 Using the Debezium MS SQL connector with ksqlDB embedded Kafka Connect
MS SQL
18 Sep 2020 Including content from external links with Asciidoc in Hugo
Hugo
11 Sep 2020 What is Kafka Connect?
Kafka Connect
08 Sep 2020 Counting the number of messages in a Kafka topic
kcat (kafkacat)
07 Sep 2020 Poking around the search engines in Google Chrome
sqlite
20 Aug 2020 🤖Building a Telegram bot with Apache Kafka, Go, and ksqlDB
Go
23 Jul 2020 Telegram bot - BOT_COMMAND_INVALID
Telegram
23 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E09 - Processing chunked responses before EOF is reached
Go
17 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E08 - Checking Kafka advertised.listeners with Go
Go
16 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E07 - Splitting Go code into separate source files and building a binary executable
Go
15 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E06 - Putting the Producer in a function and handling errors in a Go routine
Go
15 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E05 - Kafka Go AdminClient
Go
14 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E04 - Kafka Go Consumer (Function-based)
Go
14 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E03 - Kafka Go Consumer (Channel-based)
Go
10 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E02 - Adding error handling to the Producer
Go
08 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E01 - My First Kafka Go Producer
Go
08 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S02E00 - Kafka and Go
Go
03 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E10 - Concurrency (Web Crawler)
Go
03 Jul 2020 Why JSON isn’t the same as JSON Schema in Kafka Connect converters and ksqlDB (Viewing Kafka messages bytes as hex)
kcat (kafkacat)
02 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E09 - Concurrency (Channels, Goroutines)
Go
02 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E08 - Images
Go
01 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E07 - Readers
Go
01 Jul 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E06 - Errors
Go
30 Jun 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E05 - Interfaces
Go
29 Jun 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E04 - Function Closures
Go
29 Jun 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E03 - Maps
Go
25 Jun 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E02 - Slices
Go
25 Jun 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E01 - Pointers
Go
25 Jun 2020 Learning Golang (some rough notes) - S01E00
Go
19 Jun 2020 How to install connector plugins in Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect
17 Jun 2020 Loading CSV data into Kafka
Kafka Connect
05 Jun 2020 How to list and create Kafka topics using the REST Proxy API
Kafka REST Proxy
26 May 2020 Working with JSON nested arrays in ksqlDB - example
ksqlDB
18 May 2020 Searching Alfred’s Clipboard history programatically
Alfred
18 May 2020 Building a Telegram bot with Apache Kafka and ksqlDB
ksqlDB
04 May 2020 Add Markers list from Screenflow to Youtube Table of Contents
Youtube
20 Apr 2020 Using Confluent Cloud when there is no Cloud (or internet)
Confluent Cloud
20 Apr 2020 How to install kafkacat on Fedora
kcat (kafkacat)
16 Apr 2020 Converting from AsciiDoc to Google Docs and MS Word
pandoc
16 Apr 2020 A quick and dirty way to monitor data arriving on Kafka
Kafka
13 Mar 2020 Are Tech Conferences Dead?
DevRel
11 Mar 2020 Streaming Wi-Fi trace data from Raspberry Pi to Apache Kafka with Confluent Cloud
Raspberry pi
25 Feb 2020 Kafka Connect JDBC Sink - setting the key field name
Kafka Connect
13 Feb 2020 Adventures in the Cloud, Part 94: ECS
Docker Compose
07 Feb 2020 Primitive Keys in ksqlDB
ksqlDB
24 Jan 2020 Fantastical / Mac Calendar not showing Google Shared Calendar
Fantastical
23 Jan 2020 Notes on getting data into InfluxDB from Kafka with Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect
22 Jan 2020 Kafka Connect and Schemas
Kafka Connect
21 Jan 2020 Monitoring Sonos with ksqlDB, InfluxDB, and Grafana
ksqlDB
21 Jan 2020 UnsupportedClassVersionError: <x> has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime
maven
16 Jan 2020 Changing the Logging Level for Kafka Connect Dynamically
Kafka Connect
16 Jan 2020 How to win [or at least not suck] at the conference abstract submission game
DevRel
09 Jan 2020 Exploring ksqlDB window start time
ksqlDB
08 Jan 2020 Streaming messages from RabbitMQ into Kafka with Kafka Connect
RabbitMQ

2019

20 Dec 2019 Analysing network behaviour with ksqlDB and MongoDB
Kafka
18 Dec 2019 Detecting and Analysing SSH Attacks with ksqlDB
Kafka
17 Dec 2019 Copy MongoDB collections from remote to local instance
unifi
29 Nov 2019 Kafka Connect - Request timed out
Kafka Connect
29 Nov 2019 Using tcpdump With Docker
Docker
22 Nov 2019 Common mistakes made when configuring multiple Kafka Connect workers
Kafka Connect
20 Nov 2019 Streaming data from SQL Server to Kafka to Snowflake ❄️ with Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect
12 Nov 2019 Running Dockerised Kafka Connect worker on GCP
Kafka Connect
23 Oct 2019 Debezium & MySQL v8 : Public Key Retrieval Is Not Allowed
Debezium
16 Oct 2019 Using Kafka Connect and Debezium with Confluent Cloud
Kafka Connect
15 Oct 2019 Skipping bad records with the Kafka Connect JDBC sink connector
Kafka Connect
07 Oct 2019 Kafka Connect and Elasticsearch
Kafka Connect
29 Sep 2019 Copying data between Kafka clusters with Kafkacat
kcat (kafkacat)
23 Sep 2019 Kafka Summit GoldenGate bridge run/walk
Kafka Summit
19 Sep 2019 Staying sane on the road as a Developer Advocate
DevRel
02 Sep 2019 Where I’ll be on the road for the remainder of 2019
DevRel
15 Aug 2019 Reset Kafka Connect Source Connector Offsets
Kafka Connect
09 Aug 2019 Starting a Kafka Connect sink connector at the end of a topic
Kafka Connect
09 Aug 2019 Resetting a Consumer Group in Kafka
Kafka Connect
07 Aug 2019 Migrating Alfred Clipboard to New Laptop
alfred
11 Jul 2019 So how DO you make those cool diagrams? July 2019 update
03 Jul 2019 Taking the Vienna-Munich sleeper train
DevRelLife
23 Jun 2019 Manually delete a connector from Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect
06 Jun 2019 Automatically restarting failed Kafka Connect tasks
Kafka Connect
24 May 2019 Putting Kafka Connect passwords in a separate file / externalising secrets
Kafka Connect
22 May 2019 Deleting a Connector in Kafka Connect without the REST API
Kafka Connect
09 May 2019 A poor man’s KSQL EXPLODE/UNNEST technique
ksqlDB
08 May 2019 When a Kafka Connect converter is not a converter
Kafka Connect
02 May 2019 Reading Kafka Connect Offsets via the REST Proxy
Kafka Connect
17 Apr 2019 Pivoting Aggregates in Ksql
ksqlDB
12 Apr 2019 Connecting KSQL to a Secured Schema Registry
ksqlDB
28 Mar 2019 Exploring KSQL Stream-Stream Joins
ksqlDB
25 Mar 2019 Terminate All KSQL Queries
ksqlDB
19 Mar 2019 Quick Thoughts on Not Making a Crap Slide Deck
presenting
08 Mar 2019 Using httpie with the Kafka REST Proxy
httpie
01 Mar 2019 Preparing a New Talk
presenting
09 Feb 2019 Travelling for Work, with Kids at Home
personal
29 Jan 2019 Kafka Connect Change Log Level and Write Log to File
Kafka Connect
21 Jan 2019 Replacing UTF8 non-breaking-space with bash/sed on the Mac
bash
21 Jan 2019 How KSQL handles case
ksqlDB
17 Jan 2019 KSQL REST API cheatsheet
ksqlDB
17 Jan 2019 Confluent Schema Registry REST API cheatsheet
rest
09 Jan 2019 What to Do When Docker on the Mac Runs Out of Space
docker

2018

19 Dec 2018 Quick Thoughts on Not Writing a Crap Abstract
DevRel
17 Dec 2018 Moving from Ghost to Hugo
blogging
17 Dec 2018 Pull new version of multiple Docker images
docker
15 Dec 2018 Docker Tips and Tricks with Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and Kafka
docker
12 Dec 2018 Streaming data from Oracle into Kafka
oracle
11 Dec 2018 Tools I Use: iPad Pro
ipad pro
10 Dec 2018 So how DO you make those cool diagrams?
paper
08 Dec 2018 Get mtr working on the Mac
mtr
03 Dec 2018 Kafka Connect CLI tricks
kafka connect
20 Nov 2018 ERROR: Invalid interpolation format for “command” option in service…
docker
11 Oct 2018 Flatten CDC records in KSQL
cdc
19 Sep 2018 Exploring JMX with jmxterm
Apache Kafka
17 Sep 2018 Accessing Kafka Docker containers’ JMX from host
jmx
04 Sep 2018 Sending multiline messages to Kafka
kcat (kafkacat)
03 Sep 2018 Window Timestamps in KSQL / Integration with Elasticsearch
ksql
21 Aug 2018 Where I’m speaking in the rest of 2018
speaking
02 Aug 2018 Kafka Listeners - Explained
apache kafka
20 Jun 2018 Syntax highlighting code for presentation slides
pygments
17 Jun 2018 Analysing Network Data with Apache Kafka, KSQL, and Elasticsearch
elasticsearch
07 Jun 2018 Compare and apply a diff / patch recursively
diff
21 May 2018 Kafka Connect and Oracle data types
kafka connect
17 May 2018 Stream-Table Joins in KSQL: Stream events must be timestamped after the Table messages
ksql
10 May 2018 Quick ’n Easy Population of Realistic Test Data into Kafka
Apache Kafka
09 May 2018 Blogging v2
blogging
27 Mar 2018 Streaming Data from MongoDB into Kafka with Kafka Connect and Debezium
mongodb
27 Mar 2018 Cloning Ubiquiti’s MongoDB instance to a separate server
mongodb
24 Mar 2018 Streaming Data from MySQL into Kafka with Kafka Connect and Debezium
debezium
06 Mar 2018 KSQL: Topic … does not conform to the requirements
06 Mar 2018 Streaming data from Kafka into Elasticsearch
kafka connect
06 Mar 2018 Installing the Python Kafka library from Confluent - troubleshooting some silly errors…
Apache Kafka
06 Mar 2018 Why Do We Need Streaming ETL?
streaming
01 Feb 2018 HOWTO: Oracle GoldenGate + Apache Kafka + Schema Registry + Swingbench
apache kafka
03 Jan 2018 Kafka - AdminClient - Connection to node -1 could not be established. Broker may not be available
Apache Kafka

2017

21 Nov 2017 Installing Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data 12.3.1 with Kafka Connect and Confluent Platform
goldengate
29 Sep 2017 Where will I be at OpenWorld / Oak Table World?
oracle
20 Sep 2017 Apache Kafka™ talks at Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, and Oak Table World 2017
Apache Kafka
12 Sep 2017 Oracle GoldenGate / Kafka Connect Handler troubleshooting
goldengate
12 Sep 2017 What is Markdown, and Why is it Awesome?
markdown
11 Sep 2017 Conferences & Meetups at which I’ll be speaking - 2017
conferences
06 Sep 2017 Kafka Connect - JsonDeserializer with schemas.enable requires “schema” and “payload” fields
kafka connect
08 Aug 2017 Simple export/import of Data Sources in Grafana
curl
21 Jun 2017 Linux - USB disk connection problems - uas: probe failed with error -12
lsblk
12 Jun 2017 Configuring Kafka Connect to log REST HTTP messages to a separate file
Apache Kafka
12 May 2017 kafka.common.KafkaException: No key found on line 1
Apache Kafka
11 Mar 2017 Keeping Up with the Deluge
reading
11 Mar 2017 Install qemu on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux
qemu
11 Mar 2017 Mount VMDK/OVF/OVA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2
vmdk
11 Mar 2017 Little Technology Wins
headphones
10 Mar 2017 Time For a Change
career
10 Mar 2017 Property Graph in Oracle 12.2
Docker
25 Jan 2017 Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2017
Apache Kafka
20 Jan 2017 HBase crash after resuming suspended VM
hbase
18 Jan 2017 Kibana Timelion - Anomaly Detection
kibana
16 Jan 2017 Streaming / Unbounded Data - Resources
13 Jan 2017 Data Processing and Enrichment in Spark Streaming with Python and Kafka
Apache Kafka
12 Jan 2017 Getting Started with Spark Streaming, Python, and Kafka
Apache Kafka

2016

20 Dec 2016 ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 4 - Analysing the Data
Apache Spark
20 Dec 2016 ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 5 - Summary
Apache Kafka
19 Dec 2016 ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 3 - Running pySpark on EMR
Apache Spark
16 Dec 2016 ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 2 - Code development with Notebooks and Docker
Apache Spark
15 Dec 2016 ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 1 - Introduction
Apache Spark
14 Dec 2016 Source Control and Automated Code Deployment Options for OBIEE
OBIEE
12 Dec 2016 Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE - Now Available as Open Source!
OBIEE
08 Dec 2016 The Rittman Mead Open Source Project
OBIEE
02 Dec 2016 kafka-avro-console-producer - Error registering Avro schema / io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.client.rest.exceptions.RestClientException
Apache Kafka
29 Nov 2016 Oracle GoldenGate -> Kafka Connect - “Failed to serialize Avro data”
ogg
24 Nov 2016 Kafka Connect - java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError
Apache Kafka
01 Nov 2016 Connecting Oracle Data Visualization Desktop to Google Analytics and Google Drive
Data Visualisation
01 Nov 2016 Using SQL to Query JSON Files with Apache Drill
Apache Drill
19 Oct 2016 OBIEE, Big Data Discovery, and ODI security updates - October 2016
OBIEE
14 Oct 2016 boto / S3 errors
boto
12 Oct 2016 Streaming data from Oracle using Oracle GoldenGate and Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect
11 Oct 2016 OTN Appreciation Day : OBIEE’s BI Server
OBIEE
08 Oct 2016 POUG
OBIEE
03 Oct 2016 All You Ever Wanted to Know About OBIEE Performance…but were too afraid to ask
OBIEE
06 Sep 2016 Using logdump to Troubleshoot the Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data Kafka Handler
Kafka Connect
23 Aug 2016 How To Poke Around OBIEE on Linux with strace (Working with Unsupported ODBC Sources in OBIEE 12c)
Apache Drill
11 Aug 2016 An Introduction to Apache Drill
Apache Kafka
11 Aug 2016 Using Apache Drill with OBIEE 12c
Apache Drill
29 Jul 2016 OGG-15051 oracle.goldengate.util.GGException: Class not found: “kafkahandler”
Apache Kafka
28 Jul 2016 OGG - Class not found: “com.company.kafka.CustomProducerRecord”
ogg
27 Jul 2016 Kafka Connect JDBC - Oracle - Number of groups must be positive
Apache Kafka
26 Jul 2016 Stream Analytics and Processing with Kafka and Oracle Stream Analytics
Apache Kafka
25 Jul 2016 An Introduction to Oracle Stream Analytics
Apache Kafka
19 Jul 2016 Kafka Connect - HDFS with Hive Integration - SchemaProjectorException - Schema version required
Apache Kafka
18 Jul 2016 Configuring UPS/apcupsd
apcupsd
14 Jul 2016 Using R with Jupyter Notebooks and Oracle Big Data Discovery
ksqlDB
13 Jul 2016 Spark sqlContext.read.json - java.io.IOException: No input paths specified in job
spark
13 Jul 2016 Using SparkSQL and Pandas to Import Data into Hive and Big Data Discovery
ksqlDB
05 Jul 2016 Proxmox 4 Containers - ssh - ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
proxmox
05 Jul 2016 Reset Hue password
hue
20 Jun 2016 Apache Drill - conflicting jar problem - “No current connection”
apache drill
15 Jun 2016 ClassNotFoundException with MongoDB-Hadoop in Hive
mogodb
15 Jun 2016 Erroneous SwapFree on LXC causes problems with CDH install
lxc
15 Jun 2016 Using Jupyter Notebooks with Big Data Discovery 1.2
Apache Spark
13 Jun 2016 Running Big Data Discovery Shell and Jupyter Notebook on Big Data Lite VM 4.5
Apache Spark
08 Jun 2016 Reviving a bricked EdgeRouter Lite (ERL) from a Mac
edgemax
07 Jun 2016 Running a Docker Container on Proxmox for BitTorrent Sync
docker
07 Jun 2016 Importing VMWare and VirtualBox VMs to Proxmox
proxmox
07 Jun 2016 Commissioning my Proxmox Server - OS and filesystems
proxmox
07 Jun 2016 A New Arrival
proxmox
06 Jun 2016 New version of BigDataLite VM from Oracle
oracle
01 Jun 2016 OBIEE 12c blog posts
obiee12c
01 Jun 2016 Presentation Services Logsources in OBIEE 12c
sawserver
01 Jun 2016 OBIEE 12c – Extended Subject Areas (XSA) and the Data Set Service
OBIEE
31 May 2016 Changes in BI Server Cache Behaviour in OBIEE 12c : OBIS_REFRESH_CACHE
OBIEE
28 May 2016 Lifting the Lid on OBIEE 12c Web Services - Part 2
OBIEE
27 May 2016 Dynamic Naming of OBIEE 12c Service Instance Exports
OBIEE
27 May 2016 OBIEE 12c - “Add Data Source” in Answers
OBIEE
24 May 2016 York Fry Ups
fullenglish
24 May 2016 Lifting the Lid on OBIEE 12c Web Services - Part 1
OBIEE
23 May 2016 Kibana Timelion - Series Calculations - Difference from One Week Ago
timelion
20 May 2016 OBIEE 12c hangs at startup - Starting AdminServer …
OBIEE
19 May 2016 oracle.bi.bar.exceptions.UnSupportedBarException: The Bar file provided as input is not supported in this BI Platfrom release.
OBIEE
18 May 2016 OBIEE Baseline Validation Tool - Parameter ‘directory’ is not a directory
OBIEE
18 May 2016 Under the Covers of OBIEE 12c Configuration with sysdig
OBIEE
13 May 2016 Monitoring Logstash Ingest Rates with Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Timelion
logstash
12 May 2016 Monitoring Logstash Ingest Rates with InfluxDB and Grafana
influxdb
05 May 2016 Collection of Articles on How to Write a Good Conference Abstract
conferences
29 Apr 2016 Experiments with Elastic’s Graph Tool
Apache Kafka
24 Apr 2016 Using R to Denormalise Data for Analysis in Kibana
R
18 Apr 2016 OBIEE security patches, and FINAL 11.1.1.7 patchset release
OBIEE
14 Apr 2016 Streaming Data through Oracle GoldenGate to Elasticsearch
elasticsearch
12 Apr 2016 Decoupling the Data Pipeline with Kafka - A (Very) Simple Real Life Example
apache kafka
11 Apr 2016 Food Pr0n 02 - Devon & Dorset
lardy cake
30 Mar 2016 New OTN Article - OBIEE Performance Analytics: Analysing the Impact of Suboptimal Design
OBIEE
29 Mar 2016 Experiments with Kibana Timelion
kibana
28 Mar 2016 Connecting to OBIEE via JDBC - with jisql
OBIEE
24 Mar 2016 My latest IRC client : Kibana
logstash
19 Mar 2016 Food Pr0n - 01
food
18 Mar 2016 OBIEE 11.1.1.9 installation - JPS-06514: Opening of file based keystore failed
OBIEE
16 Mar 2016 Fun and Games with Oracle GoldenGate, Kafka, and Logstash on BigDataLite 4.4
logstash
09 Mar 2016 Presentation Slides… bye-bye Slideshare, hello Speakerdeck
03 Mar 2016 obihackers IRC channel
27 Feb 2016 Streaming data to InfluxDB from any bash command
influxdb
26 Feb 2016 What makes a good Full English?
food
26 Feb 2016 Visualising OBIEE DMS Metrics over the years
OBIEE
26 Feb 2016 OBIEE Performance - Why Metrics Matter (and…Announcing obi-metrics-agent v2!)
Monitoring
11 Feb 2016 OBIEE 12c - Repository Password Corruption Issue
OBIEE

2015

21 Dec 2015 Using Linux Control Groups to Constrain Process Memory
OBIEE
10 Dec 2015 Driving OBIEE User Engagement with Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE
OBIEE
28 Oct 2015 Forays into Kafka - Enabling Flexible Data Pipelines
Apache Kafka
21 Oct 2015 Introducing the Rittman Mead OBIEE Performance Analytics Service
OBIEE
13 Oct 2015 Forays into Kafka - Logstash transport / centralisation
Apache Kafka
25 Sep 2015 Using the BI Server Metadata Web Service for Automated RPD Modifications
OBIEE
24 Sep 2015 Managing the OBIEE BI Server Cache from ODI 12c
OBIEE
23 Sep 2015 OBIEE BI Server Cache Management Strategies
OBIEE
15 Jul 2015 Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3
OBIEE
14 May 2015 What’s New in OBIEE 11.1.1.9 for Systems Administrators and Developers
OBIEE
25 Apr 2015 Using the ELK Stack to Analyse Donor’s Choose Data
Elasticsearch
24 Apr 2015 BI Forum 2015 Preview – OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack
Elasticsearch
02 Apr 2015 Analysing ODI performance with Flame Graphs
ODI
27 Mar 2015 Lifting the Lid on OBIEE Internals with Linux Diagnostics Tools
OBIEE
24 Mar 2015 OBIEE nqcmd Tidbits
OBIEE
23 Mar 2015 Instrumenting OBIEE Database Connections For Improved Performance Diagnostics
OBIEE
12 Mar 2015 An Introduction to Analysing ODI Runtime Data Through Elasticsearch and Kibana 4
Elasticsearch
08 Feb 2015 OBIEE Monitoring and Diagnostics with InfluxDB and Grafana
Elasticsearch
14 Jan 2015 Concurrent RPD Development in OBIEE
OBIEE

2014

15 Dec 2014 Linux cluster sysadmin – OS metric monitoring with colmux
Linux
09 Dec 2014 Linux cluster sysadmin – Parallel command execution with PDSH
Linux
09 Dec 2014 Linux cluster sysadmin – SSH keys
OBIEE
13 Nov 2014 OBIEE SampleApp v406 Amazon EC2 AMI - available for public use
OBIEE
10 Nov 2014 Auditing OBIEE Presentation Catalog Activity with Custom Log Filters
OBIEE
04 Nov 2014 Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop - part 2 - Getting data into Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
04 Nov 2014 Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop - part 3 - Visualising the data in Kibana
Elasticsearch
03 Nov 2014 Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop - part 1 - Introduction
Elasticsearch
21 Oct 2014 Monitoring OBIEE with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
Elasticsearch
17 Oct 2014 Using rlwrap with Apache Hive beeline for improved readline functionality
Linux
08 Oct 2014 First-timer tips for Oracle Open World
OBIEE
10 Sep 2014 OBIEE SampleApp in The Cloud: Importing VirtualBox Machines to AWS EC2
Elasticsearch
17 Jun 2014 SampleApp v406 - Automatic startup of OBIEE
OBIEE
23 May 2014 Visual Regression Testing of OBIEE with PhantomCSS
OBIEE
14 May 2014 Mobile App Designer mis-configuration error
OBIEE
29 Apr 2014 Extended Visualisation of OBIEE Performance Data with Grafana
Monitoring
03 Apr 2014 BI Forum 2014 preview - No Silver Bullets : OBIEE Performance in the Real World
OBIEE
30 Mar 2014 Visualising OBIEE DMS metrics with Graphite
Monitoring
28 Mar 2014 Built-In OBIEE Load Testing with nqcmd
OBIEE
27 Mar 2014 Installing obi-metrics-agent, Graphite, and collectl
Monitoring
26 Mar 2014 Introducing obi-metrics-agent - an Open-Source OBIEE Metrics Collector
Monitoring
12 Feb 2014 Date formatting in OBIEE 11g - setting the default Locale for users
OBIEE
29 Jan 2014 Exploring OBIEE Web Services through Python
OBIEE
23 Jan 2014 Automated Regression Testing for OBIEE
OBIEE
17 Jan 2014 OBIEE Regression Testing - An Introduction
OBIEE

2013

20 Nov 2013 Make Use of OBIEE’s Command Line Tools with Reduced Exposure of Plain Text Passwords
OBIEE
08 Nov 2013 Monitoring OBIEE Performance for the End User with JMeter from EM12c
OBIEE
06 Nov 2013 Collecting Usage Tracking Data with Metric Extensions in EM12c
OBIEE
01 Nov 2013 Building alerts in EM12c with OBIEE Usage Tracking data
OBIEE
16 Oct 2013 OBIEE “Act As” (ActAs) vs “Impersonate”
OBIEE
03 Oct 2013 Tips and Tricks for the OBIEE linux sysadmin
OBIEE
23 Jul 2013 TimesTen and OBIEE port conflicts on Exalytics
OBIEE
15 Jul 2013 The Rittman Mead scripts github repository
OBIEE
08 Jul 2013 Learn OBIEE 11.1.1.7 from the experts!
OBIEE
04 Jul 2013 Patch OBIEE the quicker way - with OPatch napply
OBIEE
12 Jun 2013 Using OBIEE SampleApp 305 in VM Fusion
OBIEE
18 May 2013 Testing aggregate navigation on OBIEE and Exalytics
OBIEE
08 Apr 2013 Incremental refresh of Exalytics aggregates using native BI Server capabilities
OBIEE
03 Apr 2013 Upgrading OBIEE to 11.1.1.7
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part I - Introduction
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part II - Test - Define
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part III - Test - Design
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part IV - Test - Build
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part V - Execute and Measure
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part VI - Analysing results
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part VII - Optimising OBIEE performance (“Tuning”)
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - Summary and FAQ
OBIEE
10 Jan 2013 Incremental refresh of Exalytics Aggregates using TimesTen
OBIEE

2012

29 Sep 2012 Alternatives to the Summary Advisor for Refreshing Exalytics Aggregates
Oracle GoldenGate
14 Sep 2012 Advanced monitoring of OBIEE with Nagios
Monitoring
13 Sep 2012 An introduction to monitoring OBIEE with Nagios
Monitoring
12 Sep 2012 Automated Monitoring of OBIEE in the Enterprise - an overview
Monitoring
15 Aug 2012 OBIEE / AD integration - [OBI-SEC-00022] Identity found … but could not be authenticated
OBIEE
07 Aug 2012 Advanced Presentation Services settings for OBIEE testing & development
OBIEE
06 Aug 2012 OBIEE / FMW and networking on DHCP hosts
OBIEE
23 Jul 2012 Exalytics - TimesTen and OBIEE connectivity
OBIEE
11 Jul 2012 OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 - Logical SQL Diagnostic view
OBIEE
10 Jul 2012 Applying patches to OBIEE : 11.1.1.6.2 BP1
OBIEE
02 Jul 2012 Downloading OBIEE patches from Oracle with wget
OBIEE
11 Jun 2012 Running the RCU from the commandline
OBIEE
24 May 2012 OBIEE Administration Tool - Import Metadata shows no schemas
OBIEE
22 May 2012 OBIEE performance tuning myth : BI Server logging
OBIEE
22 May 2012 Public training schedule for 2012-H2 announced
OBIEE
11 May 2012 screen and OBIEE
OBIEE
20 Apr 2012 RittmanMead Webinar Series 2012
OBIEE
19 Mar 2012 New Training Courses and Seminars from Rittman Mead
OBIEE
23 Jan 2012 Configuring OBI 11g to use port 80
OBIEE
04 Jan 2012 Scripted OBI 11g Linux startup/shutdown
OBIEE

2011

20 Dec 2011 Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g
OBIEE
28 Nov 2011 Blogging
OBIEE
24 Nov 2011 Accessing BI Publisher 11g Web Services through a JDeveloper Web Service Proxy
OBIEE
24 Nov 2011 Calling BI Publisher 11g Web Services from BPEL
OBIEE
24 Nov 2011 Web Services in BI Publisher 11g
OBIEE
10 Oct 2011 Instrumenting OBIEE - the final chapter
dbms_application_info
05 Oct 2011 OBI 11g : UPGAST-00055: error reading the Oracle Universal Installer inventory
inventory
26 Sep 2011 Oracle - tnsping - Message 3513 not found; product=NETWORK; facility=TNS
windows
26 Sep 2011 Sourcecode markup tweaks in Wordpress
wordpress
16 Sep 2011 Friday miscellany
OBIEE
13 Sep 2011 DBMS_STATS - GATHER AUTO
dbms_stats
12 Sep 2011 Using preupgrade to upgrade Fedora 14 to Fedora 15 - proxy errors
fedora
08 Sep 2011 Labelling Time axes in Excel
excel
18 Aug 2011 A quotation to print out and stick on your wall
performance
15 Aug 2011 New blog from Oracle - OBI Product Assurance
bi
08 Aug 2011 Did you hear that thunk? That was me falling off my chair in shock
hp
08 Aug 2011 Have you defined CLIENT_ID in OBIEE yet?
OBIEE
08 Aug 2011 OBIEE 10.1.3.4.2 released
OBIEE
04 Aug 2011 ODI 10g connectivity problem with OCI
odi
04 Aug 2011 Security issue on OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1, 11.1.1.3
bug
13 Jul 2011 Undocumented nqcmd parameters
documentation
28 Jun 2011 Oracle 11g - How to force a sql_id to use a plan_hash_value using SQL Baselines
etl
15 Jun 2011 Global statistics high/low values when using DBMS_STATS.COPY_TABLE_STATS
copy_table_stats
26 May 2011 Data Warehousing and Statistics in Oracle 11g - Automatic Optimizer Statistics Collection
dbms_stats
19 May 2011 OBIEE performance - get your database sweating
bi
11 Apr 2011 Entertaining Exadata FUD from HP
dwh
07 Apr 2011 Oracle documentation - available on Kindle and iPad
documentation
04 Apr 2011 Oracle XE 11gR2 installation - “OracleXEService should not be installed already”
oracle
11 Mar 2011 Getting good quality I/O throughput data
awr
09 Mar 2011 Comparing methods for recording I/O - V$SYSSTAT vs HP Measureware
io
08 Mar 2011 OBIEE Systems Management - dodgy counter behaviour
bi
01 Mar 2011 Shiny new geek toys – rrdtool and screen
jmx
23 Feb 2011 Changing LDAP settings in an OBIEE RPD with UDML
hack
02 Feb 2011 Instrumenting OBIEE for tracing Oracle DB calls
log
08 Jan 2011 Materialised Views - PCT Partition Truncation
bug
05 Jan 2011 Oracle Whitepaper - “Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g”
dwh

2010

30 Dec 2010 Data Warehousing and Statistics in Oracle 11g - incremental global statistics
etl
06 Dec 2010 Adding OBIEE monitoring graphs into OAS
hack
06 Dec 2010 Charting OBIEE performance data with gnuplot
gnuplot
06 Dec 2010 Collecting OBIEE systems management data with jmx
jmx
06 Dec 2010 OBIEE monitoring
hack
03 Dec 2010 OBIEE 10g - javahost hang
javahost
02 Dec 2010 Troubleshooting OBIEE - LDAP (ADSI) authentication
OBIEE
04 Nov 2010 A Poor Man’s OBIEE EM/BI Management Pack
jmx
03 Nov 2010 Analysing ODI batch performance
etl
27 Oct 2010 Does this summarise your system development & support ethos?
support
27 Oct 2010 Two excellent OBI presentations from Jeff McQuigg
OBIEE
26 Oct 2010 Graphing I/O data using gnuplot and Oracle V$SYSSTAT
io
19 Oct 2010 awk - split a fixed width file into separate files named on content
OBIEE
18 Oct 2010 When is a bug not a bug? When it’s a “design decision”
informatica
23 Sep 2010 A good maxim to bear in mind when designing reports
bi
22 Sep 2010 Better safe than sorry…sanitising DB input
metalink
21 Sep 2010 TortoiseSVN doesn’t prompt for authentication
svn
14 Sep 2010 The danger of averages - Measuring I/O throughput
io
13 Sep 2010 RTFM? But where TF is the FM? » Offline searchable OBIEE 11g documentation
documentation
10 Sep 2010 A fair bite of the CPU pie? Monitoring & Testing Oracle Resource Manager
oracle
02 Sep 2010 Misbehaving Informatica kills Oracle
bug
25 Aug 2010 BI Publisher - error creating Quartz tables
bi-publisher
14 Jun 2010 Measuring real user response times for OBIEE
OBIEE
11 Jun 2010 Scripts to extract information from OBIEE NQQuery.log
hack
03 Jun 2010 OBIEE 11g launch date - 7th July 2010
OBIEE
24 May 2010 Performance Testing and OBIEE
biforum
23 May 2010 My first presentation - afterthoughts
biforum
21 May 2010 RittmanMead BI Forum 2010
OBIEE
17 May 2010 Validating EBS-BI authentication, without BI
obia
06 May 2010 What am I missing here??? ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
dac
24 Apr 2010 RTFAL!
ora-00845
22 Apr 2010 Opera + Oracle EM = true love
em
21 Apr 2010 My first presentation - help!
OBIEE
18 Mar 2010 OBIEE 11g tidbit - XUDML support
OBIEE
09 Mar 2010 ORA-13757: “SQL Tuning Set” “string” owned by user “string” is active.
oracle
05 Mar 2010 Securing OBIEE Systems Management JMX for remote access
jmx
05 Mar 2010 Who’s been at the cookie jar? EBS-BI authentication and Load Balancers
cluster
02 Mar 2010 OBIA 7.9.6 Performance Recommendations
obia
23 Feb 2010 Oracle Support Blog back online, kinda.
oracle
15 Feb 2010 Oracle Support blog no more
OBIEE
10 Feb 2010 Exadata V2 POC numbers
OBIEE
08 Feb 2010 Illustrating data
bi
29 Jan 2010 Brilliant performance articles by Cary Millsap
performance
26 Jan 2010 Identify your OBIEE users by setting Client ID in Oracle connection
OBIEE
22 Jan 2010 How to resolve “[nQSError: 12002] Socket communication error at call=: (Number=-1) Unknown”
config
21 Jan 2010 Hardening OAS
apache

2009

18 Dec 2009 libnnz10.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
OBIEE
14 Dec 2009 Running the OBIEE admin tool on Unix
OBIEE
11 Dec 2009 CAF
caf
09 Dec 2009 Troubleshooting Presentation Services / analytics connectivity
OBIEE
03 Dec 2009 UKOUG TEBS 2009
OBIEE
27 Nov 2009 I think this summarises everything.
obia
25 Nov 2009 OBIEE application servers, now and future
oas
25 Nov 2009 SoOotW and sweep
OBIEE
17 Nov 2009 Resolved: sawserver : Error loading security privilege /system/privs/catalog/ChangePermissionsPrivilege
config
12 Nov 2009 Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on Sun Systems
cluster
11 Nov 2009 #Fail: My Oracle Support
oracle
06 Nov 2009 OBIEE clustering - specifying multiple Presentation Services from Presentation Services Plug-in
load-balancing
03 Nov 2009 Advanced Googling for OBIEE information
google
03 Nov 2009 CAF installation video
caf
02 Nov 2009 Experts
timemanagement
30 Oct 2009 The state of OBIEE on the web
OBIEE
26 Oct 2009 The mind boggles…
silly
22 Oct 2009 Troubleshooting OBIEE and ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier
OBIEE
21 Oct 2009 Critical Patch Update - OBIEE vuln CVE-2009-1990
bug
21 Oct 2009 OTN forum - “Pro”
otn
19 Oct 2009 New OBIEE blogs
OBIEE
16 Oct 2009 BI Server hung - nQSError 14054 / 15001 / 23005
OBIEE
16 Oct 2009 Heads up - Critical Patch Update affecting OBIEE
bug
12 Oct 2009 New OBIEE benchmark - 50,000 users
OBIEE
12 Oct 2009 OBIA 7.9.6.1 released
informatica
06 Oct 2009 Usage Tracking - only half the story …
OBIEE
01 Oct 2009 OBIEE and HP Performance Center (a.k.a. LoadRunner) - Notes
loadrunner
01 Oct 2009 Performance testing OBIEE using HP Performance Center (a.k.a. LoadRunner)
loadrunner
25 Sep 2009 James Morle : Spotting the Red Flags (Part 1 of n)
oracle
25 Sep 2009 SQL Developer v2.1 Early Adopter released
oracle
23 Sep 2009 Changing password on Oracle 11g from 10g clients (ORA-28001 -> ORA-01017)
oracle
18 Sep 2009 Collated OBIEE benchmarks
OBIEE
17 Sep 2009 OBIEE benchmarks
OBIEE
15 Sep 2009 OBIEE cluster controller failover in action
cluster
10 Sep 2009 OBIEE on Opera 10 / IE 7 / FF 3.5 / Chrome 4
firefox
09 Sep 2009 Syntax for AdminTool.exe command line script
admintool
08 Sep 2009 AdminTool.exe /command
admintool
04 Sep 2009 Metalink 3 followup
metalink
04 Sep 2009 RSS feeds for OBIEE, including del.icio.us obiee tags
OBIEE
03 Sep 2009 CAF troubles
caf
02 Sep 2009 Metalink 3 RIP
OBIEE
25 Aug 2009 Multiple RPDs on one server - Part 1 - the BI Server
OBIEE
25 Aug 2009 Multiple RPDs on one server - Part 2 - Presentation Services
hack
24 Aug 2009 OBIEE error/message code reference
OBIEE
24 Aug 2009 Tech Support Cheat Sheet [xkcd.com]
silly
21 Aug 2009 OBIEE and Load Runner - part 2
loadrunner
21 Aug 2009 Querying SQL Server from OBIEE running on Unix
OBIEE
20 Aug 2009 Do you mean (pt II)
metalink
20 Aug 2009 Logging specific types of sawserver activity
config
19 Aug 2009 OBIEE and Load Runner - part 1
loadrunner
19 Aug 2009 sawserver log - short format
config
18 Aug 2009 OTN forums - different URL to get prompted to login less often
otn
14 Aug 2009 Unix script to report on OBIEE and OBIA processes state
apache
13 Aug 2009 OBIA upgrade 7.9.5 to 7.9.6 - first thoughts
bug
10 Aug 2009 Repository Error ([REP_51821] Failed to connect from Integration Service (pmserver) to repository Oracle_BI_DW_Base running in exclusive mode.)
obia
06 Aug 2009 Clean install of OAS - Enterprise Manager not available
oas
05 Aug 2009 Google vs Bing
google
04 Aug 2009 OBIA grumble
obia
30 Jul 2009 What is OBIA…
obia
29 Jul 2009 OBIEE performance monitoring and alerting with jManage
jmanage
28 Jul 2009 How to find out what web application server is in use
oas
28 Jul 2009 Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
timemanagement
27 Jul 2009 ORA-00922: missing or invalid option
ora-00922
24 Jul 2009 Metalink 3 - Do You Mean … ?
metalink
24 Jul 2009 OBIEE Windows PerfMon counters
hack
23 Jul 2009 Mark Rittman’s OBIEE repository for DAC
dac
23 Jul 2009 psservice - Windows command line goodness!
hack
23 Jul 2009 sawserver charts crash
bug
23 Jul 2009 sawserver logging configuration - logconfig.xml
config
22 Jul 2009 Oracle BI Management / Systems Management MBeans
jmx
21 Jul 2009 JConsole / JMX - followup
jmx
21 Jul 2009 OBIEE admin tools & hacks
hack
21 Jul 2009 OTN forum rant
oracle
16 Jul 2009 JConsole / JMX
jmx
28 May 2009 nqcmd and [nQSError: 27005] Unresolved column
OBIEE
18 May 2009 Custom HTTP error page in OBIEE / OAS
apache
28 Apr 2009 New releases
obia
15 Apr 2009 OBIEE and F5 BIG-IP
apache
02 Apr 2009 Google and Korean OTN forums
google
02 Apr 2009 OAS bug 7132128 - Send notification: oracle.ons.Notification
oas
02 Apr 2009 OAS makes you log in twice
apache
01 Apr 2009 sawserver won’t start up - resolved
OBIEE
01 Apr 2009 Troubleshooting an HPUX program
unix
30 Mar 2009 Bug in Clustered Publisher Scheduler - ClusterManager: detected 1 failed or restarted instances
bi-publisher
30 Mar 2009 sawserver won’t start (analytics: Servlet error java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (errno:239))
OBIEE
27 Mar 2009 ODI Server install - missing odiparams.sh file
odi
27 Mar 2009 Remove windows line feed characters in vi
unix
25 Mar 2009 ORA-12537 / ORA-12518 [Informatica DAC error CMN_1022]
dac
24 Mar 2009 Clustering Publisher - Scheduler and Report Repository
bi-publisher
24 Mar 2009 Firefox add-ins - ones I find useful
firefox
24 Mar 2009 Metalink Metalink Metalink
metalink
24 Mar 2009 Which jdbc driver to use
bi-publisher
23 Mar 2009 Finding config files in unix
bi-publisher
23 Mar 2009 OBIEE Publisher - configuring connection to clustered BI Server
bi-publisher