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Cameron Purdy blogs about WebLogic under Oracle’s Aegis

rbpasker — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:57:12 +0000

I don’t often blockquote other people’s articles, but I couldn’t resist this time. Coherence March 2009 Update A week ago Oracle massively exceeded expectations, completely crushing the hopes of the doomsday crowd. Part of those...

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New blog domain, same great content!

rbpasker — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:54:59 +0000

Now that sonic.net has added self-service subdomains, you can now read this blog at: http://blog.pasker.net . i would have added theabstracttruth.pasker.net, as well, but WordPress wants $10 for each separate domain, and it didn’t seem worth...

You Might Need Messaging If…

rbpasker — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:31:42 +0000

I recently gave a presentation to the technical management and architects at a Very Large Web Property on messaging systems, AKA Message-Oriented Middleware, AKA Enterprise Services Bus, etc. This was not meant to be an introduction, because they...

T3Server, Tengah, BEA WLS, and now: Oracle WebLogic

rbpasker — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:33:57 +0000

According to this article, it looks like the B E and A have finally been purged from WebLogic. BEA did everything in its power to conceal the fact that none of its other revenue-generating products ever amounted to much of anything. With this...

Twitter versus The Stock Market

rbpasker — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:04:22 +0000

A friend sent me a link to a page with the Twitter Stats. Wow, 3.5 million tweets per week, not counting locked and direct tweets. That’s about 350 tweets PER MINUTE (rules of thumb: ~10K minutes in a week; ~PI*10^7 seconds in a year). Even if...

Solving The Twitter Problem(s)

rbpasker — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:29:25 +0000

The net is atwitter with solutions to the “Twitter Problem,” which is that Twitter keeps going down, and it is annoying the bloggers themselves, who use it as a broadcast platform. But there are really a bunch of different problems, many...

JIE: Solving the Robustness Problem

rbpasker — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:00:34 +0000

In his latest polemic, Herr Hildebrand interprets my robustness problems as a dichotomy between the Thread and the Process. (Just joking, Hal!) Like earlier authors, I will also refrain from providing precise definitions, except to bastardize...

JIE: Solving the Distributed Lock Management Problem

rbpasker — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:45:33 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about the pitfalls of trying to do Distributed Lock Management. Well, it turns out my friends at Terracotta have been hard at work on an awesome management tool to let users detect the problem in a console. Nice job! I wonder,...

Java Platform, Infrastructure Edition, part 2

rbpasker — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:00:35 +0000

Well, after getting a much deserved woodshed-ing from Hal Hildebrand for misunderstanding his post on what he’s been struggling with, I have been thinking and chatting with people about what a a “system programming” or...

A System Programming Language Variant of Java

rbpasker — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:26:57 +0000

A colleague recently detailed the trials and tribulations of a piece of infrastructure he is building in Java, and it seems that after beating his head against the wall, he won, but not without a few scars. The thing that I have always loved about...