Architecture, Development and Training
I will hack a WebLogic password live at DOAG 2012 conference 
… and explain 9 more things you should know about WLS12c. Mostly stuff out of my WebLogic Advanced Recipe book.
There will also be some chocolate and a book to win!
My WebLogic 12c talk on Tuesday.
Don’t miss my cloud talk! I will demonstrate live a couple of things you won’t be able to with the Oracle cloud Public Cloud talk on Wednesday. More chocolate and of course another book to win!
Amazon Web Services improved its Relational Database as a Service (RDS) for Oracle. It now supports APEX (finally, see the lengthy APEX discussion here), the OracleXMLDB and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
For more information:
This year I really kept the best until the end! Last week I was running a 2-day cloud computing workshop with a 2-hour hands-on management presentation the night before the workshop for Contribute in Belgium. Contribute is an Oracle Platinum partner and being surrounded by Oracle Fusion Middleware experts, DBAs, application architects and senior level management the technical level of the workshop was very high with many interesting discussions.
We covered Oracle Public Cloud (OPC), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rackspace (RS). OPC is not available yet, but the overall functionality including its limitations for the first release is more or less known and quite interesting compared to let’s say running WebLogic on AWS.
To prove the point I was running WebLogic 12c on AWS cloud with 30GB of heap on a high-mem 4xl instance with 8 cores. Proving the point cost me a bit more than US$2.
Typically I expected that the more tech savvy audience prefers AWS over Rackspace, yet this time people were impressed by the easy setup of Rackspace and the way they handled a minor problem with their web console file-upload feature during a live chat session.
Among hundreds of other details we looked at the I/O performance. The performance of Amazon’s EBS is known to be interesting (you may want to read this as ‘difficult’). See Adrian’s posting for a thorough explanation, some benchmarks here, and some more details there.
The out-of-the-box performance looking at Rackspace Cloud is more consistent and there is a surprisingly high throughput which is almost independent of the data size. Here is some data comparing a local laptop disk, to the disks attached to the Rackspace Cloud servers to my brand new consumer SSD (not sure if a 512 GB SSD still qualifies as ‘consumer’). All numbers refer to a READ-benchmark with increasing data size.
Laptop HD (500GB SATA): 80 MB/s
Laptop SSD (Crucial m4): 281 MB/s
Rackspace (SAN): 302 MB/s
I am only posting the screenshot for one of the Rackspace I/O measurements since quality isn’t perfect. There is some older data with graphs available in a previous post of mine.
Now I am still curious about the dip on the left part of the graph which is consistent over several instances and measurements. Any comments?
Last week I received the Oracle Technologist of the Year Award, Cloud Architect.
It makes me feel flattered and it’s of course a great honor for me being on this list of fame together with companies such as Dell, TurkCell and others! The award is part of Oracle’s Excellence Awards program. The winners were selected by a panel of judges that scored each entry across multiple categories.
I know there was a tremendous amount of support for the nomination of my Oracle Middleware and Cloud Computing book by my customers, workshop participants, individual book reviewers, Oracle user groups, middleware experts and even some people at Oracle HQ – many thanks to all of you!
Read the full story in the Oracle Magazine:
I am at S.F. at the Oracle Open World conference right now where Larry Ellison announced the Oracle Public Cloud in an entertaining and rather fun presentation just an hour ago. To see some more photos of the event and my paparazzi shot of Sting who already showed up for some 30 seconds: check out the Facebook site of my Oracle Cloud Computing book.
Larry picked up many ideas that I published earlier this year in my cloud computing book:
He was talking a lot about migrating from one cloud to another (mostly using AWS as an example, so they seem to be on the friend list). Also he emphasized that simple multi-tenant SaaS offers such as Salesforce.com with a shared DB are not real clouds and risky (because of the shared DB 
).
When Oracle’s position about clouds was rather fluffy (should I say cloudy?) even one year ago, I now hear them talking more about elasticity, self-service, chargeback etc.
What I didn’t like: So far this does not include pay-per use yet (one of my 4 criteria of cloud computing). Larry mentioned a monthly subscription during his keynote which was confirmed in the Thu morning keynote. Yet Oracle Enterprise Manger 12c is announced to provide metering at various levels.
I will post an update here as soon as there will be more details out tomorrow.
Apart from announcing the Oracle Public Cloud also Oracle Social Media (a part of Fusion Applications) was announced. See fotos on Facebook.
Looking forward to meet you all at DOAG2011. I’ll be giving a presentation as usual which was just accepted by the program committee. So don’t miss the lovely city, Nürnberger sausages, the Sauerkraut and of course my talk.
Thank you SOUG for mentioning my book and sending me a fabulous hamper for my statement why I enjoy being a member of the Swiss Oracle User group. I enjoy it even more now – cheers!
Here is the winning statement (German only): http://www.soug.ch/
I will offer a number of courses and workshops during the following weeks in right in the center of Munich. As usual all course dates and details will be announced on my mailing list. Right now it is the perfect time to subscribe to the mailing list if you haven’t done yet (there is approx. 1 announcement per quarter, of course you can unsubscribe any time).
The following courses are planned:
Feel free to contact me directly for other trainings or different locations (all courses are available word-wide),
have a great week!
Yes, it took me a while for this announcement. Books are surprisingly time consuming even after they are written. Yet the two copies of my book
are already on their way to the happy winners:
- T. K. from Xensio (DE)
- E. F. from Sunrise (CH)
Congratulations
And a Merry Christmas to all of you!
P.S. An official announcement of the book will follow. It’s available in the US and can be ordered in DE and UK.
PP.S. We are almost living in 2011. Marketing is changing. Show the world that you LIKE the book’s web site. Spread the word, invite your friends, tell your colleagues. There will be more stuff to be won… Cheers!
Come to my Weblogic and Cloud Computing talk from 15:00h – 15:45h
in room Kopenhagen.
- Win a copy of my Oracle Cloud Computing Book!
- Learn how to use a computer in the cloud for one year for free!
- Understand WebLogic showstoppers in public clouds and design tradeoffs for clustering, JMS, load balancing, CDNs and databases.
I forked out the equivalent value of a trip to the Carribean (starting from Europe, not from the U.S. !) to become an Oracle Gold partner.
What does it mean?
Hello and welcome to all of you,
Have a look around my redesigned web site. I can still remember when I set up my first personal web site in the pre-google era. Must have been around 1996. That site wasn’t changed then for many years (5) since there was no reason to do so (and not that much content). Anyway, since it was pre-google there are no traces left …
Now, of course, things are different. I am going to add more content during the following weeks (time permitting ).
So enjoy, do leave a comment and have a great evening!
Frank
Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Book
Oracle Middleware and Cloud Computing Book