Thursday, January 26, 2023

LB and WAF protecting APEX running on OCI

OCI provides number of levels of access security enforcement points when processing HTTP requests coming from public internet. This article provides analysis how OCI technologies helps to protect APEX environment.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Java app environment monitoring tools

Monitoring the complex platform is nowadays not an easy task. Systems are getting more, and more complex, and having a complete view on them is very difficult. High end monitoring platforms creates impression of giving complete insight into the platform, but typically it's rather just a morphine for stressed tech and management people, who have deep feeling that in fact they do not control that silicon beast. Two diagrams.

Self learning object detection

Person detection may be performed using different means. Facial recognition is quite famous, however we may use several methods to detect people with different level of accuracy. 200 words.

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Timeout configuration in JEE/SOA/RDBMS technology stack

Setting proper timeouts in JEE/SOA/RDBMS technology stack is sometimes a magic. This digram helps a little.

XOpen DTP State Machine

XA STandard is well known in the industry, however it's difficult to find proper state machine diagram. It's here.

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Quick introduction to SCRUM

Scrum is a well known team management method focused on empowering people's commitment into the project. There is always big problem to switch work perception from involvement to commitment. Do you know what is the difference between "going to the office" and "working"? Take a look at chicken and pig story.


Load data to Coherence in bulk mode

Typical initial load of data into Coherence cluster is based on  series of individual put operations. Such technique requires massive number of network trips. This note shows how it may be performed faster, by enabling batching. 50 words, 2 diagrams.