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The Information Exchange – A universal mechanism to finance and drive innovation in the free market
For the last few years I’ve been considering how to apply the fundamental ideas behind the IT solutions and financial instruments that have been created in FOREX, Securities and Futures exchanges and Payments Clearing and Settlement mechanisms to other sectors with the goal of achieving self financing innovation. The free exchange of ideas has been [...]
Building and deploying your WebLogic domain Part 2
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog December 30, 2006 12:36 AM I’ll start this entry by briefly recapping the two metrics I used to measure the performance of our old build process discussed in my last entry: Build time. If it takes you longer than a few minutes to build your domain, you should be asking why? Work time. [...]
Building and deploying your WebLogic Domain
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog November 1, 2006 1:37 AM Those of you who read my blog would be aware that around late November of last year I decided our existing build process had to go. You can read my original rant here. Well I am please to report that after much discussion we bit the bullet [...]
One size fits all GC
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog October 7, 2005 3:24 AM Before I get a flurry of comments about how the idea of having a single set of GC settings that is optimal for all Java applications is nonsense and farcical let me clarify what I mean by placing some limitations on this statement. Firstly I will narrow [...]
Ghost in the Korn Shell
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog April 12, 2006 5:27 AM Have you ever wondered how a running WebLogic domain would cope with having the domain root directory deleted? Well if you have been responsible for resilience testing or excessively use rm -rf you may have some idea of the problems you could face if you loose your [...]
IT Infrastructure Nomenclature: Environment Names
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog August 30, 2007 9:26 PM Building on my last entry on nomenclature I want to discuss the naming of environments. By an environment I mean all the infrastructure that belongs to a functional group of a project, for instance the User Acceptance Test environment or the Production environment. A typical enterprise stack [...]
IT Infrastructure Nomenclature: Machine names
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog August 11, 2007 1:34 AM I have worked in a lot places where little thought is given to the naming of infrastructure artefacts with predictable results. The benefits of an enterprise wide nomenclature for infrastructure artefacts are manifold and include: All artefacts are named in an consistent and identifiable fashion. Enhanced clarity [...]
WebLogic Server Debug Environment Variables
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog January 5, 2007 7:49 AM Here are all the WLS debug flags I have collected over the years from BEA and from grepping the internet. Simply add them to the wls java command using the -D option e.g.: -Dweblogic.debug.DebugMessaging=true
What, no WLST!
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog September 29, 2005 7:29 PM As a consultant working on-site with the client on a live issue what are the chances that they will have WLST installed on the live server and at your disposal.Well, I have yet to come across one client so far.Thats not to say WLST both online and [...]
What’s in the Build?
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog November 29, 2005 5:11 AM Our build process is a hot topic amongst the infrastructure team at the moment. In the 3 years or so since its creation it has been stretched to provide builds for WLS, Apache and other applications on five distinct environments encapsulating some twenty five WLS domains. We [...]
Apache Plug-In Woes
Hussein Badakhchani’s Blog August 10, 2005 8:05 AM I was recently on a client’s site assisting the testing team to load test and performance tune their application. The application had been delivered on a freshly built environment and due to the complexity and size of the system we had allocated some time for Smoke testing. [...]