Oracle is selling more fusion cells
One of my colleagues is going to take an Enterprise Architect role in Deakin University in a few weeks. He is an expert of Tibco product. But Deakin is Oracle warehouse. From Oracle Weblogic servers to web applications developed by ADF which are running extremely fucking slow (no idea who the hell designed this piece of shit). And now Oracle Fusion. My colleague is going to design an integration solution for Deakin based on Fusion and messaging system. Obviously, SOA 2.0, event driven service oriented architecture.
We had a hot discussion about the performance issues found in previous projects, including the dear ESB centralised solution, why in memory database solution like Coherence is scaring. How to persistent message state in an efficient way. We concluded that all the failure of the performance are due to the design fault in the early stage of the project, which those "paper" architects good at talking (bullshitting?) but have tiny idea how to process large data in a highly scalable way, except everything should be Oracle's.
Then he asked me a few questions about Oracle BPEL. I told him BPEL is good at orchestration but not anything else. It's a terrible idea asking BPEL do a lot jobs.
This happened during lunch break.
This afternoon, I got a call from an employment agency which I submit my CV to them during 2008 GFC. They finally noticed my fusion "expertise" in CV and made a phone call four years later.
I was told The University of Melbourne is looking for integration developer. Of course, Oracle Fusion. It's two years fixed contract, pay $130K per year.
This is the salary I would kill myself for during my seven and half years working with Melbourne University. But think about pain and sleepless night as an Oracle product developer, the time wasted dealing on and kicking the balls with hopeless Oracle support, a quick response I made:
Thanks, but no thanks.
My collegue laughed out and turned off this romantic "marriage proposal". He told the agent to find an integration developer that could do all the design and code and test for the university.