Got a job!

I accepted an informal job offer today at the same pay as my previous job (which wasn't too shabby). I will be a performance engineer on a rather large project involving Red Hat RHEL 4.5, Orace and Java/WebLogic. Here is a really good opportunity to bone up on Java performance analysis along with WebLogic and Java. I'm not much of a Java dude so I will finally be getting up to speed.

I'm not to worried about the RHEL as I've been using various flavors of Unices (primarily FreeBSD) over the years. I won't get into the whole debate of genetic UNIX versus copied UNIX. Just not worth wasting my breath.

Another opportunity to learn Oracle performance tuning as well. I've done a lot with SQL Server over the years and I hope that some of it applies to the Oracle side of the house.

It looks like I'll be back to using Load Runner again. Looks like either Winsock/SOA or HTTP vusers. I've heard some bad things about the SOA Vusers with respect to generated script complexity and ease of correlation of data. All I know at this point is that the client is a swing UI running a Java application that will connect to the middle tier. Hopefully it is all done via SOA/WebServies. I have an interesting idea of utilizing WireShark and chaosreader.pl and some custom perl scripts for generationg clean vusers for the probject. We'll just have to wait and see how it goes.

Another interesting thing will be working out of the house full time. I have two previous coworkers that do this and they love it but I am a very social creature. We'll see how it goes. I will get a laptop and an aircard from my new employer so that means I will be able to work from any location so I should be able to get out of the house often and see friends for lunch, which has always been important to me.

So, my adventure continues, just not on the original vector. :-)