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15 + years Solutions-oriented Integration Interface Specialist with notable success directing a broad range of corporate IT initiatives while participating in planning and implementation of Integrated solutions in direct support of business objectives. Specialties: Design/Development of MS and Oracle SQL Databases, HL7 Ancillary Solutions, and Intersystem Ensemble Solutions. Integrating it all together to create a more robust environment.

While working with Intersystems Ensemble and now IRIS, I have greatly expanded my knowledge of Ensemble and Cache Object Script by asking questions and watching the Developer Community. I tend to ask questions, then figure out the answers on my own or with a little help from others.

Before Intersystems Ensemble, I spent many years as an eGate developer. Specializing in DART, JDBC, and other out of the normal odds and ends.

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Columbus, Ohio
Member since Mar 2, 2016
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May 2023 we moved from AIX to RHEL, that was a sad day as we are finding a lot of quirks when it comes to our RHEL environment. We went from Physical Hardware to VM, and found that the VM environment wasn't as thought out like we wanted.

Our VM Hosts were not organized, and we have had 3 unexpected downtimes since because of resource contention.

May want to look at other Linux OS's outside of RHEL if you can, as the updates/patches aren't as dynamic as they were in our old environment meaning we didn't have to reboot too often. If we had the choice, we would of went with Ubuntu or SUSE as at least the updates/patches don't require reboots as often.

Now we get notified at the drop of a hat when there is a patch, that security needs us to reboot. You just can't take it down at a moment's notice.

Just thoughts, and pain points. Each environment is different and hopefully you don't run into as many issues as we have.

It all depends on your learning style.

For me I rather learn as I am building so it was trial by fire as we were migrating from SeeBeyond eGate to InterSystems Ensemble (2014.1) at the time by a certain deadline. I learned a lot on the fly by reading the Developer Community posts, reaching out as needed, and just playing around with the code as I was building it. I also had my company by Cache Objectscript and MUMPS, at least so I can search for a Reference when figuring out syntax. 

The Learning site as a lot of good and informational courses you can take as well.

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