About

Personal Details

Name: Frits J.M. Hoogland
Date of birth: June 7, 1972
Company: http://www.yugabyte.com
Email: frits.hoogland at gmail.com
Phone: +31 6 14180860

Summary

I am an IT professional with a specialisation in database performance and internals. Besides the oracle database, my knowledge and expertise areas are:

• physical infrastructure layer
  • operating systems (Linux, HPUX, Solaris, AIX, Tru64 and Windows)
  • storage (Netapp, EMC, Sun, HP, Equalogic)
  • Networking (TCP/IP, Firewalling, VPN, NAT, switching, routing, etc.)
• virtual infrastructure layer
  • VMWare
  • Xen
  • Oracle VM
• Databases
  • Oracle
  • Postgresql
  • MySQL
• LDAP
  • Oracle LDAP
  • Fedora directory server/389 server
• Webserver
  • Oracle HTTP Server
  • Apache HTTP Server
• Application server
  • Tomcat
  • JBoss
  • WebSphere
  • OC4J
  • Weblogic
• Webcache / reverse proxy
  • Oracle webcache
  • Squid

I have written and presented technical presentations in the Netherlands, UK, Denmark, Slovenia and the USA. I am also an active contributer to the Oracle community in general, especially the Oracle Forums. In August 2009 I received an Oracle ACE award from the Oracle Technology Network, and in August 2010 I have been accepted as Oracle ACE Director. (see details here). In August 2010 I was also invited to become a member of the OakTable Network, an informal grouping of some the most leading experts on Oracle technology.

I am the main technical reviewer of a couple of books:
– Expert Enterprise Manager: Pot’vin and others (Apress)
– Expert Consolidation with Oracle 12c: Bach (Apress)
– Practical Oracle Database Appliance: Curtis and others (Apress)
– Expert Oracle SQL: Hasler (Apress)
– Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Kyte (Apress)

I am the co-writer of the following book: Expert Exadata (Apress, second revision).

I am the co-author on an article in the Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics: Huvariome: a web server resource of whole genome next-generation sequencing allelic frequencies to aid in pathological candidate gene selection