One of the things I get to do as an OTN community manager is work with members of the architect community who want to spend extra time pounding the keyboard and risking carpal tunnel syndrome to publish articles on OTN. These articles typically cover—but are not limited to—middleware technologies (the other OTN community managers cover other technologies and product areas).

Naturally, we track the popularity of these articles and use that information to help guide editorial decisions about the many article submissions we get. The list below represents the Top 10 most popular architect community articles for May 2014.

(This list reflects only articles published between June 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014.)

1. Cookbook: Installing and Configuring Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.7.1 [August 2013]
   by Mark Rittman and Kevin McGinley
2. Enterprise Service Bus [July 2013]
   by Jürgen Kress, Berthold Maier, Hajo Normann, Danilo Schmeidel, Guido Schmutz, Bernd Trops, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Torsten Winterberg
3. Back Up a Thousand Databases Using Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c [January 2014]
   by Porus Homi Havewala
4. Set Up and Manage Oracle Data Guard using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c [August 2013]
   by Porus Homi Havewala
5. SOA and Cloud Computing [April 2014]
   by Jürgen Kress, Berthold Maier, Hajo Normann, Danilo Schmeidel, Guido Schmutz, Bernd Trops, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Torsten Winterberg
6. Building a Responsive WebCenter Portal Application [April 2014]
   by JayJay Zheng
7. Using WebLogic 12c with Netbeans IDE
   by Markus Eisele
8. Making the Move from Oracle Warehouse Builder to Oracle Data Integrator 12c
   by Stewart Bryson
9. A Real-World Guide to Invoking OSB and EDN using C++ and Web Services [January 2014]
   by Sebastian Lik-Keung Ma
10. Why Would Anyone Want to be an Architect? [May 2014]
    by Bob Rhubart

If this list leaves you feeling inspired to write a technical article for OTN, or if you have questions about the process, drop me line in the comments section, below. I'll get back to you ASAP.