I recently put together an end-to-end demo showing step-by-step how to set up a Continuous Delivery pipeline to help automate your deployments and shorten your cycle times for getting code from dev...

Recently, in between waking up to help my wife with our ten-day old baby at wee hours of the day, I had a chance to be part of Markus Eisele's Developer Interview series. I chatted casually about m...

Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook by Scott Cranton and Jakub Korab is a large catalog of useful patterns, solutions, and best practices for developing and integrating applications with the popular ...

I just posted an entry on running HawtIO on JBoss Wildfly 8.1 recently. From that post you know how awesome HawtIO is, and all of the cool plugins it has to make managing your JVM based technologie...

HawtIO gives awesome eye candy to your JVM based middleware. It's a unifying console for applications that would otherwise have to build out their own crappy web console; and let's be honest, they'...

Apache Camel -- the best open source integration library Apache Camel is an awesome, open-source, integration library that can be used as the backbone of an ESB, or in stand alone applications to d...

I recently did a step-by-step demo on using Fabric8 or JBoss Fuse with an emphasis on DevOps. For those of you who aren't familiar with Fabric8, check out the overview I put together a few weeks ag...

I recently put together a quick Github project to show the Fabric8 HTTP gateway in action. It shows a sample project that you can use to test out the HTTP Gateway. The example/camel/cxf profile tha...

DevOps is all about automating your build and release environment, reducing human error/tasks, and building up a pipeline to support continuous delivery so you can get quick feedback about your IT ...

Fabric8 Fabric8 is a Apache 2.0 Licensed upstream community for the JBoss Fuse product from Red Hat. It's is an integration platform based on Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF,Karaf, HawtIO and others. I...

I've been meaning to blog about this for a while, but never got the time. Well I have a few seconds to point out that I've posted eight (8) step-by-step videos walking you through the details of an...

I just finished my talk at DevNation on Simplifying your integrations with Apache Camel. You can find the slides here: Simplify integrations-final-pdf from ceposta It went great, and if you'r...

Well, you probably know my thoughts on cloud, PaaS, iPaaS and the like. In short, there's a lot of hype around it, unscrupulous vendors, and some awesome magic involved. But there is some truth to ...

Ahh yes, this mythical utopian "cloud" where unicorns frolic, butterflies abound, and magical elves fetch me a beer three quarters of a way into my current one. I love that place. I just saw this w...

Interested in the JBoss Fuse technolgoies, or the new Fabric8 open-source community? Wanna meet James Strachan (Creator, HawtIO, Camel, [Groovy][groovy][/groovy]), Hiram Chirino (Creator ActiveMQ, ...

Apache Camel is the most popular open-source integration library. You can implement complex routing, orchestration, transformation, and mediation with this library. With hundreds of connectors/adap...

Every once in a while, I run into an interesting problem related to connections and pooling with ActiveMQ, and today I'd like to discuss something that is not always very clear and could potentiall...

Word on the street is that Camel tastes good. Well, I can't vouch for that (as I haven't tried it...), but what I can vouch for is that working with Apache Camel for integration projects is awesome...

I'm excited to be giving a webinar on Wednesday (December 18th, 2013) at 9am MST (so that translates to 8am PST, 11 EST, and 16:00 UTC). I've already heard that the signups for this event are off t...

It's Open Source! JBoss Fuse is an open-source ESB and is the evolution of Fuse ESB after the Red Hat acquisition of FuseSource. It's open-source, Apache v2 Licensed, and fully supported by Red Hat...