Upcoming Tech Event in Copenhagen - What does the system integration toolbox anno 2019 looks like

On October 24th 2019, I am presenting at a full day tech event in Copenhagen.

My session is the first of the day, with a total of 90 minutes covering all the latest about Apache Camel 3, Camel K, and Camel Quarkus. I will have up to date slides, and demos ready for the talk.

The event also hosts other speakers such as Jeppe Cramon whom will talk about EDA and microservices. And I have been told that we should look forward to Syed Shaaf's session where he has a big tech demo with many moving parts.

In the afternoon you can choose to listen to breakout sessions or attend a full 2,5 hours hands-on workshop. The breakout sessions will among others cover use-cases with Apache Camel and Apache Kafka from the real world.

You can find more details about the event, the location, and how to register here.

Hope to see you there.



Cloud-native integration with Apache Camel on Kubernetes

Cloud-native applications of the future will consist of hybrid workloads: stateful applications, batch jobs, microservices, and functions, wrapped as Linux containers and deployed via Kubernetes on any cloud.

In this session, we will explore key challenges with function interactions and coordination, addressing these problems using Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and modern approaches with the latest innovations from the Apache Camel community:

• Apache Camel 3
• Camel K
• Camel Quarkus

Apache Camel is the Swiss army knife of integration, and the most powerful integration framework. In this session you will hear about the latest features in the brand new 3rd generation.

Camel K, is a lightweight integration platform that enables Enterprise Integration Patterns to be used natively on any Kubernetes cluster. When used in combination with Knative, a framework that adds serverless building blocks to Kubernetes, and the subatomic execution environment of Quarkus, Camel K can mix serverless features such as auto-scaling, scaling to zero, and event-based communication with the outstanding integration capabilities of Apache Camel.

We will show how Camel K works. We'll also use examples to demonstrate how Camel K makes it easier to connect to cloud services or enterprise applications using some of the 300 components that Camel provides.

Upcoming Webinar - Integration Patterns in a Serverless World

Next Thursday, October 10th, I am giving a 35 minutes webinar about Serverless Integration (yeah it covers Apache Camel, Camel K, Knative and Quarkus).

The webinar is part of a full day event (virtual event) where there are keynotes and a parallel tracks with 12 breakout sessions. 

My talk is focused purely on the upstream work we do at Apache Camel with the next generation Camel 3.


The abstract for my talk 

Cloud-native applications of the future will consist of hybrid workloads: stateful applications, batch jobs, microservices, and functions, wrapped as Linux containers and deployed via Kubernetes on any cloud.

In this session, we'll explore the key challenges with function interactions and coordination, addressing these problems using classic integration patterns and modern approaches with the latest innovation from the Apache Camel community: Camel K, a lightweight integration platform that enables enterprise integration patterns to be used natively on any Kubernetes cluster.

When used in combination with Knative, a framework that adds serverless building blocks to Kubernetes, and the subatomic execution environment of Quarkus, Camel K can mix serverless features such as auto-scaling, scaling to zero, and event-based communication with the outstanding integration capabilities of Apache Camel.

We will show how Camel K works. We'll also use examples to demonstrate how Camel K makes it easier to connect cloud services or enterprise applications using some of the 250+ components that Camel provides.


Registration

The event is free to attend, and you can signup using this link.

Date: October 10th 2019
Time: 5 pm CEST (event starts with keynotes)

Apache Camel 3 is only 2 months away

The Camel team is busy working on the last set of work for Apache Camel 3. Today the 2nd release candidate was built and published on a staging repository for early adapters to give it a try.

As I am busy myself then I just wanted to write a short blog post to keep the community posted that Apache Camel 3 is on the way, and that we expect it to be released by end of this year (sometime in November or December).

The latest deadline is to release Camel 3.0 before December 19th 2019 as it was exactly on that day 1 year ago, we switched the master branch to become the work branch for Apache Camel 3. That means the total development time for Camel 3 would be 1 year.

Here is a illustration that highlights the timeline of Camel 3:

That is not all Apache Camel, is now a family of 3 projects (at this moment). So working on Camel 3 is not all we do. Camel K and Camel Quarkus are very promising for cloud-native integration (microservices and serverless).

These projects have their own lifecycle. Will will post more details about these projects, and what's new in Camel 3 in the following months leading up to the final release of Camel 3.  So stay tuned.

PS: If you are migrating Camel 2.x applications to Camel 3, then read the migration guide.