Free book on Knative covering Camel K and Kafka and upcoming webinar with live demos

I want to say my congratulations to two of my fellow red hatters, Burr Sutter & Kamesh Sampath whom have published a new book on Knative - Knative Cookbook.

Blog post announcement: book launch.

The book is around 150 pages and is a cookbook style, so it's a great learner book and with step by step instructions to try out first hand.

The book has a chapter on Apache Camel K which is fantastic. They show you how to get started with Camel K and then continue to add Knative into the mix and how Camel K easily adapts to Knative being present in the platform.

Kamesh will show all the greatness of Knative together with Kafka and Kamel, in his upcoming  webinar: 4K Kubernetes with Knative, Kafka, and Kamel scheduled at April 30th. So this is a great opportunity to hear first hand from the author, and see live demos, and just relax with a cup of coffee/tea or maybe even a cold beer. I surely will do that, maybe all 3 ... or skip the tea ;)

So I suggest to go download the free book, and register for the webinar.

How to quickly run 100 Camels with Apache Camel, Quarkus and GraalVM

Today I continue me practice on youtube and recorded a 10 minute video on creating a new Camel and Quarkus project that includes Rest and HTTP services with health checks and metrics out of the box.

Then comparing the memory usage of running the example in JVM mode vs native compiled with GraalVM. Then showing for the finale how to quickly run 100 instances of the example each on their own TCP port and how quick Camel are to startup and service the first requests faster than you can type and click.

For this demo I am using Java 11, Apache Camel 3.2.0, Quarkus 1.3.2 and GaalVM CE 20.0.0. You can find the source code for the example at camel-quarkus github with instructions how to try for yourself.

We are working on reducing the binary image size for Camel 3.3, by eliminating more classes that GraalVM includes that are not necessary. And we also have an experiment with an alternative lightweight CamelContext that are non dynamic at runtime which can improve this further. And then GraalVM and Quarkus will of course also keep innovative and make it smaller and faster.