You probably heard we have been moving into a faster release cadence with the new mountain ranges releases in this post and this one. For many Product Managers or Business Owners releasing faster could be the difference between success and failure. Being able to shorten the cycle between an idea and valuable user feedback enables new companies to understand better market needs and improve based on it. Releasing valuable software earlier is the sweet spot for Agile and Lean methodologies.

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Mule ESB 3.3.1 represents a significant amount of effort on the back of Mule ESB 3.3 and our happiness with the result is multiplied by the number of products that are part of this release. We are releasing new versions with multiple enhancements and bug fixes to all of the major stack components in our Enterprise Edition. This includes:

• Mule ESB
• Mule Enterprise Management Console
• Mule Studio
• Mule DevKit
• SAP Enterprise Connector

Over 270 issues fixed since Mule 3.3

We have been working really hard on creating the best user experience for integrating everywhere.

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A new Mule release has to come with another internal hackathon. Our development teams focused on using the new features we added in Mule 3.3 and we came to the conclusion “A hackathon is like a box of chocolate, you never know what your are gonna get”. In our case, we got some really cool applications, so cool that some of those can become real products in the future.

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This is a quick note to let you know that we have released Mule 3.2.1 Community and Enterprise.  This is a maintenance release focusing on reliability and performance. Highlights of the new release include:

• Improved performance for Mule’s out-of-the-box active-active High Availability Clusters.
• An enhanced Business Event Analyzer, adding improved readability and and usability to its view into business transactions and KPIs 
• Over 120 improvements and issues closed

For a full list of enhancements view the release notes.

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I’m pleased to announce the release of the latest and most stable version of Mule ESB for those still using our 2.2.x branch. This fix contains over 40 changes including bug fixes and some cool new features since 2.2.7 EE release. Some of the new features to highlight are

Support for class hierarchy on the exception patterns

Before you had to explicitly define all the exceptions (or pattern that would match them) in the exception-pattern to commit or rollback a transaction.

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The Mule team is proud to announce the availability of Mule 3.1.2. This is a follow-up release to Mule  3.1.1, which continues MuleSoft’s commitment to making Mule the industry’s most powerful, easy  to use, open source integration platform. This release contains over 60 fixes and improvements, and some great new features with help from the community.

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When MuleSoft opened the office in Buenos Aires, everybody from San Francisco was asking about the Java User Group here. We researched and found that there were a couple of initiatives to start it but died long time ago. We thought it would be great not only to sponsor one, but to create it and help Argentina to have it’s own Java User Group.

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Over the years, I’ve seen many different testing styles while doing software development. Each one has unique characteristics, and some developers can identify themselves with more than one probably. I would like to go over all the different styles and point the effect it has over the project.

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How much time do you invest in estimating your backlog? Do you really get any value from it? When was the last time you thought about the value it provides you? I can see estimation as a source of problems in many ways.

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On my previous post about Kanban, I presented the challenges we had in our Engineering team. They were:
1. Uncontrolled growth of Work In Progress.
2. Not Enough visibility.
3. Reduced quality.
4. Inability to properly estimate all tasks upfront.
5. Planned features and improvements are hard to manage and implement.

During the implementation of Kanban we focused on solving those problems.

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