Skip the hampers and gift cards and give the developers on your team something useful this holiday season to transform their hard-earned skills into something creative. Raspberry Pi Way better than Fruitcake, Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer running Linux that can be used for all kinds of great ideas from running a web […]
We’ve all been there. Sooner or later, someone asks you to periodically synchronize information from one system into another. No shame to admit it, it happens in the best families. Such an integration should start with getting the objects that have been modified since the last sync (or all of them in the case of the […]
We are all very proud to announce that Mule’s December 2013 release shipped with a major leap forward feature that will massively change and simplify Mule’s user experience for both SaaS and On-Premise users. Yes, we are talking about the new Batch jobs. If you need to handle massive amounts of data, or you’re longing […]
Hot on the heels of the announcement of the RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) by the RAML working group, I am very happy to announce the general availability of APIkit. APIkit consists of a set of open source Maven and Mule Studio-based tools that enable developers to be massively productive in creating well-designed REST APIs. […]
Today I’m going to share some valuables lessons learned about developing highly concurrent software. These are real life lessons that come straight from the development of the Mule ESB. This is a story about deadlocks, context switches, CPU usage and profiling, focusing in how to diagnose this issues which is often the hardest part of […]
I was at the StrangeLoop conference last week and was surprised by the level of interest in dynamic and functional languages, in particular Clojure. It was one of the most talked about languages, along with JavaScript and Scala. The general consensus seemed to be that it is a very powerful language once you get your […]
Your API can be a key to your company’s success as it has been for companies like Twitter, Twilio and Box. Get it wrong and you lose out on a big opportunity. While at Google, Joshua Block presented in 2006 How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters in the context of one […]
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 […]
Nginx (pronounced ‘engine x’) is an HTTP and reverse proxy server. It is well known for its high performance and stability. It is pretty feature rich and very simple to configure. Nginx hosts nearly 12.18% (22.2M) of active sites across all domains. Nginx uses event-driven architecture to handle requests. When compared to a thread-per-request model, […]
There is a lot of talk about the lean startup and whether it works or not. Some proclaim it is critical to the success of any startup and that it is even the DNA of any modern startup. Others claim that it’s unproven, unscientific and gets your product to market in a haphazard way that […]