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Shawn McAllister

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Product Officer

Shawn McAllister is responsible for the strategy and delivery of the Solace PubSub+ Event Streaming and Management Platform. He leads a team of incredibly talented engineers and architects in this endeavor Shawn has worked with many of our clients to help them adopt event-driven architecture and to learn first-hand their needs as input to the innovation built into the PubSub+ Platform. He has participated in the definition of various OASIS messaging protocol standards, including MQTT 3.1.1, MQTT 5.0, and AMQP1.0.

Before joining Solace, Shawn led software, hardware, and test engineering teams at Newbridge Networks (later Alcatel Canada), where he was responsible for developing features on ATM and Ethernet switches as well as the 7750 Multiservice IP Router. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, with majors in both Computer Science and Combinatorics/Optimization.

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Recap of our February 2024 Product Update

Products & Technology

This product updated covered: declarative configuration of PubSub+ Event Brokers with IaC, ability to configure brokers with PubSub+ Event Portal, and new connectors and connector management.

Recap of December ’22 Solace Product Update: Distributed Tracing and More!

Products & Technology

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What We Announced in our June ‘22 PubSub+ Product Update

For Architects

Unlocking the Potential of Event-Driven Microservices with a Unified Microservices Platform

For Architects

This new whitepaper explains why it is important to bridge the divide between synchronous and asynchronous interactions (both of which are valid and necessary!) in a system composed of many...

Progress on the Path to the “Horizon” of Event-Driven Architecture

Products & Technology

In June of 2019, Solace took aim at making it easier for enterprises to benefit from event-driven architecture with the announcement of a strategic initiative called Event Horizon – so...

What We Announced in our Winter Solace Product Update

For Architects

Why Your Microservices Strategy Needs Service Mesh and Event Mesh

For Architects

My colleague Heinz Schaffner has taken things to another level altogether with what I believe is the definitive explanation about service mesh and event mesh. Based on his experience working...

3 Steps to Becoming an Event-Driven Enterprise

Business

Over the last 20 years Solace has helped many of the world’s best businesses embrace event-driven architecture as part of their digital transformation initiatives – yes, since before either of...

How to Improve Your Airline’s Customer Experience and Bottom Line with an Event Mesh

Business

IT systems within an airline evolve at a varying pace and in silos. On one side you have digital boarding passes, and on the other loyalty points take 72 hours...

Aiming at the Horizon: How Solace is Enabling the Age of Events

For Architects

If you look at the world of API-led applications, you’ll find all kinds of platforms, tools and know how that help you build and run them – portals and platforms...

PubSub+ Cloud in Your VPC

Company

Supporting Asynchronous, Event-Driven Interactions with an Event Mesh

For Architects

Modern enterprises are embracing event-driven architecture as part of their digital transformation, and every event-driven enterprise will need a central nervous system to quickly, reliably and securely move events from...

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