Tom Fairbairn

Tom works in Solace's systems architecture team helping customers define their architectures to address challenges such as the increasing digitisation of business across a wide range of industries including retail, financial services and smart city initiatives. He joined Solace in 2013 as part of the Singapore Technical Support team, then moved to London in 2014.

If you own a smart phone or tablet, the chances are you already use Tom’s work, as prior to Solace Tom was an IC designer responsible for implementing the low-power hardware in the processors present in over 90% of these devices.

Publish and Protect – Event Driven Enterprise Blockchain

For ArchitectsJune 3, 2024

In this article introduce enterprise blockchain and how it can be integrated into enterprise IT landscape in a scalable, decoupled manner using event-driven techniques.

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Automating Broker Configuration Using the Solace PubSub+ Event Portal API

Event PortalApril 19, 2021
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Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Management: Why You Should Consider Event-Driven Architecture

For ArchitectsDecember 11, 2020
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Use Solace Messaging APIs for Advanced Event Mesh Features and the Best Performance

For DevelopersJuly 30, 2020
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How to Maximize Microservices by Combining Messaging, REST and Webhooks

DevOpsMarch 2, 2018

One of the real pleasures of my job is working with customers to understand their use cases, design decisions and architecture.  Recently I’ve been having a lot of conversations about...

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Blockchain-Based Ledgers are Reshaping the Financial Back-Office

Use CasesAugust 4, 2017

Today, many financial institutions hire 3rd-party settlement agencies (like CLS) to ensure the integrity of these transactions, trusting them to identify and rectify situations where things go sideways, whether innocently...

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Buffing Up Your Messages: Making Use Of 3rd-Party Data Serialization Systems

DevOpsSeptember 6, 2016

In previous blog posts I've introduced three ways of encoding message data: raw binary in the payload, some form of structured text such as JSON or structured data types. The...

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When Topics Aren’t Just Publish/Subscribe: Explaining Topics & Subscriptions in Solace

DevOpsNovember 17, 2015

In Solace, a Topic is a property of a message. It isn’t an artifact on the broker. It isn’t something that survives the publisher, even with guaranteed messaging. It’s just...

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