Ken Barr

Ken Barr is a Senior Product Integration Architect working with the Solace CTO group. He's focused on exploring areas in which our customers would benefit from Solace innovation, then defining how these new technologies fit into Solace’s product lines.

Prior to joining Solace, Ken was a Technical Lead at Cisco Systems holding several roles in carrier core routing business units including QA team lead for initial implementations of IPv6 and bringing next generation IOS called IOS-XR to the core routing platforms. Preceding Cisco, Ken was a Communications Electronics Engineering Officer for the Royal Canadian Air Force responsible for operational management of the National Defence Headquarters Metropolitan Area Network.

Picking the Right Deployment Option for PubSub+ Event Broker

For Architects
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Why You Need to Look Beyond Kafka for Operational Use Cases, Part 4: Streaming with Dynamic Event Routing

For Architects
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Why You Need to Look Beyond Kafka for Operational Use Cases, Part 3: Securing the Eventing Platform 

For Architects

Securing Apache Kafka can be difficult, whereas Solace event brokers form a platform for integrating enterprise security services in a consistent way that lets you more easily and completely secure...

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Why You Need to Look Beyond Kafka for Operational Use Cases, Part 2: The Importance of Flexible Event Filtering

For Architects

Kafka lacks the flexible filtering it takes to let consumers define exactly what events they need. This means you either need to code up your applications to filter the proverbial...

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Why You Need to Look Beyond Kafka for Operational Use Cases, Part 1: The Need for Filtering and In-Order Delivery

For Architects
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Topic Hierarchy and Topic Architecture Best Practices

For Architects
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Unpacking Google Anthos, “GKE everywhere,” and the service mesh/event mesh relationship

For Developers
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Integrating Amazon Cloud-native Services with Solace

For Architects
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Solace in Azure Quickstart

Products & Technology

This Azure Quick Start allows you to select between “Single Node” or “High Availability” deployment models.  Both of these deployment models utilize the simple template driven Azure Resource Manager (ARM) interface...

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Solace Available via AWS Quick Start

DevOps

This week AWS announced the release of an AWS Quick Start for the Solace VMR. This AWS Quick Start is one of their “automated gold-standard deployments” which shows how to...

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Replay Services in Enterprise Messaging

Products & Technology

In this blog I will discuss the many use cases and requirements for replay in an enterprise and compare Apache Kafka’s capabilities to those of a purpose built enterprise replay...

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What’s New with the Neon Release of MQTT Paho

Products & Technology

In this blog I will look at the new auto-reconnect, high availability and publish offline features and show how they interop with Solace message broker to provide an end-to-end highly...

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