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 ArchitectsAugust 28, 2020
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Topic Hierarchy and Topic Architecture Best Practices

For ArchitectsMarch 13, 2020
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Unpacking Google Anthos, “GKE everywhere,” and the service mesh/event mesh relationship

For DevelopersApril 26, 2019
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Integrating Amazon Cloud-native Services with Solace

For ArchitectsNovember 26, 2018
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Solace in Azure Quickstart

Products & TechnologyOctober 20, 2017

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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Replay Services in Enterprise Messaging

Products & TechnologyNovember 8, 2016

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 & TechnologyAugust 29, 2016

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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Technical Look at Using Solace as a Channel for Apache Flume

DevOpsMarch 14, 2016

In a previous blog I explained what the Solace channel for Apache Flume was and how it could be used to streamline data workflow from enterprise message bus to big...

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Solace as a Channel for Apache Flume

DevOpsDecember 9, 2015

If instead of trying to do data distribution with Flume channels, you use Flume Source for Data ingestion and Flume Sink to feed into HDFS and use Solace as the...

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Solace Achieves Cloudera Certification

Products & TechnologyNovember 19, 2015

The goal of this partnership is to let Solace customers seamlessly integrate Cloudera’s big data solutions into their enterprise message bus. Doing so lets companies analyze enterprise data in motion...

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