Rob Williamson

Rob has over 20 years of experience with product management and marketing in the technology industry. His public activities include writing, presenting and blogging on subjects as varied as enterprise architecture, software development tools, cyber-security and DNS. An avid product marketer who takes the time to speak to IT professionals with the information and details they need for their jobs.

AI On, In and With Solace Platform

Artificial IntelligenceOctober 26, 2026

Solace Platform puts AI to work in three ways: agents built on it, assistance built into it, and agents that work with it directly. Here is what that means and...

Solace Cloud In Your Control: Mission Control, Event Portal, Insights, and more

Event-Driven IntegrationOctober 26, 2026

With the new Sovereign Home Cloud the full power of Solace Platform will be available for on premise self-management.

Solace Broker MCP Server: Get an AI Assist Managing Your Brokers

Event-Driven IntegrationOctober 26, 2026

The Solace Broker MCP Server (v1.0.0) connects any MCP-compatible client, to your Solace event brokers, so operators and developers can monitor, diagnose and manage them in plain language instead of...

Solace Schema Registry: Ushering in a New Era of Event-Driven Data Governance

Products & TechnologyAugust 26, 2025

Solace Schema Registry supports multiple schema formats—including Avro, JSON Schema, and Protobuf.

Introducing Solace Schema Registry (Beta)

For DevelopersMarch 14, 2025

Solace Schema Registry offers a single source of truth for all your schema definitions. This centralization simplifies the process of managing schemas across multiple applications.

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November 2024 Product Update; What you may have missed

For ArchitectsNovember 7, 2024

Our latest update covered enhancements we’re making to Solace Platform in the areas of AI, micro-integrations, AI, and self-service access, plus news about API management, a schema registry, and updates...

Managing Solace Solace Event Brokers using Infrastructure as Code

For ArchitectsJune 28, 2024

Solace's new Declarative SEMP lets you use Terraform to provision and support your event brokers using code instead of manual processes.

Navigating the Landscape of Security Standards when Managing an Event Mesh

For ArchitectsApril 12, 2024

In this blog post, I outline how application architects and middleware managers can ensure event mesh security by adhering to rigorous security standards.

Monitoring vs. Observability in Event-Driven Systems

For ArchitectsJune 13, 2023

Observability is the evolution of monitoring. By leveraging traces, teams managing event brokers and event meshes can make it easier for developers and DevOps teams to detect and debug problems....