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Shawn McAllister

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Product Officer

Shawn McAllister is responsible for the strategy and delivery of Solace's event-driven integration and streaming platform: Solace 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 Solace 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.

Shawn McAllister

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

For ArchitectsJuly 18, 2019

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...

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Shawn McAllister

PubSub+ Cloud in Your VPC

CompanyMarch 27, 2019
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Shawn McAllister

Supporting Asynchronous, Event-Driven Interactions with an Event Mesh

For ArchitectsOctober 15, 2018

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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Shawn McAllister

The Age of the Advanced Event Broker

Products & TechnologySeptember 17, 2018

Everybody’s talking about events these days—event processing, event streams, event-driven architecture, event mesh, event…ually it’s got to ease up, right? I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you, because...

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Shawn McAllister

The Long and Winding Road…to Solace Cloud

Products & TechnologyDecember 5, 2017

Anybody who’s been following Solace for a while knows it really has been a long road to today’s announcement of our new messaging as a service platform called Solace Cloud....

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Shawn McAllister

Solace Pivotal Cloud Foundry Tile is now GA!

Products & TechnologyApril 12, 2017

Today our Solace Messaging for PCF Tile is generally available as part of Pivotal Network. Thanks to the PCF Tile format, Cloud Operators can follow the simple installation instructions and...

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Shawn McAllister

How to Achieve Hybrid Cloud with Cloud and On-Premises Integration [Updated 2020]

For ArchitectsApril 11, 2017

Everybody wants to take advantage of the cloud to save money, make their infrastructure more instantly scalable and make app teams more productive. To realize those benefits you need to...

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Shawn McAllister

Talking Cloud Data Movement with Pivotal

CompanyMarch 24, 2017

Solace CTO Shawn McAllister sat down for a talk with Pivotal's Jeff Kelly and Dormain Drewitz to discuss the challenges developers face when building data pipelines and message queues in...

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Shawn McAllister

Extending Standards Support by Embracing AMQP 1.0

Products & TechnologyOctober 13, 2016

Today we announced that we are hard at work building enterprise-grade support for the AMQP 1.0 protocol into our multi-protocol platform, and we expect to deliver a first version in...

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Shawn McAllister

A Message for All Messaging Developers

CompanyOctober 7, 2015
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Shawn McAllister

Is Big Data Recreating the Messaging Proliferation Problem?

Use CasesAugust 21, 2015
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Shawn McAllister

Could the “Messaging Proliferation” Problem Happen to You?

Use CasesAugust 6, 2015
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