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REST vs Messaging for Microservices – Which One is Best?

For ArchitectsJune 29, 2017

Today, with microservices, the IT community has embraced the approach where services own their domain-centric logic (“smart endpoints”) and only utilize the “dumb pipes” as a transport mechanism. Most communications...

Open for Business: APIs, Standards and Open Source

Products & TechnologyJune 28, 2017

Openness in technology is an element of interactions. It’s about allowing access to whatever information is needed to take appropriate action, without tying that access to a single technology or...

Recapping June 2017 London User Group

CompanyJune 27, 2017

On June 14th, over 60 Solace users and folks interested in Solace technology came together at the London Marriott Hotel at Canary Wharf to learn about the Solace roadmap and...

Open source is dead. Long live open source!

Products & TechnologyJune 22, 2017

I recently ran across an opinion piece with an attention grabbing headline: Did Amazon Just Kill Open Source? His points are correct, in some contexts, but they have little to...

Improving IoT Security with Access Control List Substitution Variables

Products & TechnologyJune 8, 2017

Client connection counts can be quite large in IoT applications, making it impractical to create a unique ACL profile for each client connecting to a Solace router. In the recent...

Webinar Recap: Solace: Messaging with Purpose on Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Products & TechnologyJune 2, 2017

On May 30, Solace Senior Architect Jonathan Schabowsky explained how messaging and microservices work with Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of a Brighttalk webinar. He provided a great introduction to...

PM Trudeau Launches Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge

Use CasesJune 2, 2017

Today at the Canadian Federation of Municipalities conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau soft-launched the much anticipated Smart City Challenge, an idea that has been circulating since the fall, with today’s...

Explaining Solace’s Seriously Speedy Software

Products & TechnologyMay 30, 2017

Well, yes, the VMR is software. But we've taken close to 15 years of expertise in building our hardware messaging product, and applied everything we learned about messaging to the...

Messaging at the Speed of Business

Products & TechnologyMay 30, 2017

Demand for ever higher throughput continues as the increasing ubiquity of technologies like big data, hybrid cloud, IoT and mobile computing drives the need to move more and more data...

New Integration Guide: Apache NiFi

Products & TechnologyMay 25, 2017

I have recently created a new integration guide for an Apache project called NiFi. NiFi is an enterprise integration and dataflow automation tool that lets you send, receive, route, transform,...

Emphasis on SAP Leonardo at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017

Use CasesMay 19, 2017

This week at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando the focus was on SAP Leonardo, an “innovation services platform” that offers advanced services in the areas of IoT, machine learning, big data...

“Industry 4.0” is Driving Event-Driven Architecture to the Forefront of Modernization in Europe

Use CasesMay 18, 2017

The term, “industry 4.0” originates from the German government’s initiative in 2011 on integrating the manufacturing industry with internet technologies. Industry 4.0 is hot because it provides enterprises with a...