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Using Amazon SQS with Mule and iON

Dan Diephouse on Thursday, December 29, 2011

I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but application messaging is extremely important for a wide variety of applications. It allows you to: Decouple application message processing from receiving Orchestrate data between two applications Handle the loss of a server without losing data Process data at a later date when you have more capacity Yet, [...]

Things to do while watching another holiday movie

Ross Mason on Tuesday, December 27, 2011

By now you have opened all your presents, you’re wearing your new socks/sweater/santa underwear, you’ve eaten like a champ and you’ve done the family bit. Now you find yourself thinking about the new year and what to do next.  Here are some ideas for the technically inclined folks out there.

Announcing DevKit 3.1: easy OAuth, API docs and more

Emiliano Lesende on Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Less than a month ago we released the DevKit 3.0 and we are on a roll here. Just in case you are jumping onto the bandwagon a little late, the DevKit is a tool for authoring Mule extensions. The model is quite easy. First you write a POJO, then you annotate your POJO with Mule [...]

2011: A Mule Retrospective

Ross Mason on Monday, December 19, 2011

As cliché as it is to say, it’s hard to believe that an entire year has passed since I last took stock of Mule. When I look back on 2011, it’s absolutely incredible to me how far MuleSoft and the Mule community have come.

Implementing a Circuit Breaker with DevKit

john.demic on Wednesday, December 14, 2011

One of my favorite patterns from Michael Nygard’s excellent Release It! is the Circuit Breaker.  A circuit breaker is an automatic switch that stops the flow of electricity in the event of a failure.  This sort of behavior is also useful when integrating with remote systems. We might want to stop message delivery on an outbound-endpoint [...]

Getting the most out of Mule Error Handling

Pablo La Greca on Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Error handling in event driven systems like Mule can be a challenge to understand, if you have worked with Mule you’ll know that there are exception strategies and this post will help you get the most out of them. How error handling works in Mule Note: In this blog we are going to talk about [...]

5 rules of social enterprise integration: Yammer setting the bar

Ross Mason on Monday, December 12, 2011

I’m a big fan of good integration in all shapes and forms.  Quite often integration is done behind the scenes and if done well it remains unnoticed. I was thinking about social enterprise and the role of integration and decided to dig into some of the major players, namely Yammer and SocialText.  SocialText realised early on that [...]

Mule 3.2.1 Released

Ramiro Rinaudo on Friday, December 9, 2011

This is a quick note to let you know that we have released Mule 3.2.1 Community and Enterprise.  This is a maintenance release focusing on reliability and performance. Highlights of the new release include: Improved performance for Mule’s out-of-the-box active-active High Availability Clusters. An enhanced Business Event Analyzer, adding improved readability and and usability to its view into business transactions [...]

Load Balancing Apache Tomcat using IIS

Karan Malhi on Thursday, December 8, 2011

Front-ending Apache Tomcat with Apache Web Server or IIS is sometimes thought to improve performance. However, performance of Tomcat standalone has already been known to be very good. So why add IIS or Apache web server in front of it? – the answer is scalability and maintenance. Front-ending Tomcat with such web servers allows you [...]

Upcoming Webinar: Red Bee Media brings video-on-demand using Mule

Kira on Wednesday, December 7, 2011

We provide a lot of webinars with tips and tricks from our development team on how Mule works across various industries. But what about in the media and entertainment sector? We’re pleased to present a great customer use case of Mule in the wild world of entertainment.