Ross Mason on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
You may have noticed that we announced a partnership with Zuora, the company behind the leading SaaS subscription billing service (often touted as the Salesforce of billing). This is no ordinary announcement. We are truly excited about what this means for the future of integration. SaaS is changing the application landscape, offering better applications at [...]
Ross Mason on Tuesday, January 3, 2012
You went to the gym twice last year yet you are considering renewing your membership; yep, 2012 is here. And while we’ve seen a number of exciting developments in enterprise IT in 2011, it was just the beginning. There’s a lot in store next year, here are 6 key developments to look out for in [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
Ross Mason on Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Application stacks are so passé, now its all about the slice. With the rise of open APIs we are seeing a new breed of application. Infrastructure APIs are cropping up everywhere for doing things like email, FTP, monitoring and management, analytics and application security. These slices of functionality, delivered as services, remove the time consuming [...]
Ross Mason on Tuesday, November 22, 2011
At QCon SF last week I gave my talk on DevOps to NoOps: 10 cloud services you should be using. I talked about what I call the API explosion and how that impacts the way we build applications before introducing my list. I focused on infrastructure APIs because I believe these have the biggest impact [...]
Ross Mason on Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Last month the AMQP working group, which includes big hitters such as Bank of America, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Cisco, VMWare, Redhat, and Informatica finalised version 1.0 of the AMQP standard. It has been 5 years in the making, the market for messaging has changed a lot in that time. What is AMQP? [...]
Ross Mason on Thursday, November 3, 2011
The recently introduced PubSubHubbub module opened the door to server-push web-based integration with Mule. This approach, which is more resource friendly than the traditional pull integration that relies on polling resources, is currently gaining a lot of traction as is the industry is moving towards realtime and streaming web APIs. In this blog, we’ll discover you how easy [...]
Ross Mason on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
I wrote an article recently on InfoQ about how REST replaced SOAP on the web. The comments rolled in and I found myself if a debate that I have had many times before – “why do I need an integration platform?” There are a number of answers to this, but stripping features away the key [...]
