Ross Mason on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
I am very excited to announce that MuleSoft has launched a new open source integration product called iBeans (short for Integration Beans). iBeans provide a way to dramatically simplify common integration tasks for Web application developers. Why did we create iBeans?
Ross Mason on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
I am excited for Mule community members David Dossot and John D’Emic, that their book Mule in Action has been recently released by Manning Publications. This book provides the first thorough coverage of all aspects of Mule. It provides examples for everything you will need to do with Mule, from creating and consuming services to [...]
Ross Mason on Monday, July 6, 2009
Update: I created a series of follow up posts on this topic (but read this post first): ESB or not to ESB revisited – Part 1. What is an ESB? ESB or not to ESB revisited – Part 2. ESB and Hub n’ Spoke Architectures ESB or not to ESB Revisited – Part 3, API [...]
Ross Mason on Thursday, April 30, 2009
During the QCon conference in San Francisco, I filmed an interview with Ryan Slobojan. Despite being flu-ridden throughout the week, I managed to make it through this conversation without passing out (or worse!). It was an interesting conversation, covering: What the Mule ESB and Mule Galaxy are Mule ESB Enterprise versus Community MuleSource’s monitoring solution [...]
Ross Mason on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Though some think SOA failed and others see it only as a partial success, this has been because of the approach to SOA and not its underlying principles. SOA (or what I’d rather call Service Orientation, but that doesn’t fit our obsession with TLAs) is responsible for beginning a new evolution in the way we [...]
Ross Mason on Monday, February 23, 2009
It’s been an exciting couple of months for MuleSource. We began the year with 2 blowout quarters behind us. Last week we announced that Mark Burton, the former executive vice president of Sales from MySQL has joined the MuleSource board of directors. Mark brings a wealth of sales operating experience from one of the most [...]
Ross Mason on Friday, February 20, 2009
I recently wrote an article that appeared in eBizQ on the topic of SOA governance. In this article, I argue that the primary reason that many pundits have declared “SOA is dead” is that the traditional “top-down” approach to SOA and governance have failed. Vendors have for too long evangelized a “big bang” re-architecture of [...]
Ross Mason on Monday, January 26, 2009
My article on creating an SOA strategy in this tough climate was just published on eWeek: The current economic crisis and recession is affecting both IT spending today and budgets for 2009. Often viewed as a major cost center, IT becomes one of the first areas where senior management looks to make cuts when times [...]
Ross Mason on Wednesday, January 21, 2009
As some may know, we have been working on our open source Mule IDE based on Eclipse. However, with the schema-based configuration in Mule, IntelliJ IDEA users get some great features to help them build mule applications quicker too.
Ross Mason on Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Defining what constitutes a service when building service-orientated applications seems to be a common problem for developers and architects who are new to building services. The main issue seems to be the scope, i.e. what is the granularity of the service. This is actually quite difficult since the granularity of a service can vary depending [...]
