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5 Biggest IT Trends for 2012 and how Open APIs are a driving force

Kira on Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Wondering what 2012 will bring for the IT world? Ross Mason, MuleSoft Founder and CTO, has identified the five major trends you need to watch this year and how they will affect your organization. These trends are:

Error Handling Patterns in Mule

Pablo La Greca on Thursday, January 5, 2012

Exception handling in event-driven systems like Mule can sometimes be a challenge because there are usually many more things happening at once, In this blog I will show you how to implement some common error handling patterns in Mule. We are going to cover the following use cases: Route a message before exception through an [...]

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.

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 [...]

Get real-time with the new SalesForce API

Federico Recio on Monday, November 28, 2011

Before streaming APIs, if you wanted to know if there were any updates on a specific event you had to query the API periodically and check if updates indeed occurred. Most likely, many of these queries would probably return no results as no new event happened but still resources were consumed in the process including [...]

Get the most out of Mule HA clusters

Kira on Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Mule 3.2 introduced out-of-the-box HA clustering and reliability patterns. Want learn how to get the most out of these new capabilities? Mike Schilling, MuleSoft’s Lead Architect, shares his in depth knowledge about Mule 3.2′s HA clusters.  If you are looking learn the leading tips and tricks for designing and managing clusters, as well as the applications [...]

Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your Applications

Sweta Vajjhala on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Security around public cloud offerings has always been a major point of concern (and controversy) for users. How do cloud providers protect customer data? How is log data protected? How is the surrounding infrastructure secured? We previous talked about how iON stays up and running even through EC2 outages. Today, we will talk about iON [...]

Mule Studio Beta Milestone 5 Released!

Mateo Almenta Reca on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

  We are pleased to announce the Beta Milestone 5 release of Mule Studio, the graphical design tool for Mule ESB. At its core, it is based on the Eclipse Development Platform which many developers are already familiar with. But we have added significant functionality to it to achieve a very tight integration to Mule ESB. This makes [...]

Writing your first Cloud Conector using the DevKit

Federico Recio on Wednesday, November 9, 2011

In this blog post I will show how to extend Mule in a simple way using the recently released Mule DevKit. The goal of the Mule DevKit is to accelerate the development of Mule extensions by abstracting you from Mule specific stuff so that you just focus on what your are trying to build. My [...]