Ken Yagen on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
In a recent post by Loraine Lawson on ITBusinessEdge, an informal survey was cited that referenced a majority of mid-market CIOs who “said they had no current business need for SOA.” I was a little surprised by the headline since MuleSoft continues to see tremendous adoption of our open source Mule ESB and subscriptions of [...]
jasonb on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Recently, while working with Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, an opportunity came up for us at MuleSoft to take on open-source community work to improve the Ubuntu Tomcat 6 package. Having spent several years administering the most popular Tomcat Internet Relay Chat channel, I’ve gathered lots of feedback from Tomcat users about what they [...]
jasonb on Thursday, January 21, 2010
The new stable release of Tomcat 6.0.24 represents six months of open source software development. Version 6.0.24 includes a small number of new features, plus a large amount of important bug fixes and enhancements. This release is an incremental bug fix release, but the number of fixes included in this release is high.
Sateesh Narahari on Tuesday, January 5, 2010
ObjectWatch has put out a report titled The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. They estimate that we are losing $500 billion per month in IT failures. That’s a scary number. If this rate of failure continues, business confidence in IT will diminish. A couple of points in the report caught my eye, as they [...]
Ken Yagen on Friday, September 18, 2009
At MuleSoft we use Agile development to build and deliver all of our software products. One of the more challenging and potentially time consuming part of agile is story estimating. Recently we decided to take a new approach to this that has proven to be a lot of fun and amazingly accurate. I call it [...]
jasonb on Wednesday, September 16, 2009
I often get questions about how to tune Tomcat for better performance. It is usually best to answer this only after first spending some time understanding the installation of Tomcat, the web site’s traffic level, and the web applications that it runs. But, there are some general performance tips that apply regardless of these important [...]
jasonb on Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Every so often, I would be answering some questions about Tomcat, and the person I’m speaking with would ask “where’s your blog?” or “do you have a blog somewhere?” I have always cringed at that question because I didn’t have one — until now. Mainly I had a few clever excuses for not putting time [...]
Community on Monday, April 6, 2009
Trying to get budget from the C-level in these economic times can be difficult, but integration and SOA initiatives are still very much alive and need to move forward. Check out this blog post and conversation on ebizQ to consider whether “’Guerrilla SOA’ is a realistic option when the CEO doesn’t approve your budget.”
Kevin Depew on Monday, March 30, 2009
We have been running Galaxy successfully on our in-house servers and laptops for demo purposes for some time now and decided that having a running image of Galaxy on Amazon’s EC2 was the next logical step. Galaxy in the cloud gives us the opportunity to expose a running instance to a much wider audience than [...]
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 [...]
