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Agile Planning at Mule

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 [...]

Introducing MuleSoft TCat Server

Sateesh Narahari on Wednesday, September 2, 2009

This week is an exciting one at MuleSoft — we just announced our newest product, MuleSoft Tcat Server. Tcat Server is a new enterprise Tomcat server, which provides application provisioning and server management capabilities for Apache Tomcat. You can read the press release here.

Mule ESB once again named top open source ESB by InfoWorld

Community on Tuesday, September 1, 2009

In their annual 2009 Bossie Awards, InfoWorld once again named Mule ESB as the #1 open source ESB, in the “Best of Open Source Platforms and Middleware” category.

How to Build a Recession-Proof SOA Strategy

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 [...]

How to Define Services

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 [...]

“SOA What” – the newest hit in dev rock

Community on Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Mark Bromfield, a senior programmer at Interval came up with this witty little jingle that we all get a (Mule) kick out of. Listen for yourself! Lyrics are posted here if you’d like to sing along.

Did SOA Just Die?

Ross Mason on Thursday, January 8, 2009

There is an interesting post by Anne Thomas Maines from Burton Group exclaiming that SOA has gone the way of the Dodo: Once thought to be the savior of IT, SOA instead turned into a great failed experiment—at least for most organizations. SOA was supposed to reduce costs and increase agility on a massive scale. [...]

QCon, San Francisco, next week

Ross Mason on Monday, November 10, 2008

Its QCon time again in San Francisco. This is one of the conferences that I really enjoy and the line up for this year is looking better than ever. On Thursday, I will be doing a panel discussion with Bob Lee, Rod Johnson and Geir Magnusson discussing “How does the Open Source trend in Java [...]

Tune in to the inaugural MuleCast

Community on Wednesday, November 5, 2008

MuleCasts are by the Mule community, for the Mule community. The series will highlight cool and interesting use cases, work done by active Mule community members, and helpful project updates for Mule and Galaxy. In this episode, MuleSource CTO and co-founder Ross Mason speaks with Tijs Rademakers and Jos Dirkson about their recently released book [...]

From the Mule’s Mouth

Ross Mason on Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Welcome to the MuleSource developer blog. We have created this space where the Mule community can get “off-the-hoof” comments, technical tips, and breaking news — direct from MuleSource’s core development and services team. The thoughts posted by the contributors here will be practical and unfiltered by marketing spin (with apologies to our Marketing team!)