Mule – Synchronous and Queued-asynchronous flows

Understanding how messages are processed in a Mule Flow is the first step to build a correct flow suitable for your purpose.
In this article I’m going to illustrate the different ways to model a flow following some base guidelines.

Understanding the different type of”As a service” … in one picture

I’ve just finished reading a very well written book about micro services.

From all the things described and illustrated, one of these has drawn my attention for clarity and simplicity.

I rewrote this picture applying the same concept on different case due copyright of the original picture.

In my example, I took a different type of accommodation you can have in your daily life. From own house to Hotel and I applied the same concept on different provider “as a service”.

The difference is not in “What” but in “Who” does what’s done.

Recommendation using Easyrec

Users who have seen item A also have seen item B. Are the items in relation each other? A recommendation system has the aim to build different items to get relations available for the others users.

In this article I’m going to speak about how build relations using a Open-source solution named Easyrec.

Saas, Iaas and Paas – clear up the ideas

Software as a service (Saas), Infrastructure as a service (Iaas) and Platform as a service (Paas) are used very often in different context for describing different technologies services in modern information technology.

Let me make some order about these definition using about the products available on the software market.

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10.000 times thanks to everybody who visited  this website.
Thanks to everyone who came here …

…. by typing the wrong url address
…. has found what they were looking for
…. posted a comment or shared these information
…. smiled or laughed after having read some articles
…. tried to understand what I wanted to say with my English

That has been a goal which I’ve never thought to reach before starting writing this blog.

Stay connected , I’ll go on with others articles.

Marco.

Clustering Apache Tomcat Failover

Probably you’ve already heard about this topic and it’s very simple to apply. Whatever you’ve already known or not, I’d like to set a little list about how configure a couple of tomcat application server with apache server on your developer enviroment.

It can be very usefull for testing clustering application when something goes wrong…

Mule – Quartz active/passive configuration

Mule can work in multiple instances as single unit in the same flow. This allow a large scalable system and avoid the single point of failure of the system.

In one word we are speaking about the cluster. In this article I’d like to show you how configure a active-passive cluster with quartz connector.

Mule 3.3 – jBPM Model Part 2

In the previous post I spoke about how create a business model process using jBPM engine in Eclipse.

In this post I’ll show you how integrate the business process with Mule flow.

Mule 3.3 – jBPM Model Part 1

In this post I’d like to describe the integration between Mule (Release 3.3) and Business Process Model (BPM). I’m using a Jboss implementation named jBPM.

BPM is a very huge argument, we’ll try to speak about it and look at used in Mule ESB. This wouldn’t be a post about entire BPM. I’ll not so able to speak about it.

Mule 2.2.1 – Http + Serialization

A common pattern that I have to face is, once processed the contents, share it between different application.

This pattern is typical something like:

• Read contents from database;
• Serialize contents;
• Expose contents through http.