Part 2: Success factors — There is a surprising number of factors that decide the faith of a programming language. Here we discuss some of them, though note that this list is basically infinite (I found it out while making this list). Time to market In part 1, I noted that 1995 was a very fruitful year for…

Part 3: Analysis and conclusion — When I started to write about the success of program languages, I had some factors in mind that contributed to its success. But even I was surprised that the number of success factors is so long. Altogether, 19 factors were listed in part two: Time to market Language Design Familiarity …

Message-orientated Middleware explained — Message-orientated Middleware (MOM) contains two key concepts of data integration. Messaging and Middleware. Still, they are hard to grasp. This blog explains both through a bunch of analogies. Introduction I’ve seen people using middleware systems and building messaging solutions for years before the concepts of MOM fully sank in. After that…

After a year in beta phase Copilot, Microsoft’s AI guided coding, has been released. Anyone can now subscribe to the service for 10 dollar a month or a 100 dollar a year. The question is of course is it worth it? AI Pair programming On the official website of GitHub, Copilot is introduced…

Creating custom processors, Kamelets and components — In this blog, we investigate how you can add your own custom Java code in Apache Camel. We do this step-by-step. First creating routes with expressions and processors and then a Kamelet and a custom component. The blog assumes you have basic knowledge of Camel. …

Part 4: Architectural principles of the Assimbly project — What are building blocks if you can’t build anything useful with them? The different kinds of integration functions, interfaces and building blocks don’t make much sense as we can’t rearrange them for various use cases. In this part we will take a look into some possible use cases for Assimbly. Standalone …

Part 3: Architectural principles of the Assimbly project — The Assimbly project is creating an open integration stack with modules that are: Open source Vendor Independent Multi/Hybrid-Cloud Service-Orientated Function-Orientated Modular API-Based Low-Code These are all the trends we identified in the previous part. As we saw in the first part, the architecture of Assimbly is built in much like…

Part 2: Architectural principles of the Assimbly project — “The process of technological development is like building a cathedral. Over the course of several hundred years new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations, each saying, ‘I build a cathedral’. Next month another block is placed atop the previous one. Then…

Part 1: Architectural principles of the Assimbly project — At the height of its power, the Athenian Empire began building the Parthenon. This was almost 2500 years ago. The building still stands today: The building is a miraculous engineering achievement. Even in ancient times, its architectural refinements were legendary. Although it is an engineering feat, the basic principles are…