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…

Introduction — This blog series is a deep dive on the architectural principles behind the Assimbly software project. It reflects both the current situation, while at the same time it’s a vision for the future of the project. …

Part 1: A short analysis of the car market — People fall in love with each other. Half of the books and movies are about how we fall in love. The other half about broken love... People are endlessly complex with all kinds of colors. It’s easy and hard at the same time to love someone. But sometimes we don’t…

Part 9: A short analysis of the car market — What’s the ideal mean of transport? This seems like an obsession of mankind the last two centuries. There are heavy debates on the perfect way of transportation, whether it’s by car, bike, plane or train. Before that, there wasn’t much to get obsessed about. Either you were on foot, by…