I would like to share my experience in converting my WordPress based blog to a static site. I’ve been paying WordPress hosting fees for years. WordPress is a great blogging platform with an amazing plugin ecosystem. But that same ecosystem that makes it so attractive, also leads to WordPress sites slowing down. Each plugin you add to your site typically adds additional database requests to each page that’s rendered for you site visitors. Which means you need a decent server hosting your WordPress site if you want it to stay snappy.

My Fuse co-workers have been busy beavering away on a new project at Apache called Camel K.   It’s a fantastic new project which brings together two amazing technologies: Kubernetes and Camel.  Lets face it, even when your building new applications using all the new goodness that Kubernetes brings to the table, your going to need to interact with existing systems, some of which could be harder to access than others.  Thats where Camel tends to shine.  Giving you a consistent abstraction to accessing and integrating to those other systems.

I’m happy to announce that Red Hat Fuse 7.0 is now officially available!  This is major new release which focused on expanding support for distributed hybrid integration deployments.  Fuse now comes in 3 distributions:

I’m happy to announce that JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2.0 has been released. The Fuse team has been hard at work bringing Camel 2.18, Spring Boot, to the OpenShift platform. This is the best platform to develop and operate integrations in a micro microservice architecture.  It lets you create tailored containerized integration applications that package only the middleware services that you need and no more.

I’m pleased to announce the availability of Apache Apollo 1.0.  Apollo is a faster, more reliable, easier to maintain messaging broker built from the foundations of the Apache ActiveMQ project but with a radically different threading architecture which lets it scale to large number of concurrent connections and destinations while using a constant number of threads.