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This is the blog section. It has two categories: News and Releases.

Files in these directories will be listed in reverse chronological order.

Posts in 2022
  • Image Change Triggers for Tekton

    Monday, March 14, 2022 in Insights

    One of our customers is in the process of decommisioning their OpenShift v3.11 cluster. This cluster is currently still used for building customer specific base images. Over time quite a few elaborated pipeline builds (based on Jenkins) have been …

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  • Visualisation and debugging of Apache Camel routes

    Thursday, February 24, 2022 in Insights

    The documentation of software is an everyday business of a software developer and engineer. Especially for integration scenarios a diagram on the flow of a message through the system or the whole landscape is an essential illustration. Fortunately …

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  • A look insight Camel K

    Thursday, February 24, 2022 in Insights

    Today software often needs to be run in cloud environments. Newly developed software, especially microservices are developed with cloud readiness in mind. But we not only have microservices in business environments, we also have integration …

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Posts in 2021
  • Streaming and Messaging

    Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Insights

    Disclaimer This article is the author’s opinion on similarities and differences between Streaming and Messaging. Streaming and Messaging The first time I was busy with the terms messaging and streaming was during my master thesis in 2016. Among …

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  • A journey of a Helm operator to OperatorHub.io and back again

    Monday, May 03, 2021 in Insights

    Some time ago, I started a project to create a Helm based operator for an OpenShift application. I used the Operator SDK to create the Helm operator. The Operator SDK documentation describes the parameters pretty good, and it contains a simple …

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  • RabbitMQ

    Tuesday, February 09, 2021 in Insights

    The first version of RabbitMQ has been released in 2007. Back in these days, the goal was to provide a complete open source implementation of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), aiming at modern messaging needs such as high availability, high …

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  • How to integrate Kafka with Istio on OpenShift

    Tuesday, February 02, 2021 in Insights

    Last summer I watched the Red Hat master course about Kafka from Sébastien Blanc. The Kafka setup in Kubernetes presented in the course looked pretty easy. The Kafka client implementation for Java seemed to be easy as well. Furthermore, I wanted to …

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Posts in 2020
  • AWS Comprehend and the output.tar.gz

    Tuesday, November 03, 2020 in Insights

    AWS Comprehend is a great tool when you want to extract information from textual data. As a managed service it is really easy to setup and can be used with next to no prior knowledge of machine learning. But there is one minor thing that bugs me …

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  • Integration testing with Testcontainers

    Tuesday, October 27, 2020 in Insights

    Automatic integration tests as part of the development life cycle can save a lot of time and money. Not only when dealing with other service APIs or offering some, also if the application uses a database or other infrastructure services. We at …

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  • OpenShift and Let's Encrypt

    Wednesday, September 16, 2020 in Insights

    So you have this nifty web application deployed on your OpenShift cluster and you want to make it accessible by the whole world with HTTPS under the name coolapp.<mydomain>. Unfortunately you face several issues: Exposing the service to your …

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