Nicola Ferraro

A node joined the cluster.

I stopped writing here about four years ago.

KEDA (Kubernetes Event Driven Autoscalers) is a fantastic project (currently CNCF incubating) that provides Kubernetes-based autoscalers to help applications to scale out according to the number of incoming events when they are listening to several kinds…

Apache Camel is a project in constant transformation.

I've done two similar talks this year at ApacheCon @Home and Asia, both on the ease of use of the new Kamelet paradigm when building event-driven applications.

Note: this post has been published also in the Apache Camel blog Apache Camel K 1.4.0 has just been released!

Note: this post has been published also in the Apache Camel blog We're starting a new initiative at Apache Camel to create a community-driven catalog of reusable Kamelets (Camel route snippets, i.e. connectors) that can be used to stream data from/to exte…

Camel K introduces new ways of dealing with integration problems by letting you develop and run routes in the cloud, where the services that you need to connect live.

Kamelets are the most important feature released with Apache Camel K 1.2.0.

I've presented Apache Camel at the last Kubecon EU conference that took place on August 19th, 2020.

One of the talks I've most enjoyed doing in 2020.

Apache Camel K has made a lot of progress since its inception and we're now proud to announce the 1.0 release.

Knative is an open source project for adding serverless building blocks on Kubernetes and it's constantly gaining traction among developers.

Just few months ago, we were discussing about a new project that we could start as part of Apache Camel.

A new enterprise integration pattern has been added to Apache Camel (2.21.0): the "Saga" pattern.

Creating a cluster of related containers is really easy with Openshift and Kubernetes.

It has been a pleasure to give a talk at JBCNConf, one of the biggest conferences about Java in Europe.

I've talked at Voxxed Days Ticino 2017 about building Cloud Native applications on Kubernetes and Openshift.

I've talked at Voxxed Days Buchares 2017 about how to apply some DevOps practices to Big Data applications by leveraging the power of Kubernetes and Openshift.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes is a fantastic project from the Fabric8 team that contains a lot of useful tools for building spring-boot based microservices.

Next version of Apache Camel (2.18.0) is about to come with a long list of new features and components.

Recently, I started contributing to open source software of the Apache Software Foundation and I developed camel-telegram, a component that allows camel based applications to exchange data using the Telegram messaging network.

Spash is a command line tool for Big Data platforms that simulates a real Unix environment, providing most of the commands of a typical Bash shell on top of YARN, HDFS and Apache Spark.

Logging effectively is often a hard task in standard applications.

Why everybody talks about Big Data?

The Spark-HBase-Connector project started as a 3-days programming marathon I made last year.

Anyone who starts writing applications for Apache Spark encounters immediately an infamous exception... org.apache.spark.SparkException: Task not serializable at org.apache.spark.util.ClosureCleaner$.ensureSerializable(ClosureCleaner.scala:304) at org.a…

Apache Spark is a fantastic framework for writing highly scalable applications.

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