Scott Bechtel On All Things Open Enterprise

How Download WSO2 GitHub Trainings

Git clone… NOPE!  You cannot directly download release assets using Git, as Git only handles source code and not the additional assets attached to a release on GitHub. However, you can use a command-line tool like curl or wget to download the assets. In a web browser go to: https://github.com/wso2/WSO2-Training Click on Releases on the far… Continue reading How Download WSO2 GitHub Trainings

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Open Enterprise Articles

Ongoing collection of articles. Newest to me at the top. https://venturebeat.com/business/the-future-of-work-takes-an-open-source-mindset/

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Should Road Maps Be Open?

Open Product Roadmaps If you were to go ask a really huge company what their roadmap for product x is most would say “That confidential for internal use only,” or something similar. Now imagine how excited your customers could get if you tell them what you are going to do, and then they see those… Continue reading Should Road Maps Be Open?

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Fuzzy JMS Tuning for WSO2 APIM MI and Azure Service Bus

After you’ve installed APIM Micro Integrator and successfully connected to Azure Service Bus and are running high volume traffic you might run into some symptoms that the WSO2 JMS Tuning Guide doesn’t cover that is vendor specific. Many of these will vary depending on your specific situation so there may not be hard and fast… Continue reading Fuzzy JMS Tuning for WSO2 APIM MI and Azure Service Bus

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Re-imagining Loyalty Program Tracking

It still works… The traditional approach to retail loyalty account still works. Issue someone some kind of tag with a number and then have them scan it every time they make a purchase. The more modern way is to have them throw in their phone number and that’s a bit better than the traditional way.… Continue reading Re-imagining Loyalty Program Tracking

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Validating Config Files

Have you ever gotten one server’s configrations 100% perfect. It’s golden. Then on to the next? How can you ensure that the configuration files match and are unique for that server. Well if this is a Linux server then you can use your good old friend ssh and diff. ssh user@goldenserver "cat /opt/carbon/conf/synapse.properties" |diff -… Continue reading Validating Config Files

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Where Is The Spaghetti Services

Where’s The Spaghetti Services?

One of the fun aspects of board games at times is that of the spinner. That concept in some ways could be at play in your IT Department as Software Models continue to evolve over time. Back in the early 80s it was easy for software to have what was called Spaghetti Code.

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WSO2 APIM 4.0.0 New Deployment Profiles

WSO2 API Manager 4.0.0 New Deployment Profiles

After recently being Certified in WSO2 APIM 3.2 I was super interested to see how APIM 4’s architecture matched up. I figured it wouldn’t change and just add on new features for APIM and add in Micro Integrator and Streaming. I was wrong! They’ve changed the deployment model. This makes sense in many ways. Let’s… Continue reading WSO2 API Manager 4.0.0 New Deployment Profiles

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Video Cover Img for WSO2 4 Release

WSO2 API Manager 4.0.0 Release

WSO2 4.0.0 Release now combines their API Manager and Enterprise Integrator together with new features to create a first of class cloud native API Manager that works on premise too.

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