Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Adieu Talend, Hello Red Hat !

Seems it was nearly yesterday when I joined Talend seven years ago. Time has flown so fast... Next week I will be returning to Red Hat but first I will talk a bit about my years with Talend.

I'd like to believe that working for Talend has helped me become a better engineer, grow in confidence.  And what about those unforgettable Talend R&D events :-) ? No doubt, it has been an interesting and exciting journey.

It has not been easy to find a link to a piece of music which would associate well with the company, but I think I've got it in the end. The text there is a bit sombre, but the music reflects well what I'd like to remember about Talend, the energy and the style: enjoy Ave Cesaria By Stromae. Thank you Talend, Goodbye.

And now I'll be heading back to Red Hat :-). I will be joining a WildFly Swarm team and I look forward to and optimistic about it and the new challenge. I'll have to learn new things. I will enjoy it too. And in time, after I settle well, I will return to this blog and talk about WildFly Swarm and other related projects.

Stay Tuned !

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Apache CXF Story Will Continue

When I started working on Apache CXF full time it was already a well established project, shipping a production quality JAX-WS and an early JAX-RS implementations.

During the next N years, with some short breaks, all of us did put a lot of effort into supporting the CXF community,  keeping enhancing the JAX-RS, various security features, fixing lots and lots of bugs, and trying to support the idea that "CXF was more than just a library" :-).

I'm curious, how many SOAP or pure HTTP calls have been made over the years with the help of CXF ? Sometimes one can read: "This product supports thousands of transactions per minute". Would be fun to read somewhere that "CXF has supported several millions of service calls over 10 years" :-). Or how many downloads have been made ? Who knows...

It is satisfying to see that today the users keep coming to CXF and ask questions and open new issues. No doubt it has helped many users, helped to completely mainstream JAX-WS and then JAX-RS, alongside its Jersey and RestEasy 'colleague' frameworks.

No doubt the Apache CXF story will continue and I've been happy to be part of this story. Thank You !