Apache Camel and Talend ESB: Management and Monitoring of Integration Routes and SOAP / REST Web Services (JMX, OSGi, logstash, ElasticSearch, Kibana, hawtio)

A question every customer asks me: How can you manage and monitor integration routes implemented with Apache Camel and / or Talend ESB (which is based on Apache Camel and also available as open source version). This blog post will show different alternatives to answer this question. The good news first: As Apache Camel and Talend ESB are based on open standards, you can use your own frameworks and tools if tooling of the product is not sufficient. So, I will not talk just about features of Apache Camel or Talend ESB, but also about additional options.
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Integration of Amazon Redshift Cloud Data Warehouse (AWS SaaS DWH) with Talend Data Integration (DI) / Big Data (BD) / Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

In this blog post, I will show you how to „ETL“ all kinds of data to Amazon’s cloud data warehouse Redshift wit Talend’s big data components. You need not be a cloud or DWH expert, or an expert developer to integrate with Amazon’s cloud data warehouse Redshift. It is very easy with Talend’s integration solutions. Just drag&drop, configure, do some graphical mappings / transformations (if necessary), that’s it. Code is generated. Job runs. With Talend, you can easily „ETL“ all data from different sources to Redshift and store it there for under $1,000 per terabyte per year – even with the open source version!
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SAP Integration with Talend Components / Connectors (BAPI, RFC, IDoc, BW, SOAP)

Talend has several connectors to integrate SAP systems. However, this guide is no introduction to Talend’s SAP components. Instead, this guide helps to • understand different alternatives to integrate SAP systems with Talend • set up a local SAP system • configure Talend Studio for using SAP components • use Talend’s SAP wizard • run a first Talend Job which connects to SAP.
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What is the TCO difference between IBM WebSphere and Open Source JBoss? – Just my two cents…

I have spotted a really great article about comparing prices of open source and proprietary products: “What is the TCO difference between WebSphere and JBoss?”. The interesting aspect is, that this article is written by an IBM-biased company (Prolifics). Usually, only open source vendors write such comparisons. I really like this article, seriously! It is good to see comparisons not only by open source vendors, but also by vendors such as IBM (in this case, Prolifics cannot be considered unbiased, it is an IBM consulting company – but that is fine). I just want to give my two cents to this article in the following…
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Enterprise-ready Tool Support for Apache Camel

Apache Camel is my favorite integration framework on the Java platform due to great DSLs, a huge community, and so many different components. Camel is used by many developers from different companies all over the world. However, most guys are not aware that some really cool tooling is available for Camel, too. Many people ask me about Camel tooling when I do talks at conferences. This is the reason for this short blog post about Camel tooling.
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