Yesterday I attended the Mule Summit event in San Francisco. It was rather conveniently located just up the street at the Spear Tower -- in the penthouse none the less! Great view up there. Paul Dividian from Mulesoft was kind enough to invite me to this one day event gratis. Thanks Paul! The event consisted of announcements around the upcoming Mule ESB 3.0 release, feature updates to existing products and new product announcements including Mule HA, Mule MQ, Mule Data Integrator (a mapping tool), Tcat, Cloudcat and something new called "Glü" (REST. I will try to give my impressions of the products, people and atmosphere.
The structure of the event consisted of short product feature overviews, customer testimonials, and ended with break out sessions. The attendants were allowed to vote on which areas they wished to here more on from a list of preselected and write ins. I chose the Scalability session. Other topics touched graphical and feature enhancements, and other things I wasn't really that jazzed about. Mainly I was curious what there HA and scalability plans were.
Attendance was good with folks from all over the globe. i estimate that there were around 100+ there. Granted, a lot of those folks were Mulesoft employees. I heard Italian, Russian, Spanish, Hindi and Finnish among other languages being spoken in among the attendees.
The Mulesoft people had good energy and enthusiasm about there products and features. Receiving $12 million in venture capital may have enhanced their moods too.
Ross Mason, founder and CEO opened things up. Now here's a very charismatic guy. Looks good in a suit and can talk the talk. But he also has this slightly bad habit of stealing fellow underlings' thunder. He often jumped in on fellow Mulesofters presentations to clarify or emphasize important points to the chagrin of the presenter.
Buzz worthy stuff
I'll give more in depth reports on the following items, but for my 1st impressions.
Mule HA with Gigaspaces - In the Scalability breakout, this Russian guy named Igor was touting a distributed HA cluster solution with Gigaspaces at GM Capital.
HDFS transport - Support was mentioned for Hadoop HDFS transport in Mule ESB.
RESTful (Glü) - This seemed very intriguing. Glü is basically their RESTful integration offering. This in theory will allow RESTful access to all our data services from any HTTP client suing Ruby, AJAX, JSON, Groovy, etc. This replaces the current "iBeans" product from Mule. Apparently they are dropping the 'beans' moniker as it congers up complexity in people's minds.
Mule MQ - Supposedly the fastest message queuing solution out there. It deserves further looking into if the SEDA claims are true.
Cloudcat - Mule's cloud computing offering.
Tcat - Mule's Tomcat enterprise server management and deployment tool. It had some seemingly useful monitoring tools of active sessions, threads and connections of Tomcat deployed applications.
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