Apache Camel 3.11 has just been released. This is a LTS release which will be supported for 1 year with regular patch and security releases. This blog post first details the noteworthy changes since the last 3.10 release from last month. For readers that are upgrading from the last 3.7 LTS release then we have added a summary section that ...

We continue our effort to optimize Apache Camel. This is blog post part 7 which covers are latest effort on dramatically reducing the object allocations caused by Camel while routing messages. The good news is that we have overachieved and was able to reduce object allocations to ZERO!!! – so no more JVM memory usage graphs with saw tooth (note: ...

In the upcoming Apache Camel 3.8 release we have a new Camel component to integrate with Java Flight Recorder. Camel is now capable of capturing “work steps” during startup that can be recorded with Java Flight Recorder. This can be used to better diagnose and find where your Camel applications may be slow to startup, for example due to a ...

The Apache Camel 3.7 was released some days ago. This is a LTS release which means we will provide patch releases for one year. The next planned LTS release is 3.10 scheduled towards summer 2021. So what’s in this release This release introduces a set of new features and noticeable improvements that we will cover in this blog post. Pre ...

I have previously blogged about the optimizations we are doing in the Apache Camel core. The first 3 blogs (part1, part2, part3) were a while back leading up to the 3.4 LTS release. We have done more work (part4, part5) and this (part 6) that will be included in the next Camel 3.7 LTS release (to be released this month).  This time we ...

I have previously blogged about the optimziations we are doing in the Apache Camel core. The first 3 blogs (part1, part2, part3) were a while back leading up to the 3.4 LTS release. Now we have done some more work (part4) and this part 5 that is coming up in the next 3.7 LTS release. This time we have mainly ...

I have previously blogged about the optimziations we are doing in the Apache Camel core. The first 3 blogs (part1, part2, part3) were a while back leading up to the 3.4 LTS release. Now we have done some more work that is coming in Camel 3.6 leading up to the next 3.7 LTS release. To speedup startup we switched to ...

Yesterday we released Apache Camel K 1.0 and it was announced on social media and on the Camel website. So what is Camel K and why should you care? That is a great question and I want to help answer this by referring to great minds. Hugo Guerrero posted the following tweet   That is a powerful statement from Hugo, ...

Today I continue me practice on youtube and recorded a 10 minute video on creating a new Camel and Quarkus project that includes Rest and HTTP services with health checks and metrics out of the box. Then comparing the memory usage of running the example in JVM mode vs native compiled with GraalVM. Then showing for the finale how to ...