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Migrating risk and post-trading analytics to the cloud

As a Solutions Architect at Solace, I work with several Capital Markets customers. These customers range from large investment banks to leading hedge funds. Historically, these firms have been always at the forefront of cutting-edge technology with special focus on performance and resiliency. For several decades, they have invested in large scale infrastructure for heavy […]

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AWS Solace

Integrating PubSub+ Cloud with Lambda via API Gateway

Serverless architecture is all the rage these days and nothing screams serverless like AWS Lambda. When Lambda was announced a few years ago by AWS, it caused quite a bit of confusion but slowly it has gained popularity and has become analogous to serverless architecture. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code […]

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AWS Solace

Controlling an Arduino based car with Solace’s PubSub+ broker

Alright, let me start with this blog post with a disclaimer that I am very new to Arduino. Despite having an Electrical Engineering degree, I had never really played around Arduino until very recently. The code referenced in this post was handed down to me by my colleagues at Solace. Few days ago, I presented […]

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Architecture AWS Solace

Deploying PubSub+ in High-Availability mode

When you are architecting a system, it is extremely important to make sure the system is redundant, highly resilient and fault-tolerant. Such a system is capable of continuing operating if one of the nodes fails as well as if all the nodes fail in one datacenter. Solace’s PubSub+ broker can be deployed in a High-Availablity […]

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AWS Solace

My first time at AWS’s re:invent

I love going to conferences! As a developer, it’s a great opportunity to attend some great sessions live and meet other developers, not just from your industry but across industries. Talking to attendees who might code in same language as me or might use same backend technologies as me, is my favorite thing about attending […]

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AWS Solace

Launching an EC2 instance with Solace’s PubSub+ broker

I love AMIs and I cannot lie. Gone are the days when you had to read lengthy documentation and figure out how to manually install binaries. Gone are the days when you had to worry about installing different package managers to manually install all the required libraries via pip or conda. We live in a […]

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AWS OpenShift Solace

How to deploy Solace PubSub+ single node broker on OpenShift Enterprise

In this post, I will be showing you how to deploy Solace’s PubSub+ event broker on an OpenShift cluster. In an earlier post, I showed how to deploy an OpenShift Enterprise cluster in AWS so this post is a follow up to that. There are different setups available for deploying PubSub+. In this post, we […]

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AWS OpenShift Solace

Deploying Solace PubSub+ Broker (single node) on OpenShift Origin

In my last post, I showed how you can deploy an OpenShift cluster running OpenShift Origin 3.11 on AWS. In this post, I will show you how you can easily deploy Solace’s PubSub+ broker on OpenShift. Needless to say, to follow along, you will need to have an OpenShift deployment handy. For those who don’t […]

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AWS OpenShift

Deploying an OpenShift (okd) cluster on AWS

In one of my previous posts, I showed how you can deploy OpenShift Enterprise on AWS using the official CloudFormation template provided by Red Hat. For that deployment to work, you had to have a Red Hat/OpenShift enterprise account which many developers might not have especially if you are looking to just spin up a […]

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AWS OpenShift

How to deploy an OpenShift (Enterprise) cluster on AWS

I am no OpenShift expert but last few days, I have been working on spinning up an OpenShift cluster on AWS. At first, I thought it would take me around a day or at max 2 days but it took me quite a few days to fully get it up and running. This post is […]