The latest version of Apama Community Edition has arrived with a number of developer-focused improvements. This 10.5.4 release is a small feature update to 10.5 and the last planned before 10.7.
Community round-up – Functional EPL
While Software AG is busy adding features to Apama, the community is busy creating and publishing things as well. We maintain an index of the various community-created projects here. We hope that these community libraries and plug-ins can be useful for others and share them for people to use. Improvements and contributions are also very welcome.
This is part three of this series of community round-up blogs. You can find the previous blog post here, which looked at some EPL plug-ins.… Read More
Community round-up – Localization, authentication and home automation plug-ins
While Software AG is busy adding features to Apama, the community is busy creating and publishing things as well. We maintain an index of the various community-created projects here. We hope that these community libraries and plug-ins can be useful for others and share them for people to use. Improvements and contributions are also very welcome.
This is part two of this series of community round-up blogs. You can find the first blog post here, which looked at some EPL libraries.… Read More
Community round-up – container types and complex number libraries
While Software AG is busy adding features to Apama, the community is busy creating and publishing things as well. We maintain an index of the various community-created projects on GitHub. We hope that these community libraries and plug-ins can be useful for others and share them for people to use. Improvements and contributions are also very welcome.
In this blog post we’re going to look at a couple of the recent contributions to go up on the index, what they do and what future directions or contributions they would accept.… Read More
Modelling a biscuit factory robot with Apama, Lego Mindstorms EV3 and a BrickPi
There have been a few new starters in the Apama team over the last 12 months and the idea for “EPL Club” came up where us newbies would get together with coffee and biscuits to develop our EPL knowledge with a ‘real’ project. As part of Software AG’s Helix transformation and associated empowerment budget, we were able to purchase a Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit and BrickPi3 for the Cambridge office which we decided to use to give this this project a more physical/visual aspect than some bytes on a disk or characters on a screen.… Read More
Internship and Enhancing EPL Testing (Part 1)
Any software engineer who’s had to deal with unit testing will know the frustrating experience it can be. Whether it’s the steep learning curve of having to learn a new framework or language, unhelpful log messages or having to learn a plethora of new CLI arguments, there’s something terrible in unit-testing for everyone. Here in the Apama team, we have looked into ways to smooth out the experience for our customers and provide them with powerful tools to build reliable EPL code.… Read More