The latest version of Apama Community Edition has arrived with a significant focus on improving the experience within the Cumulocity IoT platform. However there are a number of improvements relevant to Apama Community Edition and I’ve highlighted many of these in this post.… Read More
Apama leads the way in the Forrester Wave: Streaming Analytics Q3 2019
It’s great to see Software AG’s Apama leading the way in industry analyst Forrester’s latest Streaming Analytics Wave! Apama Community Edition allows you to use what Forrester have identified as the most capable streaming analytics product in the market.… Read More
The Coffee Factory
Have you ever wondered how instant Coffee is made? In this blog, I’ll walk you through my Coffee Factory project which I created using Apama EPL without previous knowledge of the language. The project consists of two sub-projects, one of them is responsible for simulating the data within a Coffee Factory and the other one takes the role of Apama by analyzing the live data for any issues. If by any chance something wrong happens within our Coffee Factory, Apama takes care of the issue immediately and fixes it.… Read More
HTTP transport enhancements
In Apama 10.3.1, we added support for HTTP redirects, cookie handling for requests, HTTP request decoding, and HTML form encoding to the HTTP client transport. We also added support for HTTP requests and HTML form decoding to the HTTP server transport.
HTTP redirect support in the HTTP client transportThe HTTP client transport now supports HTTP redirects transparently. To enable this, set the followRedirects configuration option to true. If the URL you requested returns an HTTP redirect response, your request is made automatically on the URL to which you were redirected.… Read More
Batch Codecs
In Apama 10.3.1 we introduced the “Batch Accumulator” and the “Message List” codecs. Both of these codecs deal with handling batches of multiple events at the same time to support use cases with high event rates
The “Batch Accumulator” codecYou can easily add this codec to your connectivity plug-in chain, without changing anything else in your application or anything external, and it will allow events being sent from the connectivity transport to a correlator (host) to be batched.… Read More
HTTP Server EPL responses
The purpose of this blog post is to introduce new features that extend the HTTP Server Connectivity Plug-in with the ability to respond to a request from the EPL. Prior to 10.3.1 only a basic response was returned to indicate the call had succeeded. This change allows a full request and response protocol to be implemented.
Now, you can configure the HTTP Server transport to allow the response to an HTTP request to be created by an EPL application, instead of automatically returning an empty accepted response.… Read More