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Product Manager

Bilgin Ibryam

Bilgin Ibryam is a former product manager and architect at Red Hat. He is a regular blogger, open source evangelist, speaker, and the author of Camel Design Patterns and co-author of Kubernetes Patterns books. He has over a decade of experience in designing and building scalable and resilient distributed systems. In his day-to-day job, Bilgin works with customers from all sizes and locations, helping them to be successful with adoption of emerging technologies through proven and repeatable patterns and practises. His current interests include event-driven systems, blockchains, cloud-native and serverless. Follow him @bibryam for regular updates on these topics.

Bilgin Ibryam's contributions

GitOps + Kubernetes B
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Top 10 must-know Kubernetes design patterns

Bilgin Ibryam

Discover 10 design patterns from the Kubernetes Patterns book that will help you follow basic Kubernetes concepts and design Kubernetes-based applications.

The rise of non-microservices architectures
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The rise of non-microservices architectures

Bilgin Ibryam

There are pros and cons using to a microservices architecture. Some teams decide not to strictly follow all the principles of the "pure" microservices architecture. This post explores some valid reasons for using or not using microservices, and it discusses alternatives.

Hexagonal Architecture
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Hexagonal Architecture as a Natural fit for Apache Camel

Bilgin Ibryam

There are architectures and patterns that look cool on paper, and there are ones that are good in practice. Implementing the hexagonal architecture with Camel is both: cool to talk about, and a natural implementation outcome. I love going hexagonal with Camel because it is one of these combinations where the architecture and the tool come together naturally, and many end up doing it without realizing it. Let’s see why that is the case. Why go Hexagonal? Hexagonal architecture is...

Camel Design Patterns
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Short Retry vs Long Retry in Apache Camel

Bilgin Ibryam

My Camel Design Patterns book describes 20 patterns and numerous tips and best practices for designing Apache Camel based integration solutions. Each pattern is based on a real world use case and provides Camel specific implementation details and best practices. To get a feel of the book below is an extract from the Retry Pattern section describing how to do Short and Long retires in Apache Camel. Context and Problem By their very nature, integration applications have to interact with...