This new chapter introduces the latest progress of Camel Designer, searching to further simplify the process of modelling Apache Camel integrations. It also looks at partnering intuitive visual design with fast trial-and-error cycles (with Camel JBang) to deliver augmented productivity for developers.

This is Camel Designer, a new approach of visually modelling Apache Camel integration processes in which I’ve been working. It welcomes experienced Camel riders, and provides an easy entry point for those exploring the most popular open source integration framework for the first time. The tool comes as an extension you can install in VSCode.

Looking ahead in altitude is advantageous, and even more having an all round viewpoint to help you see sand storms from higher winds which may be nearing you. This article extends on the previous one on how to adopt observability capabilities, combining various technologies and showing how they can be coordinated to augment their benefits.

This walk-through example will encourage you to build an Apache Camel application from scratch, deploy it in a Kubernetes environment, gather metrics using Prometheus and display them in Grafana. Monitoring will automatically adjust when the system scales up or down.