I enjoy reading about and being involved with different organizations that help young men and women get more involved in technology and the sciences.  I like to help with codecamps but a part of my background is around security with Operating Systems and Middleware. Recently I found a US organization, AFA CyberPatriot, that helps youth learn more about finding vulnerabilities and hardening systems through competitions.  Teams compete locally as well as the state level, and then move on to a national competition to compete for the national recognition and scholarship money.  We all get busy in our endeavours, but finding a organization to help our youth, regardless of location in the world, has such an awesome reward.

Now on to the happenings in our open source community!

The Past couple of Weeks Highlights

• Andrea Cosentino discussed Infinispan-Kafka, connect your Kafka cluster with Infinispan
• Eric Schabell discussed How to optimize Existing IT by Modernizing Travel processes
• Christina Lin shared Organizing Microservices - Modern Integration
• John Mazzitelli provided a demo on the Hawkular Alerts 2.0 UI and detail on Hawkular Alerts with Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Kafka
• Maciej Swiderski provided insight on Managed KIE Server getting ready for the cloud
• Christian Posta discussed Application Network Functions with ESBs, API Management, and Now...Service Mesh?
• Kris Verlaenen touched on Drools, jBPM and Optaplanner switching to agile delivery
• Mario Fusco discussed the Drools Canonical Model - Pure Java Rules
• Edson Tirelli provided the talk on Rules Engines at Software Engineering Radio

The Past couple of Weeks Meetups and Conferences

• Kris Verlaenen and Edson Tirelli shared Drools, jBPMS and Optaplanner Day which is taking place September 26 in New York and September 28 in Washington, DC
• Claus Ibsen, the Camel guy, described his agenda for the APAC tour this month

The Past couple of Weeks Releases

• Steven Hawkins shared that Teiid 9.2.5 was released with 6 issues addressed and Teiid 9.3.2 was released
  
• The Arquillian Team provided the details on the Graphene 2.3.1 Release
• The Wildfly Swarm Team provided the details on Wildfly Swarm 2017.8.1
• Jason Greene provided the release information for Wildfly 11 Beta1
• The Arquillian team shared the details on the Arquillian Transaction Extension 1.0.5 Release and Arquillian Cube Extension 1.8.0 Release
• Gunnar Morling shared the details on the Bean Validation 2.0 Spec
• Guillaume Smet discussed the Hibernate Validator 6.0 Final with Bean Validation 2.0 Support
• Kris Verlaenen highlighted the jBPM 7.1 Release
• The Vert.x Community shared the Vert.x 3.5.0.Beta1 detail

Thanks for being a part of the JBoss Community and stay tuned for the next Weekly Editorial!

Kenneth Peeples

Vice President of Engineering,

Enterprise Services Practice, ISC-CG, Federal

kenneth.peeples@isc-cg.com

Open Source Solutions Director, Shadow-Soft, Commercial

kpeeples@shadow-soft.com