Mule in Action

Author: David Dossot & John D'Emic
Publisher: Manning, 2009
Pages: 466
ISBN: 978-1933988962
Aimed at: Users and potential users of Mule 2
Rating: 4.5
Pros: Practical and comprehensive look at Mule
Cons: Not suitable for complete beginner to ESB
Reviewed by: Harry Fairhead

 

Far from being a distant, hands-off, view of the architecture of the open source Enterprise Service Bus, Mule, this book gets you into the code fairly quickly.

 

Author: David Dossot & John D'Emic
Publisher: Manning, 2009
Pages: 466
ISBN: 978-1933988962
Aimed at: Users and potential users of Mule 2
Rating: 4.5
Pros: Practical and comprehensive look at Mule
Cons: Not suitable for complete beginner to ESB
Reviewed by: Harry Fairhead

Mule is an open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)  and if you don't know what an ESB is you probably won't be interested in Mule or this book. If you do then the book has a lot to recommend it.

Far from being a distant, hands-off, view of the architecture of Mule it gets you into the code fairly quickly. A case study is used but most of the examples are still short enough for you to get the idea and they are well explained. There is scope, however, for an even simpler example at just above "hello world" level to get the complete beginner started.

The book covers Mule 2 but also points out differences between it and earlier versions. The first chapter introduces the main ideas of Mule and the next deals with actually getting the system running. From here we dive into the core of any ESB system - messaging.

Chapter Three covers messaging using email, web services, JMS, XMPP and so on. Chapter Four deals with routing and Chapter Five data transformation. The final part of the section introduces components.

The second part of the book puts the basics in practice and deals with topics such as deployment, security, logging, and reliability. The final section of the book looks at advanced topics such as using the Mule API, testing, scripting and tuning.

Overall this is the book you need if you plan to use or are using Mule. If you are less sure about picking Mule in the first place then a more general book on ESBs would be a better place to start.

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TinyML: Machine Learning with TensorFlow Lite

Authors: Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake
Publisher: O'Reilly
Date: December 2019
Pages: 504
ISBN: 978-1492052043
Print: 1492052043
Kindle: B082TY3SX7
Audience: Developers interested in machine learning
Rating: 5, but see reservations
Reviewer: Harry Fairhead
Can such small machines really do ML?



Graph Databases in Action (Manning)

Author:  Dave Bechberger and Josh Perryman
Publisher: Manning
Pages: 366
ISBN: 978-1617296376
Print: 1617296376
Audience: Developers interested in graph databases
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book sets out to give developers building applications using graph databases an understanding o [ ... ]


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